prayer intervention

Several years ago, when we first moved here, we had numerous encounters with spiritual warfare unlike anything we had experienced in the US. A strange heaviness would seem to hang over the house. Kids would wake up with inexplicable nightmares and fears. We would hear disconcerting noises outside, and the next day find bags of chicken parts, an evil omen someone was purposefully throwing our way.

In those initial months of learning this new culture and having our eyes opened to realities we were not accustomed to, we relied heavily on prayer, having friends do prayer walks through our house with us, keeping ourselves on alert to recognize when spiritual battles were coming our way.

Things seemed to settle down quite a bit after the first few months, but we've recently noticed a spike in the occurence of some disturbing instances. Ali has been waking up at night for weeks now with a very real fear of something bad being around her or about to happen to her. There have been strange screaming noises and incantations happening outside late at night. Don has taken up post on our couch many nights to be closer and more ready for the kids, and even he has heard unnatural groans and noises that have set him on edge. Last night, when he ran into Ali's room upon hearing those strange noises again, he found her sitting straight up in bed seeming to scream for help, yet no sound was coming from her mouth.

We've moved Aidan back into the room with Ali to get her over this hump of fearfulness. We have prayed extensively with them before they go to sleep and when Ali wakes up in the middle of the night in the midst of her nightmares. We've had other people check on us to ask if we are okay because even they have had disturbing dreams about us. We've checked with neighbors and communicated some of our concerns, and they have shared how they also have been feeling a different sort of evil around them. It's a strange, unsettling reality of our life at the moment.

My purpose in sharing these things is not to shock you or communicate about a reality that seems wildly different from what we experienced in the States. It is to petition for your prayers. The battles are real, and we need reinforcements. We know that your prayers make a difference, so would you please join with us?

We know that we may not always be safe. We don't expect things to be peachy-perfect all the time. But we do know we have an almighty God who is ruler over everything, and we want to experience his great peace and the knowledge that he is with us and around us at all times. We also want our kids to begin to realize his presence in their lives as well so that they will not be afraid and so that they would believe in a power even greater and more able than their mom and dad.


(Heather)