Some of you entered a dark night of the soul which lasted way more years than you ever expected.

While there was much pain there was much growth. Stretching. Re-positioning. Expansion. Promotion.

You were walking through a spiritual door.

Some of that expansion was a deep expansion of the heart whereby the tent pegs were strengthened as roots as you learned more accurately the ways of Jesus.

When God said He would lengthen your cords you didn’t realize He was going to stretch you in a way you thought might kill you. But what happened was a call to come higher. The way up is down.

Let me remind you of Joseph after his long wait for destiny to be fulfilled. He was unrecognizable to his brothers.

The same is for you.

That season marked you forever in a way that doesn’t allow a going back.

Some may feel you’re the same one they remember but they’ll soon find out you’re nothing like that person any longer.

Your storm brought wisdom on the heels of that tornadic wind. You learned to dive deep for God’s hidden treasures and find what you’d never knew was lost to you before. You began to run to the hurting with buckets of hope and wells of hugs because you learned the significance of both.

You are fully satisfied sitting with the lonely and broken and watching God breath life back into tired lungs.

You’ve seen Heaven open up as Jesus comes low to stroke the hair of a broken heart and you’ve heard Him speak so clearly as the demonic realm was all speaking so loudly. One word from Him and they are silenced.

You now have a gentleness coupled with boldness that is needed in this world but you’ve also been in a cave practicing your giant slaying. You’ve been mentored by the Master and solitude was necessary for a season to be His apprentice.

You’re eyes aren’t the same. They see into two realms by the Spirit of God and the devil hiding in natural form is no longer a threat- for God has given you a gift of the discerning of spirits.

Game changer.

Wrapped up in that dark season was a training of supernatural kinds. The Teacher put you in a school you didn’t wish for but taught you how to use it for His good.

But it’s graduation time now. He is calling for the possessing of lands.

So on the days that the enemy likes to try some old tactics. Do me a favor and tell him you’ve undergone a name change. He must have the wrong person.

He’ll shudder when he realizes what you already know.

You are unrecognizable.