Tuesday, August 26th, 2025
This is actually a rather embarrassing story, but the revelation that God gave me at the end is worth it. My husband works a farming job so his clothes are always covered in dirt, oil, and sometimes things I cannot identify. For the last few weeks, I noticed that his clothes were not coming as clean as they used to. At first I chalked it up to a dirty, dusty year and I tried to move on. But when you are a stay-at-home mom and you aren’t producing clean laundry it starts to get annoying.
One day my crafty husband figured out how to make the latch work so that I could open the top door of the washing machine and see what was going on with it. Well, apparently the agitator had stopped working. So the tub would fill up with water and all the clothes would sit in the water for some amount of time and then get spun dry and try to pretend like they were clean. While I was disturbed to know my laundry really wasn’t getting clean, I was relieved to know we could fix the issue!
After the second load of laundry in the new washing machine, God spoke to my spirit and said, “Sometimes in order for things to really be clean they need some agitation.” The verse that came to me soon after this was when the angel would stir the waters at the pool of Bethesda (John 5:4). The word stir actually means to trouble or agitate in the original Greek language. In order for people to be healed at this pool it first needed to be agitated.
Doesn’t it feel like we are in a season of Holy agitation? Everything around us that can be shaken is being shaken. Our families, our finances, our health, our governmental leaders, heck even our church leaders. There is so much hatred, anger, bitterness, fear, and blatant unrighteousness swirling around us. What is our response to this agitation? Does it push us over the edge or into the arms of our heavenly Father? Perhaps this agitation is going to release a revival and deep healing across our nation and world like we have never seen.
The word agitation in Webster’s 1828 means disturbance of tranquility in the mind, excitement of passion, examination of a subject in controversy. I believe God is using this Holy agitation to do one of two things in us. Either He is stirring up a specific passion inside of us to be the light that the world so desperately needs, or He is highlighting something inside of us that needs to be dealt with. And it could even be both of these things at the same time. We may need healing and deliverance in an area and God may use that testimony to help us pull someone else out of that same muck and mire.
Final Thoughts…
Can we allow ourselves to be submitted to some Holy agitation? It’s okay to take some time to answer that question, or to answer it with a healthy amount of hesitation. I don’t like having the tranquility in my mind disrupted. I am not one to seek out controversy. But I know I want to be washed whiter than snow. I know I want my mind to be renewed day by day. And if that means I have to hop into heaven’s washing machine and get agitated, then that’s where you will find me. Stir it up and get it healed and delivered, Lord!