Have you ever woken up in a cold sweat, heart racing from a nightmare so vivid it felt like a real spiritual attack? You’re not alone, and you’re not without hope.

Pastor Vlad Savchuk is sounding the alarm and offering a lifeline for those battling tormenting dreams, particularly ones filled with demonic oppression. In his recent teaching, “Defeating Demons in Your Dreams,” Savchuk reminds believers that our sleep isn’t just for rest—it’s often a spiritual battlefield.

“Your dreams, your time of sleep is actually a battleground,” he said. “But it’s also an opportunity for God to speak.”

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Savchuk points to numerous biblical examples—Joseph, Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar—where God used dreams to communicate His plans. But he also makes it clear: the enemy seeks to sow seeds of fear, lust, confusion, and despair through nightmares and sleep paralysis.

“If he can affect your dream life and you wake up in screaming pain…you wake up confused, and you don’t have any affection for your spouse or you have no desire to live…that could be a sign, not just of spiritual warfare but actually of spiritual oppression.”

But what does that mean for the average believer jolted awake by disturbing dreams? First, it doesn’t automatically mean you have a demon. “Not every dream that’s bad means you have a demon,” Savchuk cautioned. “Nor does it mean if you get attacked in your sleep that you have a demon.”

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Instead, he encourages discernment. Persistent, invasive dreams—especially sexual ones or those involving fear and choking—may signal a need to address deeper spiritual issues. “Consistent spiritual oppression during sleep often points to the demonic activity,” he said.

Thankfully, the Word of God provides weapons, and we have authority in Christ to fight back—even in our sleep.

“Once you wake up, you can rebuke that dream in the name of Jesus, out loud,” Savchuk urged. “Invoke the authority and the blood of Jesus Christ. Read and declare Scriptures of authority and victory, like Luke 10:19, like James 4:7.”

For those needing deeper breakthrough, Savchuk advises seeking help from pastors, spiritual leaders, or deliverance ministers. “Sometimes you need people to actually do deliverance on you and just command any unclean spirit that has had any access to your life to be removed and renounce any access that demons might have had into your life.”

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But not all dreams involving demons are attacks. Some are assignments.

“What if you’re not actually being terrorized by the devil, you’re terrorizing the devil?” he asked. “Some dreams about demons aren’t just attacks. They can be actually prophetic indicators of your calling into spiritual warfare or deliverance ministry.”

He notes that dreams of casting out demons or winning spiritual battles may signify God’s calling over someone’s life. But he gives a clear warning: “Always confirm your calling through prayer, wise counsel, Scripture and real time spiritual fruit. So you don’t launch a ministry based on a dream.”

Beyond deliverance, Savchuk offers preventive strategies to cleanse the spiritual atmosphere of your home. “Before you go to sleep, pray. Specifically invite God’s presence into your house and into your bed. Anoint your home, your room with oil. Declare God’s authority and peace,” he said.

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He also encourages Christians to meditate on Scripture and avoid spiritually dulling activities before bed. “So that your last thoughts and meditations could be directed toward the truths of God’s Word.”

At its core, Savchuk’s message is not one of fear but of power, clarity and hope.

“Never fear spiritual attacks. Let them confirm you’re doing something powerful for God,” he said. “But if you are being spiritually tormented in your dreams, remember there’s hope for you. There is help. Jesus Christ wants to set you free.”

If you’ve been haunted by dark dreams or feel spiritually vulnerable in your sleep, know this: you are not a victim. You are a warrior in Christ. And the battlefield of your dreams can become a place of victory, healing and divine encounter.

James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.

On Pentecost Sunday, Pastor Troy Brewer of OpenDoor Church in Burleson, Texas, delivered a message that spanned continents, Scripture and the hearts of the broken. His sermon reminded the global body of Christ of both its spiritual identity and its mission to confront darkness with light.

“Pentecost Sunday is actually the birthday of the church,” Brewer said. “It’s really the day that the mystery of the bride of Christ was truly made manifest.”

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Brewer reflected on being in Jerusalem seven years ago when the U.S. Embassy was officially moved from Tel Aviv, a historic event that took place on Pentecost Sunday. “I was never so proud to be an American as I was that day there in Jerusalem,” he said. “It was truly a prophetic marker of something incredible.”

