Hearing God's Voice in DreamsA–Z symbolsClothing in dreams
53 symbols · biblical meanings from Hearing God's Voice in Dreams by Apostle Nicholas V. Mbanjwa
Apron
A task that calls for you to serve or to wait on people.
✦ Positive: A calling to serve others
Barefoot
Unwillingness or unpreparedness to do a particular mission or assignment; also humility or entering into God's rest.
✦ Positive: Humility before God; Entering into God's rest (as Moses on holy ground)
⚠ Warning: Unwillingness or unpreparedness for a mission; Unexpected suffering on the journey ahead
Belt
The central point of your life — spiritual foundations, honesty, truth, faithfulness.
✦ Positive: Spiritual foundations; Honesty, truth, faithfulness
⚠ Warning: Dishonesty; Unfaithfulness
Big/Unfitting Shoes
Stepping outside the boundaries of your calling — doing something you are not called to; being ahead of yourself; moving too fast for duties that require maturity first.
⚠ Warning: An assignment that isn't yours; Stepping outside your calling boundaries; Moving ahead of your maturity level
Blue T-Shirt
Called to function in the office of a Prophet — blue is the color of revelation, and prophets operate in the revelation gifts.
✦ Positive: Prophetic calling
Part of the Ministry Gifts in Colors sub-section.
Scripture: Ephesians 4:11
Boots
A task that will be testing and will require tenacity and perseverance.
✦ Positive: Tenacity and perseverance in a testing assignment
Brown T-Shirt
Called to operate in the pastoral office — brown represents nurturing, a character of shepherds.
✦ Positive: Pastoral calling
In New Testament Greek the word for shepherd is the same word for pastor.
Part of the Ministry Gifts in Colors sub-section.
Scripture: Ephesians 4:11
Cap
A promise of God's protection during a season of drought or danger; your current spiritual rank.
✦ Positive: God's protection during a dry or dangerous season; Current spiritual rank
Casual Pants
Not taking your vacation or work seriously; being relaxed or casual about your journey.
⚠ Warning: Not taking your work, vacation or journey seriously; Being too relaxed or casual
Coat
Justice (righteousness) and kindness (judgment); spirit of influence and leadership.
✦ Positive: Righteousness and kindness; Spirit of influence and leadership
Dress
A task or journey you have been prepared for that requires little or no further preparation on your part.
✦ Positive: Fully prepared — task requires no further readying on your part
Formal Pants
Your formal current or future journey — ministry, business, or work; your service.
✦ Positive: Formal journey in ministry, business or work; Your service
Color of the pants matters significantly.
Formal Shoes
Currently or about to undertake a formal assignment; also being prepared.
✦ Positive: Undertaking a formal assignment; Being prepared
Hat
Your attitude; matters of submission under a local ministry, pastor, church leader, or to the Lord.
✦ Positive: Right attitude; Submission to spiritual authority
⚠ Warning: Wrong attitude; Rebellion against spiritual authority
Color of the hat plays a significant role — cross-reference colors. 'Kindness and justice were my coat and hat.' (Job 29:14)
Scripture: Job 29:14
Heels
God is escalating you to an assignment higher than your current one, or to a higher spiritual position.
✦ Positive: Elevation to a higher assignment or spiritual position
Jacket
Protection from spiritual seasons and situations that are not favorable; your emotional feelings.
✦ Positive: Protection from unfavorable spiritual seasons
⚠ Warning: Emotional difficulty requiring protection
Jersey
Being comforted and cared for by God; nurtured or catered for during a stressful or uncomfortable season.
✦ Positive: Being comforted and nurtured by God during a hard season; Welcoming and accepting an expected task
⚠ Warning: Wearing a jersey in summer — readying for a task whose season has already passed, or worried about God's provision in a fruitful season
Ladies Tights
Personal beliefs, hidden thoughts and motives concerning your journey and walk.
