Last night I had a terrifying experience. I woke to find a dark shadow getting into the bed beside me. I felt it's evil, it put it's head close to my face and I felt it mocking and threatening. I felt myself paralysed but I prayed with all my strength, crying out the name of Jesus Christ to help me. For a few seconds the apparition wouldn't budge but I focussed on Jesus's name. Suddenly it disappeared but I felt it's huge power and threat.
I lay with heart pounding and recited the Lord's Prayer. Thanking Jesus for saving me. As I switched the light on, my dog came in. It was like he knew something had happened and he wanted to ensure I was ok. I prayed more, then slept.
I would like advice please and to be recommended prayer and readings in the Bible, in order to protect myself. I need to reflect and change my ways as I realise I have allowed the past couple of years to distract and dishearten me away from my church, from people and from God. Fear has ruled instead of love.
Also - has anyone had this kind of experience of a demonic attack? Please share it here. I know mine was real. It was not a nightmare. That creature was from hell and only the name of Jesus chased it away.
I do not know if you are of this Pentecostal/Charismatic mindset or not, but their error is believing they can receive the Holy Spirit again apart from salvation after signs, even the signs of tongues which comes with no interpretation and thus assumed for private use when it is not of Him at all, and they even continue to seek to receive Him again & again after other sensational signs in the flesh when in actuality, they are opening themselves up like mediums do in receiving spirits.
Go to the Lord Jesus Christ before that throne of grace and ask Him for help, rejecting that lie about being able to receive the Holy Spirit again, even for one more time by that sign of tongues and knowing the faith that Jesus Christ is in you per 2 Corinthians 13:5 for why greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world or lying next to you in that bed per 1 John 4:4.
Matthew 28:18
And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.....
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that
Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
1 John 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because
greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.:
May you go to these words and ask Jesus for help to be reminded of them through the Holy Spirit in you so the next time should that ever happen again, the devil will know he has lost.
James 4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
If you are not of the Pentecostal/Charismatic mindset, then it may very well be that you are undergoing a fiery trial for you to exercise your faith that Jesus Christ is in you and He is greater than that visitor that came to your bed that night.
1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
I have had experienced such an event, one hearing church bells playing the theme from M.A.S.H. at 3:15 A.M. and another time when I woke up and that evil spirit was in me as I was that evil spirit. That was scary, but I rayed to the Lord for help and soon deliverance came on both occasions. So you are not alone in your supernatural ordeal but the answer is the same; go to Jesus in prayer since He is in you & with you always. Believe that because He is true as He kicked out that evil that was in me when I had awakened that early morning and I do not recall even praying that time but I had thought of Him for help because of this promise below.
Matthew 6:7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8 Be not ye therefore like unto them:
for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.