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Call On Jesus

by Lee
(Louisiana)

I've experienced this many times in my life. Unable to move, hearing an evil laugh or being touched. At first I'm unable to speak, but I keep calling out Jesus and eventually I get it out and I wake up.

I had it happened two nights ago. This time I saw a black spirit come into the room and go on my wife's side of the bed. I called on Jesus, it left.

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Oct 25, 2011
 This is real
by: Kristina

My son told me about his sp for the first time although he has had it since he was young. He would wake up and could look to the right and left but could not move or call out to us when he could hear us in the next room. He would sometimes awake to a dark figure on his chest sometimes he felt choked. His latest was describe as a dream where a dark clocked figure was staring at him. My son attempted to cry out to my husband and I , "Hold me,Hold me". The dark entity was running towards him and my son said it was as if the life was being drained from him. Only the name of Jesus was able to free my son. I am in shock to read so many others having the simular experiences. My son was raised in our Christian home. I feel there is a battle for his soul. It is reassuring to know that nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. My son has been growing in his faith and more and more submitting his life to Christ.
Nov 15, 2011
 SPIRITUAL WAREFARE NEW
by: ENIGMATIC

This just happened to me and has been noticeably occurring for at least 15 years, usually when I am trying to seek / surrender to my understanding of the call of Christ. I am in that place again today and while watching a spiritually based movie I dozed off and it happens. I was laying on my side and all of a sudden I felt as if I was being pulled to the other side of the bed behind me. Since this isn't my first one the one thing that has freed me before was to call on JESUS. All the while tryin to free myself. I felt my grip of my left hand on the side of the mattress resisting the pulling force and with my right hand being close to my face I tried to open my right eye with my index and thumb. While still frozen and fighting I saw that my bedroom door was closed but when released the movie still playing and the door was open. * In earlier episodes I have had something on my chest that seemed to be holding me down; and I've seen what I call shadow people. The shadow people never touched me but there were 3 that appeared to be a man a woman and a child. The shadows came into my bedroom single file and the man shadow went ing my closet where the gun case was, took the case from the closet and they all went out of the bedroom and I was able to move again. *
Nov 22, 2011
 TO: ENIGMATIC NEW
by: Anonymous

Enigmatic: It is as if you did not finish your story - when you woke up, was your gun case still there? And, YES - the calling on Jesus works - because I have experienced two types of the ASP - one in which is at the end of sleep - in which I think I am awake, but can't move. There is a stranger wandering about the room, touching things, touching me - and then I wake up. I have experienced something else in which I have felt myself being pulled to the bottom of the bed, floating above the bed, and once even swept out into space. These experiences are different from dreaming and nightmares. They feel as if they are actually happening - when I call out "Jesus, help me", I return and feel my bed & body vibrate. I believe the demons attack us when our defenses are at the lowest, i.e, in sleep. But, they must obey Jesus & will not stay in the same room as Him.
Jan 02, 2012
 Vibrating feeling at night NEW
by: Anonymous

Yes get these dreams at times.one night i had a drwam
I was fighting with a demond and it felt so real
I was tossing and rurning trying to fight it off and
Tried to talk but i couldnt say jesus! I could feel myself
Being pulled.i also knew i was awake but i couldnt
Get out from my "dream" i cried out jesus and i felt my
Whole body vibrating like my spirit was being lifted or coming back.jesus never leaves us just shows us how powerful
God is!
Feb 23, 2012
 So realistic NEW
by: Anonymous

I feel like I was floating in the air above my bed, also being drug down to the bottom, and on the ground beside my bed. I clinch my bed so I couldnt fly up..I also see shadow people just one always in the right corner watching me. After iwas drug on the floor beside my bed i was back on my bed but could feel live hands touching my hands i guess trying to pull me down. I get so scared to go back to sleep, so I pray to God to help me. Tonight it happened and I just turned on the lights.
Apr 17, 2012
 It does work but impossible to say NEW
by: Anonymous

I've had a few episodes recently and I'm praying every day not to encounter it again. The battle for the soul thing described above made me feel better, because it's good to know Jesus Christ will always win.

However, do you also find that it is near impossible to say it? One time especially, I was in my dining room (in the dream, not actually, i don't think I was crashing in the living room that night, which is connected to the dining room) and there was a definite spiritual struggle, it seemed like for not just my own soul but for everyone else I knew. The worst thing was that I tried saying Jesus Christ, but it felt as though all these dry crackers were stuffed down my throat. It took 3 attempts to be able to pronounce the name, my tongue was dry and I saw myself hacking up these chewed cracker pieces.

That was the most extreme one, but I seem to never be able to pronounce it clearly, I don't have any speech problems in real life but it seems that my s's get slurred, it sounds more like "Jehzusss" or "Jassus" and near impossible to say. Not to mention then attempting to put it with Christ, which comes out as "Kreisth" .......but the verse "Anyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved" comes to mind so I can't see an alternative way to do it. Maybe that's the challenge?

Anyone else have any problems like this?

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