PROPHETIC WORD – AFTER THE STORM COMES THE WAVE OF GLORY…
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I am hearing, "CHECKMATE! This is a checkmate season against the kingdom of darkness."
The enemy may have played his hand against your family, your destiny, and your purpose for a long time now, but I'm hearing, “CHECKMATE.” Something is coming that he can't hold back.
The enemy has been like the prince of Persia, trying to delay the breakthrough, trying to make you barren and birth stillborns, but I'm hearing “CHECKMATE,” because God has an answer. God has His reinforcements, and this is the season where God is about to roll out His RECOVERY plan.
Maybe you've been stuck in the warfare mindset for so long you can't see beyond this particular attack that's come against you. Prophesy this with me: Checkmate! God has a move up His sleeve. He's about to show up in GLORY!
A few months ago, I shared about the wave of God's JUSTICE, then the wave of RECKONING. I saw this wave many months ago, but the Lord didn't release me to share the rest of it until now.
Then the other night, I saw a wave of His GLORY crashing over the body of Christ. It was not a nice little wave. It was TSUNAMI LEVEL, and I could feel the winds of it… the four winds of the valley of dry bones, the four winds of the Spirit of God blowing.
God's about to FLIP THE SCRIPT. He's about to turn the tide on every bit of opposition that has been against you.
"For I've seen the murderous spirit that's come against you," says the Lord. "The moment I placed that seed, that vision in your spirit, the moment I branded you, the moment I anointed you, the enemy came against you with the murderous spirit, not just to delay you, distract you, but to TAKE YOU OUT.
He thought he could take you out with that which was familiar to you– old temptations, old escapisms. He thought he could take you out by leading you astray, but you held close to Me. So he tried to take you out with other things that were familiar… people, words of slander, accusation from the body of Christ, from family, from friends.
He sent saboteurs. He sent sickness, affliction, infirmity, the bad report against you, which today is BREAKING. He came against you with poverty, with lack, slowly poking holes in your provision, in your confidence, until you felt like you weren't anointed anymore, like I had abandoned you. It came to take your life, because of what I planted within you. But now I'm TURNING THE TIDE," says the Lord. "There is a flood coming into your life. I'm about to FLIP THE SCRIPT."
That's why the assignment has been against you. It's because of what you're CARRYING. You don't even see the fullness of it. All you know is that you're majorly contested.
But it's a paradox. How? The Lord said to me, "What looks like the place of affliction is actually the BIRTHING PLACE. It's actually their LAUNCH PAD."
"Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed… Enlarge the site of your tent, stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, do not hold back. Lengthen your ropes and drive your stakes in deep." –Isaiah 54:1-2
It's where it doesn't make sense, because you say, "I'm barren. I haven't got my song. And You're going to ENLARGE me? I'm BARREN, yet I'm told to SING. I'm AFFLICTED, yet I'm told to ENLARGE?"
"O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires." – Isaiah 54:11
"Lashed by storms" is the word "so'arah." A tempest. A whirlwind. The enemy brought a storm to interrupt and disrupt what God is doing in your life. But he doesn't realize he's playing into God's plan, because Isaiah 54 is the blueprint: when you come into opposition, it's actually the place God is BIRTHING you.
Isaiah 54:17 says, "No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD."
The enemy thinks he has won because of all he has done against you. But this is where God brings VINDICATION.
Let me break down three things about this wave…
1- THE BREAKING POINT IS THE BIRTH CANAL
Why is the war so intense against your life? Because you're about to BIRTH. You're about to step into next level influence, a new anointing, a mantle. You've been asking God for nations, for regions, for your family, for your marriage, for that next level anointing. The enemy saw the seed being planted and said, "That's the target I'm going to take out." He sees the next level you that is emerging, and it absolutely sends chills down his spine.
What you've been walking through is the birth canal of the greater glory. It's felt like death, but it's the beginning of DELIVERY. And it's been a test…
A test on your voice– "Will you keep speaking what I've given you?" says the Lord.
A test on your faith– Will you step out even when you don't have the provision?
A test of vision– Will you walk the path when it doesn't make sense?
A test of your heart– Will you love even when people betray you?
A test of your pursuit– Will you seek Me when you're having to defend yourself?
