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Understanding Dreams and Visions

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DREAMS AND

VISIONS


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DREAMS AND

VISIONS A 30-Day Guide to understanding Dreams and Vision

For Small Groups

Samuel O. Alabi


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Contents

Disclaimer ............................................................................. 5

Preface ............................................................................. 7

Study Questions ................................................................. 26

Study Questions ................................................................. 43

Study Question ................................................................... 58

Study Questions ................................................................. 75

Study Questions ................................................................. 91

Study Question ................................................................. 105


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Preface It‟s my joy to see this work come to being as it

has been my earnest desire to help the church

discover its purpose and God agenda for her

and I hope you do share in the vision as you go

through the 30-day guide to understanding

dreams and visions

The guide is split into two; dreams, and vision

and for the first 15 days is about dreams and

the other about visions. Dreams are in types; a

dream can be a desire and can be a divine

revelation but a dream is supposed to be a

laboratory theatre of the Holy Spirit that

enables you see the way God sees and is also a

way the LORD communicates with you. A

dream is a function of your spirit-man so make

sure you train it like never before to receive the


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things of God by immersing yourself in things

that edifies your spirit. Your dream is also a

tool to make something happen on earth. It's an

amazing tool to create something new on earth

and when you get a dream and you act on that

dream it becomes a reality and the devil trys to

invade your dream life. Martin Luther King

said many years ago, "I have a dream, I have

dream that my great grand-children would

walk in America and not be judged by their

skin colour" because he was a black American,

and Americans then didn't like seeing blacks at

it is today and today that dream is a reality.

Visions on the other hand are a series of

pictures giving you the end from the beginning

exactly like revelatory dreams, that one is

planted by God. That of Luther was a desire

but a vision would show you the end point


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from the starting point. A dream is not the

same thing as a vision but revelatory dreams is

a FORM of vision. There are different kinds of

visions; there is open vision, there is trance,

and there is night vision (revelatory dreams).

Vision is just your ability to see. What do we

use light for? To see. And when you see, you

get things done faster, faster, and puffers

solution to something (darkness). When there

is light, you see where you wouldn't have seen

without light, to see the front and predict what

is going to happen, and prepare for it. Dreams

and visions are to a person the same way

shadows are to an object. A shadows looks like

the object isn't it? The shadow is the

dream/vision while the reality is the object.

They always look alike. If the LORD showed

you the next available step for you to take –


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that's a vision. Now if you take that step the

result will definitely look like the vision the

LORD gave you. The dream that Martin

Luther had did it not look like the reality? If

there is a shadow there is an object. The

shadow is a pointer that the object exists. You

don't need muscle to change your life, what

you need is a dream or a vision. The Greek

word for dream is Evolve and the process of it

is the word evolution which is the science of

moving from simple to complex. All you need

to change the state of anything in your life for

the better is just to get a dream from the

imaginary world or a vision and put action to

it.


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Day 1

Dreams

Genesis 41:1-8

And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was

troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians

of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh

told them his dream; but there was none that could

interpret them unto Pharaoh

~Genesis 41:8

Dreams are a part of your spirit and you should

always remind yourself of that fact. Your

dream world is a world the devil will always

want to invade but don't allow him. Your

dream world is supposed to be a laboratory

theatre of the Holy Spirit where He can paint

series of pictures in your spirit with which He

can use to communicate with you. In fact,

when you check the meaning of a dream in the

dictionary, it always have the word "picture"

there or you find "series of pictures." In other

words, a dream is a series of painting. The

LORD wanted to speak to Pharaoh, but He


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came through pictures Pharaoh could relate

with even though he may not understand and

generally a dream is a function of the spirit,

your spirit is the one receiving it but your mind

does not shut down completely and in the

spirit, you can't describe things exactly as they

are in truth you can only describe them with

the related earthly word that you know because

your mind is not spirit. You may not

understand the dream but they would always

be elements you can relate to. When the LORD

painted pictures for Pharaoh to see, Pharaoh

only knew what was in the picture but did not

know what they meant. Now having a dream is

one, knowing what it means is another but

knowing what it means helps you to know

what to do about the dream. Pharaoh had a

dream but he did not know the meaning so you

can have a dream and not know the meaning

but the presence of the Holy Spirit helps you to

know what to do because dreams are of two

categories; one from the LORD, and the

second, your desire (what you want for


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yourself and by yourself). When you get a

dream from the Father, always seek to know

the meaning of the dream because every dream

comes for a purpose.

Prayer: Father, guide my steps and my thoughts when I

get dreams from you to get the understanding of the

dream in Jesus name.


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Day 2

Dreams (II)

Jeremiah 29:1-10

For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let

not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the

midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your

dreams which ye cause to be dreamed

~ Jeremiah 29:8

As at the time of the ministry of Jeremiah,

there were a lot of lying prophets and the true

ones that were not faithful to God and many of

them, whenever they come to prophesy, they

always say they had a dream of which is

correct because the LORD speaks to His

prophets in dreams and visions too (Numbers

12:6) but theirs were just exceptional lies.

They formulated dreams by themselves

through restless thoughts and told the people it

was from the LORD (Jeremiah 23:27). And

this spurred the children of Israel to continue in


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sin thinking the LORD was in support of it and

thus became rebellious when Jeremiah came

with the word of the LORD and so the LORD

sent them on exile to Babylon because they

were rebellious. Exile means a position of

slavery. And the LORD promised to rescue

them again after sometime. Of which when

they got to Babylon again, some false prophets

too stood up among them and began to say

what the LORD did not send them and that

resulted in Jeremiah sending letters to them in

Babylon with the word the LORD had given

him to write warning the people not to even

pay attention to the dreams they caused by

themselves just as it is in the Bible (see

Jeremiah 23:28). If it is not in the Bible, don‟t

mind it. Drop it like poison because it is

poison; your dream faculty is a faculty of your

life the devil always want to invade, you must

not allow him. Once you dream and that dream

you can‟t find a Bible verse for it in the Bible,

drop the dream but don‟t drop the Bible verse.


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There are just few ways to know your dream is

from the LORD which are;

1. Sometimes will come twice

2. Stir your spirit as it did to Pharaoh

3. Must be supported in the Bible. In their

days they didn‟t have Bible, it was

parchment so they carried the books of the

Bible on parchment and transferred them to

one another after reading them so that

everybody could read but now we have the

Bible and the HolyGhost will never

contradict the Bible because they are of the

same nature ( see 1 John 5:7) so that is why

you must know the Bible and know it so

well like any other book you‟ve read

before and identify the source of your

dream before you act on it.

Prayer: LORD, help me to be sensitive to my dreams

in Jesus name.


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Day 3

I Have a Dream

Psalm 21:1-2

I have a dream, I have a dream that one day my

children‟s children would walk freely in America

without being judged by the colour of their skin

~Martin Luther King

Dreams are in categories. The first category is

the category of a dream from God and the

second category is a dream by yourself. This

category of dream is often referred to as

desire. It is the kind of dream Martin Luther

had when he said, “I have a dream, I have a

dream that one day my children‟s children

would walk freely in America without being

judged by the colour of their skin” and today,

that is what is happening. You can go to

America as a black and they will not chase

you away but before it was not so. In his day

racism between the whites and the blacks was

severe. Blacks could not walk freely and the


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likes but Martin Luther gave a speech one day

and said, “I have a dream, I have a dream”

and today that dream is a reality. Dreams

come to pass as long as your spirit can capture

it – you will see it. In fact no desire enters the

earth until it enters the heart of a man as a

dream. In other words, there are 5 types of

dreams altogether which are;

1. Destiny orchestrated dreams

2. Revelatory dreams

3. Preemptive dreams

4. Desire

And are all spitted into two categories. One

from the LORD, and one from man but the two

can come from the LORD because dreams are

also a way of the Father speaking to us when

we are not spiritually charged enough to hear

His voice directly. And subsequently in this

guide I‟ll be referring to these categories of

dreams and I‟ll be picking some lessons from

them. The funniest thing about dreams is the

fact that they are a pointer to our tomorrow


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because in the real sense of it, the dreams of

today are the realities of tomorrow. And the

way the world works today if you don‟t have a

dream you are sunk.

