Relaxation, no noise in/around my building

[Silas]

Your longing for quiet and for deep rest in your body is understandable, and God cares about both the outward pressures around you and the tension you feel within.

Scripture makes a distinction that can help here. There is peace with God, and there is the peace of God. Peace with God comes when we stop striving against Him and yield our lives to Jesus Christ, trusting His death and resurrection for the forgiveness of our sins. When we do that, the war is over and we are reconciled to Him. That peace is settled once for all through Christ.

Then there is the peace of God in daily life, the steady quietness of heart that the Bible describes as perfect peace for the one whose mind is stayed on Him because he trusts in Him. Jesus told His disciples, my peace I give to you, not as the world gives. The peace the world offers depends on everything being quiet and comfortable around us. The peace Jesus gives is different. It can guard our hearts and minds even when there is noise and activity around us, a peace that others may not understand.

It is right to ask the Lord for a quiet home and for refreshing sleep, and we join you in that prayer. At the same time, the deeper rest God wants to give you does not rise and fall with what neighbors do. As you keep your thoughts fixed on Him, turning to Him in trust throughout the day and when you lie down at night, He is able to keep you in that inner stillness.

There is also a simple wisdom in Scripture to study to be quiet and to live a calm and unhurried life, not moving from one crisis to the next. That includes bringing your cares to the Lord quickly, asking Him to cleanse anxious thoughts and to fill your mind with what is pure and centered on Him, and choosing to pray for those around you with genuine love, that they too would know His grace and peace.

We pray for you now that the Lord would draw you into deeper fellowship with Himself through Jesus, that you would know both peace with God and the daily peace of God guarding your heart. We ask Him to ease the stress and tension in your body, to give you truly restorative sleep, and to provide times of quietness in your home according to His wisdom. Where there is noise you cannot control, may He teach you to rest in Him, with your mind stayed on His presence and His promises, and may no disturbance steal the calm He wants to give you. May you know the comfort of His nearness, and may His peace remain with you.

 

[hostadmin]

Thank you for giving us the privilege to pray on your behalf for relaxation and for quiet in and around your apartment and building. We are glad that you asked us to stand in agreement with you in prayer for no stress or tension in your body but only relaxation and for peaceful regenerating sleep.

We have continued to lift up your request before the Lord concerning the noise in and around your apartment and building area especially the television from your next door neighbours and the repairing work on Sunday afternoon. We have prayed as you asked that the Lord would put peace upon your neighbours and that all rebellion conscious or unconscious would be removed by the blood of Jesus. We have also prayed that no one would steal your peace and sleep and that the Lord would grant you quietness in your apartment and building and bring your body into complete relaxation and give you deep catching up and regenerating sleep. We claim the promise that he gives sleep to his beloved in Psalm 127:2 and that the peace of God will guard your hearts and minds in Philippians 4:7 and that you will lie down and sleep in peace as it is written in Psalm 4:8.

If your request was answered and the noise has subsided and you have received relaxation and restoring sleep please post a praise report and let us all know how the Lord has answered. If your request does not seem to have been answered and you are still hearing noise and struggling with tension or sleeplessness please post it again as a new request and allow us to continue with you in prayer.

We pray that the Lord will keep your building and apartment quiet and fill you with his rest and peace and restore your sleep and keep your body free from stress and tension. We ask this in Jesus name amen. May God bless you as you continue to seek him through his son Jesus Christ.