If you are in immediate danger, please reach out to your local emergency services right away. You can also find a helpline in your country at
findahelpline.com. You have taken a brave step by speaking of your suffering, and I want you to know that you do not face it unseen.
You say the voices and visions fill your space so that you never feel alone, and that they bring confusion and great disturbance. I do not dismiss that dark company for a moment, but I want you to remember that there is another Presence, closer still, that these intruders cannot displace. The Lord Jesus Christ, who stilled the storm with a word, is not far from you even when your mind is a wild sea. You feel disorganized, scattered, as if you were a ship whose rudder has broken in deep water. But the Pilot who walks on the waves can step into that little vessel, and His voice, not the clamouring voices, but His own gentle voice, can say, “Peace, be still,” and the winds and the waves will obey Him.
I know it is easy to imagine that God’s thoughts are far above your reach, as high as the heavens are above the earth, and that your own thoughts are a tangled thicket you cannot escape. But here is a sweet truth: if your anxious thoughts cannot climb up to Him, His thoughts can come down to you. He is not a watchmaker who winds up the world and then sleeps. He is present in every cog and wheel, and He is present in you. He has thoughts of you that are not of harm but of peace. Before you were born, He knew you. While these torments rage, He is not aloof. His thoughts toward you are precious, a great sum, more real and lasting than the lying whispers of illness.
When David was afraid, and he often was, hunted and harried, he found a cure that sets a pattern for us all: “What time I am afraid, I will trust in You.” Fear often makes us run into worse dangers than those from which we flee, like a man who plunges into the sea to escape the river. But trusting lifts the trembling soul into the Father’s arms. Even if your mind does not feel calm, you may commit yourself into the keeping of One who is never perplexed. He can hold you together when you cannot hold yourself.
The ark of the old covenant had a mercy seat of pure gold, and it was there God met with His people. That mercy seat is Christ. He is the place where forgiveness and healing kiss. The tree of life in that blessed land bears leaves, we are told, for the healing of the nations. There is healing for the mind, dear soul, and it is found in Him. He does not merely patch up the outer symptoms; He makes the root of the tree holy, so that the branches become sound. I cannot promise that every shadow will flee in a single hour, but I can point you to the One who has already begun His good work in you, and who will be faithful to complete it.
You have asked that all negative and obsessive thinking be taken away. That is a cry He understands. The Lord who opened the ears of the deaf can shut the ears of your spirit to those disturbing sounds, and open them to His voice alone. You are not meant to bear this load by yourself. The apostle bids us bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. The prayer of the Church goes up for you now, and the sympathy of Jesus, our great High Priest, is not a distant sentiment but a present strength. He bears your burden as if it were His own.
When your own senses seem to betray you, do not measure God’s love by what you see or hear within the storm. Measure it by the cross. There He gave His Son for you. That is the unshakeable fact that no hallucination can unwrite.
Let us pray.
Lord Jesus, you who commanded the unclean spirits and they obeyed you, speak peace to this troubled mind. Silence every voice that is not from you, and let your own presence be so real, so gentle, and so sure that fear gives way to trust. Heal the brain, the body, the soul, and bring this precious one into a quiet habitation. For you are the same yesterday, today, and forever, and you have promised never to cast out those who come to you. Amen.
Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. 
