Just the other day I was listening to some dream interpretation tapes by John Paul Jackson of Streams Ministries. Now, for those of you who are a little less pentecostal, you may not be as into dream interpretation and the out of the "ordinary" ways G-d may be speaking to you, which may very well be through your dreams.
But a little while ago I realized that G-d has been speaking to me through my dreams gradually more and more as I grow older. So a friend of our family who has really become a mentor for me as I am gradually growing in my prophetic gifting, lent me John Paul Jackson's CD series on interpreting what G-d is saying through our dreams.
On one of the CDs, he discusses all the different dimensions that G-d can bring us to in dreams and visions. He then said something truly profound. He said that we can think of ourselves as humans who occasionally have spiritual experiences, or we can think of ourselves as a spirit having a 70 year human experience, keeping in mind that our human experience determines where we spend or eternity in our spirit.
I found this to be so profound, and really, if you think of yourself as just merely a human with some occasional spiritual experiences you will experience life ensnared in the mundane, everyday troubles of this 70 to 100-year experience. But knowing you are a spirit having a temporary human experience on earth lifts you out of life's troubles, quandries and tumults and takes you into your true purpose in life, whatever G-d has ordained that to be.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
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I really can relate to this. Lately, I've been noticing some dreams I have are more "real" than they have ever been. I think they have always been doing this, it's just that I'm more able to perceive it now, like you said, as you get older.
thanks for the blog!
I just now 'stumbled' across your website (I don't really believe in accidents) and I have to say: great blog! I've been having some really interesting dreams myself since I started my blog less than a month ago, especially one in particular, where I didn't let anyone or anything stop me from missing my train. My dream interpretation - I've always been chicken to actually write anything, but I've always had this nagging 'what about God's purpose' kind of voice in my head. That's the one train I definitely want to be on! Thank you for your blog!
I know what you guys (am I from the North, or what?) are saying - my mentor in growing prophetically always tells me to write down my dreams because they often escape my memory completely, but I am not going to spend 20 minutes in the middle of night writing down a dream - I'm going to go right back to sleep - so now when I have a dream, I immediately wake up and pray that G-d would keep the dream in my memory until the afternoon when I'll probably get a chance to write it down. And when I wake up, I also make sure to replay the dream, scene by scene, in my memory to help my mind keep it locked in a file somewhere. It's interesting to hear what people are dreaming and what they think it means. If anyone else has dreams to share I'd love to hear em.
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