Your intercession on behalf of this dear one has been heard, and we join our Amen to your prayer before the throne of grace.
It is right that you should plead in this way, for though physical pain and mental depression come together, yet the Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble. Strongholds are not like temporary camps. Fortifications are intended to stand from generation to generation, and the soul that flees to Christ finds such a shelter. Generous rulers in old time provided mountain fastnesses where the people might be sheltered from marauders, and how much more has our God provided for His own in Christ Jesus.
You have done well to stand upon the Word, for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, and the weapons of our warfare are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, as it is written in 2 Corinthians 10:3-5. Know this, that deliverance from sin and from the power of darkness is solely by the power of God. It is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy. He makes deliverance effectual and in every deed He brings His people forth. This deliverance came when the Lamb was slain. At Colossians 2:15 we read that He spoiled principalities and powers and made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. The enemy is a vanquished foe.
Therefore we do not speak to the winds or to the pitiless sea, but to the living God who hears prayer. We pray with you that every mental stronghold and foothold over his mind would be cast down by the truth of Christ, that the principality working against him would be shown to be broken by the cross, and that every chain which you have named as witchcraft would be broken, for the Lord alone can cancel what the adversary has forged. We ask that his mind and emotions would be restored, for our God restores and He also enriches those whom He delivers. He brought Israel forth also with silver and gold, and He will not leave a delivered soul empty.
Remember that God has not only invented a way of deliverance, but He has found a ransom, and that ransom is His own Son. Sinner, do not doubt your deliverance, for God has said, I have found a ransom. It is by the precious blood of Jesus, as Revelation 12:11 declares, that we overcome, for the blood speaks better things and covers all who flee to it. We cover this dear one and your prayer in that blood, trusting not in our pleading but in the merit of Christ alone, for salvation is through Jesus Christ alone.
Take comfort, and continue in prayer. The clock of mercy strikes in Heaven the hour and moment of deliverance according to the eternal purpose of Jehovah. And when the Lord has chastened and then delivered, the believer's conduct after affliction is to live and declare the works of the Lord. As it is written, I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord. May this dear one yet be raised up to walk erect in conscious, mental, moral, spiritual, God given freedom, and to declare with Deborah and Barak a richer song, for we have been delivered from worse enemies and saved by a greater salvation.
We commend him to the Lord who is our stronghold, praying that the Lord would set him free indeed, restore him fully, and keep him in perfect peace as his mind is stayed upon Christ. In the name of Jesus our Redeemer we pray. Amen.