Hey, my yielded people!!! You knowwww, while I was wrapping my head around the whole story of Jacob receiving a strategy from God to multiply his flock, I realised that God used dreams to communicate that strategy to him. Before we discuss today’s topic, I wanna say this: STOP GLORIFYING A BROKEN SLEEPING PATTERN! There are people who have insomnia or are sleep-deprived, and they have romanticised it so much. It’s not cute. YOU MUST SLEEP!
Funny enough, I used to be like that for years. I’m just not a sleepyhead, and I don’t sleep like I’m going to win a prize for it, but I REST. I am not sleep deprived. There’s a difference between not being someone who sleeps a lot and deliberately running yourself into the ground without proper rest.
For some people, your insomnia is because you’ve smoked or drank yourself into a disrupted sleeping pattern, or you have an insatiable addiction to social media, TV, or something else that keeps you awake when you should be sleeping. If God wanted to give you a dream, remember that this strategy was given directly to Jacob. If it were you, would you be in a position to receive it, or would you miss it because you’ve glorified sleepless nights?
I’m not saying sleeeeeep like a drugged person. I’m saying that some things need to be delivered directly to YOU. The man had wives! God could have told them, but guess what? This particular strategy had to be delivered directly to him. You like it when people tell you they had dreams about you? YOU COULD DREAM THEM YOURSELF! But when will you if you keep glorifying sleepless nights?
“Oh, some of us have insomnia.” GET HELP! We’re not going to clap for you. Please , if you need counselling, go for it. If you can afford to eat burgers every other day, put some of that money aside and deal with yourself. YES! Put some of those luxuries aside and deal with the internal noise that may be keeping you from sleeping. If you’re struggling with persistent insomnia, please seek appropriate medical help, too. This is not something to romanticise; it’s a health concern, and prolonged sleep deprivation can seriously affect your mental and physical well-being.
Structure your day in such a way that you can do your work, get enough sleep, and STILL have time for God. You cannot keep glorifying exhaustion and expect your body to keep cooperating with you . I feel like I just came with a whip this morning! But take it with a spoonful of sugar, and you will be okay. Let’s continue from what we discussed yesterday.
Here’s Mr Jac! He’s entered into a deal, in today’s business language, a business contract, with Laban, his uncle, who is also his business partner. They say, “Don’t do business with family.” Maybe when you read the whole story, you’ll understand why! But anyhoo, this deal seems to be unprofitable for Jacob because only a few lambs were speckled. The man was a risk-taker! They say business is for risk-takers. I don’t know, but I guess they are somewhat right.
Jacob goes to sleep and has a dream in which God shows him how to achieve the results he needs. How to multiply the lambs. How to grow the business. How to make a profit. How to succeed in the business and gain more from the contract than his uncle. How to turn the situation to his advantage. GUYS!!! The formula may look stupid to some of us, and we’d even wake up and tell ourselves, “I had such a stupid, silly dream!” Then we continue with our day, that’s IF we even remember our dreams.
Do you remember your dreams? Many people don’t, and they don’t even care! Do you see the risk? Do you see how God can communicate with you about the dangers around you, the direction to take, what to do, and even whom to marry, but you wake up, and the first thing on your mind is your debt? What if God was showing you how to come out of that debt? What if the very thing you dismissed as a silly dream was carrying an instruction, a strategy, or a warning you needed?
Forgetting dreams is a serious, serious problem! Imagine Jacob forgetting this dream. He might have left Laban’s house as a poor young man, with just a bit of this and that. But he woke up and vividly remembered what God had shown him. DON’T JOKE WITH YOUR DREAM LIFE! You don’t have to be a Joseph. Some people are dreamers by prophetic calling, but we all dream, too. Not necessarily in the same way, and not every dream is a message from God, but dreaming is a human experience.
Even people who do not worship God dream. Nebuchadnezzar had a dream, and Pharaoh had dreams, too. Why should YOU, as a believer, be careless about something that may be one of the ways God communicates with you? You have the Holy Spirit, and you can ask Him to help you remember and understand what you dream. WRITE YOUR DREAMS DOWN! The moment you wake up, before social media, before checking your messages, before allowing the day’s worries to flood your mind, write down what you remember. Even if it’s just a few details, WRITE THEM DOWN!
And pleeeeaaaseeee o , abeg , stop running to Google for dream interpretations as though every symbol has one universal meaning. Story for another day . Seek God, study His Word, pray for discernment, and test what you believe you have received. Not every dream is prophetic, and wisdom is required in interpreting them. I have SO MUCH to say, but let’s continue tomorrow!
READ JACOB’S DREAM BELOW. 👇🏽
Genesis 31:10–12 (KJV)
10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.
11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.
12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
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