As we pause this week to give thanks, are we remembering to give thanks to our Creator and Sustainer of life?

We sit at the Thanksgiving table and are thankful for our family, friends, jobs and whatever else is on your list, but do you really stop to give thanks for your Heavenly Father?  I’m not talking about saying, “I am thankful for God,” everyone does that. Are you truly thanking Him for His attributes, who He is and what He does?

Psalm 100:4 says, “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.”  Are we truly thankful? Do we truly bless His name?  I think we say we are grateful to God, but do we meditate on His goodness?  “For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting, and His truth endures to all generations” (Ps. 100:5).  Do we think about His mercy or do we simply give a short Thanksgiving thanks and move on?

God is good! Our Father is everlasting! Do we thank and praise Him for our job, marriage or ministry? Are we appreciative of how He assists us through the day and orchestrates our steps?  Do we thank Him for the different seasons of weather, for the all the different shades of green and types of trees He created for us? He could have created one tree, but He chose to give us a variety. Do we thank Him for the freedom to worship Him and assemble together for those of us who live in countries where we have freedom of religion?

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I think when it comes to praising and thanking God, we can slide by and do a quick job at praising Him. When we look at enter into His gates with thanksgiving, the praise of our lips with words should go forth first. As a society we don’t know how to give praise for five minutes continually. We may give someone a sentence or two of thanks and appreciation, but we don’t really build up that person and edify them.

The Bible instructs us to minister unto the Lord. Ministering unto the Lord is more than giving Him a simple lip service thanks. Are we grateful, sure, but doesn’t He deserve us to specifically think and meditate on what we are grateful for? Isn’t He worthy of us to thank Him until we truly run out of words?

Where would we be without our Heavenly Father? He created us and sustained us in our mother’s womb. He breathed the very breath of life into us. He continually protects us and keeps us from harm. He truly never lets us down! As you go into Thanksgiving, take some time either early in the morning or late after your festivities have ended and meditate and truly think about who your Father is and what attributes He has.

Spend time with Him and thank Him for who He has made you to become and truly give Him the thanks and praise He so rightfully deserves.

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Kathy DeGraw is the founder of DeGraw Ministries a prophetic healing ministry releasing the love and power of God, igniting people in the prophetic and releasing people from emotional bondage.  She travels hosting conferences, teaching schools and evangelistic love tours.   Kathy enjoys writing and is the author of several books that educate, empower and equip people, including A Worship Woven Life, Time to Set the Captives Free, and Flesh, Satan or God. Connect with Kathy at .

God formed you in your mother’s womb to be alive at this very time. I am always amazed when I think about the depths of God’s creativity.

He could have chosen you to be born to other parents in another country in a different time era, but He created and formed you in your mother’s womb for such a time as this!

Years ago, the Lord told me something would happen in the world and I would need to root out all fear so when everyone else was in fear, I could be in faith. I believe that prophecy manifested through 2019-2021 and what happened with sickness attacking the worldwide population. At that time, I saw a principality of fear over the earth.

The Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, “Kathy, everyone’s individual fear is fueling the principality of fear over the earth.” I went on a mission to help others root out fear. However, that mission is not over.

Over the past two weeks I kept hearing, “You can’t change what is going to happen in the end times. You can’t prevent war and disasters and stop end-time happenings.” The word gave me peace. The Spirit of the Lord continued to reveal to me that people have lived through wars before and survived. It wasn’t pleasant, but they did it.

I have been feeling in my spirit that one day, we are going to wake up and our world is going to be different, never the same, and changed. It happened when the 2019 pandemic occurred. People died, people were fearful of getting sick, and it changed lives. It changed how some people live today. It invaded the earth, and our world changed.

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But what do we do with the change we experience? I keep hearing in the Spirit, “You were chosen to live in the end times to usher in the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. What are you going to do with what you are given?” It is a privilege. It is an assignment! Our Father, Creator of the universe, created, chose and picked us (you) to live out the very prophecy of the Bible!

What an honor! What a commission! I can’t think of a greater assignment — but it is an assignment. And what has been in my spirit is what people are doing with that assignment. Are we asking the Holy Spirit, “How do You want me to be part of such an integral part of winning souls, delivering people, releasing love and exuding faith instead of fear?” Have we reflected, sat in the presence of the Lord, and inquired about what His mission and assignment are for us right now?

