Hearing God's Voice in DreamsA–Z symbolsHousehold Objects in dreams
61 symbols · biblical meanings from Hearing God's Voice in Dreams by Apostle Nicholas V. Mbanjwa
Backpack
Luggage, responsibility, load, or burden.
✦ Positive: Carrying your God-given responsibilities
⚠ Warning: An overload or burden
Basin
Supplication, prayer, spiritual service.
✦ Positive: A basin holding water represents sanctification or purification; During Jesus' washing of the disciples' feet it represented a humble service
⚠ Warning: A basin with burning coals or fire represents judgment
Sacrificial duty
Judgment
A basin normally points to what's inside it.
Scripture: Exodus 30:17–21; John 13:5; Revelation 16
Bathtub
Your own responsibility in the work of sanctification. A bath takes more deliberate effort than a shower, so it speaks of your part: cleansing yourself and pursuing holiness.
✦ Positive: Taking responsibility for your walk with God; Putting away what defiles; Pursuing holiness
Battery
Your internal reserves of energy, faith, or holy zeal.
✦ Positive: Full reserves of energy, faith, and zeal
⚠ Warning: A drained battery — depleted reserves needing recharge in God's presence
Bell
A signal of divine timing or a summons to a new level of spiritual activity — an awakening or the beginning of a shift in the atmosphere.
✦ Positive: An awakening; A summons to a new level of spiritual activity; The beginning of a shift in the atmosphere
⚠ Warning: A false alarm — an attempt by the enemy to distract you or pull you into a battle or situation that does not align with your true calling
Blanket
Warmth, covered, enclosed.
✦ Positive: God's covering; Warmth; Being enclosed in God's protection
Book
A written mandate, divine instructions, records, a specific life curriculum prepared by God, or destiny.
✦ Positive: A written mandate; Divine instructions; A life curriculum prepared by God; Destiny
Broken Plate
A plate in ancient times was called a vessel, the same word used for God's servants in the Bible, which represents a broken minister.
⚠ Warning: A loss of God's servant; Death to one of God's children; A child of God falling into sin
Broom
Completely removing dirt, sanctifying process, purifying, removing what is unwanted.
✦ Positive: Removing spiritual waste; Spiritual cleansing; Sanctification; Purification
⚠ Warning: Sweeping judgment of God; Divine destruction; Divine retribution; Complete annihilation
God's sudden and completing work
Scripture: Isaiah 14:23; Psalm 120:4 (NKJV)
Calendar
Your schedule or season.
✦ Positive: Marking dates — awareness of divine timing
Candle
A small, focused light of revelation in a dark situation.
✦ Positive: Focused revelation shining in darkness
Chair
Resuming a position, settle, calm, or being established.
✦ Positive: Resuming a position; Being established; Settling
Cigarette
A bad influence, addictive habits, self-destruction, or toxic, slow-acting spiritual contamination.
⚠ Warning: A bad influence; Addictive habits; Self-destruction; Slow-acting spiritual contamination
Clock
The urgency of your assignment.
✦ Positive: Awareness of divine timing
⚠ Warning: A fast clock — you are missing time; A slow clock — waiting unnecessarily; A stopped clock — stagnation and being out of divine timing; your assignment has ground to a halt because you are not moving in rhythm with God's season
Cooking Stove
A process of preparation requiring intense pressure; your prayer life in surrendering prayers; or God expecting you to do something that will create a lot of heat (be bad-mouthed, persecuted, or tried).
✦ Positive: Intense preparation; Surrendering prayer life
⚠ Warning: Intense pressure; Persecution for your actions
Cup
Blessing(s), curse(s), partaking, oneness; also the wrath of God.
✦ Positive: Blessing; Partaking; Oneness with God (1 Corinthians 10:21)
⚠ Warning: Curses; The wrath of God (Revelation 16:19)
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10:21; Revelation 16:19
Curtain
A veil — something hidden, uncovered, unveiled.
✦ Positive: Something being unveiled or revealed
⚠ Warning: Something hidden
Diary
Details concerning your past experiences; that which concerns your past life experiences.
✦ Positive: Reviewing and learning from past experiences
⚠ Warning: Being stuck in the past
Electricity
The miracle-working power, supernatural power, anointing, Holy Spirit's power. 'Electricity is God's power in the natural realm, but the Holy Ghost power is God's power in the spirit realm.' — John G. Lake.
✦ Positive: Supernatural power; Holy Spirit's anointing and miracle-working power
Empty Fridge
A place of dependence.
