No Ordinary Illness

[n david]

I have been around a while (I'm 45) and have had my share of illnesses, head colds, pneumonia, the flu, etc.

It began a week ago Wednesday. My legs were killing me and I couldn't figure out why. I went to church and led worship anyway and then early Thursday morning around 3am I woke up with fever/chills and feeling as though I was hit by a MAC truck. In order to be out of work I had to take a COVID test which I did on Friday and it came back positive.

Now, I don't look for the devil behind every bush or tree but I'm going to tell you all that my experience with this illness hasn't just been physical. There has been a spiritual attack with it. It has been a long while since I've experienced demonic attacks as I have since last Thursday. Night terrors. My mind under constant attack with anxiety and depression. I was bombarded with thoughts that I wouldn't survive and my three children would be without a father. It would take everything in me to get off the recliner and walk around outside. Loss of taste has made it difficult to have much of an appetite for anything.

I spoke with a friend from Bible school and he experienced some of the same over a period of three weeks before finally breaking free of it.

I don't know what COVID is, I know it's not as simple as the flu, but whatever it is has come with a spiritual element.

Yesterday I believe was a breakthrough. My Pastor and 87 year old Bishop both called me and prayed over the phone. I believe God has answered our prayers. Last night I had my first peaceful night of sleep in almost a week, free from night terrors or anxiety.

[jediwill83]

Originally Posted by n david

I have been around a while (I'm 45) and have had my share of illnesses, head colds, pneumonia, the flu, etc.

It began a week ago Wednesday. My legs were killing me and I couldn't figure out why. I went to church and led worship anyway and then early Thursday morning around 3am I woke up with fever/chills and feeling as though I was hit by a MAC truck. In order to be out of work I had to take a COVID test which I did on Friday and it came back positive.

Now, I don't look for the devil behind every bush or tree but I'm going to tell you all that my experience with this illness hasn't just been physical. There has been a spiritual attack with it. It has been a long while since I've experienced demonic attacks as I have since last Thursday. Night terrors. My mind under constant attack with anxiety and depression. I was bombarded with thoughts that I wouldn't survive and my three children would be without a father. It would take everything in me to get off the recliner and walk around outside. Loss of taste has made it difficult to have much of an appetite for anything.

I spoke with a friend from Bible school and he experienced some of the same over a period of three weeks before finally breaking free of it.

I don't know what COVID is, I know it's not as simple as the flu, but whatever it is has come with a spiritual element.

Yesterday I believe was a breakthrough. My Pastor and 87 year old Bishop both called me and prayed over the phone. I believe God has answered our prayers. Last night I had my first peaceful night of sleep in almost a week, free from night terrors or anxiety.

Its like a transmissible weaponized spirit of infirmity. Bro Im glad to hear how God brought you victory.

[acjcpastor]

My wife and I went through Covid last year. We are in our 60's and the media kept reminding us that we were in that high risk group. However, we never experience any of that anxiety, depression or spiritual attack you speak of. Rather I felt my faith was bolstered during that whole episode. Yes, I was concerned I would end up in the ICU. Yes, the loss of taste and smell was unnerving and the continued coughing was extremely annoying. But I counted none of it as a spiritual attack. If anything, it drove me to more intense prayer life and trusting my whole life into the hands of my loving savior. Taste and smell came back within a week or so and it took some prescribed drugs and about two months to get over the bronchitis. Honestly, I've had a harder time recovering from the regular flu virus.

[jediwill83]

My pastor had covid last year. He experienced the anxiety and fear coming against him. He said it was a constant roller coaster feeling fine one second and then crashing. Finally he told his wife "This Covid is OVER! Im DONE with it." She said ,"You can't just turn this off!" When he spoke that though from then on he had no symptoms whatsover.

[Jito463]

Even before C19 was being talked about - at the end of 2019 - everyone in our store got hit with something that lasted weeks on end, bouncing from one of us to the other until we finally all had it and got over it. It hit all of us pretty hard, and I'm 99.999% confident it was C19 (though I've never been tested for the antibodies). It has a kick to it for sure, but none of us that I'm aware of went to the hospital over it.

And I'm not even in great shape. I'm overweight and have high blood pressure, yet never once did I feel like I needed to see a doctor about it. I can't say that I experienced the spiritual attack, though.

[jediwill83]

Originally Posted by Jito463

Even before C19 was being talked about - at the end of 2019 - everyone in our store got hit with something that lasted weeks on end, bouncing from one of us to the other until we finally all had it and got over it. It hit all of us pretty hard, and I'm 99.999% confident it was C19 (though I've never been tested for the antibodies). It has a kick to it for sure, but none of us that I'm aware of went to the hospital over it.

And I'm not even in great shape. I'm overweight and have high blood pressure, yet never once did I feel like I needed to see a doctor about it. I can't say that I experienced the spiritual attack, though.

I experienced something in 2017 like that...it felt like death. I literally forced myself out of bed and made myself walk up and down the road praying and rebuking the illness. I literally felt that if I would have stayed in that bed that I would have died.