Preparing for the Promise While Walking Through the Wilderness
By Sherita Jones | The Anointing Grace
There’s a weight to this season, and it’s not just heaviness, it’s glory forming. It’s easy to call it loss when everything around you is collapsing. When you’ve watched income vanish, family divide, identity unravel, and justice slip through your hands, you wonder, Is God really preparing me? Or am I just surviving?
But I’m here to tell you: the waiting isn’t wasted. The fire isn’t failure. You’re not being buried. You’re being built.
The Weight of the Wait
I’m in the waiting room of heaven right now. Maybe you are too. The place where God feels silent, provision feels far, and doors seem locked. But here’s the revelation: waiting is not passive, it’s prophetic. It’s not an empty space; it’s a loaded season where God prepares you for what He promised.
“The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.” Lamentations 3:25–26 (KJV)
When you’ve lost your income, your housing, your child, and your stability, but you still get up to pray, fast, intercede, serve, and dig spiritual wells, that’s not defeat. That’s divine development. The wilderness is sacred, and I’m learning the wilderness is where the warriors are made.
Sharpening Your Discernment: Eyes to See What Others Miss
In the wait, God doesn’t just speak, He trains.
He trains your senses to discern the unseen. That gut check? That inner nudge? That sudden unrest around a person or opportunity? That’s discernment sharpening.
He begins to teach you:
To recognize His voice over your emotions.
To test every open door, because not all access is divine. Some open doors are traps.
To spot counterfeits posing as blessings.
Discernment becomes a spiritual compass in the wilderness. Without it, promotion can become a trap. With it, you know how to walk through open doors without losing your soul.
Purifying Your Motives: The Fire Burns Away Hidden Agendas
God doesn’t just ask what you want, but why. Waiting exposes motives. Do you want the platform to be seen, or to serve? Do you want the blessing to glorify God or silence your enemies? He doesn’t answer to validate pride. He responds to pure surrender.
Purification looks like:
Dreams dying and still worshiping.
Being overlooked and not becoming bitter.
Giving without return and still saying yes.
The process of purifying is painful, but it births power. You’re being preserved in the waiting.
Healing the Heart Wounds: Unseen Battles, Eternal Healing
“He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.” Psalm 147:3 (KJV)
Rejection. Abandonment. Betrayal. These don’t just hurt, they hijack your identity.
But in the waiting, God begins exposing the bruise behind the behavior. He presses places that trigger tears not to torment you, but to heal you. The wound must be revealed before it can be redeemed.
Healing for me looks like:
Groaning in prayer with no words.
Releasing people who will never apologize.
Confronting the little girl inside who still feels unloved, unseen, and unworthy.
And right there in the brokenness? He wraps Himself around you and whispers, “I’m not like them. I’ve always stayed.”
“Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.” Isaiah 43:1 (KJV)
Preparing Your Hands: Handling Weighty Things with Wisdom
You’re not waiting because you’re weak. You’re waiting because what’s coming is weighty. The blessings and promises God has for you isn’t light. It comes with responsibility, strategy, warfare, and visibility. So what does God do?
He trains your hands in obscurity. He teaches you excellence without applause. He lets you fail privately so you can carry victory publicly.
“He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.” Luke 16:10 KJV
Preparation looks like:
Stewarding little like it’s much.
Leading your children when no one claps.
Creating drafts for the business no one sees yet.
Joseph didn’t go from pit to palace overnight. He was trained in betrayal, in prison, and in the shadows.
Expanding Your Capacity: Stretching for the Overflow
What you carry can’t be held by the old version of you.
So God stretches your:
Emotions: teaching you endurance
Vision: forcing you to dream again
Spirit: training you to press deeper into Him
Expansion doesn’t feel like growth. It feels like breaking. But what you think is breaking, is birthing.
My Capacity is increasing when:
I handle more than I think you can.
I love through pain.
I obey without clarity.
I speak life when death surrounds me.
Learning to War in the Spirit
“Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:” Psalm 144:1 (KJV)
This season isn’t just about maturity, it’s about mastery.
You’re being taught:
How to wield the sword of the Word
How to fast with purpose
How to intercede with authority
How to shut down demonic cycles in your bloodline
God doesn’t want you entering your promise spiritually lazy. He’s raising a warrior. A watchman. A woman who knows how to war in the dark and worship in the fire.
Tearing Down Idols & Misplaced Trust
This season is uncovering what your heart relied on.
Jobs. People. Titles. Income. Systems. All of it stripped, so you can say “God is enough” and mean it. Not because you’ve been brainwashed, but because you’ve been rebuilt. When everything else fades, and He remains, you finally see who your Source is.
Upgrading Vision, Language, Identity, and Faith
In the waiting:
Vision is resurrected. You stop just surviving. You start dreaming again.
Language is sanctified. You stop saying “I can’t afford…” and start saying, “God will provide.”
Identity is rooted. No more victim. No more orphan. Daughter. Heir. Warrior.
Faith is stretched. You stop asking small. You start declaring boldly.
The oil that flows from you now isn’t cheap. It’s pressed. It’s holy. It’s costly. And it’s for nations.
Get Your House in Order
Spiritually:
Repent of bitterness, compromise, and unbelief.
Create an atmosphere of worship, Word, and order.
Naturally:
Organize your space.
Create systems for the life you’re praying for.
Write your vision (Habakkuk 2:2)—not for later, but for now.
Learn What You’ll Need for the Promise
Don’t wait for promotion to start preparing.
Study the business you’re building. Learn financial stewardship. Take the course. Apply for the program. Draft the idea. The prison trained Joseph. The wilderness trained Moses. The hidden season trained David. What looks like delay is disguised development.
Connecting the Dots
You’ve lost much. Been falsely accused. Attacked in character. Lied on. Belittled. Humiliated. Forgotten. But heaven hasn’t forgotten you. God is working in the fire. The pattern may look like destruction, but the outcome is resurrection.
And one day you’ll look back and say, “That season didn’t bury me, it birthed me.”
Final Word: The Wait is Holy
This season of waiting is a prophetic pause. God is training your discernment, purifying your motives, healing your soul, and expanding your capacity so when the door opens, you don’t just walk through it, you thrive in it.
So prepare. Build. Rest. War. Dream. Write. Fast. Worship.
The wait is not a waste. The wait is the womb. And you, beloved, are being reborn to carry glory. And glory is heavy.
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