✦ Positive: Being brought into a situation that forces you to trust God; Setup for a miracle
⚠ Warning: Barrenness; Lack
A place of testing
Scripture: 1 Kings 17:8–16; John 6:5–13
Gift
Unearned grace, an unexpected blessing, or a specialized talent.
✦ Positive: Unearned grace; An unexpected blessing; A specialized talent
Handbag
Glory or favor; can also reveal your level of expectation or receiving capacity.
✦ Positive: Glory; Favor; Level of expectation and receiving capacity
Iron
That which straightens things out; rearranging matters of your life.
✦ Positive: Straightening and rearranging your life
Kettle
The kettle's boiling water always represents judgment, purification, or life-or-death crisis.
✦ Positive: In 2 Kings 4:38-41, Elisha's boiling water, the water became a testing ground meaning the divine ground for testing sin
⚠ Warning: God using man as instrument for judging sin on another
Laptop
A revelation of your mind or someone else's concerning their thought processes, decisions, logic, ideas, perceptions, and imaginations.
✦ Positive: Understanding thought processes and decisions
More personal and flexible than a desktop PC.
Letter
A mystery yet to be discovered or a personal, direct message.
✦ Positive: A personal, direct message; A mystery yet to be discovered
Light Bulb
Light of the Word of God; knowledge of the Word about a particular situation; what you are able to dispel through the Word. Also: something exposed.
✦ Positive: The Word of God bringing light; Knowledge and revelation; Exposure of hidden things
Lost Keys
Satanic attack on your Kingdom authority revelation.
✦ Positive: This serves as a warning dream that you have lost focus of your authority but can still regain it
⚠ Warning: Losing your authority due to being distracted or the enemy attacking your faith
Losing contact or being distracted from your authority
Scripture: Matthew 16:19; Luke 11:52; Revelation 1:18
Makeup
How you present yourself to people; how you appropriate your God-given favor; or concealment and pretense.
✦ Positive: Appropriating God-given favor; Beauty restored
⚠ Warning: Concealment; Pretense
Job's third daughter Keren-happuch means 'a cosmetic jar' — given to him at restoration, representing beauty restored.
Scripture: Job 42:14
Microwave
To refresh a course, situation, or service; to revive and revitalize your passion, dedication, and devotion to the Lord.
✦ Positive: Revival of passion and devotion; Refreshing a situation
Mirror
The Word of God.
✦ Positive: The Word of God reflecting who you truly are
⚠ Warning: Looking and immediately forgetting — hearing but not doing the Word; A broken mirror — a distorted view into the Word of God, or relying on a wrong perception of one's self
Mobile Phone
A message or calling personally directed to you; a matter that will require obedience.
✦ Positive: A personal message or calling from God; A call requiring obedience
Dreaming of a call or SMS = personally directed message. Contrast with Radio (mass-directed).
Necklace
Charm; to impress; ravish; to capture a heart; also your level of discipline and foundational teachings (values) — a gold necklace reveals good discipline and teachings.
✦ Positive: Charm, favor; Good discipline and foundational teachings (gold necklace)
Padlock
A protective measure over a secret, a revelation, or a destiny.
✦ Positive: A locked padlock — the timing is not yet right; Having the key — the authority to open it is yours
⚠ Warning: A broken padlock — compromised security; the secrets, revelation, or territories entrusted to you are now vulnerable to demonic interference
Pen
Words of the mouth, confession.
✦ Positive: Powerful confession and declaration
'My heart is overflowing with good news. My tongue is a pen for a skillful writer.' (Psalm 45:1)
Scripture: Psalm 45:1
Perfume
Reputation, a good name, honor, influence, excellence, beauty.
✦ Positive: Good reputation; Honor; Influence; Excellence; Beauty
Job's second daughter Keziah means 'a precious perfume' (Job 42:14). Psalm 45:9 also links anointing oils to royalty and favor.
Scripture: Job 42:14; Psalm 45:9
Personal Computer
A revelation of the mind pattern prevailing in your family governing their approach to business, workplace, and principles of productivity, perceptions, imaginations, and ideas.
✦ Positive: Understanding the family's thought patterns and business approach
Picture
Idolizing something, illusion, imagination. Looking at yourself in a picture reveals a need to change how you see yourself.
⚠ Warning: Idolizing something; Illusion; Distorted self-perception
Pillow
Comfort or rest.
✦ Positive: Finding comfort; A place of total surrender
⚠ Warning: False assurance; Deceptive comfort; False prophecy; False revelation
Pot
A situation. A boiling pot means trouble.
