Can God Speak In Our Dreams?

[BarbTherese]

[u]Excerpt only[/u]:

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[color=#000000]"And so, in reflecting on how these dreams are affecting your spiritual life, you need to periodically reflect on the same questions that we would use to evaluate spiritual growth in general. Do they encourage me to participate more frequently and more consciously in the sacraments? Do they motivate me to deny my own tendencies to self-indulgence and self-righteousness in favor of serving my neighbor mercifully and gracefully? Do they empower me to hold my tongue, control my anger, think well of my neighbor, and forgive the faults and offenses of my loved ones? Do they increase my thirst for prayer and for a deeper knowledge of Christ’s teachings as offered to me by his Church? Do they strengthen me to obey the moral law and the precepts of the Church?
If dreams, or any other powerful experiences, were to push you away from those objective reference points for spiritual maturity, then they would be suspect.
[b][i]Some Warning Signs[/i][/b]

Another warning sign would be if you find yourself actively seeking out those dreams, consciously trying to make them repeat themselves instead of receiving them as gifts of God’s Providence. This can happen even with consolation in prayer, or with the charismatic gifts of the Holy Spirit. God sends them in order to build us up spiritually. But we, weak as we are, can sometimes become attached to those gifts as ends in themselves.[u][b] When that happens, we forget about the Giver of the gifts, and fall into a kind of mercenary spirituality, where we seek to reproduce certain states of soul through prayer and spiritual disciplines, instead of seeking to glorify God and receive his grace[/b][/u]."

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[Tab'le De'Bah-Rye]

awes, that person may have the gift of discerning spirits.

God bless you, thanks for that wonderfully simple info

[Papist]

[b] [size=4]Can God Speak In Our Dreams?[/size][/b]


Yes. He is God.

[Sarah147]

God spoke to St. Joseph in a dream about the Blessed Virgin's conception. And other people in the Bible.

[Nihil Obstat]

I had a dream once that might have been from God. It might also have been simply my own mind giving it to me, but in any case even ten years later I still find it a very comforting dream. One of very few dreams I can remember after that long.

[BarbTherese]

[i]Of course God can speak to us in our dreams; however, as the article points out there are certain criteria to apply to ensure the dream is from God and even then I would be running it past my director first, but then I am highly suspicious personally of anything that is "out of the ordinary" type of human experience. I would classify a dream from God as out of the ordinary. Be this as it may, if God IS speaking to one in a dream, wise to pay attention - and why I would run it past my spiritual director first.[/i]
[i]Obedience is a powerful and beautiful virtue and even if one's director happens to be wrong, God would not let one go astray because one obeys. Some of our mystics experiencing unusual mystical phenomena were unable to control their unusual behaviour, until instructed to do so by a director or superior.[/i]

[i]From the article: "[/i]
[left][color=#000000][i]"First, we should reflect on how you can determine whether or not they are truly bringing you “closer to Him.” It is easy to be misled. Second, we should mention some warning signs and things to avoid in this arena – after all, we fallen human beings have a penchant for turning good things to bad use."

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