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Don’t discount the seasons of feeling like you’re in the wilderness.

Don’t discount that wilderness road.

Don’t reject the wild ones. Don’t dismiss the ones that are wilder than normal. Don’t overlook the one with a wild voice. God sometimes uses a wild prophet. John Baptist had a following. The wild ones? So did Jesus. Jesus wasn’t so tame Himself. And Jesus had a following—still does.

Mark 1:3 A voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Prepare the way for the Lord; make his paths straight!

This verse speaks to us about the wilderness as a prophetic setting.

Wild is the root of the word wilderness. But we could also say wilder is the root.  Ness is a suffix that turns an adjective into a noun. It indicates the state, condition, or quality of being something (e.g., happy becomes happiness, kind becomes kindness, and dark becomes darkness). So, Mark 1:3 speaks to us of a wilder voice. A wilder way. A wilder path, and something that is free from the norms, traditions, expectations, and religious protocols. That’s the trail that John blazed, and it’s the pathway Jesus walked.

Sometimes God comes wildly. When Holy Spirit came, He came via a wild wind. Who among us will say “let the wind blow.” Or will dare to pray “Have thine own way.”

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – President John F. Kennedy, 1961 address to the United Nations

Allow me now to give you a Scripture of breaking free into the new, the wild, the wilder way

Isaiah 43:18-19 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness

It is those that say such things as “we’ve always done it this way” that are perpetuating traditions of man. Such traditions may have been enacted because they were God breathed ideas for a moment. But yesterday should never be granted power over our todays and tomorrows. The wild ones are those who are willing to break out of dead protocols, systems, cycles. Holy Spirit isn’t like an animal at the zoo. Holy Spirit isn’t a power that we make a circus act out of. Holy Spirit is a person. And Holy Spirit’s demeanor is more wild than tame. 

“Holy Spirit is a gentleman” is not a Bible verse. Holy Spirit is power. 

Here’s a podcast episode of me talking about this subject:

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/wilderness-road–73182788

Here’s a video of me teaching this topic:

https://youtu.be/HDp3CHF__s0?is=m2grDl64gC9u_t48

Podcast episode link is here…

https://www.spreaker.com/episode/highway-of-holiness–72974520

YouTube video link is here…

> Holiness is an ancient pathway that man walks with God

Isaiah 35:8 And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Way of Holiness

Jeremiah 6:16 Thus says the LORD: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it

“Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man” -Oswald Chambers

Isaiah 49:11 my highways will be raised up.

Endurance. Become a person who perseveres. Pray to become a person with patience, steadfastness, lasting toughness. The last days will bring challenges. Don’t underestimate the battle. Make sure you have enough gas in the tank. This is the prophetic gem I believe Holy Spirit has been speaking to me as I have partnered with a group of intercessors, pursuing insights for this prophetic, final hour.

For months now I have been part of a corporate prayer group that has used…

“all things prophetic”

as our prayer focus. So far, we have used scriptural prompts related to the word prophet or prophecy. Somehow one of our texts came from Luke 21 for one of the prayer sets. Luke 21 is clearly a prophetic chapter, even including prophecy from Jesus. Afterwards, we sensed Holy Spirit wanted us to pray through this whole chapter, bit by bit. Then, when we got down to verse 19, it seemed like it was packing something extra and we were moved to stay with it and pray even more from this Scriptural thought. We committed ourselves to wait, listen, dig deeper. It has felt like God has given us a prophetic gem, a secret even.

I dare say this verse is important for the last days and I believe God has opened our prophetic eyes to see the importance of mining it, praying it.

Below I show this Scripture as it reads from a few different versions/translations. 

◄ Luke 21:19 ►

NIV “Stand firm, and you will win life.”

NLT “By standing firm, you will win your souls.”

ESV “By your endurance you will gain your lives.”

KJV “In your patience possess ye your souls.”

NASB “By your endurance you will gain your lives

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The last 3 Fridays we have intentionally prayed from scriptures that are similar to Luke 21:19. Below are those verses:

Hebrews 10:36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

James 1:3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

Matthew 10:22 and you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

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I think that praying from verses like these could be a healthy response to the warnings of the end-times regarding judgements, persecution, tribulations, and the falling away.

