When the enemy comes
We live in a fallen world. And I don’t know why sometimes, bad things happen- to good people.
I wanted to share an email I sent to a friend whose home was broken into by armed robbers:
Oh dearest! I really feel for you!
I hear you about the attack you went through! What I went through was not as severe as what you endured but perhaps some of what happened for me might help you?
I don’t dare understand what you went through- because no one should go through that- ever! But I’d had a few incidents here in SA.
I was mugged- at one point I’d been grabbed by two guys who wanted my phone- but I bless God I wasn’t hurt.
While I was living with my parents people had broken into our home a number of times.
When I got married our home was broken into a number of times too.
It became too much for me to handle!
I became very fearful.
One evening I was at fellowship.
Our Pastor (Stuart Agnew) said he felt there were people who were living with fear- he went on to describe precisely what I’d been going through!
He said he wanted to pray with us. I went up for prayer and just couldn’t stop crying!
When he came to me he told me to look at him- my pastor looked right into my eyes and said:
“Fear go!”
He said it calmly but with such authority!
He repeated it a couple of times: “Fear go!” Then he prayed with me.
That evening I remember driving up to our gate- usually I’d be SO panicked as I waited for the gate to open- but not that night!
God had done something in me.
My dear sister that attack you went through was not only to harm you physically or to take your things- the enemy wanted to steal your peace, to bring uncontrollable anxiety- all in a bid to destroy you!
I remember the paralysing fear I used to have- it was hell.
God doesn’t want that for us.
People say it takes time to heal- but I believe, that often, it takes God.
Because for me- as time passed the fear and anxiety grew worse not better. Counselling didn’t help. Neither did tranquilisers.
I didn’t know what peaceful sleep was.
Every time I’d hear something I’d be up, checking the windows!
Now I imagine God’s angels surrounding our home.
I imagine two big angels at our front gate- protecting us.
When visions of fear come- I imagine those two angels, lovingly protecting us. I imagine them confronting whoever wants to step onto our property and telling them to go away. Calmly, but with all the authority of heaven!
In any case, who wants to argue with angels of our Mighty God!
We live in a fallen world sister- yet Jesus told us that we are to be of good cheer because He had overcome the world.
I pray that in this moment you would experience that amazing peace that passes all understanding.
I pray that God would restore the peace the enemy stole and that you would be absolutely rested in God’s love for you and His protection.
We heard of a of a very very wealthy family that has around the clock security guards.
They have electric fences, cameras- the whole deal- Yet their home was broken into too!
Once, we heard that even with all that security they’d been held at gunpoint, for hours!
That made me realise that the reality is there isn’t much we can do when it comes to protecting ourselves- that’s why we have to trust in the armies of the Lord to be our cover.
We have to trust in Psalm 91 that He hides us under the shadow of His wings.
Recently, I’ve been hearing horror stories about terrible things that have been happening close to where we live- the threat of fear returning comes- but I tell myself, A thousand will fall at my left hand, ten thousand at my right but it will not come near me!
It may sound arrogant- but I didn’t come up with that line- I’m only repeating what the Scriptures say.
The Word of God is powerful sister.
We may ask, but why didn’t God protect us then?
I don’t truly know how to answer that.
However, now that we’ve been made aware of the enemy’s devices we can build walls of protection around us using God’s Word and standing on it.
I am not condemning you for where you are sister- everything you are going through is absolutely normal- it’s natural.
But you have Jesus on the inside of you- that gives you a supernatural ability to overcome the assaults of the enemy.
I am really really sorry for what they did to you. But the effects, I pray in Jesus’ Name, stop right here!
The enemy has NO right to your peace and now as you read this- I say, Fear Go!
May the peace, of a Father God who loves you, wash over you.
May you experience the best sleep ever!
May you experience God’s bountiful abundance and the things that were stolen from you be returned seven fold!
You’re right- your testimony is a powerful one!
What the enemy had planned for evil I know God will use for your good and it will bless others!
The Scriptures promise us that the devil is overcome by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony!
I send you Love dear friend
Hannah