I Felt Fine Before I Laid Hands on a Bunch of People at a Service.  Why Do I Feel Sick Now?

The anointing is just as real as electricity, and like electricity, it affects physical bodies.  It is quite possible to feel almost sick yourself after ministering to the sick under the anointing.  It is not as much a matter of being actually sick as it is of being “drained” because of the power that was flowing through you.  Sometimes this doesn’t hit you until a little while after you have left the service.  You can go quite suddenly from feeling ready to conquer the world to just wanting to zonk for a long time without eating or doing anything else.

I have no ready explanation for why this happens some of the time but not all the time.  You could just as easily feel “wired” after ministering and be so revved-up about the things of God that it seems as if you couldn’t sleep if you wanted to.  Be careful in cases like that if you have a busy schedule – don’t try to just run on the anointing!  If you don’t take care of your body and make yourself get some rest, even when you’re all pumped up like that, it will catch up to you.  Your body has ways of getting the message across that it has been overtaxed, and you will experience some of those ways if you’re not careful!

It is scriptural to feel physically drained after an encounter with the presence of God.  See the answer to the question Why Do People Fall Over in Healing Lines? for some examples.  Note particularly Daniel’s experience.  God does not make people sick, but His presence can be so overwhelming to the physical body that it can become weak and seem sick.  This did not happen every time in the Bible, so there is no reason to think that it should happen every time now, either.

Of course, it’s possible to feel sick because of an outright attack of Satan after a service, but this would be the exception, not the rule.  You can run that off with your authority in Christ.  There is a difference between feeling SICK and just feeling tired.  If you really have sickness symptoms (sore throat, cough, etc.), command them to be gone in the name of Jesus just as you would have done if someone else came up with those symptoms during the service.  If you’re just “worn out,” go get some rest so that you don’t get even more “worn out.”