My children were grown and I had just moved into an upstairs apartment and was putting boxes away into a very dark cubby area under the eaves.

I turned around and suddenly I saw a hideous, horrible, frightening, scary looking iron object in the shape of some kind of demon tacked to a wall. I looked more closely, unable to believe what I was seeing. It was so dark that it was totally unobservable on the dark wall between two studs. It blended in so deeply that it would have been impossible to see against that dark wall and I never would have noticed it had the protection of the Lord not exposed it to me.

I was so shocked I jumped back, shaking. Apparently someone who had lived there before me had left it there. Why would they leave that thing there when they left, and more importantly, why put it somewhere, tacked to a dark wall where it would be hidden? The enemy meant it as an open door into my life in that apartment, but the Lord wouldn’t allow it. I am still amazed wondering how I saw that thing at all, and of course I knew I had once again been protected.