Can Dream Interpretation Help Me Get Healed?
No.
Dream interpretation will hinder your healing because the time you waste doing it could be used more productively learning and reflecting on what the Bible has to say about healing.
My answer may shock you given that Joel prophesied that people would “dream dreams” when the Holy Spirit was poured out, which Peter quoted:
Acts 2:17:
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
This clearly refers to God-sent dreams, because people have always had dreams.
So if God sends you a dream, couldn’t it contain information that would help you or someone else receive healing?
Yes.
But that wasn’t the question.
There is NO case in the New Testament where a dream God sent had to be interpreted. The meaning was clear in each case. There was NO indication that anyone should “interpret” dreams today. Joel said that some people would dream dreams, but he did not say that they would interpret dreams. Jesus never told any of His followers in the Bible to set up a table at a bazaar to interpret dreams as an evangelistic outreach. (“You saw a red alligator eating a Yield sign on a highway made out of crumbling Styrofoam? That means that you need to yield to Jesus before Satan eats your lunch and your life crumbles.”) Though some Christians do a modern version of “bazaar dream interpretation,” I don’t advocate buying space at a psychic fair to do it, especially because you are actively funding the devil’s works when you pay the organizers!
Some Christians waste time every morning trying to figure out the hidden meaning of their dreams by going to a dream interpretation book and looking up symbols. “Oh, I was playing Parcheesi – that was symbol 576 in the dream interpretation book, which reveals that Parcheesi involves blockades, so I must have something in my life blockading me like one of those obnoxious trucks on the highway that crawls along in the passing lane to pass a truck that’s even slower.” But God said that those who are led by the Spirit are the children of God (Romans 8:14), not those who are led by interpreting their dreams.
In the Old Testament, Joseph and Daniel interpreted dreams, but they did NOT run to their dream interpretation books to determine what the dreams meant. The meanings were divinely given. If those kings’ dreams could have been interpreted just using dream symbol translation books, their occult practitioners could have interpreted those dreams without help from a God-anointed person.
Before I was a Christian, I was involved with the occult, and it would not have been a problem to get a dream interpretation book – not at a Christian bookstore but at an occult store, probably next to the complete prophesies of Nostradamus or some such thing. When you see Christians doing the same “spiritual” thing that New Age people do, it should be a red flag when nothing in the New Testament indicates that you should do it.