Terror By Night

One night, in high school, when I slept in my bed I woke up in the middle of the night with a feeling of complete terror. It was a horrible feeling. I woke up and opened my eyes. I could see, in the corner of my room, a tall, black figure with a tall pointed hat on its head. It took my breath away and I quickly shut my eyes tight and began praying desperately. I didn’t want to see whatever it was standing in the corner of my room. I was a believer at the time, so I cried out to the Lord to make it go away and to please protect me. I kept praying over and over again, but with my eyes closed tight. I didn’t want to see the thing again.

I’m not sure when I fell back to sleep, but I remember waking up in the morning, relieved that it was morning and there was no more tall, black figure standing in the corner of my room. The feeling of terror had gone away too.

Fast forward to quite a few years later, and I’m watching a video of a woman who gets saved out of witchcraft and practicing the occult. She started fooling around with the Ouija Board, and then it grew out of that to tarot cards and dabbling in the occult. What scared her was, she would see this image of a tall, black figure with a tall pointed hat on it’s head, haunting her. Whenever she saw it, it frightened her. She knew there was a connection between her new found hobby of witchcraft and the thing she was seeing. When she described the figure, chills went down my back. I had seen the same entity. It had scared me too. I had forgotten all about it, until I heard this woman describe it. Ultimately, this woman came to know the Lord as her Savior.

Satan is real. Demons are real. God describes Satan as prowling around like a roaring lion seeking who he can destroy. When I woke up in the middle of the night, way back in high school, one of Satan’s demons was standing in the corner of my room. He couldn’t harm me. I was a believer at the time. I was a child of God. But he certainly scared me. I’m not sure why he was there, I just know that Satan and the demons spent all their time seeking out who they can destroy.

God has warned us about our enemy, Satan and demons. He’s warned us about practicing witchcraft and the occult. God says they are an abomination to Him. Why? Because there are two sides to live this life. God asks us to trust in Him. To believe in Him. To pray to Him. Practicing witchcraft and the occult is paying homage to the enemy. That’s how the enemy operates. Witchcraft and the occult are practices that Satan has designed. They do not come from God.

We are in the last days. I believe the spiritual warfare is getting hotter and hotter as we near the end. Satan is roaring like a lion. We, as believers, need to be absolutely, totally committed to Jesus Christ. We can’t let anything that even hints at witchcraft to be in our lives. We can’t let our guard down. We can’t fool around with witchy things or occultic things. They are an affront to God. He finds them an abomination.

I’ve never been tempted to get into those kinds of things. Maybe, it’s because of the visitor I had in my room in high school. I can still feel that feeling of terror I felt back then. I can still feel and remember the fear I felt. Why would I ever allow that back in my life in any way shape or form? To know God, to have a relationship with Him brings such peace, indescribable peace. I want that always. I tasted what the enemy has to offer. I felt it and I don’t want to feel it ever again.