DREAMS, Does God Still Use Them Today?

The bible has many accounts throughout time that He used dreams as a form

of communication to His people.  A few examples are Daniel, Joseph (old

testament), Joseph (Mary’s husband) and many others.

The Lord also says in Joel 2:27-29  And ye shall know that I am in the

midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God, and none else: and my

people shall never be ashamed.

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon

all flesh, and yours sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men

shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.  And also upon the

servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.

He also says in Hebrew 13:8  Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today

and forever.

I believe we can ask the Lord to use our night seasons for His purposes,

to redeem that time for His glory.  I can attest to His working in this

manner in my life, I know of 3 separate accounts in which He used dreams

He gave that actually saved lives.  Of course it’s important to decipher

those from say “pizza for dinner” dreams.

One of these dreams came 2 nights before my husband was going on an

extensive hiking trip into deep wilderness with some other guys.  In this

dream, I saw a man (I couldn’t see the identity of this person) fall off a

cliff, fall to the rocks below and die.  I was very concerned to say the

least, but my dear hubby thought it was just a story because I was worried

about him and didn’t want him to go.  I KNEW what I had seen in this dream

however and that it wasn’t what he thought.  I began asking people close

to me to be praying for protection over this type of accident and that

life would be spared.  They faithfully did so. 

Once up in the wilderness, my husband sort of jokingly told the other men

to be extra careful because his wife had a dream about one of them falling

off a cliff and dying.

Later during one of their hikes, it happened.  One of the men slipped off

the face of the cliff they were climbing and fell several hundred feet to

the rocks below.  My husband was praying while the man was falling through

the air.  He miraculously survived!   He did go into shock and was pretty

banged up, but he sustained no broken bones or any real damage, and

ultimately walked out of there on his own the next day (they were a 48

hour hike to the nearest dirt road).  I know God gave this dream to prompt

prayer that I believe saved this man’s life.  Isn’t He good?

The other dream I had from Him was that I died in a car accident.  (Talk

about weird, to see your own).  But I know He gave this dream for the same

reason, to prompt prayer because it wasn’t my time to go home.  This dream

happened about 4 days after the first one (above) and my mind was really

trying to play tricks on me.  I battled thoughts like “Oh, you’re just

imagining this because the last one was true, come on, get real”   Guess

who’s voice that probably was?  Because the last one had been so accurate,

I did pray.  The next day I drove with my children several hours away, we

were going through Seattle on the freeway at 65 mph and drove under

several overpasses.   I don’t know for sure what happened but I believe

someone from on top of the overpass through a huge rock over, it was the

size of a full human hand and came from above, not from a truck kicking up

a rock.  I had cars on both sides of me and saw this rock flying right at

me and again began praying (in a scream).  The rock hit the very center

top of my windshield, both my children and myself saw it hit the glass

(close to the roof however).  Miraculously the windshield held, and I did

not drive into anybody else.  There was NO crack, or chip in the glass

whatsoever.  Later, we did discover the metal right above the glass where

it had hit had a fairly large dent in it.  We also learned the week prior,

the exact thing happened to another motorist in the area, and the person

was killed.  Again I give all glory to God for saving me.

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