Attacks

I slept quite late last night.. more like this morning.. like around 3 plus or something and i had one of those dreams that i felt was a spiritual attack.. Hmmm... i wasn't really afraid lah.. but there was that kind of adrenaline rush that made it kinda.. well... fun??

If you got too much of an active imagination maybe you can skip this dream and read the next paragraph... Ok it was like another of those times when my body was asleep but my spiritual senses were awake and my spiritual eyes were open even though my natural eyes were closed... I saw a dark figure close to me.. i didn't see him clearly.. i only saw him as a shadow and i only remember seeing his head.. it was a silhouette of some guy and i could make out that his hair style was like a crew cut.. and it felt that way cos i grabbed his head and tried to push him away. I kinda remember pushing his head away twice. Thank God for His protection though.. i wasn't afraid cos i knew He would protect me. I dunno what happened next but i remembered having a dream and i was in this room and suddenly a witch entered. Then i told her to go away in Jesus' Name. I think my resolve to tell her that even moved my physical body to speak. She went away but i'm not sure if it was for good.

Sometimes there are experiences i get that i dun understand but God is gracious and i didn't doubt His ability to protect me even while i was asleep. :)

So ok.. i went back to sleep and i started to dream about someone from Sojourners. In the dream she said something which i can't remember. It was only one line but the Lord was showing me through the dream through that one line that she said about the condition of her heart. She was looking to herself and not to God and she was more caught up with the situation at hand than what God can do. Felt that she was full of self-pity and guilt... guilt even to the extent that she would blame herself for something that is not really her fault.

She may not be the only one feeling/thinking this way but this is an attack strategy of the devil to imprison ppl and prevent them from rising up and seeing what God can do. We must learn to recognise this for what it is- a spiritual attack and we must use the truth of God to war against it. We are in the midst of a great battle and we must learn to hear God's voice. The passage that the Holy Spirit gave for this person was, if i remember correctly, John 10... it says that His sheep know His voice. We need to hear His voice to be able to access the abundant life that He has for us. When we hear His voice, the focus is taken off ourselves, off man and what man can do, off from the situation at hand and how overwhelming it may seem and the focus becomes Jesus. When our focus is on God and we see how big He is in comparison to other things, that's how we get the victory over self-pity, over guilt and over discouragement.

Yesterday night, i was contemplating about something and the Lord was just teaching me that how we hear is directly affected by how much we behold Jesus, by how much we focus on Him. And that's why in this war, the enemy wants us to lose our focus cos losing our focus means losing the channel of communication with the Commander. Ephesians 1 talks about the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. The Lord has taught me that if we are to pursue wisdom and revelation, it is in the knowledge of Jesus and Jesus is at the centre of it. The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. As we get to know Him and draw closer to Him, then we can find wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. He is like the antenna that transmits wisdom and revelation from the heart of God to His people... The closer we are to the antenna the better the frequency becomes, the better we hear. And we need wisdom and revelation cos we're in a war. The army calls this intelligence and we need not just intelligence but war strategies direct from the heart of God unto His people.