This is written as a series of Dream Interpretation Helps concerning dreams from God. I will cover the things that I feel are mandatory for correct dream interpretation and application of the truths revealed in the dream. All scripture references are NASB, unless otherwise noted. Emphases are mine. © 2013, 2022 Elizabeth Elam. All rights reserved.
A FEW SYMBOLS TO CONSIDER
I will just list a few of many symbols I have personally encountered in dreams of my own or in the dreams of others who I know personally which may be helpful to consider if you have seen these same symbols in your own dreams. I am picking things that at first glance wouldn’t obviously have these meanings. This is not an exhaustive list by any means. Almost all of these symbols are also in the Bible. As I’ve noted, God speaks in the same way yesterday, today and forever. So dream language often matches Bible language. Just another of many proofs that the God of the Bible is very real and alive!
-Shoes: The gospel (see more in SYMBOLS THAT HAVE CONSTANT MEANINGS)
-Huge rock or foundation: Jesus!
-Small sharp stones on land: Idols or the demonic in the heart.
-Lion: Jesus or the devil. Does the lion attack a person on a highway and seemingly 'kill' them or gravely injure them? That person is not on the highway of holiness (Isaiah 35:8,9). Holiness is missing. Pray for them. Warn if God tells you. They may need others in the body of Christ to help them get healed and on the highway of holiness. The lion is Jesus if you are frantically running away at first, but then find out He wants to be your companion who protects you from the real enemy as long as you walk with Him.
-Roaring Lions: Corrupt, oppressive tyrant leaders. It's a matter of time before they attack. (Zephaniah 3:3) OR one lion roaring can symbolize the Lord's voice in warning.
-Bread or lack of: The Word of God. It can take the form of wonderful smelling cookies (encouraging word), etc.
-Oil (pure): The Holy Spirit. Has the oil been spilled or wasted? That would indicate foolishness. No lid for the anointing oil? - No limit to God's Holy Spirit and the anointing He brings.
-Grease or rancid oil: False Holy Spirit.
-Tornado: Usually an attack from the enemy which we may be able to prevent or ‘survive’ through prayer or repentance.
-Trees: Often symbolize people or groups of people, family ‘tree’; possibly the Tree of Life (Christ)-has fruit, especially if you lost temporal things in the dream- Paul said, “I count all things as loss to gain Christ.”
-Angel about to blow a trumpet: Are we ready for God’s timetable of events?
-Field or vineyard: Can represent the people of God.
-Donkey: Have you birthed an Ishmael? Genesis 16:12 calls Ishmael a wild donkey of a man. We birth Ishmael, not Isaac, when we get ahead of God and do things ‘for Him’ in OUR own way because of lack of faith. It is the 'vain' help of man. Solution: Repent and let God do His things His way. If buried donkeys are coming back to life and reemerging, you have turned back to your own self-willed plans, not God's will.
-Land: Can represent our heart and/or our inheritance. Beautiful land is the promised land if it is fruitful.
-Horse: Strength of the flesh, usually… is it out of control or domineering? Spiritual horses of Israel deliver with supernatural power. A beautiful war horse-sized horse running very fast with a rider passing donkeys, camels, and horsemen in pairs- it is the horseman announcing, "Babylon has fallen, her idols are shattered" or the "Get out of Babylon" message. I have ridden this war horse in a dream. Read Isaiah 21. I will not comment deeply on the four horsemen spoken of in Revelation here. But if you see a certain colored horse that has a rider with a certain purpose, see if it matches any of the horses described in the Bible. The four horsemen are described in Revelation 6. God may be preparing you and your loved ones.
WARNING CONCERNING CHILDREN about a certain kind of horse dream: If a child tells you a dream about a (dark colored?) horse (stallion?/lust) that is large and chasing them or their friend, trying to run over them, please pay attention to the dream's details. It may be a dream about a sexual predator who is after that child. I was so saddened to learn of a series of dreams like this that a child had about their cousin that would have prevented rape and sexual abuse if the adult parent or caretaker had sought God to understand the dream. When God warns we must listen.
-House: Your personal spiritual condition or a church. What is the condition of the house? Is it divided? Read Mark 3:25. Is it open to the elements (powers of darkness)? Has the thief (satan) been able to enter? Is the foundation firm (Jesus)?
-White house: Can be the true church if it is a humble dwelling or the fake church that puts on a facade (white-washed) which may be symbolized as a white shell, open to the elements and stormy weather such as tornadoes. Or it is the literal governmental White House. The dream will reveal which.
-Furniture missing: Understanding of some of God’s ways is missing. Also, after God delivers you (the house) of demonic influences; the Holy Spirit must fill your house. Beware of an empty house.
-House sinking down: Harlot’s house, a house of folly (double-mindedness, having an idol in the heart before God… the opposite of wisdom’s house). Cry out to God. Only He can get you out!
-House sinking down, shaking, breaking apart, often starting at the master bedroom, and then sinks into the earth. All around has shaken, but you (and your spouse) are on solid ground and unaffected: You are doing God's will. You are out of the harlot's house! You are standing on the unshakeable Rock! Praise God!
-Stairs: Are they safe? Are they complete? If so, then perhaps there is no impediment to getting closer to God. If something is wrong with the stairs, you need to know the cause. Has there been judgment against a brother or sister? Judging others will damage your access (your stairway) to God.
