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Discussion on seemingly prophetic dreams

September 7th, 2015

Greetings brethren! I would like to know your thoughts on this. I know of this man who has been battling with cancer in his brain and the doctors sent him home,as there is nothing else they can do. My church has been praying fervently for a miracle. I really don’t know if God will heal him or not, since I’ve seen so many cases where others with cancer end up dying anyways, regardless of the many prayers. But last night I had a dream where I saw him fully healthy with his wife, and he was climbing a stair case backwards. And they were cheering because he had been healed. And many other brothers were astonished because he had been healed. I don’t want to think that just because I dreamed that, it will actually happen. What are your thoughts?

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  • Lisa McIntosh My husband has had two brain tumors and while most people do die of this eventually. ….he is a living miracle…..he had his first seizure in 1999 and then finally diagnosed in 2001….second tumor in 2007….but since then….no recurrence and no treatment other than seizure meds…..he is a walking miracle
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  • Christopher Dupre I think God gives us dreams sometimes. I would not share it with anyone at your church, however. It could end up being a cruel flash of hope if God does indeed choose not to heal him. Sometimes our reality, or what we want as our reality can spill over into our dreams, especially if something has been a dominant feature in our lives. A turning point for me when I was studying Arabic in a military school full time for months was that I started to dream in Arabic. I was excited because it was sinking in. If he does get healed, you can view the dream as your little gift of affirmation from God. Just thinking publicly at this point. Take it all with a grain of salt. smile emoticon
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  • Tim White Dreams are most commonly caused by unfinished processes in the mind. Does that mean God doesn’t use dreams? No. But a dream certainly does not mean someone will be healed on earth. I would have to say, at best, the accuracy of the dream is yet to be seen. And I remind all that the ultimate healing will remove us from earth, not make our earthly existence labor on for more years.
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  • Jonathan Morales The thing I’ve noticed is that many of the leaders in my church, including the wife of this man are praying as if they know that God will heal him. This is a tendency in my church actually. They are assured that God will heal him. I personally don’t know if God will heal him, but in my prayers I just ask that He does according to His perfect will. It would be sad though, that after all of those prayers of assurance, God decided not to heal him. I think the rest of the congregants at the church would be confused as to how God’s healing works, because of the way my leaders prayed.
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    • Christopher Dupre That can be rough, for sure. Two dangers are presupposing God will do your bidding, and the other is knowing that the effective prayer of a righteous man avails much. If God doesn’t heal the person, it would be easy for a person to question his own righteousness before God. Maybe that’s warranted, and maybe that’s not. James 5 is pretty matter-of-fact about praying for healing, and even links sickness to sin. But it really gives no room for failure. ‘he shall be healed’. In my experience, most peoples’ faith is not affected by unanswered prayer. It seems we automatically default to realizing we don’t always understand the reasoning for God’s path, and leave it at that.
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  • Tim White When my wife was pregnant with our son, Ryan, it became evident through testing that he would have spina bifida and associated disabilities. We had so many Christians praying and many of them were very confident that Ryan would be born with no disabilities. I am talking about good people, not the mystic fruitcakes I have known. When Ryan was born with spina bifida, many were confused and disillusioned. Would God rather they be disillusioned by expecting God to be our butler or would He use the event to teach them His true heart. 25 years later, my son was in ministry with a tremendous testimony. He was thankful for his disability because of what God had taught him and used it in ministry to reach young people. In my devotional time, I was struck with a difficult question. My son with through nearly 40 surgeries in his first 18 years, plus more than a dozen other hospitalizations for other issues. If I could take away any one of the pains my son had gone through, which one would I remove? The ridicule from his middle school years that caused him to be a cutter and suicidal? the tethered cord surgeries that always removed from him more mobility? No, I had to say that I would not, looking back, remove a single painful experience from him because God had him and was using him. He used every painful experience to prepare his heart and his life. Truly, His ways are higher than my ways and His thoughts are higher than mine. You just have to trust Him. He doesn’t think like we do.
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  • Jonathan Morales That’s true. Somehow many in our faith like to think that they know whats best, but only the Lord knows that. The testimony of your son reminds me of what Jesus said about that man’s blindness, that it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him.
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  • Patrick Thompson One of the names for our God is Jehovah Rapha – our healer. It is hard to tell about our dreams all the time, but God can certainly use this dream as one of encouragement for you to continue to “ask, seek, and knock” for this man. Since God always receives the glory in everything that He does, we must believe that whatever the outcome of this, it is truly in His hands!
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