I recently visited a friend's blog where she recounted her experience with the spooks in her own home. Reading through it brought back memories of our 1st marital home.
Part 1
We'd bought our 1st home at Keng Lee Road in 1994 (near Cambridge Road market which is now a very hot site with private condos sprouting up everywhere!). After renovating the place, we went straight from our wedding to our honeymoon without having lived in it.
On our 1st night there (1995), I was preparing to go to bed when I realised that the alarm clock I thought I had placed at the bedside table was on the dressing table. I didn't think much of it since we were busy unpacking and getting used to the new house.
The next day while dh was on the phone with his mom, I walked into our master bedroom and discovered that our heavy wooden bedside table with drawers full of stuff had moved - a whole 90 degrees!  Now this bedside table was sandwiched between the wall and the bed so it couldn't have been accidentally knocked into that position. Besides it was a clean 90 degree move.
I calmly walked out and waited for dh to finish his phonecall to his mom then asked him if he had moved the bedside table. He said "no" and so I asked him to come with me to the bedroom and take a look. There was silence between us as we both stared at the table.
At that point in time, I was a brand new Christian, never having encountered any spiritual beings and did not know anything of them except what I had learnt via the media! And he was a backslidden Christian who had just returned to the Lord.
Neither of us knew what to do. So we did what good Christians do - called the pastor! Lol!  Except that this was late at night. Would any pastor be in the office at that hour?! Never mind. We had to try.
The phone was picked up by a church worker who said that the pastors were all busy conducting baptism in the sanctuary and no one could take our call!!! After much negotiations (read : begging!) with him, he promised that he would get one of the pastors to call us back.
We did not dare to wait upstairs for the phone call. We went downstairs instead and thanked God for mobile phones!
Shortly after, one of the pastors called back and said he would come immediately to our house with some others. We were so relieved we wanted to hug them all when they turned up.
However, there was no more drama. They went through every room - to check things out I guess?! Asked us a few questions - did we particpate in any dubious activities, gone anywhere dubious (we were in Bali for our honeymoon), buy any religious artefacts, did we know who the previous owner was and did they participate in any rituals (the house was tenanted and we didn't meet the owner).
Then they prayed with us and reminded us that the name of Jesus is above all, that :
(We) are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in (us) is greater than he who is in the world. 1 John 4:4
Then they told us to move the table back by ourselves and they left! Hmmm....talk about having our little faith tested! And I didn't tell you this - the bedside table that moved was on MY side of the bed! No, I didn't chicken out. I still slept on that side of the bed.
Shortly after that dh had to go out of town and I was alone in the house! But fear not, I was no longer a sacredy cat. God use that little time to build up my faith to at least one notch higher.
And actually, due to that incident, we became more interested in what the Bible had to teach us, Indeed it spurred us on to know Him.
So one would think that's the end of the story right? But noooooo. Got Part 2! 
Part 2
In 2005, only by the hand of God, we managed to sell the house off without an ad or an agent. No, we didn't sell the house coz of what happened. But it was a 2 room apartment and by then we were pregnant with #5! We had run out of space and God led us to move out (that is another awesome story).
After all the paperwork was completed and the deal done, the new owner's future son-in-law (confused yet?) moved in by himself 1st. Then we got a call from the buyer who asked dh if there had been any strange happenings in the house when we lived in it.
Naturally, dh asked her why. Then she told him that the future son-in-law had not been able to sleep in the house at all. At night, he would feel someone/thing pressing on him, suffocating him. So she called in Buddhist priests to come and pray over the house. She said that they saw a little girl in the house!
That's when she decided to ask us about it. Dh shared with her that yes, we had experienced the side table moving but that was the only incident and ever since then, no more strange things had happened. And that's why we continued to live in there for the next 10 years and had 4 children live there with us as well.
We don't know what happened to them after that as she never called back. But after I related the incident to my non-believers parents, they also said that they felt oppressed whenever they came to visit us in that house but never dared to say anything to us. That came as a surprise to me as we had many children visit us and none had ever acted strange - you know how people often say that children and animals are more sensitive to such things.
As we share this story with friends, we always stand amazed that how the hand of the Lord has kept us and protected us. It as as though, at the very moment we left the place, His presence went forth before us to our new place to keep and to hold us. And because His hand was no longer upon the old place, the spirits returned.
Praise be to God! May I never take His presence for granted.
Edited : Forgot to add, though it was not applicable to us and our experience, we have since then been very careful about items we buy. Eg. antiques, craft stuff, home decor items. Especially from unknown sources. In some religious countries, the craftsmen do pray over their crafts as they create their work of art. These items should not be brought into the house as it is an open doorway inviting these spirits to come in and visit.
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