-Cracked foundation: Relationship with the Lord is not healthy, OR generational /childhood brokenness needs attention and healing/deliverance.
-Cups or vessels: People. Are they broken or cracked? A need for prayer and healing. Is one beautiful, with great value? The Lord is showing you your great worth and value to Him!
- Serving spoon, HUGE: The person the dream is about is a great servant in God's Kingdom. This is His greatest compliment.
-Dishes missing in your set of dishes, another ministry has the missing dishes to form the complete set? Are you called to work together in some way?
-Mountain: City of God OR obstacle that needs faith to remove it.
-Ocean, going to see it: Spiritual freedom’s path.
-Highway (not too wide or curving): Highway (path) of holiness.
-Narrow path: Probably God’s path unless there are demonic things or fences keeping you from God’s things, then it would be lack of freedom to do God’s will.
-Restaurant: Usually a church where we are spiritually fed or not fed, fed the same thing over and over or fed junk food (a false word rather than the true Word), or too much grease (false Holy Spirit), etc. If it serves extra high quality meat, then it is preaching a true deep Word, a full gospel.
-Sword or knife: Judgment or speaking evil with the mouth OR represents the Word of God.
-Carrying bags of ‘things’ that keep you from doing God’s will or seeking His face: Lay them aside. Hebrews 12:1, 2.
-Running a race: Hebrews 12 again. Keep your eyes on Jesus. Don’t change direction. Don’t quit. It is the ‘Faith run’.
-Running out of control toward danger or a highway with fast approaching cars, not listening to warnings: You or the person (might be characterized as 'foolishness' by taking the form of a child) are making wrong decisions which will negatively impact your or their life.
-Wandering, especially barefoot: This is the harlot spirit. Its goal is to draw people away from Christ and love something else instead. In my dream, she was drawing away a young man from a Bible study. Proverbs has much to say about this as well as the book of Hosea. It is a major theme throughout the Bible.
-Riding roller coaster: Life has felt like its full of ups and downs. Full of unexpected twists and uncertainties.
-Prophetic symbols: (may show gift or call or prophetic help, i.e., the voice of God in the matter) Extra big eyes, sightseeing, seeing eye dog, big picture window (a dream showed a refining plant taking up my full view = the refiner's fire), being given a camera (did it belong to someone who saw the enemy before others? My husband was given Winston Churchill's camera which still had the film in it. Churchill did indeed see the threat of Hitler before others.), looking for your glasses, vigorously cleaning glasses (your ability to see God's agenda is getting clearer) , looking through binoculars, dragonfly eyes.
-Head on a platter: Witchcraft/Jezebel's persecution is probably part of the same dream. The Jezebel spirit has cut off the voice of a prophet, silenced the prophetic or stopped/hindered the Elijah spirit from reconciling families. This requires serious prayer. You will be tempted to run from this issue or problem and not deal with it.
-Elijah in a dream is not chosen to go behind the scenes (family issues that need healing and restoration). The false Elijah (slick looking) IS chosen instead (not dealing with family issues, no reconciliation in the family). Sadly, the real Elijah told me, in a dream, that he's used to not being chosen!
-Israel fighting Israel: Those who should be in unity are divided. This can be the result of the true Elijah not being chosen.
-Projected hologram, stepping into: This is not a true reality. I immediately had my first and only 'hologram' dream after praying for the truth about the election results. Inside the hologram, I saw that mostly young people were mesmerized and fooled by the false reality. It only held a 'Candy Land' type beauty for an instant before it felt nightmarish and hard to escape from. That night my dream was confirmed as Tucker Carlson described this candidate as a 'projected hologram'.
-Church people asleep: Wake up and do the will of God!
-Playing softball: (men of church) The ball goes out of bounds and a hardball made of concrete is thrown back to them = They need to do God's Kingdom work. God's grace will supernaturally give the ability to lift the hardball. No 'playing' church.
-Marry: Get in agreement with. This could be the Lord (covenant) OR something bad.
-Bible, tearing chunks out of, even though person always carries it: This is the same as foolishness, harlotry, spiritual adultery, double-mindedness. The person is denying Jesus. Jesus is the Word. We must eat/drink ALL of Him = Communion.
-Nakedness: You’re not doing all that God has asked of you and it is causing you to feel shame. Wake up! Put on your clothes. Rev 16:15 says, “Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, so that he will not walk about naked and men will not see his shame.” Also, Rev 19:7 says, “…for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride (that’s us if we’re a true believer in Christ) has made herself ready. It was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.” Nakedness could also signal a need to be saved, because Isaiah 61:10 states, “For He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness.”
- Clothes for a wedding, finding the correct ones: Putting on the Righteousness of Christ, getting ready for His coming. The clothes will be bright and clean with no wrinkle.
-Late for important event or wedding: The fact that the Lord is still warning you is His mercy to get ready by doing His will NOW. Today is the day of salvation. Today is the day to hear His voice and obey Him.
- Lower level, going to, needing different tools: I saw President Trump go to a lower level in an elevator before the 2020 election. It was the Holy Spirit's doing, symbolized by him 'drinking wine' rather than alcohol (foolishness, the worldly system) as others were doing. He went to the lower level as God's path for a true servant. The ones drinking alcohol went to the lower level because they'd been foolish and were demoted. The day I had the dream, my pastor preached on becoming a bond-servant, the greatest title God can give us. Dream ended with the 'servant' being 'exalted.' He was much taller with a long trench coat of authority).
