Victory Song

Dear Sisters in Christ,

            I have a wonderful thing to share with you today. Jesus is LORD Hallelujah!

            Last night, Satan mounted a sneak attack on my soul. Fear is an area where this King of Lies easily gets a foothold, and this was the gateway he made use of.

            I had a bad day yesterday. I didn’t feel well, had a really bad headache that just wouldn’t quit, and in general felt horrible. My husband put some hot tea in me, and tucked me into bed, fully anticipating that a night of good deep sleep would fix all wrongs.

            Little did we anticipate how the enemy could strike when all defenses were down. I had a terrible nightmare last night. Satan gave me a dream, which, if possible, seemed even more real than reality. When I initially woke up I thought I had just lived through a horrible memory! As wives there is always the potential for fear that our husbands will leave us to find someone more attractive, skinny, athletic. I did not say there is always the fear, but that there is always the potential for the fear. This is what Satan preyed on last night. I am not going to share the details, mostly because it took me a long time to get the images out of my head last night, and I am in no way going to open myself to put them back in there.

            The amazing part of this story begins when I began to weep on my husband’s shoulder, and he woke up. Now, if Satan’s plan had worked, upon finding my crying on him in the middle of the night, my husband would have been extremely put out that I woke him up in the middle of the night. We would have gotten into a huge fight, and Satan would have succeeded in driving us apart. But what happened instead, was that Jesus imbued my husband with a wonderful measure of grace, so that he asked me what was wrong, listened, and understood immediately that Satan was attacking us. Still showing mercy and grace to me, he prayed over me, talked to me and helped me realize that there was no truth to what had happened in my dream. Because Christ poured His love over my husband, I was able to fall asleep with visions of guardian angels filtering out all the evil dreams Satan tried to send.

            I am so thankful to God for His mercy. I am humbled by my wonderful husband’s actions, and am blessed by his gentleness. God is victorious, sisters, and He will give us victory too!

Yours in Christian Victory, Rachel