✦ Positive: Personal beliefs guiding your walk
⚠ Warning: Hidden motives affecting your journey
Leather
To hide, be hidden, conceal, keep secret.
✦ Positive: Hidden by God for protection
⚠ Warning: Concealment, secrecy with wrong intent
Linen
Righteousness — on the positive side, God's righteousness; on the negative, man's righteousness and effort.
✦ Positive: God's righteousness
⚠ Warning: Man's righteousness, human effort; Works that are like permanently stained rags before God
Long Sleeve Shirt
A finished formal task — being fully prepared and ready.
✦ Positive: Completed task; Fully prepared and ready
See Short Sleeve Shirt for the full theological basis (Daniel/Revelation angelic messenger parallel).
Scripture: Daniel 10; Revelation 1
Many-Colors T-Shirt
Called to stand in the office of an Apostle — the only ministry office that functions in all five offices.
✦ Positive: Apostolic calling; Functioning in all five ministry gifts
Mask
Deception, hidden motives, or a false identity.
⚠ Warning: Deception; Hidden motives; A false identity
Nakedness
Humiliation and dishonor — throughout Scripture nakedness revealed these. Being clothed speaks of being covered, glorified, and honored.
⚠ Warning: Humiliation; Dishonor; Shame
Red T-Shirt
Called to operate in the office of an Evangelist — red represents salvation, and evangelists are the heralds of salvation.
✦ Positive: Evangelistic calling
Part of the Ministry Gifts in Colors sub-section.
Scripture: Ephesians 4:11
Running Shoes
God bringing you to an amusing journey or assignment requiring you to speed up; or a playful attitude toward a mission.
✦ Positive: An exciting, fast-moving assignment from God requiring speed
⚠ Warning: A playful attitude toward a mission that requires more seriousness
Sandals
A casual mission or assignment that does not require you to be serious.
✦ Positive: A casual, relaxed assignment
⚠ Warning: Unpreparedness and not being serious about your current mission
Scarf
Intercessory prayer — the scarf covers the neck, and the neck symbolizes mediation, standing between two parties.
✦ Positive: A heavy scarf in cold weather — prayers covering and sustaining you through a difficult season, whether your own prayers or those others have made on your behalf; A lightweight scarf in summer — prayers leading you into a favourable, fruitful, or refreshing season; Being given a scarf — receiving a mantle or calling for intercessory prayer; a greater grace or responsibility to stand in the gap for others
School Uniform
Having a teachable spirit, an attitude to learn, humility.
✦ Positive: Teachable spirit; Humility; Attitude to learn
⚠ Warning: Unwillingness to outgrow a certain mistake, experience, or mental attitude; Not learning the lesson God would have you learn from a particular situation
Scotch Cloth
To stop something from happening; to thwart.
✦ Positive: Stopping an evil plan
⚠ Warning: Thwarting something good
Context determines whether the thwarting is positive or negative.
Shoes Without Socks
Taking on a mission or work that makes you feel uncomfortable; doing something you are not well adjusted for.
⚠ Warning: Discomfort in a mission; Not well-adjusted for the work at hand
Short Sleeve Shirt
An unfinished formal task — ministry work, job-related, or business; being half-prepared, ready but not fully prepared.
✦ Positive: In context: partially ready, some preparation done
⚠ Warning: Unfinished task; Half-prepared; Not fully ready
Short/Mini Skirt
Being exposed — revealing to people that you are not prepared or ready for the task at hand.
⚠ Warning: Exposed unpreparedness; Vulnerability and unreadiness visible to others
A short skirt is revealing to the thighs — the symbolism of exposure and inadequacy.
Shorts
Not prepared or still unfit for the coming or already at-hand task.
⚠ Warning: Not prepared; Unfit for the task
Skirt
A task or journey that demands thorough preparation — requires changing, preparing in heart and mental readiness before engaging.
✦ Positive: Being called to prepare thoroughly for an important task
⚠ Warning: Engaging before adequate preparation
Slippers
God requiring you to put on an attitude of rest.
