Dreams & Visions

Dreams and Visions

In the Bible we read that God often spoke to his servants through dreams and visions.

Up until a year ago I had only rarely had a dream that I could say confidently was from God. I had experienced two visions in my life and also been woken in the night a couple of times with a message for someone but most of the dreams I had that I actually remembered were mostly disjointed and a re-enactment of my day or after eating too much cheese!

A year ago I received a prophetic word over my life that in this next season God was going to open up a gate through dreams and visions and also that I was to believe for more of the miraculous and the supernatural. Since that time, I have begun to recognize God giving me dreams more often and I have started putting a notebook and pen beside my bed in case He wakes me up. I began noticing I was sometimes dreaming scripture, sometimes dreaming in a moving picture and sometimes I woke up with a clear sentence in my head.

One time I had a name being repeated over and over and because I was sleepy I hoped I’d remember it in the morning but then God began to show me pictures that went with the name and I knew I needed to wake up, put the light on and write it down. I am so glad I did as it was for someone who I had never met but was about to meet.

Having a dream is one thing and interpreting it is another. It’s so important to take the dream or vision we have back to God and ask him what it means, whether it is for us or for someone else and not attach our own meaning to it.

Since July and finishing TSM (Training in Supernatural Ministry) a course run by the Kings Arms church in Bedford, I was feeling equipped and ready to GO! I wondered what God had for me next. Wanting to keep in the lane God has for me to run in, I found myself thinking quite a lot about what that might be.

Some of the dreams this year have been from God telling me to be patient and to wait, others have been for the church and for a time not yet and more recently I had a dream where God showed me 5 different scenarios where I was sharing the gospel out in the market place and as a result I was late for a pre arranged church meeting. At first when I woke up and remembered the dream I wasn’t sure it was from God but later when I was spending time with Him, it became clearer and I felt he was telling me that this was what he had called me to, this was my lane, to go out and to tell others about his love for them. Not to feel I should be elsewhere, even overly busy serving in the church but that it was time to go out, releasing his kingdom and believing him for the miraculous and supernatural where people are. I knew God had given me a new passion and a confidence to speak to people and to offer to pray for them, something I didn’t have before, well not for a long time anyway.

Since having that dream, God has sent three situations across my path, all quite challenging but all invitations to go and share Jesus with someone. One was this week, to an old people’s home, to speak to a man with dementia who was asking if all that lay before him was just mere existence and then to die, another was meeting with a Muslim friend in a coffee shop where I got to talk this week about Jesus being the Son of God and then finally, today, meeting a friend who I hadn’t seen for 30 years but who had recently woken up from a dream with a picture of me in her head and who wanted to see me. Now partially sighted and also suffering with MS, I got to encourage her in her faith which she said she had never let go of and also pray for her healing.

I’d love to report that the man in the old people’s home and my Muslim friend had both become Christians, no, not yet! and that my other friend had been instantly healed. That would be wonderful?

It's actually though about listening and being obedient and on the way to the promise to keep taking steps of obedience. It’s about being available every day for the Holy Spirit to speak whether that’s through dreams, visions, and the Bible or the many and various ways he loves to talk to us.

I believe I will see people in this city of Brighton saved and healed and set free and until then I will keep running in the lane marked out for me.