Thank you for your post on dreams.
God still does speak to people in dreams, but few dreams are from God. Just because a person “wants” a dream to be from God does not make it a dream from God. And the fact that some people attribute dreams incorrectly to God does not mean God never speaks to people in dreams.
My wife has had two prophetic dreams. They came to her for protection. In both dreams, she was in an area she did not recognize at the time and was brutally attacked. Later she found herself in those place, places she had never been before, and remembered the dreams and took different actions.
I was with her once when she arrived in the location and immediately recalled the horror of the dream when she recognized the place from her dream. She had never even been in that state before. This was on the campus of Auburn University in 1981. As soon as we drove on the campus she recognized it from the dream. As a result, she did not take the baby and walk back from the football game to the hotel the following weekend. That walk back had been when she was attacked in the dream. The miracle was that she clearly saw the distinctive attributes of Auburn University in a dream without ever being there before and dreaming a football game and specific events.
I have another story about a dream from 1980. My wife went to nursing school with a woman we knew in high school. Some time after graduation, my wife and I headed to my Army training in Arizona. We heard that the woman’s husband had abandoned her pregnant and with two small children already. She was in financial difficulty, to say the least. She went to live with her mother. She did not know us that well, and she had no idea that we were in Arizona.
We felt we should send her some money, and we mailed her $350. That was a more substantial sum back in 1980. While the check was in the mail, she had a dream that she received a letter with money in it from Arizona. She told her mother about it and said “and I don’t know anybody in Arizona.” Then the letter came.
She had pride and did not want to cash the check. Her wise mother told her, “God sent you money and sent you dream to tell you to take it. How can you turn that down?”
But God doesn’t heal everyone. Jesus probably had to step over many sick people to get to the one He healed at the pool near the temple. And God doesn’t send everyone dreams. But those of us willing to see that He still works miracles do see miracles.
I have another story about the prophetic utterance my wife spoke at a critical time, but this post is long enough for now.
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). They both contain miracles of God’s providence, but they are not of the sort you specifically disallow. I will not exclude God’s working in other ways, though. I should reread Metaxas’ book. (I don’t remember if speaking in tongues was in it – I’m sure there was a vision and a healing in it.) I agree about prophecies, snakes and poison.