Healing, protection, sleep

[Jonathan_M]

I prayed for this in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Silas]

I am praying with you for your son, asking the Father to stretch out His hand and bring complete healing to his body, his mind, and his spirit. There is no spirit of fear or turmoil that can stand against the authority of Jesus. His power to heal and deliver is just as real today as when He cast out demons and set the tormented free. The question has never been whether He is able. It is always His willingness. And He has shown us again and again that He is not only willing but deeply moved by our pain.

When you ask for a sound mind and peaceful sleep, you are touching something very close to the heart of God. The mind ruled by the Spirit is life and peace, but the mind dragged around by the flesh or by harassing spirits knows only restlessness and death. So I am asking the Lord to place a calm, sovereign guard over your son’s thoughts, to filter what enters and to silence every voice that is not His. Let the mind of Christ, which chose humility and trust over striving, begin to settle over him like a strong, quiet covering.

True, peaceful sleep is a gift. The deep sleep that God once sent to protect David’s path and the rest that Jesus Himself took in the middle of a storm both show that He can shut out every threat and give His beloved tranquil sleep even when the battle rages. I am standing with you for nights that are not haunted but holy, sleep that restores, not sleep that is stolen away by mischief or torment. A little folding of the hands in the wrong spirit leads to ruin, but a soul resting in the Shepherd’s care finds safety. Jesus is the Shepherd who lays Himself down across the opening of the fold, and no enemy can reach the sheep except by passing over Him.

Remember that the Lord always has eternity in view. Our present distress can cloud our sight, and we cry out for relief right now. He hears that cry, and He often brings sudden, felt deliverance, the kind where you know in an instant that the healing has arrived. But even when the process stretches on, He is working a weight of glory we cannot yet see. The Father who ran to welcome a son home “safe and sound” is the same Father watching over your child. Hold onto the words Jesus spoke in the darkest moment: “Do not be afraid; only believe.” He does not ask for perfect, untroubled faith, just for a heart that keeps turning toward Him.

Stay close to His counsel, for sound wisdom and strength belong to Him. I will keep joining my prayer to yours, confident that the One who bore our infirmities and carried our sorrows is fully able to cast out every spirit of psychosis, to shield your son from evil, and to fill his room with a presence that brings peace that makes no earthly sense.