My wife, Dottie, and I leave early today to meet up with a couple from Plano, Texas, who are both our BTF (Best Torah Friends) and BFF (Best Friends Forever) to begin our long caravan road trip to the Chattanooga area of Tennessee. We are both excited to see and experience this 8-day festival, not knowing exactly what to expect. Our friend from Plano have been walking in Torah observance for a number of years so they are seasoned and mature feasts observers.
Our plan is to drive to Nashville, Tennessee the first day and spend Tuesday night there. We then plan to drive the remaining distance on Wednesday and check-in to our cabin prior to sunset, when the feast officially starts.
About 100-miles short of reaching our motel in Nashville, we all stop to eat supper. After supper has ended, Dottie and I get back in our car and our good friends get into their car so that we can resume the last "leg" of our road trip.. Shortly, thereafter Dottie and I begin to argue and attack each other verbally. My wife becomes so angry that she tells me that when we reach Nashville I can just put her on a plane back home because she has no desire to spend the next eight days with me. The situation is tense and our relationship has gone from a spirit of peace one moment to a complete spirit of anger and turmoil in a matter of minutes. As I drive and try to contemplate what has just occurred, I sense in my spirit that we have both become victims of a spiritual attack by the enemy. I reach over to my wife, who at this time has become quiet and sullen, and take hold of her hand and begin to explain to my wife that the enemy just has attacked us spiritually, by placing his angry and foul thoughts in our mind, so that we would verbally attack and hurt each other emotionally and spiritually. We then pray and ask YAHWEH to give us authority over the enemy and his foul thoughts in the mighty Name of Yeshua His Son. My wife and I then proceed to take authority over the enemy and attack him rather than attacking each other. In a matter of just a few minutes, YAHWEH'S shalom returns to both of us and the spirit of anger and turmoil are gone. My wife and I forgive each other for allowing the enemy to use us to hurt each other and everything is good once again.
We later learn from fellow brothers and sisters that the enemy is known for trying to stir up strife and divide families prior to the feasts, especially the feast of Sukkot. They apologized for forgetting to forewarn us. My wife and I are learning that the enemy is a pro at introducing his thoughts into our mind in such a way that we think that the thoughts originated with us personally. Praise YAHWEH for the knowledge and the victory that He gives us over all the power of the enemy. HalleluYAH!