Category: Dream Interpretation

Joseph, Daniel, Dreams, And Interpretation (Carousel dream and interpretation)

I relate more to Joseph than Daniel. Both were gifted with dreams and their interpretations, I don’t know what Daniel’s family was like before he and his friends were taken into captivity, but Joseph was sold into slavery by his own brothers. Yet even in captivity God was able to use these men, by giving them wisdom and the gift of dreams and interpretation. I am not going to talk about my childhood and my family right now, but how God has given me the gift of dreams and interpretation. I could not be able to do so without Him. It is one of the gifts that HE has blessed me with. I won’t say that I have always enjoyed this gift. There have been times when someone has prayed for me and has asked God to increase my dreams and in my mind I am screaming ‘No!’ I want sleep not dreams. I am getting off track, so the reason I am writing about dreams is because I feel that I am being led to do so. Old dreams are coming back to me vividly. Dreams that are mine and others that I was given the interpretation for. So I will be sharing them here.

Art by Reiko Chinen/Julie Sheppard

I can still remember a dream that I was asked to interpret for a friend who I went to church with even though it has been over 30years ago. They called me and said God had told them that I would interpret the dream for them.

This was their dream:

They were on a carousel horse and kept going around and around.

It was not a long dream, but they were confused and knew it meant something and so they prayed for God to give them it’s meaning. That is when they called me because they said God told them to. This was the first time that I can remember that I could see another person’s dream. Then God gave me the interpretation before they finished telling me the dream.

This is the interpretation:

They were going around in circles, and getting nowhere. Going through the ups and downs of life without making any progress. God wanted them to get off the horse and start moving forward. The ride on the carousel is fun but it will not get you to where you need to go.

Just as Joseph and Daniel were given interpretation of dreams by God, today God is calling men and women to dream and interpret those dreams, then share their meanings with others. Even if the interpretation is not a pleasant one. Like when Joseph interpreted the dreams of the cupbearer and the baker. The interpretation of the baker’s dream had a bad outcome for the baker.

I know dreams are personal and we may not feel comfortable sharing, but if the message is from God now may be the time to share. So I will be sharing dreams and their interpretations, and they will be both my personal dreams and one’s that God has given me the interpretation for. If you have a dream to share, I hope you will share it.

Art by Reiko Chinen/Julie Sheppard

Scriptures on dreams and visions:

Acts 2:17 “ ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.

Daniel 1:17 To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds.

Genesis 40 / The Cupbearer and the Baker
1 Some time later, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt offended their master, the king of Egypt.
2 Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,
3 and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was confined.
4 The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he attended them. After they had been in custody for some time,
5 each of the two men—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were being held in prison—had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own.
6 When Joseph came to them the next morning, he saw that they were dejected.
7 So he asked Pharaoh’s officials who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why do you look so sad today?”
8 “We both had dreams,” they answered, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”
9 So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream. He said to him, “In my dream I saw a vine in front of me,
10 and on the vine were three branches. As soon as it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters ripened into grapes.
11 Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into Pharaoh’s cup and put the cup in his hand.”
12 “This is what it means,” Joseph said to him. “The three branches are three days.
13 Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position, and you will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you used to do when you were his cupbearer.
14 But when all goes well with you, remember me and show me kindness; mention me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison.
15 I was forcibly carried off from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing to deserve being put in a dungeon.”
16 When the chief baker saw that Joseph had given a favorable interpretation, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: On my head were three baskets of bread.
17 In the top basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”
18 “This is what it means,” Joseph said. “The three baskets are three days.
19 Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and impale your body on a pole. And the birds will eat away your flesh.”
20 Now the third day was Pharaoh’s birthday, and he gave a feast for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker in the presence of his officials:
21 He restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand—
22 but he impaled the chief baker, just as Joseph had said to them in his interpretation.
23 The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.

She Keeps Going Back A Dream

People often ask why a woman returns to her abuser. She gets free only to return. I can probably list more than a dozen reasons. Yet It is not her reasons that I am writing today. I was recently told of a dream a friend had.

They had dreamed that he and his wife were trying to help a woman get free from an abusive husband. Yet no matter how many times they got her away she would run back to him. They finally got her free from him. Then he came after her in their home. He broke in through a window carrying a gun. My friend had his gun but only had one bullet. He shot the guy but it did not kill him.

I cannot remember if there was more to the dream but I had an interpretation. The woman in this dream is like the bride of Christ. Yet she married the false Christ. Even though she loves Jesus she was deceived and you could say that she married His evil twin. Just like a woman trapped in an abusive relationship that she doesn’t know how to truly be free returns only to get beaten more. She has been brainwashed into feeling that she is nothing and deserves the treatment she receives. So she returns. She is afraid and fears that she will die on her own with nothing so she returns. Even when she is free from him she has chains that bind her that no one else can see. Fear, shame, guilt, feeling worthless, hopeless, and the list goes on. Each a link to her captivity.

The one bullet is the Word of Christ Jesus. Why did it not kill the abusive husband? This husband is the false Christ and his time of causing terror and harm has not yet come, but it is coming. Satan knows his time is short so those he cannot destroy he tries to mislead. He is doing everything he can to destroy the Bride before the True Groom returns. Yet like a woman who has been abused she needs people to bring her the healing that only comes from Jesus.Then the truth of Jesus will set her free. Jesus came to set the captives free and who He sets free is free indeed. I may not have the power on my own to deliver another from harm but Jesus in me if I submit to His will and make myself available to be used by Him can help others flee from harm and get to safety.

2 Peter 2:22 Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”

Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

Matthew 24:5 For many will come in My name, claiming, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.

Ephesians 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

John 8:32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Before I heard this dream I had not thought of comparing an abusive relationship with the church and Satan.Yet now I see that it has its parallels. A woman abused to often will return to abuser even if it ends in death and unfortunately I see many in the church are doing the same thing spiritually. I only pray that we wake up before it is too late.