October 8, 2025 • 17 mins
Sleepless nights can feel like a private war—lights on, heart racing, mind running laps around the same fears. We go straight into that battle and name what many are afraid to say out loud: sometimes, insomnia isn’t just about the body; it’s about the soul. We open up a path to rest that pairs honest faith with practical steps, and we do it through story, scripture, and a bold prayer of deliverance.
Whether you’re pacing a small apartment, circling a prison cell, or lying awake in a quiet house, you’re not stuck. Take the verse to heart, say it out loud, and let your body learn peace again. If this speaks to you, subscribe, share this episode with someone who needs rest, and leave a review telling us how Psalm 4:8 changed your night.
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(00:02):
Now streaming on all major podcast platforms, edifying your
mind, body and soul. We welcome you to listen now to
Soul Food with your main host, Bishop Joshua.
Here. We are always ready to share a
(00:23):
Word of Faith, unpack powerful testimonies, divinely inspired
music to enhance your faith. Walk, feed your faith wherever
you go, Quench your spiritual hunger.
(00:48):
Give the food that lasts foreverhere on the Soul Food Podcast.
You are not crazy. Paranormal Activity series.
(01:18):
Hi there, may the God of the Bible bless your life.
Paranormal Activity. This is our weekly series here
and in this episode today I wantto talk about insomnia.
A person that cannot sleep well,you torse and you turn, but you
(01:39):
cannot sleep. Even those who take sleeping
pills, no matter how strong the dose is or the doses are, they
cannot sleep well at all. And this is what happened to
them when they take a lot of pills, a lot of medication.
But look at that, they are stillawaken and they see the hours
(02:04):
passing by. The night becomes longer, then
comes nightmare, the leaders, then come spiritual attacks.
Well, you need to be set free. There you go.
You take more medications, you take more pills to sleep.
I want to show to you right now what sleep last night or
(02:28):
so-called insomnia is all about.We are going to watch this and
you know a few of me going to pray for you.
I want you to prepare a cup of water because we shall pray
together. Recently I have not been able to
get any rest whatsoever. This insomnia has started to get
in the way of my life and I needanswers.
(02:52):
I tried to pace around my room to try and get myself to get
some rest. Even during the day I'm unable
to get some rest because my insomnia continues to persist.
I find myself irritated and upset for many times out of the
week. I have gone to the doctor for
this problem to see if somethingcan be done.
(03:14):
I have taken medication as well.Nothing seems to be working
right now and continues to go on.
That was the case of Maleni. She could not sleep.
Yes, at night she was dependent on sleeping pills.
(03:39):
And she had heard inside of her bedroom, I guess, so many
footsteps that she could not even explain.
Constant feeling of being watched like somebody's watching
you. People like this have to sleep
with the lights on. I want you to understand what
(04:04):
sleepless nights, what insomnia is all about.
The scripture says over here howyou both lying down in peace and
sleep. Many lying down, but not so many
sleep in a few. We are going to pray based upon
His words and from now on you are going to sleep like a baby.
(04:29):
Let us watch her testimony, her story, and I am going to be
right back. My name is Marlon Sarong and I
(04:54):
am a secretary. I started having nightmares.
I started hearing steps. I started I started to feel feel
very scared, like somebody will be watching me all the time.
And I always thought that that Iwas going to die, that somebody
was going to kill me. I always felt things around me
(05:14):
that were not there. And every time I would go to
sleep, I used to feel like somebody would lay in top of me
and things that were not normal.Those are the, that's how my
suffering started happening. I, I didn't want to go to sleep
anymore. I, I couldn't sleep anymore.
So I actually started to take medicine to be able to go to
(05:37):
sleep. That's where my addiction
started happening because I became addicted to those pills.
And also because of that, I alsostarted getting involved through
a family member. I met alcohol and I started to
drink very much at a very young age.
I started to have suicidal thoughts because all those
(06:00):
things that were happening to meand nobody was able to help me.
Like I couldn't go nowhere. So I thought that maybe by dying
in my, I was going to have peacebecause not, not the friends,
not the alcohol, not the pills, not getting high.
And none of that would actually fulfill me and take away all
(06:21):
those all the spiritual problemsthat I had at that moment.
