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.