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Demonic Parasites
From David Weber
The Lord gave me a dream last night that I feel prompted to share with you all today, as I believe it is a warning for the body of Christ of the need to be thoroughly prepared for the days that are just ahead. It seems as though many viscious attacks from the enemy are being perpetrated upon the children of God in these days, and the Lord is allowing these to teach His servants how to STAND in areas where they may have fallen in the past. To stand against temptation will bring virtue and strength to a saint, but to give into sin can bring spiritual repercussions that can be very long lasting, as enemy strongholds are sometimes set up that can be very difficult to get free from.
Let me share with you the dream:
In the dream, I believe that I represent the general body of believers in Christ. Someone was with me, but their form was never clearly seen by me (this usually represents the Lord).
The two of us were walking along side a stream that ran through an open field. This stream was very murky, almost stagnant, more like a canal of some sort rather than a stream. Anyhow, we came to an area where I waded into the stream with my bare feet, I wasn't in it for very long, maybe just a minute or so, but when I came out I noticed that I had some difficulty walking.
I went over to the bank and sat down, and when I looked at my feet they looked fine, but when I reached down and touched one of them I could feel some sort of a slimy, almost invisible creature (much like a leach - but longer like a worm) that had attached itself to me. I was able to grab a hold of the tail of the thing and peal it away from my skin until it no longer had any hold on me, but it was a very painful process of pulling it off.
I was quite relieved when I got the thing off of me, but when I stood up I still had difficulty walking. I sat down and examined my feet again and realized that these transparent slimy creatures were all over my feet! I was a little freaked out by this, but I slowly and methodically went through the process of pulling them off ... one by one. When I thought that I had gotten them all off, I then reached down and felt one that was larger than any of the others. This thing had such a bite into me that I could in no way just pull it off, but I knew if I poured some oil on it (Melalucca oil - remember that?) it would then be able to be removed. I then woke up.
You can probably see the analogy here with demonic (invisible) spirits that can become attached to us when we walk in the murky waters of sin even for just a moment. We know that we reap what we sow but sometimes we don't know just what we have reaped until we notice that we are having difficulty in our walk. The demonic entities are very good at concealing themselves while they suck the life out of us. They don't even want us to know that they exist. By God's grace the Lord will warn us of the demonic parasites and the need to be delivered from them, but unfortunately some Christians disregard the warning and just grow accustomed to their impaired walk. Others will sometimes take heed to the warning but try to get free by their own efforts. Sometimes this might even seem to work, as I was able to pull some of those things off by my own hand in the dream, but eventually, as I found out in the dream, we will find that there is something there that has such a firm bite into us that it can only come off with the oil (the anointing) that comes from deep repentance and heartfelt communion and fellowship with God.
I believe that this dream is somewhat of a prophetic warning to believers of the need to get totally free from all demonic parasites now while we still can, for if we don't, we will become crippled in our walk with Him because those things will have sucked the god-life out of us ... even as a leach sucks the life-blood out of a man.
The Lord is giving us some serious lessons these days, sometimes in words or in dreams, but soon in actual experience if we don't respond to the lesser warnings. He is preparing a holy people for some very serious times ahead ... we need to get ready.
selah