Hearing God's Voice in DreamsA–Z symbols79 symbols · biblical meanings from Hearing God's Voice in Dreams by Apostle Nicholas V. Mbanjwa
International transitions, major callings, or being launched into higher spiritual dimensions.
✦ Positive: International transitions; Major callings; Being launched into higher spiritual dimensions
Your life or family's history or past; what you disregard, devalue, or take for granted.
⚠ Warning: Ignored history; Devalued matters; Things taken for granted
A bigger vision or the need to stretch forth — going big.
✦ Positive: A bigger vision; Stretching forth; Going big
Hidden things and your secrecies.
✦ Positive: Hidden things kept by God
⚠ Warning: Dark secrets
Sanctification, a place of cleansing.
✦ Positive: Sanctification; Cleansing
In the bathroom, the shower speaks of the work of the Holy Spirit in sanctification and your need to yield to Him, while the bathtub speaks of your own responsibility in the work of sanctification (see Shower and Bathtub).
Scripture: John 17:17; 1 Thessalonians 4:3
Intimate thoughts, heart's desires, prayer life, your place of rest.
✦ Positive: Intimate thoughts; Heart's desires; Prayer life; Rest
⚠ Warning: Sharing a bed with a partner-figure who is not the dreamer's actual spouse, in an oppressive dream — see Spiritual Spouse
A call to pray and intercede for one's nation or community — standing in the gap for one's people, and being a watchman to a community or nation.
✦ Positive: A need to weep and intercede; Spiritually and prophetically guarding against demonic plots over a community or nation; He maketh peace in thy borders
⚠ Warning: Removing a landmark — cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark; A boundary left unguarded
Transition — in a process or about to be moved by God from one place in life to another; change, transformation.
✦ Positive: Transition; Change; Transformation
A crossing from one phase of life to another.
A place God has put you or is taking you to; a situation. A high building means a higher spiritual calling.
✦ Positive: A God-ordained place or situation; A high building = higher calling
Being positioned to petition or request according to your needs — in a cafeteria you order and select your food at a counter.
✦ Positive: Positioned to petition God according to your needs
Entertainment, fleshly pleasure, amusement; also risking in hope of a potential gain.
⚠ Warning: Fleshly entertainment; Pleasure-seeking; Risky speculation
A place of fleshly entertainment, lust of the eye, enticement, soulish cravings, showmanship, or chaos.
⚠ Warning: Fleshly entertainment; Lust of the eye; Enticement; Showmanship; Chaos
A teaching ministry; or a particular lesson God wants to teach you.
✦ Positive: Teaching ministry; A God-ordained lesson; Being equipped with new strategies for your assignment
⚠ Warning: A refusal to graduate — remaining in perpetual learning without moving into the field to execute the mandate
Somewhere in God's plan you should be, but God is still preparing it — God is working and not yet finished concerning something along your destiny. Trust Him and be patient.
✦ Positive: God actively building your destiny; A call to trust and be patient
A long narrow passage leading to doors — representing a strained life, or difficulties that will ultimately lead the dreamer to many options and opportunities.
✦ Positive: A fleeting or passing situation — corridors are passageways, so the difficulty is temporary
⚠ Warning: Difficulty requiring careful emotional sobriety in choosing, since corridors have many doors
A dry place, drought, a time of testing.
✦ Positive: A season of testing that prepares you
⚠ Warning: Drought; Dryness; Testing and hardship
A place of communion, interacting, gathering, fellowship, welcoming, and receiving.
✦ Positive: Communion; Fellowship; Receiving
⚠ Warning: Commotion, noise, or disruptive sound
An opportunity — closed door = closed opportunity, open door = open opportunity. Also the human spirit or heart.
✦ Positive: An open opportunity; An open heart; A spiritual portal
⚠ Warning: A closed opportunity
Double anointing, double responsibility, double impact, more accountability.
