1. Can you remember the dream?
If you can’t remember the dream when you wake up, it wasn’t from God. If God chooses to communicate to you through a dream He will ensure that you remember it.You should write down any dream that you believe might originate from God straight away, as that will help you remember it later.
When you do that, you should describe the main plot, characters and elements such as colours, objects and the atmosphere. Daniel 7:1 says,
"In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head while on his bed. Then he wrote down the dream, telling the main facts."
2. Is it clearly structured or confusing?
God brings order into chaos and clear focus into confusion. You might not understand a God-given dream fully but if a dream is confusing it is never from God. Paul told Timothy,"For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." (2 Timothy 7:1)
Others translate the spirit of fear as ‘the spirit of confusion’. When God speaks He will always communicate with clarity—even when you don’t understand what He says!
3. Is the dream connected to something you are processing in your mind?
If the dream deals with something you worry or think about a lot it is probably a result of your subconscious attempting to resolve what your conscious mind can’t. Also, if you watch a movie late at night you might see a sequel to it at night—with you playing the hero! Unless the dream gives an unexpected solution to your problem you should disregard it.4. What is the emotional atmosphere?
Most dreams filled with anxiety or despair come from the subconscious that functions as an overpressure valve for our fears. If you suppress your fears and anxieties they will appear in your dreams.
But God never adds fear to your life; He always reduces it. You might see a dream that shows you the cause of your fear but then provides a solution. This kind of dream is often from God.
The emotional atmosphere is often the key to the interpretation.
5. Is the dream linked to something God has already revealed to you?
God often adds or brings depth to what He has already revealed through a dream. It is yet another channel for Him to reveal His purposes and perspective.
6. Is there biblical symbolism?
Distrust any dream dictionaries as symbols often have different meanings in different cultures. If God uses symbols He chooses them based on what they mean to you rather than someone else. On the other hand, biblical symbols often point to a dream coming from God.7. Is it a ‘realistic’ dream?
If so, it might refer to a real-life future situation, unless it clearly refers to the past. You might not be sure whether the dream was from God until you face that situation, and then it will help you to act the right way.
8. Is there a demonic element in the dream?
Just because there is a demonic element it doesn’t automatically mean that it originated from the enemy, as it might be the gift of discerning spirits in you reacting to an unseen demonic influence.
You should always pray over these dreams, and the Holy Spirit will either give you more understanding about them, or ask you to reject them outright.
9. Are you doing something wrong in the dream?
If you see a dream where you are doing something wrong, it is never from God—unless it is something you are doing or in danger of doing in real life, and God is convicting or warning you.
These dreams might be the product of your subconscious or originate from the enemy.
10. Do you wake up into God’s presence?
Sometimes I wake up with a distinct sense that a dream was from God. At other times, I wake up into a strong presence of God, and that can be a sign that it is a God-given dream.
At other times God is present as He is dealing with a demonic attack that took place through a dream. It is usually easy to tell the difference.
11. What happens when you pray over the dream?
You should always pray over a dream you think might have come from God. When you do that the Holy Spirit will often reveal you more and begin to explain its elements.
THE GIFT OF DREAM INTERPRETATION
All people see dreams but those with prophetic gift can often interpret other people’s dreams. In Genesis 41 Joseph is brought from the dungeon to see the Pharaoh as his chief butler knows that Joseph has the gift of dream interpretation. Both the butler and the Pharaoh worshipped the Egyptian gods. Perhaps the Pharaoh was used to seeing demonic dreams. But this dream has come from God. That’s why none of the magicians of Egypt could interpret it.
Joseph and Daniel must be the most famous dream interpreters of all time. Both confessed that it was God who gave them their ability.
Here are five principles that can help you interpret God-given dreams.
1. Ask God for the interpretation
Many often miss this first step. Remember that if God gave you the dream He can also give you the interpretation.
2. Consider the symbols
Are there any symbols in the dream that have personal significance to you? Be careful with dream dictionaries unless they focus on biblical symbols. In the ancient Babylon, a black cat was the bearer of good fortune but in the Middle Ages it was linked to witchcraft.
There are no references to black cats in the Bible. What does a black cat mean to you?
3. What is the emotional atmosphere?
The emotional atmosphere of a dream is important and it often helps you interpret it. For example, the dream might show a challenging situation but the atmosphere is faith-filled. This usually means that God is showing that you will be able to overcome your challenges.
