Ugh.
While I totally understand the despair, I would like to offer an
alternative response: embrace these dreams as the gifts they are.
This may seem crazy—but let me tell you a story I just heard which may give you a new perspective.
The story (heard on a Plumbline Ministries video) goes something
like this: a man and his son were driving together. The son looked up
and was disturbed to see a number of vultures circling in the sky.
“There must be a dead animal somewhere,” he sadly exclaimed. His father
wisely pointed out that if the animal were, in fact, dead, then the
vultures would have landed. Then the dad asked the child what he thought
they could do if they were going to help the wounded animal. The son
pondered this, then said, “Well, I guess we wouldn’t want to kill the
vultures—because they are our marker for where the wounded animal is.”
Exactly.
Exactly.
The demonic is the marker for the wounding.
So let me give you a strategy for leveraging demonic harassment in your dreams to greater healing and spiritual dominion.
(1) Choose to put things in proper perspective. If
dark spiritual influences could kill you- believe me–you would already
be dead! If the worst thing they can do is give you a bad dream—yes, it
is annoying, but seriously, it is just a bad dream! Don’t put too much
weight on it—instead leverage it for change.
(2) “Dream forward!” (leverage the dream). This requires an action plan. Here are some suggestions—
- Interpret the dream- in general, what is the main essence of the dream? (i.e. let’s say that a witch is stabbing you in you on the couch in your livingroom, and you tell her to leave in the name of Jesus, but she doesn’t . The essence of this dream is that witchcraft – perhaps word curses are preventing you from finding rest/peace in your day to day life and that you do not have the authority to deal with it at this time.
- Look for clues as to the arena—is this occurring at work, home, spiritual community, in your friendships? Drilling down to the specifics is essential to putting this all to an end!
- Note the feelings in the dream- (likely the big 6–fear, anger, shame, disgust, sadness and hopeless) These feelings are the manifestation of the wounding, sin , or generational issues – and succumbing to them often throws the door wide open to further harassment.
- Pay particular attention to “proclamations” made in the dream—by yourself or others. These can give you strategies for dealing with the situation/issues opening you up to such dreams.