It's Supernatural

SID: Hello. Sid Roth here. Welcome to my world where it’s naturally supernatural. My guest carries so much of the presence of the Glory of God, of the Spirit of God. This is going to be hard for you to believe, she’s driving along one day and a stranger, someone she doesn’t even know, jumps into her car. She stopped to leave her children off. Jumps into her car and says, “You’re beautiful.” Now what would you do? I’ll tell you what she did. She didn’t do anything. The Glory of God, the fire of God jumped off of her on this man. He starts sweating profusely, starts shaking and then she leads him to Jesus. Do you want to know about that fire? That Glory is for you. You know, I travel all the time like you, but I have never had someone sit next to me like Alice Cresswell. Tell me about this man that got stuck next to you on a plane. There was nowhere else for him to go.

ALISS: What do you mean stuck next to me?

SID: He’s thinking, how can I exit.

ALISS: He was pinned in because he was by the window because I’m in the middle. There’s another guy to my right.

SID: That’s even worse.

ALISS: So I’m just sitting there minding my own business. We’re just about to take off and as I’m looking out through the window I notice the guy to my left by the window is starting to look a little bit red in the face. And then I notice he’s got beads of sweat begin to appear on his forehead and start to trickle down the side of his face.

SID: Now if that happened to me I’d think the person was sick.

ALISS: Well to be honest I just thought, well maybe he’s scared of flying, and I was actually starting to think maybe I ought to offer to pray and say, is there a problem with flying. But before I had a chance to even think about what I was going to say he just turned to me and he said, “What’s that? What is that?” And I was like, “What’s what?” And he said, “There is so much fire coming out of you,” he said, “so much power and so much heat.” He said, “You are making me sweat.” I said, “That would be the Spirit of Jesus, the Holy Spirit that you can you feel.” Now he told me that he was into new age stuff. He had been into Buddhism. He said he knew the spirit realm very well, but he never felt anything like this kind of level of power or fire from anybody. So I just went on to tell him that Jesus is the access point to the spirit realm. Jesus said, “I am the door.” And I told him a bit more about Jesus and how he died on the cross. And as I’m telling him this I get a pain in the base of my spine. So I just thought, maybe I’m picking up on something with this guy. So I just said to him, “Have you got a problem with your spine?” And he said, “Yes.” He said, “For 14 years,” he said, “I’ve been in constant pain.” He said, “What happened was,” he said, “14 years ago I was in a bar, got involved in a fight and I was actually, my back was broken, like severe.” Breaking his back. He had surgery and sciatica. It was pressing on his sciatic nerve. He had been on liquid morphine for 14 years, but still had all this pain in his body. So I said, “You know the Spirit of Jesus you could feel coming out of me, the Holy Spirit, would you like a little bit of that power, just a little bit to go into your body and heal you?” And he was like, “Don’t mind if I do.” So I’m just sitting there and I just put my finger on his shoulder like this and I said, “I release the spirit of the power of Jesus, the healing power of Jesus now. In Jesus’ name be healed.” All the bones go back together. He had metal rods in his back. I said, “Metal come out, all pain go in Jesus’ name.” Then I said to him, “What are you feeling?” Because I always like to ask. It’s always a scary part, but I do ask what is the person feeling. And he’s like, “Nothing.” So I said, “What do you mean nothing?”

SID: You must be feeling all sorts of things.

ALISS: Yes. And I expect him to be healed, you see. So I’m like, “What do you mean you feel nothing?” And he says, “No, you don’t understand. For 14 years, I have been in constant pain. Now I feel nothing.”

SID: Wow. Now Alice has a bed and breakfast and a boutique, and tell me about someone, a man that came into your boutique and was, he’s looking for a gift or something.

