Vera saw herself running. Someone was in the shadows and she couldn’t see the person but she was certain that someone was there. The first arrow came but it missed her. A second and she noticed that she was not even the target.
It was the very big egg in her hand, like the size of an ostrich’s, that was the target. She looked at the egg and it seemed unusually beautiful. It was sparkling, bedazzling, it looked like something that should be protected.
But then the more she looked at the egg, the more the shadows were closing in on her and the darkness seemed to rapidly overshadow her. Then she was on that straight path that had the faint of light. It looks like a lighthouse from afar. Hence, Vera tucked the egg under her blouse and she ran.
But the person hiding in the shadow seemed to be catching up really fast. She decided to look at the shadows if she could find anything or any face. Yes! she saw something but what she saw was the face of her husband. Dave! Is that Dave?
Vera woke up from the dream and she was soaked in her sweat. She looked to her side, Dave was fast asleep. She rushed to the restroom to relieve her bladder. Returning, she sat on the chair in their bedroom to process the dream she just had. This is very unusual. What is going on Lord? She asked.
Psalm 11 verse 3 flashed across her mind, ‘the wicked have drawn their bows and aimed their arrows to shoot from the shadows at good people’. But the one in the shadows is her husband based on what she saw. But the enemy can also take up the face of her husband, right?
Knowing that her only weapons to counter the enemy is the Word of God as her sword and her prayers, like a spear to be sent ahead and straight into whatever shadows the enemy wants to attack her.
Vera thought for a second that what seems most precious like an egg to her? Her only answers were her salvation, her relationship with Christ and her family. Does that mean that Dave will somehow attack her salvation as well as her family, their family?
By this revelation, she was tempted to wake Dave up so they could talk and pray but she knew that he needed all the rest he could get. She checked the time, it was a little past one am.
She walked out of the bedroom and went to their prayer room. She understood the assignment this wise. The Lord has graciously given her a glimpse into the future or the unseen in the present and it is so she can sow the seeds and investments of prayers.
Vera entered the prayer room, her flashlight and her Bible handy, she ventured straight into prayers of thanksgiving to God for the heads up and with Psalm 11:3 as an anchor, she began to pray.
She finished the rest of her sleep after some intense prayers right there in the prayer room on the mat right there.
Dave came to meet her there around 5:30 am in the morning for their personal devotion before the family altar with the kids by 6:00am. They individually wake up earlier for their quiet time but they try to make up 15 to 20 minutes, sometimes 30 to pray together before the start of each day as much as they can help it.
After exchanging pleasantries, Vera shared her dream and her position on it with Dave as they were both seated on the mat. Dave’s heart beat ran faster than usual when Vera shared that she saw his face in the shadows.
He was not sure how to respond to this revelation because he remembered just a few days ago, Joshua also shared a dream with him, there were two of him in it.
These two dreams are coming a few days apart and this one has his wife running away from him because he seems to be seeking to destroy something precious in her hands.
Dave shared Joshua’s dream with Vera and they both knew that God was seriously warning them ahead of a battle to come. they had to be prepared, harm themselves, their family, ministry with prayers. They declared a week long fasting and prayers for themselves.
Dave didn’t know how best to interpret these dreams so all they could do was pray asking for guidance and strength against any adversity as well as wavering the dream if God will disallow it. They know that if it must come to them, the best thing is to be battle-kitted.
Considering all that is ongoing with Simon, Dave realised that he had been handling his son’s matter with levity. He should have been more spiritually sensitive towards the matter of Simon’s changes.
At first, they were mild reactions and teenage tantrums. So he thought until now that his son has almost no regard for him.
He saw that he seems more relaxed around his mother ever since their time alone but if he came into the picture or he tried to make small talk with Simon, he would act like a tortoise entering its shell or even a snail upon provocation.
‘You still shared the story with Simon?’ Dave asked. ‘Hmm, I did. Not done yet’, Vera replied. ‘And how is he taking it?’ he asked again.
‘Well, it seems to be a touchy story, but he seemed more understanding than I expected. He seems empathetic with me. He even let me hug him’.
Dave looked up, surprised to hear about the hug and Vera gave a hearty laugh. ‘Don’t be jealous, jor’ she said.
Dave understands better now that what is required of him is to see to it that the same aggressive energy that the enemy seems to be brewing up against him and his family and by extension ministry, he must also stir up that same aggressiveness in the spirit but in the might of the Holy Spirit.
Apart from the Holy spirit, he should already consider himself doomed! Not just him but the whole of his family.
He can’t afford to make his family susceptible or be caught unawares to whatever the enemy is planning and intending to use his face as cover for.
They took time out to pray together, briefly before heading to the living room for family devotion with the kids.
They were not afraid but they acknowledged their helplessness and their absolute dependence on God to give them victory before the battle or even cancel the battle before it takes place if it pleases Him.
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Wheeeeew!
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