Friday, December 27, 2013
Don’t Listen To Lies
Sometimes when I sleep, God teaches me things through dreams. As my wife and I were getting ready to turn in for the evening last night, God had me go back downstairs to pray. I spent about an hour in intercessory prayer for various people and places. I felt the strong presence of angels in the room with me, so I spent time telling them how great God is and also told them to watch over people. When I then returned to bed, in the night, I began to have dreams.
In my dreams I was steadily experiencing some type of disruption. There was a dream where an alligator was near my feet with his mouth open. He was big enough to swallow me, and I was sliding towards his wide open jaws. I had a large caliber pistol in my hand and then a flurry of thoughts came to my mind. “If you shoot yourself in the head you won’t feel it when he eats you,” the thought said. I wondered if that was true. I wondered if it mattered how I shot myself, like would I die faster if I had the gun in my mouth. Then something even stranger happened. The alligator became a shark, and I still wasn’t in its mouth. Then a giant cat of some sort, then a bear, and then finally I realized what was going on. This was an attack. I held the weapon to destroy myself or to destroy my enemy. The creature then turned back into an alligator, and I cocked the pistol and fired into its open mouth, the bullets destroying the brain of the creature, and it died and disappeared. I woke up.
As I woke I began to think of various issues in life, some real and some imagined. It was still night and I needed to sleep, but the thoughts were keeping me awake. Then I realized this was like the dream. I began to battle the thoughts by forcing myself to think about Jesus. I muttered some prayers quietly, telling God I needed His help. I told God I will trust Him and I needed His deliverance from those thoughts at that moment. Suddenly the flurry of troubled thoughts just stopped and I felt a peace as I fell asleep. So what really happened? Two things.
God is our defender against the one who wants to kill us.
Psalms 121:1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2 My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.
3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5 The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.
Our enemy seeks to destroy us.
1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
And Paul, quoting Moses, tells us we have the power to change things in our mouth.
Romans 10:6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Whether asleep or awake, God defends us. Our enemy will attack, whether we are asleep or awake. And we can turn to God and with our mouth call upon Him and He will deliver us. Remember, God is on our side, always at all times, and will never leave us defenseless. Our God is King!
Prayer
Father, we praise and exalt You as our Most High King. We thank You that You watch over us while we sleep. The enemy is against us and we are under attack. Break his teeth and grind him to powder Father. Defend Your people today, Lord. Please give us our healing, deliverance, and provisions speedily today. In Jesus’ (Yeshua’s) name. Amen.