Course 113 - Concerning Spiritual Gifts Lesson #6
No.23. The Gift of Dreaming Dreams
Dreams are one of the ways God communicates with His people. In every generation the Lord lays hold of some people and reveals present or future events to them. In the Old Testament, there were a few notable dreamers. Joseph was exceptional in the sense that he had two associated gifts: dreaming dreams and interpreting them. With Dreams, he was set on the course of destiny. With the gift of interpretation, he stepped into it as Prime Minister of Egypt. Genesis chapters 37, 40, 41.
In Joel 2: 28, 29 where the outpouring which was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost was prophesied accurately, dreaming of dreams was indicated as one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Speaking by the Spirit, Apostle Peter confirmed this in his very first public sermon at Jerusalem Acts 2: 14 - 21
Satanic Dreams
Not all dreams are messages from God. There are two other sources of dreams. Some dreams are projections from Satan and his agents designed to either confuse or intimidate the saints. Worse still, some dreams are projections from the enemy which, when naively accepted and confessed by the saints, confer to Satan the legal authority to execute them. It is naïve to accept all dreams as from God and speak of them as such.
Soulish Dreams
Some other dreams emanate from the subconscious realm of the human soul. They are functions of the worst fears of the saint or his/her deepest desires that have taken root in the subconscious realm and come up to the fore when one is asleep. Dreaming of a particular person as spouse may not necessarily be from God but could signify lust that penetrated the subconscious mind.
Dreaming of an accident may not necessarily be a warning from God. It could be the worst fears that have taken root in the subconscious mind and come up occasionally to haunt one. In Job 3:25, the great man of God gave us an insight into why he experienced some of the tragedies that befell him: his fears became a magnet to draw tragedy unto himself! Faith and Fear are two magnetic forces of equal strength. What you have strong faith for inevitably gets drawn to you. Mark 11:22-24. On the other hand, what you fear most also gets drawn to you except the grace and election of God intervenes!