✦ Positive: Double anointing; Double impact
⚠ Warning: More accountability and responsibility
God taking you to the next level of your life — spiritually, emotionally, financially — without your effort.
✦ Positive: Effortless elevation by God
⚠ Warning: Going down in elevator — regressing from faith
Rapid movement between levels of authority without effort.
A heart that has been cleansed from evil but left unoccupied by the Holy Spirit.
✦ Positive: A house that was in a mess, then cleaned and left empty, representing a life brought to order — provided it is then filled
⚠ Warning: Emptiness; Meaninglessness; No purpose; Loneliness; Hopelessness
Constant, effortless progression provided you remain on the path.
✦ Positive: Steady, effortless progression on God's path
⚠ Warning: A descending escalator — steady regression if the path is abandoned
A place where you are required to take initiative to bring out results and produce; a ministry outside the church; evangelism. A place of provision.
✦ Positive: Taking initiative to produce results; Ministry outside the church; Evangelism; Provision; A season of sowing and reaping with multiplication-based results
⚠ Warning: A failure to tend to your soil (heart), resulting in barrenness or a crop infested by spiritual weeds
The boundaries set for your protection, or the barriers you have erected against others.
✦ Positive: God-set boundaries of protection
⚠ Warning: Barriers you have erected against others
Whether the fence protects or isolates depends on the dream's context.
Evangelistic work, outreach ministry.
✦ Positive: Evangelism; Outreach ministry
Your place of fellowship (church) — where all ministries (lives) are empowered and equipped.
✦ Positive: Your church/place of fellowship; Being empowered and equipped
Your prayer closet, prayer life.
✦ Positive: An active prayer life
⚠ Warning: Cold fireplace — inactive prayer life
Beliefs, convictions, values, foundational doctrines, church leadership, or government.
✦ Positive: Solid foundational beliefs and convictions
⚠ Warning: Cracked or broken floor — shaky foundations
The future — seeing ahead.
✦ Positive: The future; Seeing ahead
Your life or family's future; what you prioritize, value, esteem highly; prominence.
✦ Positive: The future; What you prioritize; Prominence
Where a car (gift or calling) is on hold, suspended, parked — where a ministry is paused.
⚠ Warning: A ministry or calling on hold, suspended, or paused
God's presence — Eden means 'God's presence.' Also your love life, partner, and marital relationship.
✦ Positive: God's presence; Your love life and marital relationship
'Like a garden that makes the seed in it grow, so the Almighty LORD will make righteousness and praise spring up.' (Isaiah 61:11b)
Scripture: Isaiah 61:11; Song of Solomon 6:2
Leadership, counsel, advisory position, prestige, influential position in a community, dominion. Also something you have allowed and have the power to reject — the ability to loose Kingdom conditions and blessings.
✦ Positive: Leadership position; Counsel; Dominion; Loosing Kingdom blessings; An open gate — a call to advance
⚠ Warning: A gate opened to the enemy — something wrongly allowed; An open gate in a dream of attack — let-down authority; A shut gate when you are supposed to be moving — a challenge to your authority
A place of buried potentials, dead gifts, despair, lack of hope.
⚠ Warning: Buried potential; Dead gifts; Despair; Lack of hope
A place of growth spiritually and mentally.
✦ Positive: Spiritual and mental growth
God moving you through a direct process from one place to another within a short time.
✦ Positive: A direct, swift God-ordained process
What is currently happening in your life; issues concerning your security and comfort. An old home represents your past life, memory, or unresolved issues.
✦ Positive: Current life situation; Security, comfort
⚠ Warning: An old home — past life, unresolved issues, memory
Healing ministry, divine healing, laying hands on the sick. In a negative sense: a place of the broken emotionally, financially, or spiritually.
✦ Positive: Healing ministry; Divine healing
⚠ Warning: Emotional, financial, or spiritual brokenness
You personally — your life. Each room within the house has its own specific meaning.