Friends, it is time we stifle fear and walk in faith. We need to soul search to get all fear out and manifest faith. But even more important is the fact that God created you to live through these times.

Whether you like it or not, embrace it or fear it, you were chosen. It is an honor, a high honor, that God felt you were worthy enough, that He believed in you to live in this time.

Therefore, pray, intercede, get your boots on, receive deliverance and get on the front lines of the army of God.

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What is the Holy Spirit’s role in the crucial end times in which we live? How do we rely on Him for truth when we don’t know the facts of what is happening? I was troubled recently as people were predicting adverse world events. Prophets, media and Christians were releasing what appeared to be warnings. I heard people going to the store and stocking up on groceries. I heard the fear and concern in people’s voices as I talked to them. I even had someone close to me ask what my prophetic insight was. These predictions had a time stamp on them, and it passed and nothing happened.

Coincidentally, before I heard from people and media about these predictions, the Lord had been speaking to me days prior about the end times and the times in which we live. He said, “live.” Don’t allow the predictions, even if prophetic, to distract you or prevent you from doing something. Often when we hear something, it causes us to act and react in fear. It can cause us not to move at all. We also can try and control the situation by preparing and doing what we feel in the natural is important. I am not saying we shouldn’t prepare. After all, we are in the end times. We need to seek the Spirit of the Lord for wisdom and direction in preparation. However, ultimately we need to go to the Spirit and not act and react based on what people say and do.

The Spirit gave me revelation and referred to what is happening today as what happened when Pearl Harbor was bombed. People were living and going about the day doing natural things and weren’t concerned that something could happen at any moment. It wasn’t preventing movement or advancement. They lived. I believe some of us have been emotionally and spiritually dying instead of living over the past few years with the pandemic and what the media and even Christian leaders say. It seems as if we go through seasons and cycles where predictions get us preoccupied with worrisome and stressful thoughts taking us into an unproductive cycle in our thinking patterns.

The Spirit of the Lord continued to speak to me and said, “to keep our eyes focused on being the light and Him.” Don’t look to the left or right. Stay on the path set before you. Serve God serve people, love God, love people. Keep moving up and forward. Worry and defeat will lead to stagnancy and when we become stagnant, we become spiritually and emotionally stuck or what I call paralyzed. Fear paralyzes and makes you unable to move and function. Fear prevents you from living. In this recent prediction that didn’t manifest, my friend was concerned if she should go away for the weekend. She was seeking my prophetic insight. When she said, “Should I stay home,” I instantly in the Spirit heard, “No.” I heard no, not because I was to provide her an answer. I heard no because I have a relationship with the Holy Spirit. It is how I maneuver the end times and my life. The Spirit must lead us at all times. He will be our guide. He will give us direction and I believe He will even warn us.

Years ago, the Spirit of the Lord said, “Kathy, you need to root out all fear, so you are in faith when everyone else is in fear.” He also said, “Someday you will be ready to get on a plane and I will tell you to stop, don’t get on, and you will need to trust me in that instant.” The Holy Spirit is a forerunner and already giving me instructions on how to manage life, handle situations and receive my deliverance to benefit others. I don’t have to be in fear. You don’t have to be in fear. I trust God. I trust Him as in Psalm 91, to deliver me from the hand of the fowler, pestilence and disaster.

Trust comes from spending time with the Holy Spirit and getting to know Him, so when you get a word, you know it is His voice. The Spirit revealed to me years ago that I need to know His quiet voice to learn to recognize it in busyness and chaos. I did spend that time, and I spent two years of my life prostrate on the floor, getting to know the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of God is never wrong. If we listen to Him, he will guide and lead us, give us direction and instruction and ultimately protection.

What is ruling your heart and thoughts? Is it faith or fear? Is it human emotions, or are you being led by the Spirit? Spend time getting to know the Holy Spirit. A great tool is Charisma Media’s Life in the Spirit booklets. They are filled with articles, devotions and prayers to help you learn more about the Holy Spirit so you can continually communicate with Him. He is my best friend and I hope he’ll be yours too!

Kathy DeGraw is a prophetic deliverance minister. She is the founder of Kathy DeGraw Ministries and K Advancement LLC. Kathy hosts a podcast show called Prophetic Spiritual Warfare. She is the author of several books; Prophetic Spiritual Warfare, Speak Out, Discerning and Destroying the Works of Satan, and Unshackled. Kathy’s training platform is available at . Kathy has echurch based on her podcast, which produced her most recent book every Sunday at 7pm EST the web link can be obtained here. You can connect with Kathy on Facebook at or visit .

