God uses dreams to show us what to do, what not to do, and things to come.
All this is by HIS Spirit ... the Holy Spirit.
Jn. 16:13 ... Howbeit when HE, the Spirit of truth, is come, HE will guide you into all truth: for HE shall not speak of HIMSELF; but whatsoever HE shall hear, that shall HE speak: and HE will shew you things to come.
We have the dream, the interpretation of the dream is also needed.
In approximately 1981, I had a dream where I was in a tall glass building. Something began to happen outside. It was like bombs were falling. The whole building shook and it was as if that building was going to fall in on us. I heard in the dream, "It's not the first bombing but the second." It was clear that after this nothing would be the same again.
I did not ask God for the interpretation. I thought the dream was showing the collapse of the banking industry. But that is not what the dream was showing.
Years later, an event happened and I saw exactly what God showed me being played out on the TV newscast which was showing the event as it happened. It was the destruction of the World Trade Center towers in NYC.
I was given 3 dreams in the early 1980's showing this event which would happen in 2001.
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At the time I was helping my mother in the last decade of her life, I had a dream showing me I would need a way out of my house, but I could not go through my cousin's house.
After my mother died, my cousin wanted me to move to her city. She said "the boys", her husband and adult aged sons would be such a help to us.
But God had shown me in a dream that I couldn't go through her house. I moved 350-miles in the opposite direction from where she lived.
Turned out her husband died unexpectedly and one of the adult aged sons had to be threatened by her to get him to come change a light bulb at her house. She told him if he didn't come do this that day, she would get on a ladder and do it. (She was partially crippled.)
Everything worked out very well where I moved.
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This book, Dreams From God, presents several scriptures concerning dreams and gives many examples of God using dreams to help those in the NT church.
Joan Boney