Wednesday Service | Getting Directions From God | PART 8: Understanding Dreams

[1] If we want our ears wide open to God’s voice… we must God speaks through dreams

[a] Though God is not the source of every dream, he does through them!

Job 33:14-18 Living Bible

¹⁴ “For God speaks again and again, ¹⁵ in dreams, in visions of the night when deep sleep falls on men as they lie on their beds. ¹⁶ He opens their ears in times like that and gives them wisdom and instruction, ^17-18 causing them to change their minds, and keeping them from pride, and warning them of the penalties of sin, and keeping them from falling into some trap.

1 Kings 3:5 New International Version

At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said, “Ask for whatever you want me to give you.”

Joel 2:28 New International Version

“And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.

[b] God has a of transformation for us

Proverbs 25:2 New International Version

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.

Proverbs 8:17 New International Version

I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.

Jeremiah 29:13-14 GOD’S WORD Translation

¹³ When you look for me, you will find me. When you wholeheartedly seek me, ¹⁴ I will let you find me, declares the Lord.

[c] There is a joy to receiving a word from God

Matthew 13:16-17 CEB

¹⁶ “Happy are your eyes because they see. Happy are your ears because they hear. ¹⁷ I assure you that many prophets and righteous people wanted to see what you see and hear what you hear, but they didn’t.

Matthew 5:6 Amplified Bible

⁶ “Blessed [joyful, nourished by God’s goodness] are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness [those who actively seek right standing with God], for they will be [completely] satisfied.

Matthew 7:8 Amplified Bible

For everyone who keeps on asking receives, and he who keeps on seeking finds, and to him who keeps on knocking, it will be opened.

[2] your dreams

[3] Discern the of your dream

[a] Your soul or

[b] The

[c]

[4] The is the key of the dream

• • If I had to summarize the dream in a few words what happened?

  • What feelings did it produce?

  • What was the end result?

  • What sticks out about the dream? People, objects, animals, colors, numbers…

  • If you had to give your dream a title what would it be?

[5] and because God is the only true source of interpretation

Daniel 2:17-19, 26-28 NIV

¹⁷ Then Daniel returned to his house and explained the matter to his friends Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah.¹⁸ He urged them to plead for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that he and his friends might not be executed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. ¹⁹ During the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision. Then Daniel praised the God of heaven… ²⁶ The king asked Daniel (also called Belteshazzar),“Are you able to tell me what I saw in my dream and interpret it?”

²⁷ Daniel replied, “No wise man, enchanter, magician or diviner can explain to the king the mystery he has asked about, ²⁸ but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries. He has shown King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in days to come.

Genesis 37:5-11 New International Version

⁵ Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. ⁶ He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had: ⁷ We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”

⁸ His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?” And they hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.

⁹ Then he had another dream…

¹⁰ When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?” ¹¹ His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

Genesis 40:5-8 English Standard Version

⁵ And one night they both dreamed—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison—each his own dream, and each dream with its own interpretation. ⁶ When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were troubled. ⁷ So he asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, “Why are your faces downcast today?” ⁸ They said to him, “We have had dreams, and there is no one to interpret them.” And Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me.”