This message addresses the deep pain many believers have endured resulting in much shame, disgrace, regret, sorrow, and repeated spiritual assault. This has given birth to the lingering question, “Why does this keep happening to me?”

In my time of communion with the Holy Spirit, the Lord spoke clearly, reminding me that He is fully aware of the reproach His people have suffered and that He has provided a divine pathway for recovery and restoration out of all pitfalls.

The Holy Spirit directed me to pay attention to the priestly responsibility found in Joel 2:17, where the priests were commanded to stand between the porch and the altar and to weep, intercede, and plead for God to spare His heritage.

This posture of prayer is not a passive plea but an intentional and urgent request to the Lord to see His hand move. It is a call to cry out to the Lord so that His covenant people are no longer mocked or taunted by the nations who ask, “Where is their God?”

The Lord emphasized that He is not indifferent or unaware of the shame and scorn His people have suffered. Rather, He desires that His people re-engage Him with heartfelt, determined prayer, fully trusting that He will deliver them, and bring them into His rest, and cause them to inherit His promises.

The ultimate aim is the fulfilment of Isaiah 25:8, where the Lord promises to swallow up death forever, and wipe away all tears from every face, and remove the reproach of His people from the whole earth, because He the Lord has decreed it concerning us.

However, the Holy Spirit pointed out that this promise requires our active cooperation with Him to walk in the path He has already made available for us to surrender to in full obedience .

As followers of Jesus we must awaken to our responsibility to work with the Lord through prayer, intercession, weeping, and fasting, so that past trauma, shame, and disgrace are swallowed up in the Lord’s glory and goodness which overshadows us. This message is a call for us to pray always and not to faint, trusting fully in the Lord’s faithfulness while remaining spiritually engaged.

As we the followers of Jesus return to this place of fervent prayer, the Lord will bring His word to pass for us with undeniable, visible results. Just as in the book of Acts, when even the Pharisees who were the opposition were forced to admit, “That a notable deed has been done… we cannot deny it”. So too in this season will the Lord’s intervention become evident through tangible physical change that no one can dispute.

I conclude this word with a prayer that the grace flowing through this word would rest mightily upon you to re-engage wholeheartedly in prayer, and spiritual labour with the Holy Spirit, and see this word established in your lives this year, resulting in total recovery, restoration, and the public display of God’s glory abounding daily in your lives to the glory of the Father in Jesus name. Amen.

I declare in the Name of Jesus that the Lord will arise on your behalf and save you as His heritage , so that every shame, disgrace, taunt, and tear you have carried will be swallowed up in His glory.

In the name of Jesus as you take your place in prayer between the porch and the altar, your prayers will be answered with the undeniable evidence of God’s power at work in signs, wonders and miracles.

I decree that your restoration will be visible, your recovery will be unmistakable, and your testimony irrefutable to the point where the world had asked, “Where is your God?” they will now behold His goodness through your transformed life loaded with miraculous results.

I declare that grace is upon you to pray, endure, and prevail as this word shall be fulfilled in your life this year, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.