Sunday AM Recap
March 15, 2026
Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/0paqlI2r9pw?si=IAGeCKbACnNblTtz
Apostle Susan Powers opened with the James Nesbit artwork about Kansas. You can see the artwork here: https://www.jnesbit.com/store/p/kansas-transformation-state
The prophetic word over Kansas through Cindy Jacobs:
The Lord says “I am going to kiss the ground of Kansas. I am going to set borders on your borders of my blessing,” says God. “It will be abundantly clear when a state honors Me. I will honor that state.” The Lord says, “there is going to be a historic harvest of souls in Kansas that follows after the harvest of the natural…I am going to release a new Pentecost of My Glory. The Glory on Kansas will include dramatic social, political, and ecological renewal.”
Stacea Kuehn led worship.
During worship the following Word was shared through Cathy Spangler:
I hear Holy Spirit say…..
“Be childlike in your faith but not in your focus. Children believe those they trust. They enjoy the presence of their parents. They run to them for safety and for their needs…but their world and their focus is centered on themselves and their own needs. It’s time for maturity in the body of Christ. Your ‘power’ and ‘effectiveness’ are in HIM. Make JESUS your focus so that everything else will take its proper place. Make JESUS your focus so He can BUILD your faith. Do not focus on your needs or problems. Your Shepherd knows what you need. Simply look to Him and listen for His instruction. He will lead you to green pastures, still waters and right paths. He will feed you, restore you and walk with you through the valley of Shadows. You will be comforted by His voice, His Words and His touch. Make JESUS LORD over your choices, your goals, your time, your outlook and your ‘well being’! Focus on Him with dove eyes, for He is your Defender, Redeemer, Lover and KING!!”
Early Childhood Worship
Link: https://youtu.be/SVpdOjgnvI8?si=O2xnjTuDjqIFklNN
Bible story: Jesus and the Sinful Woman
Bible Verse: 1 John 1:9
Message: Teacher Sara Ozbun
“Galah”
This message was taken heavily from the following podcast on The Bible Project:
https://bibleproject.com/podcasts/dreams-and-visions/
The word for this year, through our Apostle: DREAMS.
The kids asked me what the message was about, and I said “the Hebraic mindset about dreams and visions.” Matthew said “so a NERD message.” Yes. This is a nerd message.
Do we mean the stuff that happens at night? Or do we mean the stuff God puts in our hearts?
…yes.
So, as I was pondering this word of Dreams with the Lord, I thought “I wonder what the ancient Hebrews thought about dreams. Hey, I wonder if The Bible Project has anything to say about that.” So on a trip to Fredonia to pick up Matthew, I searched TBP app, and lo and behold, they DO have something to say about it!
So, we’re going to look at how the ancient Hebrews looked at dreams and visions, and what that means to us.
First, let’s consider the dreams we have at night. How does our modern culture view those dreams? We see them as our internal selves talking to ourselves. Ever since the early 20th century, it’s part of our western mindset to consider dreams to be an INTERNAL window…that is, it’s all about us. SURPRISE SURPRISE.
However, throughout most of human history, that’s not how most cultures viewed dreams. Instead, most cultures - particularly ancient cultures - saw dreams as a window to the cosmos…that is, to have something revealed to us from OUTSIDE of ourselves, and outside of our understanding.
IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU. Where have we heard that before…
To understand how the ancient Hebrews viewed dreams, we have to do a little bit of word study. I will try not to get too lost in the weeds and geeked out, so stay with me.
In Biblical literature, the study of “dreams and visions” falls under the category of “apocalyptic literature.” What do you think of when you think of the word "apocalypse?”
End of the world? Utter destruction? That’s actually how our current dictionaries define it. But that is NOT what the word means in the original Greek or Hebrew. It has become associated with the end of the world because it’s used in reference to dreams and visions about the end of the world, such as in Revelation. But that’s not what it means.
“The Greek word for apocalypse is ἀποκάλυψις (apokálypsis), which literally translates to "uncovering," "revelation," or "unveiling". It is derived from the verb apokalyptō ("to disclose" or "to reveal"). The term signifies a making known of hidden knowledge rather than just destruction.” - Direct quote from The Bible Project
That word in the Hebrew is “galah.” This means “uncover or reveal.”
An example how the meaning of this word has gone completely off the rails:
Genesis 9:20-21
20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent.
This has nothing to do with dreams just yet - but it’s an example of how the word “galah,” which is the word “apocalypse,” has gotten completely moved around, because it literally just means “uncovered.”
BUT - in reference to dreams and visions, it goes deeper. The term “galah” means “uncovered or exposed.” It can also mean “go into exile” as in “exposed.”
See it at a deeper level in Isaiah 5:
Woe to those who rise early in the morning
to run after their drinks,
who stay up late at night
till they are inflamed with wine.
12
They have harps and lyres at their banquets,
pipes and timbrels and wine,
but they have no regard for the deeds of the Lord,
no respect for the work of his hands.
13
Therefore my people will go into exile
for lack of understanding;
those of high rank will die of hunger
and the common people will be parched with thirst.
This is the same word that is used in Genesis - to go into exile is to be exposed and uncovered. Vulnerable.
So apocalypse CAN mean something catastrophic because WHAT is revealed IS catastrophic. But it’s not the MEANING of the word.
Where we are really going to dig deep into this is in Jacob’s dream of the ladder.
