Reaching the Heights - The Value of Dreams

The Value of Dreams

Even in our modern scientific world, where everything needs to be proved before people believe it, God still communicates by means of dream & vision.One of the reasons for this is that a mental picture (still or moving) can communicate what may take a thousand words to describe. A second, and perhaps more important reason, is that God communicates with us Spirit (Him) to spirit (us), not Mind to mind. We are not used to this in our mind dominated culture, which mostly operates on logic, whereas God is interested in the thoughts of our hearts. Remember, He chose David as king of Israel, because he was a man after God’s own heart.

I am not much of a dreamer, but my wife, Susan, is. She doesn’t remember a lot of her dreams, only the significant ones. For example, several years ago, when I was seriously ill in hospital with pancreatitis, she had a vision (this is like a dream, but you are awake). She saw me standing in the hospital ward. Then a serpent-like creature came out of my abdomen and slithered away along the floor. The next day a Christian Minister with a healing and deliverance gift, visited me in hospital and prayed for my deliverance from a “spirit of death”. From that day forward I began to recover from an illness that had persisted for 2 1/2 months (all spent in hospital) and had not responded to treatment. It took only days after that for me to be discharged from hospital. I was back to normal within a week. No medical explanation was ever given for my sudden recovery. Susan’s vision, however, indicated what was going to happen in order for me to be healed.

In another example, a friend of ours had a dream about a married couple of 25 years, who were friends of hers. The dream indicated that the man was having an extra marital affair. She was shocked, but this proved to be the case, and the knowledge was extremely helpful to our friend in her dealings with the couple. The affair was terminated and they are still together.

I while ago, Susan and I were thinking about moving house to another area of the town, to be nearer to other members of the church. She had a dream in which she saw a road that she recognised in this new area. In a house in that road there were rounded wooden alcoves. A few days later we viewed a house in that very location. It was the house she had seen in the dream. She didn’t like the road nor the fact that the house was terraced, but the dream give her confidence that the move was the right one to make, which it turned out to be.

So, you see, present day dreams and visions can be very significant in our everyday lives. We should not be so quick to dismiss them. If we don’t understand there meaning we should seek help from someone with the gift of interpretation (a prophetic gift).

You never lose; you win or you learn. Nelson Mandela
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. Jim Rhon
Fear is misplaced faith. Kris Vallotton
Pray, and let God worry Martin Luther
Those who never change their mind never change anything. Winston Churchill
In the kingdom, physical obedience brings spiritual release. Bill Johnson
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