Does God talk to us in dreams?

[Guest TillmanCT]

I have a recurring dream too.

It's me and Jesus, walking along a track in the desert.

Jesus stops and says "wait here for Me".

I knew there were others around who were waiting too.

So I wait, after a few minutes, He doesn't reappear, so I sit under the shade of the tree. After a few hours, I build a little shelter. I sleep there overnight. And the next night. And the next. I end up just living at that spot, waiting for Jesus.

Other people who are supposed to be waiting for Jesus, over the years, have gone off and set up businesses and gone on holidays and got fancy jobs and care about their hair.... etc etc etc. There are cars and buses and train timetables and everything. The hustle and bustle is amazing.

It's like surrounding my little tent shelter, a thriving metropolis city has developed.

And I'm just sitting there alone waiting for Jesus.

Here is the interpretation of your dream.

You have been waiting for Jesus a very long time to do a miracle in your life.

You see all these others that have gotten a miracle from the Lord.

But still at this point in time you are waiting for yours.

[enoob57]

Please don't think I'm going off the deep end here, I just want to here the thoughts of others on this topic. Most of the dreams we have we don't remember or soon forget, but sometimes we have a dream that we can't forget or it seems so real. Well I had one of those dreams about a month ago and I only told one other person about it, now I'm telling people I never knew but you are brother and sisters in Christ.

Well here it goes, OldZimm's Dream. I dreamed that I was floating in air at a funeral, I looked into the coffin and I saw myself lying there (it felt so real). The strange thing is I looked so young in that coffin, like I was in my twenties with no gray hair (if you look at my profile pic there is nothing but gray and white hair). Next thing I knew, I was in an army fighting Satan. That's when I woke up sorta in shock because it seemed so real. If somebody were to ask me "what are you going to be doing after you die?", I feel like saying I know exactly what I will be doing.

Well there you have it, was it just a dream or was God showing me the future? What do you readers make of this dream? Believe me I'm not going off the deep end, it just seemed so real that I can't get it out of my mind.

God is objectively seen and understood through His Word and feelings, intuitions, thoughts = dreams are subjective by element and are (filtered / examined / interpreted) through the objectively sourced Word of God. Therefore all events are put into subjection to the objectivity of One Sourced Word of God. Hence the understanding of foundation principle of The Word of God in which all else is built there upon.

Gen 1 creation came through The Word of God

John 1:14

14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

NKJV

1 Cor 3:10-11

10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. 11 For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ

NKJV

Love Steven

[enoob57]

Your dream could have been prophetic MG, but it is hard to say? I tend to think dreams that stick out to us generally have meaning, but they could be just for us. Most of the time, I can't remember my dreams, but I had one the other night about being in an old building where their were a bunch of children. They were obviously poor, but were being taken care of. It appeared to be an orphanage. One of them was telling me about them playing baseball but having to be creative when it came to equipment including the bases. They were getting ready to eat what appeared to be stew or something like that. I felt like I was hearing something about God using the tithes of his people to take care of the needs of his kingdom, so I was trying to figure out if he was leading me to give to an orphanage or if there was some other meaning? I am still perplexed by it. I went on-line trying to see what I could about orphanages in the U.S. and only came across one in South Carolina.

Anyway, I think dreams can sometimes have meaning, but it is difficult to discern them. It almost sounds like you were seeing devistation to come, but after devistation, "joy comes in the morning." Sometimes you have to go through hard times to see the ultimate good. It could be something the nation is headed into, or it could be something personal in your life? I have no reason to doubt OldZimm's dream had meaning. I can picture myself fighting along side him at Armageddon. I am not exactly thrilled about the hard times to come, but I am excited about the millenial reign of Christ.

Maybe it DOES foreshadow devastation to come....I have been thinking a LOT about all the earthquakes and things happening around the globe. I'm excited about the coming of the Lord and finally getting to the Kingdom too.

Amen MG!

[~candice~]

I have a recurring dream too.

It's me and Jesus, walking along a track in the desert.

Jesus stops and says "wait here for Me".

I knew there were others around who were waiting too.