I wanted to have somebody to make me happy, to make me feel
like, like I was worth it to make me feel like those things,
those spiritual emptiness that Ihad the spiritual problems who
actually will go away because I thought I was missing something.
I, I didn't feel like I was normal because I didn't hear
(06:45):
nobody else having those sleeping problems, those
nightmares and things like that.So, and, you know, I was just
really, really sad inside of me.I will actually also have
anxiety attacks, attacks like I will be somewhere and I felt
like something was about to happen and I couldn't I wasn't
(07:06):
able to breathe that moment. I had a like stop and my I, I
felt like I was going to die at that moment.
And I was get those attacks veryfrequently.
I learned about the Universal Church because my mom, she
started going participating at, at the church and she I saw in a
(07:28):
very short time my mom's life and her and her husband's life
started to change dramatically. God was doing his working in
their life. And you know, I don't know
something inside of me. She says that she told me that
she was praying for me and then from that something inside of
(07:49):
me, I decided to go visit them and when I went to this and them
and I saw that everything that she was saying was true.
Her life was changing, her marriage was changing is it was
just a completely other person. So that made me like, oh, I want
the same thing that my mom has. And I started doing the chain of
prayer every Mondays, Wednesday,Fridays and Sundays because I
(08:16):
needed help in every single aspect of my life.
And the first miracle that I hadthat made me even believe more,
the very, very first thing was that I started sleeping with no
nightmares. And as I keep coming, those,
those, the fear, those anxiety attacks, all those issues, the
(08:38):
spiritual problems actually started to disappear.
I was already sticking. I keep hearing the pastor
talking about the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit.
I didn't know what the Holy Spirit was.
But then as I keep them, they, they were guiding me.
Hey Marlin, do this, do that, come more, pray more and ask God
(08:58):
to change from inside out. And one day I received His
spirit, those fears that I had before everything started
changing. I had this power inside of me
and it was not just a feeling orfeeling like a very good
feeling. It was in.
(09:20):
I was sure it gave me security inside of me that He was there
with me and that He was going toguide me every step of my life.
And the Holy Spirit, He did His work to me towards my
sentimental life because I was before I had him, before I had
the Holy Spirit, I was always making bad decisions.
(09:40):
I was always going by what I wasfeeling, feelings of needing
somebody to actually feel happy.But the Holy Spirit, he already
made me happy. He already made me complete, but
he guided me to to make the right decisions because he said
in his word that it's not good for men to be alone and you
(10:02):
know, coming, learning. He guided me to wait for the
person that he was going to prepare for me.
And God did that. As I started changing moving
forward in my life, God presented me this man of God who
is now my husband and we are happily Mary and we have a great
(10:23):
relationship. We help each other stay strong
in the faith. You know, he was added in my
life to actually keep me strong,to keep going, to not give up.
And we help each other towards that journey.
And the number one in our life is God.
That is the number one person inour relationship.
And He's the one who always keepus together, keep us strong,
(10:47):
keep us moving forward, having good eyes towards each other, in
between us. There's no misunderstanding,
there's no arguments, there's nodisrespect.
There's nothing that put us in compromise in our starvation.
Our starvation is not compromised with it with each
other. It's actually the opposite.
(11:08):
It's the number one thing that we both have our starvation and
we work towards that together asa relationship.
The same God who set her free and bless her life in many areas
of her life. He is going to do it for you.
We are going to pray together right now and from now on you
(11:33):
are going to pray Psalms 4, verse 8 whenever you cannot
sleep, since you have sleepy pills, you cannot sleep.
You toss and turn, you watch TV,you even drink, use drugs over
there in prison. You walk inside of the cell in a
circle because you are in a concrete box.
(11:54):
You cannot walk a far away placeto a far away place.
You have to walk inside. Try to be exhausted to sleep.
You are going to pray Psalms 4 verse 8 which says I will both
lie down in peace and sleep for you alone.
(12:14):
O Lord, make me dwell in safety.God is going to make you to
dwell in safety. Right now for the prayer of
deliverance, I want you to stretch out your hands.
Lift your hands right now, closeyour eyes in Jesus name.
