Is is possible for an object at rest to have forces acting upon it.
When an object is at rest, it is often misinterpreted that it cannot be moved from its initial state; however, that is untrue. When an object is at rest, any unbalanced force can cause it to exit its stationary state. An example of this would be if a ball was not moving. Somebody could blow it and it would move. In this process, the ball goes from balanced to unbalanced force, meaning its state of rest was interrupted.
However, there is another perspective of this. When an object is at rest (meaning nothing is bothering it), there is no force acting upon it. It is in a balanced position, and nothing is altering its state.