Spiritual Warfare During Prayer and Deliverance

Dana writes that she had a rather uneventful journey until the closing prayer, and then experienced something — a vision involving what appears to be a donkey in a vineyard, and seeing a Gentile among believers. She doesn't fully understand it, but she nearly fell asleep during prayer.

This kind of experience is actually a good sign. What Dana is describing — the spiritual warfare that arises during prayer, the drowsiness, the strange imagery — is often the enemy's resistance to your liberation. Prayer should be a time of peace and comfort, but when you are in a season of deliverance, there will be warfare. The enemy does not want you to be free. What you're experiencing at the outset is his attempt to hinder you.

Dana, please email me and I will be glad to share my personal thoughts on what was shown. I do have an opinion on the imagery, and I think it is a meaningful one — though I want to be clear these are my personal thoughts, not a "thus says the Lord." But the posture you described — nearly falling into a resting state, lying down, surrendering into the spirit in prayer and meditation — that is exactly where you want to be. That is where you receive not only the warfare, but also the verdict, the deliverance, and the breakthrough. You are on your journey, Dana. This is a normal part of the process.

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