Even in sleep, God protects us

* Luís Alberto Alves

When we are awake it is easy to perceive something that can put the danger ahead of us. And sleeping? How to fight the enemy in full sleep? At this stage the human being is completely unprotected. Fragile, depending on location, can suffer any kind of attack.

It is when remembering Psalm 3, verse 5: "In peace I lie down and I fall asleep, for the Lord alone protects me." Jesus Christ has perfect conditions to keep the soul, spirit and body of his servants.

Satan takes advantage of our sleep to enter and sow spiritual filth. These are called nightmares. For it is not possible to remain awake forever. The body needs rest to put back the spent energies. Few Christians know this powerful word of the Psalm quoted above.

Sleep opens the door of a dimension where the spirit can circulate. There you have access to information, which is decoded by dreams, than evil plans. There are many testimonies from people who dreamed about certain situations, good or bad, and after a while they occurred.

An example of this is when Joseph, the earthly father of Jesus, was warned in a dream that he should take Mary and her unborn child to Egypt to avoid being killed by King Herod. An angel of the Lord used the dream to alert him.

* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor