What are the languages you dream?

I was reminded of something other day when discussing the topic of our dreams.

In my teens I was learning the Spanish language. I lived in Florida and Spanish was all around me. I, like many others, took Spanish as a second language in school. I was drilled on the conjugations, vocabulary and pronunciation. Really, only the basic fundamentals were taking root, like how to count and the alphabet. Oh yeah, and how to pass the test. I wasn't however, learning to speak the language.

In my second year of college I decided to go to Spain as an exchange student. It was quite an experience. A bunch of American's went to school to study more Spanish. If we all hung out there was no motivation to speak Spanish, so a friend of mine and I, armed with our little English/Spanish dictionary made it a point to meet people. Of course being only 18 most of those people were young men; but we were speaking Spanish.

At some point during my time in Spain I began to dream in Spanish! Imagine that. That's when I knew what I was learning was becoming a part of me, a part of my thinking and a part of my expression.

Now I am much older. I am a minister of the gospel. A child of the Kingdom of God. I began to examine my dreams in relation to the language of God's Kingdom.

There is a language for a child of a King. I'm not talking Christianese. I'm talking a language of faith, a language of Truth. A language that has authority. A language that defies sickness, that defies poverty and lack. A language that speaks to the storms and commands them to cease.

When I was in Spain I had to not only immerse myself in the culture of the language, but I had to be with people of the language for me to learn it.

Are you immersed in the culture of the Kingdom of God? Do you surround yourself with people who speak the language of the Kingdom?

When you sleep at night, what enters your dreams? Fear? Anxiety? Perversions? Anger? Hatred? These things are not from the Kingdom of God. We do have authority to command them to cease.

God said He would give His beloved peaceful sleep. Are you His beloved? Do you have the language of the Kingdom of God in you. Who are the people you surround yourself with? What or Who visits you when you sleep?

If Jesus is not your Lord and Savior you cannot experience the Kingdom of God. You will not understand His language. His language is a language of Love, Truth, Peace and Righteousness. He died so you may enter the Kingdom of God. Ask Him to be your Lord, receive Him as your Savior.

What does the Kingdom of God sound like. FREEDOM AND LIBERTY from oppression, sickness, disease, poverty and eternal separation from God. Joy and peace in the midst of crisis. Reassurance that you are never alone and the God is for you.

Let us make it an objective to immerse ourselves in the language, the culture and with the people of the Kingdom of God!