Though not all dreams are from God, God is speaking through dreams. Once you understand them, you can benefit from any dream—even a nightmare, which reveals the plans of the enemy.
I had a reoccurring nightmare for 7 years. When I was 19 years old, I faced my fears in the dream and woke up rededicating my life to Jesus. This is why I devote my life to helping people understand how God speaks through dreams.
God speaks to us in many different ways. He also speaks through dreams in many different ways. Here are a few types of dreams God will use to speak to you.
Breakthrough dreaming
There may be something in your life or someone you know who needs a breakthrough. You can very well receive the answer you need in a dream!
In breakthrough dreams, we may confront or face something we haven’t been able to overcome in our daily lives. While we sleep, we can have a supernatural encounter with our fears and overcome something that is trying to hold us back from our destiny. After this kind of dream, our lives can take a dramatic turn for the good because God gave us a breakthrough while we were sleeping!
My favorite example of this in the Bible is Genesis 31, when Jacob had a dream. God revealed a business strategy on how to make money and get repaid for all the times his father-in-law, Laban, had ripped him off.
Dreams you can’t remember
If you do not remember a dream or you only remember part of it with some details, God designed it that way. In these dreams, God imparts something to your spirit that you need—and He will tell you when you need it!
Dreams where God conceals the meaning
God sometimes sends us a dream we remember, but He seals away the meaning of it. These dreams often feel important, even though we do not understand the interpretation or how it applies to our life.
An example of this in the Old Testament is in Genesis 37, when Joseph received two powerful dreams about his destiny that he didn’t fully understand.
He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had: 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.” Genesis 37:6–7 NIV
Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.” Genesis 37:9 NIV
After this dream, Joseph went through many trials before becoming second-in-command over all of Egypt during a time of great famine. In Genesis 42, the meaning of the dream becomes clear:
Now Joseph was the governor of the land, the person who sold grain to all its people. So when Joseph’s brothers arrived, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground. Genesis 42:6 NIV
In this type of dream, God may be sealing away essential instructions and guidance for our purpose and our destiny—in the future. By sealing it in a dream, God can bypass our natural mind and keep us from being prideful and doing things in our own strength and timing instead of His.
If you have not been dreaming lately, there’s no need to worry! You can ask God to give you dreams. I am hosting my brand-new online training workshop, Dreams and Angelic Encounters: Understanding the Language of Heaven, on September 22 from 10 a.m. to Noon Pacific Time. If you want to learn more and be activated in dreams and angelic encounters, I encourage you to reserve your spot for this training!
Get ready to receive greater clarity for your destiny through the dreams you dream!
Blessings,
Doug Addison
DougAddison.com
Doug Addison is the founder and president of InLight Connection. Doug is a prophetic speaker, author and coach. He is known for his Daily Prophetic Words, Spirit Connection webcast, podcast and blog. He and his wife Linda live in Los Angeles, California where they are impacting the arts, entertainment and media industries.
I totally agree with you:” this type of dream, God may be sealing away essential instructions and guidance for our purpose and our destiny—in the future. By sealing it in a dream, God can bypass our natural mind and keep us from being prideful and doing things in our own strength and timing instead of His.” This is why He speaks to me clearly in my spirit when the time’s come for the prophetic dream to be realised. Till them I just have a vague understanding of what’s going on; better for me though I don’t really like it. He’s the boss, He knows best.
Thanks for your efforts. Henrietta Izard
Great Henrietta! I love that you are trusting God to reveal to you the meaning when it is in His timing. Bless you!
Thank you for this. I’ve been having dreams every night for the past week or so and felt bad because I couldn’t remember them. This word is so timely.
Wonderful! I’m glad this post helped you. Bless you Tim!
I wish I could enrol for the lessons on dreams…. this is very insightful. Is there an email we can send dreams too if we need interpretation?
Hey Tash! Currently we do not have a place for dreams to be sent in for interpretation. In Doug’s upcoming workshop he will be teaching how to interpret dreams though. Bless you!
Thanks for that nugget. It was very informative 😊
Glad you enjoyed Charline :).
If I cannot be on the call personal, will it be available to get another time?
The live workshop will be recorded, so if you purchase the live workshop and cannot make it, you will still receive the replay the following Monday. Bless you!
Can we later get the classes on line if we cant take the classes that day?
Yes Brenda! All of Doug’s live workshops are recorded so if you’d like to purchase the live workshop but not be on at that time, you will still receive the replay the following Monday.
Hi my name is Gloria Gray Johnson I use to dream all the time and see into spiritual but I haven’t in while. Can you explain?
Hey Gloria, if you have not been dreaming lately, there’s no need to worry, you can ask God to give you dreams. Bless you!
HELP! TO MUCH GOING ON TO EXPLAIN IT ALL!
I’m so sorry you are going through a hard time Wendy. Feel free to email help@dougaddison.com and I can recommend some resources to you.
