I was very hesitant to share this post because, well…three reasons…
#1 – Anytime I talk about spiritual warfare it seems the crazies come out…the ones who see a demon everywhere.
#2 – A lot of questions come up…as spiritual warfare is one of the most misunderstood subjects in the church.
#3 – There are some who do not believe in spiritual warfare…and so when a person acknowledges it they are thought of as insane.
BUT…one of the reasons for this blog is to not only share what I am learning…but also what the Lord is doing in and around me. I’ve had some pretty significant experiences when it comes to spiritual warfare…and I don’t talk about them a lot because I don’t want to focus on the enemy…except for the fact that he is freakin DEFEATED and is going to go to HELL one day!
However, from time to time I think it is healthy to acknowledge that spirtual warfare is real…and the other night something happened in my house last week that proved to me that the enemy is angry…and that life isn’t a playground…it’s a battleground…
Lucretia and I were spending some time on the couch with each other and Charisse was playing in her play room (formerly my office downstairs.) We do this often on Monday and Tuesday nights so that she can learn that mommy and daddy have their time and she has her time to play.
After about 15 minutes or so, she became a little fussy and started saying, “mommy.” We told her to keep on playing…but over the next few minutes she got louder and louder and was almost screaming. Lucretia looked at me at one point and said, “What has gotten into our child?”
Finally it got to the point where neither one of us could take it…so we called her in the living room and she was terrified. I asked her was she ok and she nodded her head no. I then asked her was she scared and she looked and me with really big eyes and nodded her head yes. Then I asked her what scared her and she said “a man in there” and pointed at the playroom.
At this point the redneck in me came out and I was ready to kill something…namely the freakin man in the playroom that had scared my daughter. I thought maybe a kid had came to the outside window and she had gotten frightened by that…so I picked her up and began walking towards the playroom…and as we were walking she squeezed me harder than ever before and closed her eyes really tight. She was genuinly terrified!
I asked her to show me where the man had been and she pointed to the place where she said she saw him. I asked what did the man look like and she said “black.” Then I asked her was the man little or big and she said, “big…like daddy.” Lucretia and I are convinced that she saw some sort of manifestation of en evil spirit…possibly even a demon. Like I said…she’s NEVER been scared of anything…but that night she was terrified!
She didn’t leave the couch for the rest of the night! I actually did go outside to see if anyone was around…or if anyone had been walking around in the mulch outside of the window and there was no sign of anything.
When it came time to go to bed we asked her was she ready for bed and she mentioned the man in the playroom one more time. We told her he was gone and that she didn’t have to worry. Then we took her to bed and prayed with her and she went right to sleep.
I’ve always dealt with spiritual warfare on various levels…but this is the first time I believe the enemy ever came after my daughter (and I’m sure it won’t be the last.) I feel like God is getting ready to do something huge in our church…and the enemy is trying his best to distract me and my family. The enemy is getting desperate…and so I am asking for covering from you guys like I’ve never asked before. Not just for me…but for ‘Cretia and Charisse as well (‘Cretia hasn’t slept since this happened!) I’ve never seen Charisse like that…and we don’t watch scary stuff around here…so I know she didn’t just make it up.
AND…let me be clear about this…we’re not worried. We know we are in God’s hands…we know the enemy has been defeated…we know he can try to intimidate but the power of the LIVING GOD is on our side!
NewSpring…let’s pray like NEVER before…let’s INVITE like never before…and refuse to let the one who had the crap kicked out of him on the cross intimidate us!!!
WE WIN…let’s live like it!!!
