Hey!

[Unknown_Source]

How is everyone? I hope you're all doing great!

I was wondering if you guys could tell me what this might mean?

So several nights ago. In the middle of the night, my daughter, (5 years old) it was maybe between 2-4 AM. She struggles to go to sleep at night. There's times she'll stay awake until like 6-7 AM. But, that night she pointed up above the front door and said, "There's Jesus!" Then on the opposite side, she pointed over by the kitchen/dining room and said, "There's Satan." So I'm like, "Uh. " So I said something like, "If Satan is really in here, tell him to go away in the name of Jesus!" She got so scared and jumped up on my lap so fast and said she's scared.

 

[Sam91]

How is everyone? I hope you're all doing great!

I was wondering if you guys could tell me what this might mean?

So several nights ago. In the middle of the night, my daughter, (5 years old) it was maybe between 2-4 AM. She struggles to go to sleep at night. There's times she'll stay awake until like 6-7 AM. But, that night she pointed up above the front door and said, "There's Jesus!" Then on the opposite side, she pointed over by the kitchen/dining room and said, "There's Satan." So I'm like, "Uh. " So I said something like, "If Satan is really in here, tell him to go away in the name of Jesus!" She got so scared and jumped up on my lap so fast and said she's scared.

Hi, hope you are well too. Perhaps it was the time of night and things were playing on her mind. Maybe she's heard you say things before, like overhearing your conversations or other people mentioning Satan and was being a bit fanciful. Then, when you replied, she probably picked up on you feeling unsettled and that scared her. Night time can be a scary time anyway. It can be eerily quiet, you know how it is. I'm laying in bed in the dark at 4.50 and just writing this is a bit unsettling as it reminds me of times i have gotten scared before.

However, I can rely on Romans 8:38-39 to settle me and reassure me. If you are a Christian, trusting in Jesus' sacrifice to as payment for your sins and in Him, you can too. I would chalk off your experience as possibly bit of paranoia due to the time of night and maybe a sign that it's time to draw closer to the Lord. Hope this comes across as kindly as I intend and helps.

 

[Sam91]

Also, your acknowledgement 'if Satan is really there' would have made her fancy seem like it could be a possibility and that would have scared her. A grown up saying it could be real when she was just doing childlike imagining before or finding a way to say that the front door looks calming and reassuring and the other door feels not good. Five year olds don't have great interoception yet and it might have been easier to verbalise her feelings in terns of ideas if they felt more complex. If that was the case, your acknowledgement would have been terrifying.

 

[johansen]

Five year olds don't have great interoception yet

i did.

and at age 7 i was made aware there was a generational curse on my grandparents family. when i finally prayed about it 18 years later, my dad's personality improved to the point it made living with him tolerable. (so far no one has yet accused me: "you were 24, why were you living with your parents, why did you feel the need to pray for them?) -but i'm open ears to such news. that was 14 years ago now.

you do your children a life-long disservice by not teaching them how to test and pray about what they can see.

 

[johansen]

"There's Satan." So I'm like, "Uh. " So I said something like, "If Satan is really in here, tell him to go away in the name of Jesus!" She got so scared and jumped up on my lap so fast and said she's scared.

It has never failed me on the internet or in local churches, (except with anyone over the age of 50) that the moment i mention satan in a particular experience, someone will speak loudly: "how do you know it was satan?"

"the satan" is anything dark and scary that accuses you. -- your child saw a demon, it is a distinction without a difference.
In general: the extent to which this matters will only be revealed to you by the Holy spirit or Jesus, not by anyone else unless you really can meet a prophet or seer and invite them into your home in good communion and ask them how did the demon show itself to my child.... and, you just never know whos sin let it in until you investigate, and have a need to know.

Had my dad acknowledged the reasons why he knew i was depressed when i was 6 years of age, instead of telling me "it is sin to feel depressed" --then perhaps he and i would have a relationship today. when my younger brother told me the house doesn't creak at night any more.. i knew i wasn't just "hearing things" but had effectively cleaned things up.