God Dreams
I finished Closer Than Your Skin a while ago and through out the book the author Susan D. Hill refers to her dreams and the lessons she’s learned from them. It started me thinking 1) how in the world did she remember all those dreams over all those years (she mentioned she kept a journal and wrote them down) 2) I haven’t really dreamed in a long time.
Before I go any further I want to say that I’m not one of those Christians that’s into the whole dream interpretation thing. One of the reasons I left my old church is because they were promoting dream interpretation as taught from a book. In my spirit, I felt something was off the way the things were headed. While I believe in dream interpretations being of the Lord, I didn’t think anyone could read a book, hear a dream, and tell you what it means. The bible states that dreams come from the God, so I felt he should do the interpreting.
With that said, there was a time in my life I seemed to be doing spiritual warefare in my dreams several nights a week. The dreams were vivid and real, and though I didn’t always know the exact meaning, I felt the presence of evil and the power of God in my dreams. After some years, it just got to be too much for me. I wasn’t sleeping so I asked God to take the dreams away. He did.
In this season of my life, I’m really not remembering my dreams at all and that’s rare. But reading Hill’s book, and seeing how her dreams were definitely communication from God started me thinking again. Do I want to ask God to speak to me through dreams? I’m not sure. I desperately want God to speak to me, to encourage me in special ways, but am I willing to chance the dreams that left me drained? I’m not sure.
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That’s an interesting thought about dreams, Gina. I think for me, that would be pretty shaky ground. I believe that God speaks primarily through His Word, and in my times of prayer and meditation and just listening to Him.
March 31st, 2008 at 6:36 amCarole, I know what you mean! I wish I heard God more by just listening but sometimes life is so loud, God needs to speak in the quieter moments…wherever they may be. Right now he’s speaking to me through bible studies and pastors who all seem to be saying the same thing. Maybe I should listen more carefully!!
March 31st, 2008 at 8:23 amThat’s interesting… I’m starting “Closer Than Your Skin” tomorrow as my non-fiction selection for April. I believe that God CAN speak through dreams and that He is in control of them. I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my dreams, but I do make it a point to pray for anyone who makes an appearance in my dreams, and if they appear often in a short time span I try to get in touch with them to see what is going on. That’s about as far as I have taken it… sometimes I can see parallels in dreams of things happening in real life, but not in a direction/speaking to me sort of way. I do know people who have received directions from God in dreams, and I wouldn’t be opposed to it, but I just haven’t felt it yet. I look forward to reading what the author has to say more fully on this topic!
March 31st, 2008 at 11:53 amloved…,
March 31st, 2008 at 3:56 pmI do the same thing with people who pop up in my dreams esp. after no contact for a long time. I figure even if it’s not a dream from God, I should at least pray for them. The other night, my husband had a dream involving saving his brother from something horrible. I asked if he prayed for him (he talks to his brother a couple times a year) he said no and didn’t even think twice about the dream being spiritual. I saw it immediately. Maybe women are more in tune with that stuff!