Prayer: Father, make my spirit a laboratory theatre of

dreams and grant me wisdom to achieve my dreams in

you in Jesus name.


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Day 4

Destiny Orchestrated Dreams (I)

Genesis 37:1-10

And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his

brethren: and they hated him yet the more

~Genesis 37:5

Destiny orchestrated dreams are pictures

about the future and the unknown side of your

destiny the Father gives to you as He did to

Joseph and your destiny starts once you get

born again because your walk with the Father

in itself is the school of destiny where you

would be taught about your destiny and

specially groomed for it through processes.

Destiny is a function of your eternal calling

and instincts, the true responsibility that will

put glory on your head. Sometimes dreams of

destiny may not come when you are asleep

but will just come when you are doing one

assignment or the other. It may even come as

an idea, and once you are diligent enough to

work on it, you just found your destiny. What

the dream is is just that mental picture. That

mental picture is a mirror. In other words it is


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a mirror of destiny. Do you know what a

mirror is? A mirror is an object that reflects

(produces an image) of the object in front of

it. So a destiny orchestrated dream is a mirror

showing what tomorrow will look like. Many

at times you won‟t get dreams like that when

you are sleeping – you will get them as a

duty, or passion, or idea sort of and when you

pay close attention to it you find your destiny

there. David as the king of Israel did not get

the dream for that destiny on his bed, he got it

in woods where he was taking care of his

father‟s sheep. He didn‟t know a destiny like

that was waiting for him in the future he was

just taking care of his father‟s sheep out of

commitment and the LORD saw him and

said, “that is the man I am looking for” only

because he took that duty serious. Once you

discover you have passion for an activity, you

have a breakthrough idea, or you have a duty

either in church or at home, stop playing with

it and get serious about it. Who knows,

maybe it is destiny trying to get your attention

because destiny has a voice. Sometimes

destiny will call you through things trivial,

“and Joseph dreamed a dream” definitely,


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that was destiny calling Joseph. In as much as

we are talking about destiny orchestrated

dreams, sweetheart, once destiny calls you

please don‟t back out like Jacob. Jacob heard

the voice of destiny at Bethel where he saw

angels descending and ascending into heaven

and he said, “destiny, wait for me let me settle

my own dream and come back” and that sun

that rose upon him never rose again until 20

years after. Beloved, what is it that destiny is

calling you to do that you are running away

from? You better answer.

Prayer: Father, grant me the grace not to run away

from destiny and grant me the discernment to know

when my destiny comes in Jesus name


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Day 5

Destiny Orchestrated Dreams (II)

Genesis 28:10-20

And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with

me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will

give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on

~Genesis 28:20

Like Jacob, destiny will ask you for your own

choice. You will have to choose between

obeying the voice of destiny and pursuing your

own dream – that is the problem you have to

face; the problem of choosing between your

own dream and responding to the voice of

destiny. Destiny sometimes will require that

you submit your choice to her and failure to do

so will attract grievous consequences. A man

heard the LORD calling him (because the

Spirit of the LORD is the spirit of destiny)

when he was still studying NCE and he refused

the LORD not because he was not willing but

he refused the LORD because he felt there was

no money in ministry and he went ahead to

chase his personal career; do you know that for

the next 60 years of his life he was still


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struggling to become a vice principle of a

secondary school. One of the problems you

will ever face in life is the problem of choosing

between what destiny wants you to become

and what you want to become. Destiny is

calling you and you are saying no, it is your

career you want to chase. Yes it is your will

but I hope you know you determine whatever

you become in life by the way you use that

power you have to choose for yourself. Esau

lost his birthright because of the path he chose,

are you not tolling that path too? The devil

became what he is today because of the ugly

choice that he made – do you know the devil

was once an angel before? But he became the

devil because of the choice he made. One of

the greatest struggles you will ever have within

yourself is your choice between what destiny

wants you to become and what you have

become by yourself. Paul said, “I count all

things but loss for the excellency of the

knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom

I have suffered the loss of all things, and do

count them but dung, that I may win Christ”

Philippians 3:8. Look at Paul, Paul had PhD in

law before he met Christ and he called it dung.


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What can the world offer you? When destiny

beckoned on Jacob, Jacob said, “If God will be

with me, and will keep me in this way that I go,

and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to

put on, So that I come again to my father's

house in peace; then shall the LORD be my

God” Genesis 28:20-21. You see him now,

giving the LORD condition that he wants to

chase his personal ambition before he chases

the LORD and the sun that set over him never

rose again. You won‟t make more out of your

life than destiny will make out it. Why not

submit your will to her because that is the

beginning of greatness. Jesus said, “of all those

that were born of a woman, John is the

greatest” which was because John submitted

to the will of destiny; John said, „it is the will

of the Father that I may decrease and he may

increase” John 3:3o then he was talking about

Jesus Christ. Your greatness is in the will of

the Father, the will of destiny. Don‟t carry a

destiny of a John and be a victim of career.

Prayer: Father, prepare me to become what destiny

wants me to become in Jesus name.


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Study Questions 1. Discuss why the LORD had to speak to

Pharaoh in dreams and not his voice.

2. Share your experience with a false prophet if

any and state how to identify a fake prophet.

3. Discuss the story of Jacob and the ladder in

details.


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Day 6

Destiny Orchestrated Dreams (III)

Genesis 37:15-25

Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him

into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath

devoured him: and we shall see what will become of

his dreams

~ Genesis 37:20

Destiny orchestrated dreams will require

separations as it was for Joseph not because the

LORD hates your friendship but because it is

necessary. Separate you from friends, separate

you from family members. Your destiny will

require separations, for Isaac, the LORD

separated Ishmael. For Jacob, the LORD

separated Esau from him. For Joseph, the

LORD separated his brothers from him.

Sometimes destiny will require separation.

Jonathan failed to separate from his earthly

father and when his destiny was happening he

was in the grave. Jonathan was the one that

saw the revelation and told David. Jonathan

said, “I see you becoming the second king of


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Israel and I, your second in command” and

when David truly became king Jonathan was in

the grave. And he was in the grave because he

failed to separate from his early father and

follow his destiny partner. Now you know your

destiny will require separations you better start

separating from the people you need to

separate from and stop walking in carnality and

emotionalism. Separations of destiny are the

ones with regret the most because they always

have consequences if you refuse to separate. In

Yoruba language, there is a proverb that says

20 children cannot play together for 20 years

and that means growth is taking place in each

of them but the friend that fails to separate will

have to forfeit his/her destiny for the sake of

friendship. And I see a lot of people

mortgaging their destiny on the platform of

refusal to separate from people they should

separate from. See, it is only one thing you

either separate or mortgage your destiny. The

sun didn‟t rise on Jacob again until he

separated from Laban. There are somethings

that would just pick up for you because of

separations. You need to separate from every

unholy alliances and acult, business links that


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kills destiny and when you separate from

people, don‟t kill yourself because of it, if they

are not comfortable about it, let them go and

hang themselves. Destiny is more precious

than people‟s opinion. Separations that

concerns destiny may not be easy but it is

necessary. When people came to meet Jesus

and they told him his mother and his brother

were outside waiting for him, Jesus said, “who

is my mother and brother? Whoever does the

will of my father which is in heaven is my

brother, sister, and, mother” Matthew 12:50.

