In 2019, I saw an ‘army’ of tents erected on battlefields. I saw these tents as being makeshift hospitals (field hospitals). Hospitals erected to meet the needs on the battlefield, to meet the needs of the dying, the hurt and the bruised.

A spiritual battle has been waged since Adam and Eve. In this battle fought in the world and by the church, too many people have been caught in the firing line and have suffered as casualties. Too many people are spiritually and emotionally bruised, hurt, and wounded because they were never led truly to the feet of the Lord but led to the feet of vain ideologies and lies. This world is still suffering from deep spiritual malnourishment, with spiritual diseases of idolatry and rebellion running rampant in the churches.

So many in churches have not been restored, healed, delivered or edified. They are broken by this world, impoverished by the spirit of religion, traditionalism and legalisms. They have been made slaves by fear, lies and deceptions. They have been harassed, tormented and hunted by soul-crippling philosophies and demonic lies. Strongholds need to be broken. Healing needs to be done. Deliverance needs to take place. Freedom and liberty need to soar in the hearts of the captive. The end-time revival will, therefore, first see a healing taking place within the Body of Christ. This means restored identity, healing from traumas, and being aligned with the heart and mind of God.

For this healing and deliverance to be facilitated, God is raising an end-time army who will act like spiritual ‘doctors’. He is establishing house churches, which will serve as field hospitals. We need homes and buildings to be turned into spiritual hospitals and into cities of refuge!  We need people to become spiritual hospitals and places of refuge. Once the Bride begins to heal from wounds, divisions, identity fraud and the destruction of lies (which is in essence the revival), it can begin to heal this world (which leads to an awakening to God’s love).

As the Lord showed in 2019, if you have a hospital, you need doctors, surgeons and nurses who can treat the spiritually lost, wounded and bruised. We need capable spiritual medical practitioners, those who walk in Spirit and Truth and in love, who are able to treat the soldiers, the warriors, the families, the children and the sick. The spiritually sick and dying need heart transplants. They need to be stitched back together. They need God’s peace and love to heal the pain and agony of a tormented world. Some need a spiritual lobotomy, meaning they need their minds renewed, and all the filth of trauma, false narratives and lies destroyed!

Field hospitals in ancient warfare were far more primitive than what we think of today, but they served a crucial purpose: keeping soldiers alive long enough to either return to battle or recover. In most ancient armies, there wasn’t a standardised “hospital building” near the battlefield. Instead, care was set up in temporary, practical spaces:

• Tents or makeshift shelters: armies like those of the Roman army used leather tents or commandeered buildings. In more organised forces, these could be arranged in orderly layouts behind the lines.
• Sacred or public buildings: temples or large structures were sometimes used, especially in Greek campaigns, tying healing to divine intervention.
• Open-air treatment areas: in less organised settings, wounded soldiers were treated directly on the ground, often with minimal cover.

Conditions inside were harsh by modern standards. There was basic surgical care, such as the removal of arrows, spearheads, and later bullets; setting broken bones; and crude amputations. There was no anaesthesia as we know it (pain relief might include alcohol, opium, or herbal mixtures). Greek physicians like Hippocrates emphasised observation and natural healing, while Roman medical practitioners built on this with more structured military care.

The purpose went beyond compassion; it was strategic. It was to return soldiers to battle (a healed soldier was more valuable than a new recruit); maintain morale (troops fought better knowing they wouldn’t be abandoned if injured), preserve experienced fighters (veterans were difficult to replace), and reduce chaos after battle (organised care prevented wounded soldiers from overwhelming camps or supply lines). The sad reality is that due to a lack of advanced knowledge, many soldiers who reached these “hospitals” still died.

So the Lord showed how our spiritual field hospitals, be it structures like house churches, or open air ministry, that at times things spiritually will be bloody and messy. People are hurting. People are in pain. The wounds are deep. Treatment needs to be done quickly. God is, therefore, for His servants to be His hands to perform “surgeries”, which could even include spiritual heart transplants (from a stony heart to a heart of flesh). So many need to be restored in their identity, and discipleship and healings will take place amid the spiritual war (there is no peace at the moment).  

In ancient wars, field hospitals weren’t clean, quiet places of recovery. They were set up in chaos—mud, blood, noise, urgency. The wounded didn’t arrive neatly; they came in waves, often at the edge of death. And the physician, whether trained in the tradition of Hippocrates or serving in a valetudinarium, had to work with limited tools, little time, and immense pressure. Decisions were immediate. Action couldn’t be delayed. That framework translates powerfully into the calling of the Church.

A battlefield hospital doesn’t wait for people to become whole before admitting them. It exists because they are broken. In the same way, the Church isn’t meant to be a gathering of the already-healed, but a place where the wounded arrive as they are—bleeding, disoriented, and sometimes beyond what seems recoverable. Just as soldiers were carried in from the front lines, people today come in from battles of sin, trauma, deception, addiction, and despair. The mistake is when the Church tries to function like a courtroom instead of a field hospital. On the battlefield, there’s no time to interrogate a wounded soldier before stopping the bleeding.

Ancient medical practitioners didn’t have the luxury of ideal conditions. They operated without full visibility, without certainty, and without perfect tools. Yet they still acted, because delay meant death. Likewise, spiritual leaders and believers are often called to minister in “imperfect conditions”, such as when understanding is partial, when situations are messy, and when people are resistant or unstable. Waiting for perfect clarity or ideal environments can mean missing the moment where intervention is critical.

And just like in ancient war, the goal is not merely treatment; it’s restoration. Soldiers were healed to stand again. In the same way, people are restored not just to survive spiritually, but to rise, walk in truth, and even help carry others out of the battlefield. Indeed, the harvest and the need for hospitals are great, for the battlefield is strewn with the spiritually wounded and crippled, but indeed, the labourers are few. Oh, how we need the Lord to touch us so that the true elders, prophets, watchmen and disciples will take their place and together man the hospitals, so that this world, so plunged into darkness, can be restored, be healed, be delivered and be nursed back to spiritual health. We need God’s children to arise because the time is running out. We need to attend to the wounded, the broken and the scarred within our own ranks. We need disciples with steady hands to perform these ‘operations’. Indeed, as the Lord showed, some believers will need to undergo spiritual amputations, meaning being amputated from sin, rebellion, idolatry, iniquity, false word, lies, false altars, profane fire, and dead roots.

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