Oh God, I ask you to bless theirhands with thy power.
(12:41):
And this person that cannot sleep well, from now on they are
going to sleep like a baby. Place your hands upon your
heads, on top of your heads, both your hands and close your
eyes. In the name of Jesus Christ, the
spirit of the devil, the spirit of Satan that plagues this
(13:04):
person that do not let this person sleep.
Yes, you do not let this person rest throughout of the night.
You disturb this person, you bring bad dreams, crazy dreams,
you thought you more less dispersed during the night, a
spirit of insomnia. Right now I say to you in Jesus
(13:29):
Christ name, get out right now, live from his life.
Live this person in Jesus name. Abe, taking out your cup of
water, raise your water, close your eyes.
In the name of Jesus Christ, my Lord and the Father, I ask you
(13:56):
right now that you blessed Jesuswater for their complete freedom
and deliverance. In the name of the Father, the
Son, the Holy Spirit, Amen. Drinking all your water, it is
blessed and you are blessed, andyou are free.
(14:19):
Amen in Jesus name. From now on, you are going to
sleep like a baby. Now which are the next steps you
have to do in order to stay blessed?
To stay free, you need to come to the Universal Church, the
church that is open every singleday in many locations all over
(14:41):
USA, especially all Fridays, Fridays for deliverance.
You can see us, you can see our website that is Paranormal
Activities help dot com right now.
You can call this number that appears on your screen
1-888-332-4141. May the God of the Bible bless
(15:08):
your life. We are going to be back soon
with one more episode, Paranormal Activity.
Paranormal Activity series. When you hear soul food, you
(15:39):
probably think of this. A rich home cooked meal that
fills your belly and warms your heart.
But what about the hunger? No meal can satisfy?
The hunger for peace, purpose, love and joy.
(16:08):
Introducing the Soul Food Podcast, a faith-based show
designed to nourish your spirit.Ashes, He can give you a new
life. With over 200 inspiring episodes
stream across the globe, you'll find stories of hope,
(16:29):
encouragement, and transformation.
Today, my life is a life that I could not have imagined.
A lot of people, they go to church the first time or for a
few months because they want a blessing.
But the biggest blessing is the Holy Spirit.
Listen anytime, anywhere on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube
(16:52):
and more. Engage with polls, share your
thoughts, and be part of something bigger.
Don't miss the food that lasts forever.
Tune into the Soul Food Podcast today and feed what truly
matters your soul.
Now streaming on all major podcast platforms, edifying your
mind, body and soul. We welcome you to listen now to
Soul Food with your main host, Bishop Joshua.
Here. We are always ready to share a
(00:23):
Word of Faith, unpack powerful testimonies, divinely inspired
music to enhance your faith. Walk, feed your faith wherever
you go, Quench your spiritual hunger.
(00:48):
Give the food that lasts foreverhere on the Soul Food Podcast.
You are not crazy. Paranormal Activity series.
(01:18):
Hi there, may the God of the Bible bless your life.
Paranormal Activity. This is our weekly series here
and in this episode today I wantto talk about insomnia.
A person that cannot sleep well,you torse and you turn, but you
(01:39):
cannot sleep. Even those who take sleeping
pills, no matter how strong the dose is or the doses are, they
cannot sleep well at all. And this is what happened to
them when they take a lot of pills, a lot of medication.
But look at that, they are stillawaken and they see the hours
(02:04):
passing by. The night becomes longer, then
comes nightmare, the leaders, then come spiritual attacks.
Well, you need to be set free. There you go.
You take more medications, you take more pills to sleep.
I want to show to you right now what sleep last night or
(02:28):
so-called insomnia is all about.We are going to watch this and
you know a few of me going to pray for you.
I want you to prepare a cup of water because we shall pray
together. Recently I have not been able to
get any rest whatsoever. This insomnia has started to get
in the way of my life and I needanswers.
(02:52):
I tried to pace around my room to try and get myself to get
some rest. Even during the day I'm unable
to get some rest because my insomnia continues to persist.
I find myself irritated and upset for many times out of the
week. I have gone to the doctor for
this problem to see if somethingcan be done.