-Baby: Literal or a ministry or promise OR not growing in Christ. Did you find a baby and decide to keep it? This is discovering or rediscovering a spiritual gift or calling. Where did you find the baby? A dumpster? You previously had not valued it. Side of the road? You had gotten distracted and set it aside on your life journey. Did you give birth to a baby in a dream? Probably an Isaac representing your promise and call from the Lord (your way to be blessed and bless others). Twins? This may represent a double anointing. No matter how many babies you birth, God will expect you to care for all of them, like the man who was given and invested 5 talents and received five more. If you are taking care of (parenting) someone else's baby in a dream, you will most likely have many mishaps, since it is not your calling. But if you're babysitting the baby (representing prayer for another), then your care will have a good ending.
-Car: Your life or your ministry or (if it’s a ‘family’ car), your entire family. See also the mention of cars in greater detail in the section titled, ‘MODERN DAY IMAGERY IN DREAMS’.
-Purse or wallet: Provision or identity, including one’s identity in Christ. If you lose it, but find something else, that may be God's new identity for you.
-Losing many, many things, but finding something of inexpressible value instead: This is part of the Christian journey. Counting all things as loss in order to gain Christ! Read Philippians 3:7-11. My version of this dream even had a bulldozer removing the dirt, lawn and landscaping all around my house. Everything was being taken! I mean everything! The dream ends with me behind a bank discovering the most beautiful tree with glowing huge pear-shaped fruit. I had found the tree of life which represents 'gaining Christ'! This fruit was not forbidden. I knew I could pick this beautiful glowing fruit and share it with others.
-Fall down or fall off of something: Sin or literal fall or demoted. Did you stumble or almost stumble over something? You need to leave or get rid of what made you or others stumble. It is causing sin.
-Start to fall, but catch hold of a pillar or spiritual person catches you: Almost fall into sin.
-Pillar: Spiritual father or elder or five-fold-minister.
-Dirt on a person: Sin and/or shame.
-Showering: Usually a type of spiritual cleansing or baptism.
-Flooding: The flooding could be bad or perverse words from the world system or the enemy.
-Overflowing toilet: Negative, hurtful words coming out of the mouth of someone, potty mouth.
-Three or four rows of chairs, three or four stories to a building: Third and fourth generation of certain iniquities visiting again. Solution: Repent for your sin and that of your ancestors. Break ungodly generational ties. Cover iniquities with the blood of Jesus. It speaks louder!
-Door: Jesus is the Door (of protection) for the sheep. (John 10:7) Don't take off the door! Door not fully closed lets the enemy come in. Remedy: Fully apply/follow Jesus. A partial allowing of Jesus in your life or your family's life will not protect! A cross 'cut-out' in the door for 'decorative' purposes will not protect you from 'snakes' coming in. Remedy: Apply the cut-out cross back to the door!! He's not a 'decoration'! He's the door! You can't separate 'THE Cross' from THE real Jesus. The REAL Jesus goes through the CROSS!
-Unable to lock a door: The enemy (devil) has an open door to your life because of some iniquity or sin or unforgiveness. Repent. Is the lock that doesn't lock on a tree or 3 or 4 story building? Repent of generational sin and iniquity. Ask the Lord to give you the key to lock the door. Deliverance prayer may be needed.
-Keys: Finding or being given keys, finding a way, God's way or opening the kingdom of God for others (like Peter in the Bible). This could indicate a gift for evangelism or authority in the spiritual realm to bind and loose according to God's will.
-Open window: Similar to unlocked door. The thief of our soul can get in that way. We need to be alert and awake to the Lord so that our ‘house’ doesn’t get broken into.
-Animal marking territory or running around an object: Shows where demonization has gained legal ground to that 'territory'. Repent to break legal rights and ask the Lord to come in and deliver the person.
-Dog: In America where they are pets, a friendly or familiar dog could symbolize relationships, kind of like sheep did in Jesus' day. In our family we’ve had at least twenty dreams where our personal family dog, a wonderful sweet Golden Retriever, represented our family ministry and the obvious relationships which are represented. We’ve seen our ‘dog’ be lost, be found, be undisciplined, be hurt, look dead and then come back to life, wandering the streets unprotected, in danger of being stolen, about to be bitten by a snake, glow, turn white, be neglected and forgotten by us, not fed and watered (not seeking the Lord about His call for us), be ignored as we play with a cute, fun 'fox' (remember the fox spoils the vine, i.e., that which produces fruit).
All the dreams were showing the state of our family calling and ministry, and togetherness. But a dog that is not people-friendly could represent a demon. If a dog in a dream licks up something off the floor, it is probably demonic and needs to get out of your house and off your property. A dog returning to its own vomit is representing the demonic. Let that dog OUT!
-Cows: Prosperity, plenty. What is the ‘state’ of the cow(s) you see? I saw many cows belly up (dead) before a major financial crisis.
-Muddy water: A polluted "Word".
-Walking in a river: Following the Holy Spirit (unless something is wrong with the river - polluted or red). Part of the walk of a true believer includes the Lord miraculously making a way where there seems to be no way, i.e., the walk of faith, as when God parted the waters of the Red Sea. So look to God, not the easy way out. In other words, His River has some strong currents up ahead that only He can see you through. The answer is not to look for another river. The answer is to look to Him! Going through the 'impossible to cross' parts of the river equate to baptism, a type of death and resurrection.