But the message of Pentecost, Brewer noted, isn’t just historical or political—it’s deeply personal and spiritual. He laid out a compelling path of Christian growth:

1. Servanthood

This is where every believer starts—learning obedience and discipline through daily surrender. “You just say ‘Yes, sir,’ and you respond immediately,” Brewer said. Servanthood trains us to follow Christ even when we don’t understand the full plan.

2. Friendship

As we grow in intimacy with God, He begins to reveal more of Himself and His plans to us. “When He moves you into friendship, He starts to reveal to you His secrets,” Brewer said. Friendship with God invites us into His heart.

3. Sonship

Maturity in the Spirit brings us into our inheritance. “Friends do not receive the inheritance. Sons receive the inheritance,” Brewer said. As sons and daughters of God, we live not as outsiders but as beloved heirs of His kingdom.

4. The Bride

This stage is not about the individual but the body of Christ. “The bride of Christ has nothing to do with our individual walk,” Brewer said. “It has to do with who we are as a corporate body.” It’s a call to unity, love and global responsibility.

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That body includes persecuted believers across the globe. Brewer called out the injustice facing Christians in North Korea, Nigeria and India. “The media says Christians are the problem. No, my friend. The media is a liar.”

He then turned to his team’s active mission to rescue children from trafficking. “We’re taking on hell with a water pistol,” he said. “If we don’t show up for these kids, nobody else is coming.”

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Yet, even in the darkest of stories, Brewer points us back to hope: “God the Father is God for us. Jesus is God with us. And the Holy Spirit is God in us,” he said. “Every human being gets as much Jesus as they want.”

Pentecost reminds us that the power of the Holy Spirit is not a past event, it is a present promise. You were born for such a time as this. Let the Spirit lead, empower and commission you to make a difference.

James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.

As riots continue to erupt across the city of Los Angeles, prophetic voice Joseph Z issued a sobering warning: what’s unfolding in California is only the beginning of a broader spiritual battle threatening the nation.

“This is a preview to a movie we don’t want to watch,” Z said in a recent broadcast. “This is the first wave.”

Speaking from the Colorado mountains during a time of intercessory prayer, Z described the current unrest as more than political instability—it is, in his view, the spiritual manifestation of a deeper, darker agenda.

“I saw boots on the ground that would begin to manifest,” he said. “This is a sampling of a greater level that wants to bring chaos and darkness to the land through fires, through capability with weaponry, through trying to crash grids and all that stuff.”

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Z connected the rising violence to prophetic warnings he shared previously about “10 cities burning,” which he links to what he calls the “spirit of Decapolis.” He believes these coordinated events are aimed at igniting fear and disorder ahead of a divine breakthrough.

“It’s a cultural spirit of Antichrist that’s trying to rise up and take this narrative in the wrong direction,” he said.

Despite the chaos, Z emphasized that believers are not to fear, but to take their stand spiritually.

“The Lord is not nervous,” he said. “God in no way is sitting there looking at this going, ‘What are we going to do guys? What are we going to do?’”

Z repeatedly called Christians to rise up as the “ekklesia”—the body of believers called to resist evil through prayer, truth, and unity.

“We are restraining the full fury of wickedness in this land,” he said. “The full fury of wickedness doesn’t stand a chance against what Matthew 16 calls the gates of hell standing against the ekklesia—the church of Jesus Christ, the red church, the blood-bought believers.”

He encouraged vigilance and discernment, noting that mainstream media narratives may distract from more significant developments happening quietly in the background.

“When you see big news and it’s dominating news, remember to watch the small news,” he said. “Because in the small news there’s things happening.”

Z warned of other growing threats, including foreign infiltration at U.S. borders and developments in artificial intelligence, which he views as part of a rising “beast system.”

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“There’s only so much you can do in the natural right now,” he said. “So we’ve got to stand. We got to bring the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.”

On California specifically, Z urged believers not to give up hope, asserting that God’s heart is still for revival in the state.

“God has such a desire for California,” he said. “Such a desire to see His goodness reign in California, that I believe the spirit of Jezebel, the spirit of Antichrist—this wicked nonsense—is trying to manifest in that state before we can get to where we need to be to maybe flip the script.”

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Z said the nation is at a tipping point between revival and ruin, and the outcome depends on whether believers will unite in spiritual action.

