“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”  (Jeremiah 29:11)

I have been sensing that this is the season for acceleration in many lives and ministries.  I believe that God is about to raise people up into places they didn’t even imagine being just a few short years ago.  I am also aware that there are ministries that were a part of revivals in the past that are now falling because of immorality and sin that has not been dealt with under the blood.

I am relating to you my personal experience now and would not want to suggest that it necessarily has to be your experience, although if you can relate, then perhaps God is suggesting that you might need to be healed as well.

Recently, I started receiving very specific words that I was about to be promoted to a higher place in ministry, that doors would open for me with people at higher levels in ministry.

It has been my experience that when I am about to be promoted in ministry, all hell seems to break loose around me.  Things seem to start to go wrong in some parts of my ministry and my emotions begin to go off the rails.  I have come to understand that this is God preparing me.

What I have learned is to discern during these times what God is trying to do.  When I come underneath an emotional heaviness, I now quickly begin to ask the Lord to show me why I am feeling this way.  I never assume that my present heaviness is something that has roots in the moment, but links to a first root in the past.

As I seek the Lord regarding the emotional issue that I am facing, He often brings me back to when I was a child where the original wound lies dormant.   Very often my emotional heaviness in the present is linked to this first wound in the past.

You cannot hope to be well-known in ministry if you desire fame above pleasing God.  I have seen so many men and women who are very anointed ministers go nowhere because they cannot get over their desires to be well-known.

I remember God healed this in me during one season of my life and the next thing you know I started to be more well-known and in that moment I couldn’t have cared less.  If God wants you to be well-known, it is because He wants His light inside of you to shine in front of more people. So let Him heal you so that being known isn`t the motive, but pleasing God.

My need to be well-known was linked to a wound of not having a dad near to speak into my life.  When it was healed, being well-known didn`t matter to me anymore.

As I forgive the people who first hurt me and as I repent for holding bitterness, envy, or anger in my heart, wounds just seem to have a way of disappearing before me and it is like nothing ever happened to me.  My emotions go back to peace and joy and I am walking in a brand new day.

You see, there are things that you once struggled with that you can’t hold onto when God wants you to enter into your new season.  You can’t hold onto what you think is rightfully yours.  You have to let go in order for God to open new doors before you.

He wants to know that you are completely sold out to Him and not the ministry or life that you have grown comfortable with.  He has plans that are greater for your life than any plan that you have for yourself.

Let go of your plans and let God guide you.  Then you will walk on higher plains in the next season.