This has been a hidden process for so many. Behind closed doors, crushed beyond crushed, persecuted, abandoned. But the Lord says, "I'm about to move powerfully on your behalf and RESURRECT you in public and EXONERATE you in public."
2- WHEN THE ENEMY COMES IN LIKE A FLOOD
"So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him." – Isaiah 59:19
The enemy has been coming like a storm, like a flood. But what's greater than a flood? A TSUNAMI. A TIDAL WAVE OF HIS GLORY, and that is what is coming!
You might be thinking, "No one's protecting me. No one's looking after me." You feel uncovered, vulnerable, like the enemy has just been wreaking havoc on your life. But God is BROODING over you. He's hovering over your life and raising up a BANNER over you right now.
"I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us." – Romans 8:18
God is pouring out His glory in a season of affliction, in a season of persecution. He's about to raise you up as a VOICE TO THE NATIONS in the midst of your most tumultuous season.
3- THE GLORY COMES AFTER THE BATTLE
"Once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. I will shake all the nations, and they will come with all their treasures, and I will fill this house with glory… The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine… The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former… And in this place I will provide peace." – Haggai 2:6-9
The shaking always comes before the glory. The battle always comes before the glory.
What He planted in you long ago were SEEDS OF GLORY. The seeds of a mighty outpouring of His Spirit. And the opposition WEAPONIZES you. God's like, "Devil, you tried to take them out, but look, they're STILL STANDING. It did not work. They're still worshiping Me."
The refinery process is painful, and many people abdicate from the process. But those who have STAYED in the place of refinery, in the purging of heart through the difficult, painful years… they're the ones the glory comes to.
So right now, I break that hope deferred mindset. I break that abandonment mentality. I break that feeling of being afflicted and storm-tossed, like a dog under the table.
NOW WATCH WHAT THE GLORY DOES…
Many of you have been through extreme loss. In fact, your whole track record the last three to four years has been loss, loss, loss. But GET READY FOR THE GLORY OF GOD. It's about to crash into your life because this is who He is… He's the KING OF GLORY!
Lift up your heads again, because this is the playbook of heaven against the playbook of the enemy. The glory always comes after suffering. Let God vindicate you. LET HIS GLORY VINDICATE YOU.
The glory SHIFTS THE TIDE. Fruit just breaks out everywhere around you. You don't even need to try. DEMONS RUN. It comes with AUTHORITY. The things you prophesy happen. When you pray for people, they get healed. They get set free. Things that have been against you in the natural begin to turn, and an unusual favor comes over you. You're about to see signs, wonders, healings, miracles, an outpouring of God's Spirit over your family, your marriage, every area of your life.
And people are about to see the fruit of your “yes” through the hard and difficult years. The ones who were talking about you are going to say, "Maybe I saw wrong." They're going to repent before the Lord, because they threw stones at you when you needed a brother to lift up your arms.
I heard the Lord say this over you–
"Thank you for being faithful to steward the new wine. Thank you for being faithful to steward what is unpopular. For now, the wave of My glory is coming to establish My kingdom through those I can trust with My glory, and what I've been pouring out in secret, because I entrust My glory to My friends."
Put your hands out right now and prophesy with me:
I PROPHESY THE WAVE OF GLORY IS COMING OVER ME.
I PROPHESY THAT THIS BREAKING POINT IS MY LAUNCHING PAD.
I PROPHESY THE TIDE IS TURNING IN MY LIFE.
I PROPHESY GOD IS FLIPPING THE SCRIPT ON EVERY ASSIGNMENT AGAINST ME.
I PROPHESY THAT EVEN THROUGH THIS SUFFERING, THE GLORY OF THE LORD IS COMING INTO MY LIFE AND I WON'T EVEN BE ABLE TO CONTAIN IT.
I PROPHESY EVERY TONGUE THAT CAME AGAINST ME IS BROKEN AND REFUTED IN THE NAME OF JESUS.
God, I will birth what You gave me long ago. You will rebuild me. And like Job, who was restored with double, this will be a season of DOUBLE RECOMPENSE for all the years of affliction that came against my life, for You are flipping the script right now.
Now one last time, let me prophesy: CHECKMATE. CHECKMATE. CHECKMATE! Now get ready for the glory of the Lord, in Jesus' mighty name.