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Winning The Battle For The Night


"Winning the Battle for the Night:
God's Plan for Sleep, Dreams, and Revelation"
By Faith Blatchford


I hate writing these type of reviews as I'm forced to do with this book. When I ordered this book, I thought I was going to be reading about the importance of sleep, insomnia, etc.. I was not expecting a book on dreams. Yes, dreams are important, and I'm a firm believer that God makes revelations to people through dreams. I also believe that some dreams are prophetic. However, is a book really necessary on this subject? 

99% of the book is the author referring the reader to pray, which is the reason to my asking about this book being necessary because God will reveal himself to whomever He wants through dreams, visions or no dreams at all. Not every believer has dreams with meanings.To make such a claim is to play with fire. We have to be very careful and ask for spiritual discernment when it comes to spiritual matters as dreams. 

The author makes it seem as though, you can manipulate your way into having God give you dreams, that's just not how God works! Yes, God has given dreams with meanings to many, many Christians, but if you haven't had any, don't try to force yourself to follow a process in order to dream. 

From an early age, God has given me prophetic dreams pretty much about anything you can think of, from revealing secret sins to dreams about the Tribulation and the future. I did nothing to "cause" those dreams, God simply used this avenue to speak to me. The amount of sleep you have has nothing to do with dreaming. I have taken quick half hour naps and have dreams with meanings revealed to me in that short time.  

If you have zero knowledge about dreaming and/or want to have dreams, I recommend you pray. There's nothing in this book that can help you understand the subject any better. Have questions on ANY spiritual matter, go to the Source, not a human being. Man makes mistakes and can be wrong, but God never is.  

I received a copy of this book from Chosen in exchange for an honest review. The opinions expressed here are entirely my own. 

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