Daily Inspiration Quote by David Wilkerson

Wilkerson’s line lands like a pastor’s emergency broadcast: something is off in the air, and the faithful are being told how to breathe. “In these times” is doing heavy lifting. It’s not just a calendar marker; it’s a framing device that turns the present into a test. The phrase quietly assumes crisis without naming it, which is often more effective in religious rhetoric than specifics. Vague threat travels farther than a dated headline.

Then comes the intimate pressure point: “God’s people.” That isn’t a neutral description. It draws a boundary between insiders and everyone else, offering belonging and obligation in the same breath. If you are “God’s people,” trust isn’t optional; it’s the defining behavior of your identity. Wilkerson’s intent is pastoral, but also disciplinary: he’s corralling anxiety back into the fold of faith.

The most interesting move is the coupling of “rest” with “trust.” Rest here isn’t leisure; it’s spiritual permission to stop striving, stop panicking, stop trying to control outcomes. By specifying “body and soul,” Wilkerson pushes against a shallow, purely “spiritual” piety. He’s insisting that faith should register in the nervous system: sleep, calm, steadiness. That’s both comforting and bracing, because it implies a diagnosis: if you can’t rest, you’re not merely stressed; you’re failing to trust.

Contextually, Wilkerson preached through eras of urban upheaval and late-20th-century American anxiety, and his ministry often treated cultural turbulence as a proving ground. This sentence is built to stabilize a congregation by converting fear into a single actionable posture: surrender.