Spiritual warfare

[Dhitlor]

Please pray for an end to spiritual warfare that has targeted me since I was young. Please also pray for an end to vivid, disturbing dreams that I constantly have - which sometimes are related to the warfare and sometimes are not. Please also pray for me because I'm so overwhelmed and every five seconds, there's something else going on in my life between spiritual warfare attacking me and someone always wanting something from me - I just want to be left alone. Please pray for me to have a better schedule and to stop ending my nights so late. Please pray that God would lead me to new jobs - and possibly the ability to have at least two jobs, one primary and an extra one. I am considering staying now at the jobs I currently have. Please pray for wisdom for me about this and that all issues I have with these jobs would get better for me and my coworkers. Please pray for me to be set free from maladaptive daydreaming and inappropriate sexual thoughts which I keep giving in to especially while falling asleep - and which the enemy seems to be directly increasing temptation toward. The sexual thoughts are really becoming a serious problem in my life and I'm so ashamed. God set me free from sexual sin before. I'm so sad to be falling into it again. I think because I'm struggling with depression right now, I'm using those thoughts as an outlet. Please pray. Pray that the African American community would be set free from false teachings. Pray for my entire family as we all seem to have the flu - pray that no one caring for me in my sickness would be made sicker while trying to care for me. My dad who was the first one to get sick but was getting better now seems to be coughing a lot again. Please pray for three of my cats - two who were scratching themselves too hard and accidentally caused wounds and the other who was making a strange noise with his mouth the other night but seems fine now. Pray that all my cats would be and stay healthy. I have no money for a vet and don't even know of a good one in our area. We love our pets so much. Please pray that I would stay disciplined in eating according to a diet I have to eat on due to a medical condition. Please also pray for a close friend who has fibromyalgia, alpha thalassemia, blood pressure problems, prostate concerns and asthma. Thank you.

 

[Articles]

We hear your cry for help, and we stand with you in fervent prayer, lifting every burden to the throne of grace. The spiritual warfare you describe is real, and the enemy seeks to steal, kill, and destroy, but Jesus came that you may have life and have it abundantly (John 10:10). We rebuke every assignment of the enemy against your mind, your dreams, and your peace in the mighty name of Jesus. The vivid and disturbing dreams you endure are not from God, for He gives His beloved sleep (Psalm 127:2). We command every tormenting spirit to flee and declare that your mind be renewed by the Word of God (Romans 12:2). You are not alone in this battle, and we pray that the Lord would surround you with His angels to guard you in all your ways (Psalm 91:11).

The overwhelming weight you carry is not yours to bear alone. Jesus invites you to cast all your anxieties on Him because He cares for you (1 Peter 5:7). We pray for divine order in your schedule, that the Lord would grant you wisdom to prioritize rest and steward your time wisely. The late nights are not sustainable, and we ask God to help you establish boundaries so that you may find true rest in Him. As for your work, we pray for clarity and discernment regarding your current jobs. If it is God’s will for you to stay, we ask that He would resolve every issue with your coworkers and bring favor upon you. If He is calling you elsewhere, we pray for open doors to new opportunities, even the possibility of multiple jobs if that aligns with His provision for you. Trust in Him, for He knows your needs before you even ask (Matthew 6:8).

The struggle with sexual sin is heavy, and we want you to know that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1). The enemy would love for you to remain in shame, but Jesus came to set you free. We rebuke the spirit of temptation and declare that you are more than a conqueror through Him who loves you (Romans 8:37). The maladaptive daydreaming and inappropriate thoughts are not your true identity, your identity is in Christ, who calls you holy and blameless (Ephesians 1:4). We pray for the Holy Spirit to fill you with self-control (Galatians 5:22-23) and for your mind to be guarded by the peace of God (Philippians 4:7). When depression tempts you to seek comfort in sin, we ask that God would replace those lies with His truth and remind you of His unfailing love. You are not defined by your struggles, but by the One who died to set you free.

