Spiritual Warfare
Post #1 ❀ SPIRITUAL WARFARE I sometimes wonder how many of our seemingly small “anxieties” or inability to fall asleep are spiritual warfares? Yesterday evening everything just felt really off. There was no particular reason- sometimes that just happens. We went to bed, and I struggled to fall asleep. My brain was being ransacked by some pretty intrusive thoughts. Thoughts that attacked our marriage. Thoughts that made no logical sense at all. And I just let them wander. The more and more these thoughts swirled around in my head, the more I started to feel anxious. “Oh God, what do I do? Take this feeling away from me. I don’t know what to do with myself.” I prayed. I hadn’t felt at all anxious for a while now, the feeling almost felt new to me. I had the urge to harm myself. It's a weird thing, because you have such an unsettling and disturbed feeling in your chest that you don't know what to do with it.. And that leads to wanting to inflict physical pain so you can forget...