I'm learning to rest by default...
In other words, after I've tried everything: thinking positive, having 'more faith', speaking words of affirmation, writing promises of God in my journal, fasting & praying, repenting of sin, etc., etc., I just give up. Not that all those things aren't necessary, they are! But when it doesn't seem like anything is working, when I'm anxious or lack strength, the Lord tells me to rest
in Him. Like surrender every part of me, mainly my "logic" and "reasoning", and cast all my emotions to Him, and I find I fall deeply into Him
in my heart. In those moments He gives me His identity of me and the weak, fretful me disappears for a time. I'm literally being kept by God. That's the rest He is giving to me. He's making me trust Him.