"Here comes this Dreamer... let's kill him"

 

Throwback picture from a Remnant episode filmed at Wellspring in 2019 with Kathy Gray (Left), Josh Lewis (center), and Michael Miller (right).

Part 1

Are you a dreamer of dreams? Maybe you are, but you don't know it. Maybe you suspect that you are, but you're afraid to sound like a weirdo. Well let me be the first to say, dreams are a normal way God speaks to his people... you might still be a weirdo, but it will have to be for other reasons!

On May 18, at 6pm, we have a Well service focused on dreams and dream interpretation. I've invited Kathy Gray to share about the scriptural foundation of dream interpretation and the practical ministry she has been doing for 20 years. Kathy is a member of The Village Church and was featured on Remnant Radio in 2019. Here's the link to the episode which is pictured above: Dream Interpretation: How to Interpret Dreams.

It was a bit surreal to listen to this episode, by the way. At the beginning, Miller tells a story from the 2019 Convergence Conference where he prayed for a man's dad over the phone. The man's dad got healed and subsequently saved because of the remarkable healing. I was at that Convergence Conference, and the man he's talking about was an elder at my church! His dad actually did get radically healed and radically saved. The dad was an outspoken, God-loving Christian until he passed away in 2023. One of the last things the dad did was share the gospel with his daughter. 

Later on in the show, the guys take a call from a fellow in Nacogdoches, TX. That's mine and Nathan's home town. I don't know if I know the guy who called, but I'm pretty sure he goes to my parents' church.

Anyway, I digress... 

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Part 2

The title of this blog post is a quote from Joseph's brothers as they plot to kill him in Genesis 37:19. Joseph had a dream that he would one day rule over his older brothers. The dream was from God, but the idea to share it with is brothers was probably from a lack of wisdom... it made them mad, and they ended up selling him into slavery. If you're not familiar with the story, it's a great one!

This post is not about that story so much as it is about the fact that God spoke to Joseph through a dream. In fact, God spoke to Joseph multiple times in dreams, and not only that, God spoke to another Jospeh in dreams, the Joseph who raised Jesus. 

If you would like an excellent infographic that pulls ALL the dreams from scripture together in one place, click here to read Infographic: Every dream in the Bible (and what they mean).

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Part 3: My confession

I am a dreamer, myself. I have dreams many times per week, and the Lord has given me direction many times through dreams. In fact, even today (Friday) I had a dream about a friend from my past coming to me in the middle of a very frustrating situation where I didn't have a proper shirt to wear to a wedding. That friend showed up and happened to have a spare button-up shirt in his car. Whew! 

When I woke up, I considered the dream and kept my eyes open for anything that the Lord might have been saying. Strangely, that friend reached out to me TODAY. He wasn't providing an answer to my problem, but he asked me to help HIM with something. This was a bit of a small one, but I've been given much bigger direction from God in dreams.

I believe God spoke to me in a dream about going into ministry. He gave me a dream about spiritual warfare coming against my wife, my family, and my church. Those were three different dream experiences over many years. He's given me warnings about attitudes I was harboring, sins I was overlooking, and false teachers I needed to avoid. 

In my dreams, I've noticed that God often uses the image of a car to represent ministry. After my wife and I won the black Toyota Rav-4 that my wife drives (Yes. We won it in a raffle after I donated $4 to a ministry), she and I both started having dreams about that car where God was warning us and directing us about what we should do in ministry. 

Does that mean "cars" always mean "ministry"? Not necessarily, but when God speaks to me, he often uses that imagery. 

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Conclusion

You can ask God to speak to you in dreams. You can write down dreams that feel important. You can even write down dreams that don't seem important. Come to the Well service, and let's grow in this prophetic practice.