2025
The Year He Broke You Open
The enemy came to break you in 2025.
Even for the seasoned warrior, there were attacks you never saw coming and blows so low it took your breath away.
The enemy threw everything he could at you. He attempted to steal your strength, break your heart and loot your family and close relationships.
BUT the Lord says,
“The enemy tried to break you, but I broke you open.”
Every place the enemy penetrated, the Lord used to reveal.
He broke you open to till the ground of your heart in a way it had yet to be tilled.
He prepared a place to bear fruit and used the tears the enemy sent to grow a beautiful garden.
He broke through the lies, the abandonment, the hurt, and the pain of it all. You felt shattered, but He calls you prepared, seasoned, ready to bloom.
You may leave this year feeling broken, but He declares the truth over you! There is a difference in being broken, and broken open.
You are no longer contained. The limits and restraints have been removed by what you were willing to endure. You stood, even when it brought you to your knees. You kept your heart pure, even when you didn’t understand; you didn’t get bitter or angry, you just cried out, Lord use it!!
Hear me out, You are NOT LEAVING this year broken. You are broken open to flow, to heal, to go, to do what you have not been able to do before.
I know it has been the most excruciating, painful experience in the world; allowing yourself to be cut wide open by the masterful surgeon. You didn’t attempt to numb the pain, you stayed the course.
Every painstaking place you allowed Him to reveal, heal and ultimately redeem is being made beautiful.
He is bringing beauty from your story and glory through your openness.
This is not the season to hide, to pretend, to cover up or walk under a facade. Only the real ones, the sincere ones, the ones willing to be broken open will go where He needs them to go.
The enemy tried to bring shame, but the Lord says, “I’m bringing honor to the broken open places. I’m the redeemer of your story and I will have the final say.”
The light that will now shine through you carries oil that breaks the yoke, brings freedom and sets the captives free. You are overflowing with KEYS, and now you are broken open to release. Revelation, healing, restoration and the keys to joy and overcoming will flow from you.
You are broke open, let the oil flow!
Shift your heart and mind to see things as they really are.
The enemy would have you entering into the next season downtrodden and believing God didn’t show up for you, it’s a LIE.
Enter in in truth. You are not broken, you are broken open. You are not limited, you are limitless. The only thing the enemy has left to steal is your belief. Believe in what He has done, and can do through the season you just walked through.
You made it through and you are coming out with the goods on the enemy and the glory on your story. The spoils don’t look like you thought they would. To the world, it may look like you are coming out empty handed, but you know the truth. The real prize was the transformation that happened IN you! You aren’t walking out with mere things, you are coming out with POWER, DESTINY and ANOINTING. You are a FORCE to be reckoned with.
2025 did not defeat you, it broke you open with glory and you will walk into 2026 flowing with the power of God to do and accomplish everything He created you for.
Don’t look back.
Don’t look down.
Hold your spoils high.
Look to the one who broke you open to lead down the path of restoration and recompense.
This is a place you’ve never been, a place only the willing go. Few know the price, so few will know the reward, but it is yours!!!
He broke you open to contain more, more than you can imagine. 2026 will take you a way you have never gone before. Get ready! What you thought was broken is about to be revealed. So many are focused on finishing 2025 “strong.” I see past the busy, building and doing. We are in a literal season of wintering, where we are made to slow down, rest and reflect.
Unfortunately, many are afraid to be still. Afraid to lose momentum. Afraid to leave 2025 behind without making up for some of what was lost.
If I were you, I’d keep my eyes on the quiet ones. The surrender ones. The ones brave enough to pause, to heal, to listen, and to press in. There’s a deep rest and reset for those who endured this year, they will come up out of the ashes of 2025.
It won’t be about work or what they could do in their own strength.
Their surrender will hold more weight than work.
Their pain will bring more favor than strategy.
Their unbridled yes holds more breakthrough than striving.
Maybe the strongest, bravest thing you can do is lean into the winter. Your next seasons fruit depends on your willingness to fully embrace the one you are currently in.
The voices of the yeilded ones are being strengthened in the quiet closing of winter. Watch and listen as they emerge from the ashes of 2025 into the promise of 2026. They will roar!
Trauma attempts to rob you of your ability to hold goodness.
Safety becomes a threat.
Hope becomes distant.
Joy becomes elusive.
The thing that happened, becomes the elephant in the room. It’s there in every conversation, in every interaction.
It not only shapes the way you see yourself, it shapes the way you think others see you.
