If I Fall Over, Should I Try to Get Up as Soon as Possible?
No.
If the power of God knocked you on the floor, it stands to reason that God wants you on the floor! Preoccupation with getting up will interfere with your ability to receive from the anointing.
There is no need to try to be “macho” and prove that you can get up as soon as possible. In almost every case, you can get up if you really want to. In some instances, you can be pasted to the floor by the power of God and unable to move, much less get up. (This has only happened to me once.) Or you may find yourself falling over again if you try to get up and walk back to your seat. (That’s happened to me multiple times.)
Unless you’re asked to get up, it is a good idea to soak in the anointing on the floor. If an usher or another person in authority tells you to get up, you are obligated to get up if you can. In places where there is limited space, ushers are sometimes told to clear the floor to make room for more people. If the line will just be continued out in the hallway or somewhere else, this is unnecessary. If the front of the room is filling up with bodies, it can be a good idea to have prayer lines in the hall, on the platform, or in the room after you move some chairs around quickly. People won’t feel rushed, and the line won’t get bottlenecked when there is no more carpet real estate for people to occupy down front.
The best time to get up is when you sense the anointing subside or lift off you. There is usually a definite time when you sense this. You can attempt to get up before then because you assume that you are helping the ushers by clearing more space, but this will do more harm than good if you are still wobbly and an usher has to be diverted to follow you back to your seat. Once the anointing has lifted, there is no reason to continue to consume floor space that might be needed by someone else.
Of course, I am assuming in this answer that you were truly toppled by the anointing, and that you did not just fall because it is the cultural thing to do these days. In that case, you might as well get right up, since it wasn’t God’s idea for you to be down in the first place. The same applies if (God forbid) there isn’t any tangible anointing present and the preacher just pushed you over.
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