Silas
Beloved of All
There is a rest that God has already secured for you, a rest far deeper than simply having your circumstances change. Many believers have peace with God through the forgiveness of sins, but they have not yet entered into the peace of God that guards the heart and mind. That is the place you are longing for, and it is found not in striving harder against the attack but in a complete abandonment of your own efforts to fight it in your own strength.
The attack you describe seeks to rob you of stillness, to make it feel impossible to simply sit and read or to open your Bible without turmoil. That is its design. The enemy knows that if he can keep your mind churning like a stormy sea, you will struggle to let your mind be stayed on the Lord. But the promise stands: God will keep you in perfect peace when your mind is stayed on Him. This is not something you produce by trying to feel peaceful. It is a rest you enter into by faith, ceasing from your own frantic works. An incomplete commitment to handling this yourself will only produce inner turmoil. A total commitment of the situation into God’s hands produces complete rest.
You have asked for forgiveness. Receive it now as a settled fact, the basis for all your peace. The blood of Jesus has already made the way for you to no longer be at war with God. You are not running from Him; you are His. And in that standing, you can stop fretting over the evil that is coming against you. Do not render evil for evil or let your tongue speak out of the agitation the enemy wants to stir up. Instead, commit the issue to the Lord. Rest in Him and wait patiently. The eyes of the Lord are on you, and His ears are open to your prayers. The face of the Lord is against those who do this evil. He will take care of it. Your role is not to rebuke it endlessly in your own panic but to stand in the place of peace He has given you.
Fasting is a good denial of the flesh, but do not look at it as something you do to earn deliverance. If you fast and then find yourself physically weak and mentally dull, do not think God is being unfair. The purpose is to draw you away from dependence on your own resources so you can rest more fully in His. Let the fast simply be an expression of your hunger for Him, not a tool to twist His arm. He is able to do what you cannot do for yourself.
You mentioned the distraction of your phone. You are right to see it as a counterfeit rest, a noisy escape that cannot give you true stillness. When the urge comes to pick it up to escape the discomfort of the attack, that is the very moment to turn your eyes to Jesus instead. He is your Sabbath. He is the sure foundation. To enter into His rest is to cease from your own works, just as God rested from His. Put down the device, and with it, put down the frantic need to manage the attack in your own wisdom. Pick up your Bible. Speak no guile. Seek peace and pursue it. The wicked are like a troubled sea that cannot rest, casting up mire and dirt, but you are a child of God. The way of peace they do not know, but you do. It is found in a soft answer, a quiet heart, a confident trust that God is in control even when the storm rages.
Let this be your path: when the attack comes, let your heart immediately say, "Peace be unto you." Let the peace of Christ that passes human understanding keep your heart. It confounds the darkness. It is not a peace you have to manufacture. It is the glorious effect of God’s Spirit within your life when you stop fighting the battle as if it were yours alone. You have asked to sit in peace again. That request is not too hard for the Lord. He shall enter you into peace. You shall rest in your bed, walking in uprightness, not because you are perfect, but because you have placed your trust fully in the One who is.
The attack you describe seeks to rob you of stillness, to make it feel impossible to simply sit and read or to open your Bible without turmoil. That is its design. The enemy knows that if he can keep your mind churning like a stormy sea, you will struggle to let your mind be stayed on the Lord. But the promise stands: God will keep you in perfect peace when your mind is stayed on Him. This is not something you produce by trying to feel peaceful. It is a rest you enter into by faith, ceasing from your own frantic works. An incomplete commitment to handling this yourself will only produce inner turmoil. A total commitment of the situation into God’s hands produces complete rest.
You have asked for forgiveness. Receive it now as a settled fact, the basis for all your peace. The blood of Jesus has already made the way for you to no longer be at war with God. You are not running from Him; you are His. And in that standing, you can stop fretting over the evil that is coming against you. Do not render evil for evil or let your tongue speak out of the agitation the enemy wants to stir up. Instead, commit the issue to the Lord. Rest in Him and wait patiently. The eyes of the Lord are on you, and His ears are open to your prayers. The face of the Lord is against those who do this evil. He will take care of it. Your role is not to rebuke it endlessly in your own panic but to stand in the place of peace He has given you.
Fasting is a good denial of the flesh, but do not look at it as something you do to earn deliverance. If you fast and then find yourself physically weak and mentally dull, do not think God is being unfair. The purpose is to draw you away from dependence on your own resources so you can rest more fully in His. Let the fast simply be an expression of your hunger for Him, not a tool to twist His arm. He is able to do what you cannot do for yourself.
You mentioned the distraction of your phone. You are right to see it as a counterfeit rest, a noisy escape that cannot give you true stillness. When the urge comes to pick it up to escape the discomfort of the attack, that is the very moment to turn your eyes to Jesus instead. He is your Sabbath. He is the sure foundation. To enter into His rest is to cease from your own works, just as God rested from His. Put down the device, and with it, put down the frantic need to manage the attack in your own wisdom. Pick up your Bible. Speak no guile. Seek peace and pursue it. The wicked are like a troubled sea that cannot rest, casting up mire and dirt, but you are a child of God. The way of peace they do not know, but you do. It is found in a soft answer, a quiet heart, a confident trust that God is in control even when the storm rages.
Let this be your path: when the attack comes, let your heart immediately say, "Peace be unto you." Let the peace of Christ that passes human understanding keep your heart. It confounds the darkness. It is not a peace you have to manufacture. It is the glorious effect of God’s Spirit within your life when you stop fighting the battle as if it were yours alone. You have asked to sit in peace again. That request is not too hard for the Lord. He shall enter you into peace. You shall rest in your bed, walking in uprightness, not because you are perfect, but because you have placed your trust fully in the One who is.
