Sleep Paralysis: What To Pray When You Cannot Move

It's 2AM, you're laying in bed, you can't move, you're having a hard time breathing, you can't speak, you can't do anything. It seems like your body cannot do anything or have any motion at all and you feel so helpless, like there's nothing else that you can do and no one else to be able to help you. Have you ever had an episode like that where it just seems like out of nowhere, you feel like something or someone or some presence is in the room with you? I remember I had a situation like this before. I'm laying on my bed and this is about two, three in the morning and I couldn't move, I couldn't turn my neck, I couldn't turn my head, I couldn't move my body, there was like this dark being that was laying on top of me, literally just choking me. And the crazy thing is that I was able to I can see this being, you know, that to me, I I try to move but I couldn't. After a few moments of wrestling, I was able to finally get free and I wanna be able to help you to understand what that means and why that happens. Now, I'm doing this series about understanding and interpreting your dreams. Now dreams play a significant role in your destiny. I don't think you realize that most of the prayers that you've been going to God for, most of the direction that you need, most of what you need to do has already been given to you in a dream that you probably ignore. And today, want to take a look at dream paralysis. What that means and what should you do about it? If you're having this recurring for a period of time, what does that mean? So you're awake but unable to move. What is happening, what is not and what to pray. You are not losing your mind. You know, when things like this happen sometimes, people think, am I going crazy? Why is this happening? You're awake, you could see the room, you could not move or speak or something felt different, something felt like there's a presence there with you. Well, that happens. Now, there is a physical explanation and a spiritual one and they are not in competition and I'm going to explain what that means. Now, I want to say this out front as a disclaimer that I am not a medical doctor, so if you're having episodes like this, you may still wanna check with your doctor, but I want to help you to understand the spiritual aspect of what that is. Now, Proverbs three twenty four says this, when you lie down, you will not be afraid. When you lie down, you your sleep will be sweet. So what they're telling us is we're supposed to have sweet sleep. Okay? The Bible tells us that when you sleep, you're supposed to be rested. When you sleep, you're not supposed to go come under any form of attack or uneasiness when you're sleeping. Now, there's two camps when it comes to dream paralysis that I wanna cover. Now, the first one is that it is is just some type of a sleep disorder. Now, I'm sure that you've heard people talk about that, oh, you're just having a sleep disorder, you know, go to the doctor and get that checked out and you should. Okay? Or every episode people say, oh, you've been attacked by demons, it's it's evil, it's demonic. Now, there's two extremes to that. It's not always a slip disorder and it's not always a demonic attack, and I want you to understand that. Now, the way that God created your body, right, your body functions in a certain way, but you have to know your body, know what the Bible says, and you have to pray either way. So when you start to experience either one of these, you have to understand first how your body works, and then you have to look at scripture, and then you'd have to pray. Now, four things that I need you to understand. The first thing is this, what your body is doing. Again, because you're a physical being, there's certain things that I'm not gonna go into a lot of details. So I want you to at the bottom of this video, there's a link to sign up for my two hour dream decoding master class. This is a live teaching that I'm doing and I'm also going to be interpreting your dreams for you. At that link at the bottom of this video, you can sign up for that. So the first thing is the state when you're sleeping and when you are awake. Your body naturally goes through those phases. The second thing is when it's more than that. When you realize that you're noticing a pattern where you either can't sleep or you noticing a specific timing, what happens during that time, maybe during certain seasons of your life, maybe during certain time of the month, time of the year, maybe during certain hours, you're noticing these patterns. Now, what to do in the moment, okay? One word is enough and I'm going to explain what that means later on because most people that get stuck, need to understand what that one word is. If you don't know what that one word is, you're going to repeat this pattern over and over and over again and sometimes you literally feel like you're dying. Right? I've had episodes, paralysis where I thought I can't even breathe. I felt like I was breathing through a straw, literally. Now, what to do before bedtime, there's something that's important because the way that you go to bed is how you're gonna go to sleep and is how you're going to wake up, so I wanna make sure. Now, wanna add four questions we wanna take a look at, how often does it happen and when? So your mind wakes up before your body does. Your subconscious mind is ongoing twenty four seven, your subconscious mind never sleeps, never rests, it's always going, it's always going, it's always moving. Right? So even when you're resting, your mind is is somewhere else and you have to understand that. Now, in deep sleep, your body holds your muscles still, so you so you don't act in your dream. So when you're laying down physically, okay, your your body's just still, and that is the time that is supposed to be a precious time, that is the time that you you're supposed to be rested, and sometimes your mind comes up before your body does, right? You start to notice things mentally and before your body can kind of catch up to what's happening. You know, you see the room, you can't move, you know, it's like you fear that something is happening. Now, if this is sick, frequent or severe as I said before, you wanna talk to your doctor because there's a place where you can go to the doctor to, you know, find out and I have to put that disclaimer out there, because I want you guys to use wisdom as well. Now, understanding the mechanism doesn't mean that there's no spiritual aspect to it. Right? It just means that you kind of take away the panic because one thing you don't want to do is you want to start to panic. Okay? When you're having all those things, panic is not going to help you. Psalm one thirty