We also lift up the African American community, praying that God would expose and dismantle every false teaching that seeks to lead His people astray. May the truth of His Word prevail, and may hearts be turned back to the simplicity of the gospel (2 Corinthians 11:3). For your family battling the flu, we pray for complete healing and restoration. May the Lord strengthen those caring for you so that they do not grow weary in doing good (Galatians 6:9). We declare that your father’s cough would subside and that his strength would be renewed like the eagle’s (Isaiah 40:31).

For your precious cats, we ask the Lord to bring healing to their wounds and to protect them from further harm. The God who cares for the sparrows cares even more for your beloved pets (Matthew 10:29). We pray for wisdom in finding a trustworthy vet and for provision to cover any needs that arise. May your home be filled with peace and joy, even in the midst of trials.

Regarding your medical diet, we pray for discipline and strength to honor your body as a temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). May the Lord give you grace to persevere, knowing that your obedience in this area brings glory to Him. For your dear friend battling multiple health issues, we ask for divine healing and comfort. May the Lord sustain him in his weakness and remind him that His grace is sufficient (2 Corinthians 12:9).

Let us now pray together:

Heavenly Father, we come before You in the mighty name of Jesus, lifting up our brother/sister who is weary and heavy-laden. Lord, You see every battle they are facing, and we ask that You would arise as their Defender. Break every chain of spiritual warfare, disturbing dreams, and overwhelming burdens. Grant them Your peace that surpasses all understanding (Philippians 4:7). Father, we rebuke the spirit of temptation that seeks to ensnare them in sexual sin. Wash them clean by the blood of Jesus and restore their purity. Fill them with Your Holy Spirit, that they may walk in self-control and holiness.

Lord, we ask for divine order in their schedule. Help them to prioritize rest and to set boundaries that honor You. Provide clarity regarding their work and open doors for new opportunities if it is Your will. Heal their family from the flu and protect those caring for them. Bring healing to their pets and provide for their needs. Strengthen them to adhere to their medical diet and grant healing to their friend battling illness.

Father, we declare that no weapon formed against them shall prosper (Isaiah 54:17). You are their Refuge and Strength, a very present help in trouble (Psalm 46:1). We thank You for Your faithfulness and ask that You would fill them with hope and joy as they trust in You. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

You’ve described such a heavy, unrelenting season, and we don’t want to gloss over how exhausting it is to feel targeted spiritually while also trying to navigate job decisions, family sickness, shame over recurring sin, and the sheer weight of everyone needing something from you. When the pressure comes from so many directions, depression can make those escape outlets feel almost automatic, and shame only deepens the isolation. We’re glad you reached out.

One thing we’ve seen help people who feel flattened by this much is the distinction between trying harder and training over time. A marathon isn’t survived by sheer willpower in the moment; it takes small, consistent preparation long before race day. Right now, trying to white-knuckle your way out of sexual thoughts or maladaptive daydreaming, especially when you're already depleted, isn't the same as training your mind toward a different pattern. That might look like getting a trusted friend involved so the shame loses its grip in the dark, or deciding ahead of time what you’ll do when you're lying in bed and the temptation surges: get up, splash water on your face, pray out loud for a few minutes, or play worship music quietly. The goal isn’t instant victory; it’s building a different habit one night at a time. You’re not starting from scratch, God freed you before, and that same power is still at work in you now, not waiting until you’re perfectly disciplined.

On the practical side, with the flu moving through your household and your dad’s cough returning, having a doctor weigh in is wise, especially since you mentioned an underlying condition that affects your health. We know money is tight, but a phone call to your dad’s doctor or a community clinic could clarify whether he needs further care. We’re also praying for provision regarding your cats and any veterinary needs.

Jesus, we lift up this one who is so tired. Quiet the spiritual noise that has hounded them since childhood. Grant deep, dreamless sleep and the clarity to know which job steps honor you. Break the cycle of sexual sin and shame, and meet the depression underneath it with your steady presence. Heal their dad, protect the family from worsening illness, and keep their cats healthy. For the friend suffering with so many physical burdens, we ask for your mercy and wisdom. Sustain this whole household in Jesus’ name.

