How to interpret your dreams. How to understand your dreams.
Here are seven truths you must know. God can speak through dreams, we know that. We see that in the
book of Genesis, in the book of Daniel. We see God came to Solomon, also God came to Joseph.
And in Book of Acts it says in the last days when God's Spirit is poured out,
God will be communicating through dreams and visions. Now we know as Christians that the Word
of God, the Bible is the word of God. And it's the final authority. It holds the highest place
in our life concerning us hearing from God. And everything that we hear, whether is through
dreams and visions, prophetic words, must come in alignment with the Word of God. Now how to
understand your dreams. Number one. You must understand there's three types of dreams. Three
types of dreams being, there is a simple message dream. A message dream when God in the dream
speaks to you. Like it doesn't give you parables, colors, numbers. He actually comes and says,
like He came to Abimelech, "You are a dead man. You took somebody else's wife." when God came to
Solomon and He says, "What do you want?" So like this did not require a lot of interpretation okay.
God speaks clearly. It's a message dream. The second type of dream that could come is a simple,
symbolic dream. For example Joseph had the dream about stars and the grain. It was obvious what
that dream meant. It had his family, his parents and him and so he did not need interpretation for
that. He didn't go to anybody. He just knew what that meant. There are dreams that are very simple
to understand even though they are symbolic but they are simple. You wake up. You know exactly
what that dream means. Now the third type of dream is the dreams that require interpretation. I call
them complicated symbolic dreams. For example Pharaoh had a very complicated symbolic dream
and Nebuchadnezzar had a very complicated symbolic dream. So did the butler and the cupbearer. Now I
want you to notice something. In every instance where interpretation was given the man who
received these dreams did not walk with God. I believe that when God speaks to us, a lot of times
He will give you the interpretation. Which is my second truth concerning dream interpretation.
The same God who gave you the dream will give you the interpretation. As a christian you have
the Holy Spirit living inside of you. Both Daniel and Joseph told their rulers that interpretation
belongs to God. When you see Joseph, wiseman, all of these men in the Bible who walked with God,
they had their dreams understood by them. They didn't have somebody else come alongside,
give them a book. And I'm not against books to translate dreams or intrepid dreams. They didn't
call anybody. They didn't go to their Pastor. They didn't write to somebody on facebook and youtube
and say, "Hey I had this dream. What do you think it means?" Why? Because the same God who gives you
the dream lives inside of you and He will give you interpretation. I am not against books and I'm not
against somebody else helping you to interpret dreams. What I'm saying is that scripturally
speaking men who needed interpretation were the men who did not walk with God. The ones who walked
with God, God gave him dreams. Even symbolic dreams but God gave them that understanding.
And when we read their story we see this almost like, oh makes sense. Yeah. I could see that this,
meaning that. God gave him that interpretation because the same God who gives you that dream is
the same God who will give you the understanding of what the dream means. The third thing you
need to remember. Write down your dream and your initial interpretation. In Habakkuk chapter 2 it
says that write the vision down. Write the dream down. So write the vision, write the dream. The
vision of the night which is the dream. Write it down right away when you wake up and write
down what is your initial interpretation. What is the first thing comes to your head of what that
could possibly mean. Why? Because a lot of times that's exactly what that interpretation to that
dream is. Is the initial interpretation that the Holy Spirit gives you an impression of, gives you
this sense of knowing about as you are remembering that dream. Number four pay attention to symbols,
numbers, colors, objects and ask God what do they mean? That's why in James it says
to ask God for wisdom for those of us who lack. So as you are writing down your dream,
you're putting objects, numbers, colors and then you ask in the Holy Spirit, "Lord what do they
mean? What does that mean? How does that apply to me?" Number five. Allow the Holy Spirit to assign
meaning to those symbols and parables in your dream. It's important to let the Holy Spirit
assign meaning. Why? Because meaning for you about this particular object, color, and number
might be different than for me. Why? Because the Holy Spirit will assign meaning to those
dreams when you ask Him to. Now there are some common things that people use to kind of explain
that if you're pregnant, most likely in the dream it mean that you're birthing a ministry. But
for you, you might have a dream that you're pregnant, it actually means that you're going
to be pregnant. It's very simple, straightforward. So there's other interpretation but it's important
to rely on the Holy Spirit. The Bible doesn't give us a book on understanding dreams. If you
study the history you will see that every culture had books and a lot of divination was put into
practice to translate dreams. Biblical authors did not focus on that. Biblical authors relied
on the Holy Spirit. They didn't walk around with manuals. They walked around submissive to the Holy
Spirit. A lot of things in the Bible we don't see a manual on, because God has given us the guide,
the Holy Spirit. And He wants us to befriend Him. He wants us to walk in accordance with Him and He
wants us to live in line with Him and with the holy scriptures. And then we will be led to have
a deeper understanding of the things that we are experiencing including our dreams. Number six.
If you can't figure out interpretation you asked the Lord. You wrote it down. Ask somebody else,
ask a mature believer. Somebody who walks with the Lord or somebody who has a gift of prophecy, that
the Lord will reveal to them. Number seven is pray about what this dream is trying to say to you.
Very few dreams are just encouragement dream. Hey FYI, I love you. FYI, you know keep on doing what
you're doing. A lot of dreams, they carry a sense of warning. A sense that requires out of you to do
something about it. For example the dream that God gave to Pharaoh required Pharaoh to hire a person
to begin to manage the seven years of plenty, to prepare for the seven years of
famine. The dream to Joseph to leave because Herod is trying to kill Jesus. This dream required
action. And so dreams about warning, dreams about direction. They need to be heeded. That's why you
need to pray about Lord what do you want me to do? How do you want me to respond to this?
Because this is not just so, God is not just giving you FYI or PS. You know like hey, just
letting you know a lot of those dreams carry a sense of urgency and sense of action on your part.
And that's again where you need the Holy Spirit to help you know what you need to do. And then you
step in and begin to do that and you will begin to see God's grace and God's glory upon your life.
What are some of the dreams that you had and maybe interpretation for them? If you feel comfortable
sharing them. Are you a dreamer? Meaning do you feel like God communicates to you through dreams.
Drop that in the comment below so that we can have a discussion about that. If this was a blessing,
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