-Man made river: false Holy Spirit, even if it's 'clean'. Don't be deceived by 'show'.
-Walking or diving into water over your head willingly: Baptism again. You will be rescued and brought out because it represents a death and resurrection.
-Baby making messes: Foolishness, need for repentance.
-Red: Could be the blood of Jesus OR harlotry (unfaithfulness to the Lord- being double-minded). The context in the dream will reveal.
-White: Could be God’s purity and holiness OR the devil masquerading as God.
-Blue: Priest's ephod completely blue - holy, set apart for the Lord. Numbers 15:37-40 speaks about a cord of blue on a tassel of the hem for all the sons of Israel to look at and remember to do all the commandments and be holy (set apart) to God.
-Purple: A kingly color representing King Jesus ultimately.
-Gold: Holiness or the Holy Spirit. We are to be refined as gold, too.
-Late for a ship or wedding or not ready for something of importance: Get right with the Lord and finish what He’s asked of you. Get ready for the Lord. Many in our church fellowship have had versions of this dream including me, my husband, my mom (her dream is recorded on this website) and our pastor. Our pastor emphasizes that the ‘John the Baptist ministry’ is sent to prepare us for the Lord’s coming (both the first and second coming).
Remember that John was the voice crying in the wilderness, “Prepare the way of the Lord”. John the Baptist preached a message of repentance. That is the first step in preparing, in getting ready to meet the Lord. We must preach this, too, or people will not be ready to meet the Lord.
-Empty chair next to someone: Important relationship (marriage?) severed in some form, possibly through death.
-Thumb cut off: Person's authority has been taken away (cut off) by another in some way or the person has not been respected. In the Bible this was sometimes done to conquered kings. Pray for restoration.
-Wedding ring on pointer finger: too much accusation or pointing out of faults in a marriage.
-Marriage bed, parent in with you and husband: You or your spouse have not fully left father and mother (emotionally) to be joined with your spouse.
-Couch: Healthy OR broken family togetherness. Is the couch broken or not accessible?
-Marriage bed: Is there a hole above it or by it? Possibly some form of unfaithfulness to the Lord or spouse
-Standing on firm, solid ground while the earth is shaking all around you, but you are not affected: Praise God! You are in His will. You have said, “No” to being double-minded.
-Being at the bottom of very deep water with a wounded heel or foot: You have experienced a deep betrayal or someone is very much against you. Can you forgive them and let the Lord heal you? Forgiveness is not optional according to the Bible (Matt 18:21-35, Matt 6:14, 15). Knowing that God knows your hurt and wants to help you, as evidenced by the dream, may help make it easier to forgive. The Lord experienced this type of wounding, too. He forgave. He forgave US.
-Deep water that is beautiful: May represent the Word of God.
-Falling into a deep, narrow pit or sinking down into slimy mud: Possible harlotry, spiritual adultery, loving something else more than the Lord (double-mindedness). Pray to the Lord in repentance. Only He can get you out. He wants to help you out. That’s why He gave the dream.
-Fake jewel: Not of the Lord or His Kingdom. The spirit of harlotry (Jezebel) wants us to find the fake gospel (trying to save, defend or promote ourselves, the kingdom of self). We find the fake when we don’t love the truth or are not willing to deny self in order to gain Christ.
-Real jewel such as a pearl or diamond: The true gospel. Finding the Lord or can represent people. Is the jewel broken from its setting? Broken relationship with the Lord or those that have once been dear to us. Or our own heart is broken. The context of the dream would reveal which of these meanings applies.
-Seeing someone in your dream ‘up close and personal’: You may be seeing some truth about yourself even if the person is not technically ‘you’.
-Reaching out and touching a stranger appropriately who is same sex as you, even in a bathroom (a place of cleansing): Can be a split part of yourself being rediscovered and you are in the process of being made whole! A woman at a Christian camp told me a dream like this and I didn't even know if she knew the concept of a split or fractured personality (due to trauma) and how God can heal that supernaturally and deliver that split part from unforgiveness and trauma that caused the split in the first place and merge the split part back to the core self. But I went ahead and asked her if she'd prayed for God to heal her of a fractured or split personality. She had prayed!! The dream matched the time frame of her prayer. The dream showed God answering her prayer! The split was merging back with her core self! Praise God!
-In a warning dream concerning physical danger of some kind (which the Lord gives for us to pray for His protection, for His blood to cover the situation): A certain family member might represent a different family member or all of the family collectively. God sees families and their members as being much more interconnected than we do. (Remember that King David and Jesus were sometimes used interchangeably in scripture, as if they were the same person. Jesus would come from King David’s lineage.) Because of this, it may be wise to cover the entire family in prayer.
-A horn, similar to an animal’s horn: Authority in the spirit, evil or good, over an area or a group of people, in a situation or in a person’s life. Is the horn attached to a demon? Then that demon has some authority (but not as much as we do in the name of the Lord!). Ask the Lord what has given the demon his authority. God says, “Don’t give place to the devil.” That is, don’t give him a way, a ‘legal’ right to take authority in a life or a situation. Has someone given the devil ‘place, made room for him, allowed him access?’ If so, then you can be assured he has taken whatever has been relinquished. Repentance, forgiveness and then taking back the lost ground in the name of Jesus are needed.
