Dream Meanings and Interpretations – Annamarie Strawhand

Biblical Dream Meaning: Number 117 – You And Your Household

By Annamarie Strawhand | February 19, 2025

A viewer asked for interpretation of the following dream on one of our Wednesday Q&A Live broadcasts:

Dream: I woke up to the number 117 being spoken loud.

Watch the short video below and read the biblical interpretation that follows to have a better understanding of what these numbers mean if you are seeing them or dreaming about them as well.

Biblical Interpretation: As soon as you wake up from a sleep, especially in the morning, and if you hear something in the spirit as soon as you wake up, write it down because that is a very, very prophetic time. When you awaken in the morning, it’s a time of deliverance, a time of breakthrough – breaking through to the dawn.

117: Number one means the one true God, and 17 is the victory of the overcomer in Christ. So you’ve had incredible breakthroughs, especially this past year, and the Lord is saying, “I, the Lord, have done this. Look to Me, the Lord, the one true God, the Great I am.” The number 17 means victory of the overcomer. God is pleased with you. You have overcome in Christ. And it’s true; you’ve done that. So just thank God now for that prophetic confirmation, that He was always there and never forsook you, and you were able to overcome through Christ Jesus.

I can also look up a deeper meaning of the number 17 for you in scriptures. For some reason, the Lord is speaking to my spirit, and He’s saying Hebrews 11:7. Let’s see what this is. Hebrews 11:7 is all about you and your household being saved because of your faith. Noah was one of the heroes of the faith.

Today is the 19th of February. The number 19 means exploits of faith because in the Book of Hebrews, there are 19 heroes of the faith. Noah is one of those 19 heroes of the faith.

The number 117, the Lord is leading me to scripture on that. He spoke in my spirit and said to send you to Hebrews 11:7 – “By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. (ESV)

Because Noah was considered right with God because of his faith, therefore, because of Noah’s faith, he and his household were saved. Hebrews 11 emphasizes the importance of faith and encourages Christians to grow in their faith.

This is a word of knowledge to you from the Lord. Because of your faith, you, your children, and your children’s children are all saved by your faith. Now, you might all say, “Well, what about the prodigals?” What about the ones you’ve been praying for in your family to come to the Lord? What does the scripture say? Because of YOUR faith in Jesus Christ, your entire household will be saved whether they have faith or not. So the Lord is saying to you, you’ve got to specify when you pray who is in your household – your children, your grandchildren, etc.

Say, “Father God, according to Your Word in Hebrews 11:7, I thank You for that word that because of Noah’s faith, he and his household were saved. Because of my faith, me and my household are saved, according to your word, and this is my household – me; my spouse, _______; my children, _______; their children and their children’s children, _______. Even name your pets and your animals – my dog, _______; my cat, _______; my horse, _______; etc.

We are in the ark of the covenant in Christ Jesus now. We are lifted up above the judgment. Yes, the world is going through judgment right now. Who’s getting judged? The wicked! It’s the wicked that are wiped off the face of the earth and the righteous that inherit the earth, according to Psalm 37. And those of us who are in the ark of the covenant with Jesus Christ are lifted up above the judgment – you and your household.

So if you’ve been lamenting and crying out in the night and praying for your unsaved loved ones, I want you to grab a hold of this scripture right now and say, “Because of my faith in Jesus Christ, according to Hebrews 11:7, me and my household are saved. We are lifted up above the judgment, and this is my household (name them before God), _______.” God has to perform His word.

Do you know Noah’s sons weren’t as righteous as Noah, but they got saved because of Noah’s faith. They got added to the ark of the covenant because of Noah’s faith. They got lifted up above the judgment because of Noah’s faith.

The fact that it was spoken to you out loud in the morning hours, this is an answer directly from the Holy Spirit on how you are to pray. He led me to Hebrews 11:7. I go by the leading of the Holy Spirit. So should you.

Scripture Reference

Hebrews 11:7 NLT
“It was by faith that Noah built a large boat to save his family from the flood. He obeyed God, who warned him about things that had never happened before. By his faith Noah condemned the rest of the world, and he received the righteousness that comes by faith.”

