Recognizing and Redeeming What’s Been Twisted by Time
By Eric D. Cooper | Author of The Joseph Anointing: Living Above the Sun
🔍 What Is Timeline Entanglement?
Most believers don’t even know they’re caught in it.
Timeline Entanglement is a spiritual condition where your past wounds, present confusion, and future anxieties get entangled—clouding your discernment, distorting your identity, and delaying your destiny.
It’s not always obvious.
It shows up as:
- Constantly reliving old pain or regret
- Getting stuck in cycles you can’t seem to break
- Feeling anxious about “what’s next”
- Comparing your life to others’ timelines
- Wondering, “Did I miss it?” or “Is it too late for me?”
The enemy loves to twist your perception of time. Why?
Because if he can keep you looping in the past or fearful of the future, he knows you’ll be powerless in the present.
But beloved, you were not created to be tangled in time.
You were created to live above it.
📖 Joseph Wasn’t Entangled—He Was Aligned
In The Joseph Anointing: Living Above the Sun, I talk about how Joseph’s life could have been one long entanglement.
- Betrayed by his brothers (past)
- Falsely accused and imprisoned (present)
- Forgotten and overlooked (future uncertainty)
And yet—he never got stuck. Why?
Because Joseph stayed aligned with the scroll God had written for him. He didn’t let his timeline define him. He let God’s truth shape his perception.
Joseph understood a Kingdom truth that many believers overlook:
Time bows to the purposes of God.
🚨 How Timeline Entanglement Manifests Today:
- In the Past:
- Rehearsing old betrayals
- Carrying shame, regret, or father wounds
- Letting trauma become identity
- In the Present:
- Feeling like you’re running out of time
- Constant restlessness or striving
- Confusion about who you are and what you’re supposed to do
- In the Future:
- Obsessing over what hasn’t happened yet
- Comparing your timing to others
- Trying to force things that aren’t ready
This isn’t just emotional—it’s spiritual warfare.
👑 The Kingdom Response
So what do we do when we realize our timeline is tangled?
1. Restore Divine Order
“May your whole spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless…”
—1 Thessalonians 5:23
The world teaches us to lead with our body (what we feel), then soul (what we think), and finally spirit (if there’s time left).
But the Kingdom reverses that:
Spirit → Soul → Body → Time.
We live from the Spirit above the sun, not beneath it.
2. Break Agreement with Regret and Fear
Declare aloud:
“I am not too late. I am not behind. I am not lost.
I am in God’s timing. My scroll is still unfolding.”
You don’t need a reset—you need a realignment.
3. Submit Your Timeline Back to the Author
“My times are in Your hands…” – Psalm 31:15
“He makes all things beautiful in its time.” – Ecclesiastes 3:11
The truth is—God can restore time.
He can redeem the years the locusts ate (Joel 2:25).
He can take what feels like delay and use it to deepen your roots.
Like Joseph, you may have felt forgotten, but you are simply being prepared.
✍️ Final Word: You’re Not Behind—You’re Becoming
If you feel entangled, take heart.
The Father doesn’t measure your life by clocks or calendars.
He measures it by alignment with His heart.
You were never meant to walk in loops.
You were designed to walk in legacy.
And if you’ve been stuck, trapped, or tangled—today is your invitation to rise above the sun, just like Joseph did, and walk in the scroll written for you.
🔥 Ready to untangle your timeline?
Pray the Prophetic Prayer to Untangle Your Timeline
Your time is not wasted.
Your calling is not canceled.
Your scroll is still unfolding.
🙏 Prophetic Prayer to Untangle Your Timeline
(Pray aloud from a place of surrender and authority)
Father, I come to You today—not bound by the ticking of time, but seated with Christ above it.
You are the Alpha and the Omega—the One who writes my beginning and my end.
You see the end from the middle and the beginning from eternity.
Right now, in the name of Jesus,
I bring my past, my present, and my future into divine alignment with You.
🔓 Untangling the Past:
I surrender every moment that wounded me.
I release every regret, betrayal, and bitter root.
I choose to no longer live through the lens of what I lost.
I break agreement with shame, trauma, and identity distortion.
I place the Cross between me and every moment that tried to define me apart from You.
Let Your blood rewrite my memory.
Let every broken narrative bow to the name of Jesus.
🔄 Reclaiming the Present:
I take my seat above the sun.
I receive fresh oil for this moment.
I silence the noise of distraction, fear, and delay.
I shake off the weight of comparison and striving.
Holy Spirit, anoint me to live fully here and now.
Help me see through Heaven’s eyes, hear with Heaven’s ears, and walk with Heaven’s wisdom.
🔮 Sanctifying the Future:
I surrender the timeline I built in my mind.
I give You every “what if,” every delay, every dream I’ve tried to control.
I break off anxiety and false timelines that didn’t come from Your throne.
I release my future into the hands of the Author and Finisher of my faith.
You are not slow in keeping Your promises. You are perfect in all Your ways.
I trust You with the unfolding of my scroll.
🕊️ In the name of Jesus, I declare:
- My timeline is untangled.
- My spirit is aligned.
- My identity is rooted.
- My scroll is open.
- My path is cleared.
I receive divine order:
Spirit, then soul, then body—and all of it aligned with eternity.
Time is no longer my master.
Jesus is.
Amen.
