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.