Prophetic Word: Call Forth The Wind To Shake Your Harvest Tree!

By Annamarie Strawhand | November 21, 2024

Many of you have sowed seeds into this ministry over the last year. You’ve named your seeds, and we’ve come into agreement with you with your prayer for those seeds. I’m teaching you how to be spiritual farmers and how to operate according to kingdom finance principles. If you want to break out of a season of lack, you have to sow seeds into next season.

I’ve sown many seeds into my family and into my ministry, and these seeds are starting to come to harvest. I want more of those seeds to come to harvest, and I’m like, “More, Lord. More, Lord!”

After a recent experience with my dog’s tennis ball getting stuck in the tree and our unsuccessful attempts to get it down, I was like, “How’s that ball going to come down?” The Lord stopped me and said to me, “Command My winds to come and shake the fruit down from the trees.”

I knew he was showing me, not just about the ball, but that we need to command His winds to come and shake the fruit down of all the seeds that we have sown into the fertile soil of the kingdom of God.

Watch the video below to hear this word in its entirety, and then pray the prayer that follows to command His winds to come and shake the fruit down from your trees!

Pray Out Loud

“Heavenly Father, Father God, in the name of Jesus Christ, I come to you today reminding You of the good seed that I have sown into the fertile ground of Your kingdom. I believe by faith that my seed has grown and has borne fruit, and that fruit is ready for harvest and ready to drop from the tree into my hands. I ask that all the good fruit from all the good seed that I have sown in faith into Your kingdom would drop into my hands right now, in the name of Jesus Christ.

“I call forth, by faith, the winds of the Holy Spirit to shake my fruit off the trees and into my hands and into my baskets and into my bank accounts and into my family and into my household and into my land. I receive my abundant harvest, in Jesus’ name, because You are faithful to Your word, Father God, and every seed that I have planted in faith, going back over the past year, going back years, even going back generations – every good seed that my ancestors sowed into Your kingdom – and that I have sown into Your kingdom, I call forth that harvest now, and I command the fruit to be shaken off the trees by the power of the Holy Ghost into my hands now! I believe it. I see it. I receive it by faith.

“Thank You for this word, Father God. Thank You for Your faithfulness to our seed. Thank You for Your abundant kingdom. Thank You for teaching us how to be spiritual farmers. Thank You for Your word.”

Hold out your hands and continue speaking in faith.

“In Jesus’ name, the winds of the Holy Ghost have come and have shaken my good fruits, my abundant harvest from the trees into my hands and into my bushel baskets because of the faithfulness of God who has brought my good seed to harvest, in Jesus Christ’s name. Hallelujah!! Whoo hoooo!!”

Prophetic Insight: Is God Showing You A Dragonfly? What Does It Mean?

By Annamarie Strawhand | February 21, 2022

This is a transcription of an excerpt of the broadcast of Life in the Faith Lane on February 21, 2022.

Watch the video, and then read the transcript and poem below and see the links for resources on dreams that follow.

ANNAMARIE: Do y’all know the story of the dragonfly? It’s very prophetic. When we look at animals, and I have li, I have little bluebirds on too, my little bluebird earrings. My daughter gave me those.

But the dragonfly, when you, when you see cr, animals in nature, you see nature, and you think, “Wow, I keep seeing dragonflies,” or, “I keep seeing butterflies. Is that the Holy Spirit speaking to me? Is that God telling me something?” Yes, it is! The Holy Spirit will speak to you through nature. He will speak to you through His creation. All right?

And you have to be very careful. Do not look up on Google, you know, “Oh, what does the dragon, what is the spiritual meaning of a dragonfly?” Be very careful because it will lead you into, uh, the, the occultNew Age meanings which are not of God. They’re not of God, right? There’s, there’s no such thing as a spirit animal. No. No. There is not. There’s only one spirit. That’s the Holy Spirit. He created it all, and He created everything with meaning to teach us, to, to use to teach us and to lead us.

So when you see an animal, and you keep seeing it over and over and over again, just go to the Holy Spirit and say, “What are you trying to speak to me, Holy Spirit? What are you trying to tell me?” And He will lead you to why He created that creature, how He created that creature, what’s the nature of that creature, okay?

