Dreams

Someone is stealing imagination! The power of imagining, dreaming, or seeing the invisible is too important to the future of the world to allow thieves to run off with it. I am enlisting suggestions about how to bring the bold larcenous perpetrators to justice. We need a strategy, a network of anti theft police. Someone must issue an all points bulletin to capture, try and sentence anyone who attempts to compromise the power of dreaming. We cannot allow dreams to be relegated to the "Quaint Phenomena Division" of cultural police departments.

Dreams, wholesome, God-given communications, are being overrun by digital simulations. The innate ability to communicate spiritually is challenged at every hand by moving simulations, pictures, images. None of them breathe, hear, listen, or speak from heart to heart. The images merely simulate. In spite of how effective digital communication can be, we must guard against the dullness inflicted on the keen edge of the spirit.

Consider a minuscule sample of how our Eternal God has communicated His plans, foreknowledge and desires with dreams. And, He also sent warnings and uncovered plots against His people.
"God came to Abimelech in a dream one night and said to him, "You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman." (Genesis 20:3) Sarah and Abraham’s ruse was exposed. The king’s life was spared with a dream.
The promise Abraham received was solidified for future generations when Jacob "had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it." (Genesis 28:12)
Joseph was familiar with dreams and drew life long strength from them.
Daniel would be considered a "dreamology" specialist by today’s media. Several heads of state benefitted from Daniel’s deftness in interpreting dreams.
The prophets dreamed, or at least saw what was invisible to everyone else, and were used as God’s assigned personnel to keep His Eternal Message alive.
In Matthew one and two, Joseph’s fears or apprehensions were put to rest in a dream concerning the conception of Jesus by the Virgin Mary, detailed instructions were given to spare the newborn Son of God from Herod’s sword.
One of the primary blessings resulting from the Penetcostal outpouring is Spirit-given dreams (Acts 2:17)
In each case where a dream is employed, the routine or conventional way of proceeding is interrupted. Man’s best efforts are disrupted and a better way is introduced.

I am praying for a new era of Spirit prompted, Spirit led dreaming. We are too frequently amused by man-made images, simulations which leave us unsatisfied. Man-made images are dry, but God-given dreams slake spiritual thirst. Reflections, mirrored visualizations leave us weak and hungering. Dreams, visions, the unexplainable Spirit-to-spirit communiques satisfy, erase uncertainties, and equip for bold, audacious feats of faith.