funkiness

the spiritual atmosphere in paia is notoriously heavy, as a lot of beliefs are mixed together and experimented with among the drifters. it gets prayed into a lot and i have not felt threatened or attacked during my time here. (which is so the Lord's hand, because i have heard some horrid paia stories.) apparently a lot of girls in our house have been having trouble sleeping and as one explained - "experiencing some funkiness." my roomy & i were oblivious until the other night when we were laughing away in a midnight conversation and i heard someone two rooms down quoting scripture. i said we should get up and pray with them but then we decided not to because we thought maybe they were just reading the bible out loud to each other to finish their assignment. (we read through the old testament.) of course they weren't doing homework and we had a house meeting about it last night.

in all honestly it was a frustrating meeting for me because i had been sleeping and feeling fine, and evidently i'm an ignorance-is-bliss kinda girl because it freaked me out. last night i had trouble sleeping and woke up a lot and had a huge headache this morning. go figure. pray for protection and for deep, refreshing sleep. i hesitate to even write about this, because i hate to give the devil any attention. i think his work gets recognized way too quickly and if we had that much fear of the Lord and His power we would be much better off! if satan has the power that he does, so what? it should only lead us to a fuller realization of the power of our God who defeated satan completely!

the best part of the house meeting was hearing that some of the guys (who all live in a house one block away) had been waking up in the middle of the night sensing a need to pray over our house. for a few nights they had been right outside praying over us around 3am. two nights in a row the exact same van drove down our street and each time it saw the guys would stop suddenly and turn around. we live on a one way street. even though the doors get locked at night they had been keeping the key on a ledge beside the front door. (they moved it to a lockbox now, thankfully.) God has been faithfully protecting us from only He knows what! what an encouraging blessing to know there are guys humbly waking up to intercede through the night because they are that sensitive to His Spirit. thank you Lord!