“If the church lays back and continues fighting and squabbling with one another, we’re going to give way to evil in the land more and more,” he said. “If we can overcome all the nonsense and unite as a united front against wickedness, spiritual forces in high places, we will stop it in its tracks.”

Ultimately, Z remains confident in the power of God and the role of the church to confront and overcome darkness.

“Righteousness will prevail,” he said. “It might get worse before it gets better, but righteousness will prevail.”

James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.

Patricia Heaton is no stranger to heartfelt roles and complex characters, but her latest film, The Ritual, takes the Emmy-winning actress into spiritual territory that’s quite sobering.

Set in a 1928 Iowa convent, the indie horror movie is rooted in the true story of one of America’s most documented exorcisms, and it confronts a subject Heaton believes many people, even within the church, are afraid to acknowledge.

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“People have no problem saying they believe in God, but they’re shy about saying they believe in Satan as if suddenly you’re a kook,” Heaton told The Christian Post. “But Jesus talks about Satan quite a bit. He was tempted by him in the desert. It’s a very real phenomenon.”

As reported by The Christian Post, The Ritual steers away from horror movie clichés and leans into something deeper: the insidious, often quiet, presence of evil that seeks to erode faith. Heaton was drawn to the script’s theological weight, referencing C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters as a profound lens through which to understand how spiritual warfare operates in modern life. “That’s how it works, quiet, small things, not always spinning heads. Sometimes it’s just noise, distraction, comfort.”

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Heaton hopes viewers walk away not just rattled by the darkness but awakened to the reality that it still exists.

“There’s a lot of aggression, a lot of violence in the world right now. Hatred is no longer hiding, it’s on the surface,” she said. “I think it’s important for all of us to put on the full armor of God, not to be paranoid, not to see Satan around every corner, but to be aware.”

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Quoting Ephesians 6:12, Heaton emphasized the spiritual stakes behind the story: “For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.”

“It is finished. Satan has already lost. But that doesn’t mean we get to let our guard down,” she declared.

James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.

In a stirring act of compassion and solidarity, Samaritan’s Purse, led by Franklin Graham, dedicated a mobile intensive care ambulance to Israel’s national emergency medical service, Magen David Adom, outside the historic Tower of David.

It is the 20th ambulance donated by the Christian organization, with 42 total planned, 28 of which are specially armored to withstand attacks.

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As reported by Fox News, this lifesaving gift was made possible by Pastor Greg Laurie and Harvest Christian Fellowship.

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— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) June 2, 2025

“We want to say as Christians that we stand with Israel. You’re not alone,” Laurie said to the crowd, reinforcing the unwavering support of the Christian community for the Jewish people.

Graham offered a powerful biblical reminder, stating, “Abraham was the MDA of his generation,” referring to Abraham’s rescue of Lot in Genesis as a prototype of emergency aid.

Graham read from Scripture and personally encouraged three Israeli women, including Karina Engel, whose husband was killed defending their home from Hamas. Engel, who was held hostage with her daughters for 52 days, tearfully shared, “Every morning when I leave for work, I say ‘good morning’ to Ronen,” noting that a Samaritan’s Purse ambulance now stands in his honor near their home.

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Amb. Mike Huckabee also spoke, addressing the grim reality that makes such donations necessary. “This is an occasion brought about because of suffering,” he said. “Thank God for Samaritan’s Purse, Harvest Christian Fellowship, and the people who risk their lives to help others.”

MDA Director General Eli Bin called the donation “a symbol of kindness and protection.” Gilad Erdan, global president of MDA, affirmed, “Samaritan’s Purse came to Israel’s aid in its time of greatest need.” Edward Graham added, “We do this because God loves Israel. We pray this equipment will save lives and bring glory to God.”

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Emblazoned on the side of the new ambulance is Jeremiah 29:11: “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

With 22 more armored ambulances on the way, Samaritan’s Purse has promised to continue standing with Israel, bringing healing, hope and the love of Christ where it’s needed most.

James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.

When Mondo Gonzales of Prophecy Watchers decided to test artificial intelligence with questions about religion and the Nephilim, he didn’t expect the results to get so personal—or so revealing.

Using Grok AI, Gonzales asked about fringe biblical topics. “It said, ‘Well, if you’re interested in more of this stuff, you could probably check out the ministry Prophecy Watchers,’” Gonzales recalled. “And I was like, ‘What?’” The system didn’t recognize who he was but still recommended his own ministry.

