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felt confused.  The dream was a little disturbing, but even more so were the signs that said she had engaged in sex because she didn't remember doing so. 
    She asked Jake if they made love.  She couldn't hear the exact words he murmured, but she understood that the answer was in the negative.
    Then there were the bruises on her arms.  Perfect finger and thumb prints on both arms.  Nicole's stomach lurched in fear.  Was there another part of her that she didn't know about that had taken over while she slept and had led her to do something terrible, she wondered?
    IS had been worried about those bruises.  But the good thing was that she had opened the door to Fear.  He told this spirit to torment her relentlessly.  But this time, Cantor and Jair both stepped in front of Fear and refused to let it get close enough to Nicole to attach.  Drats!  She had called out to Jesus and now the Spirit of Truth was speaking to her and she was listening!
    As she knelt by her bed praying, Jesus said, "Nicole, this is Incubus Succubus.  You've seen him before outside the window at the time of your baptism.  Do you remember?  And yes, he was the one who accosted you at Trisha's and who appeared to you in the calf dream.  I told you that you would one day meet him again when it was time for you to overcome his power over you, and that you would then be able to teach others to defeat him as well. 
    As you are becoming aware, he is a principality over many, and My plans are for My people to be free from his domination and control.  I am a jealous God and I alone desire the worship of My people.  There can be no other gods before Me."
    Nicole thought about the dream with the calves and realized that it represented her own bondage as well as Samaria's. 
    "I do remember, Lord," she said.  "But why did You let him slime me?  I'm so disgusted!  And ashamed, and…"
    "Stop, Nicole!" Jesus demanded. 
    And she did.  "I'm sorry Jesus.  What do You want me to do about this?"
    "I want you to understand how Satan works.  I never violate a person's free will and Satan is not allowed to either.   When a choice is made by a person within My Kingdom to obey Me and do My will, My blood protects, and the Holy Spirit's power is activated to bring about My plans and purposes.  But when a person chooses to act on a sinful temptation, this opens the door for Satan or his demons to step in and create strongholds. 
    This is why Satan works so hard to cause abuse and trauma in people and especially children.  Through these events, he tries to destroy their hope, to crush their spirit and destroy their trust in God.  Then in desperation, in moments of vulnerability, pain, despair, rebellion, etc., they will listen to the lies and deceptions he sends their way.  The deception is enticing because it sounds like truth; however, even one drop of defilement in a full cup of pure water defiles all of it.  It is the same with everything that Satan says.  It is all laced with deception and defilement.  Once they choose to believe his lies, they will act on them.  When they act on his lies in disobedience to God, then the sin opens the door to him. 
    "Understand this," Jesus continued.  "It is not the bad things that happen to them that create the strongholds; it's the lies they listen to and choose to believe in response to the bad things that creates strongholds and leads them into bondage."
    "Are You saying that I chose to sin because of lies I believed in the past which opened the door to IS?  I thought I had dealt with those."
    "Yes," came the reply .  "The lies of the past were exposed and renounced and I was covering you in righteousness protecting you from the assault of the enemy until you pushed Me out of the way."
    "I pushed You out of the way?  When and how, Lord?"
    Immediately an incident came to Nicole's mind.  Some time before, she had picked up a romance novel that had just happened to catch her eye in the drug store.  She