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The world is shifting and we are entering a critical time in history, one that can be concerning for some and exciting for others. We are seeing the very prophecy of the Bible laid out and manifesting before us.

The harvest is coming!

There may be some negative things happening, but it truly is the most exciting time to be alive. God created you to walk out and live out the prophecy of the Bible. Your destiny must come forth!

For the past several months, I have been hearing the following words in my spirit: propel, launch, build, excel and establish. The Holy Spirit has been speaking to me and saying that even though people don’t have a bright outlook on the future, the future is bright and your destiny is going to ignite!

Last week, as prophecies of destruction were going forth, I kept hearing the Spirit say “be the light,” and that we need to keep our attention on what He says, not what man predicts.

As we approach these last days, the Lord needs you to release what He has put inside you. Your prophetic words haven’t been destroyed—they are about to manifest. He has been revealing to me that the next 16 months until the end of 2023 will be a time of building, preparation and obtaining all the knowledge He has for you to launch your business or ministry.

There will be an increase in deposits into your spirit and soul of wisdom and creativity to establish and release what you have desired. The Lord is going to launch multiple ministries and businesses to help bring people to Jesus.

Jesus said, “Go out and make disciples” (Matt. 28:19). This will be a time of your receiving what you need to walk out His will and purpose for your life. Get ready! Seek the Holy Spirit for the direction He wants to give you and the people He wants you to learn from.

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We are kingdom citizens, and not of this world. We don’t abide by this world’s economy and the natural things that happen.

Repeatedly, over the last four weeks, I’ve been hearing not to look at the circumstances of this world. We are not of this world. Get your eyes off the natural. It is so strong in my heart and spirit.

I can’t remember a time a word kept stirring inside me like this word. I’ve been hearing Him say there are multiple blessings in this season. They are already in the works and don’t look at your natural surroundings. He is a God that is not bound by this world. Live by faith, not by sight.

I’ve been in worship and prayer, and while I’ve been preaching to my online church, I have been hearing and releasing prophetically that we are in a season of blessings. Yes, I said a season of blessings. God is releasing blessings, upon blessings, upon blessings.

He continually says, “Don’t look at what is happening in the world.” He is so much greater than the world, and His plans are not as the world operates. God makes a way where there seems to be no way. He wants us to trust.

It is a season of blessing. It doesn’t make sense in the natural, but we are spirit, and we are to live by the Spirit. I am hesitant to release prosperity words, and I never do it unless I know. I think they are words that can be loosely released, but I have witnessed the manifestation of this word over the last four weeks by many of our church members and people in ministry receiving the blessings I have been prophesying.

I have been amazed at the testimony of jobs coming forth from unemployed people for years who were looking for the right opportunity to go back into the workplace. I have seen ministry television opportunities manifesting for Christian speakers. It truly is a season of blessing.

I don’t believe this is just a prosperity blessing, but a blessing for ministry expansion. He is increasing your sphere of influence, giving you visibility. He will expand and open wide ministries so we can reach more people with the gospel message.

As we enter the end times, it makes sense in the natural that He would give us expansion and increase so we can reach His harvest. It isn’t simply about blessing us. It is about providing us blessings so we can be of assistance to others.

God wants to give you hope when the world says otherwise, God always has a plan. He wants us to get our eyes off the world’s economy and onto His.

God wants to establish us with kingdom-mindedness, not worldly thinking. He wants to show us He is above all things and beyond natural circumstances. He is a God who blesses. It is time we align our faith with His Word. He is an abundant God who desires to give good gifts to His children.

As He releases these blessings, be in prayer. Guard and protect your prophecies and blessings, so the enemy doesn’t steal, kill and destroy them.

I was recently reminded as our prophetic words go forth in the spiritual and natural realm, so does warfare from the enemy. Pray, declare and call them forth to manifestation!

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We’ve all heard and been told to capture every thought. In fact, the Bible tells us to in 2 Corinthians 10:4-5. “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.”

I’ve studied this verse and used it many times as one of my life’s freedom verses. When we examine this verse in the original Jewish translation, it means “does the thought obey the Messiah? Does it align with the Word of God, and how the Messiah thinks?

