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Dreams are Spiritual Messages – But who is listening?
Is this Fantasy, Heresy or Really Divine Communication?
Who would have thought of the possibility of a divine origin of common human dreams? Once upon a time I would have thought the idea a bit far-fetched myself. Church leaders tell me it is certainly not a general or key way God speaks to His children.
Or is it?
Here, I will endeavour to explain what the Lord has lain on my heart and mind regarding biblical dreams. And elsewhere I will write under other tabs, the things I have been shown in biblical dreams from the Word of God – because the two should link up.
What I write concerns the dreams of most people. We are meant to dream. We are created to hear God’s voice, personally and directly. Of course there are other ways for us to hear from God, but this topic is about hearing through dreams. So, I am not just addressing Christians. In fact, in dialogues with others, I find non-Christians are often more open to real spiritual truth than those who attend institutional churches.
It may be that you may think of Divinity as being the universe or some other “force/s” – or an impersonal force. Yet, I believe those assumptions are due to a lack of understanding of the true kindness, mercy and justice of our loving and very personal, Father God. I have discovered that He has been much maligned – even by me in the past. I believe that mis-renderings of original language in the Bible have been used in a political way against humanity over the last two millennia; and it is time to see our Heavenly Father with clearer eyes.
To this end, I have been the recipient of some seven or so thousand dreams over the last seven years, each one drawing me more and more into the Father’s care, into His healing power and strength. And for every night of seven years of dreaming, there has been a number of hours per day of study of what the Lord has been saying. This has been serious stuff, indeed, and I don’t bring this message lightly. It has cost me three major 180 degree turns in theology.
We learn the purpose of dreams from a guy called Elihu in the Bible. A godly man called Joh was tested by God with all manner of ills. Elihu comes upon Job after three other “threeso-called “friends” have accused Job of personal sin. Elihu seeks to truly comfort Job, but doesn’t avoid pointing out that Job has also accused God. He brings a kind of preparatory speech, magnifying the greatness of God so that when the Lord does finally respond, Job and we, the readers, are prepared for the divine response about suffering. Paul, the great healer of humans and teacher of love also knew the reason for suffering – to keep one from pride. It is no light matter. Pride is a dreadful sin. It is so destructive to families, to truth, to functionality in a community. No wonder God says that He resists the proud and promises them a “fall”.[1]
Elihu explains also, incidentally, the purpose of human dreams. They are to keep us from pride. This, I have found to be so true. When I first had biblical dreams, I was still wallowing in a certain academic pride. It took thousands of biblical corrective dreams, their recording and scriptural follow-up to convince me that pride is a pathetic dirty blanket full of holes one tries to cover one’s inadequacies with. And I recognise that now. The worst thing about human pride is when we don’t even know we have it. And the truth is, I am not overly clever. Often, we humans have pride in something that isn’t even valid!
[1] Proverbs 16:18
Do You Have Weird Dreams?
Probably the most common description I hear about dreams goes something like this, ‘ I had a really weird dream last night!’ Dreams do appear to be weird when we wake up, because they are what we call ‘parabolic’ – they are often night parables. This just means they are divine messages related to us, largely, in symbols. And what this website is about is teaching the meanings of the symbols in dreams. And the things symbolised are more important than a lot of the needless running around we do daily to no avail. They are symbols that can bring healing when we understand them in the context of our lives.
Some of the more common dreams experienced by people include the following:
A dream about your house is generally about yourself and either the way you are building your life or what is happening in / to your life. It is the symbol from Matthew 7:24. Some dreams will depict moving house’ some house painting; some house cleaning; some with no windows, or a broken door. Then there are those where the dreamer smashes parts of his / her own house. When this happens and a person is shown smashing their own windows or glasses, it is about a refusal to see / admit truth.
Dreams about home also speak about the Lord’s desire and purpose, which is to reside with us each, personally.
Another common dream is about losing one’s wallet or purse. When this happens, take note of details. Is the wallet the one you use in waking life? Are the cards missing? How do you feel if you look in the wallet and see something missing? Do you panic? Look for the missing item? There are two basic items we currently carry in wallets and purses. These are our identity cards and also our cash or bank card. The identity items speak about who we are – are we fallen and headed for trouble, or are we in Christ and at peace? A loss of card and panic speak of a loss of peace at a spiritual level, even if things seem OK in your waking life. We are designed to have our identity in Jesus. If we are not in Him, we are in that spiritual state that we feel emotionally when a wallet / cards are stolen. That would be the message of that dream.
If you are a believer and have had that dream, and it isn’t uncommon for believers to have it, then it is best to ask the Lord, “Where am I missing it?” and He will surely show you by some means where you are walking away from His loving power back into the weakness of the old Adam.
Money speaks of the favour we experience when we are walking close to the Lord. Take note of the notes or coins you see in the dream. Ten dollars speak of God’s perfect order and plan for us. Fifties speak of Jubilee which means getting back all that the devil has stolen from you. It means coming home to our own land with Him in a celebration and rest.
Because numbers are a very common feature in dreams, they deserve their own post; which I will also do. Generally they are not so much quantities in dreams but qualities which we can see from the paragraph above.