It doesn’t just attempt to steal your ability to love, it steals your ability to be loved.
It’s the ever-present distraction that steals your ability to be present.
It convinces you to push away the very people you need and hold close; the ones that feel familiar.
But listen to me friend, trauma doesn’t have to stay. It doesn’t have to rewrite your story. You can take back your ability to be the author and not just a reader.
I know your ability to hold goodness and the hope of healing has been diminished.
You may have tried everything to find the peace you long to feel. You cry out to be the person you were before, but there’s something better than who you were before. You aren’t just a survivor, you are an overcomer.
He’s calling you forward, to be brave; enough to hope again, to believe again.
He’s aligning you with those who are called to walk alongside you in your healing journey.
Trauma may whisper not to trust, but I declare you will discern and welcome those who carry the keys you need.
You will hold goodness again. Your nervous system will accept safety, love and wholeness. You will be able to take a deep breath and relax once again.
I speak truth and hope into every place that trauma has overtaken.
You WILL surely see the goodness of the Lord once again.
When God speaks a promise over our life and it doesn’t come to pass, many times we feel God has failed us.
When promises and words over our lives don’t come to fruition often times it’s not because God has failed us, it’s because people have failed us.
In reality our destinies are often tied to others and in the end their obedience or disobedience effects us.
But take heart because what looks like failure is only an opportunity for a divine rearrangement. God does not fail us and his promises remain true. He is the God of breakthrough, the God who goes before you and has already taken account for every possibility. His word promises us that he WILL work ALL things together for our good. That includes the places where people have failed us and seemingly derailed our destiny in the process.
The Lord is also speaking to the ones who held onto Words from the Lord concerning loved ones in their life. You are questioning the promise you held onto for so long. You are agonizing because it has become apparent that the decisions of the ones you love indeed will not line up with the word of the Lord over their life.
You are questioning whether you heard right. Rest assured, not only did you hear right, you’re obedience to war with the promise has not gone unnoticed. Do not question God’s faithfulness or his goodness. In fact, he is SO good that he comes to you to today to release you from this burden.
He says it is time to release them back to him. You have trusted, fought, warred and weeped over their life, their destiny, and their soul. You fear that releasing them means giving up.
But God says NO, you have done your part and now it is time to let God do his. He is the loving father who leaves the 99 to go after the 1.
He’s calling you into a new place and holding on would be nothing short of disobedience. Letting go of something you fought so long, so hard for can be difficult. But it is essential in order to enter into the next season and the next level he is taking you.
So I pray that today you would take rest in the goodness of his promises. That your eyes would veer away from the earthly circumstances, to his heart, which makes a way for you.
Trust in his hand to orchestrate and not only make all things new, but right once and for all.
Let go of the burden you’ve carried and release the ones you love to the God of perfect love. In doing so I pray you enter into a place of peace and rest you have yet to experience.
He IS destiny, he IS breakthrough, he IS love, he IS the fulfillment of all our promises. What his hand sets out to tear down will be tore down, and what his hand sets out to hold, will be held still through it all. This is the promise and peace we rest in. Not what we see or feel. Rather, what has been placed in us from the foundations of the earth, a knowing that we are deeply loved and desired by the creator of all the universe, therefore we shall not fear.
Realms of Restoration
The enemy attempts to rewrite your memories and history through the lens of trauma. Shaping the way you see things, remember things, even the lens of which your days are viewed through. Suddenly, the small joys, little and big moments are overshadowed by the darkness of trauma.
It can feel as if moments, days and years are stolen away instead of hidden in your heart.
But there is hope, not all is lost. The enemy wants you to surrender to the lie, but the Lord is lifting you up to reveal a deeper reality that holds untold mysteries. The mysteries of healing, restoration and recompense.
Though it may feel as if your precious days were stolen, He is speaking to an eternal place deep within. Every moment was and is held by him. Written and recorded for eternity; He holds it waiting to give it back to you once again. What if I told there are realms of restoration beyond what you could fathom? A place where you could relive what was taken and experience the way He originally had it written upon the scroll that is your life. Could you imagine and dare to believe for a redo; for nothing lost, nothing stolen, nothing broken? You say, “it’s impossible, where is it written?”
I say to you, that He can do far beyond what eye has seen, ear has heard or human mind can conceive.
There are places and mysteries in Him you have yet to behold and they hold the fullness of your restoration.
