05/13/2025
While God was surveying His work in me amid what seemed like an eternity, I learned patience as the Father chiseled away at my character, precept upon precept. It seemed like the world was moving fast outside my confined world of preparation while I felt stuck in my furnace of affliction. When my emotions began to look at my outward appearance, I remembered that God promised never to leave nor forsake me. The discipline of speaking and confessing the truth in the Word of God daily was without option so that the enemy didn’t gain a foothold in my life. He became my daily bread. His unending love became my reward when I searched Him out above the enemy’s lies. My faith was being tried and tested. The Spirit of God was developing my inward man to be so entuned to Him that I knew what others were thinking and doing, and at their weakest moments, I could see God’s intended purposes for them. I became so sensitive to the Spirit’s movements due to living my days out calling on the Name of the Lord that His Word penetrated my heart with revelatory prowess, becoming my second nature. Not only was my body on high alert due to the struggles raging inside me, but I was also privy to the Voice of the Holy Spirit, in that His ways became my ways with intentional practices of abiding in His Presence. It wasn’t always in the places of rest that I found the strength to keep pursuing God and pushing forward. It was in the hard places that I grew wings to fly with a tenacity that declared and developed my prophetic Voice. I was relentless like Elisha in believing that the anointing on my life was a double portion promise for setting the captives free. Each time I went through and had victory over the enemy’s plans, my faith became stronger, and my voice became louder with the confidence that greater was He Who was in me than He who spoke a false diagnosis to my identity in Christ.
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