Recently I had a dream where I was visited by an old friend of mine who sneaked back into my life. I’ll give you the raw dream and show you my interpretation of it which came very clearly.
I was at home and Quentin turned up to see me as a surprise. He had climbed up through into my bedroom from the front of the house. It was a lovely surprise. I was so pleased to see him again. He wanted me to come with him. At one point I detected something was wrong with him. He was upset. I detected it but he wouldn’t say what it was about. I assumed it might be about him and Rachael. He had walked all the way from where he lived which was a very long way. He went off again. He wouldn’t accept my help with transport. I followed him but he went too far ahead. I think I lost him.
Quentin was a close friend when I was in my teens. We were quite different but we were thrown together being in a small church without many youth, only him, his sister and me!
On one level the dream is about close friendship.
Quentin moved away and went to Cambridge Uni and later met Rachel his wife.
Quentin means fifth. I came to understand that here in the dream he relates to the fifth element which is to do with the soul and spirit. When I realised this the dream opened up to me. The dream is about the Holy Spirit and my spirit.
I’ve had a tough summer in my head and felt I had lost the Spirit or the sense of His Spirit through maybe being too rational or analytical. Well that’s what it seemed like.
The next day I woke up with the phrase:
He’s not lost he wants you to pursue him!
I immediately knew that this was about the dream the previous day. I was thrilled! That sense which I’ve been living with up until the dark period over summer came back. He has been pursuing me and not given up on me. Just to clarify, he is the Spirit of God that I refer to.
You may wonder what the significance of Rachael was in the dream. Rachael actually means ewe. It is a play on words. Often in dreams this occurs. Ewe or You in this instance is me!
Wow!
This was about friendship with God through Holy Spirit.
Saturday morning whilst pursuing him in my waking I had another singular short dream. This one I’ll give you to as you may see how obvious it was!
The next thing I know is that I am in a dark stairwell to a flat. I hear the phone ringing. I look down and see a light eminating from the flat below as the door is half open. I then look up and see that there’s a door a few more stairs up. I say out loud I am coming, in response to the phone ringing. I reach the door in the low light of the stairwell and realise that it’s shut and wonder out loud to myself about this. At the same time I hear a voice from below about getting the phone. I try the handle and push it down. Thinking I don’t have a key. The handle moves down without resistance. The door starts to open and I begin to stir inwardly thinking this is wonderful. The phone continues to ring. I can see light as the door begins to open and then I wake up!
These are my raw thoughts after the dream:
What’s this about I ask?
Coming up and answering the call.
You get this waking vision as you have begun to pursue Me.
Not until I write that line above do I realise that I AM ANSWERING THE CALL – or going towards it. This is the beginning again. This is as far as I seem to get.
This whole year has been about me recognising and hearing the call. Pondering what it’s about and moving towards it. That’s it. Yes I need to pursue the Lord!
The stairs in dream symbolise going up to him. Going from one place to another.
How can I be more ready? How do I get to pick the phone up in other words? I am pressing in. This is in a way encouraging.
So I was correct the call is not about doing something it’s about responding to him and the pursuit of him. How do I pursue him better then? That word again inclined. (The opposite is distracted).
Later that day I was reminded of a John Michael Talbot song. I think we sing it at my church. The line in the song was:
‘…Hear You Calling In The Night’
From the song Here I am Lord.
I have subsequently returned to the dream. As I thought about it I had the last verse of the scripture below which makes me think the dream is like a picture of the verse(s) too:
Philippians 3:10–14 (LEB): ‘…so that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death, if somehow I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already received this,* or have already been made perfect, but I press on if indeed I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ. Brothers, I do not consider myself to have laid hold of it.* But I do one thing, forgetting the things behind and straining toward the things ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
I continue to reach out to Him and listen for his voice. I am accepting more that my dreams may have a purpose in encouraging others. Showing how His Spirit speaks to us.
Dreams are a way of helping us become more intimate with The Lord. The reason why I say that is they convey things which are in our resting subconscious that he can bring to our attention when we’re off guard. These things are for our encouragement, correction and also in some cases that prophesy.