So I wait, after a few minutes, He doesn't reappear, so I sit under the shade of the tree. After a few hours, I build a little shelter. I sleep there overnight. And the next night. And the next. I end up just living at that spot, waiting for Jesus.

Other people who are supposed to be waiting for Jesus, over the years, have gone off and set up businesses and gone on holidays and got fancy jobs and care about their hair.... etc etc etc. There are cars and buses and train timetables and everything. The hustle and bustle is amazing.

It's like surrounding my little tent shelter, a thriving metropolis city has developed.

And I'm just sitting there alone waiting for Jesus.

Here is the interpretation of your dream.

You have been waiting for Jesus a very long time to do a miracle in your life.

You see all these others that have gotten a miracle from the Lord.

But still at this point in time you are waiting for yours.

That's not what I understand it to mean.

I understand it to mean to keep my focus on the Lord and to not let the cares of this world distract me.

[zipporah01]

To the original question...

I think there are many examples in the scriptures that God does speak to us during our dreams. Sometimes dreams contain straight out instructions (Ex: Genesis 20:3-6, Matt 2:12), sometimes they're prophetic parables of what is to come (Ex Genesis 41:42, Judges 7, Daniel 2). However, I think careful, prayerful discernment is required before we can know if a dream is a message from God, or as Ebenezer Scrooge said "just a bit of undigested beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato". Ecclesiastes 5:7 tells us that many dreams have no meaning at all and that the only thing that matters is "awe of the Lord".

So, my take on it is, if a dream puts you in awe of the Lord and gives you a message that aligns with scripture, it's pretty likely that you just got a hot wire message from the Lord. If I had been dreaming about skinny cows eating fat cows, I don't know that I ever would have caught on that it was a message from God, and yet it was. Remember that dream interpretation is a God given gift, not to be taken lightly.

Luke wrote, in Acts 2:17 that In the last days the young people will prophecy and see visions and the old men will dream dreams. At very least, we should consider our dreams possible parables from God, but discernment, always discernment, is key.

[enoob57]

To the original question...

I think there are many examples in the scriptures that God does speak to us during our dreams. Sometimes dreams contain straight out instructions (Ex: Genesis 20:3-6, Matt 2:12), sometimes they're prophetic parables of what is to come (Ex Genesis 41:42, Judges 7, Daniel 2). However, I think careful, prayerful discernment is required before we can know if a dream is a message from God, or as Ebenezer Scrooge said "just a bit of undigested beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato". Ecclesiastes 5:7 tells us that many dreams have no meaning at all and that the only thing that matters is "awe of the Lord".

So, my take on it is, if a dream puts you in awe of the Lord and gives you a message that aligns with scripture, it's pretty likely that you just got a hot wire message from the Lord. If I had been dreaming about skinny cows eating fat cows, I don't know that I ever would have caught on that it was a message from God, and yet it was. Remember that dream interpretation is a God given gift, not to be taken lightly.

Luke wrote, in Acts 2:17 that In the last days the young people will prophecy and see visions and the old men will dream dreams. At very least, we should consider our dreams possible parables from God, but discernment, always discernment, is key.

[oldzimm]

Please don't think I'm going off the deep end here, I just want to here the thoughts of others on this topic. Most of the dreams we have we don't remember or soon forget, but sometimes we have a dream that we can't forget or it seems so real. Well I had one of those dreams about a month ago and I only told one other person about it, now I'm telling people I never knew but you are brother and sisters in Christ.

Well here it goes, OldZimm's Dream. I dreamed that I was floating in air at a funeral, I looked into the coffin and I saw myself lying there (it felt so real). The strange thing is I looked so young in that coffin, like I was in my twenties with no gray hair (if you look at my profile pic there is nothing but gray and white hair). Next thing I knew, I was in an army fighting Satan. That's when I woke up sorta in shock because it seemed so real. If somebody were to ask me "what are you going to be doing after you die?", I feel like saying I know exactly what I will be doing.

Well there you have it, was it just a dream or was God showing me the future? What do you readers make of this dream? Believe me I'm not going off the deep end, it just seemed so real that I can't get it out of my mind.

I can interpret your dream...but I do not think you will like what I tell you it means...so I will ask you first...do you want know what the interpretation is of your dream?

