Okay so I’m a baptist. We don’t really talk much about “spiritual warfare� and when the staff talked about it on the world race I may or may not have just rolled my eyes and moved on. But, after what happened to me today my opinions are changing quickly. Our teams and translators were meeting for prayer before going out into this particular Transylvanian village to invite people to a concert/revival tonight. This morning when I woke up I felt fine. In fact, I was looking foreword to my bowl of cereal with fresh-from-the-udder milk. When I went in to brush my teeth before sitting down for some quiet time with the Lord I started to feel nauseous. Being as stubborn as I am I decided that I was not going to get sick so I just sat down for a while and ate a banana before prayer time started. Sure enough I felt fine and went in to pray. No sooner did we start to pray than I started to feel strange. I was freezing cold, I couldn’t breathe. Next I was sweating hot and dizzy. I was thinking something along the lines of “what in the world is going on?� I knew that I wasn’t sick, but I didn’t know what was wrong. By the end of the prayer I collapsed onto a bench and couldn’t move or speak, and could barely breathe. The weirdest part was that I felt fine, I just couldn’t move…or communicate…or really breathe. I said that it was weird. A team of 2 or 3 people managed to help me my bed where I literally collapsed. Everyone was praying for me and trying to figure out what was going on/find a clinic near by. My squad leader eventually suggested that it may be something spiritual. The baptist in me thought that she was crazy. But, when she left for a minute to get me some water I prayed. I prayed that god would heal me of my sickness and nothing happened. I figured why not, and prayed that jesus release me from whatever spirit was oppressing me. I said something along the lines of “in the name of jesus, leave me alone!� and immediately felt better. And not a little better. 100% better. Like I got up out of my bed and had that bowl of cereal I had been looking foreword to. So yeah, weird huh? Reeeeeaaaaaallllllllllyyyy weird. I don’t know how I feel about it to be honest with you. But I do know that my God is strong enough to rescue me from anything that tries to come against me. Because he loves me and gave himself up for me. So that’s cool. I watched a movie the other day that said “the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn’t exist.� that is so true. Well, ignoring spiritual warfare isn’t really an option for me now (as weird as that is to say). So, look out! I am very aware. And I’m playing for the winning team.