✦ Positive: Yourself and your life
A secluded individual, a solitary one; also desire or longing.
✦ Positive: A season of solitude with God
⚠ Warning: Isolation; Loneliness
Principles; authority.
✦ Positive: Principles; Authority in the Kingdom; A large ring of keys — high-level administrative authority in the spirit
⚠ Warning: A lost key — a lost principle or compromised authority; Outdated keys — trying to open doors in a new season with the strategies or spiritual weight of a past, expired season; A wrong-size key — using a wrong principle for a specific situation
Your call or that which concerns your serving, servanthood, preparing.
✦ Positive: Your calling to serve; Servanthood; Preparation
The path of progress — climbing it shows growth; seeing it suggests a way to bridge the gap between where you are and where God wants you.
✦ Positive: Climbing — growth and progression; Seeing a ladder — a God-given way to bridge the gap to where He wants you
⚠ Warning: A broken ladder — dangerous or incomplete progression; attempting to ascend to a new level of authority without having established the necessary foundational structure
That which you hold dear to your life — what is precious to you.
✦ Positive: What is precious to you
Reaching a conclusion; finality; divine restriction; sealed authority — a destiny arriving at a conclusion already divinely decided.
✦ Positive: Restriction that protects; Holiness; A garden enclosed, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed
⚠ Warning: Exclusion; A way permanently closed
The salvation package (Sozo — salvation, deliverance, health, wholeness, prosperity, abundance); the Kingdom — a place of unlimited resources and supply; the marketplace.
✦ Positive: The Kingdom's unlimited supply; The full salvation package; The marketplace
⚠ Warning: Materialism
The Greek word Sozo (salvation) encompasses: salvation, deliverance, health, wholeness, prosperity, and abundance.
The sphere or nature of your calling — your God-given ministry in the fivefold (Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor, Teacher).
✦ Positive: Your God-given ministry and calling; The space where you exercise your God-given jurisdiction
⚠ Warning: Bureaucratic entanglement — more focused on maintaining policy than receiving divine revelation
The world — outside the Kingdom of God.
⚠ Warning: The world; Outside God's Kingdom
A place of temporary rest; to take a break from daily labor; to relax and resume responsibilities; family enjoyment time.
✦ Positive: Temporary rest; Family time; Relaxation before resuming responsibilities
Wisdom — 'Wisdom has built her house. She has carved out her seven pillars.' (Proverbs 9:1). An essential part of your life or what gives you support.
✦ Positive: Wisdom; Essential support structures
Scripture: Proverbs 9:1
Playfulness, lack of seriousness. But sometimes what you take for fun, God will use to train you and bring something good out of you.
✦ Positive: God using your fun to train you
⚠ Warning: Playfulness; Lack of seriousness about godly things
Young women's ministry; a place of delivering the fruits of the womb (gifts) and where they need to be incubated.
✦ Positive: Young women's ministry; A place of incubating and developing gifts
God wanting to establish you in elementary teachings of the Kingdom. Going back to primary school may mean repeating the same mistake or regressing to issues of the flesh.
✦ Positive: Being established in foundational Kingdom truths
⚠ Warning: Repeating the same mistake; Regression to flesh; Back to basics
Addiction or spiritual oppression.
⚠ Warning: Addiction; Spiritual oppression
God bringing you to a place of restoration, refreshing, or renewal; or God wanting you to restore someone or something.
✦ Positive: Restoration; Refreshing; Renewal; Being called to restore others
To be or about to be served and ministered to; positioned to receive answers to your prayers.
✦ Positive: Being served; Receiving answers to prayer
A place of ridding off unwanted things in your life and toxic things.
✦ Positive: Releasing and removing toxic or unwanted things
Spiritual covering.
✦ Positive: Spiritual covering over your life
⚠ Warning: No covering — exposure
The house represents the dreamer's life as a public display; the home represents the family as a public display. For a Christian family this is a testimony to the Lord, making them His witnesses.
