Pastor Jentezen Franklin of Free Chapel recently delivered a stirring message about God’s call to move forward into a new season of victory, urging believers not to get stuck in the past but to be prepared for sudden transition.
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“Something is shifting and it’s time to move,” Franklin declared. “You need to be ready to move and you need to expect God to lead you out of the past into the new season and a new level and a new beginning and a new miracle that He has promised that He would do in our lives.”
A Call to Be Ready
Franklin drew from the story of Israel’s deliverance from Egypt, emphasizing that God calls His people to be prepared to move quickly when the moment comes. “Don’t get so stuck in the scene you’re in that when God says, ‘Let’s go,’ you’re not ready to go and you’re not prepared to go,” he said.
Using imagery from the Exodus, Franklin told the church: “Let’s put our shoes on and get our staff in our hand. I’m bringing my family with me. I’m bringing my joy with me. I’m bringing it all with me. Hell can’t have any of my babies. Glory. We’re not staying here as a church. There’s a new season coming.”
Breaking Free From the Past
The pastor challenged believers not to grow comfortable with brokenness, sin or despair. “You’ve accepted and got comfortable with this addiction and comfortable with this sin and comfortable with this discouragement and comfortable with depression and fear and hopelessness. But I want you to get your shoes on…because when I do it, I’m going to do it quick. I’m going to send it suddenly,” he preached.
Franklin stressed that transition requires preparation. “Some of you keep tripping over your garments of heaviness. You just keep living in the past and you can’t move because you keep tripping over where you’ve been. But there comes a transition time. There comes a time to move. There’s a shift on the way,” he said.
A New Day and a New Promise
Franklin encouraged his congregation to see this moment as a prophetic shift not just for individuals, but for the church and the nation. “Something is coming and it’s bigger and it’s better and it’s greater and we need to get our shoes on and we need to say I’m done with this mess. I’m moving forward in Jesus’ mighty name. Tell somebody, it’s a new day.”
He concluded with a declaration of God’s promises: “There is victory in your future. The curse is broken. The addiction is broken. Shame is over. The drought is over. I hear the sound of an abundance of rain.”
Encouragement for Believers
Franklin’s message is a reminder that while seasons of waiting may feel long, God has appointed times of breakthrough and deliverance. The call is to be ready, expectant and faithful.
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When God says it is time to move, may we have our shoes on, our staff in hand and our hearts prepared for His promises. The past cannot hold us, because in Christ, “there is victory in your future.”
James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.
