Listen in as Sylvia, author of Dream Interpretation Toolkit, walks through the Job 33 Scriptural foundations of symbolic dreams and their interpretations. She walks through a few dream interpretation examples and explores the messages God is revealing through dreams--most often messages that help us get our heart motives cleaned up and lead us to inner healing.  

Psalm 51:10  Create in me a pure heart O Lord, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. 

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Some people feel that dream interpretation is as nutty as a fruitcake; maybe you are one of them. But hang on here for a Claxton fruitcake-in-a-can second. Some of you have thrown out the cake with the can. For sure, many dream interpretation experiences have been mostly "fruits and nuts," yet as believers we want to know the Lord’s reasons for giving dreams and learn a balance about revelation in order to understand and benefit from His messages.

Almost twenty years ago, when I first began having a magnitude of dreams, my understanding of them was a definite mix of ingredients that rivaled any fruitcake recipe out there. There was a little truth baked in with a bunch of old, dried fruit, mixed nuts, and a pinch of who-knows-what. Since then, I've studied Scripture and the Lord has taught me a lot about dreams, how to interpret them and what to do with the interpretation.

The Lord never intended for us to think of dream interpretation as "flaky." He wants us to understand His language and benefit from all revelation, including dreams, visions, His voice and the Word.

In the book, "Dream Interpretation Toolkit," we learn how to correctly interpret and properly apply the revelation we obtain from dreams. We see how dreams in the Bible were orignally intended and how interpreters such as Joseph and Daniel derived the correct meanings. And we learn how to correctly interpret our own dreams, and not serve up fruitcake...even to ourselves.

God's ultimate purpose in every dream is to reveal Jesus, in one way or another. When a dream-interpretation-cake is baked up just right, it will always lead you to Him and the reasons for which He came to earth, suffered, died and rose again: to save, heal, and deliver us.

While greeting others in a Sunday morning service, a woman beside me spoke to a man who had come to say hello to her family. “You wouldn’t believe what your wife did in my dream last night!” she exclaimed. The poor man’s big Sunday-morning smile fell like a concrete block as fear and embarrassment hit him. It was obvious he thought the dream could have revealed something terrible about his wife to this prophetic person and, now, to everyone around who heard her statement.

Unfortunately, this happens often. Having interpreted thousands of dreams for many people, this is often the biggest mistake I see with dream interpretation. It’s also the one that can cause the most trouble with others and what has often given dreams a bad rap in the Church as a whole.

WHAT PEOPLE IN YOUR DREAMS MEAN
People in your dreams, especially those you know, most often symbolize a part of you. It isn’t the way of the Lord to reveal secrets about another person in dreams. (At rare times, a dream has a message to give another person; however, this is an unusual occurrence and it's always safer to assume the dream is about you first.) Instead, most dreams are meant for you, the dreamer. 

To discover what a person is symbolizing in your dreams, think about the different things they could mean to you. God works with us through dream symbols in order to get at the issues of our hearts, often where we need help or correction, so consider the past or current issues with which that person struggles. In dreams, people don’t represent a general thing such as friendly, nice, sweet, etc. Rather, they likely symbolize issues you have in common with that person. 

Here's an example: 
You dream of a former co-worker who had serious insecurity issues. The presence of this co-worker in your dream likely indicates that you have struggled with your own insecurity issues recently. He is representing your struggle with insecurity in the dream.

People in your dreams, especially those you know, are important keys and are the first symbol to unlock in order to derive the correct interpretation. Make this one adjustment and you'll open up an entirely new understanding of what God is speaking in the night.


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Sometimes it seems the Lord doesn’t speak to us at the very times we feel we need to hear Him most. When we are trying to handle a troublesome situation, we just don’t always perceive Him speaking. The problem is that our emotions can speak louder than His whispers, but even then He doesn’t leave us without hope or direction. He loves us and is always trying to communicate. He gives us dreams as one of the ways He continues to stand at the door of our hearts and knock to get our attention.

For God does speak—now one way, now another—though man may not perceive it (Job 33:14 NIV).

He does speak. The Bible is a story of God’s communication with mankind. Jesus said in John 10:27, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.”

The most common topic He addresses in dreams is our heart issues, those things that are troubling us or that are against His laws or will for our lives. Before we have a dream, He first tugs on our hearts at the moment we are dealing with a tough situation, communicating, “Don’t do this, don’t think this way, let it go, etc.” Sometimes people call this experience “a check in the spirit,” or a feeling of conviction. He speaks to us about anything that causes concern for us or for Him; however, it’s not easy to hear Him or perceive conviction when our emotions are high.

If we miss His first attempt to get our attention, He tries it a different way—we often are given a dream: in a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber in their beds, then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction (Job 33:15-16).

According to these verses in Job, He's always talking: first in whispers and tugs, next in dreams. 

So the next time you feel He isn't talking when you desperately need to hear Him, pay attention to, first, those little tugs at your heart and next, your dreams.