Genesis 28:10-17
10 Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. 11 When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. 12 He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. 13 There above it[c] stood the Lord, and he said: “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. 14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.[d] 15 I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
16 When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it.” 17 He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.”
Ok, the word “galah” isn’t used THERE, hang with me. Go to Genesis 35:6-7
6 Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan. 7 There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel, because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.
The Scripture here refers to where God “revealed” Himself to Jacob in the dream, and the word “galah” is used here.
The dream that Jacob had was a revelation, a revealing, an uncovering by God to Jacob.
Dreams and visions - “Galah” - “Apocalyptic” - is the idea of having a different lens to seeing reality. Dreams in the ancient world were taken very seriously - think of Joseph’s brothers getting so angry about him having a dream that he would rule over them. Why didn’t they just blow him off? I mean, if your brother said “hey, I had this dream that I would rule over you,” would you take him so seriously that you would have him killed? Not in our culture - but it carried great weight in that culture, because dreams were considered to be this uncovering or unveiling of truth.
The Bible is bookended with the idea that Heaven and Earth overlap. We see it in the Garden of Eden, and then we see it again at the end, in the Book of Revelation. Throughout Scripture - often in the form of dreams - we get little unveilings, little “galahs,” little apocalypses, that reveal that overlap to us.
We see dreams as a window to our internal psyche. But the Biblical narrative is clear that heaven and earth are overlapping realities. In the Garden of Eden, they overlap, and in the Book of Revelation, they overlap. But in the Fall, we became blind to that overlap and couldn’t see it anymore, and it became dangerous to us. Dreams - galah - the true reality of heaven and earth is “uncovered” and we see heaven and earth as one. Jacob: with the ramp. In the biblical imagination, dreams are an altered state of consciousness that are an in between heaven and earth space. It’s where you are able to truly encounter reality as it is aside from all the ways we oppress reality and rewrite reality. Once our conscious reality is unarmed and shut down, we can stop manipulating reality and see it for what it really is.
Is that EVERY dream? No. Some dreams are just dreams, and some dreams we make up.
Jeremiah 23:!6
16 This is what the Lord Almighty says:
“Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you;
they fill you with false hopes.
They speak visions from their own minds,
not from the mouth of the Lord.
We manipulate our reality all the time. Our brains do this constantly so we can survive in this realm. Examples, color white, seeing our own nose. Deeper examples: spiritual anesthesia, people who forget trauma, people who change what happened so they can handle it, etc. We are constantly living in a state of reality that we construct.
Think about Cain last week: his reality that he constructed was that God was being unfair.
Our reality of the world is just a construct of our brains. Our brain isn;t actually interested in letting us experience what is actually happening. It wants to gives us a version of reality that provides survival. Example: the color white is every single wavelength coming at you, and your brain says “we’re just going to call that white.” There are mantis shrimp that can see colors we can’t see. So if we could suddenly see all those colors, that would be an unveiling of reality. Optical illusions play on the fact that your brain is doing shortcuts. Spatial orientation.
Go back to Jacob’s dream, his moment of uncovering. Why is Jacob sleeping in a field? His brother wants to kill him, and he’s running for his life. He lays down and has this dream where the God of his ancestors starts speaking to him and tells him that he's coming back to the land multiply - it’s the moment of clarity where God reveals to him that everything that has happened to him is a vehicle for what God is doing in his life. He’s laid bare, and his conscious fabrications of reality are peeled away and we could see reality for what it is. His very name means liar or deceiver. His whole life is defined by deception - but suddenly, what Jacob could see that there was a divine purpose and order and that his life and all of human history is God’s purpose to unite heaven and earth.
I think that's the beautiful thing about biblical narrative is, when that happens, when there's apocalypse, when there's an unveiling, it's intense, but ultimately what you find there is the slain Lamb who is there for you, who wants to recreate you and find love. - Direct quote from The Bible Project
So…what does any of this have to do with us and our word for the year? What does this have to do with dreams?
As we go through this year, have your eyes open for the unveiling. What does God want to “galah” for you? What does God want to reveal to you? To us? What little part of the reality of heaven and earth overlapping does God want you to see? We can in no way handle all of it - that’s the result of the Fall. But He is telling us that in this year of dreams, He wants to reveal more to us. We’ve had the word to level up. We’ve had words about expectations. What are your expectations? Are you willing to lay down your idea of reality for HIS reality? Are you expecting Him to reveal Himself to you, reveal His plan to you, like He did for Jacob?
This is the year of dreams. This is the year of unveiling, of uncovering. Be ready for Him to reveal Himself to you - in dreams! In visions! In revealing the passions of your heart! But in that, be ready for Him to change your perception of reality! Jacob was not the same after seeing a stairway going between earth and heaven. He woke up and was scared silly - and it changed his life. He responded with a vow:
20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear 21 so that I return safely to my father’s household, then the Lord will be my God 22 and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.”
This is the first time we see Jacob developing a relationship with God - and it was because of a dream. An uncovering. An unveiling of his place in God’s plan. Seeing that all the chaos of his life was not chaos to God. He was an integral piece of what God was doing all around him.
Invitation:
Expect “galah.” Expect the unveiling. Level up to receive revelation - in dreams, in visions, in the awakening of dreams in your heart. Your life will be different when God unveils Himself to you - Jacob was frightened, but it started his journey with the Lord. So come and let God reveal Himself to you! Last week we had a word about Letting Go - let God and let God “galah”!
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