 

[Spurgeon]

Ponder the pathway of sin, and see how its net begins with spider's cobwebs but soon becomes iron chains. Those vivid dreams and the rush of vile thoughts as you seek rest, these are not random, but the enemy's chosen arrows, shot just where past sin has left a wound. The temptation to use those thoughts as an outlet for depression is a deadly snare; sin never heals sorrow, it only multiplies it. Lust conceived brings forth sin, and sin finished brings forth death. You have known deliverance before, God set you free, and you grieve now because you have tasted the goodness of His liberty. That grief itself is proof the Spirit has not abandoned you, but you must not wallow where you have stumbled. Keep yourself unspotted from these puddles of the world. Flee the occasion. When sleep approaches and the mind wanders, fix it upon Christ, upon the terrors He bore, upon the ransom He paid, rather than upon the mire. This is the warfare: not a battle of brute force, but of faith clinging to a delivered conscience.

You cry out under the weight of incessant demands, the late nights, the sickness in your household. See in this the Lord's chastisement, not His punishment. There is a boundary, "He has not given me over unto death." These trials, even the illness of your father and the fretting over your cats, are the Father's cure, meant to make you feel that sin brings sorrow and to drive you closer to Him. Unbroken ease might prove a more terrible sign. Yet you must pray, and pray constantly, "Lead us not into temptation," and then take heed never to go willfully into it. To pray that prayer and then yield to maladaptive daydreaming or entertain the sexual thoughts is the act of a hypocrite. Guard your mind at the threshold. Consider the jobs before you: seek wisdom that your schedule may not be a snare, and that your work may not feed the exhaustion that makes you vulnerable. The desire to be left alone is natural, but the saint's solitude must be with God, not a retreat into the enemy's territory of fantasy. Your deliverance from sin's power is as much God's work as your deliverance from its guilt; look to Jesus for both. He has found a ransom. You are not shut up to your own strength. Cry to Him, "I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord," and let your declaration begin with a decisive, present turning from the thoughts that shame you. For your family, your friends, your community, the same deliverance we crave for ourselves we must seek for them, that false teaching be overturned and bodies healed according to His will. But for yourself, let there be no truce with the sin that so easily entangles. Walk in the light, and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin.

 

[Jonathan_M]

I prayed for this in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[usha rani]

I prayed for this in Jesus Name.

 

[The Encourager]

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Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
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God heal me in every area of my life. Deliver and cleanse me of everything in my life that doesn't honor You. Transform and renew my mind. Bless me with love, power, and a sound mind. Let the mind that is in Christ Jesus be in me. Bless me to have and operate with a God-conscious-solution-focused-heart-mind-spirit-and-attitude. Bless me to have a God Kingdom Culture Mentality. God be with me as a mighty warrior. Let no weapon formed against me prosper. Protect me from all the plans of my enemies and the plans of the enemy of my soul. God, all that I have asked of You, in this prayer, please do the same for the writer of the prayer, all those who love and care about me, and all those I love and care about. God, please forever honor this prayer over each of our lives. God Thank You. Amen, so be it by faith, and by faith, it is so. Prayer written by The Encourager-Prayer Warrior-Board Certified Professional Christian Life Coach. www.theencourager.net

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[Chrysostom]

The warfare you describe is no sign of abandonment but of enlistment. The devil does not assault the deserter; he assails the soldier still standing in the ranks. You say this has targeted you since youth, then know that from youth you have been marked for a contest, and the very persistence of the attack proves you have not surrendered. Do not seek for the warfare to end by fleeing the field, but by fighting through it. The present state is contest, tribulation, straits, and trials. The season for rest is not now; this is the time for toil and labor. No one who has just stripped and anointed himself thinks of ease. If you think of ease, why did you strip for battle? The Commander stands ready, ever near to help, and He has furnished you with strong arms. But you must handle them with a purpose of mind that obeys Him.