A FEW SYMBOLS TO CONSIDER
I will just list a few of many symbols I have personally encountered in dreams of my own or in the dreams of others who I know personally which may be helpful to consider if you have seen these same symbols in your own dreams. I am picking things that at first glance wouldn’t obviously have these meanings. This is not an exhaustive list by any means. Almost all of these symbols are also in the Bible. As I’ve noted, God speaks in the same way yesterday, today and forever. So dream language often matches Bible language. Just another of many proofs that the God of the Bible is very real and alive!
-Shoes: The gospel (see more in SYMBOLS THAT HAVE CONSTANT MEANINGS)
-Huge rock or foundation: Jesus!
-Small sharp stones on land: Idols or the demonic in the heart.
-Lion: Jesus or the devil. Does the lion attack a person on a highway and seemingly 'kill' them or gravely injure them? That person is not on the highway of holiness (Isaiah 35:8,9). Holiness is missing. Pray for them. Warn if God tells you. They may need others in the body of Christ to help them get healed and on the highway of holiness. The lion is Jesus if you are frantically running away at first, but then find out He wants to be your companion who protects you from the real enemy as long as you walk with Him.
-Roaring Lions: Corrupt, oppressive tyrant leaders. It's a matter of time before they attack. (Zephaniah 3:3) OR one lion roaring can symbolize the Lord's voice in warning.
-Bread or lack of: The Word of God. It can take the form of wonderful smelling cookies (encouraging word), etc.
-Oil (pure): The Holy Spirit. Has the oil been spilled or wasted? That would indicate foolishness. No lid for the anointing oil? - No limit to God's Holy Spirit and the anointing He brings.
-Grease or rancid oil: False Holy Spirit.
-Tornado: Usually an attack from the enemy which we may be able to prevent or ‘survive’ through prayer or repentance.
-Trees: Often symbolize people or groups of people, family ‘tree’; possibly the Tree of Life (Christ)-has fruit, especially if you lost temporal things in the dream- Paul said, “I count all things as loss to gain Christ.”
-Angel about to blow a trumpet: Are we ready for God’s timetable of events?
-Field or vineyard: Can represent the people of God.
-Donkey: Have you birthed an Ishmael? Genesis 16:12 calls Ishmael a wild donkey of a man. We birth Ishmael, not Isaac, when we get ahead of God and do things ‘for Him’ in OUR own way because of lack of faith. It is the 'vain' help of man. Solution: Repent and let God do His things His way. If buried donkeys are coming back to life and reemerging, you have turned back to your own self-willed plans, not God's will.
-Land: Can represent our heart and/or our inheritance. Beautiful land is the promised land if it is fruitful.
-Horse: Strength of the flesh, usually… is it out of control or domineering? Spiritual horses of Israel deliver with supernatural power. A beautiful war horse-sized horse running very fast with a rider passing donkeys, camels, and horsemen in pairs- it is the horseman announcing, "Babylon has fallen, her idols are shattered" or the "Get out of Babylon" message. I have ridden this war horse in a dream. Read Isaiah 21. I will not comment deeply on the four horsemen spoken of in Revelation here. But if you see a certain colored horse that has a rider with a certain purpose, see if it matches any of the horses described in the Bible. The four horsemen are described in Revelation 6. God may be preparing you and your loved ones.
WARNING CONCERNING CHILDREN about a certain kind of horse dream: If a child tells you a dream about a (dark colored?) horse (stallion?/lust) that is large and chasing them or their friend, trying to run over them, please pay attention to the dream's details. It may be a dream about a sexual predator who is after that child. I was so saddened to learn of a series of dreams like this that a child had about their cousin that would have prevented rape and sexual abuse if the adult parent or caretaker had sought God to understand the dream. When God warns we must listen.
-House: Your personal spiritual condition or a church. What is the condition of the house? Is it divided? Read Mark 3:25. Is it open to the elements (powers of darkness)? Has the thief (satan) been able to enter? Is the foundation firm (Jesus)?
-White house: Can be the true church if it is a humble dwelling or the fake church that puts on a facade (white-washed) which may be symbolized as a white shell, open to the elements and stormy weather such as tornadoes. Or it is the literal governmental White House. The dream will reveal which.
-Furniture missing: Understanding of some of God’s ways is missing. Also, after God delivers you (the house) of demonic influences; the Holy Spirit must fill your house. Beware of an empty house.
-House sinking down: Harlot’s house, a house of folly (double-mindedness, having an idol in the heart before God… the opposite of wisdom’s house). Cry out to God. Only He can get you out!
-House sinking down, shaking, breaking apart, often starting at the master bedroom, and then sinks into the earth. All around has shaken, but you (and your spouse) are on solid ground and unaffected: You are doing God's will. You are out of the harlot's house! You are standing on the unshakeable Rock! Praise God!
-Stairs: Are they safe? Are they complete? If so, then perhaps there is no impediment to getting closer to God. If something is wrong with the stairs, you need to know the cause. Has there been judgment against a brother or sister? Judging others will damage your access (your stairway) to God.
-Cracked foundation: Relationship with the Lord is not healthy, OR generational /childhood brokenness needs attention and healing/deliverance.
