Prophetic Word for February 2025 – Resistance

prophetic word for february 2025 resistance

This prophetic word for February 2025 is titled resistance.

Who is this word for? Those who may be coming up against some opposition or resistance.

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As I was spending some time with the Lord, I asked Him for a prophetic word for all of us for this month to help us step into the fruitfulness of this year.  I immediately got a vision of a person opening a door to enter into a room. As the person pushed the door open, I could see that there was someone on the opposite side of the same door using their entire body weight to push against it to keep it from opening.  They were ensuring that the person couldn’t enter the room.  This person didn’t know there was someone on the other side of the door so they kept pushing to try to get into that room. I was just looking at the hand on one side of the door and then the back and shoulder of the other person on the opposite side. I didn’t really see the faces of the people.

As soon as I saw this the Spirit of the Lord said “Resistance”

Immediately I knew there are 2 types of resistance (1) is when the enemy is resisting you from stepping into what the Lord has for you and (2) when God is resisting you from stepping into something that you shouldn’t.

The key is to discern what type of resistance you are encountering and handle it accordingly.

I know because we’re in a season of fruitfulness, the enemy has come to the end of the road.  So, he’s basically doing his last ditch effort to stop you from getting what God has for you. This can come in the form of resistance, where things can seem difficult and you end up trying so many things, and none of it works and that can lead to frustration.  Some people end up “throwing in the towel” but I am here to tell you, don’t!

Resist – Strong’s Greek Concordance 436

Anthistémi: To resist, to oppose, to withstand

436 anthístēmi (from 473 /antí, “opposite/against” and 2476 /hístēmi, “to stand”) – properly, take a complete stand against, i.e. a “180 degree, contrary position”; (figuratively) to establish one’s position publicly by conspicuously “holding one’s ground,” i.e. refusing to be moved (“pushed back”)

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When God is resisting you

Let’s first talk about when God is the one resisting you.  This is going to come in the form of you trying to do something and no matter how you try to get it done, things are just not working out.  It’s”trying to put a square peg in a round hole”.  No matter what you do, it’s not going to work.  This is just God’s way of telling you to move on.

Easy way to discern is to ask yourself these questions:

1. Did God tell you to do what you’re trying to do?  Yes or No.

1b. Sometimes things can be seasonal, He allowed it for one season but now it is time for you to pull up the tent pegs and leave.  Double check that the door you are trying to enter is the one God has for you.  All those rejections could just be God’s way of redirecting you.  Ask Him.

2. Is it a sin?  Yes or No.

What is interesting is that in some instances God won’t come directly to you and tell you to not do something, it just won’t work out.  And, you literally just have to take the hint, go back to Him and ask, so that you’re not wasting your time.

Sometimes, it’s not a sin, it’s just not where He wants you to be.  Here’s Paul, going on his missionary journey, he has many places that he would like to visit but the Lord was letting him know along the way the places he should go and the places he should not.

Acts 16:6-10

Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia. When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to. So they passed by Mysia and went down to Troas. During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”10 After Paul had seen the vision, we got ready at once to leave for Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.

What I love about this scripture is that Paul was able to discern the difference between the Holy Spirit and the Spirit of Jesus and God the Father.  This means he could pick up on which one of the Godhead was communicating with him. #spiritualgoals  Can you tell the difference if the Holy Spirit is speaking to you, Jesus or God the Father?

The scripture doesn’t tell us exactly how he knew but I am thinking it could just be that he knew it in his knower…you ever just know something and you don’t know why or how you know that??  That’s the Holy Spirit.  Then the Spirit of Jesus will show up differently, perhaps he couldn’t go because it was raining the whole week and when he tried again the Marriott was fully booked….for a month!  LOL. He recognized that he was not to enter some of these regions and moved to where God the Father clearly told him he should go in a dream.

Paul correctly discerned that the resistance was just God redirecting his steps to where he should be.

Then there is the story Balaak who hired the false Prophet Balaam to curse the Israelites.  As he was on his way to do that, Father God resisted him by sending an angel to stand in his way.  Obviously, this resistance was based on sin.

Numbers 22:21-31

21 Balaam got up in the morning, saddled his donkey and went with the Moabite officials. 22 But God was very angry when he went, and the angel of the Lord stood in the road to oppose him. Balaam was riding on his donkey, and his two servants were with him. 23 When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, it turned off the road into a field. Balaam beat it to get it back on the road.

24 Then the angel of the Lord stood in a narrow path through the vineyards, with walls on both sides. 25 When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord, it pressed close to the wall, crushing Balaam’s foot against it. So he beat the donkey again.

26 Then the angel of the Lord moved on ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn, either to the right or to the left. 27 When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord, it lay down under Balaam, and he was angryand beat it with his staff. 28 Then the Lord opened the donkey’s mouth, and it said to Balaam, “What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?”

29 Balaam answered the donkey, “You have made a fool of me! If only I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now.”

30 The donkey said to Balaam, “Am I not your own donkey, which you have always ridden, to this day? Have I been in the habit of doing this to you?”

“No,” he said.

31 Then the Lord opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the Lordstanding in the road with his sword drawn. So he bowed low and fell facedown.

 

So in this instance, Balaam was about to do evil and he was resisted by God.

