Christian Dream Interpretation

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Christian Dream Interpretation

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What is the importance of Dream Interpretation?

• Dreams are important in every way imaginable
• First of all, the word dream is mentioned 74
  times in the bible and variations of dream are
  mentioned 47 more times.
• It must be important to God for Him to mention it
  so many times.

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Importance of Dreams

• This is a list of benefits of having and
  understanding your dreams.
• Emotional healing, comfort, warning,
  encouragement, instruction, wisdom, direction,
  safety, help, intercession, warfare,
  impartation/anointing, prophetic, and
  discovery/revelation.
• We will take a look at each type.

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History of Dreams

• History records many major dreams of consequence.
  
• Dreams were significant in the lives of Jacob,
  Joseph, Daniel, Gideon, Solomon, the wise men and
  Joseph the father of Jesus.
• Many historical figures including George
  Washington, Abraham Lincoln, etc. had powerful
  dreams.

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Lincolns Dreams
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Lincolns Dreams

• He also dreamed of his son who had died young.
• He dreamed of his own assassination.

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Benjamin Rushs dream

• In 1809, Benjamin Rush dreamed that John Adams
  and Thomas Jefferson would become friends again
  and would die on the same day, July 4, 1826. At
  the time, they were mortal enemies. They later
  reconciled and everything in the dream happened
  with perfect accuracy.

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Emotional Healing

• Emotional Wounds, Traumas, Addictions, broken
  relationships, insecurities, etc. need to healed.
  Our Dreams many times are Gods Process of
  restoration and healing for the broken emotions
  in our life.
• Examples Dads dream of a hospital
• - Train dream
• - Childhood dreams

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Comfort Dreams

• Many times God is trying to comfort us in our
  distresses.
• Example the broken-headed dog dream
• Dream of my Mom
• Others

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Warning Dreams

• Most people see and understand this aspect of
  dreams. These are not set events but display a
  possible bad outcome that can avoided by applying
  wisdom.
• Baby in the bathtub
• Carson running off the edge of a roof
• Balancing a telephone pole
• Hot water heater

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Encouragement Dreams

• These are dreams that depict something good
  happening as the result of your actions. This
  is frequently a prophetic message of your future.
  
• Preaching before many people, miracles, healings,
  seeing your family serving God, Jesus appearing,
  angels helping, etc.

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Instruction/Wisdom

• This is probably the most common. God shows you
  in a scenario where you choose a course of action
  or see someone choose a course of action. This
  can be an instruction.
• Bicycle ahead of father, being pulled over by
  policeman without hat, He is waiting on you,

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Prophetic Dreams

• It not uncommon to dream of future events. These
  can be tricky because you may want interpret them
  as figurative when they will depict an actual
  event unfolding.
• Forrest R Dream, Carson dream, David K fork truck
  dream
• They still have some figurative meaning

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Intercession/Warfare

• When you are going through a spiritual battle,
  you can gain key insights into how to secure the
  victory.
• Nazis in my house, giant in my house, car
  accident-gun battle, explosion

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Impartation/Anointing

• Sometimes you will dream that you are being
  prayed for or you are praying for others. Since
  you are in the Spirit Realm in a dream, your
  prayer are working and you are receiving prayers.
  
• Stair dreams Todd B, Paul K. D.

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Revelation/Discovery Dreams

• Sometimes God will reveal information only He
  could know about a situation. These can be also
  be tricky because they may look like it needs
  interpretation when they are literal. When you
  know something in a dream and dont know how you
  know, this is frequently a Holy Spirit
  Revelation.
• Dream about church with Witchcraft.

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My own mistakes

• Dream Interpretation will require a life time of
  learning to increase your accuracy and
  understanding. Here is one of my mistakes.
• Dancing Dream

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Questions?

• Tomorrow we will look at methods to interpret,
  increasing your accuracy, and what various
  symbols can mean.
• Bring your dreams for interpretation.
• We discuss how to dream more, how to remember
  more, and how to team up with what God is doing
  through your dreams.
• We will even discuss how to stop recurring
  nightmares in their tracks.