Spiritual Warfare

[Kelly]

Have any of you ever experienced it? Until today, I had only experienced it awake. But for the first time, today, I experienced it in my sleep, and let me tell you, it's no more comforting than being awake!

Here's what happened:

I laid down for a nap and started dreaming. In my dream I was seeing things through my own eyes. I woke up (in the dream) and heard rain outside. I got out of bed and opened the door. I tried to slam it so fast that I'm not sure what I saw, but something scared the living daylights outta me. I tried slamming the door shut, but right as it was about to close it stopped and wouldn't close any further. It was as if someone or something was on the other side pushing it in towards me. I was just screaming! I woke up (in real life) and the arm I had been using in my dream to close the door was totally paralyzed. I couldn't move it at all! I started praying and slowly the feeling came back and I could move it. I fell back asleep and had yet another dream. I woke up (in my dream)....and looked over at my desk which is next to my bed and there was smoke coming out of the top. I jumped outta bed and the top of my desk was a stove top. There were knobs on the top drawer and I noticed one was on. I turned it off and poured water where the smoke was and started to head back to bed and suddenly flames came pouring out of my desk. I looked and the knob had turned on again. I turned it off and the second I let go, it turned on full blast. I started screaming again and then I woke up.

SOOOOO creepy!

[krazyyouth]

yeah thats is creepy i had one like that during the school year for some odd reason i was dreaming that i had woke up at 6:30 and i was running really late for school and i was runing through the house looking for my school cholths that iplaned one wareing and i put them on and got dressed and that brused my hair and then i ran out the door to see if i missed the bus and right when i had got to the street the bus passed me up and i was like what so i rand some what down the street to caugh the bus but couldnt, so i ran back to my house and told bryon to have someone come and get me while i went to get some other stuff then my alram went off at 5:45 soi was like, oh my

[LauraA]

I've experience spiritual warfare a few times. I posted about it on the OBs, and possibly here some place. I'm not sure. Can't find it. So I'll rewrite it:

We had spent an evening with a minister friend of ours. We talked about healing and studied Scriptures on it. I felt in my heart that the Lord healed me of sleep apnea. I just started thanking Him for my healing.

I went to bed without the CPAP machine that I had been wearing to bed, by faith that what He laid on my heart was already done. (the CPAP forces air into your nose so if you stop breathing when you are sleeping, the air is still going in.) Suddenly, I was filled with intense fear. This happened when I was awake, it was not a dream. Our youngest son was sleeping over night at our grandson's house and I kept seeing his face in the window of Noah's bedroom. He was screaming and pounding on the window and there was fire behind him. It was terrifying. All kinds of strange, scary thoughts were pressed into my mind by the enemy, mostly about my family. The devil was trying to weaken me using the dirtiest tactic he could come up with. I was afraid, but knew what was going on, and laid there praying and quoting every Scripture I could think of. I can't remember now how long this went on, but it was at least a couple hours.

I was finally relieved of the fear and fell asleep, but then started having dreams of demons flying over our bed laughing at me, saying things like, "Look at the fool. She thinks she's healed! She's going to die in her sleep!!! What an idiot" It was horrid. They were mocking and laughing at me. I woke up and started praying and quoting God's Word.

Finally, around 5 in the morning I had felt complete victory and joy in the Lord. I knew the devil was defeated by the power of God. I fell asleep in peace. I've never used the CPAP again. This was 1 1/2 years ago. My doctor just wrote a letter to our insurance company declaring me NOT to have sleep apnea, so I could get life insurance at the best rate available for my age. Praise God!

Just a note: If you are not experienced in hearing God's voice strong and clear, and have not fought a spiritual battle, please do NOT stop taking meds or treatments. You have to be sure it's God's voice and not your own thoughts or emotions when you do something like this.

Thank You, Jesus!

[DawnAurora]

I've experience spiritual warfare a few times. I posted about it on the OBs, and possibly here some place. I'm not sure. Can't find it. So I'll rewrite it:

We had spent an evening with a minister friend of ours. We talked about healing and studied Scriptures on it. I felt in my heart that the Lord healed me of sleep apnea. I just started thanking Him for my healing.

I went to bed without the CPAP machine that I had been wearing to bed, by faith that what He laid on my heart was already done. (the CPAP forces air into your nose so if you stop breathing when you are sleeping, the air is still going in.) Suddenly, I was filled with intense fear. Our youngest son was sleeping over night at our grandson's house and I kept seeing his face in the window of Noah's bedroom. He was screaming and pounding on the window and there was fire behind him. It was terrifying. All kinds of strange, scary thoughts were pressed into my mind by the enemy, mostly about my family. The devil was trying to weaken me using the dirtiest tactic he could come up with. I was afraid, but knew what was going on, and laid there praying and quoting every Scripture I could think of. I can't remember now how long this went on, but it was at least a couple hours.

I was finally relieved of the fear and fell asleep, but then started having dreams of demons flying over our bed laughing at me, saying things like, "Look at the fool. She thinks she's healed! She's going to die in her sleep!!! What an idiot" It was horrid. They were mocking and laughing at me. Again I woke up and started praying and quoting God's Word.

Finally, around 5 in the morning I had felt complete victory and joy in the Lord. I knew the devil was defeated by the power of God. I fell asleep in peace. I've never used the CPAP again. This was 1 1/2 years ago. My doctor just wrote a letter to our insurance company declaring me NOT to have sleep apnea, so I could get life insurance at the best rate available for my age. Praise God!

Just a note: If you are not experienced in hearing God's voice strong and clear, and have not fought a spiritual battle, please do NOT stop taking meds or treatments. You have to be sure it's God's voice and not your own thoughts or emotions when you do something like this.

Thank You, Jesus!
Well said Laura! I've had battle experiences in my sleep also, even before I really knew what spiritual battle was.

[Outcast]

I had a wierd dream on Monday night/early Tuesday morning that woke me up with fright and I had trouble sleeping again. Not sure if it was a wierd nightmare or somethign spiritual. I was walking around various places in my dream...another wierd thing...I was actually walking like i used to when I was much much younger. Throughout the dream for some reason I walked alone and saw no other people. I also had knowledge of family and friends being a thing of the past...lost to me. I kept hearing music and singing the song "I Am Yours" by Misty Edwards as a song to God and to Heaven and it was the only thing that seemed to be giving my heart joy. I remember gettign into the car and goign home. Next I found myself in my old house I remember from my youth growing up...in my old room from my childhood and teen years. Yet I had my computer with me and was listening to my mp3 music...Christian music from a Swedish group a friend gave me once and i was reading the lyrics in Swedish (yeah, i can read letters and other things in my dreams) suddenly the melody changed and the language contorted into a strange grotesque looking language almost demonic looking and the music changed drastically into a wierd screamign screeching monsterous voice and a warped melody like an old record being warped or played too slow saying: "I' m coming...I am coming for you!" and i remember snatching the headphones out of the jack and shuttign the computer off by unplugging it. I then stepped into the hallway and i saw the ugliness darkness looking down the hall to where the den was in my old house and I could sense things were there. Something was pulling me and i knew "it" was there waiting for me...I grabbed the doorframe to brace myself and stay in the light. I woke up shaking and unable to go back to sleep after that. Is anyone gettign anythign spiritual out fo this? Is it a wierd dream? Or am finally ready for prozac? thanks:)

[LauraA]

Wow, Jeff, that sounds frightening. If you weren't praying about something specific that you can obviously relate to this, then I would either pray and ask the Lord to let you know what was happening, or chalk it up to the devil messing with you and put it out of your mind. He's such a skunk!