God's Hidden Language

[Jim Watt]

“*TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES*

*Jim & Marie Watt*

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February 18, 2012


 (“*TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE” MINISTRIES*

*Jim & Marie Watt – Beth Chesed, Tacoma, January 8, 2007)*

*“TAPPING INTO GOD’S HIDDEN LANGUAGE: DREAMS”***


 God has laid this on my heart many years ago, but in 1985 it took on a new
urgency, and in 1995 I taught a class to some 20 or so for a quarter. Now
in 2007 He is saying to do a bit more.

Let me introduce this article by repeating an unusual dream that God gave
me in 1985. While I was in Point Roberts, BC, I came across a book on
dreams written by 3 Catholic Charismatics. Later in Camrose, Alberta I
purchased a copy of it, but it is now mislaid, and I don’t recall the name
of the title. As a subtitle it read – “37 ways of interpretation in doing
dreamwork.”

While I was reading it, the Spirit spoke to me – “Would you like to ask Me
for a Destiny dream? I can show you how I see you, and how you can
cooperate with Me in letting Me have a more effective right of way through
you.” I immediately assented.

That night I had a vision of the night in a dream. I found myself in
Washington D.C. As I was looking over a beautiful green grassy area, I saw
a man approaching me. He was about 5’ 6”, and was dressed in casual
gabardine slacks and shirt – but quite expensive looking. By his coloring,
I assumed he was from a northern Mediterranean country: Italy, France or
Spain. I knew he was a medical doctor.

As he got closer, I could see a slight smile of greeting on his face. He
then said, “I am here in response to your request last night to receive
from God your destiny dream.” You can imagine my emotions and sensations!

He continued: “The answer is in one word. You will discover that it is like
a rose bud. Receive it gently and carefully. You will find that it will
open up, and in its fullness all you need to know will be there. The key
word is ‘Cervantes.”’


 I immediately wakened, and wrote down in detail all I could remember. The
book above that I mentioned has a “TTAQ” formula. The first “T” stands for
Title. If you were writing this up for a newspaper article, write out a
title for it 8 words or less.

The second “T” is for Theme. What is the main thought coming across to you
in the dream?

"A" stands for affection or feeling. What was the main emotion or feeling
you experienced during the dream and following it?

“Q” stands for Question: Question the Holy Spirit as to His purpose and
thought behind giving you this dream.


 When I finished this, I had come to the conclusion that the dream had
something to do with a medieval Christian sect, probably in Southern
France, that had been under persecution. I did dreamwork along this line
for about an hour till the Spirit interrupted me and asked – “Don’t you
think you should go downstairs and consult the Encyclopedia concerning
“Cervantes?”

Chagrined that I hadn’t thought of this myself, I immediately obeyed. I
soon discovered that I had been entirely on the wrong track. Cervantes was
only mentioned once in the Encyclopedia, and it had nothing to do with a
Christian sect. It related to a man from Spain. At the age of 20 he joined
the army, and went to fight the Turks in Cyprus with the Greeks. After 5
years of this he decided to return home. But his ship was captured by
pirates from North Africa, who held him for ransom for 5 more years until
his relatives and church in Spain could raise the ransom money.

When he got back to Spain at the age of 30, he was so tired of the old
world, that he made an effort to follow the lead of Columbus and go to the
new world. But his government said, “No! We will not give you permission
for this. If your relatives and church raised money for your ransom for 5
years, the least you can do is to stay around and show your thanks this
way. So you can live, we give you the job as a tax-collector.”

But his Spanish people were so poor, that he sought help from God to bring
their lives together. God in answer gave him the plot for the first
psychological novel. The hero represented the spiritual part of man, and
his servant Sancho Panza represented the practical part. Many of you will
have guessed by now that the hero was Don Quixote.

I read this book when I was 17, and was so disgusted with Quixote for his
in my opinion stupid decisions, that I threw the book away, and to this day
have not finished it! But from the Encyclopedia I learned that in his 50’s
Miguel Cervantes wrote the first half of this book to help his poor fellow
citizens put their lives together, and then 5 years later wrote the second
half. Nearly all psychological novels since follow the insights developed
in his book.


 By now I realize that the man in Washington D.C. was a Spaniard. Then God
spoke to me in answer to my questions. He said, “In your spiritual part you
are somewhat like Don Quixote, and can become so spiritually oriented that
you miss it. But the practical Sancho Panza part of you, when balanced with
the spiritual, will make you useful in My hands. Every week for the next 2
years I will give you 2 or 3 dreams a week as a check up, to let you see
how you are progressing in getting it together.” Which he did!

