God still speaks through dreams

When Tania Harris first shared her supernatural dreams, she was met with rolled eyes and avoidance. But after revisiting scripture, she discovered that God spoke — and still speaks — through dreams today. Now, she encourages you to open your heart to the possibility that God may be revealing his plans and guidance through your own dreams and visions

When God first spoke to me in a dream, I wasn’t confused by what he said — his message was clear. What unsettled me was how he said it.

I’d never heard anyone talk about hearing God in dreams and visions. I’d never heard it in a sermon or read it in a book. When I told people about the dream, they rolled their eyes and changed the subject. Even my pastor called me strange.

Then I started re-reading my Bible — what I found left me stunned.

God’s forgotten language

Biblically, hearing from God in dreams and visions is entirely normal. These Spirit-inspired experiences communicate using the language of pictures and symbols, and they’re ubiquitous in scripture.

Scholars note that if you were to take out all the dreams and visions from Scripture, you would remove more than one-third of its contents! While today we tend to distinguish dreams and visions by our level of consciousness – we “dream” while we’re asleep and have “visions” while we’re awake – the terms are used interchangeably in scripture, and from Genesis to Revelation, nearly every major figure receives divine guidance this way.

For a quick snapshot, there’s Abraham dreaming of a blazing torch passing through bloody animal parts, the symbols of ancient treaty-making (Genesis 15:1–20), Jacob seeing angels flying up and down a staircase initiating a life-changing decision (Genesis 28:10–22) and Gideon gaining military assurance through a vision of a speeding bread roll (Judges 7:9–14). There’s Joseph and Daniel, Jeremiah and Zechariah, Amos and Ezekiel, and the list continues