✦ Positive: A testimony openly displayed; What was spoken in secret proclaimed upon the housetops
⚠ Warning: No secrets — what is done there is seen
A ministry raised for broken and hurting believers.
✦ Positive: A ministry to the broken and hurting
The second level of spiritual growth — introduction to justification by faith, righteousness, the glorious liberty of God's children, discernment, and exercising of spiritual senses.
✦ Positive: Growth in faith and righteousness
⚠ Warning: Going back = making the same mistakes concerning faith and righteousness foundations
Scripture: Romans 8:20-21
A temporary situation; poverty, destitution, lack of resources.
⚠ Warning: Temporary poverty; Destitution; Lack of resources
Defense.
✦ Positive: Defense; God's protection over you
Massive impact, great influence, mass evangelism.
✦ Positive: Massive impact; Great influence; Mass evangelism
God taking you to the next level of your life one step at a time — spiritually, financially, emotionally — but requiring your effort.
✦ Positive: Progressive elevation through your own effort
⚠ Warning: Going down — regressing in faith one step at a time
A place of provision; a place of storage; or your mind or heart.
✦ Positive: Provision; Storage; The depth of your mind or heart
A lift represents elevation dependent on grace rather than effort; a stuck lift represents a delayed or halted elevation, or a stalled promotion.
✦ Positive: When a lift is stuck there is still the option of the stairs — this may require self-effort and take longer, but the dreamer can still get there
⚠ Warning: Interfered promotion; Stifled advancement; Derailed progression
That which concerns your physical body or work of service in your local church.
✦ Positive: Your physical body as God's temple; Service in your local church
Temporary situation or rest.
✦ Positive: Temporary rest; A church tent — an evangelistic mission
⚠ Warning: A temporary or unstable situation
A temporary dwelling — a transitional state or a season of traveling/moving.
A church tent represents an evangelistic mission.
God has made you an exhibition — someone is watching your life. Also a display.
✦ Positive: God displaying your life as a testimony before people and angels
Breakthrough, acceleration, or quick transition.
✦ Positive: Breakthrough; Acceleration; Quick transition
Incomplete commitment, human limitation, or a life still under spiritual construction.
✦ Positive: A life in the process of being constructed and built; God working in the dreamer; He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ
⚠ Warning: A house left unfinished for a long time, representing an obstacle; Beginning to build without counting the cost
The level of Sonship — God willing and wanting you established in mature teachings of righteousness, justification by faith, salvation, redemption, and Christ's finished work.
✦ Positive: Established in full Sonship maturity; Maturity in righteousness and faith
A place of testing, striving, hardship, and temptation; or a place of decision.
✦ Positive: A place of decision
⚠ Warning: A place of testing; Hardship; Temptation; Striving
Scripture: Genesis 14:8; Joel 3:14
A designated space with seats where people wait for an appointment, service or transport — representing a need to rest, be patient, and believe God for one's appointed time, even while seeing others blessed first.
✦ Positive: Resting and waiting on the Lord; God about to fulfil what He has promised; A call to praise, worship and thank God while the appointed season has not yet come
⚠ Warning: Leaving the waiting room before being called; Impatience at seeing others served first
Protection; concerns in-laws or family. Also mental fortitude.
✦ Positive: Protection; Mental fortitude
⚠ Warning: A wall of partition, division, separation (negative)
A place of storage and provision; also deep things of the heart and thoughts of the soul (emotions).
✦ Positive: Storage and provision; Deep things of the heart
A revelation, insight, vision, or spiritual enlightenment. An open window means God opening you to receive revelation. Looking out the window means God revealing something.
✦ Positive: Revelation; Insight; Vision; Spiritual enlightenment
A vantage point for spiritual insight.
A wilderness experience, a trial experience; strange.
⚠ Warning: A wilderness trial; Strangeness