“However, when you do get it together, you still won’t be fully useful in
My hands, for the Quixote part of you will still unduly predominate. But
your wife Marie has the practical side of Sancho Panza. When you and Marie
are able to fulfill the “Two Are Better than One” goal, that I set before
you for your marriage – than you will enter into an Intercessory
possibility that I told you to call ‘Spiritual Star Wars.’ Through the
prayer multiplication of one driving 1000 to flight, but two driving 10,000
– and even greater possibilities through the ‘Automated Laser Telescope,’
you will understand why I call this for you – your Destiny Dream!”


 Marie and I have seen the actuality of this on numbers of occasions, and
are awed at its potential and possibilities. Dreams again are part and
parcel of this.


 Now for some practical steps to understand dreams in a general way. First,
it would do us all good to read Bob Ekblad’s “Reading the Bible with the
Damned.” Here he shows that he serves as a facilitator or midwife when
reading the Bible with the marginalized people of our nation. He carefully
refrains from suggesting answers himself. Instead he has prisoners and
disenfranchised read the Scripture portion, and then asks leading questions
so they can find correct answers what God is really like.

This is exactly the role for a dream interpreter. He DOESN’T interpret.
Instead he asks questions of the dreamer to let HIM discover the symbols in
his own dream that could apply ONLY to himself. I have symbols in my past
that God brings up in my dreams that you could never understand, and vice
versa. When God wants to get my attention, he has my father appear in my
dream. My ‘donkey ears’ go up right away. I know this dream is from God,
and my father is a symbol of an attention-getter. One time he used George
Hawtin, the leader in the 1948 Northern Canada Visitation. God HAD my
attention. This took place in July 1992. This symbol possibly would not
have meant the same thing to anyone else. And you have specific people and
scenes in your past that relate to you, and I couldn’t possibly interpret
them for you. I can only ask questions to help you see your specific
symbols and understand what God is saying to YOU through them.

Another thing about symbols. Dreams are primarily SYMBOLICAL. They are NOT
literal. Let me qualify that. 2-3 % of dreams are literal. For instance,
Joseph, step father to Jesus had 4 literal dreams for guidance. The wise
men did also. Pilate’s wife did too. But all 6 literal dreams related to
Jesus for His safety.

The first error most dreamers fall into is to literalize their dreams.
God’s forgotten language is NOT literal. It is like the book of Revelation.
It is a book of SYMBOLS. So are your dreams, except for rare exceptions.
Look at the symbols that God can use between the age of 2-5; 6-12; 13-18;
19-30; 31-50; 51 and up. Help the dreamer come to his own interpretation by
understanding the significance of past events, people and objects, and help
him to see them as symbols that God loves to use.

Note also, that every believer should learn to understand what are symbols
unique to him, and how to use them for his own dream interpretation. Now
with an unbeliever it is different. They don’t have the Holy Spirit to help
them as does a believer. So Joseph had to interpret the dreams of the
butler, the baker and Pharaoh. But he interpreted his own dreams. And
Daniel had to interpret the dreams of Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar. But we
should not try and interpret the dreams of fellow believers. Instead we
should work with them in helping them understand these things until they
can interpret their own dreams.

Note too that we need the gift of “discernings of spirits” in connection
with dreams. All that glitters is NOT gold. All dreams are NOT of God. As a
rough rule of thumb, maybe 5 % of our dreams deserve dreamwork. Maybe 5 %
or more are night mares and from demons of the pit. Then perhaps 90 % are
from our own subconscious – from the flesh part of it, which Solomon says
are brought by the multitude of business (Ecclesiastes 5:3). Or perhaps too
much pizza too late at night!

I recommend that we discern the 5 % of dreams from God, and do the TTAQ on
them. It is a waste of time trying to get something out of most of our
dreams. Each one of us has a dream every 90 minutes of sleep in our sleep
cycle. Even animals and birds have dreams. They are necessary for our total
health. But those from God have unusual meaning over and above that.

Angels are vitally connected with dreams and all 9 of the gifts of the
Spirit of 1 Corinthians 12:8-ll. In chapter 14, Paul tells us that the
SPIRITS (angels of the prophets) are subject to the prophets. Notice how
often angels are present when the gifts of the Spirit are functioning in
either Testament. H.A. Baker of “Visions beyond the Veil” fame, saw this in
operation in the Chinese Orphanage he and his wife conducted in S.W. China.
He also saw it operating in Ka-Do land of that part of China. Sadhu Sundar
Singh of India also saw the reality of this, and here the two of them
agreed.

