Dreams and Interpretation
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God likes to talk to us when we are asleep. He can get our attention without our busy minds being distracted on other things. It’s also an important healing time. Not all dreams come from God but what is He saying to you when they are?
Did you know that God gives us dreams to tell us things? Do you take notice of them? Do you know what they mean?
There are many dreams in the Bible with their interpretation and people believed that some dreams were extremely important. A good example is King Nebuchadnezzar who told his advisers that he would put them all to death for not being able to tell him his dream and interpret it, but God gave Daniel the same dream and its interpretation. See Daniel 2:24-28.
Another example is Pharaoh who raised Joseph to second in command after the interpretation and wise application of the dreams of cattle and grain that God had given him. See Genesis 41:15-16 and Genesis 41:37-40.
In the New Testament this continued, e.g. Joseph being told by an angel, who appeared in his dreams, to marry Mary and later to take Jesus and Mary to Egypt for safety. He did as the angel told him. See Matthew 1:20 and Matthew 2:13-14.
Tips on recording dreams
Write dreams down as soon as you can after waking up. This may be during the night in which case use a pencil (as this can cope with writing upside down or at an angle if you need to) and a dim light (so you do not wake yourself up too much).
You do not need to put a lot of detail down if you find reading your notes acts as a trigger to remember the dream again later on, however, you may find you need to write down important details, such as numbers, names, conversations, colours, as you may know it was important but not remember later on what it was.