ALISS: I noticed this guy, as he walked through the shop he had quite a pronounced limp, and I just got chatting to him, and I said, “What’s the trouble?” And he said, “Well 30 years ago, I was involved in a major car accident, this car wreck.” He said, “It nearly killed me.” He said, “It was terrible.” He said, “Three of my vertebrae” in his back were crushed. They thought he was going to die. He’s actually lost, he said, he lost four inches in height because his back was crushed. And he broke all his jaw and he actually lost all his teeth. They had to reconstruct his jaw. The top part of his mouth they had to put a new one in. He had bruising on his brain and he had epileptic fits now. He had pain in his body all down his legs, sciatic nerve and everything. And he would wake up very often in the morning with blood in his mouth and with, just his arms and legs were numb.

SID: Sounds like an awful life.

ALISS: I mean, terrible. They told him he was going to be in a wheelchair very soon and his hands were shaking like this ever since the accident. So I said, “Well Jesus can heal you. Can I pray for you?” And he didn’t know anything about Jesus, but he was amazing. He said, “Yeah, have a go.” I don’t know if he believed or not that it was going to work. But I started to pray and the power of God just came in such a mighty way. His knees started to buckle and he started to fall over. My husband Rob, across the other side of the shop, saw what was happening and he just raced across the shop and managed to catch him in time, and we helped him into a seat. And he’s sitting there, and you know, he couldn’t even speak because just the power of God was so strongly upon him. And he was crying, and he was crying, and he was crying. I was like, “Are you okay?” He said, “The pain is gone. The pain is gone.” And as he’s sitting there he’s trembling and he’s crying, and he can hardly speak, and he’s like “The pain is gone.” He sat for a while and I said, “Come on, just jump up.” And he said, “Last night I went to the movies. It took me 20 minute to get up from my seat.” He said, “I can’t just jump up.” I said, “Jump up in the name of Jesus because the name of Jesus is so, so powerful.” He literally jumps up out of his seat and he’s still crying, and he’s like, “I’ve grown! I’ve grown. I’m taller.” Because he was four inches short, he said. He said, “I feel taller.” We prayed for his jaw and it went numb, and he said he feels it moving around, and his hands stopped shaking. They were just perfectly still. And he stayed in the shop for maybe another couple of hours. He was so overwhelmed and he prayed to God, and he said, “God, thank you for healing me. Please come into my life. Come and fill me with your Holy Spirit.”

SID: You know, when we come back, I want you to put yourself in this situation. You’re driving a car. You’re by yourself and someone you don’t know jumps into your car, and this person has evil intentions. That’s what happened to Alice. But what happened to this person, we’ll talk about him when we come back.

SID: Jane, you teach something that I wish more people understood. If you have an unsaved friend, an unsaved family member, you have a new way to pray for them. Explain that.

JANE: Well, if God is going to pour out His spirit on all flesh, then I think that we can start praying and asking God to give that individual a dream. Because a dream bypasses all of the walls of defense that people would put up even to just coming and trying to evangelize them. But when God Himself starts to speak to them in dreams, it’s amazing. Job chapter 33 actually says God may speak one way or in another, but many times man doesn’t perceive it. Then at night in a vision while a man sleeps upon his bed, then He begins to remove pride from man so that He begins to speak into his heart. I have actually been able to sit next to somebody and interpret their dream. See, sometimes I can tell people that I’m a pastor or that I’m a prophet, but if I just tell people, you know, I interpret dreams, then that atheist will say, Oh, well, really? I had this dream. And they’ll tell me a dream, and God will open up their heart and use the prophetic word as a key through that dream.

SID: Speaking of dreams, what do you tell someone that says, I don’t dream or I don’t understand my dreams or I don’t remember my dreams, any of the above? I have an idea that the devil really tries to sabotage this wonderful vehicle God has given us.

JANE: He does. You know, because I think if you really even look at scripture you know that people even receive impartation at night when they sleep in dreams. So it’s such an important thing. And so scientists actually say that everybody dreams, it is just a matter of do we remember our dreams. And so I like to train people how to capture their dreams if they’re not remembering them, how to take the dream and interpret it if it’s actually something that’s symbolic, and how to take the message that God is bringing to us through the dream and actually apply it to our lives or to our circumstance, or how to pray even for our nation, and how to bring that forth so that we’re not just being hearers but actually doers of what God is speaking to us.