So with the dragonfly, it’s so beautiful. The dragonfly is like the little mudbug for like the longest time. She has like this really hard shell, and she lives under the murky waters, you know, and, um, she usually is like along the bottom, like, you know, in the swampy area.

But when it, it’s, it’s, it’s time for her to grow, when it’s time for her to transform, it’s time for her to pull herself up out of those, the muddy bottom, right, pull herself up out of the mud and look for a stalk or a, a, a reed or a, a plant or usually a strong stalk of grass in the water.

And she will begin to grab ahold of that stalk of grass and begin to climb up, and as she climbs up out of that mud and out of that mire, right, she climbs up just above the water line. She gets herself above the waters and grabs ahold of that piece of grass, and she allows the sun to gently warm her and dry out that crusty shell. And the warm winds and, right, the warm spring winds and the warms, the warming of the sun begins to dry out that crusty shell on the dragonfly, right?

And then soon, that shell cracks open. It cracks open, and her wings begin to emerge out of that crusty shell, and these beautiful, sparkly, bejeweled wings, and, and her eyes begin to sparkle. And her wings begin to sparkle, and she begins to stretch out of that shell, and the sun warms her and glistens on her wings.

And she looks like a beautiful jewel. She’s come out of the mud. She’s come out of them mire. She’s climbed to the higher place. She’s climbed into the light, and the, the beautiful soft, warming winds, right, like the breath of life, the breath of the Holy Spirit begins to blow on her.

The warming light of the beams of Jesus Christ begin to shine on her, and she begins to sparkle and shine and grow and stretch. And she’s like, “I’m going to climb a little higher, and I’m going to leave that crusty shell behind me, and I’m going to shine for Jesus.”

So she climbs out of that shell, and she gets to the very, very tippy top of that grass, right. She gets to the very, very tippy top of that grass, and she’s, she’s glistening in the sunlight. She’s glistening in the sunlight. Then all of a sudden, she waits for the perfect breath of wind, the perfect breath of wind like that perfect breath of the Holy Spirit to just get up underneath her wings so she can start to move her wings and start to flutter and soar and then that beautiful breath of the Holy Spirit comes upon her, that beautiful perfect wind as she glistens in the sunshine, and she launches her feet off that piece of grass. And she takes that leap of faith, and the winds are beautifully on her wings and the sun glistening as she shines and sparkles in the sunlight as, as the winds and the breath of life propel her and she soars across the glistening waters. Hallelujah!

And do you know what the dragonfly eats for lunch? Mosquitoes! Mosquitoes. Those pesky blood suckers! Mosquitoes that cause disease and cause problems, the dragonfly is a great example of who we are, who we are, how we grow, how we transform.

And it, it’s so connected to scripture. It is God that plucks our feet out of the mirey mud. Maybe Beth can find that scripture in Psalms, right. You pull my feet, O Lord, O God, out of the mirey clay, out of the mirey mud, right. And then even in Isaiah where it says, those who wait upon the Lord, right, those who wait upon the Lord will neither stumble, right, they will, they will be lifted up and, like up, up on like eagle’s wings, right, like the dragonfly, she’s lifted up. It’s, it’s, we, she, she just wa, she just waits just for that perfect moment with the Holy Spirit, that breath of life. And she’s lifted up like eagle’s wings. The Lord will always lift you up.

And we’ve got to crack out of our shell, right. We’ve got to come out of, of, um, you know, we got to know that we can be confident to sparkle in the light of Jesus, that He is with us. He wants us to crack out of these shells, crack out of these worldly ways and sparkle and shine for him and spread our wings.

So I love the dragonfly, and I’ve got these hairpins, they’re these little hairpins. I got them for my wedding, and I wore them for my rehearsal dinner for my wedding 22 years ago.

Michael Lee Strawhand and I will be married 22 years April 22. We’re both born on March 22. We have the same birthday, me and my husband. We have the same birthday, March 22.