You know, it was not easy on flesh but he had

to do it. If you don‟t separate from necessary

quarters the devil will entangle you with

unnecessary problems.

Prayer: Father, separate me from necessary quarters

in Jesus name.


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Day 7

Destiny Orchestrated Dreams (IV)

Genesis 37:15-20

Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him

into some pit, and we would say, some evil beasts hath

devoured him, and we shall see what will become of

his dreams

~Genesis 37:20

There are two sides to a man‟s destiny; the

known part and the unknown part. The known

part is the one you know now. The known part

of the destiny of Joseph was the 17 year old

boy everybody knew had a dream but the

unknown side of his destiny was in Egypt, the

place where he held the power of life and death

over them.

A man may be cleaning cars with his friends

and they don‟t know there albums of music

lying in his belly – that is the unknown side of

destiny. Your destiny is the ground you stand


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and the devil cannot get you again and so he

will always want to get you to despise the

known side so that he can handle you in the

unknown side because he knows the unknown

side is determined by how you handle the

known side. And you see those two in the life

of Joseph; the part that was known and the part

that wasn‟t.

Imagine Joseph got to Egypt and became an

Egyptian? What do you think would have

happened to his dream if he did? Someone that

his journey into Egypt was ordered by a

divinely orchestrated set of steps. Destiny

orchestrated steps begins when you receive a

dream from the Father about your destiny. It

may be a word, it may be a mirror and He will

give you a dream (picture) of your destiny and

tell you, that is where I am going with you no

matter what you face on the way to destiny so

that the making process won‟t be a drag

between you and the Father. As it is in the

Bible, “I know the thoughts that I think toward


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you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace not of

evil, to give you an expected end” Jeremiah

29:11 but excuse me, can there be an expected

end without an expected path? Even after you

have gotten the dream of your destiny, the

Father will still test your commitment to Him

before He releases your destiny into your

hands. Destiny ouzes out of the place of

intimacy with the Father and intimacy with the

Father is not a dash, it is the reward for your

commitment to the things of the Father. A

dream can tell you the end point of your

destiny but it is commitment that will release it

to you. Commitment to the things of the

Father; not just your assignment in church,

your steadfastness to the things of the Bible

inclusive. The Father can place you in the

midst of terrible people just to test your

steadfastness to the things of the Bible, will

you change? Flesh and blood makes a man,

spirit and blood makes a Christian, intimacy

and commitment makes a Joseph.


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Prayer: Father, arrange my life to suit You so that at

the other side of my destiny I won‟t flop in Jesus name.


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Day 8

Revelatory Dreams

Daniel 2:3

And the king said to them I have dreamed a dream and

my spirit was troubled to know the dream

~Daniel 2:3

Unlike destiny orchestrated dreams, revelatory

dreams are always specific. Now take note of

this; the LORD does not hide things from

people. He hides it for people because

revelation is what is known before heaven but

not known to you yet and when the LORD

reveals them to you it is because you need

them, or you have grown enough spiritually to

handle them. Revelations on their own are

important. Some are informative and some

give direction. For example, you find yourself

in a battle spiritually and you don‟t know

where it is coming from, revelatory dreams is

the one the LORD uses to paint the picture for

you exactly as it is. The informative shows you

the deep things of the Father. Jesus, when his

disciples asked him why he taught people in


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parables, said, “because it is given to you to

know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven,

but to them it is not given” Matthew 13:11.

Mystery means revelation. In other words

revelations are a function of intimacy with the

LORD. Revelations are an outflow of intimacy

with the Father and the Father made it like that

because they are precious to Him. Intimacy

with the Father is not a dash. It is a reward for

your commitment to the Father. Haba, the

Father will not by pass the committed for

revelations and assignments – He is not Laban.

You cannot treat the Father as a pinch of salt

and expect Him to carry you like a bag of rice;

yes the Father loves us equally but will not

reward us equally except we are committed to

Him equally. Intimacy means commitment and

it is built not earned and earning commitment

is a matter of trust and I cannot trust you until I

have seen your heart towards me and that is

love. If you love the Father, you won‟t rule out

any of His commandments either it is

convenient or not. Jesus said, “if ye love me ye

will obey my commandments” John 14:15. If

you want revelation stay committed to the

Father. Jesus after saying that to his disciples


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said, “AND I will pray the Father, and he shall

give you another Comforter, that he may abide

with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth;

whom the world cannot receive, because it

seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye

know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall

be in you” John 14:16-17. Did you see the

AND there? That AND means condition; “if ye

love me” – that‟s it. And hope you saw the

Spirit of Truth there in verse 17? That is the

Spirit of revelations. Jesus called Him truth

because it is what is known before Him but not

known to you. It is always in the Bible but

there is a opening when revelation is present. It

opens your eyes of understanding to His word.

Prayer: LORD, bring my spirit into alignment with

your truth for proper reception of revelations in the

things of You in Jesus name.


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Day 9

Revelatory Dreams (II)

Daniel 2:3

And the king said to them I have dreamed a dream and

my spirit was troubled to know the dream

~Daniel 2:3

The commandments of Jesus are the

commandments of the Father and how do I

know? “The son does nothing except what he

sees the Father do but the father loves the son

and shows him what He is doing” John 5:19-

20 and the commandments of the Father are in

the Bible and if His commandments are a basis

for the Spirit of Truth then His word is a basis

for revelation. If the revelation is not in the

Bible, drop it like poison. The LORD said “the

prophet that hath a dream let him tell a dream

and he that hath My word, let him speak it

faithfully for what is the chaff to the wheat”

Jeremiah 23:28 meaning that a dream is the

basis for His word but His word is the basis for

a dream. Do you known what a chaff is? A


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chaff is the leaf that is usually covering a

wheat before harvest. In other words, when

you plant a wheat, it will give you the ear,

stalk, the chaff. The chaff is the leafy

substance that covers the wheat. You have

chaff in maize too (“agbado”). The chaff is that

leafy stuff that covers the maize. In Yoruba

language, sometimes they will tell you, “wa ya

agbado yi” which means come and peel this

maize; in other words the chaff is the back peel

of the maize. Will the chaff give you the maize

when you plant it? But the maize will give you

the maize plus the chaff when you plant it isn‟t

it? And the LORD is calling the dream a chaff,

while His word, wheat. You see the difference?

Sometimes the devil will try to come to you in

dreams too but don‟t mind him because his

purpose is clear; to steal, to kill, and to destroy

(John 10:10). The devil gives revelation too

but the Bible is our backup. When he gives

you, check it in the Bible, if you cannot find it

there, drop it. Playing around the revelation the

devil gave you, you are playing with fire.

Sometimes he will come in dreams and if you

don‟t know the Bible you may think it is the

LORD that is why you must know the Bible


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like you know any other book you have read

before. Don‟t just say my pastor is reading the

Bible for me, read the Bible by yourself. When

the time for tests come your pastor will not be

the one to face it for you. We are not afraid of

what the devil is bringing but we are able to

discern it. Banks for example, do not teach

their staff how to identify fake notes but rather

they teach them the original and know it so

well that when they pick counterfeits they‟ll

know. We are not afraid of what the devil will

change but as long as we know the original so

well we can pick out counterfeits when we see

them.