-Cups or vessels: People. Are they broken or cracked? A need for prayer and healing. Is one beautiful, with great value? The Lord is showing you your great worth and value to Him!
- Serving spoon, HUGE: The person the dream is about is a great servant in God's Kingdom. This is His greatest compliment.
-Dishes missing in your set of dishes, another ministry has the missing dishes to form the complete set? Are you called to work together in some way?
-Mountain: City of God OR obstacle that needs faith to remove it.
-Ocean, going to see it: Spiritual freedom’s path.
-Highway (not too wide or curving): Highway (path) of holiness.
-Narrow path: Probably God’s path unless there are demonic things or fences keeping you from God’s things, then it would be lack of freedom to do God’s will.
-Restaurant: Usually a church where we are spiritually fed or not fed, fed the same thing over and over or fed junk food (a false word rather than the true Word), or too much grease (false Holy Spirit), etc. If it serves extra high quality meat, then it is preaching a true deep Word, a full gospel.
-Sword or knife: Judgment or speaking evil with the mouth OR represents the Word of God.
-Carrying bags of ‘things’ that keep you from doing God’s will or seeking His face: Lay them aside. Hebrews 12:1, 2.
-Running a race: Hebrews 12 again. Keep your eyes on Jesus. Don’t change direction. Don’t quit. It is the ‘Faith run’.
-Running out of control toward danger or a highway with fast approaching cars, not listening to warnings: You or the person (might be characterized as 'foolishness' by taking the form of a child) are making wrong decisions which will negatively impact your or their life.
-Wandering, especially barefoot: This is the harlot spirit. Its goal is to draw people away from Christ and love something else instead. In my dream, she was drawing away a young man from a Bible study. Proverbs has much to say about this as well as the book of Hosea. It is a major theme throughout the Bible.
-Riding roller coaster: Life has felt like its full of ups and downs. Full of unexpected twists and uncertainties.
-Prophetic symbols: (may show gift or call or prophetic help, i.e., the voice of God in the matter) Extra big eyes, sightseeing, seeing eye dog, big picture window (a dream showed a refining plant taking up my full view = the refiner's fire), being given a camera (did it belong to someone who saw the enemy before others? My husband was given Winston Churchill's camera which still had the film in it. Churchill did indeed see the threat of Hitler before others.), looking for your glasses, vigorously cleaning glasses (your ability to see God's agenda is getting clearer) , looking through binoculars, dragonfly eyes.
-Head on a platter: Witchcraft/Jezebel's persecution is probably part of the same dream. The Jezebel spirit has cut off the voice of a prophet, silenced the prophetic or stopped/hindered the Elijah spirit from reconciling families. This requires serious prayer. You will be tempted to run from this issue or problem and not deal with it.
-Elijah in a dream is not chosen to go behind the scenes (family issues that need healing and restoration). The false Elijah (slick looking) IS chosen instead (not dealing with family issues, no reconciliation in the family). Sadly, the real Elijah told me, in a dream, that he's used to not being chosen!
-Israel fighting Israel: Those who should be in unity are divided. This can be the result of the true Elijah not being chosen.
-Projected hologram, stepping into: This is not a true reality. I immediately had my first and only 'hologram' dream after praying for the truth about the election results. Inside the hologram, I saw that mostly young people were mesmerized and fooled by the false reality. It only held a 'Candy Land' type beauty for an instant before it felt nightmarish and hard to escape from. That night my dream was confirmed as Tucker Carlson described this candidate as a 'projected hologram'.
-Church people asleep: Wake up and do the will of God!
-Playing softball: (men of church) The ball goes out of bounds and a hardball made of concrete is thrown back to them = They need to do God's Kingdom work. God's grace will supernaturally give the ability to lift the hardball. No 'playing' church.
-Marry: Get in agreement with. This could be the Lord (covenant) OR something bad.
-Bible, tearing chunks out of, even though person always carries it: This is the same as foolishness, harlotry, spiritual adultery, double-mindedness. The person is denying Jesus. Jesus is the Word. We must eat/drink ALL of Him = Communion.
-Nakedness: You’re not doing all that God has asked of you and it is causing you to feel shame. Wake up! Put on your clothes. Rev 16:15 says, “Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, so that he will not walk about naked and men will not see his shame.” Also, Rev 19:7 says, “…for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride (that’s us if we’re a true believer in Christ) has made herself ready. It was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.” Nakedness could also signal a need to be saved, because Isaiah 61:10 states, “For He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness.”
- Clothes for a wedding, finding the correct ones: Putting on the Righteousness of Christ, getting ready for His coming. The clothes will be bright and clean with no wrinkle.
-Late for important event or wedding: The fact that the Lord is still warning you is His mercy to get ready by doing His will NOW. Today is the day of salvation. Today is the day to hear His voice and obey Him.
- Lower level, going to, needing different tools: I saw President Trump go to a lower level in an elevator before the 2020 election. It was the Holy Spirit's doing, symbolized by him 'drinking wine' rather than alcohol (foolishness, the worldly system) as others were doing. He went to the lower level as God's path for a true servant. The ones drinking alcohol went to the lower level because they'd been foolish and were demoted. The day I had the dream, my pastor preached on becoming a bond-servant, the greatest title God can give us. Dream ended with the 'servant' being 'exalted.' He was much taller with a long trench coat of authority).