4. Does the dream feel realistic?
There are dreams that appear realistic and they can refer to past real events or future events. If they come from God they usually bring their own interpretation.
5. Is the dream meant to be understood immediately?
Dreams often refer to distant future. It took years before Joseph’s dream about the Sun, Moon and the eleven stars bowing down to him come to pass. When he saw the dream he had no real understanding of its meaning.
If you don’t understand a dream, put it aside, but don’t disregard it. Later on, it can give you great confidence as when it comes to pass you will know that you are walking in the will of God. Joseph knew that it was God who had raised him to rule Egypt because He wanted to save Joseph’s family so he blessed his brothers rather than revenged their treachery.
6. Is the dream meant to be shared immediately?
I saw a dream concerning my local church in Finland over fifteen years ago. Yet, I shared that dream to the leaders only recently, as they had arrived in the season shown in the dream.
Don’t assume automatically that a dream should be shared immediately. Instead, pray over it, and God will give you wisdom regarding sharing the dream at the right moment.
This list has been taken from the book Five Movements: Winning the Battle for Your Prophetic Gift written by Marko Joensuu. For more on the author, please visit markojoensuu.com.
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I thought thoes two women could have represented two demonic spirits. I have been having double mindedness going on. So that seems accurate amd make sense.
Thanks for responding right away.
I dreamt that my mom was in the kitchen doing dishes and an evil spirit was trying to physically attack her. It even manifested itself in objects like a stuff doll and at other times it pushed over items. I also remember seeing it in the form of a woman. The thing is I was the only person able to see it, as my mom was feeling the attacks but couldn't see what I was seeing. I would try to fight this spirit whenever it was in a form for me to do so but it was very persistent at attacking her and not me. I remember feeling overwhelmed and crying because all my efforts seemed pointless. I was trying to help my mother but I felt like I was watching this thing try to kill her. I do remember trying to pray and called on Jesus,which weakened the spirit but angered it more so the attacks got more violent. I don't remember how the dream ended but I think my son woke me out of my sleep because he heard me crying. Even when I woke up I was still crying because it felt so real and as grown as I am; over 30 I was really shaken.
does this dremam has a meaning? im always reminded of this dream
The first one, My father is shown to me as someone who has sinned and is taken to court for judgement. At that moment i was just feeling bad because i had thought i am the reason behind it since he is an abusive man. He seemed so delighted and very sure that he will win the case but at the same time i could see he was pretending as i saw his heartbroken face in that delightment.later that day as he was about to be judged, a sound from nowhere that felt like people who broke into court, was heard. That sound sounded like a gun shot and aftee that people screamed and my father fell down . I looked at him with great pity and was amazed that the man people fear had no strength anymore and he is dying. After falling down i cried thinking that maybe he had died but he opened his eyes in a slow motion and the dream anded.
The next days i dreamt of myself. My father was beating my mom like he usually do and i ran to him to stop him but he wanted to fight me then i took a thick stick and hit him on the back of his neck and he fell down. He then later rose and irrespective of how my mother was hurt she stood by his side and they both decided to chase me out of their house. Everyone in my family looked at me with bitterness and my siblings couldnt wait for me to leave then i left and tried to find a place to stay but my parents came and made sure i was kicked out then the dream ended.
The second dream is about my boyfriend. I wont really go into detail but i had dreamt more than 6 times when he is cheating on me with the people closest to me and most of them offered what i couldnt offer before marriage which is sex so that they could snatch him away.
The first one, My father is shown to me as someone who has sinned and is taken to court for judgement. At that moment i was just feeling bad because i had thought i am the reason behind it since he is an abusive man. He seemed so delighted and very sure that he will win the case but at the same time i could see he was pretending as i saw his heartbroken face in that delightment.later that day as he was about to be judged, a sound from nowhere that felt like people who broke into court, was heard. That sound sounded like a gun shot and aftee that people screamed and my father fell down . I looked at him with great pity and was amazed that the man people fear had no strength anymore and he is dying. After falling down i cried thinking that maybe he had died but he opened his eyes in a slow motion and the dream anded.
The next days i dreamt of myself. My father was beating my mom like he usually do and i ran to him to stop him but he wanted to fight me then i took a thick stick and hit him on the back of his neck and he fell down. He then later rose and irrespective of how my mother was hurt she stood by his side and they both decided to chase me out of their house. Everyone in my family looked at me with bitterness and my siblings couldnt wait for me to leave then i left and tried to find a place to stay but my parents came and made sure i was kicked out then the dream ended.