Prayer: Father, grant me the grace know Your word

like never before as I decide to read Your word

starting from today in Jesus name.


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Day 10

Preemptive Dreams

Genesis 41:1-7

And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and

full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold. It was a

dream

~Genesis 41:7

Preemptive dreams are dreams that points to

the future and give you an upper hand to take

charge of the future. The Father would show

you what has the possibility of happening in

the future sometimes so that you can take

charge of it and plan ahead. Sometimes they

may be bad and sometimes may be good but

they are always preemptive. For example, you

saw yourself getting last position in a dream

and it has not happened yet or you had a bad

dream that has not materialized yet, definitely

the LORD wants you to pray against it or take

action preemptively and prevent it from

taking place as it was in the case of Pharaoh.

“And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have

dreamed a dream, and there is none that can


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interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that

thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.

And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is

not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer

of peace. And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The

dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed

Pharaoh what he is about to do. The seven

good kine are seven years; and the seven

good ears are seven years: the dream is one.

And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that

came up after them are seven years; and the

seven empty ears blasted with the east wind

shall be seven years of famine. This is the

thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh:

What God is about to do he sheweth unto

Pharaoh” Genesis chapter 41 verses 15-16,

25-28 The dream was telling Pharaoh to work

towards preparing for the famine forth

coming. You see, many at times you cannot

prevent what is coming but the Father would

always give you a blue print so that you can

prepare ahead. Noah, it was not favour that

saved him but obedience to the blue print the

Father gave him. Walking with the Father,

you cannot be a crisis time operator – you

must know how to deal with problems at


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infancy. Do you know what a blue print is? A

blue print is a strategy/plan about what is not

visible yet but holds the entire plan about

what you‟re about to execute. And when the

devil wants to deal with you on dreams like

this, he will make you despise the dream or

blue print so that he can handle you.

Prayer: LORD, let there not be any effect of despise

on me in Jesus name.


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Study Questions 1. What caught your attention most in this

section?

2. Discuss how to identify false dreams

3. If you had a preemptive dream today how

would you resolve it?

4. In regard to the dream of Pharaoh what is the

essence of saving today?


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Day 11

Preemptive Dreams (II)

Genesis 41:1-7

And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and

full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold. It was a

dream

~Genesis 41:7

Like destiny orchestrated dreams, some

preemptive dreams come to you when you are

awake and they come for you to shape the

future with them. In fact these types of

dreams are very essential to the quality of

your life because they actually come to

evolve you. Information transform you,

dreams evolve you. For example, you see a

picture of a car and you like it it will change

your taste for cars and thus will want a better

car because your taste has evolved. Do you

know the word dream in Greek is the word

Evolve? To dream is to evolve. In other

words, what you need to evolve is a dream.

Evolution is the science of moving from

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change the way you see because you see

things the way you are not the way it looks.

What an ant sees as a mountain is what a

human being sees as a pebble. I tell people,

life is not fixed it‟s how you see it and

evolution is what changes how you see.

Dreams come to evolve you. Preemptive

dreams is a tool the Father gave man to shape

the future and some of them don‟t come as it

was for Pharaoh but come to change the way

you see things and adjust your appetite for

success thus helping you create a future you

desire for yourself. Preemptive dreams is all

about the future and shaping it while having a

good quality of it is the evolution. The future

may mean tomorrow, it may be next year,

depending on the time span. In fact the best

time to shape today is when it is still called

tomorrow because when it is called tomorrow

it is still in its liquid state and can be changed

but when it becomes today it is solid already

and you can‟t fix anything into it again and

the way it works is that that the dreams of

today are the realities of tomorrow and life

will only print out what you have as a dream.

Do you have camera? Do you know how


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pictures are formed there? Is it not what you

have on the film of the camera that it prints

out for you on paper? So it is with life. Life

will only print out for you what you have on

your dream film and that is why preemptive

dreams come your way. With the way our

world works today if you have no dream you

are sunk. For you to know how important this

category of dream is to the Father, when He

wanted to bless Abraham, He had to give him

a dream first.

Prayer: Father, help me not to miss it in the area of

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Day 12

Evolve!

Genesis 15:1-5

And Abram said LORD, what wilt thou give me,

seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is

this Eliezer of Damascus?

~Genesis 15:2

Abraham had walked with the Father and saw

that he had not given birth to any child from

his own bowels and it looked like the promise

of a child the LORD gave to him was taking

too long to materialize, Abraham went back

to the LORD and said, “…what wilt thou give

me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of

my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?”

Genesis 15:2 and the LORD asked him to

come out and when Abraham came out the

sky was full of stars and the LORD told him,

“Abraham you are brooding on one but I am

more than one, as many as the stars of the sky

so shall your descendants be” Now the

LORD did that because He knew as long as

Abraham was still holding on the picture of

bareness in his spirit, He could do nothing

with him so the LORD had to change that


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picture, the LORD had to evolve him. Stop

viewing the world from the corner of your

room, you too come out and see the stars, see

the world from a bigger perspective – evolve!

And stop making it difficult for the LORD to

bless you because the LORD will only print

out the picture in your spirit – that‟s a dream.

Go to the imaginary world and pick a dream,

write it down on paper, and work on it. That

you have written it down on paper you have

taken the first step towards its reality. See

Genesis 11:6. Set time aside just to check

magazines for dreams. Take a tour to

different locations just to get a dream, pick up

your phone and surf the web about things that

interest you and see the way others are doing

it so that you can keep yourself informed of

what people are doing. Don‟t just be silent,

pick up your phone and surf the web “for

those that reside in silence reside in the

congregation of the dead” Proverbs 21:16.

Don‟t stay in your room and do nothing –

that‟s silence. You see, this category of

dreams come to work on your life. Nothing

more. And it makes you see life differently.

You can‟t be the owner of a drink


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manufacturing company here in Nigeria and

see the way they process drinks in America in

pictures or go there yourself and still want to

produce drinks as you were doing before

without wanting to change something in

respect of what you just saw because that is

how evolution works – it changes your

appetite for success.

Prayer: LORD, give me dreams bigger than my

perspective in Jesus name.


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Day 13

Evolve! (II)

Genesis 15:1-5

And Abram said LORD, what wilt thou give me,

seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is

this Eliezer of Damascus?

~Genesis 15:2

Don‟t let your past experiences color your

appetite for success. Suppose you find

yourself in a family that every member of it

has ever built nothing more than a bungalow

and you don‟t feed yourself with the sight of

anything greater to then that bungalow is

likely to colour your appetite for building

because it has been socially proven that

whatever enters the is the human eye has the

capacity to put the human life on auto pilot.

This dream thing is like hunger and that is

why I kept the word appetite there and hunger

is the mother of desire. When you are hungry

you eat isn‟t it? Appetite simply means your

urge or desire to eat. And when the urge is not

there, then the idea of an appetizer comes in

to stimulate your buds. Although, there are

exceptional cases where a person is not just


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hungry, he does not need appetizer but

doesn‟t feel like eating and it occurs

continuously for days. In medicine they call it

anorexia. It is the fear of gaining weight

usually characterized by a low body weight;

If you have no urge to dream or pursue your

dreams you are sick. Abraham was eager to

pursue his dreams. The barrier between your

dreams and reality is action. When you go to

the imaginary world and you pick a dream,

and then you pen it down, you have just

achieved the first realization of the dream and

act on what you have penned down and after

you have done these, you need to ask yourself

these questions,

1. What information do I need to achieve

this dream? If any, gather them

2. Is it feasible?

3. Will it require waking up early from

me?