SID: Now, you’ve put together such a simplistic plan for understanding the symbols. Give us a little bit of this understanding of symbols, because a dream, you might think it is a literal thing but it really is a symbolic thing of something else.

JANE: That’s right. And I think that what we have to understand, first of all, is that there’s no just book of symbols that we can go run and look it up and say, Well, if you dream this it means this, because God will speak to individuals through their own personal language of symbolism.

SID: Right. It’s different for each person.

JANE: Exactly. If I love dogs and you don’t like dogs, that symbol is going to mean something different to different people.

SID: Right.

JANE: And so there’s a personal language that the Holy Spirit will teach us, but I believe that there’s very basic simple, step‑by‑step ways of understanding what the symbols mean. And we’ve got to remember, we have the mind of Christ, we have the Holy Spirit inside of us, and God’s not giving us something that’s too hard to do. It is actually quite easy when we open ourselves up and ask the Holy Spirit to lead us in that process.

SID: Give me one symbol to get an idea.

JANE: Okay. How about the symbol of a house. Jesus, you know, you see something happening inside your house. Jesus said that a house actually is not really about the house, it is about the man’s life. Okay. A man that built his house on the sand versus a man that built his house on a rock. So when I have a dream, I look at where it’s taking place. If it’s taking place in a house I know what’s happening in the house is something that’s happening inside my life. If I can give you a quick example.

SID: Sure.

JANE: We were remodeling our kitchen a few years ago, and I wanted to take the wallpaper out of my kitchen and just paint it yellow. But the problem was somebody that had put the wallpaper up originally put it there to last until Jesus returned because I could not get it off the wall. And so I went back and forth, and the paint store finally said, well, prime over the wallpaper and just paint. So I did exactly that. That night I had a beautiful yellow kitchen. Well, that night I had a dream. Because my previous wallpaper had fruit along the border and vines coming down the walls, and I was so done with the vines.

SID: Okay.

JANE: I just wanted a yellow kitchen. And so that night when I dreamed though, I was sitting in my beautiful new yellow kitchen when all of a sudden the vines started growing out from under the paint. And I said, oh, my God, what’s happening. Oh, my goodness. And the voice of the Lord said to me in the dream, He said, this is what happens when you just cover up the things that are too difficult for you to deal with, they grow back. Can you see how God used the symbol of the vine to represent, the scripture talks about the root of bitterness or the things that spring up and trouble you and defile many. And things perhaps in my life that maybe I just kind of pushed to the side, covered it up, pushed to the side when God said, listen, I need to go back and deal with those issues in your heart, otherwise they’re going to spring up and they’re going to trouble you and probably defile many. So God had me look at what was happening there and knew that it was something that God needed to deal with my heart about.

SID: Okay. The presence of God is so strong.

JANE: Yes, it is.

SID: Will you pray to stir up these gifts that we start dreaming?

JANE: Yes.

SID: And just as a special favor, would you also pray that we have a lot of literal dreams?

JANE: I’ll see what I can do about that one. Okay. Well, Father, we thank You, Lord, that Your people are so hungry and so desirous to hear Your voice, Lord, whether it is in prophecy, in dreams or in visions where You speak to us in pictures. And, Lord, I pray right now, God, that you would begin to bring us to an awareness of what we’re dreaming. Help us remember our dreams. Help us record our dreams. Help us to receive the impartation and the revelation that comes to us in dreams. Activate our spirit man so that we can hear You clearly, Lord, and so that we understand that when You speak literally how we’re supposed to apply those messages and how we are to be doers of what You’re speaking. Lord, if it’s something symbolic, then I pray, Lord, that through the mind of Christ, through the Holy Spirit inside of us, Lord, that You will bring clarity to each and every single and that, Lord, You will blend the symbols together into a very clear message that will touch our hearts, but, more than that, Lord, that will change the world. I thank You, Father, that you’re raising up world changers, and if You said to the early church we needed the baptism of the Holy Spirit and the mantle of revelation with dreams, visions and prophecy, then, Lord, how much more do we need it today? And so, Lord, we cry out for that. Lord, we cry out for the revival that comes when we hear Your voice. We cry out for the harvest of souls, Lord, as You pour out Your spirit on all flesh. And I thank you, Lord, for raising up those, Lord, that don’t just hear You for themselves but also hear You so that many, many can be led to Christ. In Jesus’ name.

