Sometimes there is a person in dreams whose face is not identifiable when one awakes. It may be the Lord. God, the Father, Jesus or the Holy Spirit is identifiable in dreams as Husband, Father, or by other names, such as a person whose name means King or Saviour etc. A husband or father, however can also be one to whom we have wrongly attached ourselves, so we need other elements of the dream to know who it is. Characteristics, behaviours, words and consequences indicate who is in view in the dream. For example if a father is driving the dreamer onto a wide, muddy road, that would be devilish and not divine.
God is never pushy, but kindly firm and affirming. So He will not appear as a bully, or ugly, or nasty in dreams either.
People in dreams are very, very rarely themselves. So don’t go rushing to the phone or person to tell them you have some future prediction for them. God commonly uses the biblical device of names to indicate characteristics. This habit is also used by a lot of classical writers. Besides name meanings, the Holy Spirit uses people in dreams to point out characteristics in the dreamer themselves or to bring that characteristic or ministry to the dreamer. For example, to dream of a farmer / gardener in His garden and be told you need to find the Basil plant is a biblical dream. The farmer in biblical parable is God Himself. Gardens are a biblical theme because major bible events happen within gardens. The ekklesia is also symbolised by a garden. In such a dream as I have described, the planting of the Lord that the dreamer is to find is represented by Basil which means King / Kingdom. the dreamer is being told that He / she doesn’t recognise Jesus as King over his / her life. It doesn’t mean that the dreamer is bad, it just means there is something amiss in either the life of the believer, or how he / she relates to the Lord.
How do I know this? John 20:11 to 18 – When Mary went weeping near Jesus’ tomb, she saw a man whom she thought was a gardener. She asks Him about the dead body of Jesus. Only when He speaks, does she relate to Him as risen Lord.
By going to the scripture the dream indicates, we find that the dreamer is relating to Jesus more as an historical figure, now dead, to imitate, rather than the new creation first fruits empowering his / her life. See 2 Corinthians 5:16.
Again, if the reader has difficulty finding the scripture that his / her dream is showing, a quick message to mkspriggs@divine-dreaming.com will supply free online help regarding the dream.
Another Important Feature of Biblical Dreams
Did you know that two characters appearing with you in a dream may be parts of yourself? I had countless dreams about myself as three-in-one in my earlier dream experiences. In those dreams I was with an old woman (the spotty / wrinkled flesh), and also a lovely light filled young child / or a child whose name means light. Three people: My dream self, the child and the old woman. The job of the dreamer is to see / hear what the Holy Spirit is revealing in such a dream, and at the same time understand themselves to be 3 in one being. That’s
- Body – the part which we can “see” with our natural eyes.
- Soul – also sometimes called the carnal nature in the Bible because our “flesh” is weak. Soul means one’s mind, will and emotions. This is the part that gets “transformed” through learning and following God’s word. The way is by lining up with the new spirit within (No 3 below).
- And Spirit – the inner being which is re-created new and perfectly righteous. This is the part of the believer knit to God (1 Corinthians 6:17).
From this we can learn to be led, not by God outside our being, but the new created spirit being within us. That is attached to God. The Kingdom of God is within – and doesn’t come by “observation”.
In such dreams the “old” me, often appeared as someone I knew who was a very aged person, sometimes even a deceased person who gets up and won’t lie down. One whose name also had the same meaning as mine, or a grandmother of mine who had died.
Behind the Name is a good website to find the variants of one’s name that the Lord commonly uses in this way. For example, I had a number of correctional dreams about “daisies” overtaking me. When I checked this out, I was surprised to find that Daisy was a nickname for Margaret. And of course, the biblical meaning of such a flower as appeared in my dreams was as a symbol of the flesh which must die (as flowers do) and get “thrown into the oven”. Pearl, Peggy etc are all meanings or nicknames for Margaret. I discovered there are very many different variants of Margaret which began to be used in dreams to correct the ascendancy of the flesh in my life.
Once the dreamer “gets it” (the interpretation), the dreams usually cease. That is, unless the dreamer stubbornly won’t repent.
However, if one is stubborn or proud, the dreams may also cease because we may not hear from the Lord in this way if we show no sincere interest in what He is pointing out. God resists the proud. Often, people fail to realise unbelief is linked to pride. But to fail to believe it is the Lord speaking as promised in Joel 2 and Acts 2, in this age is to deny the Word of God.
Yet I have found, if we sincerely want to understand our correction, the Holy Spirit’s patience is great and His persistence is continual.
