Wet Dreams
Having S*x in dreams is another thing entirely. According
to the scriptures, this cannot be a good thing. Moses says:
“Avoid anything that would make you ritually unclean. If
a man becomes unclean because he has had a wet dream
during the night, he is to go outside the camp and stay
there.” (Deuteronomy 23:9-10). Some go as far as
maintain some people have spiritual husbands and wives.
However, there is no scriptural basis for this
.
Having S*x in the dream is an index of lack of spiritual
fervency. This renders us to be a city without walls that
the enemy can come into and defile. As a result, God calls
us to spiritual revival and renewal: “Awake, awake, put on
your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O
Jerusalem, the holy city; for there shall no more come
into you the uncircumcised and the unclean. (Isaiah 52:1)
. We need to be spiritually awake, even when we are
physically asleep.
Stephen Johnson came to see me complaining that he
was always getting attacked in his dreams. I said to him:
“Read fifteen chapters of the bible before you go to bed
and see me tomorrow.” When I saw him the next day, he
said nobody attacked him that night. Then he asked:
“Does it mean I have to be reading the bible every day?” I
told him to get out of my office. A man does not question
the need to feed his body every day. But tell him to feed
his spirit, and he becomes a skeptic.
OTHER DREAM ISSUES AND SPIRITUAL RELEVANCE
A colleague brought a fourteen year-old girl to see me.
Apparently, her mother’s prophet had a horrific dream
about her portending great danger. His antidote was just
as horrific. He told the mother that her daughter would
have to bathe nak*d publicly at Bar Beach, Lagos or she
would meet a bad end. Despite her protests, her mother
put her foot down: the word of the “man-of-God” must be
obeyed.
I managed to convince her mother that this prophecy
could not have been from God. Dreams requiring ungodly
remedies are devilish, crafted by evil manipulative men.
Says God: “Behold, I am against those who prophesy false
dreams and tell them, and cause my people to err by their
lies and by their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or
command them; therefore they shall not profit this people
at all.” (Jeremiah 23:32).
If you are in a church where the so-called pastor or
resident prophet specialises in seeing visions and
dreaming dreams about everyone else, get out of there.
Learn to receive directly from God by yourself. No pastor
should mediate between you and God. Christ came that
we may have a personal relationship with God. That is
why he gave us the Holy Spirit.
Old wives tales
Avoid “old wives tales” about dreams; the church is full of
them. These often contradict what is presented in the
scriptures. Flying in dreams does not make you a witch. It
might simply symbolise victory and reaching new heights.
Isaiah says: “They that wait upon the LORD shall renew
their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles;
they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and
not faint.” (Isaiah 40:31).
The fact that you died in a dream does not mean you are
going to die. Indeed, it might mean you are going to
receive newness of life. Jesus says: “Unless a grain of
wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but
if it dies, it produces much grain.” (John 12:24). The fact
that you were pregnant in a dream does not mean you are
licentious. It might equally mean you are a “God-carrier.”
The angel said to Mary: “Behold, you will conceive in your
womb and bring forth a son, and shall call his name
JESUS.” (Luke 1:31).
Never accept an interpretation that goes against the grain
of what is revealed in the scriptures. Never accept an
interpretation that contradicts your faith. Jesus says:
“According to your faith will it be done to you.” (Matthew
9:29). Some mischievous joker tried to convince me the
lion that appeared to me in a dream was the devil. I told
him where to get off. Jesus is the lion of the tribe of
Judah. (Revelation 5:5). But “the devil prowls around like
a roaring lion.” (1 Peter 5:
. What appeared to me in mydream was not like a lion. What appeared to me was a
lion.
There are also many Christian theories about the
implications of eating in dreams. Most of these are
highfalutin and not scriptural. Some will tell you what you
eat in a dream is poisonous. If so, many Christians should
be dead by now. However, sometimes a bodily need such
as hunger or thirst can prompt a dream. Sometimes when
we are fasting, we dream of great tables of food set before
us.
Indeed, Isaiah reveals that eating in dreams come about
as a result of natural stimuli: “It shall even be as when a
hungry man dreams, and look- he eats; but he awakes,
and his soul is still empty; or as when a thirsty man
dreams, and look- he drinks; but he awakes, and indeed
he is faint, and his soul still craves.” (Isaiah 29:
.Spiritual warfare
As a new believer, I was often attacked in my dreams.
Sometimes, a dog would try to bite me, or someone would
chase me and I would run all night long for dear life. Even
more disturbing was the nightmare where someone
would come and press me down on the bed; nearly
choking me to death.
But as I became more spiritually fervent, I stopped
running. I would stand my ground and fight and the fight
would go on for the whole night. Later, I would beat up
my assailants until they became unconscious. Then it got
even more dramatic. I would stretch out my hand, a
bazooka would appear mysteriously, and I would blow my
assailants away. Today, nobody dares attack me in my
dreams anymore.
What am I trying to tell you? If a kettle is hot, nobody
presses down on it: he would get burnt.
Stolen dreams
Some people insist they don’t dream. But I believe this
just means their dreams are regularly lost or stolen.
Dreams, by nature, are fleeting. (Job 20:
. Since theyare sometimes from God, there are evil forces determined
to impede us from receiving them. To prevent dream-
loss, again we have to be spiritually fervent.
Then there are those who dream but don’t remember
their dreams. Such people may want to keep a notebook
by their bedside to record their dreams. Dreams occur at
the end of our sleep and not at the beginning; therefore
we can record them immediately as was Daniel’s practice:
“Daniel had a dream and visions of his head while on his
bed. Then he wrote down the dream, telling the main
facts.” (Daniel 7:1).
Nevertheless, if you still cannot remember your dream,
then ask the Holy Spirit. Jesus says: “The Holy Spirit will
bring to your remembrance all things that I said to
