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THERE HAS BEEN A BOMBARDING HEAVINESS TRYING TO WEIGH YOU DOWN BUT I’M LIFTING YOU OUT OF THE MESS!

nateandchristy2018

THERE HAS BEEN A BOMBARDING HEAVINESS TRYING TO WEIGH YOU DOWN BUT I’M LIFTING YOU OUT OF THE MESS!

THERE HAS BEEN A BOMBARDING HEAVINESS TRYING TO WEIGH YOU DOWN BUT I’M LIFTING YOU OUT OF THE MESS!

A few weeks ago I woke up at 2am in a cold sweat feeling a demonic presence and what felt like a tangible heavy blanket resting on me. For a few minutes I had a torrent of chatter come at me in the form of disappointments, doubts, irrational fears, anxiety, and foreboding until I began to pray and worship and it lifted. 

SUDDEN INTERRUPTION

Since then I’ve sensed that many people are being bombarded right now by the sudden interruption of this same spirit of heaviness that wants to settle and become furniture in a season God actually wants to lighten your load! But what are some of the signs of this bombardment? Isaiah 61:3 shows both the signs and the remedy.

"To preserve those who mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He might be glorified." 

The signs are; mourning, unexplainable sadness and sorrow, fear, foreboding, brokeness, tiredness, loss of vision and purpose, loss of joy, feeling numb and hopeless. 

THE HOPE RESET

Also the word “heaviness” here is the Hebrew word “keheh” which in addition to heaviness means “to grow dim, fade and faint”. This spirit wants you grow weak, weary, and lose your fire! The reason this has been bombarding at so many right now is because we have stepped into a new era and many have become disillusioned in the process and lost their hope. 

“but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint” Isaiah 40:31

Can you identify with these symptoms? It’s time to get your strength back and get your hope back so you can run and soar again. That heaviness wants to keep you grounded in a time God wants to show you how to ascend and FLY!

GET UP & SHAKE IT OFF!

As I was processing this with the Lord I saw a vision of a person slowly sinking in sinking sand. It was slow but fatal and I felt to cry out “Get up and shake it off!” 

That is the tactic for heaviness. Don’t mistake it for some lack of nutrients, sleep, or exercise, this spirit wants to weigh you down til you can’t get up again! Heaviness starts out with a few lingering disappointments and subtle fears until it begins to form like concrete around your heart and mind. It’s like a weighty garment that wants to restrict all movement and action til you live meaningless, hopeless, and purposeless. Don’t wallow in it a day longer, and decide today to shake it off! Here are a few more keys to taking authority and dominion over this sly attack of the enemy. 

PUT ON PRAISE!

Like the scripture earlier says you need to trade the garment of heaviness for another garment, a garment of praise! King David would run into the presence of God when he felt heavy and praise til it lifted, and you need to do the same! Get your praise on even right now! Maybe you are about to drive home from work - use that time praise God and let out a victorious shout. Maybe you are at home looking after toddlers and you’ve been so heavy you are on autopilot. I encourage you to begin to let out a shout of praise until you feel that hard heavy shell crack. 

STAY ARMORED

Now replace that garment of heaviness with your spiritual armour so you aren’t an easy target this season. What is your armour and how do you put it on? Read Ephesians 6:14-18. It says you put your armour on by;

  • - Surrounding yourself in truth so you triumph(Don’t let those subtle lies creep in)
  • - Stay in right standing with God so your heart is protected(Stay intimate with God)
  • - Stay on your feet(don’t give into slumber - stay alert)
  • - Stir up your faith instead of entertaining crippling fear and anxiety. 
  • - Resting in the finished work of Jesus so you don’t entertain the past 
  • - Living and breathing the word of God spoken, prophesied, and commanded!

THE EASY YOKE

Let me end this word by prophesying over you. It has felt like many months of one fight after another. One battle of the mind after another but through it all God is strengthening your muscles and igniting a resistance and resilience so you stop spending your seasons laying defeated in the dust. Circumstances have been harder and more complicated then anticipated and it has kept you weighed down, but NOW IT’S TIME FOR THE EASY YOKE! Now it’s time for the transition into being the head not the tail, above not beneath. The overcomer not the the defeated. You are crossing into new strength and being UNHINGED from the ground warfare that has kept you busy in the fight instead of soaring. Now it’s time to soar and move out of the debilitating reality that has surrounded you. It’s time to come up higher and finally LOOSE the chains and ropes from the last season that is still trying to hold on. I command every onslaught of this spirit of heaviness be broken right now, once and for all in Jesus name! 

We need to be tethered to hope, and fixated on Gods thoughts towards us in this season so we can effectively inherit the land before us. I’m prophesying and praying that for you.

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