My dream story: A testimony of how God speaks through dreams

My testimony of discovering that God speaks through dreams, and how dreams transformed my relationship with God.

Do you struggle to relate to an invisible God and find yourself saying, ‘Are you there, God?’

Are you wondering, does God speak through dreams?

If so, then read on, for this was my story!

In this article I share the story of my unexpected discovery that God speaks in dreams – and how interpreting dreams enabled me to hear God’s voice and have a deeper relationship with him.

I approach dream interpretation from a biblical perspective. My belief is that our dreams can come from God, and understanding them is best understood within the context of an ongoing relationship with Him.

If you have just come across this post and are new to dream interpretation, you might find it helpful to see my free ultimate guide to Interpreting dreams from God.

My dream story

I have been a follower of Jesus Christ – and actively involved in church life and leadership – for more than 40 years.

I am unusual in that I have been given a deep desire to connect with God and hear His voice, but with no special ability to be able to do this. In Christian language, I don’t consider myself particularly prophetically gifted.

I greatly desire to hear God’s voice but have no special gifting to do so.

I think God must have had a sense of humour when He designed this situation, although I haven’t always appreciated the joke!! I was always asking, ‘Are you there, God? Why can’t I hear you?’

However, I can now see that it was for a reason.

This struggle has caused me to press forward with all my determination to learn to hear God, and to not give up on this quest. My hunger to find God has outweighed the setbacks and this is the reason that I have a dream testimony to tell today.

I can now honestly say that God IS there, and I am good at hearing his voice, but I have pushed through many doubts and difficulties to get to this place.

So, I share my dream story for those of you with similar struggles – to give you hope, that God IS there, and he speaks through dreams!

Are you there, God?

My testimony began when I was eleven, and my mum asked me to give church youth group a try. She said I had to go once, and after that it was up to me whether I went or not.

At that point I made my own decision that if God was there, I needed to know. I felt it was the most important question I could ever address, because the answer would define my whole view of the world.

I decided that if God was there, I needed to know!

Seeking God in Jesus

While I was at youth group, I heard other children talking about how Jesus was their friend, and of always being aware of Him with them. I realised that knowing God as a friend was what I wanted more than anything else, so I prayed a prayer to ask Jesus into my life.

I was expecting something monumental to happen, but I didn’t really experience anything much – again making me wonder, ‘Are you there, God?’.

However, despite being slightly disappointed, I chose to believe that something significant had happened.

Seeking evidence for God

This became the story of my life. For many years I didn’t have any significant experience of God or Jesus that I could really point to.

During my teenage years I researched evidence for the existence of God, Jesus, the resurrection, and the foundations of the Christian faith.

I didn’t want to believe something just for the sake of it, I only wanted to believe it if it was true. And I kept coming to the same conclusion: Intellectually the evidence for God and Jesus stacked up.

I found that the evidence for God and Jesus stacked up intellectually.

Seeking to know God

So why, then, couldn’t I connect with God? I thought, “If God is there and loves us, then why do many people struggle to have any convincing experience of him?”

It didn’t make sense. How can you have a relationship with a God who you can’t see or hear?

While at university, I had some wonderful Christian friends who all seemed able to hear from God, so eventually I concluded that it was just me; I must just be bad at it. But I wasn’t very happy about the situation, and I didn’t give up seeking God.

If God is really there, how come so many people struggle to connect with Him?

Seeking God in my Christian life

I soon fell into the routine that many Christians follow.

I became involved in church life and then church leadership. And I did have a relationship with God, but not the level of relationship that I read about in the bible and longed for.

I came to love the bible, because it seemed to be the only way for me to find God and hear from him.

I was good at studying the bible and was able to relate it to my life, so I did well in the church setting and I was able to encounter God through its pages. I became a bible teacher, and that gave me a great foundation for everything else that followed.

Reading the bible gave me a great foundation for what followed.

Does God speak through dreams?

It was after I had been a Christian for over 25 years, that I came across the late John Paul Jackson at a Christian conference, and I heard him mention dream interpretation.

My ears pricked up, because I have always been a vivid dreamer, and I immediately wondered, ‘Does God speak through dreams?’ So I decided to check out his teaching and do some of his courses and see.

The result was that I realised that God speaks through dreams, and, furthermore, God was speaking in MY dreams!! I could interact with God and receive personal messages from him in my dreams!

To think that I had missed this important point all these years!

All the time I had been seeking him, God was speaking through my dreams – and I never knew it.

Discovering that God speaks through dreams was a major turning point in my life.

As I began to interpret and understand them, I started to see that they were giving me insight and clarity about my life. I found that I now had personal guidance and direction through them, and insight into my purpose and destiny.

I can remember the excitement of finally having something I could relate to specific areas of my life. It was the Spirit-led guidance that I had always sought. I was hooked!

Dreams facilitated the personal guidance I had always sought.

Finding God in dreams

As I started recording my dreams, I started to encounter Jesus and even meet God himself in my dreams. The question, ‘Are you there, God’ seemed no longer relevant, because I had personally met him!

My time with God journaling and praying over my dreams became something I looked forward to. I started to connect with God’s heart as I began to see my life more from His perspective. I began to understand at a deep level how He feels about me, and how much He loves me.

I started to see that the God I read about in the bible is the same God speaking to me night after night in my dreams, but in a much more personal and specific way. I finally felt close to God.

The God I knew from the bible was the same God I met in my dreams.

In my opinion, the foundation of learning to hear God through the bible, combined with the more personal aspect of understanding dreams, has been a powerful combination for me, and one has helped the other. It is like the ‘Word and Spirit’ combination that Christians often aim for.

God speaks through dreams

As I reflect on my life, I can see that understanding dreams was just a starting point to greater intimacy with God. It was the doorway to me learning to hear God’s voice through other ways.

It was as though my eyes were opened to God’s symbolic language and it has led to so much more than just dreams. I can see His heart speaking through everyday events such as things I see around me, artwork, films, news headlines, my imagination and so much more.

Understanding how God speaks through dreams has led to my hearing God in other ways.

To be perfectly honest, it has not all been easy. Understanding dreams has meant taking time to learn a new language; the biblical language of symbols and metaphors. It has taken hours of journaling, praying over, and reviewing my dreams, not to mention getting up in the night and early in the morning to write them down.

But I love it! As time has gone by, God and I have developed an ongoing conversation and personal language through them.

I am convinced that anyone who desires to know God better can learn their own personal language of dreams.

Conclusion: My dream testimony

I have been a follower of Jesus for over 40 years. In this article I have shared my dream story, including:

• How I personally struggled to find God for the first 25 years as a Christian.
• My testimony of how I discovered that God speaks through dreams, and how that transformed my relationship with him.
• How I have developed a true friendship with God – which was the desire that led me to follow Jesus in the first place – through my dream journey.

My original question, ‘Are you there. God’, was well and truly answered when I found God in my dreams. I found we can even meet God and encounter Jesus in our dreams.

If you know me, you might think that I have a prophetic gift, and indeed many have said as much to me, but I don’t. However, I can hear from God well – and this is simply because I have spent time and effort learning God’s symbolic language and how he speaks through dreams and signs. This is my story.

My encouragement to you is:

• If you feel like you can’t hear from God and find yourself wondering where he is, don’t be content with that situation – because it can change for you, just like it did for me.
• ALL of you might find that learning how God speaks in dreams is a key to unlocking a deeper friendship with Him.

If I can make this journey, then so can you! Why not start your dream journey today?

I hope you have been encouraged by my dream story! If this article has helped you, please like or share this post, or leave a comment below!