We’ve all been told the battlefield rages in our minds, and we’ve even been told that it starts in our minds, but let’s briefly discuss strongholds and how they activate. When we are triggered in our mind and feel offense, bitterness, rejection or fear, it ultimately begins with an emotion. A person, situation or circumstance triggered an emotional reaction within our soul that took hold to make us feel something, and the feeling grew into a thought. Therefore, it is both feelings and thoughts which we need to capture.

We can capture the thought quicker if we don’t allow the feeling to manifest, so therefore, shouldn’t we capture the feeling before it manifests into a thought? We should! However, since feelings have been taught as normal human emotions, we allow our feelings to arise before capturing or dismissing the manifestation of that emotion to an unhealthy and unproductive thought.

I believe if we can capture the feeling first and walk in the fruit of the Spirit, we could and will prevent some of our strongholds from manifesting because we will not allow them to get to the point of fear, rejection, offense and other strongholds that can plague us. But how do we capture a feeling when we have been hurt and, in essence, have a right to feel that way in our human nature and flesh?

I believe it is by knowing the scripture that “we walk in the Spirit and will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh” (Gal. 5:16). The flesh feels entitlement and somewhat validated in what we feel, but when we walk in the Spirit and release the gifts of the Spirit and the love of Jesus we will know that we aren’t entitled to revenge, justification or even ill feelings. Our responsibility is to be love, give love and receive love, to love God and love people.

The battle that rages in our mind is one we can tighten up and loose if we capture our feelings and thoughts. Feeling betrayed, offended, controlled or angry is not worth it because it leaves you in bondage, not the other person. It’s not worth struggling and feeling victimized, stressed and defeated.

When attacks come, capture the feeling in your heart before it becomes a stronghold in your mind. You have the power to do it and the Spirit of God living inside you!

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Soul ties are places we are connected to another person in the soul realm. It can create spiritual warfare and be places where we cannot seem to obtain freedom. Breaking soul ties could be the missing element to your deliverance.

One of the soul ties people don’t always identify is that of rejection, lust and control. If you feel these things are out of character for you or anything in which you are currently struggling is not like you, discern if a soul tie could be activating.

As the old adage goes, “We become who we hang around with.” That’s true in both the natural and spiritual. If you have never struggled with rejection and you notice an area of your life in which you are now feeling rejected, evaluate the relationships in your life and see if someone has a spirit of rejection. Relationships with people are where a soul tie can manifest, either good or bad.

Generational lines are additionally a place where we can inherit a soul tie. It is not always about breaking the generational curse, but in close family relationships we need to sever the soul tie. This does not mean coming out of relationship with a family member but breaking agreement with any unhealthy soul ties such as anger or irritability. If you are having a difficult time being set free from your mother’s control, then try severing a soul tie of control. It is a generational curse if you inherited it and are manifesting it, but it is a soul tie if your mother is still controlling you and you can’t break free.

Soul ties are not merely about sexual relations, but all relations. Soul ties can inflict us as we covet a person, idolize or begin to have lustful feelings toward them. They can enter through trauma, a controlling emotionally abusive relationship or a ministry relationship in which you were close but then fell into being controlled and victimized.

We can’t merely speak out, “All soul ties be gone in Jesus’ name.” We must do our part to break the agreement and renounce any known or unknown activity we have in our lives. Praying audibly to cancel the presence in the spiritual realm is effective.

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10 Steps to Freedom From Soul Ties

1. Recognize what it is. Ask the Holy Spirit for discernment on the root and core issue of your problem.

2. Responsibility: Take responsibility for what you recognize, what has been exposed, or what the Holy Spirit has convicted you of regarding this situation.

3. Repent for what you recognize. Repent for the responsibility, repent for idolizing, repent for being in a victimized relationship, repent for premarital sex or repent for idolizing a leader.

4. Remove: Remove objects from your life in correlation to this relationship. Remove—pictures, gifts, jewelry, clothes—ask the Holy Spirit to reveal them to you. Do a spiritual housecleaning. Get my free download at: .

5. Renounce: The feelings or ties you see: Idolization, codependency, Jezebel, control and/or manipulation.

6. Refuse: Resist and refuse when it tries to come back. Cast down every imagination and high thing, cast down the thought (2 Cor. 10:3-5).

7. Rejoice: Praise God for your freedom.

8. Release: Extend the ministry of deliverance and find another captive to set free. Share this teaching, the free soul ties declarations and so on.

