It only took a couple nights in our Nicaraguan home for me to start dreading going to sleep. Weird things were happening at night. Fitful sleep was punctuated with scary dreams and waking up at odd hours with a sense of heaviness and fear. No rest was going down as I battled the feeling that someone was present just outside my bedroom door.
One of our squad leaders came for a visit, and our breakfast conversation became very interesting after her first night here—“There was a lot of demonic activity in this house last night.”
Demons. In my house. Not sure what that means. Things just got weird.
I had questions. I had doubts. I had rationalizations. Spiritual warfare is not a topic that is discussed in America.
But I cannot deny it. Living in a place like Nicaragua, which has a foundation in witchcraft and satanic rituals, the spiritual realm is alive. There are demons. There are angels. Some people can see them. Many can feel them, and all are affected by their presence, whether people acknowledge it or not.
At first the thought frightened me and I felt powerless—spirits that I cannot see were affecting my dreams and my sleep. I had visions of being dragged around the house by an unseen force.
It helped to realize that demons are spirits of something—a spirit of lust, a spirit of addiction, a spirit of fear, a spirit of anxiety. Those are feelings everyone has experienced. Demons don’t always possess people. Sometimes their tactic is just permeating someone’s life with anxiety, etc.
Demons fight a different battle in America because we tend to not associate anything with the spiritual realm, unlike countries like Nicaragua. In America, it is more a game of “let them believe Satan and demons do not exist.”
So I am not playing that game anymore. I acknowledge that there are forces out there that I cannot see. Good spirits and bad spirits. And there is nothing to fear.
The battle against darkness has already been fought and won. Jesus came and broke the chains that spirits of death, lust, addiction, pride, and fear had on us. Since I am a daughter of Christ, demons have no authority over me.
Demonic activity is not something we have to let consume us. An awareness of it helps us know when we are the target of darkness, and all we have to do is call out the light in the situation. As children of the Creator, demons have no power unless we give it to them.
Nights have been much better here. After we discovered the church next door was being used for Satanic offerings and demons were being called on every night, we prayed for not only protection of our house but also that God would reclaim the church for Himself. As the prayer session was ending, a massive thunderstorm erupted. Nicaragua has been experiencing very little rain, and this was the heaviest storm we had encountered so far.
A cleansing rain for sure.
