A Prayer for Overcoming Doubt with Divine Assurance
By Laura Bailey
Bible Studying
“However since we belong to the day, allow us to be sober, placing on religion and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.” – 1 Thessalonians 5:8 NIV
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The glowing neon mild taunted me from throughout the room at 3:35 a.m. For weeks, I’d woken up in a full sweat on the identical time within the early morning hours. Figuring out I couldn’t get again to sleep, I threw off the covers and shuffled to the den. “You have been up early once more this morning,” my husband commented over his first and my fourth cup of espresso. Is it nonetheless the identical difficulty holding you awake?” For the previous couple of months, my religion has been plagued with doubt.
- How can I be 100% sure I’m saved?
- What if I select the mistaken faith, and I’m going to their model of Hell?
- Why can’t I really feel God’s presence?
- Why haven’t I skilled a miracle?
- Is God even actual?
My thoughts raced with these ideas at stoplights as I washed the dishes, particularly round bedtime. Wrestling with my religion and experiencing doubt wasn’t new for me, but this felt completely different—like a full-on non secular assault. Since I used to be no stranger to those bouts of non secular anxiousness, I reached out to my pastor, shared my struggles with my accountability group, learn Scripture, and prayed as usually as I may. Over time, the anxiousness and intrusive ideas lessened however continued to persist.
One morning, in my research of 1 Thessalonians, I learn these phrases from Paul in 5:1-11, lingering over our key verse, “However since we belong to the day, allow us to be sober, placing on religion and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.” As he usually does, Paul reminds believers that they’re troopers in God’s military and should put together and shield themselves for battle.
A soldier’s breastplate guards their coronary heart; our religion provides us the braveness to face the prince of this world and fills us with God’s love. The helmet, which he calls our hope of salvation, reminds us of the significance of defending our minds towards the satan’s schemes. Devil just isn’t distinctive; he makes use of the identical methods and spouts the identical lies of outdated. But, we frequently fall prey to his methods, so defending our minds with biblical reality is essential! The helmet of salvation reminds us that these of us in Christ are a brand new creation, and nothing can separate us from His love.
This wasn’t the primary time I’d learn these verses; only a few years in the past, we did an in-depth research on the armor of God. But, in that second, I felt just like the Lord was talking these phrases on to my coronary heart. A peace that surpasses understanding stuffed my spirit. I felt an unexplained consolation and sense of reduction.
I want I may report that from that day on, I slept by the evening and haven’t skilled any bouts of doubt—that’s not the case. However hiding these phrases in my coronary heart and talking them out loud when the assaults begin helps to close down the enemy, not permitting him to get a stronghold over my ideas. Buddy, in the event you’re in a season of doubt or really feel the results of non secular warfare, know that I pray for you as I pray for myself as you battle the enemy with the sword of reality and shield your self with the helmet of salvation and the breastplate of religion and love. Might we remind ourselves of this encouragement in Romans 8:37,
“No, in all these items we’re greater than conquerors by him who beloved us.”
Let’s Pray:
Heavenly Father, we pray that as we placed on the complete armor of God day by day, we are going to diligently shield ourselves from our enemy’s evil schemes. Thanks for loving us and remaining devoted even after we doubt. Lord, assist us to lean into your Spirit, and should we all the time search for glimmers of Heaven. Allow us to watch out to offer coincidence credit score after we know that it was divinely appointed. In Jesus’ Title, Amen.
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