Doug Addison - Prophecy, dreams, and evangelism : revealing Gods love through divine encounters

We are on the verge of a great harvest. The Lord wants to bring a paradigm shift to the Body of Christ and dismantle old religious wineskins of evangelism with new Spirit-breathed strategies. Doug Addisons book, Prophecy, Dreams, and Evangelism is one of Gods change agents. Birthed from Dougs own journey out of darkness into the light, this book trumpets a call for the Church to move relationally among the lost and see them through the eyes and heart of Jesus. This is an insightful evangelism handbook for all believers.

JILL AUSTIN

President of Master Potter Ministries, Hollywood, CA

Prophesy, Dreams, and Evangelism is a first fruits answer for our generation who want to effectively share their love for Jesus but dont know where to start. Doug Addison brings evangelism back to the simple practice of valuing those we would meet and love. He is both vulnerable in his testimony and practical in his teaching, and he gives us an inspiring book.

SHAWN BOLZ Author, The Throne Room Company

Every lover of God should read Prophecy, Dreams and Evangelism: Revealing Gods Love Through Divine Encounters. Doug Addison develops a revolutionary approach to demonstrate Gods saving, delivering love. He highlights the tools God is currently breathing on to inspire believers to touch the dark world with hope and the Creators spiritual light.

BARBIE L. BREATHITT Breath of the Spirit Ministries

When I think of the term a man after Gods own heart Doug Addison is one who comes to mind. His passion for God and the lost is contagious. I have personally witnessed the effectiveness of prophetic outreaches that Doug leads. Gods hand is on this man and this method. Read and absorb the insights contained in this timely book.

AARON EVANS Founder, BridgeBuilders International

I cant imagine a more practical book on evangelism. Neither can I imagine a more supernatural book on evangelism. Prophecy, Dreams, and Evangelism is the most profound book Ive seen on the subject. It is both timely and necessary. This you can try at home!

BILL JOHNSON Author and Senior Pastor, Bethel Church, Redding, CA

Prophecy, Dreams, and Evangelism is a great book. Read itand then go!

PATRICIA KING Founder, Extreme Prophetic

Prophecy, Dreams, and Evangelism is a wake-up call for the Church. Doug Addisons unique style and cutting-edge approach to ministry makes him one of the leading voices of prophetic evangelism today. I highly recommend both Dougs ministry and this valuable book. The grace and wisdom revealed in these pages will revolutionize your understanding of Jesus commission to touch the world with the message of Gods love.

LARRY RANDOLPH Larry Randolph Ministries, Redding, CA

After reading Doug Addisons book Prophecy, Dreams, and Evangelism you will not be intimidated by the E-word (Evangelism) any longer. You will be spurred on to discover creative ways to have more divine encounters!

RECIE SAUNDERS

National Ministry Team Coordinator, Streams Ministries International

I have always thought that the prophetic and evangelism were integrally connected. This book excites me. It says much of what I have thought over the years but didnt have the time or energy or creativity to pen myself! Doug Addison has done the Church a great service in the writing of this new book. Its a great addition to my library of books on evangelism. Personally, I think this is one of the best books on evangelism to come out in the past few years.

STEVE SJOGREN

Author of Irresistible Evangelism, 101 Ways to Reach Your Community, Conspiracy of Kindness, Seeing Beyond Church Walls, and other books.

Prophecy

Dreams, and Evangelism

Revealing Gods

Love Through Divine Encounters

DOUG ADDISON

STREAMS PUBLISHING HOUSE

Dedicated to my loving wife, Linda.

A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies."

Proverbs 31:10

Acknowledgments

I am grateful to God who brought me out of extreme darkness and into His extreme light so I could take this journey and find new ways of reaching people with His love. I am also grateful for my wife Linda, who has joined me in this journey and has tolerated my hectic travel schedule. And to my daughter Amanda who helps me understand Gods love and grace. Also to my sisters Debra and Glenna who prayed for me over the years. Thank you, Ray Etter for becoming my father when I did not have one.

Thanks to John Paul Jackson for teaching me the importance of character and all the positive ways he influenced my life and accelerated my launch into the ministry. A big thank you to Greg and Patty Mapes and all the staff at Streams Ministries, who are more than colleagues, they are family. I would like to acknowledge Carolyn Blunk for encouraging me to write and the great job she did art directing and editing my book.

I owe much to Robert Navarra, Pastors Ben and Christy Pierce, Sharon Waldorf, Brett Johnson, my friends at First Presbyterian Church of San Mateo, Calif., and Pastor Charlie Brown who encouraged me early on to pursue Gods destiny for my life.

I am grateful for Phil Zaldatte and Steve Maddox, who laid the foundation for much of the dream team evangelism being done today. And Id like to thank the many, many people who have traveled with me and helped lead outreaches that provided research required to complete this book. I also want to offer my heartfelt gratitude to Phyllis Watson and Jeannine Rodriguez who spent hours editing and gaining permissions as well as the many others who helped in small but important ways.

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Foreword

A round the world, God is using prophetic evangelism, especially biblical dream interpretation, to draw people to Himself.

An offshoot of power evangelism, a phrase coined by John Wimber in the 1980s, prophetic evangelism uses words of knowledge, prophetic insight, and biblical dream interpretation to lead people to Jesus.

God still does amazing things today that He did in biblical times. In fact, God is pouring out His Spirit in greater measure and accelerating the use of dreams to communicate with all of humanity.

And it shall come to pass afterward That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;

Your sons and daughters shall prophesy,

Your old men shall dream dreams,

Your young men shall see visions.

And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days.

Joel 2:28-29 (also referenced in Acts 2:16-21)

When we read Joels prophesy, we find that the result of prophetic utterances, dreams, visions, and signs and wonders is to bring a harvest into Gods Kingdom. Biblical dream interpretation can be used as a tool for helping people come to know and understand Gods love for them.

God is giving unsaved people dreams, often warning them not to go down a certain dark path. Instead of turning to God, however, they look elsewhere for the interpretation.

Prophetic evangelism teams are discovering that often after hearing a dreams true interpretation, people are giving their lives to the Lord. When team members share prophetic impressions that God gives them, the prophetic Spirit of God begins to unlock peoples hearts. Tears begin rolling down peoples faces as they realize God has been speaking to them all along. Through biblical dream interpretation, people are being touched by God in profound ways.

In late 2001, Doug Addison began working for me as the Streams National Dream Team Coordinator. In February 2002 I sent him to Salt Lake City, Utah to lead a prophetic evangelism outreach at the Winter Olympics. Over five days, Doug and the team interpreted more than one hundred and fifty dreams. One night inside a Starbucks coffee house, two team members were chatting about dreams. As they glanced over at the lineup of thirty shivering people, they offered to interpret anyones dream. A journalist from Reuters news agency was the first to sit down and share a dream. When our team gave her the interpretation, she looked astonished and fell back in her chair. Before she was finished, a throng of people lined up behind her.