Keith Green wrote a song titled “I Don’t Wanna Fall Away From You.” That needs to be our heart. We can’t be so arrogant as to think deception, falling, or giving up couldn’t happen to us. I think praying for help, for patience, endurance, steadfastness is part of the answer. 

https://music.apple.com/us/album/i-dont-wanna-fall-away-from-you/1443213126?i=144321359

Our flesh, soul, mind, heart doesn’t typically get excited about dire warnings, and prophetic clarion calls that beckon us to have or develop the necessary goods to accomplish endurance. But that’s exactly what I believe Holy Spirit is pointing out and selling to whomever will hear and respond. It’s like a prophetic secret.

Genesis 20:7 is the first appearance of the word prophet in Scripture. In its first appearance, the prophet is linked to prayer—“he is a prophet and he will pray.” 

Prophets pray. It’s what they do. It’s who they are. 

The Law of First Mention in Bible Study is a hermeneutical interpretative principle that suggests the first time a word or concept appears in the Bible establishes its fundamental meaning. 

Additionally, prophets speak. Because they see, hear, know, and receive revelation, they are correspondingly expected to speak, declare, prophesy, preach, warn, call to repentance, edify, encourage. 

As Moses was receiving revelation, encounters with God, and mandates from the Lord, he worried that his oratory abilities were lacking and requested an assistant for this matter. God allowed him to have Aaron, his older brother, as a mouthpiece. Exodus 7:1 refers to Aaron as Moses’ prophet. It means that Aaron was the appointed speaker, in lieu of Moses. 

Furthermore, it should be understood that prophets are distinct because of their heart to know God, His ways, and His will. In this regard, we should all aspire to be prophetic…to know God, to hear God’s voice, to have encounters with the Lord.

Numbers 12:6 And he said, Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream.

Prophets dream. Prophets have visions. And these experiences are from God. They reveal God, God’s mind, God’s heart, God’s perspective, God’s answers, God’s feelings. 

In Joel 2 God promises a great deluge, an outpouring of His Spirit that will make all believers (old, young, men, women, all flesh) prophetic with the ability to see visions, have dreams, and prophesy. This started in Acts 2. However, it didn’t culminate in Acts 2. As a matter of fact, Jesus’ first miracle was a parabolic metaphor alluding to the last days outpouring that would be best at the last (John 2:1-11). 

If God wants to give something, it’s right for us to want, desire, ask for that thing. Therefore, we should ask for dreams, visions, revelations that are truly from God and not of our own imaginations. Just because there is a false does not mean there is not an authentic. Let’s not allow the devil to win in the battle for the prophetic. Let’s press into the Lord and ask for the pure waters that freely flow from Him. 

Revelation 19:16 On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: king of kings and lord of lords. 17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in midheaven, “Come, assemble for the great feast of God, 18 so that you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of commanders, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all people, both free and slaves, and small and great.”

God is not just king, He’s the king of kings. He’s not just lord, He’s the lord of lords. He is supreme, divine, above all. In 2026, God will be boss to bosses. 

Yes, God sets up and puts down. Quite a few will be put down/out in 2026, thus there will be need for new persons to be inserted, raised up. 

Some will die. Some will not be re-elected. Some will be fired. Some will be ousted by takeover. Some will succumb to being caught for illegalities, some will lose too many court cases and appeals, some (even some true prophets) will experience rejection. 

Like domino pieces beginning to fall. I see quite a few ministers, politicians, pundits, influencers, talking heads, leaders falling, taking a dive, leaving the picture, exiting their place. Some have been put in their elevated place not because God liked or favored them, but rather because He was positioning a domino piece. They are where they are so their fall could be more fitting. 

Psalm 75:7
It is God who judges: He brings one down, he exalts another.

Some of our more notable persons are going to die in 2026. I’m not talking only about those 75+ years of age, I’m saying we’ll be surprised at some that die because we thought they were young or healthy. 

I see lone wolves daring to leave the pack. There will be a departure from Ralph—a name that means wolf wisdom. Folks will begin to find enough courage to escape pack dominance. Like losing their religion, persons will dare to find their voice, individuality, their God beyond the box…the groupthink, the denomination, the party, the job, the company, the league.

For some it will be a wilderness experience. Lone wolves, Davids on the run, Moses’ as figurative fugitives, and Hagars as outcasts feeling unloved, unappreciated, unwanted. 

I think the right posture for all of us in 2026 will be to choose humility, and choose to liberally and unashamedly praise and exalt God. Fear no evil. Stay close to God. And be a praiser. 

From 2 Samuel 6:21-22. So I will celebrate before the Lord! 22 And I might demean myself even more than this and be lowly in my own sight.