Seeing the Voice of God: What God Is Telling You through Dreams and Visions by Laura Harris Smith
Authors: Laura Harris Smith
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And if I dream before I wake
I pray it sticks for heaven’s sake.
Amen.
© Laura Harris Smith, February 4, 2013
PRAYER
Let’s pray out loud together:
God, where do I start? I am sorry for abusing my body, for not taking care of it and for every vow and resolution I’ve ever broken to better care for it, Your temple. I pray that You will forgive me and give me a strategy and schedule for optimum health. God, make my sleep sweet. Pay my sleep debt and rejuvenate my body. Not just nightly, but once a week as I participate in Your Sabbath rest. I receive Your healing. I receive Your peace. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
IMPARTATION
Right now, I release and impart to you the ability to go to sleep, stay asleep, sleep deeply and dream. (Now open your hands, shut your eyes and receive it.)
5
Dream Recall
A ustrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud said that we only remember the dreams we want to remember. Many African tribes believe that real life is lived in dreams and that our waking hours are the illusion. Bolivian philosopher Oscar Ichazo depicted dream reality as like the night stars and said they are always there, but that the brightness of the sun and the consciousness of the day blot them out. Many American scientists believe that the only purpose for dreams is to process the events of one’s day and consolidate memories. What do you believe? Have you ever really given much thought to this phenomenon of dreams?
Freud, Jewish by birth and atheist by choice, had some deep insight on dreams, but his dreams were monochrome at best because he chose to exclude the Giver of them. That is like believing in milk but denying the cow. You could analyze the milk, its nutrients and its benefits with utmost scientific accuracy, but without knowing the source and your connection to it, and without nourishing that source, the quality of themilk would not only suffer, but your cup would eventually run dry.
Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams , published in 1900, took eight years to sell out of its first six hundred copies, and evidently he was only paid $209. But as the public intrigue with dreams increased, seven more successful editions followed. 1 Since he was an atheist until the day of his death, you may wonder why I am interested in Freud’s thoughts on dreams, but the truth is that he and I both had a preoccupation with the topic of dreams and wrote books about it. He was so close! All the answers were right in front of him, but he still missed it—not the dreams, but the dream Giver. He thought of belief in God as a collective neurosis (mental disorder). He called it “longing for a father.” So close again, since God is our Father, but still so far because Freud did not know Him and made no bones about not seeing the need.
We know that Freud dreamed because much of his work involved self-analysis of his own dreams. I fully believe God tried to reach him in the night hours. At night, you are God’s. Your body and mind are resting, but as I said at the start, your spirit is awake all night. Your spirit is the part of you that hears God. Therefore, by day, you may think in your mind you are an atheist, a Buddhist, an agnostic or whatever, but by night, as your spirit stays awake with your body and mind asleep, you are God’s child and He is still drawing you. Take heart in that fact if you have loved ones who are adamantly anti-God or who have become entangled with false doctrine that compromises their once-pure faith.
On how quickly dreams slip from your grasp and get left behind, Freud and I agree. He said this:
That a dream fades away in the morning is proverbial. It is, indeed, possible to recall it. For we know the dream, of course, only by recalling it after waking; but we very often believe that we remember it incompletely, that during the night there was more of it than we remember. On the other hand, it often happens that dreams manifest an extraordinary power of maintaining themselves in the
And if I dream before I wake
I pray it sticks for heaven’s sake.
Amen.
© Laura Harris Smith, February 4, 2013
PRAYER
Let’s pray out loud together:
God, where do I start? I am sorry for abusing my body, for not taking care of it and for every vow and resolution I’ve ever broken to better care for it, Your temple. I pray that You will forgive me and give me a strategy and schedule for optimum health. God, make my sleep sweet. Pay my sleep debt and rejuvenate my body. Not just nightly, but once a week as I participate in Your Sabbath rest. I receive Your healing. I receive Your peace. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
IMPARTATION
Right now, I release and impart to you the ability to go to sleep, stay asleep, sleep deeply and dream. (Now open your hands, shut your eyes and receive it.)
5
Dream Recall
A ustrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud said that we only remember the dreams we want to remember. Many African tribes believe that real life is lived in dreams and that our waking hours are the illusion. Bolivian philosopher Oscar Ichazo depicted dream reality as like the night stars and said they are always there, but that the brightness of the sun and the consciousness of the day blot them out. Many American scientists believe that the only purpose for dreams is to process the events of one’s day and consolidate memories. What do you believe? Have you ever really given much thought to this phenomenon of dreams?
Freud, Jewish by birth and atheist by choice, had some deep insight on dreams, but his dreams were monochrome at best because he chose to exclude the Giver of them. That is like believing in milk but denying the cow. You could analyze the milk, its nutrients and its benefits with utmost scientific accuracy, but without knowing the source and your connection to it, and without nourishing that source, the quality of themilk would not only suffer, but your cup would eventually run dry.
Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams , published in 1900, took eight years to sell out of its first six hundred copies, and evidently he was only paid $209. But as the public intrigue with dreams increased, seven more successful editions followed. 1 Since he was an atheist until the day of his death, you may wonder why I am interested in Freud’s thoughts on dreams, but the truth is that he and I both had a preoccupation with the topic of dreams and wrote books about it. He was so close! All the answers were right in front of him, but he still missed it—not the dreams, but the dream Giver. He thought of belief in God as a collective neurosis (mental disorder). He called it “longing for a father.” So close again, since God is our Father, but still so far because Freud did not know Him and made no bones about not seeing the need.
We know that Freud dreamed because much of his work involved self-analysis of his own dreams. I fully believe God tried to reach him in the night hours. At night, you are God’s. Your body and mind are resting, but as I said at the start, your spirit is awake all night. Your spirit is the part of you that hears God. Therefore, by day, you may think in your mind you are an atheist, a Buddhist, an agnostic or whatever, but by night, as your spirit stays awake with your body and mind asleep, you are God’s child and He is still drawing you. Take heart in that fact if you have loved ones who are adamantly anti-God or who have become entangled with false doctrine that compromises their once-pure faith.
On how quickly dreams slip from your grasp and get left behind, Freud and I agree. He said this:
That a dream fades away in the morning is proverbial. It is, indeed, possible to recall it. For we know the dream, of course, only by recalling it after waking; but we very often believe that we remember it incompletely, that during the night there was more of it than we remember. On the other hand, it often happens that dreams manifest an extraordinary power of maintaining themselves in the
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