HAVE YOU BEEN IN A SPIRITUAL SICKBED?
(Before I share this word I want to say that some of you have been asking why I have been sharing so many words of encouragement and prayer on many soul healing topics, mind warfare, and deliverance lately, and the answer is simple - It’s what the Holy Spirit is speaking to me about more than anything right now, and also its where the most fruit is coming from. We are in a season that God is cleaning us up for what is coming.. amen?)
If you’ve been in a spiritual sick bed…
If you’ve been feeling the tension of the old season trying to hold you, and the new season calling you…
If you’ve been feeling both the fog of warfare around you but also feel the Lord pulling you out..
If you are been through a season of being afflicted by the enemy and it’s sent you into a strange funk you need to shake, then this word is for you.
I recently heard the Lord say “It’s time to pick up your bed and walk. It’s time to pick up your bed and walk. You’ve sat by the pool for too long. It’s time to pick up your bed and walk!”
You see, there has been a huge remnant of God’s pioneers– His movers and His shakers, war eagles, true prophets, the ones who stood, the ones who kept themselves pure, that have said, “God, how come I’m the one that’s afflicted when i have faithfully followed you? How come I’m the one that’s being put through torment? How come I’m the one the enemy’s warred at the most?” It hasn’t made sense.
It’s simply because of the purity you carry AND because of the mantle you carry that maybe you can’t even see, but the enemy can.
It’s like Elijah running to the cave and God says, “Elijah, why are you here?” And Elijah replies “I’m the only one left” And God said, “No, you’re not the only one”
“Yet I have reserved seven thousand in Israel, all whose knees have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.” –1 Kings 19:18
But the Lord told me that this sick-bed is the aftermath of walking through targeted attacks from the spirit of jezebel that tried to take you out over and over.. its her signature.
“Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds” Revelation 2:22
It’s where this assignment not only tries to stifle and muzzle your voice and frustrate your calling but also SLIME YOU with her mess and spiritual dysfunction in its aftermath. And many people don’t even know they are carrying this residue but they are showing the symptoms..
Elijah revealed the markers.. Heres the signs:
He ran and hid.. Fear overtook him when Jezebel threatened him.
He wanted to die. Not just give up, but die.. its an irrational sense of deep defeat and mental torment. This is where the fear, foreboding, PTSD, and trauma triggers are rooted in.
He isolated himself - which is also very common when this spirit attacks you over years.
He believed he was alone… “I am the only one”. These lies make us feel powerless and like we are wasting out time doing this kingdom calling.
He was physically and emotionally depleted. Physical sickness and even depletion in all areas of your life.
He stopped wearing his mantle.. He had to put it back on. Where you aren’t walking in your calling like you used to. You are silenced and controlled.
Any of these sound familiar? But let me make this clearer:
The word “sick-bed” in this passage is the word ”kline” which means a bed or couch but speaks more specifically into being a “stretcher” for the sick or those in infirmity..
What this spirit has done to Gods upcoming generals is horrific.. I have seen it first hand where they were passionately serving the Lord then over time, battle after battle, and blow after blow, and slime after slime, lose their fire and falling into a deep lull of defeat and literally and figuratively fall into a sick-bed.
If that is you, the word of the Lord over you right now is this” “pick up your mat and walk!”
“Jesus said to him, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk.’” –John 5:8
I know so many of God’s pioneers right now are in this place of shell shock, soul-debilitating, soul-crushing torment that the enemy has kept you in.
Its like being under a spell of defeat and NUMBNESS.. where you no longer see hope, feel purpose, joy, or even hear Gods voice like you used to.
But the Lord is saying over you –“You can’t stay there. I’m drawing out that poison. I’m drawing out the wound. I’m drawing out the betrayal. I’m breaking the sickbed assignment you have been in, and you’re going to pick up your bed and walk in this season.”
“But you’re not only going to pick up your mat and walk… you’re going to RUN,” says the Lord.
The Lord says over you “You’re about to step into a fresh wind. It’s going to feel like overnight I put My fresh wind upon you!”
It’s going to feel like you were broken, crying in the fetal position in the dark yesterday, and suddenly you wake up and there’s a fresh anointing. There’s a fresh wind on your back, pushing you, leading you, and guiding you. There the Lord leads you to the right people, the right resources, the right connections, and doors begin to swing open.
“It’s going to turn in a moment. It’s going to shift in a moment,” says the Lord.
“In a moment,” says the Lord, “you’re going to shift out from that dark night of the soul. In a moment you’re going to break out from that depression. In a moment, that trauma is going to leave. In a moment, that demonic torment and the voice that’s been after you is going to break, and you’re going to step into a fresh wind.”
In a moment, every single pursuer and saboteur of your destiny and calling, and every person that’s been after you and chasing you with witchcraft, slander and gossip, is going to end. It’s going to go radio silent.
And suddenly, out of that silence will come a fresh roar, a fresh fire on the inside of you, and you will pick up your bed and you will walk and GET YOUR VOICE BACK!
Now let me prophesy this - Your survival mode season is over. Your season of just trying to get through the day, trying to get through the night, just trying to make it through the week, is over.
“I have not called you to survive,” say the Lord. “I’ve called you to flourish, and to a lifestyle of dominion in your region. I’ve called you to bring your home, your family, and your marriage to health. I’ve called you to model what My kingdom looks like…
The enemy thought he had you. The enemy thought he contained you, he caged you. But in a moment, I’m shifting you out of that place. In a moment, I’m leading you out of the darkness. In a moment, I’m breaking you free and setting you loose from the basket, from that demonic assignment. And you’re going to get that fire and your ferocity back that you had years ago!”
The Lord says, “Out of this will birth such a level of fire and anointing, that it’s going to rattle the cages in your region and you will finally step into the calling and mantle i have given you”
Pray with me: “God, break this sickbed assignment that has been trying to DISABLE me and gaslight my calling and ROB and deplete me. I am coming out from hiding, from running, from being under the aftermath of this demonic agenda from jezebel. I renounce all agreements i have made in my exhaustion and weariness of battle and where I succumbed to the fear of man that sent me running. I surrender my past season. Holy Spirit, set me on fire again. Heal every wound the enemy used to keep me down, and restore my soul and my mind. I receive my fresh wind, my fresh fire, and my song again. Today I pick up my bed, and I walk, in Jesus’ name!’”