Psalm 17:3

[Gell]

“though you probe my heart, though you examine me at night and test me”

The Lord actually tests us during the night, specifically in dreams.

What I am about to share is intimate and I would like to share this to you my fellow brothers and sisters. To encourage you.

So, I have been dreaming of snakes on the ground before and I usually express fear.
Another is how I react to people who hurt me which is also in a way of dreams. This bothered me the most.

One night I dreamt of snakes on the ground again, and I decided to face my fear in my dream and destroyed the snakes. I never had a dream like that ever again.

The second one I wasn’t able to resolve in my dream, but when I woke up, I decided not to repay the person’s ill-will towards me if I ever encounter that dream again.
Now, I never get those dreams.

We all have individual paths to take in our walk with the Lord and I pray that we all finish the race.

God bless!

 

[Martyr's Crown]

I am glad you managed taking authority in your dream, especially when it is done through Jesus Christ's Name.

I had a very vivid dream once which felt more like an attack to 'cause fear within me, I awoke from it, went to the bathroom, then when getting back to bed I decided taking authority in Jesus Christ's Name towards it. I got back in sleep and got into another dream where I saw a neighbour lady who was possesed by a demon, and I was telling the demon to leave in Jesus's Name. At first she started throwing things at me in anger, but I continued telling the demon to leave in Jesus's Name, and then suddenly it calmed down and the dream disappeared, and I could sleep on peacefully.

 

[Martyr's Crown]

I also want to add I didn't think of psalm 17:3 that way as how you described it, though God sees our thoughts and hearts, so there is no wonder He would also look at our dreams.

As well as the enemy uses our dreams as a way to get to us as well, nothing above anything which we cannot handle, as God wouldn't permit more than what we are capable of managing.

Thanks for sharing this. I am reading through psalms these days, and I find everything so profound and inspiring. I can't take in everything just once! It is certainly no "just-one-time" read!