Sandy Warner ~  www.thequickenedword.com


 

2/10/18 TEACHING - WHY DOES GOD ALLOW STRONG MEAT DREAMS?

 

Hebrews 5:12-14 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which [be] the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. 13 For every one that useth milk [is] unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. 14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

 

Strong meat dreams/ visions/ rhema contain mixture of both good and evil.  Their source can either be God, the devil or the soul. Chewing the meat and spitting out the bones is the act of separating the mixture of good and evil.  Separating the good from evil is discernment.

 

WHAT IS DISCERNMENT?

 

{This section is taken from my book, Discernment How to Separate the Holy from the Profane

 

 

Discernment in the Greek language means judicial estimation, discern, disputation.  It comes from a word meaning to separate thoroughly, withdraw, oppose, discriminate,  decide, hesitate, contend, make to differ, doubt, judge, be partial, stagger, waver. (#1)  So if you wrestle with wavering in what you discern, now you know why.  These words describe the process the receiver of discernment goes through!  When the discerner is confronted with something that appears good on the outside, but isn’t, it becomes a stumbling block to his spirit.  His flesh sees good signs, but his spirit is disputing, opposing, hesitating, contending, differing, doubting, staggering, and wavering against the outward appearance.  Discernment is an internal war as one grapples to line up what they perceive, with Who God is, and what is being offered.

 

In the Bible, we have numerous examples in the Hebrew & Greek language revealing that discernment is connected to words having to do with the judicial process. Further on, there will be a bible study to reveal this.  The bottom line is that discernment is like a pair of judicial balance scales.  A person carefully weighs evidence, both pro and con.  They separate the evidence into two piles…. Good and evil, right and wrong, true and false, holy and profane, etc. 

 

Note that discernment is the actual PROCESS of separating into two piles, it is NOT the decisions based upon what is separated.  As compared to a judicial court case, the word discern would be equivalent to the process of hearing a case and separating the evidence.  Discernment would be separating the facts, good and bad, then distributing them into 2 piles.  In one pile would be the bad and on the other would be the good.  This process is like what a jury goes through to deliberate evidence.  The jury does not have the power to pass a sentence of punishment for the results of lawlessness.  They merely separate the facts and decide whether someone is innocent or guilty.

 

WHAT WE DISCERN

 

·       We are to Discern Spiritual Food

 

Hebrews 5:12 For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

 

·       We are to Discern Prophesy

 

1 Thessalonians 5:20-22 Despise not prophesying. 21 Test [DISCERN] all things; hold fast that which is good. 22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.

 

·       We are to Discern Spirits

 

“But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all… to another discerning of spirits… (1 Cor 12:7-8, 10)  T

 

·       the spirit of man

·       the Spirit of God

·       angelic spirits

·       demonic spirits

 

·       We are to Discern Fruits

 

“Beware of false prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep, but are really wolves that will tear you apart. You can detect them by the way they act, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit. You don’t pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles. A healthy tree produces good fruit, and an unhealthy tree produces bad fruit.”  (Matt 7:15-18 NLT) 

 

·       false apostles

·       ravening wolves

·       thorns & thistles

·       grapes & figs

 

WHAT IS THE GOOD?

Scripture tells us that ONLY our God of Lights can give good gifts. 

 

James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

 

Mark 10:18 And Jesus said unto him, Why call me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.

 

Exodus 33:19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.

 

Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

 

WHAT IS EVIL?

Scripture tells us that the devil steals, kills and destroys.  He lies and he deceives.  The devil is the opposite of God but can counterfeit to appear as God.

 

John 10:10 The thief comes not, but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

 

John 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

 

John 14:30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world comes, and has nothing in me.

 

Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, who deceives the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

 

WHAT IS MIXTURE?

Mixture is like the color grey.  If black represented evil and white represented good, a combination of part black and part white creates the color grey. Mixture is found in every level of our personal lives, society and the world. 

 

The passion of God is to have a people separated unto Himself, raised up in Jesus’ image to rule and reign with Him.  In every area of our lives He is calling us be separate from the world.

 

2 Corinthians 6:17 Therefore come out from among them, and be you separate, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you…

 

Ephesians 4:27 Neither give place to the devil.

 


 

 

WHY DOES GOD ALLOW the mixture of STRONG MEAT DREAMS?

God has many purposes to allow strong meat dreams, visions, rhema in our lives.  The source of strong meat can be God, the devil or one's soul.  The bottom line is so that we will become separated from evil.

 

His purposes are:

 

To Mature us

  • To grow us into maturity – the fullness

  • To separate good from evil

 

Ephesians 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:

 

Hebrews 5:14 But solid food belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

 

To Teach us

  • To search / judge one’s own heart

  • To chastise

  • To shake

  • To manifest soul giants

  • To reveal wrong doors that are opened

  • To manifest family / generational sins

  • To reveal the mixture in a person, family, church, school, government, city, county, nation.

 

1 Corinthians 11:31-32 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

 

Hebrews 12:27 And this word, Yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

 

Numbers 33:55 But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those whom you let remain of them shall be barbs in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall trouble you in the land wherein you dwell.

 

John 5:14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, you are made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto you.

 

Exodus 34:6-7 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

 

To warn us

  • To confess our sins (admit and agree with God)

  • To repent  (turn around and change)

  • To fervently pray (to earnestly talk to God)

  • To stand in the gap  (a holy and sacrificial life of being God’s friend.)  

  • To give warning and/or strategy to a leader

 

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

 

Acts 3:19 Repent therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

 

James 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

 

Ezekiel 22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.

 

2 Kings 6:9 And the man of God sent unto the king of Israel, saying, Beware that you pass not this place; for there the Syrians have come down.

 

To make manifest

  • To manifest strongholds

  • To make manifest evil for judgement

  • To destroy evil works

 

Ephesians 4:27 Neither give place to the devil.

 

Ezekiel 8:6-7 He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, see you what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel commits here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn you yet again, and you shall see greater abominations. 7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.

 

1 John 3:8 He that commits sin is of the devil; for the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
 


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Words from the The Quickened Word are excerpts from the journals of Sandy Warner. To better understand how God speaks, read Sandy’s book, “101+ Ways God Speaks, And How to Hear Him.” Website: www.thequickenedword.com Email: swauthor777@usa.net
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