Be Wary of Your Dreams

For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed. For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them, says the LORD.  Jeremiah 29:8-9

Did you know the Lord sent a letter through Jeremiah, His prophet, to the captives in Babylon? In this letter are some words of warning and a couple of things to watch out for: false prophets and self-caused dreams. I have met with little success in causing dreams for myself and reading these words from Jeremiah, I am glad that I did not become proficient at self-causing dreams. The Lord told the captives that their dreams, those they caused themselves to dream, were not of the Lord and He did not send them. As the false prophets they liked told them things the captives wanted to hear, so did they learn to send themselves some wishful dreams too. Be wary of your dreams!

There is a thing in these latter days where a person attempts to control his dreams. As we can see from Jeremiah, such a thing is of ancient times. The terms we read may be new, but the practice is quite old. If we learn from Joseph in Matthew of how important dreams can be as communications from God, then perhaps we should not try to control that and get in the way of the messages God may have for us in a dream. 

Rejoice in the Lord always...

Bucky