-Baby: Literal or a ministry or promise OR not growing in Christ. Did you find a baby and decide to keep it? This is discovering or rediscovering a spiritual gift or calling. Where did you find the baby? A dumpster? You previously had not valued it. Side of the road? You had gotten distracted and set it aside on your life journey. Did you give birth to a baby in a dream? Probably an Isaac representing your promise and call from the Lord (your way to be blessed and bless others). Twins? This may represent a double anointing. No matter how many babies you birth, God will expect you to care for all of them, like the man who was given and invested 5 talents and received five more. If you are taking care of (parenting) someone else's baby in a dream, you will most likely have many mishaps, since it is not your calling. But if you're babysitting the baby (representing prayer for another), then your care will have a good ending.
-Car: Your life or your ministry or (if it’s a ‘family’ car), your entire family. See also the mention of cars in greater detail in the section titled, ‘MODERN DAY IMAGERY IN DREAMS’.
-Purse or wallet: Provision or identity, including one’s identity in Christ. If you lose it, but find something else, that may be God's new identity for you.
-Losing many, many things, but finding something of inexpressible value instead: This is part of the Christian journey. Counting all things as loss in order to gain Christ! Read Philippians 3:7-11. My version of this dream even had a bulldozer removing the dirt, lawn and landscaping all around my house. Everything was being taken! I mean everything! The dream ends with me behind a bank discovering the most beautiful tree with glowing huge pear-shaped fruit. I had found the tree of life which represents 'gaining Christ'! This fruit was not forbidden. I knew I could pick this beautiful glowing fruit and share it with others.
-Fall down or fall off of something: Sin or literal fall or demoted. Did you stumble or almost stumble over something? You need to leave or get rid of what made you or others stumble. It is causing sin.
-Start to fall, but catch hold of a pillar or spiritual person catches you: Almost fall into sin.
-Pillar: Spiritual father or elder or five-fold-minister.
-Dirt on a person: Sin and/or shame.
-Showering: Usually a type of spiritual cleansing or baptism.
-Flooding: The flooding could be bad or perverse words from the world system or the enemy.
-Overflowing toilet: Negative, hurtful words coming out of the mouth of someone, potty mouth.
-Three or four rows of chairs, three or four stories to a building: Third and fourth generation of certain iniquities visiting again. Solution: Repent for your sin and that of your ancestors. Break ungodly generational ties. Cover iniquities with the blood of Jesus. It speaks louder!
-Door: Jesus is the Door (of protection) for the sheep. (John 10:7) Don't take off the door! Door not fully closed lets the enemy come in. Remedy: Fully apply/follow Jesus. A partial allowing of Jesus in your life or your family's life will not protect! A cross 'cut-out' in the door for 'decorative' purposes will not protect you from 'snakes' coming in. Remedy: Apply the cut-out cross back to the door!! He's not a 'decoration'! He's the door! You can't separate 'THE Cross' from THE real Jesus. The REAL Jesus goes through the CROSS!
-Unable to lock a door: The enemy (devil) has an open door to your life because of some iniquity or sin or unforgiveness. Repent. Is the lock that doesn't lock on a tree or 3 or 4 story building? Repent of generational sin and iniquity. Ask the Lord to give you the key to lock the door. Deliverance prayer may be needed.
-Keys: Finding or being given keys, finding a way, God's way or opening the kingdom of God for others (like Peter in the Bible). This could indicate a gift for evangelism or authority in the spiritual realm to bind and loose according to God's will.
-Open window: Similar to unlocked door. The thief of our soul can get in that way. We need to be alert and awake to the Lord so that our ‘house’ doesn’t get broken into.
-Animal marking territory or running around an object: Shows where demonization has gained legal ground to that 'territory'. Repent to break legal rights and ask the Lord to come in and deliver the person.
-Dog: In America where they are pets, a friendly or familiar dog could symbolize relationships, kind of like sheep did in Jesus' day. In our family we’ve had at least twenty dreams where our personal family dog, a wonderful sweet Golden Retriever, represented our family ministry and the obvious relationships which are represented. We’ve seen our ‘dog’ be lost, be found, be undisciplined, be hurt, look dead and then come back to life, wandering the streets unprotected, in danger of being stolen, about to be bitten by a snake, glow, turn white, be neglected and forgotten by us, not fed and watered (not seeking the Lord about His call for us), be ignored as we play with a cute, fun 'fox' (remember the fox spoils the vine, i.e., that which produces fruit).
All the dreams were showing the state of our family calling and ministry, and togetherness. But a dog that is not people-friendly could represent a demon. If a dog in a dream licks up something off the floor, it is probably demonic and needs to get out of your house and off your property. A dog returning to its own vomit is representing the demonic. Let that dog OUT!
-Cows: Prosperity, plenty. What is the ‘state’ of the cow(s) you see? I saw many cows belly up (dead) before a major financial crisis.
-Muddy water: A polluted "Word".
-Walking in a river: Following the Holy Spirit (unless something is wrong with the river - polluted or red). Part of the walk of a true believer includes the Lord miraculously making a way where there seems to be no way, i.e., the walk of faith, as when God parted the waters of the Red Sea. So look to God, not the easy way out. In other words, His River has some strong currents up ahead that only He can see you through. The answer is not to look for another river. The answer is to look to Him! Going through the 'impossible to cross' parts of the river equate to baptism, a type of death and resurrection.