WOW thank you!
Bless you Melanie!
I have been having dreams off and on and/or I can remember them. When I do dream – they are not good dreams and I can’t understand why my dreams are so bad. They aren’t like nightmares but they aren’t good dreams. The good dreams are vivid and I can remember little details of my dreams – very frustrating. Will you be having another workshop on dreams after 09/22/2018?
Thank you!
Hey Dianne, Doug will not be having the workshop again but the live showing of it will be recorded :). Doug has a couple resources on nightmares you can read here,
1) https://dougaddison.com/2015/08/what-to-do-when-you-have-a-nightmare/do
2) https://dougaddison.com/2014/05/steps-to-turn-around-nightmares-or-bad-dreams/
God bless you!
God reveals dreams to me alot. I had a huge breakthrough of a dream back in July that was so clear I remember everything from the furniture to the colors of the rug involved. I believe I will stand in that room one day! Yes God gives prophetic dreams tonya.
That is very cool Denise! I love getting beautiful, vivid dreams.
This message came today on my birthday. I hope The Lord us telling me breskyhtiugh out of the Wilderness is near. I’ve been enduring for so long now years, over ten. My birthday is Sept 13 1977. Praise His Joky Name
Happy Birthday Nahomie! I pray this age is filled with such joy and peace!
God bless I had a dream I saw Christians being prosecuted and being killed I was telling Christians don’t cry because they are with the Lord and all of a sudden I saw a sister who I went to church with and she looked at me and said to me they are going to try to kill you but your going to put up a good fight you are one of the chosen ones. What does this mean?
Hey Jacqueline, we are unable to interpret dreams here on the blog post. I recommend sitting with God and asking Him to unpack the dream for you.
God bless you!
This is brilliant. I’m teaching & preaching on Dreaming with God and this FANTASTIC.
Dr. Greg Gerrie
President
KidTalks.ca
Pastor
Graceville Church
Richmond, BC Canada
Awesome Greg! Bless you!
I HAD A PSYCHE DREAM ABOUT A DARK MAN WEARING BLACK. IT WAS INTERESTING ABOUT WHAT IT HAD TO SAY ABOUT IT. COULD YOU ELABORATE ABOUT IT, ONLY IF YOU KNOW OF IT.
Hey Debra, you can ask God who that man was. If the dream was scary to you then here is a blog post Doug wrote on nightmares that might help you, https://dougaddison.com/2014/05/steps-to-turn-around-nightmares-or-bad-dreams/. Bless you Debra!
Yes, I agree God communicates to us
in some special dreams.
Great! Thanks for sharing!
Please l used to fish in a dream, ether with my brother or my father and it has been recurring at least every two weeks. Please help me to know the meaning
Hey Evans! We do not interpret dreams sent into us online but Doug is having an upcoming workshop this Saturday where he will be teaching on dream interpretation and showing you how to interpret dreams.
You can look into that here, https://dougaddison.store/dreams-and-angelic-encounters/?utm_source=DAcom&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_campaign=Dreams%20Workshop%20Sept%202018.
Here also are Doug’s other dream resources, https://dougaddison.com/training/dream-interpretation/.
Bless you!
This week I am having dreams that appear to have meaning. One was the birth of such a wonderful baby. Not a baby of mine but having something to do with my life…The dream was baby baby and baby and a very happy dream. Also dreams of my realative from my younger days and close family. Not delightful to me to have contact again. ???? What God might be saying. I have warning dreams and some came true. I had a friend who could tell me all the meanings. Is interpretation one of the gifts. I do not have it if it is. She offered insights that were accurate. I never would have gotten to those conclusions by myself..Getting true meaning so important. Once I was guided by fear in the dream and it meant something wonderful and so different as circumstances later proved.
Hey Grace!
We do not interpret dreams sent into us online but Doug is having an upcoming workshop this Saturday where he will be teaching on dream interpretation and showing you how to interpret dreams.
You can look into that here, https://dougaddison.store/dreams-and-angelic-encounters/?utm_source=DAcom&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_campaign=Dreams%20Workshop%20Sept%202018.
Here also are Doug’s other dream resources, https://dougaddison.com/training/dream-interpretation/.
Bless you!
Hello Doug… good to hear from you about dreams. actually I am having some filthy, animals in the dream sometimes confusion.. not getting dreams for God, I always pray before going to sleep joel 2:28. For prophetic dreams but dreaming satanic dreams. Please pray and help me 🌸🌸
Hey Raymond! We do not interpret dreams sent in. Praying for you to have breakthrough!
I’ve had filthy dreams from the enemy !
I’ve also had blessings from God!
Attacks in my spirit,mind and body more than ever!
Hey Betty, here is a list of prayer resources you can contact here, https://dougaddison.com/healing-resources/. Praying for you.