Often times we see familiar people and places in our dreams. However, the dreams from the Lord are not a review of history for information’s sake. God often uses people and events to represent concepts, using what we know and have become familiar with as symbols. This is what I will be writing about today.
When reviewing our past, we can see people whose pattern of thinking and behavior has been repeated over and over again in other people. Those people may be seen in a dream as a “type”, or symbol of the behavior they had.
The Lord uses things from this world to represent spiritual concepts. When Israel became unfaithful to God, He used the symbolism of harlotry to describe their behavior (Jer 2:20). If a group of people feel that their position is so important that it doesn’t matter how they act, the Lord has described them as becoming a widow (Is 47:7,8). When the Lord receives His people as His own, He uses the example of a Bride and Groom (Is 62:5). Because we understand these symbols, we find them used over and over again in the Bible. They bring meaning to the concepts the Lord is speaking about.
In our dreams, it is more valuable to discover the concepts God is portraying and their relationships then to put our memories in chronological order. Even the true history of the nation of Israel, the founders of our faith, has become an example for us to learn from (1 Cor 10:6 & Heb 4:11). As we progress through our lives, the people and events we learn from set the stage in our dreams by becoming a representation of the concepts they illustrated in our lives.
I find it helpful when praying over my dreams to ask the Lord if He has a message in the dream for me, what the dream is about, and why He gave it to me. Usually the Lord starts by showing me the concepts in the dream. Then He leads me to the purpose for which the dream has been given to me. You can do the same. Do not discard dreams with old events and people in them because you do not think they are prophetic. Anything the Holy Spirit ministers to us, while awake or while sleeping, is prophetic. He may be showing us our heart, or an area that needs to be healed in our heart. He may show us a hidden truth about an area that we are praying about. These are manifestations of the Word of Wisdom, and the Word of Knowledge. It is never a waste of time to sit before the Lord to determine what He may be saying to us.
I hope this lesson on dreams will be of help. Have a great week, and God bless, Helen
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