How To Know If Your Dream Is From God (2024)

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How To Know If Your Dream Is From God? ›

You can tell if it's a God-dream if it contains some element of the supernatural. There is information in the dream that obviously comes from heaven – something you wouldn't ordinarily know or that points to a future time.

It's backed by the word

God will not endorse anything that is contrary to his word. So when you have a dream, it's essential that you weigh it side by side with the word of God. If it's against the word, then it's not from God.

The Bible does mention believers having dreams in the last days, but those dreams should never usurp Scripture in terms of authority. God may place a dream in a Christian's life to warn them about a future event, show a symbol that is important for that believer's life, or to convey a certain message.

It is suggested that we must have complete faith and trust in God, pay attention to tiny voices, chedule time for God regularly, stay open, etc., and remember that we are important to God. Many claim that God talks when there is a sense of feelings of happiness and peace, and while serving others.

Dreams only happen while we sleep, whereas visions can come to us at any time of day or night. A vision comes to you whenever the moment is right, meaning you might experience a vision while you are awake and alert. Dreams are a product of our subconscious and only happen when we are asleep.

The best way to discern whether a dream is from the Lord is to develop your prophetic filter. Your prophetic filter is the personal frame of reference you use to evaluate whether something is from the Lord. You can develop this with help from the Holy Spirit. There is a certain feeling that comes with a God dream.

God has amazing plans for our lives. He created us to have goals and dreams, to continually reach for more in our life in Christ. When God gives you a dream, it's like becoming pregnant: you conceive (think or imagine) a vision or idea of the "new thing" He's planned for you.

In our hearts we will feel the confirmation that He does hear us, a feeling of peace and calm. We can also feel that everything will be fine when we follow the Father's will. If we doubt that He hears us, we ought to seek guidance in the scriptures and then ask if those things we read are true.

During our times of communion with the Lord, we will rarely hear an audible voice when the Holy Spirit “speaks” to us. What we will sense is a strong leading to do something. Or we might feel strongly about going in a certain direction. The Holy Spirit wants to show us God's plans and purposes for our lives.

Sometimes it's future-oriented, sometimes it's a revelation of something in the past. God doesn't just “speak to your mind” there are 3 main ways He speaks to us. The first and most obvious one is His word. The second way is often through other people.

Do your dreams have a message? ›

Dreams can have multiple interpretations based on someone's personality, age, or circ*mstances. Psychotherapists consider dreams memos from the unconscious representing a dynamic in the dreamer's life. The most common dreams include anxiety-driven, wish fulfillment, and punishment.

Test Dreams and Visions Against the Word

If a dream or vision tries to convince you of something contrary to the Word of God, it is not from the Lord. He will never contradict His Word. First Peter 1:25 promises that “the word of the Lord endureth for ever” (KJV). It will never change or become irrelevant.

Do you remember how you got there? If you don't, and you don't have any mental problems, you're probably dreaming. Even if you know how you got to that particular place, you might be dreaming if you don't remember getting ready to travel there or if you don't remember waking up in the morning.

You can interpret your dreams by learning more about common symbols, keeping a dream diary, and trying to identify personal associations. Dream analysis may be better achieved by working with a psychotherapist.

Some dreams may help our brains process our thoughts and the events of the day. Others may just be the result of normal brain activity and mean very little, if anything. Researchers are still trying to figure out exactly why we dream.