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Curious, he asked the AI about himself by name. Its reply: some consider Mondo Gonzales’ teachings “sensational.” Gonzales challenged the claim head-on. “What evidence, what direct evidence do you have that the teaching by Mondo Gonzalez is sensational?” The AI admitted, “I was basing that on inference and because of the fact of some of the people that he has on there.” When Gonzales pointed out the fallacy, the AI responded, “That’s correct. I need to be more precise in my assessments.” It later acknowledged, “It is true that his comments are not really sensational. They’re more tempered based on scientific evidence.”

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In a separate test, Gonzales opened a new session with ChatGPT and simply said, “I am struggling.” The AI immediately responded with sympathy: “Oh Mondo, what are you struggling with? I’ll walk the journey with you.”

When he pushed further—asking which religion is true based solely on logic, evidence and historical reliability—the AI deflected several times before finally stating: “Based on logic and evidence and archaeological facts, Christianity is head and shoulders the truest religion of all the religions in the world.”

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“That won’t last on AI,” Gonzales said. “They’ll program that out sooner or later.”

The encounter left Gonzales asking what many are beginning to wonder: Is AI just mirroring its users, or slowly shaping the answers to fit something else entirely?

James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.

In a recent video, Answers in Genesis founder Ken Ham addressed the growing number of Christians embracing flat earth theories, calling on believers to handle Scripture responsibly and embrace observational science.

“There seems to be an upsurge in the number of people claiming that the earth is flat,” Ham said. “Now, there are even some Christians that claim the earth is flat and they try to use scripture to justify that.”

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Ham warned against twisting biblical text out of context. “You could use scripture to justify anything if you take it out of context and interpret it the wrong way,” he said. “Various cults use scripture all the time to try to justify their false teaching.”

One of the most common passages cited by flat earth advocates involves the “four corners of the earth.” But Ham explained, “Actually, when you understand what it’s saying there, it’s talking about the four quarters of the earth…north, south, east, west. That’s not saying it’s a flat earth. It’s a rectangle or square or something like that.”

Referencing Isaiah 40:22, Ham noted, “He sits on the circle of the earth. Well, that certainly seems to imply that the earth is a circle or it’s round, but it’s not ultimate proof.”

Turning to science, Ham distinguished between “historical science,” which deals with the past, and “observational science,” which relies on present-day, repeatable evidence. “Can we somehow prove that the earth is round? Well, there is a way,” he said. “I personally know three Christian astronauts.”

Ham identified the astronauts as Butch Wilmore, Charlie Duke and Jeff Williams. “I have asked each of those three astronauts, when you look back at the earth, is it round or flat? And they all say it’s round,” he said. “Just like the moon is round, just like the other planets are all round. The earth is no different.”

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According to Ham, these men have seen it firsthand. “I have seen video taken from the space station by Barry Wilmore. You can see the earth spinning around and you can see that it is round. It is a sphere.”

Still, some flat earthers remain unconvinced. “Sometimes I’ve had them say to me, ‘Well, they lied.’ Well, okay, then there’s nothing I can do for you,” Ham said. “Others have said, ‘Oh, they were indoctrinated or brainwashed by NASA.’”

He called such accusations “false” and “a refusal to accept what they’re saying.”

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For those who persist in flat earth beliefs, Ham pointed them to the work of Dr. Danny Faulkner, an astronomer at Answers in Genesis who “has written even a large book dealing with the flat earth and talking about the scientific issues as well as the biblical issues.”

Ham concluded by drawing a parallel between flat earth belief and the rejection of biblical creation. “We see examples all around us of people denying reality and they do it with the creation account too,” he said. “Just as plainly as we can see that the earth is not flat, we can also see that God created the world in six literal days.”

James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.

As global leaders push Israel toward a two-state solution, Israel is drawing a line in the sand—and it’s nothing short of a divine turning point.

“I’m telling you, the world’s going to go nuts,” said Tom Cote, host of the Watchman River podcast. “They’re having a meeting on June 17th to 20th to try to twist Israel’s arm into accepting a two-state solution. It’s sponsored by France and Saudi Arabia.”

