A Prophetic Word: A Season of Separation
The Spirit of God is doing something in this hour that many are feeling but few have named:
I believe He is separating faith from familiarity within His own people.
Not dividing believer from unbeliever. Not sorting the Church into camps of "faithful" and "faithless."
He is dividing within us — pulling apart what we've called faith from what faith actually is.
The Wheat and the Tares Grow in One Field
Jesus spoke of wheat and tares growing together until harvest. We've often read this as a warning about false believers among true ones. But what if the field is also our own hearts?
What if the tares are the beliefs we've held about God that were never rooted in trust in God?
The Spirit is bringing distinction now — not to shame us, but to free us. He's exposing where unbelief has dressed itself in religious language. Where striving has worn the mask of devotion. Where we've learned to speak faith without actually resting in it.
Jesus Responded to Faith, Not Just Need
Consider the woman who came to Jesus—a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She came as an outsider — no covenant, no claim, no right to His attention. She had desperate need: a demon-tormented daughter.(Mark 7:24-30, Matthew 15:21-28).
But when Jesus seemed to dismiss her, she didn't escalate her need. She didn't beg harder or plead her case more eloquently.
She anchored herself in who He was.
"Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table."
That wasn't desperation talking. That was REVELATION. She saw His nature and trusted it, even when His words seemed to contradict it.
And Jesus marveled: "O woman, great is your faith!"
Here's the distinction the Spirit is highlighting:
Need says: "I'm desperate — please help me."
Faith says: "I know who You are — and I entrust everything to that."
Need reaches for relief.
Faith reaches for relationship.
One demands an outcome.
The other surrenders to Truth embodied.
The Orphan Spirit vs. The Spirit of Sonship
Many of us — and I include myself — have been functioning like spiritual orphans without realizing it. We know God's name, but we're still scanning the horizon for someone to meet our need. We pray with clenched fists, afraid He won't come through. We measure His faithfulness by our circumstances.
This isn't willful rebellion. It's something more subtle and more dangerous: We've grown familiar with God without truly knowing Him.
And where familiarity reigns instead of intimacy, we're no longer being led by the Holy Spirit — we're being influenced by a familiar spirit.
Think of the generation that spent 40 years in the wilderness but never entered the Promised Land. They had daily miracles. Constant provision. The visible presence of God. But familiarity with His works never became faith in His character — and an entire generation died circling the same ground.
A familiar spirit doesn't deny God. It just reduces Him to what we've already experienced, what we can predict, what feels safe and manageable.
It keeps us circling the same spiritual territory, speaking the same prayers, expecting the same limited outcomes — all while calling it faith.
But the Father, in His mercy, is exposing this and removing it.
He's calling us back from striving to abiding.
From proving to resting.
From orphan-hearted petition to son-and-daughter confidence.
"You have not received the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, 'Abba! Father!'" (Romans 8:14-14)
This Is a Season of Separation
The Spirit is doing surgery right now — not to wound, but to heal.
He's separating:
What we've said we believe from what we've actually trusted
The faith we perform from the faith we live from
The confidence we project from the rest we embody
This isn't condemnation. This is love refusing to let us stay comfortable in mixture.
Because a house divided cannot stand — and that includes the house of our own hearts.
The Invitation
So here's what I sense for this hour:
Let go of the familiar spirit. Reach for the Holy Spirit.
The Spirit is calling us out of the familiar — the predictable patterns, the safe prayers, the God we think we've figured out.
He's inviting us back to the wild, living trust that recognizes: I don't control Him, I don't contain Him, and I don't get to reduce Him to what I've already seen Him do.
Let Him show you where you've been relating to a version of God that fits neatly in your theology, your experience, your comfort zone — but isn't actually Him.
Where you've been speaking the language of faith while walking in the limitations of familiarity.
Where you've settled for knowing about Him instead of knowing Him.
He's refining.
He's separating the familiar spirit from the Holy Spirit in our hearts — not to expose you, but to establish you in truth.
Return to simplicity.
Return to surrender.
Return to the revelation of Jesus.
Not the Jesus of the worship experience.
Not the God of the rally or the conference.
He’s not confined to the spaces we've built for Him.
Look beyond the services, the music, the Christian-centered events — and in faith, let go of every version that doesn't produce true fruit in your life, that sounds correct but is in vain.
Encounter the One who meets you in the ordinary. In the silence. In the place where there's no soundtrack or crowd. Beyond the need and deep in the fear and wonder of who He is.
That's the faith that moves His heart.
That's the faith He's cultivating in this season.
That's the faith that will carry us into everything He's prepared.
You are not an orphan.
You are His.
He is making your faith pure.
