tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343277549128598933.post3625786026867058403..comments2023-08-10T09:38:07.159+01:00Comments on Revising Reform: Very vivid dreams ...Rev R Marszalekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01831340057673771787noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343277549128598933.post-56690018568285954382009-01-27T22:15:00.000+00:002009-01-27T22:15:00.000+00:00Yes, I think you're right Peter, I am very much ho...Yes, I think you're right Peter, I am very much hoping it proves to be prophetic - the flying with faith and prayer ministry dream. I'm off to a good start - I had a very good meeting with my vocations officer today who is going to put me in touch with a DDO, so this feels very exciting.Rev R Marszalekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01831340057673771787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343277549128598933.post-15991858647813410512009-01-27T17:30:00.000+00:002009-01-27T17:30:00.000+00:00Thanks, Rachel. Yes, I understand that dreams can ...Thanks, Rachel. Yes, I understand that dreams can also be spiritual attacks, evil spirits communicating with us. And I'm sure some dreams, for example those of a sexual nature, come from our own minds and spirits. So we need discernment, not to take all dreams as positive messages from God, and to test them against Scripture and with others before acting on them. But I think it is usually clear, at least with experience, which dreams are from God and which are not. I would suggest that the dream in your post is from God, but you need to decide that for yourself.Peter Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13395635409427347613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343277549128598933.post-27058613780745145252009-01-26T16:29:00.000+00:002009-01-26T16:29:00.000+00:00Thank you Peter - your words and the link, confirm...Thank you Peter - your words and the link, confirm for me what I am indeed inclined to think - that God certainly communicates with us through our dreams and it is biblical to think this way. <BR/><BR/>Perhaps though, unfortunately we are also sometimes the victim of a kind of spiritual attack in our dreams too. I remember once being in conversation with someone resistant to the message at the heart of Christianity. This person was staying in my home. They had been a passionate Christian but were falling away. I felt like I was doing the job of an apologist but I was doing a very bad job because I listened to myself compromising on some of the orthodox truths and trying hard to see things from their more pluralistic point of view because I didn't want to offend or disrupt too much the ideology within which I came to understand they were living comfortably. At the same time I wanted so much for them to understand how much they are loved by Jesus and he is the way to the Father. That night I had the most horrific nightmare and to this day I do not know whether I dreamed it or it was some other phenomenon. I am still so absolutely sure (although this might be a lie, I'm being told) that I had poured myself a glass of water before I went to sleep and I had left it on the chest of drawers. Anyway, in my dream, Jesus was on the cross but he was burning and the devil was showing me this and laughing and I was terrified. After he had shown me this he said that he was going to take my living water away and then there was a black shape in my bedroom and it was taking the glass of water from the top of the chest of drawers and I was screaming at it to not take away my water. I was obviously still dreaming but it was so vivid I felt as though I was awake. When I woke up I was shaking and crying and wondering where my glass of water was and it was gone. I ended up thinking it must be that I had never actually brought a glass of water up with me but it took ages for me to work out that this was so. This dream was definitely not from God. I think it was spiritual attack because the devil had got just a bit of an advance on me as I had been speaking with my pluralistic friend, compromising some of my orthodox opinions of the faith. I take a lot of notice of my dreams - they reveal a huge amount and I am careful to pray for God to be with me as I rest re compline etc.Rev R Marszalekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01831340057673771787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343277549128598933.post-83293695050160468772009-01-26T14:50:00.000+00:002009-01-26T14:50:00.000+00:00Rachel, have you ever had Christian interpretation...Rachel, have you ever had Christian interpretation of your dreams? I have, and have had some teaching on this, for example <A HREF="http://www.cwgministries.org/Principles-of-Christian-Dream-Interpretation.htm" REL="nofollow">this from Mark Virkler</A>. The basic principle seems to be that our dreams are God speaking to us, in prophetic symbolism. I'm sure that is true of your dream, but I wouldn't venture to offer an interpretation.Peter Kirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13395635409427347613noreply@blogger.com