4. Do I need to get a team?

But many at times a lot of people run away

from their dreams when they discover the

waking up early it would require, or

responsibilities dictated by nature such as the


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waking up early, and many other necessary

factors in achieving their dreams which is

nothing but the fear of greatness. Abraham

Maslow called it the Jonah Complex. There

are complexes and there are complexes in

life. We have the inferiority complex, we

have the superiority complex, and we have

other complexes. Inferiority complex says I

feel I am nothing. Superiority complex says

otherwise. A complex are a group of

emotionally related ideas connected together

leading to a change in behavior or reaction.

Prayer: LORD, help me to take away every form of the

fear of greatness and unwanted complexes in my life in

Jesus name.


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Day 14

The fear of Greatness (I)

2 Timothy 1:3-7

For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of

power, and of love, and of a sound mind

~2 Timothy 1:7

Many people imagine their greatness and they

become so scared of themselves; Greatness for

some people is some worth a thing of sadness

which shouldn‟t be. Abraham Maslow in his

research about the human behavior called it

“the Jonah Complex” and he defined it as the

avoidance of your extraordinary life. The way

Jonah complex works is that, you look at what

you‟re about to do, or what you think you are

capable of doing, or a dream, and you

immediately begin to withdraw to yourself

when you think of the diligence it is going to

require, the waking up early, or the hard work

it is going to require AND THEN YOU STOP.

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look at a great step you‟re about to take in life

and you begin to feel it is too much for

ORDINARY you, or you think of somebody

you want to be like in life and you immediately

withdraw to yourself because the devil

reminded you of the age difference between

you and the person AND THEN YOU STOP

AGAIN. However, anytime you think of

anything truly great it is a sense of fear or a

lack of ability that clouds your mind – it is

normal but if you stop there, your destiny will

die there! You must take a step. And even if

you are still afraid, do it afraid! A dream that

doesn‟t scare you is way too small. Don‟t stop

something because you feel it is too great for

you. You want to go to church on Sunday, go

for the best cloth you have. You see, the fear of

greatness is like a muscle and the more you

yield to it the stronger it becomes. The Bible

says, “for the LORD has not given us the spirit

of fear but that of courage, power, and a sound

mind” 2 Timothy 2:7 Emphasized. So


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definitely the devil is the one suggesting the

fear.

Don‟t let the devil write a script for you to

follow by making you afraid of your dreams

simply because you looked at what somebody

else was doing.

Prayer: Father, put in me the ability not to avoid my

extraordinary life again in Jesus name.


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Day 15

The fear of Greatness (II)

2 Timothy 1:3-7

For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of

power, and of love, and of a sound mind

~2 Timothy 1:7

No dream is too big for you. In fact anytime

you think of something that is really great is

the fear of greatness or a sense of a lack of

ability that clouds your mind but if you stop

there your destiny will die there! Dreams are a

part of you, your dream is your destiny in

picture and the earlier you wake up to that

truth, the better is it from you. Dreams are

custom based, dream can be a way destiny is

trying to call your attention to her and there

are some that they won‟t come at all without

you, they are some ideas that will not be

visible on this planet until they find their way

into your spirit. No dream is too big for you

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need to ask yourself what you are going to

need to achieve the dream:

1. Will I need a team?

2. Will I need a strategy?

3. Will I need to put up a pull?

4. Will I need money?

5. And many more

It doesn‟t take much to achieve a dream it only

takes determination, action, and structure. For

example, you want to build a house, it won‟t

take you much money but it will take you a lot

of structures. You like to eat salad at Mr X and

a bag of cement costs N1650 which the salad

costs. Now by the time you go to Mr X seven

times to eat the same thing you have eaten 7

bags of cement. You are eating up your dream

little by little. Some things won‟t just happen

until you make them happen.

Prayer: Father, put in me the ability not to avoid my

extraordinary life again in Jesus name.


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Study Question 1. What do you understand by appetite for

success

2. What do you understand by Anorexia?

3. What do you think has coloured your appetite

for success?

4. Discuss the causes and solution of Jonah

Complex

5. What do you understand by structures in

achieving your dreams?


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Day 16

Visions

Numbers 12:6

…If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD will

make myself known to him in a vision, and speak to

him in dreams

~Numbers 12:6

What is the meaning of prophet? It is the

Hebrew word for seer (the person that can see

vision). The LORD reveals Himself to people.

John said, "in the beginning was the Word and

the Word was with God and the Word was

God" John 1:1 so there are forms of the

revelation of the LORD. The LORD is not

restricted to revealing Himself the way He did

to Moses on the mountain, He may choose to

come as the Word. The Word of the LORD

Himself. God's work follows God's word. So

when He speaks He works on it and that is

exactly what a vision is, it is the endpoint of

your process. When the LORD is giving you a


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vision, He is giving you the end result. Visions

unlike dreams are conclusions and outcomes

from the LORD about the end of a thing.

Vision usually come in the form of sight and

you can always say, 'I see' or 'I saw' that's a

vision. It's an outcome/conclusion. What many

people call vision today is a perversion of

vision. They gain foresight and call it vision.

Vision is given by the LORD only not a mental

picture given to you by yourself – that's a

dream. Vision brings the next profitable step

you are to take; without vision a pastor is

stranded, without vision a leader is stranded,

without vision a person is stranded because

vision gives you direction in life and without

direction you are going nowhere in life. Jesus

knew where he was going in destiny at the age

of 12 even though people did not take him

serious but it was clear to him where his

destiny was going. Destination and direction

go together. If you don't know where you are

going how are you going to know where to

pass? The LORD can give you a vision in form


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of a dream, Wisdom, instruction, but they will

always be an end result. It is always a

conclusion/an outcome. The LORD does not

give people information, it is outcomes and

conclusions only. A prophet that is giving you

revelation from the LORD and is giving you

the explanation is not giving you a vision from

the LORD. The LORD only gives conclusions

and outcomes. "Through faith we understand

that the worlds were framed by the word of

God, so that things which are seen were not

made of things which do appear" Hebrews

11:3 you see that faith came before

understanding? "For by faith we understand" If

the LORD told you not to travel to "Ibadan"

tomorrow, He is giving you a vision, if you

travel tomorrow you will understand why the

LORD told you not to travel. Faith is

compliance to vision okay? You know,

sometimes in English they define vision as a

mental picture not even eye sight meaning

what is doing the job of what you see is not

your eyes it is your brain. If your eyes captures


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an image and your brain interprets the image

for you but when it comes to faith a lot of

Christians despise visions from the LORD

because their spirit are so unworked upon, they

despise God-instruction and divine-revelation.

Structure and instruction come from the word

instruction. It consist of two words; IN and

Structure. In other words, inside-structure,

structure inside to be carried out outside and

when the LORD is giving you divine

revelation, He is giving you a God-instruction.

Without instructions your life would be

flopping. Structures are like bones. Your bone

is the frame work of your body, it is the frame

on which your body hangs and without it your

body would just be flopping. Without God-

instructions your life will just be flopping.

Pastors that don't have structures their lives

become flops. Structures are what you carry

out routinely in line with the vision the LORD

has given you. Daniel read the vision of

captivity and when they were to leave captivity

he began to pray. He was so devoted that he


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prayed 3 times a day – that's a structure. A

destiny without structures will remain tiny.

Prayer: Father, help my destiny align to your

structures and give me God-instructions where

necessary in Jesus name.


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Day 17

Vision and sight

Habakkuk 2:1-4

I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower,

and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and

what I shall answer when I am reproved

~Habakkuk 2:1

For the next few days I would be teaching you

how to stand upon your watch, how to write

your vision, how to carry out the structures

behind it, and how to comply. When the

LORD gives you a vision, a Bible passage, He

is giving you a picture – that's a vision. Hes

given you a picture that you can see!

