Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings. And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.
I wrote the other day about a dream I had, then yesterday I decided to look up the lion in the bible and came across this verse. God talks to us in many different ways and I truly believe that he talked to me in this dream. This verse totally confirmed it. He was showing me in my dream that I do have the power to be self-controlled and alert. I can resist him and stand firm in my faith. I did that my not being afraid in my dream. I watched as he flew in and out of the room and I continued to tell him to leave me alone. God showed me that He has given me the power to defeat the attack of the enemy when I closed my had around that lion's nose, stopped his roaring, looked him straight in the eyes and told him "in the name of Jesus, leave me alone."
God showed me that I am really not alone in this, even though it sometimes feels like that, when in my dream I warned the other person to "watch out, here he comes again."
And God will restore me from this little bout of depression (attack of the enemy), he always does. I believe that I am finally reaching a place in my faith that I can remember to turn to that promise instead of wallowing in the defeated, depressive state that the devil tries to keep me in.
Thinking of that dream and reading those verses puts a renewed hope, passion and excitement in me.
Thank you, God, for always being there for me.
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