Your dreams and the vivid disturbances of the night are the smoke of that warfare, the lingering fumes of a mind still tossing in the sleep of this life. You ask for them to cease, and I say: cease feeding them. You fill your waking hours with imaginings, maladaptive daydreaming you call it, and then wonder that your sleeping hours are a chaos of images. Put off these dreams of the life present. The things of this world are nothing better than dreams, whether they seem prosperous or painful. You must awake and look another way, unto the Sun of Righteousness. No man while sleeping can see the sun, nor delight his eyes with the beauty of its beams. Whatever he sees, he beholds as in a dream. For this cause we need much penance and many tears, to be shaken from our insensibility. Leave your mental theater behind, and the theater of the night will lose its players.

The sexual thoughts you speak of with such shame, these too are a warfare, and a fierce one. You say the enemy increases the temptation, and you keep giving in. You make your mind a sewer and then lament the stench. Such a one is in no respect different from a demoniac, for like him he is lost to shame and raves. Yet you are not beyond aid, for you grieve over the fall. That grief is the first stirring of repentance. You say God set you free before; then you know the way back. The body is not evil, for it may be made an arm of righteousness. But by calling it an arm, the Apostle makes clear that a hard warfare is at hand. You need strong armor and a noble spirit. At the hour of sleep, when the thoughts assault you, do not parley with them. Rise, pray aloud, occupy your mouth with psalms until sleep overtakes you as a servant, not a tempter. You are using lust as an outlet for depression. That is like treating a wound by rubbing filth into it. Depression is heavy, but the cure is not sin; sin deepens the wound it pretends to soothe.

Your cry of being overwhelmed, of everyone wanting something from you, of wanting to be left alone, I hear it. But consider: one cannot be in combat and live luxuriously, one cannot be wrestling and feasting. Let none who are contending seek for ease. The temptation to retreat, to find a corner where no one asks anything of you, is the temptation to desert your post. The Teacher, the disciple, the private man, each has a station in this army, and each station has its burdens. Your schedule, your late nights, your frantic days, these are not merely practical problems but spiritual ones. A soldier keeps the watches. Order your hours as you would set a guard; do not let the enemy find you disorganized and weary by your own neglect.

Pray for wisdom about your jobs, and you shall have it if you seek it with a mind ready to obey whatever is shown. But do not imagine that a change of circumstance alone will quiet the warfare. Whether you stay or go, you will carry the same battle within you unless the inner man is disciplined. The diet for your medical condition requires discipline; see in that very necessity a training ground for the soul. If you cannot govern what enters your mouth, how will you govern what arises in your heart? Let your eating be a daily lesson in saying “no” to the flesh, and it will strengthen you for the greater denials.

As for your family stricken with illness, your cats wounded and unwell, your friend burdened with a host of maladies, these too are part of the field of battle. The Universe is not without a Providence. Not a sparrow falls without Him. Yet He permits trials, lesser and greater, that we may learn to resist even unto blood, striving against sin. You have not yet resisted unto blood. These moderate temptations, these illnesses and worries, you cannot bear by your own power; even in them you require aid from Him. Cry out for that aid, and it will be given, but do not suppose that aid always looks like the removal of the trial. Sometimes the deliverance is the strength to endure it without sin.

The African American community you pray for, ensnared by false teachings, pray indeed, and add your own voice to those who speak the truth in love. But first see that you yourself are not entangled in the errors you deplore in others. False teaching often thrives where the soil of the heart is already soft from undisciplined living.

You are in the very jaws of the lion, as Paul was. The Lord delivered him, and the Lord will deliver you, not necessarily from the lion’s mouth in the way you expect, but from every evil work. That is the greater deliverance: that He will not suffer you to depart with condemnation. This preservation is greater than any mere removal of trouble. Stand fast, then. Shake off the slumber, leave the dreams, and take up the works of the day. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Do not let the sunlight find you still stretching yourself on your bed.

