Hearing God's Voice in DreamsA–Z symbolsTransportation in dreams
20 symbols · biblical meanings from Hearing God's Voice in Dreams by Apostle Nicholas V. Mbanjwa
Airplane
Conference speaker, itinerant speaker, teacher of the Word; a traveling ministry of teaching including via social media, TV, or books. Often steered by a pilot — a ministry not within your control but dependent on God. Timing is of high importance.
✦ Positive: An international teaching/speaking ministry; A God-controlled itinerant ministry
⚠ Warning: Missing the plane — missing a time-sensitive assignment
Bicycle
A personal ministry — prayer life, studying the Word, personal intercessions; or a short journey and life in the line of purpose or a seasonal purpose. A bicycle uses your effort to go.
✦ Positive: Personal ministry; Personal disciplines (prayer, Word study); Seasonal purpose
Boat
Called to preach beyond your people — an international preaching ministry. Also: to plunge or dive into a certain vision or mission that overwhelms you, trusting God.
✦ Positive: International preaching ministry; Trusting God with an overwhelming vision
Ministry set for the nations — beyond your local borders.
Broken Down Car
Opposition to one's destination that lies within the dreamer's own means or control; ineffective systems for reaching a calling; an unreliable means of getting where God wants them; an outdated way of travelling.
✦ Positive: A call to revise one's current ministry or place of submission, and to ask honestly whether it can take the dreamer where God wants them
⚠ Warning: A means of progress that has failed; Being stranded through outdated methods
Bus
A big local ministry, a great number of people; a calling to lead a greater local ministry with great local influence and impact; a pastoral calling. A bus, like a taxi or being a passenger in someone else's car, represents a corporate calling.
✦ Positive: Leading a large local ministry; Great local influence and impact; Pastoral calling
Empty Petrol Station
Searching for help in the wrong place; being in, or finding, a dry ministry.
✦ Positive: A prompt to find an alternative place or station for help; IF THE EMPTY STATION IS THE DREAMER'S OWN, a call to refill themselves through prayer and the Word
⚠ Warning: Returning repeatedly to a source that has nothing to give
Helicopter
A spiritual ministry confined within your nation — can move in any direction including backward and hover. A higher spiritual calling entrusted to your total control.
✦ Positive: A higher national spiritual calling; Total control of a Spirit-led ministry
Missed Flight
A warning: through unpreparedness or arriving late, the dreamer may miss the highest spiritual transition — a ministry calling that reaches beyond their own borders and national boundaries.
✦ Positive: A flight missed but rebooked, representing mercy where timing was lost
⚠ Warning: Missing a spiritual take-off; Missing a spiritual lifting; A calling beyond one's borders forfeited
Motor Bike
A personal calling that has nothing to do with other people but needs you individually — your anointing, passion, zeal, or drive. Also a seasonal assignment requiring spiritual acceleration.
✦ Positive: Personal anointing and passion; Spiritual acceleration; A personal seasonal assignment
Own Car
Personal calling, personal mandate.
✦ Positive: Leadership; Responsibility; Your destiny
Passenger in Someone Else's Car
A corporate calling.
By contrast, your own car represents a personal calling; a taxi or a bus likewise represents a corporate calling.
Private Jet
A prophetic message; a move of the Spirit on your life; or God's supernatural acceleration on a particular need — health, finances, relationships.
✦ Positive: A prophetic message; Supernatural acceleration; God's speed on your specific need
A private jet travels faster and is sleek and quick — representing speed and precision.
Ship
A call to take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends of the world — massive evangelism.
✦ Positive: Massive, world-reaching evangelism
Small Car
The destiny of your family or a small group of people you are called to lead; or a small business.
✦ Positive: Leading a family or small group; A small business
Taxi
Called to lead a sizable number of people; a local ministry purposed to function within a certain local area for a particular group of people. A taxi, like a bus or being a passenger in someone else's car, represents a corporate calling.
✦ Positive: Leading a specific local group; A defined local ministry
Taxi Rank
An apostolic ministry that trains and releases leaders; a place of spiritual alignment.
✦ Positive: A season of leadership training; Being developed to lead others; The last stop before being commissioned
⚠ Warning: Parked taxis, representing delayed callings; Taxis standing in a rank, representing leadership ministries or leaders not yet released
Train
Being part of an elongated assignment or ministry; part of a connected sequence of people or destinies; a ministry designed to move in sequence.
✦ Positive: An extended, connected ministry; Moving in a sequence with others' destinies; A predestined journey; What was planned before the dreamer was born
⚠ Warning: The dreamer cannot dictate that it stop or change direction — it is divinely determined, the plan is set and decided by God
Train Platform
A shared, structured journey that does not depend on the dreamer's own driving, and which cannot be stopped wherever they choose — it depends on God's timing or another's control.
✦ Positive: A destiny requiring God to be fully in charge while the dreamer submits; A strict assignment; What has been divinely decided for the dreamer
⚠ Warning: Being unable to turn the decision back once it is locked in; Being unable to get off wherever one chooses, because the plan is set
Van
A small ministry you are called to lead — people, a local church, a pastoral calling. Vans normally carry goods.
✦ Positive: A small pastoral ministry; Leading a local group
Wrong Direction
Wrongly interpreting divine signals; a miscalculated move; a call to analyse one's steps and consider where things went wrong.
✦ Positive: There is still a chance to find the way; God granting another opportunity; Thinking and proceeding carefully; assessing before moving
⚠ Warning: Faulty decisions costing the dreamer time