Dreaming of Dogs

It is pretty standard for me to be physically approached daily or to discover my email inbox flooded with emails by folks seeking to understand their dreams.

While reviewing some of their dreams. It becomes pretty clear to me some of the spiritual things that have their lives tied to a destiny of utter misery while others are on the road to encounter the incredible promises of God, which their dreams have clearly revealed.

Recently, many folks have approached me concerning dogs being in their dreams. These dogs are either chasing them, biting them, growling at them, or just viciously attacking them. In fact, I can vividly recall someone telling me about a dream a friend of theirs had. In this dream, it was revealed that two dogs were either about to attack this person or attack them. Suddenly, a white man appeared, which caused the dogs to change their course and retreat towards the white man. The white gentleman began to pet the dogs and advised that the dog would not harm her.

As expected, this person thought this was a good dream. of course, it is all due to their lack of understanding of what dogs symbolize in a dream.

Let's look at scripture to garner spiritual insight about dogs. "For dogs have compassed me about: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet" Psalm 22:16. The King James version from which this passage of scripture was extracted clearly reveals the punctuation symbol of a colon (:) after the sentence, "For dogs have compassed me about." The word dog in the text indicates or symbolizes wicked people. As many of you would know or may not know, a colon is used to explain further or give details of what has been previously saying about something or someone. So in the following sentence, " "For dogs have compassed me about," the colon sign (:) that comes after the sentence now provides more details of the sentence. Now let's carefully read that explanation in the following sentence: "The assembly of the wicked has enclosed me." Wow! Now isn't that amazing?

Let us take it a step further. This prophetic chapter of Psalm 22, which speaks of Jesus' crucifixion, gives us a more spiritual insight into the meaning of dogs in a dream or the understanding of its symbol in the spiritual realm. In Psalm 22:20, the Psalmist is now revealing the spiritual forces that would come against the soul of Christ during his crucifixion, and we know the soul of man to be his mind, will, and his emotions.

Now, what you are about to read in Psalm 22:20 are symbols of things that are spiritual. This particular text it's indicating demonic attacks. "Deliver my soul from the sword; (sword in the realm of the spirits represents words, in this case, evil words) my darling from the power of the dog (indicating deliver those things that are precious to him from the power of demonic attacks).

So far, we have unearthed the mystery of dogs to indicate wicked people and evil spirits/demons. Let us now read with spiritual understanding what the Apostle Paul was pointing out to the church of Philippians. In Philippians 3:2, "Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision." Of course, he's not referring to literal dogs in this text, and if you study the text carefully, it will quickly reveal he's warning them to beware of bad things!

Therefore, with the above understanding in mind, the dream I mentioned earlier about the lady, the dogs, and the white man is clearly not a good dream. However, outside of the above understanding of what a dog symbolizes, it can easily be assumed that it was a good dream. The white man calling the dogs and allowing the lady to continue her journey would point to a good deed. When the reality is, if dogs represent evil spirits and these evil spirits are friendly with whomever in the dream, then we can conclude whoever that person is, in fact, the source of that evil. The act of what appears to be a kindness on the white man's end was a part of a bigger picture to mislead the dreamer on a destiny of failure and destruction. As always, when such dreams leave the dreamer confused as to whether or not such a dream is from God or Satan, it is always good to play it safe by praying the following prayer.

"Father,  if my dream was from you, then I come in complete agreement with your plans for my life. If my dream was from Satan and the kingdom of darkness, then I reject all subtle and overt evil covenants forged in my dream, and I cancel all pending evil manifestation in the name of your son Jesus Christ. Amen!

Dreaming about dogs is also a symbol of a dog's spirit. A dog spirit is a sexually perverted spirit that lacks any form of shame or acknowledgment of disgrace. In fact, it is associated with humiliation. However, the victim of this spirit is spiritually blind to the disgraceful acts they perform sexually with others or the gyrating and sexually charged movements and motions that they publicly make with their bodies. Like a dog, in reality, a person with a dog spirit does not care if they have sex with a complete stranger, their Mother, sister, or whoever, or even if the person they are about to have sex with has a disease or not. This spirit is heavily influencing their victims to do whatever it takes to satisfy the evil spirit that's operating behind their strange, perverse behavior. Please! If you are being attacked by dogs in your dreams, you need to pray hard.....

Some folks have experienced dreams where they saw dogs licking the sex organs of the dreamer. These dreams must be taken seriously because such dreams represent impotence and barrenness. Again, it can also mean a spirit of uncontrollable lust being introduced to the dreamer's life.

The bible says the following, "As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool returns to his foolishness" Proverbs 26:11. The spiritual implication of this scripture is simply this. If you were to see a dog returning to his vomit in a dream, this would indicate that the enemy is attempting to take you down a path that you have already been delivered from. Again, you must cancel, rebuke and reject such dreams in the mighty name of Jesus Christ!

In the book of revelations 22:14-15, it says, " Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have a right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the city. However, dogs, sorcerers, whoremongers, murderers, idolaters, and whosoever loves and tells lies outside the gates. Again, dogs in this text are cast in an opposing view and among grievous evil as everything else mentioned.

Dogs are also quite noisy and annoying with their constant barking. If you're experiencing dreams where dogs are barking at you in a dream, the dream indicates continuous pending or current trouble and confusion that just don't seem to be able to go away from the dreamer's life. If one dog constantly barks at the dreamer, the dream reveals an individual becoming a nuisance. If it's a group of dogs, the dream indicates a group effort in being a nuisance to the dreamer. Some folks have dreams where they would see dogs attacking their real-life enemies. In such cases, the dream reveals that the evil your enemies sent after you will be returned upon themselves. I can vividly recall having a dream some time ago where a pit bull dog was quite a distance facing me, making vicious growling sounds preparing to attack me. Before he could make a run at me, I began to run in his direction to attack him. I have had this dream twice. The dream reveals boldness and courage and that not only was I courageous in the face of evil but was willing to be the first to initiate the attack..... This is what I call bringing the battle to the enemy's gate.

Despite all that you have just read, God will give you victory over these dogs in your dream, which represents evil spirits and evil people if you challenge these dreams via prayer and canceling of such dreams. Let us read what scripture says about this, "They return during the evening, they make a noise like a dog and go around about the city. Behold they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips; for who, say they, do hear? But thou O' Lord shall laugh at them; thou shall have all the heathen in derision. I will wait upon thee because of his strength: For God is my defense. The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies" Psalm 59:6-10. 

The reality is there is nowhere in scripture where dogs are cast in a positive light. In fact, all of its connotations revert to negative things. Therefore, dogs in a dream are considered negative dreams. Suppose those dogs in your dreams are friendly. In that case, the reality is the dreamer is being manipulated and set up to unknowingly engage in evil covenant to secure defeat and destruction in their life.

Written By: Kevin L A Ewing

kevinewing@coralwave.com

kevinlaewing.blogspot.com