The Lords Rest. Why Our Rest is Warefare

WHY OUR REST IS OPPOSED

IT IS WARFARE

The undeniable treasure of our rest. I am one of those people I need my sleep Lord knows it. I am an early bird I do not stay up late, but I am awake before dawn. I cannot stay up late not a night hawk.

It never occurred to me how precious rest truly is until I had none! I went through this intense season of hell just busting out at the seams everywhere I turned my head.

Rest during this season of my life was a foreign concept. Resting was something for years I was not naturally attuned to. It is not my nature and disposition it never came easily to me as it does to many. It takes a serious conscious effort on my part to sincerely rest, it feels like work when I want to rest.

I would get annoyed when people would say "just relax and rest." I would be thinking to myself that is so easy to say when you don't have fire running through your veins. It was a deeply foreign concept to me. Crazy!

It's not even that I do not want to. Or my idea of it and others are just way off not in sync. I never enjoyed it and had great difficulty doing it. Not until the end of one winter Holy Spirit had been teaching me a lot on this principle.

Actually, the Holy Spirit was trying to teach me the season before I was just not listening. The last season I was in a place of physical ego and not so receptive to the message. I mean I was a machine. At that time when I thought of rest that would have been taking one day off of seven to not train and that just would have not been ok with me.

How ridiculous now reflecting!

Thank Jesus for being faithful to me even when I am not to you.

Coming into this particular winter. I was a wreck in all ways human. The worst, I was exhausted and desperately needed not just sleep, but rest. I knew I needed it and could not find it. I mean I was up at all hours of the night. This then triggered all whole chain reactions of poor performance on every level of my life. Emotionally, mentally, physically, and decision making. The lack of rest infected every part of my life, it was just pure chaos. A bloody disaster.

Humans beings are designed and really do need rest and without it, we literally can die! No one knows this better than our enemy. What better way to take out an entire person, simply rob them of one of the most basic essential things besides food. Take their rest.

It's a heck of a cunning tactic but trusts me it works. So I went through sleep deprivation solid for about two months. I was not even aware this was a full-on attack I was under because of the overall state I was in from rest deprivation. As the wreckage continued and my physical body weakened, it got so bad I could barely eat. I withered away to nothing. I was having the most insane health effects.

In desperation one afternoon I lay in my bed the LORD spoke to me and said Wanda he is after your rest. Your REST!! All these things that are happening around you are tactics to steal your rest! I sat up in my bed instantly and had a light bulb moment!

I feel to share this for anyone who is experiencing this I can relate to how terrible it is. I was very sick during this particular onslaught I wish someone told me that sooner to avoid all the damage it caused in my life. If this is you too he is after your rest.

This season is a deep love story in my life. Much inner healing and grace I am experiencing. The reckless love of Abba Father. Really knowing Abba Father in a way I have never have before through trials, healing, and deliverance.

To steal one's rest means he has already stolen your mind. I had to get that thing back and quickly, with a sick body. We do not do anything well when we are tired.

One of our greatest gifts from the Lord is our mind. Our minds that are created in the image of God and how it easily is polluted by the things we see, hear, and say in this world. This beautiful mind we are blessed with when not driven properly can become our worst enemy. It can create life and destroy it. Our mind may be our greatest attribute however it is also our greatest kryptonite if not renewed daily with the HOLY SPIRIT.

Our enemy knows that before we do. He has been around a lot longer than us. He wages war constantly on our minds. If he can get our minds he can get everything else. He goes for the head. No mercy. In that, though I want to take a second and say thank you, Jesus. Thank you that greater is He who lives in us than he who lives in the world. Thank you for securing our victory Jesus, thank you for your sacrifice. Thank you that in YOU we can overcome all things. You are our all. In all and through all. Thank you.

Let us no longer tolerate attacks on our rest. It is my rest!! I need my rest! Everyone needs their rest. Without rest, we are even weaker irritable and more likely to fall into tricks and traps. Reminds me of walking around drunk all day, and expecting nothing bad to happen. Let us not be easy prey anymore. Rest is Gods gift to all His children.

Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus,

I thank you for these great revelations of knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. Thank you for teaching me your ways. Thank you for being a good Father. I thank you for rest and sleep. Abba, thank you for showing me what a Father I need and find in you. I pray for all of those who suffer as I did with this lack of rest this war waged on their body, that you would flood them with your Spirit, and we all would be filled with your peace. I pray Father to give us the love and courage to say no to fear, the fear that tries to creep into our thoughts, the unforgiveness as we attempt to sleep. In the name of Jesus every single thought that is not the mind of Christ, I take you captive right now and bring you into the obedience of the LORD JESUS CHRIST. Guard our minds and hearts, Father. Shine your light in the areas of our mind that need your touch. All we need is one touch. Tonight I pray for the rest of your children Father. I pray that in our rest dreams, visions, healing, deliverance would happen. This is such a powerful area for us to experience you in a new way amazing ways. I pray that we would be a people that run to rest and actually enjoy it. Even when nothing makes sense. Let us experience divine rest in a world that tells us not to. I pray the blood of Jesus over every one of your children tonight. I pray for miracles to happen during hours of rest. We bind and cast out all spirits that try to attack us during our rest. We claim our rest and draw a line that nothing can cross but you Father in the name of Jesus Christ. Tonight we rest in confidence and take back everything the enemy has stolen from us. Overwhelm us with your love. I pray that you continue to help us for you are our helper in times of everything but especially trouble. May your blessings, wisdom, and wonders be in our rest. Give us thankful hearts at night. Take our minds to a whole other dimension of glory. Lord, I want to dream like I never have before and have your visions. I want to know your heart. I want to sit in the stars with you. Let me marvel in the night sky with the epic stars you created. Let the evening tides be a new kind of beautiful to me and all your children. How beautiful and wonderful is Your night season. If you desire softly wake us in the twilight and just awe us in the beauty of these hours. Show us new things your many wonders. Lord, I just thank you. Bring revelation and healing to myself and all others even as others may read this. I pray for more of you and less of me.

In the name of the KING of KINGS and LORD of LORDS

Jesus Christ

For your love endures forever

~A women who now rest and loves the twilight hours