I had a bad dream three nights ago. I wanted to forget about this dream and didn’t even want to discuss it with the Holy Spirit. However in His gentle way, He nudged me to bring it out into the open.

In this horrible dream, my daughter was getting to know a nice guy, a fellow student. He seemed harmless enough. She was hanging out with him and started dating him. Then one night she came home after her time with him. Although she looked normal and quietly disappeared to be alone as she normally does, I saw in my spirit that she was sexually molested by this guy. When I went to her with great concern, she’d just looked away from me, telling me that she’s fine and to go away. I wouldn’t but pressed in and then eventually she started to weep. And I knew that my hunch was correct. Then I woke up.

I tried hard to forget about this dream and attributed it as a random nightmare and perhaps induced by the enemy. But the dream wouldn’t leave me. Yesterday I finally said to the Holy Spirit, if this dream is indeed from you please let me know what to do with this dream and how to pray for my daughter. Prior to coming to this place I was reminded on the National Day of Prayer that “Prayer changes things”, and I definitely want to change this future event for my daughter.

The Lord answered my prayer within few hours. After praying 8 weeks for the coronavirus situations, our state, leaders and country etc, we barely prayed for our children just praying only for their safety and protection, schoolwork and good mental health. We decided on Thursday to start praying on Fridays exclusively for our children and family members. I’m reminded of a quote that “the shoemaker’s children don’t have shoes”. We’ve been so focused about the bigger and more urgent things during this pandemic that our own children were put on the shelf in our prayers. I’m so glad that at the right time, the Holy Spirit brought our attention back to our children to be prayed upon. And boy, did He get my attention with this awful dream!

After our prayers for our children, our group was lingering on the call and talking. We don’t usually do this since we have one mom who works full-time and it’s hard to chat with several people on a conference call. I don’t even remember how we got to this conversation but one mom mentioned that in college, she read this book “I never called it rape” and how if she had a daughter, she’ll make her read it before college. She said after reading this book as a college freshman in a women’s study class, she realized that she always needed to be in control and aware of her surroundings. Therefore at parties she didn’t drink much and because she was the sober one, how often she rescued her friends from being taken advantaged of.

At this moment I told the ladies about my bad dream. I inspired my own self by saying that the Holy Spirit knows all things including the future. Our prayers changes things including the future. Perhaps I’m being warned now so that I can pray ahead and educate my daughter about these evils before she goes to college. She is a sweet daughter and naive about evil because of the sheltered life that we have provided for her. Without the Holy Spirit living within her and until she accepts and believes Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, she is in greater danger to be taken advantaged of, once outside our home.

I’ll get this book and read it myself first. I’ll pray that when I’m ready to give it to my daughter to read it, she’ll be ready to receive the warnings. The book’s statistics is consistent with other resources I’ve read; 1 out 4 women in college are sexually molested or raped, and overwhelmingly by an acquaintance or friend.

As much as I want to put aside this bad dream and not deal with this tough topic, I must. Fortunately my daughter is a junior and I have a year and half to do this tough assignment. She applied for a summer study program in a faraway college but because of the coronavirus, it appears that if she gets accepted it’ll be done remotely now. Oh Lord, let her be accepted so her dad is happy and please let this program be done remotely this summer. 🙏

As I thought about this dream warning about my daughter and how I can change her future with my prayers and actions; I am so sad to think about the many young people who suffer through rape and other awful situations because their parents aren’t sensitive to the warnings of the Holy Spirit and barely pray or read their bible. I’ve been amazed and discouraged by the lack of prayers by the parents in my church and community. Sure they ask and seek prayers once things get really bad for their children but why won’t they pray ahead when things are calm and their children are younger? I’ve been trying to get these moms to join us in prayer and for whatever reason they don’t come or stick around. Perhaps they think that praying alone is enough or that these kids will eventually come back to their faith once they get older and settle down. I disagree with this thought because of the great exodus of young people in the body of Christ throughout USA for so many years.

I hope and pray that after this pandemic is behind us that God’s people will not go back to the way we were. I pray that we will pray more corporately and consistently with the word of God abiding within us. In my opinion this is the foremost method to gain new grounds for the body of Christ, to win our battles and to warn of upcoming events to act and pray ahead knowing that “prayer changes things.”

Jesus said, “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.” (John 15:7)

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A great mom’s prayer group – I’ve been leading one in my town for past three years under their umbrella of protection, guidance and love. It’s international too! Please start one in your town if there’s none. https://momsinprayer.org

Some bible verses I’d put up in our church prayer room when we’d meet: