If you’ve sensed lately that God is nudging you out of old patterns or stirring something new beneath the surface, you’re not alone.
A recent prophetic message from Jeremiah Johnson captured that exact feeling and put language to what many believers have been experiencing. His word wasn’t theoretical or vague. It was direct, urgent and deeply personal: God is calling His people into territory they have never walked before, and the familiar will not take them where they are going.
Johnson opened by declaring, “You have never been this way before,” a phrase he repeated to anchor the message. He said God is releasing “new coordinates,” “new blueprints” and “new plans and purposes” for those ready to step forward. The point, he explained, is not just movement but transformation.
“The past is just simply a point of reference,” Johnson said. “What you have known is simply a point of reference.” He warned that measuring the future by what feels safe or familiar is one of the biggest ways people stall their own calling.
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Johnson emphasized that this moment requires action. “Have you not heard that this is the time to build?” he said. He described a divine “new framework” being released for the days ahead. That framework involves a personal upgrade as well: “I am releasing grace tonight to evolve. I am giving you permission to move into your 2.0.”
To illustrate this transformation, Johnson pointed to Lazarus. “No one had ever met the new Lazarus before,” he said. “For they never knew a man who had died.” He told believers emerging from a season of dying to old identities will feel the same paradox: “Dead but alive. Dead but alive.”
The message also confronted the emotional ties that keep many from moving forward. “Beware of that which is familiar,” Johnson said. He spoke specifically about family patterns and childhood environments that created “stunted growth,” leaving people feeling “misunderstood,” “bottled up” or obligated to “live someone else’s dream.”
He said God is actively breaking these limitations and “removing you from certain origins of your family that have hindered you from stepping into the new.”
Throughout the message, Johnson stressed that embracing the new requires self-compassion as God reshapes His people. “Behold, I make all things new,” he said. “You must give yourself permission to evolve. You must give yourself grace that you were simply operating out of what you knew.” He framed this moment as a defining choice: “This weekend is a call to leave that which is behind and press forward to the prize of the high calling in Christ Jesus.”
Johnson’s reminder cuts through the noise of life with clarity: “You have never been this way before.”
And that, he says, is precisely the point.
James Lasher, a seasoned writer and editor at Charisma Media, combines faith and storytelling with a background in journalism from Otterbein University and ministry experience in Guatemala and the LA Dream Center. A Marine Corps and Air Force veteran, he is the author of The Revelation of Jesus: A Common Man’s Commentary and a contributor to Charisma magazine.