⚠ Warning: Trouble, disaster — a boiling pot tilted from the north means disaster poured from the north
'I see a boiling pot, and its top is tilted away from the north. Disaster will be poured out from the north.' (Jeremiah 1:13-14)
Scripture: Jeremiah 1:13-14
Radio
A message that is mass-directed — can involve a nation, community, church, or people; meant to be shared and will require obedience from the intended people.
✦ Positive: A mass-directed message from God; A communal or national word requiring obedience
Contrast with Mobile Phone (personal).
Reflection
Self-examination — the projection of oneself in the light of the Word of God.
✦ Positive: The reflection of God's glory; One's true condition seen honestly
⚠ Warning: Looking at oneself in the reflection and going away and forgetting what manner of person one was
Ring
Love life, marriage commitment, your covenant in Christ.
✦ Positive: Marriage commitment; Covenant in Christ; Love life
⚠ Warning: A ring or marital covenant given by an unknown or counterfeit partner-figure — a false covenant (an attempted agreement); see Spiritual Spouse
Rope
A connection to a person or a mandate.
✦ Positive: A strong rope — a healthy covenant or connection
⚠ Warning: A fraying rope — a weakening covenant or connection; A broken rope — a severed connection to your covering; the link between you and your mentor, your mandate, or the source of your strength is failing
Rust / Corrosion
Idolatry, and moral filth.
✦ Positive: Grace can forgive and deal with any type of sin no matter the severity of it
⚠ Warning: Deeply embedded sin; Failure of earthly riches
Sin that has become so deeply embedded
Scripture: Ezekiel 24:11-12; Matthew 6:19–20
Safe
A place of maximum security for your most precious spiritual truths or callings.
✦ Positive: Precious truths and callings held in maximum security
Shower
The work of the Holy Spirit in sanctification. A shower takes less effort and the water flows from head to toe, so it speaks of the Holy Spirit's cleansing work in you and your need to yield to Him.
✦ Positive: Yielding to the Holy Spirit; Being cleansed from head to toe; A season of sanctification
Sofa
Comfort, cushioned, contentment, ease, relief.
✦ Positive: Comfort; Contentment; Ease; Relief
Sound System
An orderly arrangement of things; order; the absence of chaos.
✦ Positive: Order; Orderly arrangement
Spoon
Stirring something; awakening and exciting. In the negative: to disturb, provoke, incite, rouse.
✦ Positive: Stirring something good; Awakening and exciting
⚠ Warning: Disturbing; Provoking; Inciting
Table
Being served, taken care of, favored, supplied for, goodwill, provision.
✦ Positive: Being favored and provided for; Goodwill and provision
Television
Being shown a vision in a dream; something revealed to you.
✦ Positive: A vision being shown to you
Toaster
Putting under intense pressure — see also Cooking Stove.
⚠ Warning: Intense pressure
Toolbox
Having access to a wide range of choices and solutions to a problem.
✦ Positive: God-given skill and creativity; Equipped for every good work
Craftsmanship
Spiritual giftings
Scripture: Exodus 31:1–5; 1 Corinthians 12:4–7; 2 Timothy 3:16–17
Torch / Flashlight
Your ability to navigate through dark, unknown, or confusing situations.
✦ Positive: Navigating through darkness, the unknown, or confusion
Tray
To serve especially; something prepared specifically for someone; a special treat.
✦ Positive: Special preparation and service; A special treat
Umbrella
Covering, ministry.
✦ Positive: Covering; Ministry as covering for others; Protection from tribulation or pressure
Spiritual covering or protection from rains — tribulation or pressure.
Vessels
God's called-out ones; God's servants in ministry.
✦ Positive: Vessels of honor — God's ministers; Called-out servants
⚠ Warning: Vessels of dishonor — those not submitted to God's purposes
Wallet/Purse
Your capacity to receive or your ability to carry what you have been blessed with.
✦ Positive: Capacity to receive God's blessing; Ability to steward what you have been given
⚠ Warning: A lost wallet — losing your sense of purpose
Washing Machine
Where you do away with dirt — removing character stains, flaws, and inconsistencies; reviewing your walk of faith and what you have been doing that is inconsistent with the Word of God.
✦ Positive: Removing character flaws; Reviewing your walk of faith
Wristwatch
Your commitment to God's timing.
✦ Positive: Commitment to God's timing
⚠ Warning: Ignoring or being late to God's timing