9. Receive: Receive the forgiveness and restoration Jesus wants to give you.

10. Respect: Respect others and set healthy boundaries.

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Prayer of Repentance and Renunciation and Breaking Agreement (pray audibly)

I break agreement with every soul tie including soul ties from my generational bloodline. All curses and soul ties active in the spiritual and natural, I break and sever you in Jesus’ name and call you inactive. I bind, rebuke and cancel your curse on my health, emotions and bloodline. I speak and decree that I am redeemed from the curse and that no weapon formed against me will prosper. Every soul tie in the spiritual realm, I take authority over you now and call you null and void, totally canceled of every effect by the blood of the Lamb. I speak and decree that all known and unknown soul ties, curses and demons are evicted from me, and any associated demonic spirits are cast out and evicted now, in Jesus’ name! {eoa}

Kathy DeGraw is a prophetic deliverance minister. She is the founder of Kathy DeGraw Ministries and K Advancement LLC. Kathy hosts a podcast show called Prophetic Spiritual Warfare. She is the author of several books: Prophetic Spiritual Warfare, Speak Out, Discerning and Destroying the Works of Satan and Unshackled. Kathy’s training platform is available at . Kathy has echurch based on her podcast that produced her most recent book every Sunday night at 6 p.m. EST; the web link can be obtained here. You can connect with Kathy on Facebook at or visit

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Recently as my team and I were in worship, there was a convergence in the spiritual realm, and the glory of God was present. I could see this big mass of prophetic insights coming together.

The convergence consisted of information that the Lord had been revealing to me and the new impartation He was giving me at that moment. I could see in the atmosphere bits and pieces of information coming from all directions and forming together. There were new insights the Lord revealed as He gave me the finality of revelation the Spirit of the Lord had been imparting to me.

I knew it was a call to intercession and a word of warning about what was attacking. The Lord showed me why certain things were happening on earth and that, while we are praying for what we are experiencing in the natural, we aren’t discerning beyond the natural to see what is happening in the spiritual.

For the last two years, spirits of death and fear have been manifesting. They continue to manifest as familiar principalities attacking the family unit, bringing forth the same death, fear and torment — except now with a different strategy.

Years ago the Lord told me, “Kathy, you need to root all fear out of you because something will happen in the earth, and when everyone is in fear, I need you to be in faith.” I know part of that revelation was the recent pandemic.

When the spirit of infirmity infiltrated the earth in 2019, the Spirit of the Lord told me that the principality of fear was in operation over the earth. He said, “People need to root fear out of themselves because they are individually feeding the spirit of fear over the earth and giving it strength.”

As people individually feed it collectively, it comes together and produces strongholds. We focused on praying against sickness when we should have also been praying to target demonic hierarchies manifesting as familiar spirits, mind-binding spirits, and spirits of fear and death. The demonic realm is targeting our lives and the lives of our families.

In the pandemic, we know fear was activating, but also stress, worry and anxiety over the financial loss, employment instabilities and the thought of illness lurking. Spirits of death were active as people lost lives to the pandemic, but suicide rates were up as people didn’t know how to deal with the trauma of all the events.

Families were divided due to individuals’ stances on being vaccinated or unvaccinated, masked or unmasked. The spirit of division came in to attack families, and we are still seeing it today in a different way. The Lord showed me how the enemy uses a different tactic but is still ultimately manifesting the spirits of fear, death and destruction.

Familiar spirits keep the same negative things happening in both the spiritual and the natural. It is no coincidence that when Roe v. Wade information leaked, there were also baby formula shortages around the U.S. The Lord was revealing to me in this moment of convergence that this is a direct assault on families. It is still active in the spiritual realm.

We are seeing things happen in the natural, but we need to open our spiritual eyes and explore what is happening behind the natural events through spiritual shifts. Yes, we know some of this is man-instituted, but still, demons operate through people. This was one of the revelations I got in this moment when the glory of the Lord came into the room. He said we need to look beyond the natural to the spiritual. We need to look behind the natural of what men are or aren’t doing and see that there is a spiritual realm that operates in and through people.

He revealed there is an assault on families. The family unit is being attacked because, once again, parents are in fear, stress and worry, but now it is about how to provide formula for their babies and food for their children. At the same time parents are in turmoil to save their babies’ lives, others want to take children’s lives, which causes additional stress in the natural for the parents who are worried and fearful. The principalities of death, division, stress, worry and fear are still in operation. They haven’t lessened, because we haven’t targeted our prayers. We didn’t identify it was a family attack. We must pray for the families.

