WHAT GOD TOLD ME ABOUT THOSE WHO FEEL BARREN RIGHT NOW…

I have a word that I believe God has given me to BREAK the lie of barrenness that many are feeling. The feeling of "I'm going nowhere, nothing is moving, I'm lost, and I'm empty."

We are in another tension moment right now, and the tension is the feeling of a lingering hope deferred that God is breaking. He's coming against mindsets of fear, lack, poverty, warfare, fatigue, weariness, emptiness, and loss, and against this deep, irrational feeling inside you that something is coming that you don't have a grid for.

Deep down, past the debris of your last season and your fears, what are you sensing? That something is birthing, that God is moving, that you can feel His hand stirring the waters of your spirit and your life. That's the tension that we're in right now.

We're married to this divine kairos moment right now, where God is still cleaning out the old and clearing away a lot of the things from the past, and that's why so many people are going through a lot of healing and deliverance. Right now, God is really leveling us up in a lot of spiritual intelligence and understanding of the Kingdom. He's shutting old doors and alignments, and He's moving a lot of people on from places they've been stagnant in. There's a lot of movement taking place in this season as God realigns you.

Last week, I shared about a dream I had where I was pregnant, and I felt like this baby was asleep, and I was frustrated because it was taking so long, when suddenly this baby was born and laying on my chest. And all last week, I kept hearing the Lord say, "And suddenly, and suddenly, and suddenly, and suddenly."

Then in the last few days, I had another dream where I said to Christy, "We're about to have a double portion birth." What I feel this speaks into is for those who have been through a Job season, where they've lost everything. Because there's a passage where Job prays for his friends and God restored to him double.

I believe this is where the Lord is showing us that as we are faithful to allow Him to heal the past seasons, and as we forgive and release our past, the people behind it and the alignments, and we truly allow Him to deliver us from some of that past season, it's going to bring us into a double deliverance. It's going to bring us into a double birthing season, where we're going to see the double portion recompense of everything that has been robbed and stolen.

The thing that just keeps coming back to me is that in the dream there was no pain involved. There was waiting, and then there was a suddenly, and then the baby was just there. There was no actual painful birth. It just came. And I feel like the Lord is going to use the pregnancy of this season to heal the trauma and the pain of the past season.

A lot of you are afraid. You're afraid to step into doing something new for the Lord. You're afraid of stepping into that ministry, of birthing that movement, of taking that faithful first step to do what God's called you to do, because you've been burnt in the past with people. You've been burnt with painful betrayals, with people coming against you, with witchcraft and warfare, and now it's scaring you because you know God's leading you into something new.

But I want to say this to you: this is the very thing that's going to heal you. The very thing you need to heal you is stepping back into that place of obedience to the Lord again.

You see, you can go through seasons where it feels like nothing is happening for a long time, and seasons where you don't "feel" anything spiritually acute like you used to. And that's because you can't use your emotions and feelings to determine the importance of a season, or the spiritual activity of a season. You just have to be in a place and heart posture of worship until God suddenly brings it forth. I believe we're in one of those seasons right now.

For so many, nothing has been happening for so long. You've felt not only barren, but there's been a demonic soul sickness the enemy has tried to inflict upon you to make you believe that you're at the end of the road. But you don't know what God's been doing in that season. You don't know what He's been pouring into you, what He's been planning, or what He's been orchestrating. Because you're in the wrestle. You're in this wrestle of faith and fear, where your old man is being put to death, and God is raising up the new you.

And in the midst of that, you can sense this "something." You don't know what it is. It's an unfamiliar feeling, because you've been in the dark night of the soul for so long. But then suddenly…

Suddenly, you're birthing something. And it looks insignificant right now, it looks small right now, it's not visible yet, and there are no birth pangs yet. It's just this feeling that something is moving, something rumbling in the depths of you that you can't comprehend or understand, that no one can see yet. In fact, people are still misunderstanding what God's doing in your life. They think you're falling apart.

But God is doing more than you can see right now. It's a grassroots moment for so many people. It's the season of being faithful to what God's put in front of you when it doesn't make sense, when you don't have the provision, when you don't have all the connections or the answers, and when you don't have the puzzle pieces.

