A Prophetic Dream of Delay, Process, and Deliverance
I dreamt a few nights ago that I was headed somewhere, but before I was on the road, I was trying to go through a fast food restaurant to get food. I kept having to go to different drive-thrus because I wasn’t finding what I needed. This kept me in delay, and I kept wondering what was going on. Then I had to drop something off somewhere. While I was doing that, I was on the phone with my husband, telling him I was trying to get to the destination, but all this stuff was hindering me, causing delay and I didn’t understand why.
Then the dream shifted. I was on foot in a forest-type territory. I was walking along when I had a knowing that I was wounded, but there were no visible wounds on the surface. All of a sudden, I saw a wolf following me, looking like it was waiting for the right moment to attack, but I was not afraid. As I saw the wolf, my gaze shifted back to myself, and I began to take off my coat to find the wound. I saw many hands begin to peel back layers to get to it. The wound was deep, beneath many layers. All the while, the wolf remained close watching.
The Spiritual Landscape of Transition
I know this is a prophetic word over many in this time, especially those in transition.
This dream reveals the spiritual landscape of the process of transitioning into new territory. Transition attracts warfare. And during war, we can’t play spiritual games, we cannot be reckless with our spiritual substance, and our daily sustenance for the journey. The Lord was revealing a crucial correction when I couldn’t find what I needed at any of the fast food restaurants. Stop looking for substance; the meat for the mature at places that lack the anointing for the depth, width, and height of where we are going. It will cause confusion, frustration, and delay. Even as momentum increases, we must practice being still enough to hear the voice of the Lord every step of the way, inquiring of His direction in everything and relying on Him like never before.
Dropping something off before I could continue on was a prophetic picture of releasing the old, familiar baggage of the past. Talking with my husband while doing that is a beautiful reminder that the Lord wants to be in communication with us. He desires a personal, intimate connection with us where we are vulnerable, honest, and transparent with Him about our innermost wrestlings. It was also a picture that even in these intense times, the Lord Jesus Christ is our covenantal covering and is interceding for our faith not to fail, but to be fortified.
From Acceleration to Process
Shifting from traveling in a car, which represents acceleration, to walking on foot, which represents process, is very significant. I believe many know they are in an acceleration season and now it seems like things are delayed. But hear me on this: delay is over. This is not delay, this is the process of Him strengthening our endurance, our discipline, our character, and our maturity. He is doing a deeper work of deliverance and healing; not because the last time didn’t work, but because there is always greater freedom He wants to bring us into by the blood of the Lamb. Life can wound even the strongest of warriors. There are layers of our soul, our mind, our heart, and our body that carry hidden wounds we are unaware of until He brings us to a pain point.
These wounds make us vulnerable to spiritual predators. And He loves us too much to allow us to be devoured. These are wolves of insecurity, pride, wicked pretenses, control, doubt, and fear, hiding in the land and waiting to devour us through our unhealed wounds. This is why transition is a process. Because premature possession of new territory will leave us destroyed by the promise instead of promoted through it.
God’s Strategy: Little by Little
The many hands represent the divine intervention of the precision of the Word of God, which divides between soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart (Hebrews 4:12).
This is the word of the Lord about the process of transition into new territory and why He doesn’t just remove all the enemies from our land. If He cleared out all the enemies too quickly, we would step into a spacious land but suffocate under the pressure of stewarding it. So He’s giving it to us little by little, not because He’s punishing us, but because He’s protecting us. He is using the pressure of coming up against the predators in the land to expose the wounds; systems, mindsets, beliefs, and spiritual structures that He wants to heal, redeem, and reform. One layer at a time. Because each level conquered expands our capacity to possess. He gives to us inch by inch, as our roots deepen, our revelation widens, and our authority increases.
This Is Not Delay—This Is Development
Remember: the measure of our increase is not based on the external, but on the internal weight He is developing in us. When I was a health and fitness coach, I would always say, “Trust the process,” and “Form is better than flex.” God measures growth, not time and I’ve always been an advocate for that perspective. The process isn’t something we endure; it’s what makes us truly rich in Him. Stop looking to the end result at the finish line. Start looking at what He is producing in the process, who you are becoming.
Don’t focus on time, focus on what He is forming on the inside. What is growing and maturing in you? How is the pressure of spiritual resistance; what we call warfare or delay, developing a potent and powerful anointing?
This is not delay. This is development.
He is not slow, He is surgical and strategic. Don’t curse the process that’s crafting your power. God is not in a hurry. His goal is not just to get you to the destination, but to form you into someone who can steward it.
The Lord builds spiritual capacity over time because this is where we become one with Him. This is the joy of bearing our cross. Mantles require the strengthening of marrow and only resistance produces that. He is reforming and rebuilding us line upon line, precept upon precept, strength to strength, and step by step. This is where everything becomes strategic, forcing us not to miss important details, impartations, and revelations crucial to our development. He is unveiling and healing hidden wounds that would have destroyed our destiny. He’s using the exposure of the predators in the land, not to scare us, but to reveal that what He has developed inside us needs to become a witness to their displacement.
We are in a time of acceleration; a Kairos moment, but that doesn’t mean we get to skip the process. Because it’s the process that bears witness that we are in alignment with our destiny scroll.
We are in an Exodus 23:30 transition process.
"But little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you are fruitful. Then you will possess the land."
— Exodus 23:30
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