Note also the symbols used by Jacob in Genesis 49 and Moses in Deuteronomy
33 with the 12 tribes of Israel. Hebrew names are significant. If the
character of a person changes, then there is a name change. See Jacob to
Israel; Abram to Abraham; Sarai to Sarah. See also the linkage of an animal
with the tribes. Issachar and the donkey. Naphtali and the deer. Judah and
the LION. No mistake here. Then see that each tribe is identified with a
beautiful colored precious stone. These are found in Exodus 28, and the
order of the tribes and the stone is in Numbers 2. Each of us as
individuals can be linked with one of the tribes, and find that the
prophecies of Jacob and Moses can be helpful to us too. We will find that
this linkage of symbols and then our own symbols from our past life that
God can draw upon, all help to make our dreams not only meaningful – but
tremendously helpful.

Look at Job 33 and the insight of Elihu on dreams. Dreams according to him
have 4 main purposes. I like the one that keeps us from pride. We are all
prone to pride, and why, we will never know, for we really have nothing to
be proud of. Paul says all we have, we have RECEIVED! So how on earth can
we be proud of what we have received? But there is a more serious matter
with Job's 3 friends. How can we receive help from one that God says did
NOT speak right with his 2 companions as Job had done? Why did God want the
sayings of these 3 “not so good” friends in the Bible? And He DID! I think
it was to give us a test to see how astute we are.

See what God said to Jeremiah – “If you will take the PRECIOUS from the
VILE – you shall be as My mouth” (Jeremiah 15:19). I believe what Elihu has
said here in Job 33 about dreams is precious at this point, but much of
what Eliphaz said is vile. We have to be as wise as serpents and as
harmless as doves. If we will read the Bible together to get what God is
REALLY saying, like Bob Ekblad and his friends – we will develop a
sensitivity and understanding to the real thinking of God both about the
Bible as well as about our DREAMS. The two go together.


 *IN CONCLUSION:* I am writing this for a limited readership – who I call a
Team of transforming Embryonic truths into MATURITY. Dreams will be a real
aid and help in this. We can pray for one another, and God will help us
develop as a team to receive corporate insights and revelation that none of
us alone would receive.

 Many are not sufficiently serious to walk in the discipline that is
necessary to let God have His perfect way in this area. Paul said – “These
light afflictions are not worthy to be compared to the glory that is to be
revealed!” I agree – but all do not see this.

I find that they want someone else to interpret their dreams for them. It
is difficult to encourage them to pay the price to learn to know the Lord, *His
Word*, His Spirit, intimately, and the symbols in the past of each one of
us that He can draw upon. *Bible Meditation* based on our
“*Outlined*Interlinear New Testament”, using Ivan Panin's two texts,
can
*greatly* help.

Bless you each one. I think highly of you. I expect more from us
corporately than I do individually. I see the 12 Embryonics from 1948
becoming MATURE and becoming parameters of safety in the hands of God for
the last visitation before the return of His Son!

Ready? Let’s all get on the band-wagon together, and mean business for God.
Al Houghton with his “WordatWork” monthly epistle can greatly help us. Many
others of you have much to contribute. Let’s pool our resources. Let’s be
wise as serpents and harmless as doves. On to victory and the overcoming
life both individually and corporately!


 Your friend, brother and goader! As C.T. Studd said concerning his wife
–“I love my wife because she’s a red hot poker chasing me to keep me
running for Christ!”


 Jim Watt

 P.S. John Sanford, “Dreams: God’s Forgotten Language”

Morton Kelsey, “God, Dreams & Revelation” A Christian Interpretation of
Dreams.

Herman Riffel, “Dream Interpretation: A Biblical Understanding”

The above 3 books are all available from Amazon, used or new, extremely
reasonable prices.

Riffel is my favorite author on dreams. He’s a Baptist, but was a
Mennonite. JW.


 P.P.S. Recently Adrian Beale and Adam F. Thompson have written “The
Divinity Code - The Keys to Decoding your Dreams and Visions” *<
www.thedivinitycode.org> - *They have wisely eliminated all aspects of the
work of Carl Jung, who moved in a New Age spirit. This latter book is
therefore an imporvement on the above 3 authors, all who studied under
Jung. Beale & Thompson aid one in interpreting his own dreams in the light
of the thoughts above. JW.












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