Could God possibly be speaking to you through your sleep?
In a powerful message, Apostle John Eckhardt calls believers to embrace the dream realm as a vital channel through which God speaks, counsels and delivers us. Many Christians, he says, are frustrated by an inability to remember their dreams or feel as though they’ve stopped dreaming altogether. However, he believes this spiritual frustration can be overcome through humility and prayer.
“We’re going to pray that your dream life would be reactivated tonight,” Eckhardt declares. “Dreams can bring counsel, wisdom, revelation, deliverance, direction and insight.”
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He references the biblical account of King Nebuchadnezzar in the book of Daniel, who had a dream that deeply disturbed him—but couldn’t interpret it. The king turned to his magicians for help, but only the prophet Daniel, through divine revelation, was able to provide the king with what he needed. “What a supernatural manifestation of the spirit of God,” Eckhardt says.
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This, he says, is an example of “dream recall by the Spirit of God”—something still available today. “God doesn’t forget the dream. If God gives the dream, even though you don’t remember it, God doesn’t forget it.”
A major hindrance to remembering or understanding dreams, Eckhardt warns, is pride. “Sometimes I believe there’s spirits in the lives of people that can prevent them from even remembering the dream. It could have been pride,” he says, referring again to Nebuchadnezzar. “Pride can hinder revelation, pride can block the voice of God from coming to you.”
Humility, on the other hand, opens the door to divine insight. “God gives grace to the humble,” Eckhardt emphasizes. “We want to have grace with our dreams… because without the grace of God, we’re completely helpless in this realm.”
Eckhardt encourages practical steps as well, such as journaling dreams immediately upon waking. But more importantly, he urges Christians to humble themselves in prayer. “We’re going to humble ourselves and pray that God would reveal Himself to us in the dream realm,” he says. “We need direction from you. We need it in order to avoid mistakes and pitfalls.”
He also quotes Job 33 to underscore the divine purpose of dreams: “God speaks once, yea twice… in a dream, in a vision of the night… that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.”
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In a world flooded with distractions, God is still speaking—often in the quiet moments when we least expect it, like in our dreams. John Eckhardt reminds us that the night hours are not wasted; they’re holy ground where divine strategies, revelations and breakthroughs are revealed. If we will tune our spirits to hear, we’ll discover that heaven is never silent—and God may already be answering the prayers we haven’t yet spoken.
Abby Trivett is content development editor for Charisma Media.
