My children and I prayed for you this Sunday morning. I went through a divorce in this last year and while we are all still coping, one thing my former wife would always worry about is something happening when I was gone. I'm a paramedic and I work 24 and sometimes 48 hours at a time.

One thing I did when I built our house was to put little peices of paper with scripture on them into the house. In the base ment walls and floors I put scripture about Jesus being the chief cornerstone, and building your house on a rock, and God being the foundation. In the walls behind the sheetrock, I put scripture about God's protection and Him being a fortress. But to me....the favorite one of all I put in was the roof. Psalm 91......

People would come to our house.....even though my wife and I didn't let peace reign in our lives, they would almost always take note and speak out to us about how they felt peace, safety, like nothing would ever hurt them while in that house. This house was outside of town and we had no yard light. At night it would be so dark and quiet. Literally....if anyone had taken a notion to, they could have tried to rob or hurt my family. But never once, not even half a time, did we ever have anything stolen, or have anyone on our property we didn't invite in over three years. Our neighbors however didn't fare so well.


A wordly suggestion is to take self defense classes. Possibly get yourself a tazer gun or firearm, and the PROPER training to be proficient and safe with them. Guns don't kill. Irresponsible owners and criminals kill with guns. Be proactive in your security. Its not. A lack of faith.....but as they say, "luck favors the prepared". But I don't believe in luck. And God does expect us to do our part in our lives. He won't do it all.  A wise person will prepare for things. Esp things that they fear. Who knows, God may have allowed you to be spiritually oppressed just to push you to 1. Seek Him more. 2. Prepare for something that may be coming.

My Godly suggestion.....just simply type up some key scripture on paper with some fancy font to make it look better, get some small picture frames and place them in various rooms of your home. Put key pertinent scriptures in each room. Then stand in the belief of those scriptures and speak them each time you walk in that room and stand on them.

God's word is true. It is a living, breathing entity. His word will not return void......even when your heart may fail.....He and His word will be there to stand for you.

Dave Sweat