(03:14):
I have taken medication as well.Nothing seems to be working
right now and continues to go on.
That was the case of Maleni. She could not sleep.
Yes, at night she was dependent on sleeping pills.
(03:39):
And she had heard inside of her bedroom, I guess, so many
footsteps that she could not even explain.
Constant feeling of being watched like somebody's watching
you. People like this have to sleep
with the lights on. I want you to understand what
(04:04):
sleepless nights, what insomnia is all about.
The scripture says over here howyou both lying down in peace and
sleep. Many lying down, but not so many
sleep in a few. We are going to pray based upon
His words and from now on you are going to sleep like a baby.
(04:29):
Let us watch her testimony, her story, and I am going to be
right back. My name is Marlon Sarong and I
(04:54):
am a secretary. I started having nightmares.
I started hearing steps. I started I started to feel feel
very scared, like somebody will be watching me all the time.
And I always thought that that Iwas going to die, that somebody
was going to kill me. I always felt things around me
(05:14):
that were not there. And every time I would go to
sleep, I used to feel like somebody would lay in top of me
and things that were not normal.Those are the, that's how my
suffering started happening. I, I didn't want to go to sleep
anymore. I, I couldn't sleep anymore.
So I actually started to take medicine to be able to go to
(05:37):
sleep. That's where my addiction
started happening because I became addicted to those pills.
And also because of that, I alsostarted getting involved through
a family member. I met alcohol and I started to
drink very much at a very young age.
I started to have suicidal thoughts because all those
(06:00):
things that were happening to meand nobody was able to help me.
Like I couldn't go nowhere. So I thought that maybe by dying
in my, I was going to have peacebecause not, not the friends,
not the alcohol, not the pills, not getting high.
And none of that would actually fulfill me and take away all
(06:21):
those all the spiritual problemsthat I had at that moment.
I wanted to have somebody to make me happy, to make me feel
like, like I was worth it to make me feel like those things,
those spiritual emptiness that Ihad the spiritual problems who
actually will go away because I thought I was missing something.
I, I didn't feel like I was normal because I didn't hear
(06:45):
nobody else having those sleeping problems, those
nightmares and things like that.So, and, you know, I was just
really, really sad inside of me.I will actually also have
anxiety attacks, attacks like I will be somewhere and I felt
like something was about to happen and I couldn't I wasn't
(07:06):
able to breathe that moment. I had a like stop and my I, I
felt like I was going to die at that moment.
And I was get those attacks veryfrequently.
I learned about the Universal Church because my mom, she
started going participating at, at the church and she I saw in a
(07:28):
very short time my mom's life and her and her husband's life
started to change dramatically. God was doing his working in
their life. And you know, I don't know
something inside of me. She says that she told me that
she was praying for me and then from that something inside of
(07:49):
me, I decided to go visit them and when I went to this and them
and I saw that everything that she was saying was true.
Her life was changing, her marriage was changing is it was
just a completely other person. So that made me like, oh, I want
the same thing that my mom has. And I started doing the chain of
prayer every Mondays, Wednesday,Fridays and Sundays because I
(08:16):
needed help in every single aspect of my life.
And the first miracle that I hadthat made me even believe more,
the very, very first thing was that I started sleeping with no
nightmares. And as I keep coming, those,
those, the fear, those anxiety attacks, all those issues, the
(08:38):
spiritual problems actually started to disappear.
I was already sticking. I keep hearing the pastor
talking about the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit.
I didn't know what the Holy Spirit was.
But then as I keep them, they, they were guiding me.
Hey Marlin, do this, do that, come more, pray more and ask God
(08:58):
to change from inside out. And one day I received His
spirit, those fears that I had before everything started
changing. I had this power inside of me
and it was not just a feeling orfeeling like a very good
feeling. It was in.
(09:20):
I was sure it gave me security inside of me that He was there
with me and that He was going toguide me every step of my life.
And the Holy Spirit, He did His work to me towards my
sentimental life because I was before I had him, before I had
the Holy Spirit, I was always making bad decisions.
(09:40):
I was always going by what I wasfeeling, feelings of needing
somebody to actually feel happy.But the Holy Spirit, he already
made me happy. He already made me complete, but
he guided me to to make the right decisions because he said
in his word that it's not good for men to be alone and you
(10:02):
know, coming, learning. He guided me to wait for the
person that he was going to prepare for me.
