“You Are Coming Out of the Holding Pattern”

“You Are Coming Out of the Holding Pattern”

The Lord spoke to me and said,  “Tell My people, What you could not make happen in months, years, and even decades I will make happen in one day! Your cycle of failure has come to an end! The time of acceleration is here. Do not limit Me by your thinking. I am moving in unexpected ways, but you will see My explosive power. The Church is coming out of a HOLDING PATTERN. The spirit of delay is broken. It is time for your arrival.”

Traveling frequently for ministry, I knew what it meant to be in a holding pattern. Experiencing it and defining it, though, is another matter. Let’s take a look at the formal definition of it. According to pilotinstitute.com, it is as follows: “A holding pattern is a maneuver in which an aircraft flies a racetrack-shaped pattern in a designated area. They are used to keep an aircraft in protected airspace while delaying its arrival at a later point along its route.”

My wife and I were on a flight into NYC, when the pilot made the announcement that he had been instructed to stay in a holding pattern until further notice. As we were circling around the city, we spotted several famous landmarks and began excitedly taking pictures, but our excitement waned as a few minutes turned into a long delay. We could see our destination, but we couldn’t get there. We just kept going around and around. We were trapped in this repeating cycle.

Some of you are so close to your promise. In fact, you can even see it, but every time you believed this will be the time that you will break through and possess what God has spoken, you have been delayed. Realize this, the enemy has caused DELAY in attempt to thwart God’s plan.

“Unrelenting disappointment leaves you heartsick, but a sudden good break can turn life around” (Pro. 13:12, MSG).

I prophesy to you that disappointment and delay are broken. Expect a sudden good break in your circumstances! You are going to land into the destination of your promise! The obstacles that have prevented you from arriving are clearing.

Meditating on this promise, I opened my Bible and turned to John 5 and read the story of the man who had an infirmity for 38 years. He waited at the Pool of Bethesda in hopes of being the first one into the water after the angel troubled them. Year after year, this man attempted to be first, and repeatedly he was disappointed.

“When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?” (Joh. 5:6, KJV).

This man was held in a holding pattern for 38 years! He was pained with repeated disappointment as he desperately waited for the troubling of the water, hoping each occasion that this would be ‘his time’ to be the first one in and receive his healing.

Jesus saw him and asked him a question, “Wilt thou be made whole?” The man replied to Jesus with an excuse, “Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me” (Joh. 5:7, KJV). Take note, Jesus did not ask him why he had not been healed. The Lord sought to shift him from the past into his future. In essence, Jesus was asking if he was ready to be launched into a place of completeness.

Sadly, some are imprisoned by the excuses of why they are in this condition that it nullifies them receiving the new thing that God desires to do. Many of you have been in a holding pattern for so long that you have fortified yourself in a cycle of defeat. But the Lord is announcing to you now, “THIS IS YOUR TIME! Don’t miss what I am doing.”

Jesus completely ignored this man’s excuses and gave the man a prophetic instruction, “Rise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked” (Joh. 5:8–9, KJV). Notice that Jesus commanded him to do something that he could not do. God is charging you to do what you’ve never done. Don’t miss this! It is critical for you to understand. What this man was unable to make happen for 38 years, God did in ONE DAY.

You are about to see a one-day miracle. The repetitious cycle in your life breaks today! God is reviving your hopes and dreams. Get ready for fresh vision. When the man arose, he began to see from another position. He was no longer seeing from a laying low place. I hear the Lord saying to you, “Get ready for elevated sight, clarity in focus, and fresh expanded vision.”

The woman with the issue of blood had been sick for 12 long years when her faith put a demand on the anointing, causing the cycle to break in her life. Her faith, accompanied by her actions, moved the woman into her miracle moment. Everything changed for her in ONE DAY.

Another Biblical example of stepping out of a holding pattern is when Samaria, was under siege by the Assyrians, which caused famine. Their economy had plummeted until they were eating dove’s dung and donkey heads. The breakthrough from their holding pattern came after Elisha prophesied, saying, “The Lord says, ‘About this time tomorrow, there will be plenty of food, and it will be cheap again” (2Ki. 7:1, ERV). The Lord caused the sound of Heaven’s armies to be heard by the Assyrian army, causing them to flee in fear! They left behind all their supplies and food! The economy for God’s people changed in ONE DAY!

Don’t doubt what God can do in one day. Bodies are healed, doors are opened, economies can shift, and entire nations can be born. This is your one-day season! You’re coming out of your holding pattern!