Recently, the Lord spoke to me and showed me that He is dealing with spiritual lameness and correcting lenses in the lives of His people in this season. There has been an assignment to cripple many and keep them in a place of spiritual lameness, despondency and disillusionment so they will not move into all that God has for them in this season.
As God was speaking these things to me I saw a person in a wheelchair, this person was slumped over and despondent, as I looked at the wheels I could see barbed wire twisted around them preventing movement. I watched as Jesus stood before them and held out his hand. As they reached out to accept Jesus’ hand He opened his mouth and began to sing. I asked Jesus what it was he was singing and he responded “it is a song of release”. I watched as this person lifted their eyes to look at Jesus and as they did their eyes filled with light.
I then heard God’s voice thundering “I LED CAPTIVITY CAPTIVE! I LED CAPTIVITY CAPTIVE!”
I knew that He was referencing Ephesians 4:8 that says “When He ascended on high, he led captivity captive….” and I sensed that He was coming to DEAL with these things in his people’s lives that he has already dealt with and PAID for. There was a very strong sense that a key for these ones would be to ascend in worship and high praise and to come out of the place of burden, to lift their gaze onto Jesus and to fight from the victory that has already been won in Christ.
I was then reminded of Isaiah 35
“Strengthen the feeble hand, steady the knees that give way. Say to those with fearful hearts ‘be strong, do not fear. Your God will come, with divine retribution He will come and save you. Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, the ears of the deaf unstopped, the lame will leap like a dear and the mute tongue will shout for joy…”
We are in an Isaiah 35 moment right now where God is coming with divine retribution into the lives of His people where there has been long standing bondage, lameness of spirit, weakness and crippling caused by the enemy. God is coming with RECOMPENSE to set them free from the bondage that has enslaved them and kept them ineffective and contained. He is coming with supernatural strength.
THE BATTLE IS OVER VISION
This demonic assault is over the vision that has been released and is now being released to you. There is a reclaiming of vision and a releasing of new vision with an even wider scope and the enemy is out to suppress it. There is an elevation that God is bringing to what you can see and how you are seeing right now. There is a divine upgrade in vision. I hear the Lord saying “Ask me for holy spirit lenses” through which to see your life.
Yesterday I was in Luke chapter 13 and I could feel the Lord all over the story of the woman who was in bondage to a spirit of weakness for 18 years.
“One Sabbath day, while Jesus was teaching in the synagogue, he encountered a seriously handicapped woman. She was crippled and had been doubled over for 18 years. Her condition was caused by a demonic spirit of bondage that had left her unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her condition, he called her to him and gently laid his hands on her. Then he said, “Dear woman, you are free. I release you forever from this crippling spirit. Instantly she stood straight and tall and overflowed with glorious praise to God!”
As I meditated on this passage I felt like God was highlighting that the demonic spirit referenced in this passage is one that specifically causes weakness. This woman was unable to straighten her body for 18 years, she lacked the physical strength to do so. This resulted in her being ‘doubled over’, which would result in her spending all that time looking at the ground, her feet and behind her because that is all that you can see in that position. She couldn’t help but look down and backwards.
I knew instantly that God was highlighting and addressing the issues of posture, positioning and vision of these ones who have felt drained of strength and unable to arise from their circumstances and mindsets. I felt the exhortation to ‘come close’ to Jesus in this season so that he could correct wrong lenses and bring clarity because so many are seeing through lenses that are bringing heaviness and hopelessness.
There are many that feel weighed down and ‘doubled over’ under the weight of relentless circumstances and afflictions. The word in Greek for ‘doubled over’ means to be completely and utterly overcome by something. They have become overwhelmed by situations that refuse to bow to the name of Jesus and so have in turn found themselves burdened beneath them. The word for ‘straighten’ used in this passage means to lift oneself either in body or soul and to be elated and to look up. These ones feel that no matter how hard they try they cannot get up from their position and cannot get into the place of hope again, they have been looking down and looking at past circumstances but I feel the Lord reminding them that they need to LIFT THEIR EYES from their circumstances, from their thoughts and feelings and to get them back onto Jesus and as they do a swift deliverance will take place. As you lift up your eyes and lock eyes with the one who overcame death itself, there is a SONG OF RELEASE being sung over you!
“I lift up my eyes up to the mountains, where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, maker of heaven and earth”- Psalm 121
REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE
Later in the passage Jesus refers to this woman as ‘a daughter of Abraham’. I feel that this is a key right now for many who have been in long standing bondage and battles for so long that they have forgotten who they are in Christ. They have forgotten their positioning as a daughter of God. They have forgotten their authority. Daughters, REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE AND REMEMBER WHOSE YOU ARE. You are not just anyone and you possess POWER and AUTHORITY to trample snakes and scorpions in the name of Jesis -Luke 10:19. Position yourself in the place of authority once again.
Lastly I heard the Lord say “I am re-establishing them” and I began to hear him exhorting these ones “STAND TALL FOR I AM RE-ESTABLISHING YOU”
Where there has been so much loss and what seems like ruin in their lives, where the enemy has had them doubled over in disappointment and discouragement and even stolen their confidence God was coming to strengthen these ones to see them ‘stand tall’ once again and be established anew. Move forward in confidence knowing that God is about to rebuild and re-establish you with double what the enemy stole, in Jesus name!