I am so excited to write about dreams on this blog because, this is the area where God has been dealing with me a lot since the start of my spiritual journey.
While I have always been someone whose dreams come true most of the time, I used to dream occasionally. But anytime I dream and remember my dream, I always take my dream serious, because most of the important events that happened in my life, I first dreamt about them. For instance, before I even conceived my first set of twins, I dreamt that I had twins and they were too boys in the dream. The dream occurred even months before I became pregnant. I also had so many warning dreams, where I will be warned about someone or something before, they happen. But all those happened occasionally.
But since after my encounter with the Lord Jesus, my Dream world got opened. I started dreaming like crazy. Sometimes 2 to 3 dreams each night and am talking about very “Vivid Dreams” that I will wake up and remember every detail like they all happened in real life. At the beginning, it scared the hell out of me. I didn’t understand what was happening to me, I will wake up and think about the dreams the whole day. And the crazy thing is that, most of the dreams started happening. Ordinary everyday things that happen at work and around me, started showing up in my dreams before they occur. I will dream of someone calling me and the next day that same person will call, I will dream and see my employee with a particular dress that I have never seen her in before and I mean detailed in colours and pattern, the next day she will show up at work with exact same dress, and this will be a dress she newly bought, never worn before and a dress I didn’t even know she had. I will dream about a particular customer, who will come to steal our product and that same customer will come to the shop and steal exact same product, same colour just like I saw in the dream. My dreams were always detailed in colours and symbols. I became scared, I didn’t know what was happening to me, because I have never dreamt at that rate before. Every night, same thing. At a point, I started having both dreams that happened and the ones that didn’t happen or rather the ones I misinterpreted.
If I wake up every morning, I will be on google, searching for meaning of dreams and people who are having or people that had same experience in the past. But I didn’t get much help with google. I started feeling that something was not right with my sleep and the crazy dreams. I even cried to God to take the dreams away when they became very extreme.
There was one particular dream I was having almost every night. It was someone who hurt me so much that I didn’t forgive. I kept seeing this person in my dreams almost every night and I will wake up even more angry and bitter. It became a constant occurrence that I started crying to God to remove this person from my dreams. But the dreams didn’t stop until one day, while I was praying about it and asking God why He didn’t want to make the dreams stop, I heard the Holy Spirit telling me to forgive this person, that it was the bitterness and resentment I had in my heart, that is causing the reoccurring dreams about the person. After the Holy Spirit’s conviction, I forgave the person and prayed for them. The next night I had a dream where someone was trapped inside my House and he was in distress, looking for a way to escape but the door was locked. I had the keys with me but I was standing outside observing how the person was hitting at the door, until he broke the door from inside and ran away with his belongings. In the dream I was wondering how this person got into my apartment? And him having his belongings, meant he has been living there for a long time. How did I not know that he lives with me and how did he not have keys to the house to open and come out?
When I woke up and studied what House represents in a dream, I realised that House represents the dreamer. So, the house was me and due to my unforgiveness I had given access to the spirit of anger and resentment to occupy my heart and that was the reason why I couldn’t get this person off my dreams and because I forgave and released those anger and resentment, the spirit became restless and had to leave. And from that night onwards the dreams about this person stopped. That is the power of forgiveness! There are some things prayers don’t solve but forgiveness does. Most of the time we are angry or harbour unforgiveness, we are actually feeding and giving access to an unclean spirit which ends up destroying us. After that event, I began to understand that most of my dreams are messages, even the ones I disregarded as ordinary dreams were because I couldn’t discern the message behind the dream.
At a point the dreams stopped. It was summer, so much activities, vacations, I got distracted by so many things, I was not reading the Bible or Praying as much and the dreams reduced. I started dreaming occasionally like before I encountered the Lord Jesus. But before the dreams stopped, I had a dream that I was building a beautiful House in a very beautiful estate. I abandoned the House and went to live in an uncomfortable apartment. The apartment was so uncomfortable, there was no light and very dirty. I lived there for some time until I couldn´t take it no more, then I remembered that I had a house I was building in a beautiful environment that I should probably go and complete it and live there. Then I travelled back to the estate and resumed my building project. When I woke up, I knew it has something to do with me abandoning my spiritual Journey. And it did happen! I became distracted, the dreams stopped and my spiritual journey was stagnant for some time. But even at the season of my stagnation, God still used it to teach me lessons that increased my trust in Him and brought me back to Him. Immediately I resumed my Prayer life and started building more stronger relationship with the Lord Jesus, the frequent dreams came back but this time around, I prayed for spirit of discernment, God answered my prayer and the good news is that I can now discern the source and the message behind each and every dream. I feel so close to God in my sleep. He uses my sleeping time to communicate with me, directs my path and reveals my life purpose to me. I feel so blessed that God the Creator of the Universe, Almighty God is mindful of me, a sinner, that he chooses to have a relationship with me and communicate with me through dreams. Just like the Bible said in the Book of Acts 2:17 “In the last days, says the Lord. “I will pour my spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams and in the book of Job 33:15 “He speaks in dreams, in visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they lie in their beds.
I will do another post on dream Source, Interpretations and Discernment.
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