My Dream a Reality

4 Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?

² You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet^[a] you do not have because you do not ask.

³ You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

⁵ Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”?

⁶ But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble

⁷ Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

⁸ Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts,you double-minded.

⁹ Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.

As I dreamed a dream the other night it brought me to a reality that resisting the devil is not as easy as it seems.
I dreamed this dream. I dreamed I was at the back door of the inside of our house. The door was open. For some unknown reason I had a stone in my hand. I through the stone from the inside of the house as far as I could down the back yard. After the stone was thrown I struggled to push the door shut. There was a resistance. I pushed and pushed with all my might until the door was slowly pushed with the preasure of the force behind it.

Bringing it to reality from the dream, resisting the devil isn’t an easy task. As we fight against the devil, it is going to be a continuous battle. This battle could be within our own being and heart. It could be in the will of other believers to be unkind. Or it could be from the world itself. The battle could be from the mail or internet. I have a little joke when I go to the letter box which consists of  “Does anyone love us or hate us today?” The reference being to bills as hate and other mail is that someone loves us.

We should not give the devil an opportunity to enter the door of our house, internet or our lives. If we are one that perpetrates devilish attitudes, we need to search with all our hearts to see if it’s right in the sight of God. We need to question ourselves would Jesus be doing this. The devil has no right in our lives, nor to give out anger and discomfort to other brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ our Lord. 


As my dream depicted, stones will not remove devilish acts but rather we need to shut the door on those things which are evil, though it be a struggle. May God help us in the name of Jesus through His divine Holy Spirit.