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“It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.”  Proverbs 25:2, NAS

For way too many years, I believed that the only way that God speaks is through the Bible.   I’m not totally sure how I arrived at such a conclusion, but it was what I thought.  I had a bunch of other crazy notions that totally ignored the work of the Holy Spirit and all the other relational attributes of a living God.  Once I discovered the personal nature of the Holy Spirit, God began to unravel my theological hardwiring.  I was like Alice who fell through the rabbit’s hole.  God was speaking everywhere in ways that were almost too wonderful to comprehend!  I wanted to sample everything that was on the Lord’s buffet.  I didn’t have to rationalize away the voice of God anymore.  The gifts of the Spirit were real and applicable in the most magnificent yet simple tangible ways.  No longer did I have to proof-text life through the scriptures.  As I removed the preset boundaries of my God experience, as expressed only by the holy writ, I was propelled into a deeper faith and trust to hear the voice of God in the most unusual ways.

I’ve often wondered if Moses would have ever reached the conclusion to go and confront Pharaoh by only reading the Torah?  Would Peter have drawn his conclusions about the Gentiles without the supernatural voice of God?  Would Mary have remained peaceful about her growing belly without a visitation from heaven?  Would Joseph have tolerated his betrothed’s holy expansion without a clear message in a night vision?  One more, would David have seen his sin concerning Bathsheba’s husband without a direct word from God via the prophet Nathan?  In all sincerity, I surmise that the Bible itself would have made little if any difference in how these people interacted with God’s voice.  It was all about His voice, their ear.

Part of interpreting dreams has to do with our searching out a matter.  We rarely pay attention to our dreams because we figure the pizza we ate last night caused that pink monkey, which is in the driver’s seat, to plunge a minivan into the neighbor’s swimming pool!  So, God gives us these bizarre dreams that require us to use natural discipline to ponder and think in order to figure out what God is saying to us!  Check this out: “Indeed God speaks once, or twice, yet no one notices it.   In a dream, a vision of the night, when sound sleep falls on men, while they slumber in their beds, then He opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction, that He may turn man aside from his conduct, and keep man from pride; He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from passing over into Sheol” Job 33:14-18, NAS. Wow!  The bottom-line here is that God is still creatively communicating.   Why dreams?  Because we are not paying attention to the other ways He is communicating!  We’re either too busy, moving too fast, moving too slow, or we are set on our agenda and we have turned our ears off!  So, He downloads a dream.  The bigger question is: are we willing to search out all the ways in which He communicates?  We are royalty in His Kingdom.  We each have a duty to hear and obey no matter what method He uses to get our attention.  Kings and Queens search it out.

What do you do with your dreams?  I highly recommend that you get the book:  Understanding the Dreams you Dream by Ira Milligan.   Ira is a close friend, a skilled counselor, seasoned Prophet, and excellent teacher of God’s word!