✦ Positive: An attitude of rest; Intimacy with God
Slippers are worn indoors and in the bedroom — the symbolism is of rest and intimacy.
Sports Clothes
A preparation process that might not be taken seriously because of seeming fun and playful.
✦ Positive: God preparing you through an enjoyable process
⚠ Warning: Not taking a serious preparation process seriously because it seems fun
Suit
Ministry of occupation, work or business work.
✦ Positive: Ministry; Occupation, work or business work
T-Shirt
An unfinished casual task — home, household, community, or societal work.
✦ Positive: Casual assignment or task in progress
⚠ Warning: Unfinished casual task; Not taking the task seriously enough
Tie
Your level of seriousness, commitment, reverence, or devotion.
✦ Positive: High seriousness, commitment, reverence or devotion
⚠ Warning: Lack of seriousness or commitment
Torn Clothes
In a positive context: repentance or a sudden stripping away of an old identity and status. In a negative context: distress, a break in covenant, or a stripping away of protection and provision.
✦ Positive: Repentance; Stripping away of an old identity and status
⚠ Warning: Distress; A break in covenant; Stripping away of protection and provision
Traditional Clothes
Concerns people of your culture, your nation, your God-given responsibility for your locals or a particular people or culture.
✦ Positive: Your God-given responsibility for your local or cultural community
⚠ Warning: Being bogged down by traditional beliefs concerning God or your calling — a need to rewire your belief system
Underwear
Secrets, private things.
✦ Positive: Godly secrets, things God keeps private
⚠ Warning: Secrets that should not be kept; Exposure of private things
Veil
That which concerns the flesh; covering; blindness; looking to the end of that which is passing away; the law.
⚠ Warning: The flesh; Blindness; Looking to what is passing away; Living under the law rather than grace
Vest
Secrecy, hidden things of the heart, hidden motives.
✦ Positive: Hidden things of the heart kept by God
⚠ Warning: Hidden motives; Concealed agenda
Vintage Wear
Being called for a classic, long-standing type of ministry; traditionally styled ministry; a responsibility to carry on a long-standing tradition.
✦ Positive: Classic, long-standing ministry; Carrying on a God-given tradition
Wearing a Wedding Theme Attire
You have put on your right attitude, are readied and prepared for the Kingdom — specifically, God's will for your life on earth.
✦ Positive: Readied and prepared for God's will for your life on earth
⚠ Warning: Not wearing the wedding attire provided — unprepared for what God has called you to (Matthew 22:11)
Wedding Gown
A wake-up call to review your commitment, devotion, and surrender toward the Lord.
✦ Positive: Renewed commitment and devotion to the Lord
⚠ Warning: A warning — commitment or devotion has lapsed and needs reviewing
White T-Shirt
Called to operate in the teaching office — white represents clarity, and teachers are called to clarify the Word of God.
✦ Positive: Teaching calling
Part of the Ministry Gifts in Colors sub-section.
Scripture: Ephesians 4:11
Women's Flat Shoes
Being required to carry on with your common or usual ministry or walk in the Lord — a simple or regular ministry or walk.
✦ Positive: Continuing faithfully in your regular ministry or walk
⚠ Warning: A dull, boring, or uninteresting walk or journey
Wool
True followers of Christ; God's kind of righteousness — obtained by the shedding of a sheep's blood (representing Christ's righteousness).
✦ Positive: True discipleship, following Christ; God's righteousness through Christ's shed blood; Putting on the attitude and character of a disciple
⚠ Warning: Wolves in sheep's clothing — false prophets, false followers of Christ visibly appearing as genuine but hiding their true nature
Work Uniform
Mentally and emotively ready — prepared and ready for a given task.
✦ Positive: Mentally and emotionally prepared and ready
Workout Clothes
In a process of being prepared by God and readied for the coming task or work.
✦ Positive: Being prepared and readied by God for a coming assignment