"If I was stronger spiritually, these demonic attacks wouldn't happen to me."
How it sounds in your head: Other kids don't seem to struggle like this. If I prayed more or read my Bible more, I wouldn't feel this oppression. This is happening because I'm spiritually weak.
"And He said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.' Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me."
-- 2 Corinthians 12:9Source: Performance-based religion that makes spiritual warfare about personal strength instead of Christ's victory.
He compares his internal battle to others' calm exteriors. Religious teaching has convinced him that attack indicates weakness rather than being a target worth attacking.
Gideon was hiding in a winepress, afraid and calling himself the weakest in his family. God called him 'mighty warrior' and used him to defeat an entire army with just 300 men—God's strength in human weakness.
I REFUSE the lie that attacks happen because I'm weak. IT IS WRITTEN that God's strength is made perfect IN my weakness. I don't have to BE strong—I just stay connected to Jesus who IS strong. IT IS WRITTEN that greater is He who is in me than he who is in the world. I am not attacked because I'm failing—I'm attacked because I'm DANGEROUS to darkness. The same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead lives IN me. My strength is not my own—it is CHRIST IN ME, the hope of glory.
The Father doesn't look at your attack and see weakness—He sees a son worth fighting for. He's running toward you with the truth that His strength in you is undefeatable, regardless of how you feel.