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 it's 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, wisemen,
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 interpret 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 them dreams, even symbolic dreams but God gave them that understanding. And when we
read their story we see this almost like the, oh It makes sense. Yeah. I could see that this,
meaning that. God gave them 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 that 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 means that you're birthing
a ministry. But, for you, you might have a dream that you're pregnant and 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 ask 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,
you know 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 P.S. You know, like, "Hey, just, 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.