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Job is one of the best examples of a man who loved God with his whole being. He learned to hear God's voice and sense His presence through many diverse ways. Before Job had a personal encounter with God, he knew God in an imperfect way. Job only knew God through the rumors and stories he had heard about God. But after Job had a firsthand visitation, he experienced God. Job had a face-to-face introduction not just a dream. Job saw God with his own eyes. Job repented because he was ashamed of his limited knowledge of God. He retracted everything he had ever said about God.

Job Changed His Heart and Life

God bragged on Job to Satan because Job was God's friend. He had great character and integrity. Job was a man of his word, an honest, God-fearing man who was passionately devoted to God. He respected God and refused to do evil. Job was the most influential man in the East! Job had three daughters and seven sons. He owned vast herds of livestock, had many servants, and was the richest man in the East. Job always sought the Lord to forgive his children's sins.

When the Lord met with His angels, Satan the Accuser was there with them. The Lord inquired of Satan, "Where have you come from?" (Job 1:7 NIV).

Satan replied, "From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it" (Job 1:7 NIV). Then the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil" (Job 1:8 NIV).

Satan snarled, Does Job fear God for nothing? …Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. But stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face (Job 1:9-11 NIV).

The Lord replied, "Very well, then, everything he has is in your hands, but on the man himself do not lay a finger" (Job 1:12 NIV). God removed the fiery hedge of angelic protection from around Job so that Satan could bring loss, destruction, and death. God allowed Satan to touch Job's flesh with boils and great pain. He touched Job's soul with grief and sorrow. Job lost it all. Sometimes, in order to see beyond the surface into the deep things of God, we need to battle through life experiences. Battles reveal the condition of our hearts. Too often we see losses as a hardship because we don't look beyond the obvious into the hidden truths God is trying to reveal.

Creative Realms

Dreams have an ability to take the dreamer into the realms beyond where God's creative words become spirit and truth. When we speak God's words of life into an atmosphere, that atmosphere changes and God's kingdom comes. The atmosphere of the kingdom of God brings forth revelation, power, light, anointing and spiritual insight. It is for us, the believer, to know the kingdom truths that are hidden in Scripture; and often they come to light as Holy Spirit reveals them in the dreams of the night.

In a dream, a vision of the night, when sound sleep falls on men, while they slumber in their beds, then He opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction, that He may turn man aside from his conduct, and keep man from pride; He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from passing over into Sheol (Job 33:15-18).

The word dream in Hebrew is chalom, spelled: Chet, Lamed, Final Mem.

1.    The word itself can be a symbolic representation of "the yolk of an egg where new life is formed" or "revelation that comes to restore one back to health."

2.    This Hebrew word tells us that we can find answers to life's questions in our dreams. Dreams can restore us to health through intimacy with God. The esoteric meaning of the word dream is seen in the spelling. Hebrew alphabet is a symbolic picture language. The Chet shows a bonding to or a binding with God. The Chet represents a new metaphysical beginning that is connected to the supernatural. The higher divine influence of heaven comes into the natural realm and physically touches earth. The letter is symbolized by a fence that is divided to reveal a mystical protection.

The Lamed shows us instruction from Heaven. It is the tallest letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The Lamed is shaped like a shepherd's staff so it speaks to taking control of a negative situation to bring deliverance by speaking God's word with authority. God's throne of glory brings forth His teaching, discipline, chastening, and purpose here on earth so the quality of man's highest endowment may be realized. It also represents Christ the Eternal Shepherd's ascension back into heaven.

Understanding Dreams

The Final Mem represents two forms, the hidden, concealed and the revealed mysteries of God. It symbolizes both Moses and Messiah; chaos, trial, and testing through the forty years in the wilderness. Mem is symbolized by water, the mighty flowing of the Holy Spirit and the blood of Jesus that flows to cleanse and heal us from all sickness and disease. It is in our dreams that we bind ourselves to God as He reveals His hidden mysteries to us. By looking at the various translations of these verses in Job 33, we can get a broader understanding. Many Hebrew scholars and academics throughout the generations past and present have agreed that sealed instructions form a covert bond to the dreamer. This indicates that we receive personal messages about our future that are hidden or concealed in the dreams.

God opens the eyes of our heart to gain an intimate spiritual understanding of the dream. God will open our ears to hear and our eyes to see the plans He has for our future.

God-given dreams can be more than prophetic (foretelling the future); they can be a disciplined way of searching out what has been hidden in a dream. We will discover the language of dreams is the way in which God reveals His intimate secrets to us. If we do not diligently seek God to understand the meaning of the dream, He seals the dream's instruction so we cannot benefit from the revelation it holds for our future.

During sleep, God can become very intimate with us. During sleep our souls do not slumber, but they actively search the spirit realm for the revelations of God. Our spirits are not influenced or restricted by the limitations of the physical body while we are asleep. In the dreams of the night, we are able to see ourselves as God sees us in the past, present, and future.

Barbie Breathitt