God Does Speak Through Dreams - A Sheryl York Story
God speaks through Dreams - A Sheryl York Story
Three Dreams and a Miracle - A Sheryl York Story
I was born again about 30 years ago now, and one thing that I learned very early in my walk with the Lord was that He could speak to me through dreams. Before that time, I guess I just thought my dreams were pizza dreams, but once I got saved and my spirit was transformed, I began dreaming differently. I began remembering dreams which was huge, and I very quickly began learning to interpret and taking courses.
I have a sister who is 5 years younger than I, and I won't go into all the details, but she and her husband were having heartbreaking issues with getting pregnant. In fact, I believe at one point she was told she might never have children. Once my husband and I got married, I literally got pregnant on our honeymoon. I was 31 at the time. A bit late in life, or so they say, but both my husband and I had been married previously and divorced. When we married, we had no children living with us. My husband had a daughter who was already in her teens at the time and was living with her mother. It was both of our dreams to have our own children, even if we were starting late in life.
A few months into my pregnancy, I had a dream that my sister and I were pregnant at the same time. I thought it was odd. I knew she had a tough time getting pregnant, but I called and told her anyway. I actually told her that I believed this dream to be from the Lord, and I told her that I believed she would have a baby after all. My sister (at least at the time) didn't really believe me, so I journaled it and then let it go. A few more months went by in my own pregnancy, and I had yet another dream that my sister and I were pregnant at the same time. Again, I called her up, and this time I was even more certain. Although I wasn't very old in the Lord yet, I'd always been a dreamer, but these dreams were different. I just knew God was speaking to me. I was already learning to interpret dreams, and I couldn't interpret these dreams any other way. I also knew about the scriptures in Genesis 41...
25 Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one; God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do:
This was mind-blowing. I still felt like a babe in Christ, but I couldn't shake it. God was speaking to me and was going to bless my sister not only to have her own child, but also that both of us would have our first child around the same time frame too. This time, she decided to take a pregnancy test, but it did not come back positive, so it was disappointing to say the least, because I was so certain that God was speaking. Finally, several more months went by again, and I was getting close to having my first baby. Then I had yet another dream (now my 3rd) that my sister and I were both pregnant at the same time. All 3 of the dreams were a little different. They weren't just repeat dreams, just like Pharaoh's dreams weren't, but they each showed both of us pregnant together. This time, I had even more ammunition to prove what God was saying, so I called her up and told her God told me this 3 times, and she still didn't believe she was pregnant, nor that she could be because of serious female problems she'd been dealing with. I told her about my proof in Genesis 41:32...
32 And the dream was repeated to Pharaoh twice because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
Mother's Day was coming around, and I was a brand-new mom myself. My sister and her husband invited all of us (including our mom & her husband's mom) to their home for a Mother's Day BBQ. It was a beautiful day, and we were all sitting outside when my sister and her husband gave both my mom & her husband's mom a box. I was guessing they'd bought them a watch or something for Mother's Day, as they were long boxes and both looked exactly the same. They wanted the moms to open them at the same time, and so everyone else just looked on. They opened the boxes, and tears began to flow, and I saw so much excitement, so I said, 'What did you guys get?' They turned and showed it to me. My sister had taken 2 pregnancy tests, and they were both showing positive and so she put them in a long watch-type box, and that is what she gave the moms for Mother's Day. It didn't take me very long at all to realize what happened. I knew it was a miracle. I jumped to my feet and immediately asked how far along she was, and she told me, so I calculated how old my newborn was compared to how far along the doctors were telling her she was and found that YES, we were both pregnant at the same time. It wasn't a very long period of time, but that wasn't the point. God had been telling me for 9 months that my sister was going to have a miracle baby and that we would actually be pregnant at the same time.
This was the beginning of God teaching me how He speaks through dreams and a huge start in learning to trust what He was saying and not to sway because things didn't appear to be as He was showing me because in the end even though it took over 9 months those 3 dreams did come to pass. Since that time my faith grew, and God has often spoken to me through dreams. Sometimes through several, as in the case with my sister and me being pregnant at the same time. My sister only ever had one son, even though through the years I had a son and 2 more daughters. This whole thing really opened my sister up to the Lord as well.
Sometimes God would show me something that would come to pass within months, and sometimes even the very next day. That is why I post my dreams in my own blog. I've seen them come to pass, and I know they will bless others.
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This blog was created to share testimonies of God's goodness to us. It is an offshoot of America Reimagined, the Newsletter & 'It's Going to be Biblical' Daily Encouragement, created by the Holy Spirit and Sheryl L. York
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