In fact, let me say, this is a moment where you won't have your ducks in a row, but let me prophesy over you:

The Lord keeps showing me that over the next few months that UNEXPECTED BIRTHING is about to take place.

It's not what you expected. Maybe it's not even what you wanted, or the way that you wanted it. You had your plans, you had your ideas of how God was going to use you and move through you, and then suddenly He births it in a different way. He uses a barn instead of a birthing suite. He surrounds you with barn animals instead of a company.

But you know what it's going to do? This is another moment where you're like, "Lord, not my will, but Yours be done." You know the path, you know the way, you know the road that I'm meant to walk on to fulfill my destiny, but God knows the ingredients you need and how to bring that to pass.

Let me get specific about what I believe God is birthing right now. I believe God is birthing ministries that are born of the Spirit. Right now, a lot of people who are in ministry, who have movements, are feeling this almost like a tension, because the things they used to do don't work in the same way anymore.

The things we're trying to accomplish aren't working how they did. The vision they had is incomplete, and that's because the Lord is doing something new through people right now. So we need to be inclined to the Spirit of God. We need to surrender what we've been doing, the activity, the things in our hands, and allow the Holy Spirit to realign it with His heart, so that we're not birthing a stillborn.

A stillborn is when we're trying to birth things through the flesh, when we're trying to make things happen the way we used to in our own strength. The Lord is saying, “no.” You cannot birth things the way you used to, otherwise you'll keep experiencing delay and warfare.

This is a moment where the Lord's asking, "Do you trust Me in this moment?" But get ready for this. You've been stuck in that barren mindset for so long, and God is confronting that right now. He's going to absolutely obliterate that assignment that's been against your mind, cutting you short in every area, as you begin to feel the pains of birth come upon you.

And as you feel the pangs of birth come upon you, you're about to step into an unexpected pregnancy season, an unexpected season where God leads you into certain things that are grassroots, and He begins to rebuild you from the ground up. As the pain, anguish, loss, grief, and the warfare of your past season rise up, God uses it suddenly to launch you into a season of pregnancy, of fruit, of birthing something you didn't even know you were carrying. And it's going to be potent, it's going to be powerful, it's going to be anointed, and it's going to take your eyes off everything else that's been stealing your gaze for years.

So as we begin this week, I pray this word keeps hitting up against hope deferred. I pray it keeps hitting up against the false agreements you made with the enemy through lack, through abandonment, through fear, through not seeing the promise. God is breaking the hope deferred right now by bringing forth trees of life. It's a birthing that comes when you don't expect it.

Isaiah 66:9 says, "‘Do I bring to the moment of birth and not give delivery?’ says the Lord. ‘Do I close up the womb when I bring to delivery?’ says your God.”

This is a moment that God is remembering the covenant He has made with you. Even when you have forgotten that covenant, and you have thought that He has forgotten what He promised you, He's saying, "Do I give you that promise and not bring it to pass?"

I feel like I need to end this word by breaking that barrenness off your life.

Right now, in the name of Jesus, I take authority over every demonic assignment of barrenness that has been sent against you. I command it to break. Barrenness, you have no legal right to them. I break your hold over their womb, over their dreams, over their ministry, over their finances, over their family, in the mighty name of Jesus.

I break the assignment of the enemy that has been warring against your promise. Every spirit of delay, every spirit of stagnation, every spirit that whispered "it's too late, nothing is moving, you're at the end of the road…" I silence you right now in Jesus' name. You are a liar, and your assignment is broken.

I break the mindset of poverty and lack off of you. I break hope deferred off of you. I break that demonic soul sickness that tried to convince you that you were finished. I cancel every word curse, every false agreement, every lie you came into agreement with in your darkest season. I uproot it right now, and I bind it, in the name of Jesus.

What the enemy meant to bury, I declare God is about to birth. I release a double portion over you. I release recompense for everything that was stolen. I release the suddenly of God over your life. Wombs that were closed, I declare open. Promises that were dormant, I declare alive. Fruitfulness, increase, and new life, I speak it over you right now in the mighty name of Jesus.

If you've read this prayer, I want you to say: "I am no longer barren. I'm stepping into an unexpected pregnancy, in Jesus' name."