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00:00All right, Dr. McCurgeon, anything else?
00:07There are a host more questions.
00:09Are there?
00:10A host more questions.
00:11Pardon?
00:12No, I said, are there?
00:13Is there a host?
00:14Oh, no.
00:15I mean, like, there are a multitude of other questions.
00:19Yes.
00:20There are a host of questions left.
00:23And I don't think we'd be able to cover them today.
00:26No, we won't.
00:27What's the next question?
00:28Pick one, and I'll answer it.
00:29I'll try.
00:30All right.
00:31I'll pick one.
00:32An easy one.
00:33Oh, wow.
00:34I just pressed on one, and I don't know if this is easy or the steep, but it's, well,
00:41it's even two.
00:42Can the devil manipulate our dreams?
00:45And the second part is, is it better to pray silently or out loud because we know that
00:49Satan doesn't read our minds?
00:51Well, that's not too bad.
00:52Let's pray.
00:53Our Father in heaven, as we continue to answer questions, speak through us, I pray, please,
00:58in Jesus' name, amen.
01:01Dreams are affected by what you see during the day and by other components, I imagine.
01:07I can't say yes or no.
01:09I do know the devil affects the mind.
01:11He tries to play on the mind, and the mind cannot be separated from dreams.
01:18So we have to be sure that during the day, our mind is resting in the right place.
01:24I have dreamt about things that I saw earlier in the day.
01:27That event affected my dream or popped up in my dream.
01:29It really has.
01:30I have dreamt about things I was thinking about, and then I dreamt about it.
01:34I'm not saying I can control my dreams, I'm simply saying how what we allow into our minds
01:39can have an effect on what pops up in the dream world.
01:42So I can't say the devil can directly tell you what to dream or determine your dreams
01:46or implant dreams into your head.
01:48But association with him can certainly affect the quality of the dreams.
01:53So what I suggest to people is this.
01:56Fill your minds with that which is righteous all day.
02:01And the last thing at night on your mind should be Christ.
02:06Our high calling, I believe, is page 116, L.Y. writes, your last thought at night, your
02:11first thought in the morning should be of him of whom is centered your hope of eternal
02:15life.
02:16So go to bed with Christ on the mind, and with this verse, 1 John 3, 8, for this purpose
02:22the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil.
02:25Father, whatever Satan is trying to do now, destroy it, destroy it.
02:28Go to sleep with God as the last thing on your mind, because the fact that you're sleeping
02:33doesn't mean the devil is sleeping.
02:35As for praying, as far as possible, pray quietly, as far as possible.
02:42So the devil doesn't know what you're praying for or praying about.
02:44One of the reasons why I preach the way I preach, I don't want the devil to know what
02:47I'm going to say.
02:48So he can't go to someone's house and keep that person from coming, because he knows
02:52I'm talking about the second coming.
02:54Otherwise, the devil looks over the shoulder of the preacher to see what he's preparing,
02:57and then goes and keeps someone from coming, he writes that.
03:00So I do everything up here so he cannot see.
03:03Now he may guess when he sees what chapters I'm looking at, but he cannot see exactly
03:08what I'm about to talk about, so he doesn't really know whom to keep away from the sermon.
03:13And so pray quietly is my recommendation, but there's a time to pray out loud.
03:18Sometimes I do pray out loud so he can hear me, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, he can hear me.
03:24When Jesus rebuked him, he didn't rebuke him quietly, he rebuked him out loud.
03:27So there's a time to pray out loud, but most of the time I would pray silently so the devil
03:31does not know what you're saying or what you're asking for, whatever, he doesn't know.
03:36He doesn't know everything.
03:37He can read your face, but he doesn't know everything, but so can your parents.
03:42So he doesn't know everything.