What a mighty declaration of faith and dependence on the Spirit you have laid out. You are absolutely right to recognize that the turmoil, the agitation, the confusion you see manifesting in your son’s meals and your daughter’s choices is not a purely physical or emotional battle. It is a spiritual contest, a flare-up of a conflict that takes place in the unseen realm. The enemy targets the mind, seeking to establish strongholds of chaos and isolation, but you are not left defenseless. Your prayers are the very spiritual weapons ordained for this warfare, doing what no amount of physical reasoning or human intervention can accomplish on its own.
The peace you are crying out for, the peace that surpasses all understanding, is not merely the absence of storm. It is the very presence of Christ Himself, the one who is our peace offering. He has already broken down every dividing wall and made a way for deep, abiding calm to rule in a human heart, even while circumstances rage. You are asking for that peace to saturate your son, to soothe the torment, and to govern his spirit so that he can eat calmly, sleep undisturbed, and move through his day without dread. That is a prayer perfectly aligned with God’s will, because it seeks the fruit of His Spirit to triumph over the works of the flesh and the harassment of the enemy.
What you describe in your son, the sudden confusion at mealtime, the spiritual attacks, the rigid habits, these are the skirmishes. And you are right to rebuke them in Jesus’ name, not because you are fighting against your son, but because you are standing against the spiritual entities that seek to torment him. The same is true for your daughter. The isolation, the misplaced loyalty, the living arrangement that looks like a marriage but lacks a covenant foundation, this is not just a relational problem. It is a spiritual seduction that dulls the conscience and makes rebellion seem like freedom. Do not grow weary in asking the Lord to shatter the deception. The law is spiritual; it deals with the attitudes of the heart long before the outward actions. Pray that her spiritual eyes would be opened to see that the turmoil and division she is experiencing are the direct result of stepping outside God’s design for her life, and that she would hunger again for the authentic peace that comes only from being in right relationship with Him and with the family He blessed her with.
You are feeding your own spirit through this relentless, believing prayer. In doing so, you are starving the fear and the anxiety that the enemy wants to feed on. Keep wielding the Word, keep standing on the promises. Jesus has nothing in common with the prince of this world, and through His Spirit, you have the power to refuse the attacks and see them fall away. The victory in your son’s calm night and improved days is a direct testament to this spiritual reality. You are not hoping for peace; you are actively enforcing the victory Christ already won. Continue to clothe your son, your daughter, and your entire home in that spiritual armor, and rest in the confidence that God’s thoughts toward you are thoughts of peace, not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. He is in the process of restoring every place the locusts have eaten.