“‘On bended knee.’ What does this mean, My People? Come, hear Me speak.

“Do knights not bend the knee to receive the touch of the sword that gives them their knighthood? Do people not bend their knees to pray to the Lord their God? Is it not a common motion to bend the knee to get down to the ground? Even to do such a menial task as dust low to the floor? Do people not bend their knees before a king?

“The act of bending the knee is one of reverence and servanthood. And yet in daily life it is one of simply needing to lower one’s own body. In a symbolic sense, the lowering of one’s own body speaks of humility and humbleness. Therein lies the common thread between the two meanings of bending the knee.

“It is not always easy to bend the knee. Some knees don’t want to bend for lack of strength. Or flexibility. Such knees are rebellious against performing the very act they were made to perform. In the same way, many people rebel against the Lord their God and will not bend their knee to Me in humbleness. Quite the contrary, they stand and defy Me, the Lord their God, creator and ruler over all. They think their locked, upright knees and cursing mouth can somehow make Me small. Oh yes, I laugh at this.

“In the days to come, I will reveal My Glory in such a way that will make people fall to their knees. Fall to their knees for lack of strength, a sudden draining of vitality. And fall to their knees in sudden recognition, in overwhelming revelation of WHO I AM. Bending the knee to the Lord your God shall indeed become common. Practiced. Respected. Loved, for it shall be seen as an act of reverence to Me once again.

“Isn’t it interesting that in sports the rebellion against the song of the nation of America would cause the players to bend their knee instead of stand. Such an overt example of satan’s twisting. As if your enemy could steal the very position of kneeling from Me and turn it into an act of defiance.

“It is a simple thing to do before Me, the Lord your God, to bend the knee. And yet so full of meaning. For those of you, My People, who due to medical issues with your knees, cannot bend – do you think it My will for you to be this way? Do you think I created you to have weakened, ineffective knees? Are you not My Sons and Daughters, children and servants of the King? Do you not carry the Power of My Son’s Blood? Therefore, command your knees to improve in their flexibility. Command their healing and do not give up. Command in Faith. Do you want to be able to kneel before Your Maker? Yet you feel helpless that you cannot do so? Am I a helpless and hopeless God? Meditate on these things. And act – and believe – accordingly.

“Spoken by the Lord your God, who created you to kneel before Me. Amen.”
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Notes:

I find the end of this word challenging. I think of people having real medical issues that cause them not to kneel. Some may be in a wheelchair. Yet I do hear God calling out to His people to raise our sights from our habitual acceptance of our body’s weaknesses. What would happen if we began standing in faith against it?

I do have my own story about healed knees. For 19 years I didn’t kneel due to damage in my knees after Lyme disease. If I tried to kneel, I would really pay for it. This was the one lingering issue after the Lord granted me a miraculous healing from the crippling of Lyme in 2002. And it was an odd thing. My legs were strong in every other way. I jogged regularly all those years. But–no kneeling.

In late 2020, the Lord began speaking to me about healing for my knees, and also for my back, which had bothered me for a number of years. I began standing in faith, declaring their complete healing. I saw no change, but I kept at it. After nine months, the Lord woke me up one night in 2021 and asked me to kneel beside the bed. I assumed He wanted me to pray for someone in need at that moment–and not fall asleep in the midst of it. I immediately obeyed, but said to Him, “Lord, you know I can’t really kneel, so I’m just assuming You’re going to make this work for me while I pray.” I knelt with my arms on the bed and waited for His leading to pray. Nothing came. I waited for about five minutes. Then I felt His release to get up. I did so and started for the bathroom, wondering why He’d gotten me up, then gone quiet. Suddenly I realized–my knees were working normally! No pain for having knelt that long. According to the last 19 years, I should have had difficulty just standing up. The Lord had healed my knees! Rather sneakily, actually. But I realized something. He’d called me to an act of faith. And that act released His healing. That was five years ago. I’ve never had trouble since. I can kneel all the way down, my knees at the utmost bending. And how I’ve loved being able to kneel in prayer since then.

After that night, I kept declaring the healing of my back. I went to a great chiropractor, did regular back exercises–but no improvement. Then in 2024, through a minor procedure I’d not even been aware of, my back was healed. Praise God! Sometimes God heals miraculously. Sometimes He heals through doctors. Either way, He is a God of healing.
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Psalm 95:6: Come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.

II Chronicles 7:3: All the sons of Israel, seeing the fire come down and the glory of the Lord upon the house, bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave praise to the Lord, saying, “Truly He is good, truly His lovingkindness is everlasting.”

Isaiah 45:23: “I have sworn by Myself, the word has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness and will not turn back, that to Me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear allegiance.”

I Kings 8:54: When Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and supplication to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread toward heaven.

Matthew 9:18: While He was saying these things to them, a synagogue official came and bowed down before Him, and said, “My daughter has just died; but come and lay Your hand on her, and she will live.”

Matthew 8:2: And a leper came to Him and bowed down before Him, and said, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.”

Luke 22:39-41: And He came out and proceeded as was His custom to the Mount of Olives; and the disciples also followed Him. When He arrived at the place, He said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.” And He withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down and began to pray.

Psalm 103:1-3: Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget none of His benefits; Who pardons all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases…

Isaiah 53:5: But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed.

James 5:14-15: Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven.

Mark 5:34: He said to her, ‘Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.’”

Psalm 41:3: The Lord sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness you restore him to full health.