THIS WEEK, SPIRITUAL PARALYSIS ENDS…
I was up in intercession last night for two to three hours. As I was praying, I just kept seeing this breaking point coming for those going through an assignment of spiritual paralysis that had been lingering over people and causing them to be stuck in this continual loop.
It was almost like a glitch in a movie. Like a scene that just kept repeating– people would hit a certain point and then retreat, hit a point and then retreat, over and over and over again. I could see the defeat in it. The battles people had faced in their past season had brought such a spiritual paralysis over them. It's like they were unable to move forward.
I know I've been speaking into this a lot, but this must be something people are really still dealing with and battling.
So let me give you some more language. You might be experiencing spiritual paralysis if…
… you've been feeling like you can't seem to move ahead in any area. If it feels like you've lost your vision, your purpose, your why.
… you've lost your passion, your fire and you're just in autopilot mode, going through the motions.
… you feel stuck in your head, where your life used to be about the Kingdom and getting Kingdom done, and it now feels like it's just a daily battle of the mind, where you're struggling in your identity and who you are.
… you're constantly feeling disqualified, rehearsing the shame and failures of your past season, rehearsing where things could have gone better or where things went wrong.
… your gaze is fixed on your own efforts, your works, your performance.
… you're still constantly focused on the people who hurt you, abused you and you can't seem to wake up each day without thinking about it.
… spiritually speaking, you feel tormented, having bad dreams, and your sleep cycle is all messed up.
… you might have even been feeling this physically, where it's like you've hit a slump mentally, physically, and emotionally.
This is spiritual paralysis. This is where the enemy hits you from all angles just to keep you stuck and paralyzed. It's like a spiritual stroke of sorts where everything just seems to break down.
As I was in intercession throughout the night, something in my spirit said,
“NO MORE, IN JESUS NAME! THIS IS THE WEEK IT BREAKS!”
You may have seen that as I was praying, I wrote on social media, “This week you're going to get back up.”
Because I just kept seeing these sick beds and this scripture came to mind:
“There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden eight years and was paralyzed. And Peter said to him, ‘Aeneas, Jesus the Christ heals you. Arise and make your bed.’ Then he arose immediately.” –Acts 9:33-34
Sick beds are places where we are STUCK UNDER SOMETHING we have believed or had done against us, and this week God is bringing CLOSURE to those situations and circumstances we have been facing, keeping us there.
A sick bed can even be something we are aligned with that is bringing sickness or confusion to us.
In Revelation 2:22, a sick bed is used to speak about those aligned with jezebel. Have your vows and contracts kept you tethered to a sickbed?
I feel like this is the Lord revealing what we actually believe about Him, about ourselves, and what we have been tethered to. BUT God is CALLING YOU OUT!
I believe this is a week that God wants to break every single area that is keeping and holding us back. And it really does start with what we believe about our own identity. It's where we've been broken down and dismantled in our own view and understanding of ourselves, to the point where we're unable to move forward.
God kept bringing Gideon to mind. In Judges 6:12, Gideon was in that same place when God said to him, "The Lord is with you, mighty warrior."
His very name means ‘mighty warrior, a man of valor,’ but he did not believe it about himself.
Gideon's story is where God used what didn't make any sense. In Judges 7, God dwindled an army of tens of thousands down to 300 to show him that this was not going to be reliant on his own strength, but on the Lord’s strength.
So this week, like Gideon, you need to get out of your own head where you're trying to make everything happen and do everything in your own strength. God wants to break that victim mindset you have been carrying, every lie that has come against your mind that has caused you to live in defeat and under this spiritual paralysis.
This week it ends.
Secondly, the spiritual FOG around you this week has to leave. That atmosphere of being disarmed and stuck. Even as I’m writing this, I feel like many are saying, ‘I don’t know how to move forward in certain areas of my life.’ That’s a specific kind of paralysis that seems to frustrate and make decisions feel foggy or like the doors are not opening like they should be.
Maybe that’s you– you keep running into your sickbed and defeat because NOTHING IS WORKING.
This week, that ends, in Jesus’ name. Lord, break that paralyzing spirit and the delay and irritation that comes with it.
Right now as you're reading this ask the Holy Spirit to show you areas of lies where you have been coming under this spirit. He will reveal a lie to you, an open door, or an alignment, or an old undealt with area of pain or betrayal.
Now pray this with me:
Lord, I command this assignment of defeat and paralysis to break once and for all, in the mighty name of Jesus. This week I'm coming out of defeat and the sting of my past season that broke me down. I'm going to fight in the Spirit, not in my own strength. I'm not going to come under the lies that are preaching at me through circumstances, through situations, through battles, through slander and people talking about me. I break ties with every lie I've believed about myself because of past failures or shame. I refuse to keep allowing the enemy to make me feel like I'm the tail, when God has called me to be the head, above only and not beneath. Lord, I'm coming up higher right now. I'm getting up and I’m not falling back into that sick bed. I'm not wallowing in defeat. I'm not wallowing in fear, foreboding, or shame anymore. You've called me. You've anointed me. And this week I’m standing back to my feet, shaking off the past season and its muck, in Jesus' mighty name. Amen!