Again, not all dreams are from God. Most are just dreams.
You are making this assumption like you are an interpreter yourself, are you not? Since you have already categorized that most dreams believers receive are NOT from God? In my experience this is completely false. In fact, the more complicated and difficult a dream appears to be to interpret, the more powerful it usually ends up being once rightly understood.
Interpretations get
confirmed in real life to me, to prove that both the dream and the interpretation were from God. So what makes you a better authority on it than me, such that you are telling everyone that their dreams are in all likelihood not from God?
I don't discount that many here have dreams they don't understand. That doesn't make the dreams from God. So when you set yourself as an interpreter of dreams, you must first decide if that dream is really from God or not. You don't know. They apparently don't know. So then you must 'dream' up an interpretation....
So you see, not only do I have to trust that the one with the dream knows it is a dream from God, but that you know it is a dream from God, and then that you interpret it correctly.
LoL. For starters, I don't "dream up" an interpretation (although I appreciate the play on words). It involves seeking God and listening quietly for the what the Spirit of God speaks to me.
But in response to your statement about "deciding whether a dream is from God or not," far more often than not the interpretation I give resonates with the person receiving it because it witnesses with their spirit, and because the Spirit of God resides within both of us, He gives confirmation that we understand together exactly what is being said. I will give you and example.
As the Lord is my witness, this was sent to me at 11:57 AM this morning from a sister I interpreted a dream for. She has been severely overworked in a job she hates that takes her away from time with God, so she felt like maybe she was supposed to start her own business, which would give her more time to spend with God and serve Him. But this is NOT what the Spirit of God said was going to happen in the dream; just the opposite. She formerly had a very good tech job she was laid off from, and if she did not stay alert and focused, praying for that door to open again, she would lose her chance and be stuck working a job she would come to resent and which would
keep her preoccupied from spending time with God like she wanted, and very discontent. She partly understood the dream and had the correct interpretation, but with several parts still missing that she didn't understand.
Her exact words to me were as follows:
"This has encouraged me so much, brother. Mainly because I had asked the Holy Spirit to help me to understand the dream before contacting you. So, on one level to get so far as to what the dream meant has boosted my confidence (I had become rather 'dulled' to hearing what the Lord would say - again due to the stresses of work). For you to confirm this plus fill in the gaps for me has been an immense encouragement. Thank you so much ! :clap:
Before going to bed last night I managed to take a quick look at your reply and then went to the Lord before crashing for work today. But on sharing what you'd written with my daughter she reminded me about a telephone conversation I'd had with a contact who worked in IT. The person is also a minister and without realising that he was talking to a fellow believer he spoke a word over me. He'd said not to give up pursuing a role in IT - that God is setting it all out and if it meant waiting until an employee gets a promotion/retires/resigns before my post opens, then I need to be patient and wait. It's there for me. :facepalm: The phone conversation had been last week or the week before and I'd forgotten about it at the time of the dream. Your interpretation brought it all back.
So the jigsaw pieces have fallen into place and I give God all the glory that I had something to hold onto with going into work today.
Brother, may the Lord continue to bless and keep you. Thank you again for being obedient to the Holy Spirit.
God bless you!
[Name withheld]"
I value receiving witness like this, because it is not about starting from the standpoint of "knowing with absolute certainty that the dream is from God" before I even interpret it, but rather seeking the Spirit of God together and coming to a consensus that this is indeed what the Spirit of God is saying, and then acting upon it. You see confirmations of some of the interpretations I gave in this thread because it
witnessed with the Spirit they have within them as well. It is
not about one man telling others what to do as you suggest frequently in your posts. While I am not angry with you, those words you speak are coming from the Accuser. So please don't condemn the use of interpretation. As the above instance shows (only one of dozens I could show you), it is a blessing to the body of Christ at present, and destined to become even more so in the future, being among the primary gifts we see being manifested among those who belong to Him during the end-times (Joel 2:28).