The second dream is about my boyfriend. I wont really go into detail but i had dreamt more than 6 times when he is cheating on me with the people closest to me and most of them offered what i couldnt offer before marriage which is sex so that they could snatch him away.
I saw myself walking through a street and got to a doorway. There is a lady there and she asks me why I am wearing my husband's shoes but holding my own shoes in my hand. I told her my husband's shoe are more comfortable because mine has heels. She then takes a picture of my beadutiful red shoes and opens a door for me. When I walk through the door I enter the most beautiful garden ever. The flowers are alive and moving and the sky matches the colour of the flowers.
I was driving a new car playing music and the air conditioner was on and suddenly my husband calls me that the car is out of fuel. I looked at the fuel tank and it was blinking empty so I turned off the air conditioner and began to panic because I was out of fuel and I was in a place I didn't know anyone.
I had another dream where I was looking at my hands and they were calloused while my finger nails were falling off. I was now saying I've been here two years and look at my hands. A lady nearby came to me and said it is normal here. Everyone has rough hands showing me here.
My husband told me he recently had this dream in the country he moved to. He got a bus ticket and a lot of people were boarding the bus. There were some immigration officers or soldiers checking the tickets. When it got to his turn, they took his ticket and sent him to a room that he is not supposed to board that bus.
When my husband woke up, he prayed to cancel the dream. Immediately he slept he had another dream where he was driving a car with me and the children travelling with him. As he was driving on the road he looked ahead and was told there is no road ahead. He was very angry that why would that be.
1.a devil which is fully dark in colour comes to my home and calling my name. Am praying in the name of Jesus and fighting with it ..It keeps on laughing at me am praying ..It fell down on the ground but it didn't stop laughing .
2.recently i got one dream in which I saw one strange animal/reptile which has birds beak ,the head and tail is like snake,it has wing of bats ,and on the back it has three lines of squriel .This strange animal bite me on my right hand .And i had a sword on my left with that i killed that animal.
A man with white t-shirt is kneeling on the floor inside a big empty building, hes so tired and exhausted, suddenly the door opened and a green hideous creature with a broken right wing came inside in a little kind of hesitation, but the man let him come near him and helped the creature cause hes bleeding, the creature seem to recover and not so weak any more and acted grateful to the man while heading towards the door to exit. but before the creature approched the door to get out, it fell down and died, when i look at the left side of the man, there is a severed head that looks identically the same as the creature that died on the mans right side which is complete body., do this dreams have the same meaning?
Here is a link to an audio message I spoke on the topic of developing this gift - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVT6jasjbb4
I have never had of his name but he was talking to me about north east African countries he has visited and his plans to visit West African countries. He talked about USD18000.i left the dream and as i was on bed,i slept and another one came in when someone was trying to call my phone with a strange number, when i picked, the battery fell off fom the phone and i didn't want to call back.
In the same dream my ancle called me and asked me why i don't want to talk to.. . Name. .. Different from the one i got earlier but still a new name .He told me this person is from USA, i got excited and danced, i mentioned then that i am going to call him straight away
Could this carry information from God
Before these dreams I also dreamt about seeing planets floating across the sky n several months ago I had this dream about angels flying across the sky ,then formed a circle and afar off I could see a writing, saying ,MY PEOPLE ARE FAR FROM ME I WILL BE COMING SOON ,I WILL BE COMING ON THE ,but I couldn't recognize the date I dont understand any of these ,my ex broke up with me 3months ago
Over the last year and a half, I have had a total of 12 dreams concerning natural disasters and the rapture of the church. In two of the dreams, the Lord actually spoke, even though I did not see his face. I heard clearly, "Twinkle of an eye" in one dream. In the second dream I heard, " I am coming to separate My sheep from the goats." The dreams seem to be from God. Do you have any recommendations for me to understand the gifting and interpretations of these dreams? Thank you
I wonder why i had that kind of dream when im not a fan of basketball...
Im single by the way..
I am a 21 year old lady, who loves God wholeheartedly and hopes for a partner that won't think I'm crazy when I sometimes cry just for singing praises and worshiping God because that's what I do, I'm a worshiper.
Before I explain my dream may I get a few thing out of the way.