Familiar spirits create the same negative cycles, patterns and seasons of destruction, but we can bind and rebuke these spirits. Pray audibly and take authority over familiar spirits. Bind and restrict their access. Again, familiar spirits operate in stealth mode. We have to open our spiritual eyes of understanding to attack them. We have to look beyond the natural and see into the spiritual. Our spiritual eyes of understanding are opened as we spend time in the presence of the Lord.

There are so many things intertwined right now, and it begins with attacking the spiritual realm. Let’s pray precision-targeted prayers and destroy the spirit of fear, death and destruction. {eoa}

Kathy DeGraw is a prophetic deliverance minister. She is the founder of Kathy DeGraw Ministries and K Advancement LLC. Kathy hosts a podcast show called Prophetic Spiritual Warfare. She is the author of several books: Prophetic Spiritual Warfare, Speak Out, Discerning and Destroying the Works of Satan, and Unshackled. Kathy’s training platform is available at . Kathy has e-church based on her podcast, which produced her most recent book, every Sunday night at 6 p.m. EST; the web link can be obtained here. You can connect with Kathy on Facebook at or visit .

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When you receive a prophetic word, most often it should be a confirmation of something you already know. Also, your prophetic word should have the “up factor.” It should build up, train up, encourage up and edify up. It should leave you hopeful for something that is coming to pass in the future.

What happens when a prophetic word doesn’t do the thing it is intended for? What do you do with a prophetic word that doesn’t make sense? You have three options:

• You can throw it out because it is in no way witnessing with your soul and spirit, and you think the person who delivered it is way off in left field.
• You can pray into it and see if the Holy Spirit confirms the word to you.
• You can shelve it. You can put it up on the shelf and see if the Holy Spirit ever brings it down, or if a situation happens and all of a sudden you remember this word you’d put on the shelf because you were unsure if it was for you.

Occasionally when we receive a prophetic word, we can be unsure and unsettled over whether the word was for us. We can react in different ways to the prophetic word that was spoken in our lives. We can become caught up in attempting to discern the word, or we can dismiss the word altogether. Both options can have adverse effects.

When we receive a prophetic word, it should witness to us. There should be some kind of affirmation within us that it is a word from the Lord. When a word is from the Lord and resonates within us, we should pray into it, cover it with the blood of Christ and call it forth according to the Word of God and will of God in prayer and declarations.

When a prophetic word is not witnessing to us at that moment, we should shelve it — put it up on the shelf in the spiritual realm or in your mind. Don’t let it consume you, and don’t try to figure it out. Put the word in your memory bank and then move on.

Keep doing what you are doing for that season. When and if the word is for you, God will bring it back to your mind, confirm it in His Word or bring another person to prophesy a similar word to confirm it to you.

There was a time I received a very long prophetic word from a well-known prophet. Part of the word was, “My daughter, you have a desire for prayer. Lord, I feel like the church has forgotten about prayer. I wish someone would reinstitute prayer in the house. Guess who I am going to use? Going to use you to rally men and women to seek Me, seek Me, seek Me, as they have never before. Find yourself in at least one 24-hour vigil.”

As I received this word, I thought, “I don’t feel that way, and I have been in charge of several 72-hour prayer vigils.” As I dissected the prophetic word given to me that night, I put this part of the word up on the shelf because it didn’t make sense to me; I thought it was off and not for me. I did not throw it away. I put it in my memory bank.

A year later, I found myself teaching people around me how to pray differently, but I still did not realize that this word was manifesting in my life. One day as I was writing one of my books, the Holy Spirit shot through me. I was sitting at my desk typing and was allowing the Holy Spirit to move through me to write.

I started writing about prayer and thinking that people don’t know how to pray. That is when I felt the Holy Spirit come upon me. It felt like a bolt of lightning shot through my body. I looked up and in the spiritual realm I saw the shelf and the prophetic word. I had misinterpreted the word. I was looking at the church as a building when the church is the people.

That prophetic word was right! The church is the body of Christ. I had been complaining for months that people didn’t know how to pray effectively. I took what I was seeing and hearing and started teaching people how to really pray!

