⁷ Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, ⁸ Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: ⁹ When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. ¹⁰ Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. ¹¹ So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) ¹² Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. ¹³ But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. ¹⁴ For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; ¹⁵ While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. ¹⁶ For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. ¹⁷ But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸ And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? ¹⁹ So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

–Hebrews 3:7-19 (KJV)–

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Dr. Jack Deere, Surprised by the Voice of God (Zondervan, 1996), chs. 16-19. Argues that cessationists don’t have charismatic experiences because of their unbelief and their stubborn pride of feeling they are right in their views (Acts 7:51); the same probably applies to most atheists, agnostics, and skeptics (Romans 1:18; 1 Corinthians 2:14).

Dr. Sam Storms, Understanding Spiritual Gifts (Zondervan, 2020).

Dr. Wayne Grudem, The Gift of Prophecy (Crossway, 2000), Appendix 7.

Dr. Guy Chevreau, Catch the Fire: The Toronto Blessing, An Experience of Renewal and Revival (HarperCollins, 1995). Think what you want about that movement, but this book still explores Jonathan Edwards’ charismatic views very thoroughly.

Charles Finney, “The Self-Hardening Sinner’s Doom,” 1.3. Refers to belief in Hell dreams – adhered to by both Jonathan Edwards and Finney.

Daniel Jennings, The Supernatural Occurrences of John Wesley.

Jeff Doles, Miracles and Manifestations of the Holy Spirit In the History of the Church, ch. 7. John Knox and the Scottish Reformation preachers were all into dream interpretation and the gift of foretelling prophecy.

John Wimber, Power Evangelism (Harper & Row, 1986).

—. Power Healing (HarperCollins, 1987).

Robert DeGrandis, The Gift of Prophecy (1984). This is an 80 page booklet written by a Catholic charismatic priest. He relies on the Bible and personal experience. While he allows that dreams can be messages from God, he puts a stronger emphasis on mental voices, and “prophesying in faith” or when people in the context of a charismatic prayer meeting feel the urge to say two or three words, and go to say them, only to find that there are two or three more words to say, and so forth. I would call that a “prophetic impression,” and while I think this is a legitimate form of prophecy, it is not likely going to be anything dramatic. I agree with Dr. Deere when he said that impressions are “flimsy” experiences (The Beginner’s Guide to the Gift of Prophecy, p. 46). After years of experience and reflection as a charismatic Christian, I have come to almost completely disregard impressions, and will only take certain dreams seriously; and if I have a good one, in the context of a good strong season in my devotional life, then I will proceed down the road of Bible-based dream interpretation and sharing, or what I would call a dream-based prophecy.