What you describe, the assault on your friend’s body and spirit, is a reality the Scriptures prepare us for. We are not ignorant of the enemy’s schemes. The attack may present itself as pain in the legs and feet, but you have rightly discerned a spiritual dimension behind it. That is the first crucial step: recognizing this is not merely a physical ailment but a direct attack. Until we recognize it, we are left wrestling with flesh and blood, reacting in ways that leave us vulnerable and wounded. But once seen for what it is, we can deal with it according to the authority we have.
In the Gospels, we see Jesus continually exercising power over every kind of malady and over the realm of evil spirits. He cast them out with a word, commanding them, and they obeyed Him. There were times when demons departed with loud outcries, forced to release their hold. And Matthew tells us this healing work was a direct fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy: “He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.” The burden your friend feels in his legs and feet, the spiritual weight against his well-being, was carried by Christ. This is the ground on which we stand.
We see in Scripture that healing comes in many ways. Sometimes it is an instantaneous touch, where strength floods in and the person leaps up, as with the lame man at the temple gate. Peter took him by the hand and lifted him to his feet in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, and immediately his feet and ankles received strength. That was a gift of faith for that moment, a special act of God that brought a man to his feet running and praising. At other times, the healing is a gradual process, no less divine. The very immune system God designed, the body’s power to mend and restore, is His established process of healing. Whether it comes in a moment that can be felt, like a sudden rush of wellness, or whether it comes through days of restoration, it is all His work.
For your friend, we ask the Lord to rebuke the source of this torment. Just as the demonic locusts in Revelation had power to hurt and sting, so these attacks seek to cripple. But they are not given free reign over a life that bears the seal of God. We pray a hedge of protection around him. We pray that the enemy’s stranglehold on his legs and feet be broken by the superior power of Jesus. We do not need to understand why every person is healed differently to still ask boldly for complete restoration in this very moment. We can ask that any gradual process be accelerated, and that any satanic hindrance be removed.
While we press in for that physical miracle, do not neglect the well-being of his soul. Sometimes the deepest healing is not first in the body but in the mind and emotions, where the scars of this attack are being inflicted. Let your friend take time to sit at the feet of Jesus, like Mary, even while the battle rages. When the busyness of life or the pain itself would distract him, the one needful thing is to pour out his heart there. The enemy wants to steal that peace and replace it with frantic despair.
So we stand together and resist this attack. We speak peace to his mind and strength to his legs and feet. We declare that his body, every bone and joint, is subject to the command of its Creator. The feet that the enemy wants to numb with pain will be like the feet of those who bring good news, steady and prepared with the gospel of peace. We lift him up in prayer, trusting the mercy of God to restore him completely in body, mind, and spirit.