TERROR BY NIGHT!         DO857    10/1/80

         1. I'VE BEEN HAVING SUCH BATTLES ALL NIGHT LONG! I don't understand it. I'm fine during the day, & I don't have these battles then at all. But the Devil just terrifies me sometimes at night!
         2. You don't understand, but I really fight to stay alive in the night! The demons of Hell try to kill me, & they try to kill me with fear! I really feel like I'm dying, like I'm going to die! I thought, "At least I'll quote Scripture," & I was quoting the 23rd Psalm when you woke up. But I was having a problem getting those last verses. I was getting it mixed up with another one, Psalm 27:4.
         3. I thought that when I got to the end of the Psalm I'd just die & go to be with the Lord. I just felt like I couldn't fight anymore, that I'd just die with that verse, but all of a sudden you woke up out of a sound sleep & held onto me!--You caught me!
         4. IT'S THE STRANGEST THING--the minute you're awake, all those forces run--they flee! I guess the Devil flees when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees!--(Maria: Well, I certainly am weak, that's for sure!) When you're weak, then you're strong, for His strength is made perfect in your weakness. (2Co.12:9,10) So when I'm weak, then you're strong.
         5. With me, "the Enemy comes in like a flood" (Is.59:19), but when you wake up, the minute you touch me, the Spirit of God raises a standard against him & they all run! Isn't that odd? I don't understand that, or why I can't get rid of them until you wake up.--It must be my weakness, huh?
         6. I'm supposed to have the gift of faith.--But since faith is my strength, fear must be my weakness. Isn't that terrible? That's awful!--To think I'm so weak that I have to have you touch me to make them flee! That seems to show you have more faith than I do, & more power! I'm just a weak little tiny prophet.
         7. IT SEEMS LIKE MY DARKEST HOUR IS JUST BEFORE DAWN! I have my biggest battles then. I can hardly wait for the daybreak. There must be something in that--like the vampires & witches: They like darkness because their deeds are evil! (Jn.3:19,20)
         8. I have such battles in the darkness, but as soon as I see the light coming through the shutters, I get real sleepy & go to sleep--especially if you're praying for me. It's amazing! When you're awake, all those demons depart & they stop persecuting me.
         9. (Maria: "Two can put ten thousand to flight"!) There must be ten thousand of them!--Because I can't get rid of them by myself. But when you wake up, everything is all right. The minute you touch me, they all run.--So you're stronger than me. Now I can go to sleep without fear, when I know you & the Lord are in control.
         10. (Maria: Moses had to have somebody hold up his hands, too.) (Ex.17:12)--Right, Honey! That's a good illustration!--Even Moses couldn't hold up his hands by himself! Even Moses was weak & had to have help! That's me!--I just can't make it without you. I battled all night long, but I couldn't get the victory until you came & helped me, & then everything went the other way. TYJ!
         11. It's like terror in the middle of the night!--It's horrible! It's the Enemy's terrorism!--The Devil uses terrorism, too: The whole idea in the World is for the Devil to frighten people into letting him have his way! (Have you let him scare you out of God's Will?)
         12. "THOU SHALT NOT BE AFRAID FOR THE TERROR BY NIGHT"! Hallelujah! PTL! We don't have to be afraid of it, if we'll just claim these wonderful promises of the 91st Psalm & the 23rd & 27th Psalms I kept getting in my battle! Read them! Claim them! Fight the Enemy with the Word!--Like Jesus did during His temptation! (Mat.4:1-11)
         13. Every night since this, Maria's been reading me to sleep with these Scriptures & the local Family's been praying desperately that I could sleep without these attacks of the Enemy, & I've been sleeping peacefully & soundly all night long, & feeling so much better in the days too! PG! It works!--The wonderful Word works!--And prayers of the Family too!--Try'm!--GBAKY!--In Jesus' name.--Amen! (I now keep a light on too!--Ha!)


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