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What if?
What if someone dreams something and then the next day it happens.? What do you think about this statement.?

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What if someone dreams something and then the next day it happens.? What do you think about this statement.?
I'd tell that person to try very hard to dream about winning the lottery.
personally though, i think it was just a concidence..BUT if u look at it in a godly perspective then everything happens for a reason. there is no luck in this world... everything is planned!
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I'd tell that person to try very hard to dream about winning the lottery.
I just sleep and whatever i dream i dream.
And of course, there are many Biblical examples of God revealing Himself in dreams. I like the idea of dreaming about winning the lottery though :P
Matthew
+mahraeel+
me personally, i always hope to think that its not true in my life.. simply coz all my deams seem ok but then sudanese people have these weird ways of interpreting them and they are always bad.. it happened more than once where different people interpreted the same dream by saying that i will die at a young age...most of my dreams are interpreted in a completely negative way... so yeh eventually i gave up and just left it all upto God....
I think Satan gives people dreams (can't he?) that are false and can make you stray from God.
Matthew
But the problem with 'everything happens for a reason' is that it will eventually drive you mad, since you're going to try to see something behind everything and give meaning to it, when there is none... I guess sometimes we have to accept that things happen and they don't impact our lives in any way, they just happen... (as naief as that sounds..)
Please pray for me
PK
Thanks for your replies.
Matthew
LondonCopt, you're completely right, if He says all the hairs on your head are counted, it must mean that he controls all the little details in our life, but what I meant was the fact that not everything that happens (even if it is for a reason) should be taken into account by us, because it doesn't necessarily happen for our sake. Like imagine you're going to church by car but you get caught in traffic and eventually you miss the whole liturgy, you might start thinking: God doesn't want me to go to church, he's punishing me... but maybe there was traffic because the person in the car beside would miss his plane which would later crash. So it did happen for a reason, but not really a reason impacting you in a direct way. (ok I just made it more confusing probably :-\, so just ignore this ;) )
No you're completely right, I just didn't fully understand it the first time round :P I think this demonstrates the danger of selfishness in our lives. Like we're always looking for the reason in respect of our own lives and we forget about those around us...exactly as you said in that car crash example. We tend to put "me me me" first and forget that God not only does what's best for us, but also what's best for those around us.
Wow thanks for clearing that one up, I've actually learnt something :D
Matthew
oh yeh, and thats not deja vu, dejavu is when something familiar happens and it feels like the exact same thing has happened to you before.
God Bless You All
Christopher.
LondonCopt, you're completely right, if He says all the hairs on your head are counted, it must mean that he controls all the little details in our life, but what I meant was the fact that not everything that happens (even if it is for a reason) should be taken into account by us, because it doesn't necessarily happen for our sake. Like imagine you're going to church by car but you get caught in traffic and eventually you miss the whole liturgy, you might start thinking: God doesn't want me to go to church, he's punishing me... but maybe there was traffic because the person in the car beside would miss his plane which would later crash. So it did happen for a reason, but not really a reason impacting you in a direct way. (ok I just made it more confusing probably :-\, so just ignore this ;) )
Thats a really good point.