Habakkuk asked the LORD some questions

about the unrighteousness in his generation and

why the LORD had not done anything about it

and when he was done, he said, "I will stand

upon my watch, and set me upon the tower,

and will watch to see what he will say unto

me" Habakkuk was a prophet and he knew the


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LORD was going to paint pictures in his spirit

for him, he knew it was a vision and you see,

you must know when the LORD is giving you

pictures and when He is giving you a picture;

you know, you may not hear the sentence

completely in your spirit but you would get the

picture of what the LORD is saying. Do you

get? "I will stand upon my watch, and set me

upon the tower, and will watch to see what he

will say unto me" Don't carry out your actions

until you have seen what He will say. Jesus

said, "the Son does nothing except what he sees

the Father do but the Father loves the Son and

shows him what He is doing" John 5:19-20.

Even Jesus practiced it. Wait! Let a vision

guide you. What is happening to your spirit in

the waiting time is preparing you for what you

are waiting for. Wait! In fact, the first principle

for vision is waiting. You want to do anything,

wait! Pray. When Lazarus died, they called

Jesus, and with all the healing anointing he

had, he did not go. He waited four days extra

before he went, Martha said, "Lord if you had


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been here my brother wouldn't have died" John

11:21 but when he showed up he was riding on

the wings of the Spirit.

Prayer: Father, help my spirit to receive pictures from

you in Jesus name.


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Day 18

Vision and Sight (II)

Habakkuk 2:1-4

I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower,

and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and

what I shall answer when I am reproved

~Habakkuk 2:1

There are two creatures in the Bible the creator

identified Himself with because of their

distinctive characteristics, they are;

1. The eagle and

2. The Lion

The eagle is considered the king of birds and

the lion is considered to be the king of animals.

And one of the distinctive characteristics of the

eagle is its power of sight. The eagle is such an

amazing bird. It loves to wiggle and to glide. It

is said to be able to sight its prey from afar at

least 2-4 km away approximately and see it

clearly. Do you know what 2-4 Kilometers is?


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The eagle's eyes is said to be 4-8 times sharper

than the human eyes and it goes hunting for its

prey and its food is constant because of the

power of its eyes. Isn't that amazing? [missing

file]. Your destiny has been tied to what you

can see.

Prayer: Father, grant my spirit a sharper capacity to

see in Jesus name.


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Day 19

Vision involves writing

Habakkuk 2:2-4

And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the

vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run

that readeth it

~Habakkuk 2:2

I remember I told you you can go to the

imaginary world and pick a picture and write it

down when I was teaching you about dreams.

You remember? A vision involves writing.

After you've gotten the vision you need to

write it down and when you're distressed, you

can always read the vision again and be

reminded that the LORD is still in control. You

know why? Because spiritual things are

slippery – you can easily forget them. The

LORD told Habakkuk to write it. You see,

writing preserves generations. What you don't

write you can't pass to an upcoming

generation. When you share a vision people


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can be happy about it but you can't pass it on.

In fact the LORD told Habakkuk to write it

down because of the person reading it not

because of Habakkuk "that he may run that

readeth it" so the LORD's plan involves people

and the preservation of destinies. Your vision

may be a provision for somebody else. For

example now, the vision of Habakkuk is a

provision for me. When the LORD plans a

vision, He plans people with it. If the LORD

gives you a vision to operate a school and you

don't do it, do you know the number of

destines tied to that vision? The LORD gave

you a vision to sing and you did not, do you

know the number of children destined to sing

the song you never wrote? The LORD asked

you to start a business and you didn't start, do

you know the number of destinies tied to that

business? See, when the LORD gives visions

He ties people to it – you are like a tree that

without your shade people can't get shade.

When the LORD is giving you a vision, He is

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an instruction, an inside-structure to be carried

out outside, He is giving you the outcome and

it is guaranteed because of the vision if you

carry out the instruction because every vision

gives you an inside structure. There two sides

to everything in life;

1. The form and

2. The power

The Bible speaks about those having a form of

godliness but denying the power thereof (2

Timothy 3:16). The form of a business is the

goal but the power is what the LORD has said

about it. Did you SEE it? When the LORD

gives you a vision, write it and put the date.

Prayer: Father, grant my spirit a willingness to carry

out your instructions and write down them down in

Jesus name.


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Day 20

Vision Speaks

Habakkuk 2:3-4

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the

end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for

it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry

~Habakkuk 2:3

If you connect to a vision and you don't

connect to the timing, you wasted it. A vision

is an end, at the end, it will speak. You saw a

vision that vision is an end when you get to the

end the end will look like the vision. It won't

fall short the standard. The standard is what

you saw in the vision, "though it tarry, wait for

it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry"

do you know how many pastors have changed

location because they didn't see quick growth?

They couldn't wait. Sometimes that your

waiting may be what the LORD is testing "and

the LORD added to the church daily such as

ought to be saved" He is the one doing the


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work "and the LORD added." You can't

deceive the LORD 'naw.' The LORD gave you

a revelation, but your inside-structure does not

look like what He gave you you have

exchanged it with personal ambition. How do

you want Him to commit to a structure He did

not give you? The LORD commits to inside-

structure. Now like that, you are only obedient

you are not willing and Isaiah 1:19 says, "if

you are willing and obedient, you will eat the

good of the land." The LORD gave you

business to do and it‟s not growing, don't

change the location, change your inside-

structure. When your structure is good, it

doesn't matter your location, people will come

"for where the carcass is there shall the eagles

be gathered" Matthew 24:28. Wait! "it will

surely come" it is an instruction other visions

are hanging upon in the Kingdom. The LORD

has to see to the vision so that He can start

another vision with somebody else with it.

Visions in the Kingdom are structures like

building blocks if one block is absent it affects


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the next one so it must come to pass. Your

vision is upon another. In the subsequent days,

I would be telling you about the types of vision

we have (open vision, night vision, and trance)

and the forms of vision which are;

1. Wisdom

2. Leadership of the Holy Spirit

3. Instruction

4. Dreams

5. Divine revelation

6. The Word of God

Prayer: Father, help me to believe your Word always

in Jesus name.


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Study Questions 1. What is a vision?

2. Discuss in details the characteristics of eagles.


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Day 21

Open Vision

1 Samuel 3:1-10

And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before

Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those

days; there was no open vision

~1 Samuel 3:1

You don't sleep when you are receiving open

vision. That is the class Wisdom, leadership of

the Holy Spirit, the Word of God falls to. You

don't need sleep to get those ones. Open vision

is the LORD giving your spirit pictures when

you are awake. One of the most expensive

commodities in the Kingdom is a vision, you

can't buy it, you can only be trusted with it of

the LORD. Open vision is the most expensive

type of vision and is often granted to those that

have decided to serve the LORD all the days of

their life. It is for those married to Jesus not the

ones dating him. That was the one John saw on

the island of Patmos. Open vision was scarce


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in their days meaning even prophets were

scarce. Did you see what Samuel was doing

before he saw the vision? He was ministering

in the temple. As at then he had not even

gotten into his eternal destiny and calling he

was keeping the doors of the temple. Opening

the door of a bank and opening the door of the

temple are not the same. They are not doing

the same thing to your spirit. Opening the door

of the temple is a spiritual duty and spiritual

duties make your spirit function at the level of

your destiny. It was interesting in the days of

Jehoshapat when they needed somebody to

prophesy that Jehoshapat asked, "is there not a

prophet here that we can inquire of the

LORD?" and someone said, "Elisha is here he

was THE ONE THAT POURED WATER ON

THE HANDS OF ELIJAH and Jehoshapat said

lets go to him the Word of the LORD is with

him" 2 Kings 3:11-12. Now what made

Jehoshapat say that, it was because he

understood that the requirement for a prophetic

ministry is spiritual duties. Elisha had to serve


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Elijah like a houseboy but that service was