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Because some dreams in the Bible seem to deal with future, we tend to think of ours as future. However, the biggest secret the Lord has shown me about dreams is that most of them are dealing with issues that occurred during the last day or two in the dreamer’s life. 

According to Job 33, God often gives dreams as a way of kind correction, rather than telling us what will happen in the future. He has an ultimate intention to bring healing through the revelation that's hiding in many dreams. Through interpreting thousands of dreams for hundreds of people, I’ve learned that the Job 33 usage of the word often means practically all the time.

If you view your dreams as a course correction caused by events that occurred mostly a day or two before you had the dream, rather than something you expect to happen in the future, you will see a huge shift in understanding, interpretation, and application of dreams. You will begin to see how He speaks most often in dreams about what’s on our hearts and minds, you will draw closer to Him, and your heart will be clearer.


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Dreams can be interesting, mysterious, and at times terrifying and troublesome. Like a cloaked character in a novel, they seem to peer at you from around a corner, showing themselves ever-so-slightly, yet not revealing their identity. We don't know who they are, or if they are a good guy or bad.

The Lord wants us to become dream detectives, to search them out and solve their mysteries. A good detective first looks for a motive, and we should too. 

The Bible reveals that God's motive in giving dreams is to purify our hearts and lead us closer to Jesus. Like all else that exists in the universe, dreams and all other revelation exist to tell us about Jesus and the Cross. 

He came to do the ministry proclaimed in Isaiah 61: to save, to heal, to deliver from bondage, and to bring favor. He also came to destroy the Devil’s works, which are to steal, kill and destroy, according to John 10:10. 

At the root of many dreams is the Lord's motive to continue working those exact intentions: to save, heal, deliver, and give us direction to live the life for which He paid. His ministry toward us has not changed. He is anointed for these exact reasons; look for them as you solve your dreams and receive His ministry. Learning this aspect of dreams can bring a huge shift in your relationship with the Lord. He loves you.

Chances are good you're a dreamer since you're taking time to read this post. Chances are also good you don't understand some of your dreams, or maybe even none of them, but you definitely want to. It's also likely that if you've been trying to interpret and apply their messages for your life, it has been somewhat of a frustrating, disappointing and confusing experience. Yet you feel in your heart dreams may contain deep, mysterious messages from God to you. If this describes your encounter with dream interpretation, you are the exact one to whom I'm writing.

Scripture tells us dream interpreters are 1 in 1000. This slender ratio isn't due to the Lord having set those numbers into stone like the Ten Commandments. There are so few because learning to interpret God's language isn't an easy task. Isaiah wrote, "He is a God who hides Himself." Yet we are told by the wisest men in the book of Proverbs that it's our glory to search out those things He conceals. In other words, He hides on purpose so we will seek. Like it or lump it, that's the way He rolls. Might as well like it. 

Interpretation doesn't just fall from the sky like heavenly dust, it takes work. We co-labor with God to do anything that remotely resembles learning His ways. Ask anyone in ministry if the Lord drops everything needed into their lap or if they must apply themselves wholeheartedly. Like herding a bunch of frolicking sheep, working with a worship team to make a joyful noise, teaching Sunday School to 6-year-olds, or cooking for the homeless, it takes a lot of labor and some heavenly dust (the Holy Spirit's anointing) to get the job done. So it is with dream interpretation; it takes work and anointing.

There are some of us who have been there, done that on dream interpretation and have gained some skills and picked up a little of God's heavenly dust along the way. We're here to help you learn to interpret and apply the secrets locked up in your dreams. So open your toolkit and get ready to learn how to use some dream-tools. Next post we're going to talk about Tool One.

I believe some people are sick and some have even died because they didn’t correctly interpret their dreams. Having studied and sought the Lord for the understanding of dreams and visions for many years, He has taught me a balance about this controversial topic by relying on Scriptural patterns to help interpret them. 

One of the foundational patterns is found in the Bible in the 33rd chapter of Job. According to those Scriptures, some dreams symbolically show issues causing our sickness and are meant to bring healing.

From this point-of-view, I find He brings direction, healing of all kinds – physical, emotional, spiritual, and financial as well as deliverance from all manner of disease, mental illness, wrong mindsets, addictions, and compulsions – through correctly interpreted and properly applied dreams!

And why wouldn’t He? After all, like all else, dreams, visions and all revelation exist for Jesus and the cross. He came to do the ministry proclaimed in Isaiah 61, which he repeated in Luke 4: to save, to heal emotionally and physically, to deliver from bondage and to bring favor. He also came to destroy the Devil’s work of stealing, killing and destroying, according to Luke 10. 

At the root of many dreams is an attempt by the Lord to fulfill those exact intentions: to save, heal, deliver and give us direction to live the life for which He paid. His ministry toward us has not changed. He is anointed for these purposes; Look for them as you solve your dreams and receive His ministry. He loves you.