until you have a note of praise or victory. Then that means whatever it is you were praying
about has been prayed through.
When I got that note of victory in my praying, I knew that what I had been praying about had
been prayed through. I had the answer, so I went back to sleep.
As I slept, I dreamed that I saw my youngest brother in a motel in Louisiana. I saw him awaken
at midnight. I saw someone summon the doctor, and
I saw an ambulance come. I saw them put my brother in an ambulance, and I saw the red light
flashing as they took him to the hospital.
In the dream I stood in the corridor of the hospital just outside his door. When the doctor came
out, he pulled the door closed behind him and then he saw me standing there. He shook his
head and said to me, "He's dead."
In the dream I said, "No, doctor, he is not dead. The Lord told me he would live and not die
The doctor became angry and said, "I know when people are dead. I have pronounced many
hundreds of people dead." He grabbed me by the hand and said, "Come, I'll let you see for
yourself."
He opened the door, led me to the bed, and jerked the sheet from my brother's face. When he
did, he saw that my brother was breathing and his eyes were open.
The doctor said, "Why, you knew something I didn't know! He is alive, isn't he?" I saw my
brother rise up well. Then that was the end of the dream. I knew that was what I had prayed
about.
Three months later we came back to Texas. My brother stopped by to see me and said, "I
nearly died while you were gone."
"Yes, I know," I said. "You were down in Louisiana, weren't you? It was in the nighttime and
you had an attack and you were taken to the hospital in an ambulance."
"Yes. How did you know?" he asked.
When I told him about my burden for prayer followed by the dream, he said, "It happened just
like that. They told me that for about forty minutes there at the hospital, the doctor thought I
was dead."
Praying in the Spirit provides a way for things to be prayed for that people wouldn't know
anything about in the natural. The Holy Ghost, however, knows everything. And He is our
Helper in prayer.
Reason Number 8
Paul says in First Corinthians 14:21, ". . . With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak
unto this people. ..." Paul was saying this in reference to Isaiah 28:11 and 12. And this
passage in Isaiah gives us the eighth reason that every Christian should speak in tongues.