A Personal Dream

I recently had a dream where I was yearning (hunger) for revival again.  I was feeling like God was going to open up a door for me and anoint me to preach. (God is going to fill my hunger with His presence) I thought to myself that there are too many distractions in America.  People are not hungry enough with social media consuming so much of their time.  Then I remembered just one touch from the Lord can make you want more. Taste and see that the Lord is good. (Psalms 34:8) The scene changed to a truck pulling a trailer behind with lawn equipment.  The truck was pulling around in a cul-de-sac and needed space, so I moved over into the grass.  (Getting out of the way so that God can do the needed work) Our grass was really long and in desperate need of being mowed. (mowing grass means needing repentance) This young woman jumps out of the truck and begins mowing our grass.  Someone else usually mows the grass, but he had gotten hurt and she was doing it for him.  I asked if she could trim the bushes by the house which were encroaching on the sidewalk.  She wrapped a string around the bush to show me where she would trim it back to.  I said that I wanted a little green left but where she had wrapped the string was okay.  (Again representing pruning) This woman then pulled the plant out of the ground and broke the roots.  There was only a small piece of root attached to the bush.  (pulling things out by the root represent all the things that I have been taught up to this point in my life need to be pruned) There will be enough left to sustain the growth of the plant.  She went over to the garage and my husband had straightened it. (God is my husband and He is in charge of getting things in order)  He had hung all the yard tools up high on the wall.  I would need to get a ladder to reach them. (I need to find the steps to reach higher. Fasting? More time reading my bible?)

So you can see the first part showed me that I have a hunger to be revived again. The scene change told me how to go about it. Repentance is something I do whenever God shows me that I have been neglecting my relationship with Him.  Pruning is a good thing although it is never fun.  I am in a process of being conformed into His image and this will take a lifetime, I am sure.

Sequential Dreams

If you have several dreams in one night, look for the common theme in the dreams.  If you have one dream in the night and the scene changes, the first scene may indicate what the dream is dealing with. Pay close attention to the action that is going on. The next scene may give you more details of what or who it is telling you about.  As the dream progresses you may get even more clarity.  Reoccurring dreams are another area that you should be aware of.  When you have the same dream over and over, this might indicate that something is not getting through to you.  If it is a God dream, He will keep sending the message over and over until you respond to what He is telling you. Over the course of several years, I kept having dreams that I was missing a cruise ship.  Sometimes it would be a school bus that was pulling off as I was running after it.  I earnestly sought the Lord as to what this might be.  I had my thoughts on it, but it wasn’t until I started writing this book that the dreams stopped.  The school bus represents teaching.  So as I educate the readers of this book on the subject of dream interpretation, I no longer have the reoccurring dreams. The cruise boat represented a large task that the Lord was asking me to do.  Thankfully I obeyed. If the reoccurring dream is from your soul, it will go away once you have resolved the issue.  Sometimes the issue is our attitude towards someone or something.  Reoccurring dreams will keep “bugging” you until you seek out their meaning and resolve the issue.  In the bible when Pharaoh had the dream about the seven fat cows and the seven skinny cows that came out of the Nile and ate the seven fat cows and then he had a second dream about seven ears of fat corn and the seven ears of skinny, withered corn came and choked out the fat corn, the dreams were one in the same. Two dreams that both spoke about the future.  Both dreams were telling about the same fourteen years.  Both dreams spoke of the same seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine.  (Genesis 41:25) Many times a symbol will be repeated within the dream just in case you miss it the first time.  

numbers in dreams continued

I use Ira Milligan’s book Understanding the Dreams you Dream for the meaning of numbers, but I have found that they can be a time frame.  What I mean by that is say you have a dream of a baby that is thirteen months old that could represent something you started thirteen months ago.  In the bible when Joseph interpreted Pharaoh’s dream, the seven cows that Pharaoh dreamt about represented seven years. (Genesis 41:1-32) Numbers frequently represent time frames (i.e., days, months, or years.) I have even had a dream where numbers represented chapters and verses in the bible.  I dreamed I was back in school trying to get my locker opened and could not remember the combination to open it.  I went to the front desk to get the combination to my locker and got three numbers.  Turns out when I woke up that the three numbers were three psalms which I read that helped me with a situation I was dealing with at the time.  God is such a personal God that if He gives you a symbolic dream, He will help you figure out the meaning of the dream.  Sometimes it doesn’t come right away. Remember Daniel had to fast and pray for twenty-one days. (Daniel 10:13) If you know a dream has significance, keep pressing in until you get an answer. 

Numbers in a dream

Numbers are particularly tricky because they can have several different meanings.  When we look at creation in Genesis we can derive the numbers meaning based on that. For instance on day one the bible says God created the heavens and the earth.  Therefore one means the beginning of something or the start of something new.  On day two God separated the land from the waters giving us the meaning of the number two which is to divide and separate.  On day three all creation is obeying and conforming to God’s command.  Therefore the number three means to conform and obey.  On day four God made the light to govern the day (the sun) and a light to govern the night (the moon). So the number four means to govern or rule.  On the fifth day God made the birds and fish and told them to be fruitful and multiply. Therefore the number five means fruitfulness and multiplication.  On the sixth day God made man in His image. Consequently, the meaning of the number six is man.  Finally, God rested on the seventh day.  So the meaning of the number seven is rest. For the number eight we must go to Genesis 17:12a. From generation to generation, every male child must be circumcised on the eighth day after his birth. The number eight means to put off (as in putting off “the old man,” i.e., the works of the flesh or new beginnings.)I will continue the post on numbers tomorrow.