Since I started trying to live my life for God, I have been attacked by the devil in ways that I never had been before.  We have the most obvious ways he attacks us daily (ie putting people or things in your path that tempt you and try to keep you from God...) but up until recently he had been interrupting my sleep almost everynight.  So much so that there were nights I was afraid to go to sleep because I did not want to fight him.  That's right, I was fighting him in my sleep.

Now what I am about to say will sound like the rantings and ravings of a mad woman...but it is all true.  See the devil will do that to us...make us think we are crazy about something like this and  we find ourselves keeping quiet because we truly do not want anyone to think we are.  In our keeping our silence and not doing anything we give him the power to return night after night.  Here is my story and how I fought my way out.

It seemed almost immeadiatley upon falling asleep I would enter into battle with the devil.  I could feel the darkness around me...feel his presense...hear his voice...and most of all, feel him when he would grab hold of me.  I fought so hard I would wake up feeling as if I had not slept at all.  I would awaken myself yelling "Get thee behind me Satan".  I would even hear myself in my dreams using a voice I knew was not my own.

I went to a member in my church whom I felt I could talk to about this strange thing that was happening to me.  I felt almost silly telling her, but I had to tell someone and something told me I should tell her.  Of course I told her this was going to sound weird and she may think I am completely out of my mind,even crazy, but I had been fighting the devil in my sleep.  I was afraid to even go to sleep nights because of it.  She looked at me and said I was not crazy and it was not uncommon for the devil to attack us in our sleep especially when we were trying to get right with God.  She told me to come to the alter at the next service and we would pray and that she and her husband would come and bless my home.

The next service I was at the alter and that afternoon, true to her word, they came and blessed and anointed my home.  She also told me to everynight, before I went to sleep to call upon the Angels to surround me and my family during our sleep to protect us from darkness.  She also told me what to say to quickly remove the devil from my sleep.  I also removed items from my home that had darkness attached to them in one way or another to help remove the things that might keep him attached to my home.

Since that night almost two weeks ago I have had only one night where I found myself fighting with him again.  This night was the worst of all the dreams I had had fighting with him because in this dream I could not only feel and see the darkness, not only hear his voice, no only feel his presense, I could actually see a shape that represented him.  Now, it was not your normal everyday picture of the devil I saw...it was a dark form that had a deep redness about it and when it spoke...moved...and even touched me I could feel the evil attached to it.  I remembered in my dream what to say to him and the more I tried to fight him the more real it became. 

I began to yell "Get the behind me satan.  You have no power here.  I am a child of God and you can not have me.  I have been washed in the blood of Jesus and because of that, you have no dominion here.  Get the behind me satan...in the name of Jesus...get the behind me."  As I felt myself began to come out of the dream I could feel pain in my ribs and arm where the devil was trying to hold on to me.  Since that night, I have had no more dreams. 

I fought that battle with satan and finally beat him.  Everynight now when I go to sleep I call the Angels of God to come down and surround me, my daughter and my son so that we may rest in sweet sleep.  Don't get me wrong, I still fight him daily with the temptations he sets before me and the things he tries to throw at me to trip me up.  As a child of God, he is always going to try and lure me away in any way he can.  But each day I grow stronger in Christ and each day the battle gets a little less harder to fight.  If you find yourself fighthing these same battles each day...if you find yourself fighting these same types of battles in your sleep...you have the power to call the Angels of God down to surround you and keep you safe.  Calling all Angels.....