Hearing God's Voice in DreamsA–Z symbolsSpiritual Practices & Offices in dreams
20 symbols · biblical meanings from Hearing God's Voice in Dreams by Apostle Nicholas V. Mbanjwa
Anointing Oil
The empowering presence and consecration of the Holy Spirit set apart for office, healing, protection, and breaking heavy yokes.
✦ Positive: Empowering presence of the Holy Spirit; Consecration for office; Healing and protection; Breaking heavy yokes
Anointing Someone
Imparting a spiritual gift to someone; empowering a person to function in their spiritual calling; the transfer of authority.
✦ Positive: Transference of anointing; Impartation; The identifying of a potential mentee
⚠ Warning: Anointing given where there is no submission; Seeking impartation without relationship
Baptism
Complete identification with Christ's death and resurrection — deep cleansing, initiation into a new phase of spiritual life, or public covenant commitment.
✦ Positive: Identification with Christ's death and resurrection; Deep cleansing; A new phase of spiritual life; Public covenant commitment
Blessing
Spiritual endowment; being empowered spiritually; the ability to prosper; grace to carry out what is spiritually required.
✦ Positive: Being divinely empowered to carry out a spiritual responsibility; Being empowered supernaturally
⚠ Warning: A blessing withheld; Seeking the blessing while despising the One who gives it
Casting Out
Deliverance ministry; exercising authority over demons; walking in authority.
✦ Positive: Releasing the Kingdom of God over a territory; Casting out demons; Setting the oppressed and possessed free
⚠ Warning: Attempting deliverance without authority, as the sons of Sceva did
Communion
Deep fellowship, covenant renewal, remembrance of Christ's sacrifice, and spiritual fortification against weakness or sickness.
✦ Positive: Deep fellowship; Covenant renewal; Remembrance of Christ's sacrifice; Fortification against weakness or sickness
Crown / Throne
Authority, governance, ruling capacity, and the ultimate reward or dominion given to an overcoming believer.
✦ Positive: Authority and governance; Ruling capacity; Reward and dominion of an overcomer
Cursing
A pronouncement of misfortune.
✦ Positive: A curse turned into a blessing, as God did for Israel when Balaam was hired against them; Christ having been made a curse for us, so that the curse of the law has no claim
⚠ Warning: A pronouncement of misfortune spoken over the dreamer or by them
Fasting
Humility before God; disciplining the body; subjecting the flesh.
✦ Positive: Seeking the Lord; Spiritual discipline; Bringing the body under subjection
⚠ Warning: Fasting for show; Fasting while oppression continues unaddressed
Forgiving
Letting go; setting one's own soul free; walking in love; trusting God.
✦ Positive: Releasing one's soul from the grip of the enemy; Choosing freedom; Choosing peace
⚠ Warning: Withholding forgiveness, which binds the one withholding it more than the one withheld from
Heaven
God's rule, will, power, and glory operating outside of the natural realm.
✦ Positive: God's rule, will, power, and glory beyond the natural realm
Laying On of Hands
A call to heal the sick; the transference of anointing and of authority; the release of the Holy Spirit's power for ministry function upon someone; releasing a person into the great commission.
✦ Positive: Healing anointing; Deliverance anointing; Exercising the great commission; Imparting anointing to others; Falling FORWARD, face down, under the hands of a holy or authoritative figure — an impartation from heaven (the Apostle's own dream of 2012)
⚠ Warning: Hands laid on suddenly and without discernment; Receiving impartation from a source the dreamer cannot account for; Falling BACKWARD under someone's hands in a dream — an attack on the dreamer's destiny; a false spirit seeking to make them fall back from Christ
Praying
A call to be spiritually alert; a need to seek God; a need to honour God; worship.
✦ Positive: The Holy Spirit guiding the dreamer concerning things yet to come; Communion with God; A life of surrender
⚠ Warning: Prayer offered without watchfulness; Prayer the dreamer is unable to complete
Preaching
The declaration of God's counsel, a call to alignment, or the release of apostolic and prophetic mandates over a person's life.
✦ Positive: Declaration of God's counsel; A call to alignment; Release of apostolic and prophetic mandates
Prophet
A spiritual office or gift representing divine sight, warning, direction, and the voice of God directed toward current or future events.
✦ Positive: Divine sight and direction; The voice of God toward current or future events; Warning
Rapture / End Times
Ultimate eternal reward, a divine perspective on earthly eras, or imminent shifts in ages requiring spiritual readiness and holy living.
✦ Positive: Ultimate eternal reward; Divine perspective on earthly eras; A call to readiness and holy living
Repenting
Turning away from sin; returning to God; humbling oneself before Him.
✦ Positive: Turning from sin to holiness; Walking in sanctification; Consecration; Offering one's members to God
⚠ Warning: Sorrow that does not turn; Confession without forsaking
Screaming
A warfare dream — signalling either an imminent attack or an attack the dreamer is presently going through.
✦ Positive: Screaming in joy, which signals a good experience coming the dreamer's way
⚠ Warning: Screaming as the result of an attack in the dream, representing a spiritual attack; Screaming in pain over something that unfolded in the dream, representing something coming that will break the heart
Speaking in Tongues
Edification of the inner man, divine mysteries spoken directly to God, and an overflow of spiritual capacity and prayer power.
✦ Positive: Edification of the inner man; Divine mysteries spoken to God; Overflow of spiritual capacity and prayer power
Trumpet
A divine alarm, a call to attention, the announcement of a major spiritual shift, or a prophetic warning.
✦ Positive: A divine alarm and call to attention; Announcement of a major spiritual shift
⚠ Warning: A prophetic warning