The birth of Jesus Christ is one of the coolest stories in the entire bible. I think it's sometimes easy to forget that story and the major significance that it has. So in Matthew 1 the genealogy of Jesus Christ is written about and the chapter concludes with the telling of the birth of Jesus Christ.
Before I share the story, my hope is that you are encouraged to not be afraid of any dreams or visions you have. It is a real thing for the Holy Spirit to communicate with you through dreams and visions. It's totally real. Now I honestly can't think of a time where the Holy Spirt communicated with me through a dream but I can think of other people who have had dreams like this. The people I know who have had dreams like this seem to be those who have an extra amount of faith. I hope you know what I mean. We all have faith and faith is faith, but those who are more aware of it are the ones who might catch these dreams and visions that are happening.
Awareness is important. We must be aware of how living, loving, and powerful our God is. Our God is always at work and we need to recognize that. If we are not aware of God's power on daily basis than what are we aware of? Probably our own self-interests and our own agendas. If we can become a little more aware, everything becomes so much more real.
So you're probably wondering how having faith and being aware ties into the brith of Jesus?
When Jospeh found out that Mary was pregnant, he didn't believe her and he wanted a divorce because he had thought that she was a virgin and he immediately thought that she would've had to cheat on him. He didn't want to put her to shame so he wanted to resolve to divorce her quietly.
He wanted nothing to do with Mary when he found out. He had not faith in her that she was telling the truth and not much faith in God either. Mary had tried to tell him that the child was from the Holy spirit and he was not very aware of that being a possibility.
Jospeh has very little faith and awareness about the situation until the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream saying, "Jospeh, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins."
An important thing to remember about this story is that it took place to fulfill what the Lord has spoken by the prophet:
"Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,
and they shall call his name Immanuel." (which means, God with us)
Jospeh woke up from his sleep and he did as the angel of the the Lord commanded him: he took his wife.
Jospeh went from wanting to divorce his wife, to having a dream where the angel of the Lord spoke to him, to having faith and taking his wife.
Jospeh was scared and was fearful, and it took the Lord having an angel come to him in his dream to give him faith and make him more aware.
It's real to be spoken to through a dream or through a vision, and a lot of time those dreams and visions are freaky. Dreams are so freaky. I know whenever I have a dream, most of the time it is crazy and not realistic. Next time you have a dream if you are able to, have a sense of awareness that maybe God was trying to tell you something. That's no small task. I have had the same dream probably 10 times where dinosaurs have taken over the taken over the town and there was nothing I could do about it...every single time. Some dreams, aren't meant to be interpreted like Joseph's was.
Be aware and have faith in your freaky dreams and visions.
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