Prayer to Retune and Realign the Heart

Dr. Paul L. Cox

I had not been sleeping, again! It started gradually on the winter solace, 2008. By the end of January, 2009 I was waking up in the middle of the night and could not go back to sleep. Weeks passed and my fatigue increased. Others that I knew were also not sleeping. Consistently we were first waking up around 1:30pm and then unable to return to sleep. Then we all shifted to waking up at 4:00am and then 5:00am, unable to go back to sleep. I called intercessors and pleading for the Lord to bring understanding about what was happening.

At the end of February, 2009, we had intern training at Aslan’s Place in Hesperia, CA. While praying for a man who was desperate to find freedom in his life, the Lord revealed to me that there was what seemed to be a spiritual stop sign in front of him. I was intrigued because I could not feel it as I moved away from him and while standing in front of him and moving my hand towards him, it was clearly there. I asked if he had felt that he had been stopped in his forward movement, he immediately said, “Yes!” We prayed for him and asked the Lord to remove the stop sign. I felt we were finished until my daughter, Christy Lisle, reported that she could see something evil in front of the man. I assured her that the stop sign was gone, but she was insistent! Humoring her, I put my hand close to his body and, indeed, I felt something like a pair of “spiritual” lungs in front of him. The Lord was leading me on another journey.

The next day, we pursued what the Lord had shown us. As those with visual spiritual giftings look at each of us they could see that what I had thought were lungs, were in reality bat wings. As I felt the wings, I realized that these wings were tied to ungodly spiritual rulers. This ruler seems to be blowing a trumpet, which was heralding an ungodly decree against each person’s birthright. The trumpet was pointed towards the heart and to the neck of each individual. It seemed clear to me that the decree was a vibration rather than a sound, something like a discord. The stop sign seemed to magnify the vibrations coming from the ungodly ruler.

As we questioned the Lord about this vibration, He said that the vibration results in doubt so that we do not walk in faith. Fear is the result of this unbelief (Luke 21:26-
“ men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.” ) This vibration also seems to disrupt the vibrations of DNA. As I felt the direction of the vibration I could discern it actually affecting the right lower ventricle of the heart. I was amazed to find out from a medical doctor that the blood from that ventricle actually goes right to the lungs. There is a tie between the disruption of flow of the blood from that ventricle and sleep apnea. The Lord was connecting the dots!

The Lord then revealed than the generational root of this was a lack of love which resulted in disunity and especially disunity in a person’s family. We inquired of the person we were praying for if there had been a history of disunity in his family and, again, he said it had been a major problem in his life and in his generational line, especially brother against brother. The Lord have us a scripture, I John 4:7-16.

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God and God in him.


As we were talking and hearing from the Lord, Anne Smith, from Collingwood, Canada shared a dream she had some months before. Anne has been suffering with a irregular heart beat that had seriously affected her breathing. Here is the dream: “I was outside a house in Canada and was discerning something very evil. Paul Cox was there. I received a musical key. At this point I became righteously angry. As Paul went into the house Anne began to sing one continuous note till all her breath had gone.” It seemed as if this key, vibration was key to her healing.

A sudden realization occurred to me. Bats are awake at night! If there are these spiritual bats attached to us, then they would be active at night and would then disrupt sleep! Perhaps I had found the key to why I was not sleeping.

But, why could I not feel this bat in front on me. The Lord made it clear. We are blinded to what is coming against us. 1 John 2:11 “But he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. It all seemed so obvious now. Bats operate in darkness! It is a vibration like sonar that is sent out from them that allows them to navigate at nighttime. Isn’t it interesting that we use the term, “Blind as a bat!”

In Isaiah 34:14, the word Hebrew word Lilith is translated as “terror of the night” in the New King James version. In tradition Lilith is said to be the daughter of Dracula and manifest as a wolf or bat. Lilith does not sleep at night! I have had a sense for a long time that this evil spirit is tied to night terrors.

The following month, March, 2009, we held our two weeks of school in Hesperia, CA. It was at this school that the Lord gave us the Prayer to Retune and Realign the Heart. At the school we had a couple of people who are involved in Hollywood, CA. As we discussed the revelation about the bat, many felt that the recent batman movie, The Dark Knight was helpful in understanding what was being released on the earth by the enemy, especially through the media. We also realized that there were key words in Scripture that applied to the movie and to the prayer: night, fear, blindness, darkness, secret things, light, eye (as that which perceives darkness and light), and heart. The prayer was written to be written!

After the intern week and the revelation about the stop sign and the bat, I again started sleeping better. My sleeping gradually improved. Following the writing of the prayer, my sleep pattern improved greatly. On the night of the spring equinox, my sleep pattern returned to normal. I had not slept well from the winter solstice to the spring equinox. The Lord had revealed the plans of the enemy and again, had shown Himself victorious!