doing something tremendous to his spirit. For a

spiritual duty to do something tremendous to

your spirit it must be generated by either a

pastor, a prophet, an apostle, an evangelist, or

teacher (Ephesians 4:11). Now they didn't have

these 5 offices in the Old Testament, it was

only the office of a prophet that could bring

that kind of opportunity to them. You can be a

pastor and the LORD ask you to translate the

teachings of another man of God to books,

what kind of school for the training of your

spirit can be better than that? As you are doing

it it is doing something tremendous to your

spirit. Men can determine your post but it is

what you do in the things of the LORD that

determines your grace. What is the meaning of

prophet? It is the Hebrew word for seer (the

person that can see vision). You won't see

vision until you soak yourself in spiritual

duties.

Prayer: Father, help me embrace spiritual duties so

that I can be sighted in Jesus name.


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Day 22

Night Visions and Trance

Daniel 7:13-14

I saw in the night visions ...

~Daniel 7:13

I spoke to you on dreams as a part of your

spirit earlier, dreams are essential and the devil

loves nothing than for you to treat your dream

with despise so that he can handle you. Your

dreams keep you ahead. Night visions are

dreams and dreams are a part of vision. They

are pictures specifically provided by the LORD

to show you something while trance (Acts

10:10) shows up even when you are wild

awake. It is always like they are playing a

movie before you but is a vision and if your

spirit is not strong enough to follow it up,

familiar spirits will begin to entertain you.

Trance is like night vision but you would

always be awake or not fully awake. Daniel

before he had that vision had to pray 3 times a


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day and he was so dedicated to the routine and

structure that he was thrown into the lion's den

for it. You won't have night vision without

structures especially that of prayer kept in

place. Peter before he had that trance already

dedicated himself to the ministry of prayer and

the Word (Acts 6:4). Those that dream without

prayer, only have authentic ones twice in a

year. And what it takes for you to really live is

more than bread "it takes a word from the

LORD to really live" Deuteronomy 8:30 MSG

it takes a vision to really live. There are things

that if you don't put into structures you won't

work on. You have been saying you want to

work on your prayer life since last year and

you have not being able to work on it. You

won't work on it until you develop structures

for it. It is prayer that brings soundness to your

spirit and makes your body a reservoir of

Kingdom spirits; the spirit of truth, the spirit of

Wisdom, the spirit of foresight, the spirit of

prosperity, the spirit of leadership, the spirit of

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body, you are blessed. Blessing means divine

empowerment to succeed. And what is the

opposite of a blessing? A curse. So a curse

means divine empowerment to fail. If you don't

have the spirit of prosperity then you have the

spirit of spending. No matter how much you

have you will just be spending you won't save

anything. In fact the LORD considers it pride

when you don't pray.

Prayer: Father, help my spirit to set up structures

required for success in Jesus name.


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Day 23

The Forms of Vision

Matthew 4:1-9

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness

to be tempted of the devil

~Matthew 4:1

Has somebody ever come to you to give you

something and say I was led? "Then was Jesus

led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be

tempted of the devil" That's it! Sometimes the

LORD would lead you to test you. The fact

that you are led only means that you are

operating with a higher level of intelligence

because when the Holy Spirit leads you, He is

giving you outcomes and conclusion not

information. He has seen it and concluded.

Information is the one that has successive

details. And when the LORD leads you don't

argue just admit because He led you because

He had seen something you couldn't see.

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You are always led to. The leadership of the

Holy Spirit will never put you in trouble. It

may look like it is trouble but it won't. Jesus

was led to be tested and was tested on food, the

anointing, and money. Everybody will be

tested either born again or unborn again. Paul

said, "according to the glorious gospel of the

blessed God that was committed to my TRUST"

2 Timothy 1:11. The leadership of the Holy

Spirit is expensive, it is a commitment to show

you the end from the beginning so that you

don't commit to error. Before you are labeled

trusted you must be tested. The LORD would

test you on food (esau failed that one

woefully). This test is designed to make you

prefer the spiritual above the carnal. The test of

hunger (because Jesus was hungry when he

was tested) is the most horrible test of all, look

at esau, how much potage could equal his

birthright? Hear Paul, "All things are lawful

unto me, but all things are not expedient: all

things are lawful for me, but I will not be

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belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall

destroy both it and them. Now the body is not

for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord

for the body" 1 Corinthians 6:12-3 your body

for the LORD and the LORD for your body.

The LORD for your body is another package

on its own but it includes the leadership of the

Holy Spirit. It is in that realm that generational

yokes are broken (Isaiah 10:27). There is a

glory in the gospel and there is a power in it.

The LORD would test you on the seductions of

the anointing "if you are the Son of God jump

from this place down" sometimes the test of

seduction will come in form of meekness. You

have the power to destroy as a Christian but

would you use it because someone offended

you? Paul called it love (1 Corinthians 13:1) –

that‟s meekness. The LORD would test you on

money. Is money a major issue to you? If Jesus

charged people for all the miracles he did, how

much do you think they wouldn‟t have paid?

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much do you think he wouldn‟t have paid to

see his daughter alive?

Prayer: Father, birth in me a grace to pass at least

these 3 of your tests in Jesus name.


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Day 24

The Forms of Vision (II)

Proverbs 1:1-9

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but

fools despise wisdom and instruction

~Proverbs 1:7

That sign semicolon (:) symbolizes equality

between the two parties in the above Scripture.

"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of

knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and

instruction" so that means knowledge there is

strategic and it is equivalent to wisdom and IN-

struction. The second form of vision is

wisdom. Wisdom is knowing what to do that is

profitable per time. It is seeing the end from

the beginning. We are giving you a proverb

and you are misbehaving, we are giving a

vision, we are giving you your end result yet

you are arguing with it kind of something. We

are telling you evil communication corrupts

good manners, we are not giving you a


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suggestion, we are giving you a vision. It is an

end result. Solomon called it the purpose of

proverbs. It is to give you the end from the

beginning. You remember I told you wisdom is

one of the spirits of the Kingdom? So the fear

of the LORD also brings wisdom.

Prayer: LORD, saturate my spirit with the wonders of

wisdom in Jesus name.


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Day 25

The Forms of Vision (III)

1 Samuel 15:1-3

Samuel also said unto Saul, The Lord sent me to anoint

thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now

therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of

the Lord

~1 Samuel 15:1

Now that is an instruction the LORD is giving

saul to go and UTTERLY destroy the

amalekites (because that is the third form of

vision – instruction). You know the rest of the

story? "And Saul gathered the people together,

and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred

thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of

Judah. And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and

laid wait in the valley. And Saul said unto the

Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among

the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them:

for ye shewed kindness to all the children of

Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the

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And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah

until thou comest to Shur, that is over against

Egypt. And he took Agag the king of the

Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the

people with the edge of the sword. But Saul

and the people spared Agag, and the best of

the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings,

and the lambs, and all that was good, and

would not utterly destroy them: but every thing

that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed

utterly" 1 Samuel 15:4-9 and the LORD got

angry with him. And nothing grieves the

LORD more than disobedience to this kind of

vision. It is instruction, a conclusion. Now

disobedience to it is questioning the order of

the LORD. Instruction is different from

instruction. Instruction will give you inside

structures to condition your inside and

instruction will tell you this is how I want the

end to look like – that was the one saul

disobeyed. The end the LORD wanted was for

him to utterly destroy the amalekites but saul

spared Agag and carried out his own ambition.


