Perhaps a friend calls and repeats the same message, or the scene plays out before your eyes that very day.Ī note of caution however signs are helpful, but we need to be careful not to manipulate them. Or events happen that day that echo what you’ve seen in the night. The confirming sign may be something simple – like the pastor at church preaches the same message you’ve just received in a dream. God wanted the people who were listening to understand that this was a word from God.
Jesus spoke and signs ‘followed him’ to confirm the message ( John 6:26). We see this happening in Jesus’ ministry. So he builds in supernatural signs for us – little indicators to show us it is him. Remember God’s heart is to help us discern his voice if we are listening for it. Jesus said that the Holy Spirit would help us by ‘speaking of things to come’ ( John 6:13-14) and that when we call to God, he will tell us ‘unsearchable things we do not know’ ( Jeremiah 33:3). There is information in the dream that obviously comes from heaven – something you wouldn’t ordinarily know or that points to a future time. You can tell if it’s a God-dream if it contains some element of the supernatural. Here’s three tips that will help you recognise a God-dream: 1. They may be interesting to take note of, and occasionally helpful in understanding ourselves, but they are not the voice of the Holy Spirit. It’s important first of all to understand that not every dream comes from God – in the same way that not every waking thought is from him! Most of the dreams we have are natural dreams – they are the activity of our unconscious minds while we are asleep. So how do we know if a dream is from God?
The Scriptures tell us that dreams are one of the most common ways he speaks ( Numbers 12:6), that they are made accessible to us through the gift of the Holy Spirit ( Acts 2:16-17) and that many of the great biblical events began while someone was sleeping (eg. Psychologists tell us we dream to process the events of the day – it’s our brain’s natural healing mechanisms doing some ‘house-cleaning’ – in the same way that sleep allows for restoration of our physical body.īut we also know that God speaks in dreams and that he’s been doing so throughout history. We know that everybody dreams – usually for 1-2 hours every night. Strangely coherent, they seem to shed light on your thoughts from the day before. You can still feel the emotion, stirring and lingering like the taste of last evening’s meal. Slowly the images return, flashing through your mind in fleeting sequence. You wake up drowsy eyed, wander into the kitchen and sit down with a cup of coffee.
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