I want to release a word of faith and authority over you as we begin this week.
As I was praying over this week, I kept seeing this image in front of me of a person that was stuck in a corner with no way out, and arrows were flying at them from all sides.
I instantly discerned that what I was seeing was someone who had been in a season where they felt very much like their calling had somehow made them feel like they’ve just been through constant assailing by the enemy, with constant arrows from all sides.
Thats where you have felt exposed.
That’s where you have felt bombarded.
You felt like you’ve just been attacked from every single angle.
Then I began to really feel like it was similar to the scripture that says:
“But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder, with no one to rescue them; they have been made loot, with no one to say, ‘Restore!’” — (Isaiah 42:22, NIV)
I began to feel authority rise up in my voice.
I began to feel an authority saying, “No! This is injustice. This cannot happen. This must turn around now!”
Then I began to prophesy:
“Restore in the name of Jesus! Restore in the name of Jesus! Restore in the name of Jesus!”
As soon as I said that, Deuteronomy 23:5 came to mind, where it says that every curse turns into a blessing.
So I began to prophesy:
“Lord, every curse will turn into a blessing. Every curse will turn into a blessing. Every single assignment of the enemy will turn into a blessing. Every area of robbery, every area of financial hardship, every area where the enemy has come after finances, after health - God is going to turn it all around.”
And that’s when it hit me - THIS IS UNCTION OF A TURNAROUND!
It’s the sensing that things had to shift!
I began to prophesy:
“Turnaround now in the name of Jesus! Turnaround now in the name of Jesus!”
As I began to declare this, I began to see things beginning to shift in the atmosphere.
Then suddenly I began to hear all this chatter in the spirit of people who had been worn down mentally to the point where they no longer believed that God could turn these situations around.
And I suddenly realized the key: God is wanting to shift and turn around situations right now, but the enemy has worn down your authority and your faith to the point that you no longer believe He can do it.
Hope deferred has crept in to such a degree that it’s made it feel impossible that God could move.
And so I feel that even right now, God is coming against those mindsets.
He’s coming against the fear.
He’s coming against the intimidation of the army.
He’s coming against the hope deferred that constantly makes you feel like nothing will be able to shift or turn around.
He is restoring in you a boldness and authority to begin to speak to the things around you and cause them to be removed and those mountains around you to be cast into the sea.
And that’s what God is doing this week. He is hitting up against your mind and the foreboding keeping you captive.
You’ve been looking at the obstacles you’re facing right now in your finances, health, marriage, and everything else, and they look like mountains.
The Lord says, “Where has your faith gone? Where has your authority gone? Where has your boldness gone?
I am your protector.
I am your provider.
I am looking after you and watching over you.
Yes, the war has been constant against you.
Yes, the enemy has been trying to wear you down.
But He says to you “this week, I want you to do what David did - and strengthen yourself in me!”
“I want you to step out of the place of faithlessness and cowering, out of begging for the crumbs under the table”
“I want you to shift your mindset, and as you shift your mindset, I’ll shift your circumstances!”
“Even right now, begin to break every agreement with fear”
“Break every agreement with hopelessness and despair that’s caused you to stop dreaming”
“It’s caused you to drop your vision in the dust”
“It’s caused you to stop wearing your mantle and slip back into survival mode in a time where I want you to thrive and dream with Me”
Then I was reminded of something so special to us. Over the years we’ve experienced this strange but beautiful phenomenon in our lives.
Whenever we’re in the thick of spiritual warfare, when we feel like we’re being preached at by our circumstances - that’s when God brings us a sign of His nearness.
It happens like clockwork. But it’s so simple that you could miss it if you aren’t childlike.
We see ducks in twos and they show up in odd places, at odd times. It’s always just when we’re beginning to feel overwhelmed or discouraged.
It’s God’s subtle reminder: “I see you. I’m with you. It’s not over.”
But this year, on our anniversary, it was different.
Two doves appeared on our back fence and they stayed for a full week.
It was as if God was saying: “Watch ME turn this around! Not by night nor by power!”
And even though we were still in the middle of the storm the breakthrough hadn’t come yet His goodness showed up as a downpayment.
Sometimes, the sign isn’t the full breakthrough, but it’s the reminder that He hasn’t forgotten you, and that the turnaround is closer than you think.
There are many right now trying to ask God, “Where are my next steps?” but you’re not thinking with faith, you’re thinking with fear.
And the Lord says:
“It’s time to break that off.
I’m reversing everything that’s come against you, and I’m turning it.
And some would say, ‘Could this turn in a day?’
Yes, it can turn in a day.
And the Lord says “you will watch in this season, as you partner with Me again not with the accuser, not with fear, not with lack but as you choose to partner again with Me,
“You will see every single obstacle and every mountain around you crumble into the sea”
But you need to partner with Me again.
Will you partner again with My Spirit and reject the patterns and mindsets of this world?
It is time to step back into a mind-renewal season that actually brings about the shifting of circumstances.
Because the fruit of worry is actually causing that which you fear to come to you.
But as you shift out of that, It will cause the fruit of your renewed mind to be that you see the kingdom of heaven invade your world, your lifestyle and you’ll see things shift around in a short period of time.”
So give me your heart and mind and I’ll turn around the things around you that have tried to do in your strength and failed, and silence the storm”
