Pest in the Night

The enemy certainly knows how to alarm us. Sometimes the moves are so predictable while others are not. Yesterday my husband had to travel out of town and stay over night. I am usually okay with that and often look forward to the time I can have in the house by myself - although I had one of my children here with me.

I settled down at 9:00pm - extremely tired and looking forward to rest. However as the night lingered on, I kept hearing noises. I know - it was probably in my mind right? I aways think so at first but then something started happening. Every time I eased into a deep sleep I was awakened by a loud noise. It was so loud that it startled me upon my wake. I would rise and listen carefully. Nothing.

12:00am - Loud noise - I rose and went and logged off my computer thinking the noise might have been from my mail alarm

2:00am - Another noise. I rose out of bed to walk around the house - nothing - yet I heard the loud bang.

3:00am - Startled from a dream I believe was coming from the Lord. The bang came from the Bathroom as if someone had dropped a shampoo bottle.

3:30am - At this time, I was terribly sleepy and all I wanted to do was to sleep - another bang from the bathroom area - startled I sat up and then fell back down closing my eyes to sleep.

Suddenly the moment my eyes closed it felt as if someone had taken a cattle prod and jammed it into the covers. I felt an electrical shock from the outside of the blankets. I really woke at that moment. My eyes flew open and my heart began to pound with great authority and fear. I froze - trying to discern what was happening. No more noises.

Then came the voice of the Lord - Scripture. I turned the light on and grabbed my One Year Bible. I turned to May 5th and read out loud from the Psalm.

Psalm 105

"1Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done."
"Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts. "
"Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice. "
"Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always."
"Remember the wonders he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced, O descendants of Abraham his servant, O sons of Jacob, his chosen ones. "

"He is the LORD our God; his judgments are in all the earth."(7)

I began reading this aloud and proclaiming it over and over. I asked the Lord to come and sweep through my house releasing His authority on the ones tormenting. I demanded that in the name of the "Lord - who is our God" flee.

"He remembers his covenant forever, the word he commanded, for a thousand generations, the covenant he made with Abraham, the oath he swore to Isaac. "
"He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant: To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion you will inherit."
"When they were but few in number, few indeed, and strangers in it, they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another."

"He allowed no one to oppress them; for their sake he rebuked kings:
"Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm." (vs 14)

Again I claimed that scripture and asked God to send his mightiest angels to stand guard and protect me and my son. I read it out loud - the Lord says . . . "Do not touch my anointed ones!"

I sat and praised - sang - to the Lord. I was so tired. I listened for a moment later and fell back to sleep with no more interruptions. The Lord is good and truly the light in any darkness.