As a Christian, we have to look at our dream lives in a different light.  After all, in the Bible, it is not uncommon for God to speak to a person through his or her dreams.  It happened all the time.  So the question comes up, "Could God speak to you through your dreams and if so, how can you tell?"  Perhaps you have spoken to someone at church who said God told her what to do in a dream.  If so, you probably had mixed feelings about that.  But as Christian people, we want to be open for God to speak to us in any way He wants to.  If that is through a dream, we need to be prepared to hear what he has to say.

At the same time, you don’t want to jump the gun and think that every dream you have is the divine voice guiding your life.  We need some rules for how to listen to God that don't send us off on a wild goose chase just because we had a dream that was dramatic.  We all have lots of different kinds of dreams and many of them can cause us to be emotional or feel like we are in a transition in life.  If that is the voice of God speaking to you, you have to be able to tell the difference between a prophetic dream and just a dream that is dramatic and meaningful but not necessarily divine in origin.

Yes, it is true that in scripture God did speak to people through dreams.  So we have to grant that this is one way that God might speak to us.  God can be very creative in how he communicates to people and you could hear his voice in the breeze in the trees, in a message coming through your pastor or even in a casual statement made by your child.  The key is to have that "sensor" on in your spirit that alerts you when it is the voice of your master speaking.  When that alarm goes off, then it is time to pay closer attention whether the message comes through a dream or another source.

Do we have to seek interpretation if we have a dream that we think might be from God?  Well we have to remember that when that happened in the Old Testament, they did not have the ability to understand God's voice directly as we do in our New Testament relationship with him through Christ.  God is capable of speaking clearly to you if he wants you to know something.  So you can ask him to interpret directly and if he is really talking to you, you will come to understand the message.

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