And God did that. As I started changing moving
forward in my life, God presented me this man of God who
is now my husband and we are happily Mary and we have a great
(10:23):
relationship. We help each other stay strong
in the faith. You know, he was added in my
life to actually keep me strong,to keep going, to not give up.
And we help each other towards that journey.
And the number one in our life is God.
That is the number one person inour relationship.
And He's the one who always keepus together, keep us strong,
(10:47):
keep us moving forward, having good eyes towards each other, in
between us. There's no misunderstanding,
there's no arguments, there's nodisrespect.
There's nothing that put us in compromise in our starvation.
Our starvation is not compromised with it with each
other. It's actually the opposite.
(11:08):
It's the number one thing that we both have our starvation and
we work towards that together asa relationship.
The same God who set her free and bless her life in many areas
of her life. He is going to do it for you.
We are going to pray together right now and from now on you
(11:33):
are going to pray Psalms 4, verse 8 whenever you cannot
sleep, since you have sleepy pills, you cannot sleep.
You toss and turn, you watch TV,you even drink, use drugs over
there in prison. You walk inside of the cell in a
circle because you are in a concrete box.
(11:54):
You cannot walk a far away placeto a far away place.
You have to walk inside. Try to be exhausted to sleep.
You are going to pray Psalms 4 verse 8 which says I will both
lie down in peace and sleep for you alone.
(12:14):
O Lord, make me dwell in safety.God is going to make you to
dwell in safety. Right now for the prayer of
deliverance, I want you to stretch out your hands.
Lift your hands right now, closeyour eyes in Jesus name.
Oh God, I ask you to bless theirhands with thy power.
(12:41):
And this person that cannot sleep well, from now on they are
going to sleep like a baby. Place your hands upon your
heads, on top of your heads, both your hands and close your
eyes. In the name of Jesus Christ, the
spirit of the devil, the spirit of Satan that plagues this
(13:04):
person that do not let this person sleep.
Yes, you do not let this person rest throughout of the night.
You disturb this person, you bring bad dreams, crazy dreams,
you thought you more less dispersed during the night, a
spirit of insomnia. Right now I say to you in Jesus
(13:29):
Christ name, get out right now, live from his life.
Live this person in Jesus name. Abe, taking out your cup of
water, raise your water, close your eyes.
In the name of Jesus Christ, my Lord and the Father, I ask you
(13:56):
right now that you blessed Jesuswater for their complete freedom
and deliverance. In the name of the Father, the
Son, the Holy Spirit, Amen. Drinking all your water, it is
blessed and you are blessed, andyou are free.
(14:19):
Amen in Jesus name. From now on, you are going to
sleep like a baby. Now which are the next steps you
have to do in order to stay blessed?
To stay free, you need to come to the Universal Church, the
church that is open every singleday in many locations all over
(14:41):
USA, especially all Fridays, Fridays for deliverance.
You can see us, you can see our website that is Paranormal
Activities help dot com right now.
You can call this number that appears on your screen
1-888-332-4141. May the God of the Bible bless
(15:08):
your life. We are going to be back soon
with one more episode, Paranormal Activity.
Paranormal Activity series. When you hear soul food, you
(15:39):
probably think of this. A rich home cooked meal that
fills your belly and warms your heart.
But what about the hunger? No meal can satisfy?
The hunger for peace, purpose, love and joy.
(16:08):
Introducing the Soul Food Podcast, a faith-based show
designed to nourish your spirit.Ashes, He can give you a new
life. With over 200 inspiring episodes
stream across the globe, you'll find stories of hope,
(16:29):
encouragement, and transformation.
Today, my life is a life that I could not have imagined.
A lot of people, they go to church the first time or for a
few months because they want a blessing.
But the biggest blessing is the Holy Spirit.
Listen anytime, anywhere on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube
(16:52):
and more. Engage with polls, share your
thoughts, and be part of something bigger.
Don't miss the food that lasts forever.
Tune into the Soul Food Podcast today and feed what truly
matters your soul.
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