-Man made river: false Holy Spirit, even if it's 'clean'. Don't be deceived by 'show'.
-Walking or diving into water over your head willingly: Baptism again. You will be rescued and brought out because it represents a death and resurrection.
-Baby making messes: Foolishness, need for repentance.
-Red: Could be the blood of Jesus OR harlotry (unfaithfulness to the Lord- being double-minded). The context in the dream will reveal.
-White: Could be God’s purity and holiness OR the devil masquerading as God.
-Blue: Priest's ephod completely blue - holy, set apart for the Lord. Numbers 15:37-40 speaks about a cord of blue on a tassel of the hem for all the sons of Israel to look at and remember to do all the commandments and be holy (set apart) to God.
-Purple: A kingly color representing King Jesus ultimately.
-Gold: Holiness or the Holy Spirit. We are to be refined as gold, too.
-Late for a ship or wedding or not ready for something of importance: Get right with the Lord and finish what He’s asked of you. Get ready for the Lord. Many in our church fellowship have had versions of this dream including me, my husband, my mom (her dream is recorded on this website) and our pastor. Our pastor emphasizes that the ‘John the Baptist ministry’ is sent to prepare us for the Lord’s coming (both the first and second coming).
Remember that John was the voice crying in the wilderness, “Prepare the way of the Lord”. John the Baptist preached a message of repentance. That is the first step in preparing, in getting ready to meet the Lord. We must preach this, too, or people will not be ready to meet the Lord.
-Empty chair next to someone: Important relationship (marriage?) severed in some form, possibly through death.
-Thumb cut off: Person's authority has been taken away (cut off) by another in some way or the person has not been respected. In the Bible this was sometimes done to conquered kings. Pray for restoration.
-Wedding ring on pointer finger: too much accusation or pointing out of faults in a marriage.
-Marriage bed, parent in with you and husband: You or your spouse have not fully left father and mother (emotionally) to be joined with your spouse.
-Couch: Healthy OR broken family togetherness. Is the couch broken or not accessible?
-Marriage bed: Is there a hole above it or by it? Possibly some form of unfaithfulness to the Lord or spouse
-Standing on firm, solid ground while the earth is shaking all around you, but you are not affected: Praise God! You are in His will. You have said, “No” to being double-minded.
-Being at the bottom of very deep water with a wounded heel or foot: You have experienced a deep betrayal or someone is very much against you. Can you forgive them and let the Lord heal you? Forgiveness is not optional according to the Bible (Matt 18:21-35, Matt 6:14, 15). Knowing that God knows your hurt and wants to help you, as evidenced by the dream, may help make it easier to forgive. The Lord experienced this type of wounding, too. He forgave. He forgave US.
-Deep water that is beautiful: May represent the Word of God.
-Falling into a deep, narrow pit or sinking down into slimy mud: Possible harlotry, spiritual adultery, loving something else more than the Lord (double-mindedness). Pray to the Lord in repentance. Only He can get you out. He wants to help you out. That’s why He gave the dream.
-Fake jewel: Not of the Lord or His Kingdom. The spirit of harlotry (Jezebel) wants us to find the fake gospel (trying to save, defend or promote ourselves, the kingdom of self). We find the fake when we don’t love the truth or are not willing to deny self in order to gain Christ.
-Real jewel such as a pearl or diamond: The true gospel. Finding the Lord or can represent people. Is the jewel broken from its setting? Broken relationship with the Lord or those that have once been dear to us. Or our own heart is broken. The context of the dream would reveal which of these meanings applies.
-Seeing someone in your dream ‘up close and personal’: You may be seeing some truth about yourself even if the person is not technically ‘you’.
-Reaching out and touching a stranger appropriately who is same sex as you, even in a bathroom (a place of cleansing): Can be a split part of yourself being rediscovered and you are in the process of being made whole! A woman at a Christian camp told me a dream like this and I didn't even know if she knew the concept of a split or fractured personality (due to trauma) and how God can heal that supernaturally and deliver that split part from unforgiveness and trauma that caused the split in the first place and merge the split part back to the core self. But I went ahead and asked her if she'd prayed for God to heal her of a fractured or split personality. She had prayed!! The dream matched the time frame of her prayer. The dream showed God answering her prayer! The split was merging back with her core self! Praise God!
-In a warning dream concerning physical danger of some kind (which the Lord gives for us to pray for His protection, for His blood to cover the situation): A certain family member might represent a different family member or all of the family collectively. God sees families and their members as being much more interconnected than we do. (Remember that King David and Jesus were sometimes used interchangeably in scripture, as if they were the same person. Jesus would come from King David’s lineage.) Because of this, it may be wise to cover the entire family in prayer.
-A horn, similar to an animal’s horn: Authority in the spirit, evil or good, over an area or a group of people, in a situation or in a person’s life. Is the horn attached to a demon? Then that demon has some authority (but not as much as we do in the name of the Lord!). Ask the Lord what has given the demon his authority. God says, “Don’t give place to the devil.” That is, don’t give him a way, a ‘legal’ right to take authority in a life or a situation. Has someone given the devil ‘place, made room for him, allowed him access?’ If so, then you can be assured he has taken whatever has been relinquished. Repentance, forgiveness and then taking back the lost ground in the name of Jesus are needed.
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