For the last 40 years, I have had many dreams from the Lord, and of course many other jumbled dreams full of nonsense.
There are times I have even had to google the meaning of words that I didn't know before.
In my view, the picture stories in dreams are similar to the parables Jesus spoke. They are stories that need interpreting.
In Mark, Jesus addresses his use of parables and we would be wise to apply it to most dreams.
Mark4v13And He said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?
He then goes on to explain the parable of the sower.
Occasionally, they are very direct and need no interpretation, like when the Lord solved a serious problem I had been desperately praying about on a building renovation.
In the dream, I saw my large yellow spirit level laid across the attic floor, and that was all. However, I instantly knew its significance, and when I got up I raced across town to the property, up the ladder and placed my spirit level as in the dream, and bingo, the floor was all at a slant.
I knew there had been subsidence at one end of the house in the distant past, but that hadn't effected our work till then. We were on a serious deadline, with threats of penalty for late delivery, and to complete the project, I had paid for a plumber friend of mine to install the gas central heating system which was quite extensive. In fact there were two complete parallel systems because there was also a grannie annex in the property.
Unfortunately, when switched on, the systems only ran for about 20 minutes before cutting out. No matter how we fiddled around we couldn't keep it running.
We had an additional problem in that my plumber friend had fitted the job in for me as a last minute favour before he left the country, emigrating to Israel!
The day came when he had to leave, and we were still no nearer solving the problem. However, as I had been praying daily since the problem first appeared, the Lord had given me a huge measure of peace. So confident that God would solve my problem, I shook hands with my friend, paid him in full, and wished him bon voyage to Israel.
My trust in the Lord was paid for by the dream. Basically, all the pipework had been laid across what appeared to be a very long but level attic floor. But unknown to us, they were imperceptibly rising at the far end where they turned 90deg and went down through the attic floor.
When measured after the dream, that end turned out to be about 4" higher that the near end and as soon as the system was switched on, all the air bubbles gathered at the high point causing an airlock and shut down.
It was all remedied that morning by raising the other end pipework by an extra 6", and that cured it instantly.
Behold, God is my salvation.................all because of a dream.
That was a very obvious dream, but most need interpreting.
My strong advice is that people always keep a note pad beside the bed. Then as soon as you wake write down any dreams you have had.
Sometimes interpretation takes time and prayer. Other times dreams need to be considered together, and if you don't record them, you lose them.
