Sandie Freed - Understanding Your Dreams: How to Unlock the Meaning of Gods Messages

G od chooses to communicate with His people through dreams and visions. This form of communication can be misunderstood, dismissed or ignored. Dreams can seem foolish or strange. That is why we need books like Understanding Your Dreams by Sandie Freed. This book is awesome!

In both Old and New Covenants, we find many dream scenes and interpretations. The Bible actually has more than fifty references to messages being sent by God through dreams and visions, to the righteous and unrighteous alike. The Lord used dreams and visions in Scripture to guide, warn, direct, helpto communicate His heart.

God has not stopped communicating to humanity by these means. In fact, He often uses dreams and visions to reach unsaved individuals with the Gospel, particularly in closed parts of the world. We hear scores of testimonies of dreams and visions being used by God to draw individuals, families and entire communities to Himself. Similarly, the Lord uses this method of revelation in the lives of most, if not all, believers.

A dream is a release of revelation (whether natural or spiritual) that comes at a time when your body is at peace and you are settled. Sometimes this is the only way God can communicate with you, because your soul is quiet enough for the Lord to speak deeply into your spirit man. A dream is like a photograph in movie form of something you are able to relate to. Ecclesiastes 5:3 tells us that a dream comes when there are many cares.

Dreams are formed in a persons subconscious mind. They are based on the imagery and secret symbolic language that are exclusive and strategic to that persons particular life and destiny. Dreams can be either a subconscious response to the circumstances of our lives or the Holy Spirit communicating His plans, ways and purposes to us. Dreams enable us to tap into the superior ways of the divine Spirit. Dreams enable us to glance into the imperceptible realms of wisdom, counsel, knowledge and might.

The dreams and visions God gives birth to in us bring revelation, illumination and inspiration. When we accept delivery of His dream letters of love, God releases the strategic power to change every life event into something wonderful. He turns negative happenings to our advantage and improvement.

In the ancient Eastern world, dreams were treated as reality. Dreams were the world of the divine or the demonic. They often revealed the future. Dreams could be filled with revelation that would cause the dreamer to make the right decision for his or her future.

Once, I was in prayer over a trip to Israel. Barbara Byerly and I were going to be leading prayer for a meeting facilitated by Dr. Peter Wagner that would reconcile Arab Christian leaders and Messianic leaders. Much warfare surrounded this meeting. I became very anxious and called Barbara and told her we should pray and fast for three days before going. Barbara was having the same burden and agreed immediately.