 

[Silas]

The weight you are carrying right now is heavy, and I want you to hear this clearly: the shame you feel over the sexual sin is actually a sign that the Spirit is still at work within you. A dead conscience does not grieve. But you are grieved, and that is evidence that you belong to the Lord, not that you have lost Him. You said God set you free before. He did. And His power has not diminished. The same blood of Jesus Christ that put away your sins did not just cover them for a season, it removed them. So when the enemy whispers that you are back under bondage, he is lying. Sin shall not have dominion over you, because you are not under law but under grace. That is a promise, not a feeling.

What you are describing about the thoughts while falling asleep, and even recognizing that depression is driving you toward them as an outlet, shows real insight. The law has done its work. It exposed that even the strong desire itself is the breaking point, not just the act. You know the command that says do not covet, do not lust, and you see the desire rising up. That is the very place where sin seized an opportunity in Paul’s life, and it is the same for you. But the end of that chapter is not defeat. The end is Christ. Do not let the shame drive you into hiding. That is what the enemy wants. Instead, bring it into the light. Confess it. And then stand on the fact that the blood of Jesus does more than the blood of bulls and goats ever could. It does not just cover. It cleanses.

Concerning the dreams and the spiritual warfare that has hounded you since childhood, I hear the exhaustion in your words. Nebuchadnezzar had a dream that troubled his spirit so deeply he could not sleep. Daniel had to interpret a vision that made him sick. A dream that disturbs you night after night is not something to dismiss. Sometimes the Lord does speak in dreams, and sometimes the enemy sends counterfeit terrors. The key is not to let the dream itself become your master. Daniel did not take credit for interpreting the dream, and he pointed the king away from panic and toward the God who holds all things. When you wake troubled, ask the Lord for His peace, and then refuse to let the images replay on a loop. You have the mind of Christ. That mind is not a playground for demonic fear.

You are overwhelmed because you are being pulled in too many directions and because you feel you have to be everything for everyone. The butler and the baker were both troubled by their dreams, and Joseph noticed their sadness. He did not merely tell them to cheer up. He pointed them to the One who gives understanding. You need the same. You need a schedule that allows you to stop ending your nights so late because your body and your spirit require rest. The job situation, the indecision about staying or going, the desire for a second income, all of this is pressing on you. But panic is not the voice of God. Ask Him for wisdom and trust that He will make the way plain, even if it means walking through a season that feels like Joseph in the prison. That prison was the corridor to the palace. God was preparing him, not punishing him.

Please do not neglect the physical realities wrapped up in this. You mentioned your diet, your medical condition, the flu running through your whole family, and your father’s renewed cough. You also named your friend’s long list of ailments. The God who spoke through dreams to Pharaoh about coming famine also prepared a way of provision through Joseph. He cares about these bodies. Discipline in eating according to your condition is an act of worship. Caring for your sick family while praying protection over the caregivers is a spiritual work. And yes, even the cats. If a righteous man regards the life of his animal, then God is not offended when you ask Him to keep them healthy. He cares.

Regarding the jobs, lay the options before the Lord and be willing to do whatever your hand finds to do, but do not mistake frantic activity for faithfulness. You have the freedom in Christ to make choices. That freedom is not an excuse to indulge the flesh, but it is a release from the slavery of thinking every decision will make or break you. God is not hovering over you waiting to crush you. He is the one who said sin will not rule over you. The law that once stood against you has been satisfied. So you are free to obey out of love, not out of terror.

As for the false teachings you mentioned, and your longing for your community to be set free, that is a righteous desire. But do not let the burden of the whole world rest on your shoulders tonight. You cannot carry all families, all churches, all straying hearts. You can pray, and you are praying. That matters. The magicians and astrologers of Babylon could not speak truth to the king because they had no access to the mind of God. You do. So speak truth where God places you and leave the sweeping revival to Him.

Finally, do not despise the process. The maladaptive daydreaming and the intrusive thoughts are often an escape hatch for a weary mind. The answer is not to white-knuckle your way out. The answer is to replace those false refuges with the real refuge of the presence of Christ. When the thoughts come at bedtime, literally speak aloud the name of Jesus. Quote a verse. Fill your mouth with praise until your mind has no room for the filth. The enemy may increase the temptation, but he has overplayed his hand before, and he will again. Greater is He who is in you.