This past Friday morning I woke up from a peculiar dream.  The dream is as follows:

I am in a church that is a lot like Life Center, a church I used to attend.  I am up front on stage with a small group of people who are calling out words of knowledge and ministering to the people in the audience.  The woman who goes right before me calls out a word of knowledge for some condition God wants to heal and then announces that she will pray for the first three people to come up front.  It strikes me as odd that she limits how many people she will pray for, but it is my turn next.

I tell the crowd what God is showing me, which is that He is healing people with jaw conditions of any kind, including tooth problems and another word I can’t think of but which deals with jaw pain.  A few moments later I am able to remember the name, which is TMJ.  I announce all of this, and a bunch of people all over the auditorium stand up.  As there are far too many to pray for individually in a reasonable amount of time, I pray over all of those who are standing, and half of them get healed.  I tell the rest of them to come up for prayer.  Then the dream ends.

Upon waking, I found the dream somewhat perplexing.  While I absolutely love the idea of healing dozens of people under the anointing, there was no context in my life to identify its relevance.  While I used to be part of a local ministry that put on conferences, I resigned a few months ago and am not currently in a position where I would expect to be ministering on stage in front of a group.

While the dream was Friday morning, that evening I brought some friends to go listen to a buddy of mine speak and minister about resurrection power and abundant life.  At the end of his message, he asked everyone who had gone with him to India last November to come up and be the prayer team.  Other than my friend, there were 5 of us from the trip present, so we all went up to pray for people.

At this moment I was now standing in the front of a church getting ready to pray for the sick and injured when my dream that morning suggested I would be doing exactly that.  Furthermore, the name of the church I was in was “Life Church”, very similar to the name of the church in my dream.  It didn’t really hit me until a short time later, and what really drove it home was the second person I prayed for, who needed healing for her . . .

 . . .  TMJ. 

And upon praying, God healed her jaw.

It was that moment that I realized that I was living out the dream I had that morning.  Again, keep in mind that nowhere in the natural could I have expected this outcome.  I have a dream of being in front of a church group and get a word of knowledge in the dream about people needing healing for TMJ.  That night I am called upon by a friend unexpectedly to be on the ministry team, and one of the three people I prayed for has that condition!!

This is a perfect example of divine guidance that comes forth in a dream.  God wants to give us revelation in our dreams and speak to us things that He wants us to know.  This particular dream was still a little interpretive, but the main details of the dream played out pretty closely in real life.  Presumably, God gave me that dream in advance to show me about what would happen that evening, but I failed to realize it until it was already happening.  Why did He reveal that to me knowing that I would misunderstand?  I don’t know.  Maybe because it encouraged the woman I was praying for?  Possibly because He is trying to teach me something new about dreams, or healing, or other life circumstances?  I’m not sure.

What I do know is that regardless of how simple or complex our dreams are, God wants to speak to us while we sleep.  The question to ask ourselves is, “Are we listening?”