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Two things the LORD looks at when He gives

you an instruction; obedience and ambition.

Are you ambitious or obedient?

Prayer: LORD, give me a willing heart for you in

Jesus name.


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Study Questions 1. Discuss the forms of vision

2. Why do you think prayer is necessary for

vision?

3. What is the importance of vision?

4. What is the necessity of wisdom?


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Day 26

The Forms of Visions (IV)

Ephesians 1:17

The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,

may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation

in the knowledge of him

~Ephesians 1:17

Revelation is something known before heaven

but not known to you now known to you.

When the LORD is giving you a revelation, He

is giving you a picture, outcome, and

conclusion. The vision of John is an example

of revelation. Jesus called it the mysteries of

the Kingdom (Matthew 13:10). "And the

disciples came, and said unto him, Why

speakest thou unto them in parables? He

answered and said unto them, Because it is

given unto you to know the mysteries of the

kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given"

Matthew 13:10-11 so you see that to get

mysteries you must be a disciple? You must be


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submitted to proper discipleship to know the

things of the LORD, how to deal with sin, how

to be holy, how to remain pure, and many

others. And that is why you should go to

church and get discipled. To get discipled you

need a Moses, to lead you from your Egypt to

your promise land. If you are going to a

church where they don't teach but they

sermonize, you won't get to your promise land.

You will just find yourself fighting battles that

should have been taken care of by right church

membership. Do you know teaching is

different from sermonizing? Teaching is

raising. A set of teachings gathered to harness

(raise) you into what your destiny is looking

for. That was what Paul was telling Timothy

about in 1st and 2

nd Timothy being the pastor of

the church in Ephesus. This is the 5th form of

vision, the 4th is dreams. So become a disciple.

Prayer: LORD, grant me the right discipleship in Jesus

name.


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Day 27

Dreams and vision

Joel 2:28, Acts 2:17

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour

out my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and daughters

shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your

young men shall see visions

~Joel 2:28

And it shall come to pass in the last days said God, I

will pour out my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and

daughters shall prophesy, your old me shall dream

dreams, your young men shall see visions

~Acts 2:17

One thing an apostolic ministry brings is

activation. Prophetic brings revelation and

apostolic will not bring activation until it has

brought understanding. Joel had already

brought the revelation through the prophetic

but revelation does not equal activation,

understanding brings about activation. Now

you look at when there was activation, after

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understanding for three and a half years

"follow me and I will MAKE you fishers of

men" Matthew 4:19. The LORD does not use

people, He makes people. Any assignment He

gives to you is to make you and after you have

done it you come out better. An instruction

from the LORD would make you better not

bitter. Look at the time Joel prophesied it now

look at the time it got activated. It may take

time, it may look like it's not going to come to

pass, but when the LORD speaks, He is giving

you outcomes and conclusions. He is not

giving you how the process would be, He just

gives you the conclusion that's all. Look at the

number of steps that had to be taken before that

vision could come to pass; Jesus had to come,

die, resurrect, the apostles had to tarry for

almost 120 days at the upper room, before it

came. Vision will always need structure maybe

an inside-structure or something structure. The

LORD may tell you you will succeed He

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will have to climb before you get there but He

will give you an instruction to guide you.

Prayer: Father, make my heart willing to follow you

and follow the vision you gave me in Jesus name.


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Day 28

Alone Visions

Daniel 10:7

And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that

were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking

fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves

~Daniel 10:7

"And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the

men that were with me saw not the vision; but

a great quaking fell upon them, so that they

fled to hide themselves" There are visions that

you see alone. "I alone" only you would see it

because there are some things about your

destiny your pastor would not be bold enough

to tell you but the Holy Spirit would be bold

enough to tell you. Imagine Peter now, who

would have told him to leave his fishing

business and go into preaching the gospel if

not the Master (Jesus), the spirit of Jesus is the

Holy Spirit "Wherefore henceforth know we no

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known Christ after the flesh, yet now

henceforth know we him no more therefore if

any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old

things are passed away; behold, all things are

become new" 2 Corinthians 5:16-17 We use

this Scripture literarily for somebody newly

born again, but in the deep essence of it it is

talking about somebody in the anointing like

Jesus Christ. So the spirit of Jesus is the Holy

Spirit okay? There are visions that only you

would see but before that can happen you must

be left alone first. Left alone to think for

yourself, left alone to find the LORD for

yourself.

Prayer: Father, give me alone visions to see you where

necessary in Jesus name.


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Day 29

Visions and signs

1 Chronicles 12:32

And the sons of Issachar which were men understood

the signs of time and knew what children of Israel

should do…

~1 Chronicles 12:32

Sometimes the LORD speaks with signs “and

the sons of Issachar which were men

understood the signs of time and knew what

children of Israel should do” I remember when

Jesus was speaking to his disciples about the

end of the age, he said when you see these

signs you'll know that the end of the world is

come (Matthew 24:1-44). So when you see

signs sometimes they are pointers to end point.

When you see a particular sign you can know

the end. When you see a sign it‟s telling you

something. Signs don't just come they come to

tell you something. If your kneel is swelling

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of you are crisis time operators you don't pay

attention to signs until the damage is done until

the end is come. Someone slapped you the first

time and the person apologized but you are still

at the table. Is that not a sign that you should

leave that circle because if the person did it

before, he will do it again. Those are signs you

must take note of. Don't just be alive, pay

attention to signs. Signs speak alot even when

words do not. Signs are loaded pointers. And

when you see pointers pay attention to them at

infancy, you see a person living with you steal

your book – that‟s a pointer. If he has the

opportunity he will steal something more than

your book so that‟s a sign you must deal with

early enough. You see that land is becoming

cheap in your area, that‟s a pointer that very

soon it will become expensive so pay attention

to that by buying one down. This kind of

vision is very similar to wisdom. What you

don't pay attention to when it is giving you

signs will get you grounded one day. „Lekan‟

is running temperature and he died because of


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malaria now if „Lekan‟ paid attention to the

sign of malaria early enough he wouldn't have

died. What causes problems for Christians are

little things they saw the signs early enough

but did not pay attention to. “And the sons of

Issachar which were men understood the signs

of time and knew what children of Israel

should do” when you see a sign you should

know what to do and if you don't know, seek

counsel but don't hold your mouth. Don't be

silent. A closed mouth is a closed destiny.

Prayer: Father, grant me the wisdom to operate in

times of signs in Jesus name.


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Day 30

Holiness and Vision

Hebrews 12:14

Follow peace and holiness without which no one shall

see the LORD

~Hebrews 12:14

“Without which no one shall see the LORD”

LORD is a part of God people hardly see in

fact Jesus said, “the Spirit of truth; whom the

world cannot receive, because it seeth him not,

neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he

dwelleth with you, and shall be in you” John

14:17 and the Spirit of truth is the LORD. The

Bible doesn't write it Lord, it is LORD. When

you check through the Old Testament, you see

it as LORD. And it is not because the LORD

did not plan for everybody to see Him but

because not everybody is prepared to do what

it will take to see Him. So no holiness no

vision.


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Prayer: LORD, help me give it what it takes to be holy

in Jesus name.


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Study Question 1. Discuss the following in details;

a. Wisdom

b. Signs

c. Holiness

d. Left alone


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God I believe you sent Jesus Christ your son to die

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