The word was for me all along, but I didn’t recognize it. How many words are people waiting for that they think are not coming to pass because they totally dismissed them or did not recognize them? We need to be open to how the Holy Spirit wants to move through us. We need to make sure that we are not dismissing a word or assuming it’s not for us in our pride or arrogance.

The most important thing is keeping our minds and will open to the Holy Spirit so that when He reminds us of a word from long ago, we understand and hear His voice. Even though I dissected the prophetic word, I still did not get the full meaning out of it. I should have looked further into every word — but that’s OK because now I can use it as a testimony to you.

Stay open to the Spirit. Don’t totally dismiss what you don’t understand. Dissect your prophetic words (learn more about dissecting your prophecies through my Prophetic Course at ). And most of all, don’t give up in the waiting.

Who knows — perhaps the Holy Spirit will get hold of you like He did me and pretty soon you will see things manifesting in your life that were spoken long ago.

Be encouraged; God has a plan for you. Be diligent! Seek His presence and His Word! Worship Him in freedom and truth, and discover how the kingdom of God will manifest in your life and use you to display His kingdom to others!

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Kathy DeGraw is a prophetic deliverance minister. She is the founder of Kathy DeGraw Ministries and K Advancement LLC. Kathy hosts a podcast show called Prophetic Spiritual Warfare and is the author of several books: Prophetic Spiritual Warfare, Speak Out, Discerning and Destroying the Works of Satan, and Unshackled. Kathy’s training platform is available at . Kathy has e-church based on her podcast, which produced her most recent book, every Sunday night at 6 p.m. EST; the web link can be obtained here. You can connect with Kathy on Facebook at or visit

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As believers, we are kingdom citizens and not of this world. We don’t abide by this world’s economy and the natural things happening.

Repeatedly over the last four weeks I’ve been hearing from the Lord, “Don’t look at the circumstances of this world. We are not of this world. Get your eyes off the natural.”

It is so strong in my heart and spirit. I can’t remember a time a word kept stirring inside me like this word. I’ve been hearing the Lord say there are multiple blessings in this season — they are already in the works — and not to look at our natural surroundings. He is a God that is not bound by this world. Live by faith, not by sight.

I’ve been in worship and prayer, and while I’ve been preaching to my web church, I have been hearing and releasing prophetically that we are in a season of blessings. Yes, I said a season of blessings. God is releasing blessings upon blessings upon blessings.

He continually says, “Don’t look at what is happening in the world.” He is so much greater than the world, and His plans are not as the world operates. God makes a way where there seems to be no way. He wants us to trust.

This is a season of blessing. It doesn’t make sense in the natural, but we are spirit and we are to live by the Spirit. I am hesitant to release prosperity words, and I never do it unless I know. I think they are words that can be loosely released, but I have witnessed the manifestation of this word over the last four weeks by many of our church members and people in ministry receiving the blessings I have been prophesying.

I have been amazed at the testimonies coming forth from unemployed people finding jobs who for years were looking for the right opportunity to go back into the workplace. I have seen ministry television opportunities manifesting for Christian speakers. It truly is a season of blessing.

I don’t believe this is just a prosperity blessing but a blessing for ministry expansion. God is increasing our spheres of influence, giving us visibility. He will expand and open wide ministries so we can reach more people with the gospel message. As we enter the end times, it makes sense in the natural that He would give us expansion and increase so we can reach His harvest. It isn’t simply about blessing us. It is about providing us blessings so we can be of assistance to others.

God wants to give you hope. When the world says otherwise, God always has a plan. He wants us to get our eyes off the world’s economy and onto His. God wants to establish us with kingdom-mindedness, not worldly thinking. He wants to show us He is above all things and beyond natural circumstances. He is a God who blesses. It is time we align our faith with His Word. He is an abundant God who desires to give good gifts to His children.

As the Lord releases these blessings, be in prayer. Guard and protect your prophecies and blessings so the enemy doesn’t steal, kill and destroy. I was recently reminded that as our prophetic words go forth in the spiritual and natural realms, so does warfare from the enemy. Pray, declare and call them forth to manifestation. {eoa}

Kathy DeGraw is a prophetic deliverance minister. She is the founder of Kathy DeGraw Ministries and K Advancement LLC. Kathy hosts a podcast called Prophetic Spiritual Warfare and is the author of several books: Prophetic Spiritual Warfare, Speak Out, Discerning and Destroying the Works of Satan and Unshackled. You can connect with Kathy on Facebook at or visit

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