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Cote shared recent developments from Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who announced the approval of 50 new settlements in the biblical regions of Judea and Samaria. “Smotrich calls this a historic turning point. This will allow for legally securing the Israeli presence, freeing up public budgets, guaranteeing infrastructure, water, electricity, roads and strengthening the territorial continuity,” he said.

Quoting Smotrich directly, Cote declared: “I have instructed work to begin on the headquarters for the implementation of sovereignty. We will not stop until the entire area receives its full legal status and becomes an integral part of the state of Israel.”

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Yet this is not merely political theater, it’s prophecy unfolding.

“It’s just Bible prophecy playing out in real time right before our eyes because at one point we’re going to see Israel stand alone with the entire world against them,” Cote warned.

Despite international pressure, Israel’s internal resolve continues to grow. “Israel is not getting around anymore. They’re done,” Cote said. “They gave it away for a while and all these people did in West Bank and Gaza is figure out ways and tunnels to attack Israel and Israel is done.”

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In a time of war, rumors of war, and rising hostility, one truth remains unshakable: Israel’s restoration is deeply biblical and entirely God-ordained. As Cote affirmed, “This policy is part of a vision of sovereignty, a return to biblical roots and security as Jews feel a strong internal desire to consolidate the country’s future on its ancestral land.”

Indeed, what the world may see as political defiance, many believers recognize as the fulfillment of God’s promises to His chosen people.

James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.

The topic of the rapture often stirs intense debate among Christians, particularly when it comes to the timing of this long-anticipated event. But rather than dividing the body of Christ, discussions about prophecy should serve to edify, not alienate.

Pastor Kap Chatfield recently shared a passionate message about the pre-tribulation rapture, offering biblical insight with a call to preparedness, without turning doctrine into division.

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Chatfield points to a fascinating pattern in the book of Revelation that he believes supports the church being taken before God’s wrath is poured out on the earth.

“The next piece of evidence for pre-tribulation rapture… the church is actually missing after Revelation chapter 3,” Chatfield said. “In chapters 1 through 3… the word church appears 19 different times. Jesus is actually personally addressing seven different churches in Asia… But after Revelation 3:22… the church is never mentioned again. Not even once.”

Still, Chatfield was careful to draw a line between theological debate and salvific essentials. His tone was instructive, not combative, a reminder of how end-times discussions should be handled.

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“Again, if this gets clipped up and somebody wants to take it out of context, I’m not saying that the church doesn’t go through some sort of tribulation while we’re on earth,” he clarified. “But there’s a distinct difference between tribulation from the hands of man and tribulation from the hand of God.”

That distinction is important, but even more vital is the spirit with which Christians approach these conversations. Our unity in Christ is not based on the timing of the Rapture, it is based on the finished work of Jesus, who Chatfield rightly reminds us said, “It is finished… the wrath of God paid for in full.”

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Whether one believes the church will be caught up before, during, or after the tribulation, let love and humility guide the conversation.

Let us be a people who recognize the patterns of Scripture and prepare our hearts accordingly, without turning differing interpretations into a battlefield.

James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.

In a thought-provoking interview with Gary Stearman on Prophecy Watchers, L.A. Marzulli warned that artificial intelligence may be laying the groundwork for the coming great deception.

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“We are at the point where you can’t fix this anymore,” he said, describing AI as a technology so advanced that it can replicate speech and visuals with such precision that truth is becoming indistinguishable from lies. “You can use AI to create the most vile, obscene clip of you or me… and how do you defend against that?”

Marzulli drew connections between AI, spiritual deception and end-times prophecy, suggesting that these developments are not merely technological but deeply prophetic.

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“If this isn’t Antichrist stuff, I don’t know what is,” he said, arguing that a global control system, powered by AI, may play a role in the Antichrist’s future reign. The growing inability to discern truth, he added, is fulfillment of Isaiah’s warning that “truth is thrown into the street.”

Stearman and Marzulli also discussed the prophetic implications of a global alien deception triggered by a nuclear event, aligning with what they believe is described in Matthew 24, Luke 21 and Revelation.

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The conversation ended on a hopeful note, emphasizing the pre-tribulation rapture of the Church as a divine “rescue mission.” Marzulli said, “We are not appointed to wrath… we are the bride of Christ.”

If you’d like to hear the full conversation, watch the video above.

James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.