1. IS GOD SPEAKING TO ME WHILE I SLEEP?

2. FIVE FACTS ABOUT DREAMS:
1. Everybody dreams every night even if you don’t remember them
2. You can have four to seven dreams in one night
3. Blind people dream
4. Animals dream
5. Dreams have meaning

3. Matthew 1:20
As he considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. “Joseph, son of David,” the angel said, “do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife. For the child within her was conceived by the Holy Spirit. 

4. Matthew 2:12-13
2 When it was time to leave, they returned to their own country by another route, for God had warned them in a dream not to return to Herod. 13 After the wise men were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up! Flee to Egypt with the child and his mother,” the angel said. “Stay there until I tell you to return, because Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”

5. Matthew 2:19-22
19 When Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt.20 “Get up!” the angel said. “Take the child and his mother back to the land of Israel, because those who were trying to kill the child are dead.” 21 So Joseph got up and returned to the land of Israel with Jesus and his mother.22 But when he learned that the new ruler of Judea was Herod’s son Archelaus, he was afraid to go there. Then, after being warned in a dream, he left for the region of Galilee.

6. 1. Why did God use dreams in the Bible?
A. To warn of coming events and judgments
B. To give specific guidance and direction

7. 2. Who did God give dreams to?
A. Whoever He wanted to
Acts 2:17 - ‘In the last days,’ God says, ‘I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams.

8. B. God gave dreams to all BUT interpretation of the dream always came through His people
Genesis 40:8 - “Interpreting dreams is God’s business,” Joseph replied. “Go ahead and tell me your dreams.”

9. Hebrews 13:8 – Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
3. Does God still speak in dreams today?  
Hebrews 13:8 – Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

10. 1. Check Your eating habits
2. Examine your thought life
3. Examine your dreams in light of Scripture
4. Lean into every dream to see if God is speaking
5. Approach “God’s Voice” with humility