A prophet at a church I am a member of once told me that I have a calling but there's something God wants me to fix on my life and I immediately knew that it was my sexuality.
Our senior pastor is a marriage counselor by profession and most of the time when he preaches about marriage he also tells us the importance of being pure and abstaining.
To cut things short, I knew that God wants me to repent and lead a pure life which I wasn't doing at that time.
So I prayed about it, asked God to help me abstain so that I can be pure for Him and save myself for marriage. I'm currently in a relationship with a guy who believes in God but he's not as spiritual.
So....I happen to have a crush, he's a Gospel Singer but I see him beyong just being a singer. He's the most humble and caring guy I've ever seen.
I once talked (prayed) to God about him. A few months down the line, which was the night before last night I had a very nice dream that I didn't want to wake up from. Here it goes.
I had a dream that my crush, myself, my younger sister and my grandma were at my dearest grandma's house (a place all our sibling refer to as home, because it is home but the kind of home where we're all a peace when we're there).
It was in the morning and my grandma Said to me "Go and wake Mdu (that's his name) up he's going to be late. I ran to the room he was sleeping in and woke him up (We weren't married YET so we weren't sharing a room). After he had finished bathing, I walked him out to go catch a taxi. On our way he said to me, "I spent the whole week here, I hope we'll keep in touch." And I just smiled. While we were walking his cellphone rang,he answered then he sat on a small wall near by and I was standing up, right in front of him and hugged him so that he rests him head on my chest while speaking on the phone and I was caressing his head (that gave me soooo much pleasure). At the back of us, I noticed my younger sister was following us. After he was done with the phone call, he stood up then we continued walking. And then....I woke up :-(
“27 27 6”
Dream 2: Someone shot everyone around me then started shooting at me but I ran. I tried to hide in a ditch and other places but they kept finding me and still shooting at me. I ran into a street where a pickup truck was and got in. My husband's girl cousin was driving, it was dirty and had no seatbelts and I inmediatel1y felt unsafe then something/someone told me to get out so I did. Same night, my husband dreams about a pickup truck accident and me driving in an armored car and wearing a bulletproof vest.
i had a dream about trying to get away from my last spiritual mentor, with an anxiety of not wanting to face him, in a scene i try to flea from a building while he is entering it, i go to some people's apartment then i find out that he can find me here too, so i left
until in the last scene i am with him in an open sides(opened to the air) wide elevator going up while he looks with a very dear lovely smile on his face & saying something to me(didn't know what he said) while there is a sunrise before him, and under that elevator there is a huge western major city with skyscrapers.
thanks.
then i joined another group of believers out of the this church.
Thank you very much for your insight.
For example, Jeremiah 48:31 says: "Therefore I will wail for Moab, And I will cry out for all Moab; I will mourn for the men of Kir Heres."
So, not to presume too much, but as we are slowly heading towards the End Times, perhaps God is already wailing for the judgments He will bring. In the Old Testament, this wailing could begin even hundreds of years before the actual event.
please sir answer to my question.... please sir I beg you ..... please ������
Initial Conclusion: I then realized there are times where I’ve allowed the persuasions of the unrighteous despite my better judgement at times, especially when it’s nuanced or hidden. At critical moments, I have historically (and rather quickly) agreed because something seems reasonable rather than testing the spirit and remaining ever-prayerful. It is what is left unchecked, untested and un-prayed about that carried a very demonically-influenced plan against Elijah. Father, forgive me for going along with what’s reasonable, whether it’s supported by facts, whether the person has influence over me, or whether I’m just agreeable to escape conflict. Reveal to me what I may unknowingly permit. I am a warrior for Christ; I will stand on Truth even when it’s unpopular and battle more often. I will stand at the ready and be continually armored upon in the Spirit. Help me to consistently demonstrate Truth to Elijah, to my friends and my family whom do not know You. Let Your influence be greater upon Elijah and I; Let Your influence be more than the influence of those whose influences come from the unseemingly demonic. Confuse the enemy camp and continue to reveal the hidden schemes of the enemy. You can take control of my life and my son’s life when I take more control over it with Truth.
The next day my younger brother whom is the major financial source (richest) in the family told me that he dreamt that I was getting married and he didn't have any money, and in the wedding I told him to be picking the money people were spraying on us (bride and groom).
These two dreams got me worried because I felt that they were connected. Please help me to understand it, I'm looking forward to your response. God bless you
Thank you