How Does God Speak?

For me, one of the funnest things I've gotten to do in my lifetime is start to learn God's language. God is Spirit, and so he speaks to us in a spiritual language. Makes sense, right?

He speaks to us through a language of pictures, symbols, types and shadows. He uses signs, dark sayings, puns, riddles and wordplay.

God has always spoken to people through dreams. One third of the bible deals with dreams, visions and interpretation.  So if this is God's chosen way of communicating, we should probably make an effort to understand the language.


Imagination-station

We all have an "image center" or imagination. If I say to you, "picture in your head waffle cone with pink ice cream and a cherry on top", you are able to form an image of that in your mind. Well, just as we can form an image in our imagination, so can God. He uses this image center to speak to us in dreams.


Head-movies

Dreams are basically a succession of pictures, dialogue, and events that play out during a sleeping state of unconsciousness. It is always amazing to me when I think of the millions of dollars and the time it takes for directors and producers to create a movie. Especially to think that I belong to a God who can create a customized movie, with more vibrancy, detail, and heart, every night, for every single human being (who knows, maybe dogs and cats too!) without so much as batting an eye. That is the kind of truly creative God we have!

Parable-examples

Just as Jesus would always tell a story to illustrate a message, so God continues to use parables and stories to illustrate a message for dreamers.

Mark 4:33-34, "And with many such parables He spoke the word them as they were able to hear it. But without a parable He did not speak to them. And when they were alone, He explained all things to His disciples."

The disciples didn't get it, they need the parables to be explained. Many times in the bible the disciples tried to come up with the meaning of these parables on their own, but they were always off. It wasn't until Jesus came and explained it that they finally got it. 

When they were off by themselves, they asked about the parables. Jesus told them, "You've been given insight into God's kingdom—you know how it works. But to those who can't see it yet, everything comes in stories, creating readiness, nudging them toward receptive insight." (Mark 4:12)

Why so secretive?

Our natural man (our souls - meaning our own minds, by the power of our own thoughts, will, and emotions) cannot understand the things of the Spirit.

Amos 3:7 says, "Surely the Lord God does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants and the prophets."

Numbers 12:6 says, "...If there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, make myself known to him in a vision, I speak to him in a dream.""

So, the more we seek to understand this secret spiritual language of God, the more we are able to unlock the hidden meanings of our dreams. Why does he conceal the meanings of dreams in this mysterious way? Just to make it difficult? The answer is simple - He does it so that we will seek for the answer, and in so doing, we will seek after Him.

Proverbs 25:2, "It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings is to search a matter out".

Jeremiah 33:3, "Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know."

Dream App!

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Hear From God in the "Land of Nod"

In order to understand how you can receive messages from the Lord in your dreams, it would probably help to understand how we are designed for this. A human being is basically three parts: a body, a mind (this includes your personality, your will, and your emotions), and a spirit. While your body sleeps at night, and your mind re-calibrates, your spirit never sleeps.

We are designed to need sleep in order to rest and restore our bodies and our minds. But while your body is snoring, your spirit is soaring. God is trying to speak to you all day long (whether you are a Christian or not). But during the course of the day, we will rarely hear him. We are busy with our daily tasks, and very often even if we were hearing from Him, our minds (and/or emotions) either can’t or won’t recognize it.

Even if we do feel we are hearing from the Lord our emotions can still get in the way. Doubt, confusion, disbelief, fear, anger, rebellion, anxiety, excitement… all keep the message from being absorbed. So God designed us so that there would be a time each night when those sometimes-impenetrable forces would be shut down, and that time is sleep. The mind is not conscious, the body is not distracted or active, and our spirit is alive and awake. This is when God can reach you best.

Welcome

Dreams are so misunderstood. Many people miss out on instruction, guidance, edification, warnings, calls to destiny, and even good old fashion tender lovin’ from God the Father because they don’t pay attention to or give any weight to their dreams. This is because most people assume all dreams are merely a concoction of bits and pieces of sights and information gathered in their subconscious from their day. But what if some dreams were actually messages for the dreamer?

Welcome to Spirited Along, a blog where I will share some basic dream interpretation information that anyone can use to learn more about dreams, why we have them, where they come from, and what they mean.

Acts 2:17 says, "In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams."