Have you seen the videos of people in church being “slain in the Spirit” where they fall down or lose all control? I thought it was fake until it happened to me.

Before moving on, I want to state that it’s reasonable to assume some people are faking being slain in the Spirit. The objective is not to decide who is and is not faking, but rather to share my testimony and provide a biblical backing for it.

In May 2024 I had a “chance” encounter with someone at church (which the Lord had appointed) and after some conversation she prayed for me. She put two fingers on my forehead and began to pray for me so I closed my eyes and listened to the prayer. In that moment both my knees and elbows locked into place and I couldn’t move them. I could start to feel myself sway a bit and became nervous that I was going to fall over! I opened my eyes and tried to avoid listening to the prayer and after a couple seconds I broke out of it and was able to regain control. It’s reasonable to assume that if I had stayed focused on the prayer that I would have been locked in and eventually fallen over, or in another words slain in the Spirit.

I had never had that happen to me before and I was rattled and questioned it. Is being slain in the Spirit biblical? I was confused as to what exactly happened and later that day in my Bible reading time I found the story of Daniel where he loses all power in his body during an encounter with the Lord. A couple months later found the story of Solomon bringing in the Ark of the Covenant into the temple:

And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who had assembled before him, were before the ark, sacrificing so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.

Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.

2 Chronicles 5:7-8

... it was the duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the Lord), and when the song was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the Lord,

“For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever,”

the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud, so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the house of God.

2 Chronicles 5:13-14

Does it use the words slain in the Spirit? No. Does it sound similar to what Daniel experienced, where he lost all strength in his body and could not stand? Yes.