God is breaking the famine from your detour season…
If everything has been drying up in your home, your marriage, your finances, read this:
I believe many are in a season of divine closure right now where God is dealing with the detours, the Ishmaels, and the wrong counsel, revelation, and prophetic words we listened to that led us astray. The doors we opened on our own. The decisions and moments across the last four years that pulled so many of us off course. And because of that, we’re eating the fruit of it right now, living in places of warfare, famine, and misalignment that came from those detours.
You see, the enemy constantly offers diversions on the road of your calling. Off-ramps that look easier, quicker, and less painful. Just like Jonah who was told to go to Nineveh but out of fear, he found a ship to Tarshish instead. Interestingly, the name “Tarshish” means excellency or courage/confidence which represents the mindset when we make decisions in the flesh, but leads to shipwreck. In this context, this is prophetic because the root word of Tarshish, “rashash,” means to beat down and shatter. Another meaning is “refinery.”
But this isn’t a word to beat you up and I don't want you to hear this as condemnation because we have also lived it. We shared recently on the podcast about a false prophetic word we received that led us astray for seasons and how it robbed us in every area, trying to take everything. But the Lord used even that to bring us into a greater place of discernment and breakthrough, and that’s the heart of this word– regardless of what you are seeing, GOD IS GETTING YOU BACK ON TRACK!
So let me show you three signs you're in this process, the three doors that were open that brought the detour, and the three solutions that are going to pull you out. Are you ready?
Three signs you're in a closure moment:
1- Messes and impossible situations are everywhere, depletion in every direction, nothing working, endless bad reports, and you at your breaking point, feeling completely stuck. You are eating bad fruit and God is revealing it and you feel the tension of defeat and the fight to break through it and get back on track.
2- The Ishmaels are rising to the surface, the bad decisions, and impulsive moments that led you off track so you can finally deal with them. The wrong doors you opened are coming to a close and now… it’s obvious. You feel movement again, but this time it’s a chain breaking moment as God reveals the areas of your life that have been “off” and not in alignment with His heart for your life.
3- Your discernment has gone to another level. God is exposing the snakes and the roots they entered through, showing you things you simply couldn't see before, and is dealing with the counterfeits and imposters in every area that you tolerated for a long time.
Three doors the famine got in through:
1- Wrong alignments, wrong networks, wrong environments, the people you got yoked to that led you astray. You were never meant to run with them, and the famine followed the misalignment. God is closing this door.
2- The Ishmaels, the door we opened because the promise was delayed, so you made your own answer to it. You moved ahead of God’s timing to the wrong place and built your own version of the thing God promised and it created a diversion to your calling. You've been living in exile ever since, managing something you birthed in your own strength and right now God is revealing it and closing the door.
3- The third door is wrong counsel. The voices you let in. The false words you received and believed. The deception that forced decisions you would have never have made if you had waited on Him. Somewhere in it, you chose man over God and disobeyed an instruction He already gave you. God's closing this door too.
And there's one more door and most people never think to close it: It's the access point of the poison. Once you realize the famine came through your own detour, the enemy comes in with accusation and says that you deserve this. That you made your bed, so now you have to lie in it. That because you opened the door, you've got no right to ask God to shut it. That poison is what's keeping you stuck more than the alignments, more than the Ishmaels, more than the wrong counsel. So you have to close that door too.
The three solutions that will pull you out:
1- Repent for your Ishmaels and pushing down those doors, letting people in, wrong words in and change direction. Give God permission to shut the doors you opened. Go all the way back to the last place you were walking in obedience, and start again from there. Renounce the lies of failure sceaming at you. Break the agreement that says you deserve to stay in the dry place. That door has to shut before the reversal comes.
2- Clean up the mess. Deal with the natural, not just the spiritual. Close the doors and bring finality to the double-mindedness by leaving the place you're in, end the wrong alignments and the wrong assignments. Burn the plough behind you so there's nothing to go back to.
3- Obey His voice. Get off the boat to Tarshish and go to Nineveh. Do the last thing He clearly told you to do. The word came to Jonah a second time and God will do the same for you. This practically means to ASK GOD what His perfect path and plan looks like again. “Lord where do you want me. What did I miss? What are you saying over me right now? Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening!” He will answer you and plant your feet back on track.
Then, get ready for the divine reversal…
That's the grace of God in this. He brings the reversal even when we were the ones who took the detour. He breaks the famine by shutting the doors that brought in the contamination. And the moment you turn back He REALIGNS every part of your life again and the FLOW of favor begins to gush forth again.
Isaiah 30:31 says: “'This is the way, walk in it,' whenever you turn to the right hand or whenever you turn to the left.”
“See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it." –Revelation 3:8
The wrong doors are shutting right now so the right ones can finally open. What feels like everything closing on you isn't an ending… it’s the reversal beginning.
"I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten." –Joel 2:25
And this is the crazy part: God will restore back what the famine took.
Let’s pray to seal this:
Father, I repent. I've been living in the famine of my own choices and my own detours, and it has depleted me in every area of my life– my home, my marriage, my finances, my peace. I take full responsibility and I repent for following a voice that wasn't Yours to lead me astray.
Right now, I renounce every wrong alignment I ever agreed to. I break the yoke off my life with every wrong network, every wrong relationship, every wrong environment that led me astray. I cut every soul tie to wrong counsel. I sever every agreement I made with false words and false prophecy. I renounce them now and they have no more claim on me or my life.
I renounce every Ishmael I built in my own strength and everything I created in the flesh and not the spirit. I hand You every diversion I created. I come out of exile right now. I renounce the poison of self-condemnation. I break the agreement that says I deserve to stay in this famine. The blood of Jesus covers the doors I chose, not just the ones I fell into. Accusation, you have no hold on me. I refuse to agree with you any longer.
I command every door I opened in disobedience to be shut by the hand of God, sealed by the blood of Jesus, never to be reopened. I close the door on famine. I close the door on misalignment. I close the door on double-mindedness. It is finished over my life.
Every spirit that came in through those doors – through deception, through fear, through rebellion, through condemnation – I command you leave now, in the name of Jesus. You have no legal ground. The agreement is broken. Go now, in Jesus’ name!
Father, get me and my family back on track. Restore the years the locust ate. Realign me with Your heart. Put me back on the path of my calling, and let me birth what You promised, in Jesus’ name. Amen!