And when we got married in North Carolina, we, we, well, I was working in NASCAR, so I had to make sure … I had a lot of friends that were going to come to the wedding from NACAR, and I had to have it on a weekend that there was no races. And so I had to have it on Easter weekend because they don’t race on Easter, and so, uh, April 22 of, uh, the year 2000 is when Mike and I got married in North Carolina, and it was Easter weekend. It was so awesome. And so 22 is me and Mike’s number. And I didn’t even know back then that it meant key. Now I know. Oh, look at God. Look at God.

So I hope you enjoyed that story of the dragonfly, and what I’ll do is I’ll have our wonderful tech director, David Piccirillo, make a video about the dragonfly for you all and that story.

And I wrote a poem. I wrote a poem. Uh, I wrote a poem about the dragonfly for my daughter, Landry, for her, her 19th birthday, and I gave it to her.

And, uh, that dragonfly story was given to me by the Holy Spirit because I kept seeing them, and I kept asking the Holy Spirit, “What are you saying to me?” And, um, He told me, “Annamarie, you’re going through a time of transformation, and you’re about to shine. You’re about to soar, and you’re about to shine.” And it was a time where I was not soaring or shining, and I had to really believe Him, and I had to really stretch myself up higher and reach for Him.

And, um, when you grab ahold of Him and you reach for Jesus and you, you pull yourself to His light, He will meet you there, my friend. So if you’re not feeling very sparkly right now, you’re not feeling very shiny, um, and you feel like you’re about to go through a transformation, look to this little story of the dragonfly and know that He is pulling you up out of the mud and out of the mire and out of the darkness, and He wants you to grab ahold of Him and, and be faithful and climb higher and climb towards His light, and let the Holy Spirit breathe on you and break open out of that shell and then watch what He does with you. Isn’t that beautiful?

All because He showed me a dragonfly. You know, the Holy Spirit wants to speak to you that way. He, He wants to show you these things in nature to encourage you. That’s what the prophetic is, right? The prophetic is to encourage you, to lead you, to give you the step-by-steps to move you forward so you can bear the fruit of the Holy Spirit in your life and fulfill what Jesus Christ has called you to do. Amen? Oh, I hope that story blessed you, of the dragonfly.

Gabriela Parrot says, “Praise God, I’m grabbing on to Him.”

Barbara Wade says, “Believe even when you can’t see Him. Thank You, Jesus.”

Beth Shibley bringing scripture: Psalm 13:3 – “Turn and answer me, O Lord my God. Restore the sparkle to my eyes…”

I just said that about the dragonflies also becoming sparkly. That’s beautiful scripture, Beth. I love it.

What are y’all saying here? Is this blessing you, my friends? I hope so. I hope so. Little dragonfly.

Hope Dickinson: “Amen, God is so faithful.”

Duncan Dee says, “We have lots of dragonflies all the time.”

You know, many of you … I’ve told that story, uh, uh, prophetic story about the dragonfly many times, but what we’ll do is we’ll create a page on my website with the poem, and we’ll take this little story that I just did on video, and we’ll put that on there for you so you all can always have it to encourage you. And ask the Holy Spirit to show you a dragonfly today just out of faithfulness. He will. He might show it to you in a picture. He might show it to you on a design of something. He wants to talk with you and walk with you. Amen?

Following is the poem I wrote for my daughter:

The Damsel Dragonfly
By Annamarie Strawhand
Dedicated to Landry Leigh Strawhand – 5/1/21

Damsel was ready to climb up from the muddy, deep waters
She was young but knew she was made to soar to great heights
Ready to feel the wind in her wings and the sun on her face
Her hard shell was heavy, but she was ready to break out
A sturdy reed to climb upon was before her
She pulled herself up, climbing out up of the murky water into the sunlight
The warm breeze blew on her shell as the sun gently warmed her
Damsel’s shell cracked open, and her wings began to emerge
She took a step, and her shell fell off as the light was fully upon her
She stretched her wings, glistening in the sun
She climbed to the top of the reed on her tiptoe
Bravely, she let go
The breeze came under her wings and lifted her above the waters
Clean, new, light, and dry, sparkling in the sun
Damsel SOARED!

Resources For Dream Interpretation

DREAM INTERPRETATION FROM A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE – HOW TO CANCEL A BAD OR DEMONIC DREAM

ANNAMARIE STRAWHAND: DOES GOD GIVE US NIGHTMARES?

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