nine and fourteen says this, I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. The next question that you want to answer is, does it happen at the same hour? Does it happen at the same time? The pattern tells you more than the episode. If you're always having this happen at 2AM every day or every month around the same week it happens, the third week of every month it happens or you know, every three months. You wanna pay attention to the pattern because the pattern will let you know that there's something that is happening during that time in the atmosphere that you are not aware of that's shifting things. There's something that is going on that you are not aware. You know, sometimes you can be exhausted or, you know, irregular sleep patterns and maybe you're having a really hard season can also explain this. Right? There are times when I know that I'm just so worn out, just so tired physically. Now, this has nothing to do with any demonic attack. Right? And I'm just worn out and I just lay there in Islam like, man, I can't move. I don't feel any no no presence on me, none of that. It's just a physical thing that happened. But note when it happened the same hour and it keeps returning where you you having a thing and it feels like you want to say something but you can't. And when it comes to all you having the same type of dreams, maybe someone is always chasing you. When you have that dream, someone is chasing you, you can't like, you can't seem to run-in that dream. You try as hard as you can, but you're not really moving in the dream. Right? And all of a sudden, you're frozen again and then someone is attacking you in the bed, you try to turn, you try to twist. Over time, this is what you wanna pay attention to that pattern. Now, if you have one episode at night, you know, there's something that you still need to pay attention to, especially when it repeats. You want to take a pattern that continues to repeat back to God and say, okay, Lord, I'm having this episode, I'm not really sure what it is, what's going on, what doors have been opened. Ephesians six said, put on the whole armor of God so you don't take a stand. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take a stand. Number three, what did you try to say? I know for me, when I was going through this, I couldn't say a single word, not one name, not one thing, nothing. And you don't need your mouth. I want to be clear, when you're going under sleep paralysis and you are a Christian, you don't have to say a word out. Right? Stop fighting to move because what people do is they try to move. You can't move at that point because there is a presence that is holding you down. So stop trying to force sound. Say the name of Jesus inside, in your mind, in your spirit where nothing can hold you. Nothing can hold your tongue. That is honestly what has gotten me set free every single time that I had the episode. You know, I just I'm not in my mind because the Lord can hear you. I'm like, Jesus, Lord, help me, help me. And the more that I say that, I realized that I begin to get looser and looser until I'm able to finally get completely loose against this stronghold that has been, you know, just suppressing me now. Now, when you say that, God can hear you and your mind. One thing that I need you to understand is that in the realm of the spirit, you don't always communicate with words. Words are the lesser form of communication in the spirit realm. You use your mind, you can communicate faster, more efficiently, and more effective with your mind. You don't have to get the words out. He hears you, the things that you're thinking. When I was stuck, when I thought about something, now the Lord's able to hear me. Romans eight twenty eight, the spirit himself intercedes for us through word, wordless groans. So you don't have to say anything now. Question number four, what is the last thing you take in before you sleep? You can dictate what happened in your dreams about what you do before you go to bed. So if you're staying up and you're watching certain things, you're doing certain things, whatever it is, you can allow certain things to happen while you sleep because you've opened up that particular door. Now, things, this is no superstition, watch what you take in the last hour before you go to bed. The last hour. And that's why they're saying too that, you know, before you go to bed at night, get up the get up the screens, no screen, just kind of let your mind just reset. Settle what you can before you go to lay down. Do not go to bed with an argument, with a bit of heart, with anger, with animosity, with any of those things, because again, that's a portal. And pray over your room, pray over your surroundings, you know, even if you don't get to walk over, you can just say, cover my home with the blood of Jesus. You can just say a prayer and that helps. Put the phone down. Don't go to bed angry, pray over your room, pray over your children, pray over your home, then you can go to sleep. Now I want to help you to say a prayer that you can, if you're going through this, you're experiencing that, this is just a simple prayer that you can say to help you. And God is listening. So say this, father, you made my body and you know my my nights. Take the fear out of the dark and take the dread out of going to bed. When I cannot move or speak, let your name be the first thing in me. In peace, I lie down and sleep. You alone make me dwell in safety in Jesus' name. So now there are things that you know how to do. You know what's happened to your body physically, you know what's happened to you in the spirit realm, you know what to say, a simple prayer that you can be able to say for the night. So all those are things that you can do. So if you're struggling with this, there's so I'm having a two hour Decoding Your Dream Life, where I'm going to be teaching more extensively about understanding the world of your dreams and why you should never ignore the dreams that you have. I'm gonna talk about the different sources of dreams, what to do when you get them, what does it mean? Well, when you're going through a certain season in life, certain, you know, challenges or transitions, certain dreams are going to show up more during that time in your life. Well, how do you know? That's what this is about. So click the link at the bottom of this video to sign up for that and I look forward to helping you because I'm also going to be interpreting your dreams. So if you have a dream, you're not sure what it means, that session is going to be a powerful interpretation session to help you decode what God is saying, what to do, what not to do, and what direction that your life is heading. So I look forward to being part of that.