To sleep perchance to dream. Dreams happen to everyone almost every night. But there are people who experience supernatural encounters in the format of dreams. These encounters can happen in many different level of intensity. God choose His way to communicate with people according to His sovereignty. Our responsibility is to recognize His voice and follow His way. While divine dreams happen in many different manners, there exist some common points which we could use to recognize the true divinely inspired dreams like their conformity.
First of all, any sort of revelation from God must conform to the truth taught in the Bible, because He does not contradict to Himself. He is true and just. ‘Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.’ Also, if there is a prophecy or prediction of a future event in a dream, the event must turn out as what is prophesied. Or else, the dream does not conform to the reality and cannot be a divine dream.
Sometimes dreams may even come with supernatural phenomenon, signs, wonders or accurate predictions. But as long as the dream contradicts the written word of God, we must be clear that it was not from God. This is well illustrated in Deuteronomy chapter 13. The law even commands to execute such person who dreams dreams with signs and wonders but speak contradicting messages to God’s word.
Moreover, according to Deuteronomy chapter 18 and Jeremiah chapter 23, in the situation where a dream claimed to have got a dream from God that brought a prophecy, whether the prophecy was personal or related to the whole community; if the prophecy was not fulfilled in the future or it did not conform to the future event, then the dream must be a false dream and the dreamer of the dream is called a false prophet who must be stoned to death.
God cannot be limited by anything. In the process of testing the dreams and revelations, we must be careful not to harden our heart. Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. Remind yourself that the Holy Spirit lives in you. We trust in Him more than anything, even the principles we learnt about. Holy Spirit is creative forever and truth has infinite depth in it.
Also we must stay humble. Do not think yourself higher than you should. We should receive God’s word with a fearful heart. We do not take it lightly. We must stand firm in truth and be tender and attentive to God’s voice, because we are His sheep, He is our shepherd. The Lord leads me with His voice, whatever way it is expressed.
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