Deeper Reflection
We all have dreams. I had a number of times what I call “Preacher’s Nightmare”: I was going to preach, but I had not prepared my sermon! I got onto the pulpit, feeling very anxious. Then I woke up…What a relief!We do have dreams of bad things happening to us or to our loved ones. Some of us may feel fearful that the dream will become a reality. And we pray against that dream, that it will not come true. When we respond to such bad dreams with such a “Christian” response – “Christian” as in we pray against it – we are simply superstitious like pagans. When we have such bad dreams, the first thing to do is discern the source of the dream. There are three sources of dreams.One source is ourselves. You have a desire for certain things, and this desire stays in your subconscious. You dream that you have your desire and you feel very happy, and then you wake up only to realise that it is not true. The second source is Satan. Satan does not predict or warn us about bad things that are going to happen to us. If we respond with fear and pray to God against it, it means we believe what Satan tells us in the dream. And that’s what Satan wants us to do. Satan is a liar and deceiver, and he never tells the truth. The third source is God – like Nebuchadnezzar’s dreams. Then we seek God as to what He is saying to us through the dream. And certainly, He will tell us.