Closure, Exhaustion, & The New Path
(This is an excerpt from Letter 13 of www.letterstothepioneers.com )
Pioneers, I want to speak a prophetic word over you. I recently heard in my Spirit, “It’s time to
dust off your feet!”
You see, many pioneers go through seasons of attack, slander, and mudslinging from the
enemy through people, and it can create a negative stigma.
Yes, it can begin to taint the pioneer's heart and create a subconscious hesitation to step into
another pioneering season.
I mean, I get it. Why would you want to embark on a new journey when you are still traumatized
by the last?
DREAM OF THE OPEN DOORWAY
I recently had two dreams I want to share with you that’s going to paint a picture of what you
have been facing or will face in your journey.
In the first dream, I see an open doorway, and I am about to step through it when I feel a deep
pain or grief hit my heart, so I stop in my tracks. “What is going on?” I ask myself. Then I hear
the words, “It’s unfinished business”. But what is unfinished? Then I begin to think of how many
personal promises from the last few years have felt UNFINISHED…so many. The grief hits my
heart again. I know I can’t move on until this is dealt with.
Then I look down at my feet, and I see mud and dirt on them that I didn’t see before. “Wow,
that’s a lot of dirt!” I think to myself—very confused that I didn’t see it before.
Then, right then and there, I knew I needed to remove the mud and dirt. As I did, it was as if I
could see the witchcraft that had come at me during the last season.
The times I was slimed by people and my name dragged through the mud. The time people
flung dirt at me and tried to find dirt on me. In reality, it was never people but the spirit of
assassination. Then I hear the words of Jesus saying what He said to His disciples;
“If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the
dust off your feet” — Matthew 10:14
I had been walking with this mud, dirt, and dust for too long, and I needed to shake it once and
for all and finally move on. So I did. Then I heard a loud instruction. “Forgive them.” So I did as I
was instructed, and then the dream ended.
DON’T LET DISTRACTION FOLLOW YOU
As I was processing this dream with the Lord and talking through it, I saw an image flash before
me of a magician doing a “slight of hand trick.” “What was that?” I asked. Then I heard,
“Distraction has been the game, but don’t let it follow you.”
It made sense. It’s been years of so much smoke and mirrors and the enemy constantly trying to
lure us into fights, situations, false emergencies, and fears that were all show.
Why? So that we would get exhausted by chasing something that didn’t exist or need our
participation and take our eyes off what we were really called to.
Distraction was sent to get us focused on who was speaking against us. Who didn’t like us, and
what wasn’t working, what could happen, and what didn’t happen...all the while, we were being
tricked into a slight of hand game. Look back, and you’ll see this was true. We can’t let
distractions follow us.
I pray for next-level discernment and wisdom over you right now, in Jesus name!
AT THE PIONEER'S CROSSING
In the second dream, I stood at a railway crossing with the red lights flashing and waiting for the
train to pass. As I stood, I could see that on the other side of the tracks, my path multiplied into
many paths, and so I began trying to look and see where each path led.
It seemed that the path to the far left was pretty straight, and I could see something in the
distance in that direction.
Then the path in the middle was pretty much the same - a few more bends but ultimately
seemed pretty well trodden and going somewhere.
Then I felt it, the knowing, the pull, or whatever you’d like to call that moment where God
changes plans, and you have to deal with any previous expectations and adjust your sights on a
new horizon. I knew that on the other side, I was called to take the unfamiliar path…yet again.