Overcoming Demonic Dreams and Visions
OVERCOMING DEMONIC DREAMS AND VISIONS
Job 7:13-14 AMP
When I say, my bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint, then You scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions.
Job had been given over to satan for a season and he experienced demonic dreams and visions. The characteristics of dreams from the enemy are full of twisted accusations and darts that wound. Sometimes a dream will have knives, darts, sharp cutting instruments that inflict and cause pain. They may be threatening and tormenting. They may contain lusts of the flesh, eyes and the world. They may contain violence, anger, wrath… arrogance, argument, debate and any number of the carnal works of the flesh.
An enemy dream almost always contains a personal accusation to that particular day. The problem with enemy dreams is that there is always a measure of truth in them. So, take heed to the partial truth, then overcome guilt and condemnation and remember that you are covered by the blood of Jesus. Remember it is His righteousness that keeps you, not your own. The Lord does not want you buried in guilt that puts another layer between yourself and His love.
DEMONIC INTENTS OF A DREAM
- To thwart or kill faith
- Dump fear
- To impose guilt and condemnation about past
- To torment
- To intimidate
- To manipulate one’s will or decision
- To deceive
- To coerce one’s will to change
- To bring a veil or barrier to ones’ relationship with the Lord.
- To condemn and accuse.
Enemy visions and dreams can have a numbing, immobilizing or even paralyzing influence over man’s will. This can happen with an inability to speak or move the body, or have a lack of freedom in exercising the will. Another characteristic of an enemy dream is the inability to wake up. Because the sleep is so deep, when the person does wake up in the middle of it, there is such a lethargic state that it is very difficult to stay awake. Frequently, there is the tendency to fall right back to sleep into the same enemy onslaught.
One can learn to truly fight oneself awake, then stay awake to do adequate warfare to gain the peace of the Lord before going back to sleep. The dream can also be resisted and stopped by thinking “In Jesus’ Name” during the dream. If you unable to do this, pray that the Lord will help you to stand in your dreams and the Holy Spirit will remind you to do this while you are sleeping. If you suffer this, always remember that thinking or speaking the Name of Jesus will break the enemy restraint. His Name is a very powerful weapon.
WHAT OPENS THE DOOR TO DEMONIC DREAMS?
Enemy conflict is a current sent against us for two reasons. Both are because THE LORD ALLOWS IT. The first is that we are called to be overcomers and put darkness under our feet. The second is that our lifestyles open demonic doors. If we heed the chastening that comes through demonic dreams, we can repent and change and thus overcome evil with good.
Overcomers
In the Bible, the Lord continually mentions that we shall find the Lord when we search for Him with all our heart. He is to be our first love. The Lord is a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him. Seeking Him is not a mellow, “What will be, will be,” attitude. It is a pursuit, and it goes upstream against the current.
Christians are not immune to enemy experiences. Satan puts many things in our path to try to get us off course, discouraged and tired, waylaid and delayed…all the while hoping we will give up. The Lord allows this to help us to grow, overcome darkness, and find HIM. We cannot find Him without resistance. The two go hand in hand.
We have entered a last days war between good and evil. The witches gather at midnight and send curses, etc upon the Christians from 12 AM – 3 AM. Much of a Christian’s warfare at night is due to this united onslaught. Start taking authority over your sleep and bind the forces of witchcraft sent against you and your loved ones in Jesus Name.
Rev 21:6-8 NKJV
He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.
Rom 12:21 NKJV
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Proverbs 3:24 NKJV
When you lie down, you will not be afraid; Yes, you will lie down and your sleep will be sweet.
Jeremiah 31:26 NKJV
After this I awoke and looked around, and my sleep was sweet to me.
Ungodly Lifestyle
Living ungodly lives warned about in scripture opens demonic doors. God allows demonic dreams to chastise us so that we will repent. When we disobey the training of our conscience, we give the enemy cause to speak reproach, the hedge of protection is lifted and we get “dumped on.” The more mature we become in the Lord, the more sensitive our conscience becomes to very slight details in a day. An example would be attitudes that grieve the Holy Spirit, like being critical of others in our thoughts.
Demonic doors open to demonic dreams when:
1. We have a defiled conscience.
Acts 24:16 NKJV
This being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men.
2. When our behavior gives opportunity for the enemy to speak against us.
1 Tim 5:14-15 NKJV
…give no opportunity to the adversary to speak reproachfully. For some have already turned aside after Satan.
3. When we make choices and doubt or wonder if God approves, it is sin.
Rom 14:23 NKJV
…for whatever is not from faith is sin.
4. Intentional sin lifts the hedge.
5. When we choose entertainment that is impure, violent and carnal.
Isa 33:15-16 NKJV
Who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil: He will dwell on high; his place of defense will be the fortress of rocks; bread will be given him, his water will be sure.
6. When we do not guard our eye gates.
Matt 6:22-23 NKJV
The lamp of the body is the eye . If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
7. When we choose the desires of our sinful nature.
Gal 5:19-21 NLT
When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, your lives will produce these evil results: sexual immorality, impure thoughts, eagerness for lustful pleasure, 20 idolatry, participation in demonic activities, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, divisions, the feeling that everyone is wrong except those in your own little group, 21 envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other kinds of sin. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
8. When we focus on bad news.
Prov 11:27 NLT
If you search for good, you will find favor; but if you search for evil, it will find you!
9. When we do not forgive.
Matt 18:34-35 KJV
And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