Dare to believe and lean into the mystery today. You may not be able to fathom it; but the promise you have in him is EVERYTHING. Anything else is a lie, He holds it all, redeems it all, restores it all and makes it better than before.
I know the pain of feeling like trauma took it all, but He’s reminding you that He is not only bigger but His ways are higher. It may be impossible to comprehend how all that has been broken could be redeemed, but there is an invitation to lean into the promise, the vast, wide unknown that exists within Him. He is LIMITLESS so do not limit Him. Hold the beauty of today knowing that your days are held, your memories and moments stored in eternity and your promise ALREADY exist!!
It doesn’t look like it now, but trust it’s all part of His plan.
The enemy may have placed you on a road, but God knows and creates a way back to your perfect path.
When pressure, pain and seemingly never ending obstacles stand in the way and press down; hold on just a little bit longer.
The enemy wants you caught it the swirl but God wants you caught in the glory.
There is a place there in His light that radiates and over powers all darkness and obstacles that have been set against you.
Hold on dear one, what looks like chaos is perfect order in the hands of the creator. He already knows the beginning from the end. He has already made a way. We must be so close, hear Him so loud and be so willing to move or to be still that we have no choice but to fall into His perfect plan.
Go when He says go. Stay when He says stay. Trust when everything screams another way. Every wall shall fall in the name of Jesus. He is making you unmovable and unshakable in the mist of it all.
Stand and see what your God brings out of these ruins!!
He's Making Space For You
The Lord is opening the space created for you from the beginning of time. You were created with unique gifts and a yes that has brought costly oil that cannot be reproduced. However, for so long it has felt like the perpetual wilderness, trauma and blocks at every corner. All you want is to allow the Lord to use your surrender and ALL you have been through and to finally walk in the fullness of all you were created to do.
I want you to know that Lord isn’t just creating this space, it has ALWAYS existed. From the moment He formed and fashioned you in your mother’s womb He knew every trial, situation and circumstance you would walk through. He knew EXACTLY what it would take to get you to this moment right here, right now. The wide-open space isn’t something that has to be created, it only has to be entered INTO.
It has felt as if the door has been continually SLAMMED in your face; but it is being flung WIDE OPEN and the invitation to step in is NOW.
In this wide-open space, you will step into identity like never before. You will be CONFIDENT AND BOLD. No longer will you compare or feel less than, you will finally FLOW!!
What has felt like drudging through mud or swimming upstream will now come with ease. Everyplace you have felt restricted is NOW BEING RELEASED AND OPENED UP.
In the last season so many restrictions kept you from releasing all that was on the inside of you.
Finances
Time
Distractions
Closed doors
Trauma
It seemed like the people you were created to help weren’t there; the places you were called to go were too far off. Every time you tried to step out into what you know were created to do there was something blocking you.
He is making space for YOU AND YOUR GIFTS. This is the place it is all made beautiful. This is the place purpose is brought to the pain. This is the place you FINALLY get to be YOU. This place is wide open, beautiful, full of possibility, and made SPECIFICALLY FOR YOU. In this place you will no longer look right or left. You will not compare, but rather step fully into who He created YOU to be.
There are people and territories waiting to be unlocked by keys you brought back when you went through hell.
There are people and places waiting to be watered with the tears and oil only you carry. This is all about YOU; yet it has never been about you.
There is no place for false humility here. You must recognize that you were created unique and special and because of your yes and the refining fire you’ve been willing to endure there is a power and authority that you carry. There are people, regions and assignments waiting on you. This isn’t a place that can be planned for or earned through hard work and good decisions. The path to this place appeared to be messy, full of failures and wrong decisions to those looking in from the outside. However, it was actually full of surrender, the face to the dirt gut wrenching kind. You are gifted and talented; you could have taken the easier road; you could have chosen a form of success and accomplishment.
BUT……because you didn’t, because you waited and chose to only pursue what He called you to even when it seemed hopeless, NOW you will experience breakthrough, freedom and miracles unlike anything you could have imagined.
Get ready. He’s making space for you and what you were created to do here on this earth and it is going to be WILD!!!
He also brought me forth into a broad place; He rescued me, because He delighted in me. 2 Samuel 22:20
When you’re near the end of birthing your promise it can be extremely uncomfortable, almost unbearable at times. It may seem easier or more convenient to take things into our own hands and bring things forth in our own timeline, but there’s always a reason for the process. Don’t induce what you are carrying before it’s time, I promise it will all be worth it once you are holding that promise in your hands and heart.