SID: And I had a vision as Jane was praying. There is someone that has joint problems anywhere in your body, I mean it started at the head, anything you need. There’s even someone that every joint is hurting them. If you will just kind of shake and say, Jesus, thank you, all of the joint problems, fingers, elbow, every joint that you need, you’re free in Yeshua’s name.

SID: I kind of like this idea. When you sleep the gifts of the spirit operate. Tell me about someone that was healed while they were sleeping.

JANE: Well, I have a friend that actually had a dream. When he went to bed he had actually had a torn Achilles, and that night he dreamed that he was in a healing meeting, that somebody called out a word of knowledge and prayed for him, and in the dream he was healed. And when he woke up the next day he was 100% whole.

SID: And you know what? You don’t even have to have any faith. It is all done for you in the dream. I like that deal. All right. What if I’ve had this, you’ve had this, you’ve had this, you have something bad happening to yourself or a family member, does it have to happen if you’ve had this dream?

JANE: Absolutely not. I believe that God gives warning dreams. That’s where my whole journey with dreams started, because I had a dream about my brother that he got very sick and died. And in my dream it seemed so real that I thought that it had actually happened. And when I woke up I laid there thinking, was that real or was that a dream. And I realized that it had been a dream and I began to comfort myself saying, oh, it was only a dream, it was only a dream. And I heard the voice of God say to me loudly, it is not just a dream, get up and pray. And so as I got up and I prayed for my brother, eventually I felt a peace and went back to bed. The next morning my mother called me to say that my brother the night before was on a deep woods camping trip when his appendix ruptured, and by the time they got him in from the woods he actually almost died but he was going to live, and I believe it’s because God woke me up to intercede for him.

SID: Well, you know.

JANE: One of many stories.

SID: There are different sources of dreams, types of dreams. Do you ever deal with children that have nightmares?

JANE: Yes. I was a child that had nightmare, and my children had nightmares. And a nightmare can either be God trying to get your attention, because not every dream is from God, but neither is every nightmare from the devil because God gave Abimelech a dream in Genesis chapter 20 when he had taken Abraham’s wife Sarah as he’d said, she’s my sister. Okay. And it says in that verse God came to him at night in a dream and said, Abimelech, you’re a dead man. Okay. This is not a happy dream. Okay. This is probably a nightmare.

SID: I would call it a nightmare.

JANE: So sometimes God will give us a nightmare get our attention, I believe, like He did with my brother. Okay. He gave me a nightmare to get my attention so that I would pray. But when it’s a demonic dream, I believe that we can stand against the demonic force. We can believe that the blood of Jesus breaks the power of every demonic thing. As a matter of fact, I’m going to pray right now that if you’re being tormented by demonic dreams, I just declare to you right now that the Lord Himself is rising up. And it declares in the scripture that He gives His beloved sweet sleep, and I break the power of every demonic assignment to torment you, to harass you and to afflict you at night in your dreams. In Jesus’ name I break the power of it and I decree sweet sleep, in Jesus’ name.

SID: Do you know what I want? I want Jane to pray to activate you into dreams from God where He’s going to show you the things you’re questioning. He has such marvelous, good plans for you. I don’t want you to miss one. I’ll have her pray when we come back. Don’t go away.