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he may NOT devour me!

Well once again, God is Working in Mysterious Ways, prompting me to share in my blog.

This past Sunday, Pastor Troy Boulware mentioned this scripture in his message:

1 Peter 5:8 NKJV

"...your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour."

It wasn't the main point of his message, but it reminded me of something.  A few years ago this scripture was the main point of one of his messages.  As soon as he read the scripture I was taken back in time to a nightmare I had when I was little girl...

In my dream I was in a grassy plain and in the distance I could see lions on a slight ridge.  As soon as I saw them I was scared...


The next thing I knew I was on the ground with a lion on top of me! Then the lion went to take a bite out of my neck, but his teeth went right through me like a ghost or a hologram!  I wasn't hurt at all!  Then I woke up...

I may have had the dream only once or maybe a few times, but I didn't remember it until that Sunday when Pastor Troy read that scripture.  All of a sudden it clicked!  The enemy is seeking whom he MAY devour - but the lion in my dream couldn't hurt me!  It's like God was saying, "you MAY NOT devour her!"

I shared all of this with PT that day but hadn't really thought about it since then, at least until this past Sunday...

As soon as I heard the scripture I thought, hmmm, that might make an interesting blog topic.  But then on Tuesday I read an email from Devotionals Daily with an excerpt from Darryl Strawberry's book Turn Your Season Around.  In it he mentioned - you guessed it - this same scripture!  I get the hint, God!

But what was even more interesting was this part of Darryl's book:

If you have ever read National Geographic or watched the Animal Planet channel, you’ve probably learned that a lion stalks stealthily toward its prey only to pounce when the victim is least aware and most vulnerable. The king of the jungle doesn’t make a grand announcement of his intentions to subdue his prey by biting and breaking their neck before ripping them apart limb by limb. No, a lion cleverly and quietly conceals himself in the tall grass or behind a rock, tree, or cluster of vegetation before pouncing on its unassuming victim. It’s not until the damage has been done, the prey conquered, that the lion roars in elation over his conquest. 

In my dream the lion did sneak up on me, it pounced on me, it got me on the ground, but when it came to biting and breaking my neck he couldn't do it!  He couldn't tear me apart because he didn't have the power to do it.  He couldn't roar - which he never did in my dream - because he could not conquer me!

You see, "the one who is in [me] is greater than the one who is in the world".  No matter what the enemy throws at us, even if he pounces, even if he knocks us down, he doesn't have the power to destroy us if we are a child of God!

And considering all that is going on in our nation and in our world, I thinks it's good for us to remember Who is in us and Who has the real power!

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