Living the Dream: Stewarding What God Has Spoken
Living the Dream is the fourth and final book in the Hearing God Through Dreams series, following God's Language of Dreams: A Biblical Foundation (dreams as a real, ongoing way God speaks), What Kind of Dream Was That? (a framework for sorting a dream by its source and kind), and What God Is Saying in Dreams: Fifteen Biblical Principles for Interpreting Divine Communication (fifteen tested principles for reading a dream you already know is from God). This book picks up where those left off. It's not about one more dream - it's about what it looks like to keep listening well for the rest of your life.
Drawing on Jacob and Solomon waking from their dreams, Habakkuk's instruction to write down what he'd seen, Joseph's years of quiet faithfulness before anything made sense, Daniel's counsel to a troubled king, and Mary's discretion in holding what she'd been told - this book walks through the ordinary, lifelong work of hearing God.
Inside, you'll find answers to questions like:
What should you actually do in the first few minutes after a significant dream?How do you record a dream before the day quietly rewrites it in your memory?How do you carry a promise through years that don't look anything like its fulfilment?How can you tell a warning you can still act on from one you simply need to prepare for?Who is safe to tell about a dream, and when should you wait?How do you interpret honestly for someone else, without losing either the truth or the kindness?What does Scripture actually say about false dreams and false dreamers - and why does hardly anyone teach it?What's the difference between having a gift and holding an office, and why does mixing up the two cause so much damage?The book closes with the fullest example Scripture offers of a life spent this way: the whole story of Joseph, from a dream told badly as a teenager to the words he finally spoke as an old man - "You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good."
Whether you dream often or rarely, whether you're just starting this journey or decades into it, Living the Dream will help you steward what God has already shown you with the humility, patience, and faithfulness that a lifetime of listening actually asks of you.
A. A. Addo, PhD, is the Founder and Director of Mahanaim Institute and the author of more than fifty Christian books, including all four volumes of the Hearing God Through Dreams series.
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