TO THOSE WRESTLING RIGHT NOW

I've been really transparent about the process I’ve been in this last year, how I went into a season I thought was burnout, but it was actually the Lord bringing me to a higher level, re-mantling me with fresh authority and anointing. He was leading me into something new, but in that process, it didn’t feel like an upgrade. It didn’t feel like a promotion - it felt like I was falling apart.

It felt like I went into a mind battle, a dark night season, and a lot of the activities and things I was pouring my life into suddenly weren’t working the way they used to. Every single area of my life stopped functioning the way it once did.

Why? The old wine ran out.

I had been prophesying this very thing for years and faithfully pioneering into the new, but there were still areas of my foundation, mindsets, and beliefs that were built around something old that God needed to bring me out of, and many of us have been in this same process.

The old wine ran out.

Suddenly, the tap turned off. The grace period ended. We were no longer able to keep going the way we used to, and I had to come to the realization that I could no longer live on the revelations and encounters I’d had with God years ago.

The prayer life I had was no longer conducive to where God was leading. I needed a new prayer life. I needed fresh fire, fresh conviction, and a fresh roar.

I needed to be delivered from a whole chapter of my life, a chapter where I’d been building, talking, and living for Jesus in a certain way. And let me make this clear - He wasn’t offended by it. It wasn’t against Him. It’s just that there was something greater He was leading me into.

I was carrying baggage I didn’t need to carry, the wounds and weariness of pioneering for the Lord, the weights and pressures of religious expectations others had built around me. I was surrounded by voices and situations that were stunting and stopping the voice of the Lord in my life.

And that’s where many of us are right now, wrestling—wrestling between who we used to be and who we’re becoming.

It’s the wrestle between the fresh fire beginning to erupt out of you and the lingering insecurity of “Am I enough? Am I up to the massive calling God has given me? Am I the right person? Am I good enough, articulate enough, or anointed enough?”

And today I hear the Lord saying, “Stop questioning and fighting your new path, because I have chosen you for such a time as this!”

It’s uncomfortable right now because what’s coming out of you is not what you expected. The message in your belly isn’t what you imagined you would carry, so it feels like you’re wearing someone else’s shoes, and it’s confronting every lie and mindset trying to keep you in an old wineskin.

But this shock to the system is not a curse; it’s a gift. God is using it to shed the old and lead you into who you’re truly called to be. It may feel like a breaking point, but it’s really a new threshold of breakthrough and upgrade, one that only wild, radical obedience can unlock.

I always think of Jacob in this moment. It says he wrestled the angel of the Lord until daybreak. I believe he was being delivered from a whole chapter of his life, all the stigma that came with being a deceiver to his brother, the pain and trauma of those years with Laban. He was crossing over into a season where God wanted to remantle him and rename him for something new.

It was such a Father-heart move because God wanted Jacob to stop seeing himself as the worm he thought he was. He wanted him to step into who he truly was. Jacob wasn’t wrestling to fight God; he was wrestling to get past himself. And that’s what wrestling really is, and that’s where so many of us are right now. It’s the wrestle of “Am I good enough?” The wrestle of God leading us into who we really are, while we doubt and fight that process.

But the wrestle is holy. It’s where God brings us to the end of ourselves so we can become the leader, the general, the father or mother, the husband or wife, the man or woman of God we’re called to be. So if you’re wrestling right now, be encouraged, you’re in a healthy process where God is taking you higher.

He’s delivering you from what’s been putting a ceiling over your life.

In fact, the wrestle is a sign that you’re not decreasing, but increasing. It doesn’t look like it because you see the robbery, the resistance, and all the areas the enemy is warring against you in this process. And yes, the enemy is trying to make you doubt God and the process. He wants you to step into the flesh, to make something man-made in a divine moment. But the answer is simple: don’t wrestle God. Don’t fight Him right now. Lean in. Surrender.

Many right now are facing impossibilities on every side. But some of these situations are simply God allowing old barrels to run empty so we can rely on His Spirit again. We’ve relied on what we’ve built - on systems, methods, and people, but God isn’t afraid of those things ending if it means we’ll rely fully on Him.

Because this is the season of the old coming to an end, and the season of the new wine being poured out.  

Whether you see it or not, He’s pouring it over your life right now, and it’s beginning to flow into you and from you. It’s time to shift your mindset and perspective to see that God is doing a new thing in you today.

Let me say it like this - you aren’t falling apart - you are becoming a new wineskin right now.

“But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.” - Luke 5:38

And what I felt to prophesy over you is this from John 2:10:

“But you have kept the good wine until now.”

The Lord is saying over you, Don’t look at what’s running out, for I have reserved your best years for now. I’m doing this deep work so you will see the new wine burst forth in your life where there has only been famine and depletion.

So if you’re in the wrestle - YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE THE NEW WINE GUSH FORTH!

God is about to pour out His Spirit through you like never before. The old is breaking and the new is bursting forth.

Stay in the secret place. Step into a new prayer life and surrender to this new and uncomfortable moment, and you’ll find that God turns the tide of the enemy’s games while you watch God expand you, multiply you, and stretch your tent pegs in every direction.

Because, despite what you see, this is not a season of decrease; it’s a season of divine increase. But it’s an increase that comes through surrender, through allowing God to do what He needs to do in you and through you.

In fact, lastly, I want to say, the new wine is a REDIRECTION to get you BACK ON TRACK..

It’s where you get back your voice. Your fire. Your ferocity. Your focus. Your purpose and your fight.

So lay down the empty cup today and lean in.