The Spirit of the Lord has been pressing on my heart that the season we are in is a season of Him declaring over us, "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!"

I see many who are dealing with areas in their lives that are feeling stuck and under oppression, but the Spirit of the Lord is saying, "Enough is enough!"

My friend had prophesied this word over me quite awhile back, and as I prayed over it and asked the Father what this looked like, I felt very strongly that He was asking me to partner with Him very actively in what He was declaring over me.

I am sharing this because I know without a doubt that many are in the same position and trying to understand how to move forward in the truth while still waiting to see the promise in the natural. It's the strange in between.

A few days ago, I had a very powerful encounter with the Lord. My lower back went out and I was experiencing severe pain on top of some other issues that had happened in the last few weeks. It felt as though the warfare I was experiencing had escalated within a small window of time and it was almost overwhelming.

My husband suggested we take a walk, which at first irritated me. I wasn't even able to move off of furniture without assistance, but as I put aside my flesh, I knew he was absolutely right. I wanted to just go to bed and yield to the pain I was feeling, but I knew in my spirit the Lord was calling me to a new level of victory.

Sometimes you just need to do the hard thing. Try the thing that feels impossible. Pick up your mat and try to walk. Anytime I am praying for healing to come, I try to do the thing I couldn't do before and then press in and pray until it's possible. It doesn't always happen right away, sometimes I have to try for days, weeks, months, or even years, but because I know it's mine, I'm not willing to be content until I see it come to pass.

I believe it breaks the heart of the Father to see us accept things with contentment that He came to liberate us from. The Word says...

He came to destroy the works of the devil. (1 John 3:8)

He came to give us life more abundantly. (John 10:10)

He sacrificed His very life for our sins and to heal our bodies. (1 Peter 2:24)

He came to give us the life of Christ within us. (Galatians 2:20)

We are the righteousness of Christ Jesus! (2 Corinthians 5:21)

Maybe some of you are reading this with frustration right now. Perhaps thinking, "You make it sound so simple, so easy." Trust me, I know it isn't, but it's how I have learned to stand on the Word and to exercise my faith for the things God has said are mine. His Word tells me that by His stripes I AM healed, in 1 Peter 2:24, so in faith I'm partnering with that promise to the best of my ability.

I want to encourage you to ask Him for yourself how to stand on what He has said is yours, beloved. It may be different than how He deals with me, but I know He has a battle plan just for you, don't let fear stop you from asking Him. I guarantee you He is speaking wonderful things over your life. (Isaiah 30:21, Jeremiah 33:3, Psalm 85:8, Matthew 21:22, Matthew 7:7-11, Zephaniah 3:17)

Don't be contented with things He came to free you from. Don't be deceived into believing that He only wants you to experience His abundant life when you die and go to heaven. His life is available to you right now, here on earth!

Hear His heart for you as He declares, "enough is enough" over your life!

The life of Christ in us is one of the most beautiful parts of the covenant that we are so privileged to live in as believers in Jesus! We are given His Spirit, His very LIFE dwelling within us!

So, I slowly shuffled to the dirt road in front of our property and asked the Holy Spirit what to do. I immediately had a vision of taking my shoes off and walking fast, so I trusted the Lord and did exactly that. I was still in pain, but He gave me the strength to move. It was incredible.

As I walked faster and faster, I knew the Lord was asking me to full on run. I began praying in the Spirit for strength and began to run. The Lord began revealing to me the prayer I was praying as I ran. I heard Him very loudly declaring over me, "Enough is enough! These things the enemy is trying to use to take you out are the very things I am going to use to shift your stature in the Spirit! You will run and not grow weary, you will walk and not faint!"

He was showing me HIS redemption plan for something the enemy had meant for evil. God is NEVER the author of the bad things that happen to us, but we can absolutely trust that He will find a way to use anything meant for evil and turn the tides in our favor. We just have to believe! (Romans 8:28)

I was still experiencing pain, but sprinting down the road, and I knew then that this season was going to look different. The Lord is absolutely breaking through the warfare that is surrounding me, but I knew that while He was working it out in my favor, He was asking me to live in the VICTORY and CELEBRATION that He has declared over me.

I know this is a word for someone:

Live in the victory and the celebration while it's becoming your reality.

Don't wait to celebrate!

The Lord is breaking through the warfare surrounding you. He is FOR you (Romans 8:31). While He is fighting, celebrate the victory. It isn't premature, because the Lord of all creation has spoken over you. You are more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus! (Romans 8:37)

This isn't delusion, beloved, it's exercising your faith for the promise. You may not be called to go for a run with your back out, but I do believe the Father is asking us to press into Him for the victory strategy He is calling each of us to individually in this season.

Faith shows the reality of what we hope for; it is the evidence of things we cannot see. -Hebrews 11:1 NLT

As the Israelites went to conquer Jericho, the Lord used their voices to topple the walls of that fortress!

So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they conquered the city.

-Joshua 6:20 ESV

It's a season to wield our weapons of praise and gratitude!

Maybe you are feeling as though you have been circling a Jericho much too long now to see your victory come through. You are tired. The walking and circling has worn you down, but I want to encourage you today to lean into the strength of the Lord and to give a mighty shout with Him.

Enough is enough, it's time for those walls to come tumbling down!

Honestly, the pain in my back didn't leave, but I knew in my heart that I needed to keep moving like I had received the manifestation of healing to the best of my ability. It has been many days now and I am still feeling a twinge here and there, but the worst of the pain is gone and when it tries to return, I am reminding my body that the Word of God is true.

Any symptoms, really giants in the land of my body, have been conquered by the blood of the Lamb and His sacrifice for me. I am facing this "Goliath" in the strength of the Lord (Philippians 4:13). I am releasing the life of Christ in and through my body by declaring the truth of the Word over myself. I am reminding myself that the truth of the Word is the truest reality and that I am living from the VICTORY that Christ Jesus was killed, buried, and resurrected for.

I want to encourage you to search the Word for yourself, go look up all these Scriptures and then keep going. Get your foundation solidly set upon the Word of God and then begin to speak it out loud over yourself. Faith comes by hearing the Word (Romans 10:17). Fill your ears with the Word. Saturate yourself in the truth and the truth WILL set you free! (John 8:36)

May we have faith for what the Lord is declaring over us, "Enough is enough," as He fights with us to give us every benefit He sacrificed so dearly for.

I'm celebrating with you in spirit!

Let's pray:

Lord, we thank You for everything you died, conquered, and rose again to give us. We ask You to reveal to us the things You have given to us through Your sacrifice. Teach us about this better covenant we are so blessed to live under. Teach us how to apprehend and appropriate the promises You have spoken over us. We repent for any unbelief and doubt in Your goodness towards us.

Give us the strength to stand on the Word and help our foundation to be solid. Give us fresh revelation for how to fight the enemy in this season. Help us to declare with You that "enough is enough!" Thank You for always working for our good because we love You and are called according to Your purposes. Thank You for giving us abundant life! Thank You for the life of Christ being released within and through us. Thank You that we are the righteousness of Christ!

Thank You for the opportunity to have faith in Your goodness today and every day. Thank You for giving us Your very best. Thank You that You withhold no good thing from us. We ask You to release anything You have for us that has been tied up by the enemy, or that hasn't been appropriated by us because we didn't believe it. Help us to believe You even more as we declare out loud Your truth and Word over our lives!

Help us to take victory to the next person! Give us hearts that long to see the captives be set free! Thank You for celebrating with us!

Thank You, Father, we love you! In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Jenny Johnson 8.10.26