Dreams are visions during sleep and are an important spiritual phenomenon. They are occurrences in the spiritual realm and God often uses our dreams to communicate with us. Dreams were ordained by Him for the good of mankind, the crowning glory of His creation made for a special relationship with Himself. The average human being spends one-third of his lifetime sleeping and that says a lot about dreams: a good part of our lives is spent dreaming dreams! Your dreams are very important. By them, you can know what is happening to your physical life in the spirit realm.
Dreams are wonderful when they come from God. But dreams do also come from the enemy’s camp. Understanding the dreams you dream will help you in spiritual warfare. It will give you the understanding to fight the good fight of faith against every wicked attack of the enemy. And in Christ, you are more than a conqueror.
So let’s begin the journey to victory now by establishing some more facts about dreams.
1. Dreams are spiritual monitors. They tell much of your spiritual state or condition.
To understand the state of your spiritual life, examine your dreams.
2. Dreams don’t just happen. What you programme into your life is what you will experience in your dreams.
3. Dreams from God will reveal His plans and purposes to you, instruct, exhort, comfort, give directions, correct, guide, assure, encourage, heal, etc.
4. Dreams from the power of darkness are usually disturbing, destructive and terrifying. The enemy and his demonic and human ho t of wickedness attack in the dream to steal, to kill, to destroy, to afflict with sicknesses, to attack your destiny, to deceive and manipulate, etc.
5. Most evils in human lives are perpetrated by the powers of darkness during sleep.
6. Dreams from carnal depraved minds are terrible horrible things.
7. Take seriously any persistent recurring dream in your life.
8. It is dangerous if you don’t dream at all. It simply means you can’t hear God when He wants to talk to you.
9. Dreams determine many issues of life for good or for bad.
10. For many, the journey of progress or disaster starts through the dream gate.
11. God reveals the future to His own through dreams.
Joseph’s future and prominence over his brothers were revealed to him through dreams. He became governor of Egypt in fulfilment of his dream.
12. God can reveal your destiny helper to you in a dream or vision.
13. God gives messages of riches, honour and blessings through dreams.
This was the case with King Solomon in Gibeon when the Lord appeared to him in a dream at night (1 Kings 3:3-15).
14. God gives creative insights and ideas for progress and prosperity in the dream.
15. For your sake, God can torment the enemy in the dream. Pilate’s wife related the agony of suffering many things in her dream because of her husband’s role in the persecution of Jesus (Matthew 27:19).
16. God can save from shame through dreams.
In a dream, God assured Joseph of Mary’s purity, saving her from the shame of being put away by Joseph following her supernatural conception of the Messiah (Matthew 1:20).
17. In the face of imminent danger, you are unaware of, God can show where to hide for safety and preservation.
It in a dream that Joseph was warned to flee with Jesus to Egypt away from the reach of Herod (Matthew 2: 13).
18. God can give through a dream advance warning of the enemy’s evil plot against you even to others who will act wisely so you will be preserved.
The Wise Men were warned not to return to Herod because of his plot against the baby Jesus (Matthew 2:12).
19. God can give precious information through a dream when the strongman of your life and destiny is out of the way.
Joseph was told in a dream to return to Nazareth following the death of Herod (Matthew 2:19-23).
20. Even when you blow and bungle it, God in His mercy will intervene on your behalf for His name’s sake and covenant.
