I woke up this morning with a dream. A young lady was seeking to escape from a stalker. Another lady, a little older, pulled up in a Plymouth Duster, and told the younger lady to jump in the car. With great relief the young lady did so. The sexual pervert was running towards the car. The car stalled. The driver could not get the car to start. To my surprise, there was no door on the passenger side of the front seat. The stalker had open access to his prey.
Please car start.
It did!
The back tires threw up dust and gravel as the car took off just in the nick of time. The man pursued.
As the Duster turned a corner around some shrubs at the end of the drive, it stalled. The driver frantically worked the key to restart the engine. The stalker was about to pull the young lady out of the passenger seat when the car started.
They got away.
In the next scene, I was in a camp like setting. I saw that stalker on the campus. I could tell that his mind was demented from looking at pornography and from joining himself to prostitutes. Then, I noticed that he was stalking a woman of good reputation. He was going to victimize her. So, I determined I had to stop him. But then, he had a partner. I had to fight them both and win or I would die. So, I asked the Lord to strengthen me for the fight. I could not let them victimize an innocent and unsuspecting person. By the grace of God, I beat both men up and they fled.
Whew, what a dream!
I woke up.
Then, I thought of a young lady that closes a store late at night.
One night when her dad picked her up after work, a drunk man staggered out of his car and asked her dad for a band-aid. The man's hand was all bloody. Thankfully, when he said that he had no bandages, the man got back into his car and left.
There are men out there who have given their minds over to pornography and prostitutes. The devil has perverted their thinking. The more they give into his temptations, the more corrupt their thinking becomes.
I prayed this morning, "Please, protect young ladies when they come home at night. Please, don't let a stalker stalk them." I felt ashamed of myself for worrying so much about my own life when precious young lives are in more danger than me. I also thought of my wife and daughters, and prayed that the Lord would protect them from men with perverse minds. I prayed for myself, and their husbands that the Lord would make us sensitive to the danger that our spouses can be in when they are alone at night. May the Lord protect our loved ones.
Then, I thought, "But Lord, even if we were with them every minute of every day, could we stop a stalker from getting to them. What can we do? Please don't let anything happen to the ladies in our lives."
After that, I opened my Bible to my Psalm reading for today, I read Psalm 91. Perfect!
Psalm 91
1 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”
3 Surely he will save you
from the fowler’s snare
and from the deadly pestilence.
4 He will cover you with his feathers,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
5 You will not fear the terror of night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
nor the plague that destroys at midday.
7 A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
8 You will only observe with your eyes
and see the punishment of the wicked.
9 If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,”
and you make the Most High your dwelling,
10 no harm will overtake you,
no disaster will come near your tent.
11 For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways;
12 they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
you will trample the great lion and the serpent.
14 “Because he loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him;
I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
15 He will call on me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble,
I will deliver him and honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him
and show him my salvation.”
May this be so all our days. May the Lord protect us! May He give us wisdom to keep us out of the wrong places at the wrong times.
When the Lord convicts us not to go bars, it is to protect us from the kind of people that hang out there. The devil would have us think that the Lord is withholding good things from us. Isn't that the thought the devil planted in Eve to make her feel safe when she was actually in danger. God was trying to protect her from evil that is why He warned her.
Don't dress that way! Don't hang out with that crowd. Don't look at those pictures or watch those movies. The Lord is watching out for us not depriving us.
May the Lord give His angels charge over you to protect you in all your ways!