Sure go ahead, Then I will give my interpretation of the dream. Nebula asked a question that made me think she was interpreting the dream the same way I was interpreting it.

Edited April 22, 2010 by oldzimm

[Guest TillmanCT]

I have a recurring dream too.

It's me and Jesus, walking along a track in the desert.

Jesus stops and says "wait here for Me".

I knew there were others around who were waiting too.

So I wait, after a few minutes, He doesn't reappear, so I sit under the shade of the tree. After a few hours, I build a little shelter. I sleep there overnight. And the next night. And the next. I end up just living at that spot, waiting for Jesus.

Other people who are supposed to be waiting for Jesus, over the years, have gone off and set up businesses and gone on holidays and got fancy jobs and care about their hair.... etc etc etc. There are cars and buses and train timetables and everything. The hustle and bustle is amazing.

It's like surrounding my little tent shelter, a thriving metropolis city has developed.

And I'm just sitting there alone waiting for Jesus.

Here is the interpretation of your dream.

You have been waiting for Jesus a very long time to do a miracle in your life.

You see all these others that have gotten a miracle from the Lord.

But still at this point in time you are waiting for yours.

That's not what I understand it to mean.

I understand it to mean to keep my focus on the Lord and to not let the cares of this world distract me.

So how many years have you been waiting on Jesus to do that miracle for you? And if you do not mind telling me. What is the miracle you are waiting for him to do for you?

[~candice~]

I have a recurring dream too.

It's me and Jesus, walking along a track in the desert.

Jesus stops and says "wait here for Me".

I knew there were others around who were waiting too.

So I wait, after a few minutes, He doesn't reappear, so I sit under the shade of the tree. After a few hours, I build a little shelter. I sleep there overnight. And the next night. And the next. I end up just living at that spot, waiting for Jesus.

Other people who are supposed to be waiting for Jesus, over the years, have gone off and set up businesses and gone on holidays and got fancy jobs and care about their hair.... etc etc etc. There are cars and buses and train timetables and everything. The hustle and bustle is amazing.

It's like surrounding my little tent shelter, a thriving metropolis city has developed.

And I'm just sitting there alone waiting for Jesus.

Here is the interpretation of your dream.

You have been waiting for Jesus a very long time to do a miracle in your life.

You see all these others that have gotten a miracle from the Lord.

But still at this point in time you are waiting for yours.

That's not what I understand it to mean.

I understand it to mean to keep my focus on the Lord and to not let the cares of this world distract me.

So how many years have you been waiting on Jesus to do that miracle for you? And if you do not mind telling me. What is the miracle you are waiting for him to do for you?

I do not understand it as me waiting for a miracle. I am a believer in Christ and the Holy Spirit lives in me. Jesus has risen from the dead. Miracle complete .

I am waiting on Christ for His second coming and the cares of the world should not distract me. Those others, are supposed to be waiting too, but have been distracted by jobs and cars and the cares of the world.

[Guest TillmanCT]

I can interpret your dream...but I do not think you will like what I tell you it means...so I will ask you first...do you want know what the interpretation is of your dream?

Hello TillmanCT. First of all, welcome to Worthy Boards. I noticed that you have only 3 posts so far, and 2 of them are interpretations of dreams and the other is this offer to interpret another. Are you a prophet, do you have a gift of dream interpretation, or do you just have a knowledge of what differen't things mean in dreams? I would also be interested in knowing whether you think dreams are the result of things we are dealing with personally, and they are not so much prophetic, but just helpful in showing us what is in our heart, or do you think they often times are the Lord showing us things to come?

1. Are you a prophet, ---------In the Name of the Lord,Yes. Not in the Name of the Lord,No

2. do you have a gift of dream interpretation, ---------In the name of the Lord, Yes. Not in the Name of the Lord,No

3. or do you just have a knowledge of what differen't things mean in dreams? ---------In the name of the Lord,Yes. Not in the Name of the Lord,No

4. I would also be interested in knowing whether you think dreams are the result of things we are dealing with personally, and they are not so much prophetic, but just helpful in showing us what is in our heart, or do you think they often times are the Lord showing us things to come? ----------I think that each dream has its own purpose, that is what I think.