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When the enemy is resisting you

I believe a lot of you will fall into this category.  This is when you are doing what the Lord has told you to do but somehow you keep coming up against blockades, resistance, the run around, undo and redo, nothing but frustration.  This is happening because you are so close to where you should be.  You are at the door that you should enter and the enemy couldn’t get you to abort the plans of God on your life and so now he’ll put some resistance in place just to frustrate you.

DON’T GIVE UP!

Ephesians 6:3

Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.

This word stand is anthístēmi which is the same word as resist and means do not back down, do not give up any ground. Hold your position and God will show you how to get through that blockade.

1. Pray in Tongues.  This will break off the spirit of delay and God will give you strategies and wisdom through this.

2. Put on the Armor of God

1 Peter 5:8-9

Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.

You resist the devil by standing firm in your faith and in what the Lord told you.  God put you there and now you have to stand.

Sometimes the resistance can come because you listened to the wrong people.  You’re taking advice from people and you know that it is contrary to what the Lord told you.  Then you take off in the opposite direction of where God told you to go because you listened to them.  So you go up the mountain, through the valley, down the road, over the hill and now you’re lost!  You wasted time and now you have to head back to the door you abandoned!  This is a form of resistance.  The devil is going to send all kinds of people to give you some “really good advice” to move you from that door.

Acts 13:8

They traveled through the whole island until they came to Paphos. There they met a Jewish sorcerer and false prophet named Bar-Jesus, who was an attendant of the proconsul, Sergius Paulus. The proconsul, an intelligent man, sent for Barnabas and Saul because he wanted to hear the word of God. But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is what his name means) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul from the faith. Then Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked straight at Elymas and said, 10 “You are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?

The enemy will shift you from your faith if you are not firm in it.  If you are not taking a stand in it.  If you are wishy washy and non committal and not willing to fight for it.  oh, I don’t think it’s a good time to mess with that door now, perhaps you should focus on this, oh look at this great thing over here…what about this, this looks more like you and how easily this door opens (opens door to nowhere land), oh this will be quick, you’ll be done within the month….3 months later you are now embroiled in something other than what you should’ve been doing…and if you don’t know what God told you, you will fall for it.  Then it’s December 2025, and you’re still wondering why you are not where you thought you should be.  Resistance!  It also comes in the form of distractions.  Great ideas and projects that pull you away from the ONE door God told you to go through.

What is the door?  Make sure you are very clear about this.

Some people make new year’s resolution, I don’t really do that.  What I do is I ask the Lord “what is it You want me to do this year?”  Then I write it down. I make God’s priority, my priority.  If He’s #1 on my list, then guess who’s #1 on His list?  I get what I want!!!  Because I do what HE tells me to do FIRST.  Everybody else is at the back of the line.  This is my winning strategy.

I promise you, when things go off the rails, I grab for what I wrote and that is when I realized I was doing other things except what He told me to do.  Trust me, it happens sooooooo easily and soooooo quickly because that thing is sooooooo subtle!  The minute I go back to what GOD told me to do as #1 priority, everything just automatically gets put back in order.  This works every time!

Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.  You will never be able to stand unless you hear it clearly from the Lord.  So just make sure that door, is the one the Lord told you to enter.

If and when you come upon this resistance, just ask the Lord to clear that path for you.  Because you know it is the enemy at this point.  Ask the Lord for a strategy on how to clear this resistance.  Pray in tongues.

When you do all this you then you become the one putting up a resistance to the enemy by submitting to the plan that the Lord has on your life.

James 4:7

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

YOU never sent yourself to that door, GOD sent you, so the only one able to remove you, is GOD.  And now, you STAND.

What does it mean to submit yourself to God?  Humble yourself.  Approach things in God’s ways, with the attitudes, and the behaviors, and the speech that says you are of God.  Sometimes people fail, not because they are in the wrong but because of their actions, their speech, the words!!!!  God is never going to reward bad behavior and people can delay what God has for them just by acting in the flesh.  Your flesh.  Do you know what happens then?  You look like you’re on the side of the devil, because of how you behave.  So guess what happens next…

James 4:6

But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.”

Imagine coming up to the door, you are where you should be, you hit a little resistance from the devil and what do you do?  Respond in the Flesh.

In an instance, you go from the devil resisting you, to GOD resisting you.  Do you see that?  Say no to pride.  The door will stay closed if you step into pride.  Even if you feel you are being wronged, ssshhhhhh. Silence. Take it up with Jesus.  Excuse yourself and go pray.

When you handle it with grace and humility, the devil flees because he cannot stand to that.  And, then because he runs away the door opens because the resistance has been removed.

I pray this helps you and when you identify any of this happening in your life just come back to this post, reread and respond correctly.

Blessings

4 thoughts on “Prophetic Word for February 2025 – Resistance”

  1. I absolutely love this word!! Am currently going thru this now! But God, in His infinite wisdom, always is on my side and rights wrong!

    I love what you said here:
    Some people make new year’s resolution, I don’t really do that. What I do is I ask the Lord “what is it You want me to do this year?” Then I write it down. I make God’s priority, my priority. If He’s #1 on my list, then guess who’s #1 on His list? I get what I want!!! Because I do what HE tells me to do FIRST. Everybody else is at the back of the line. This is my winning strategy.

    This is definitely my desire this Year!! I thank God for the clarity and understanding He has downloaded thru this word!

    Blessings!

  2. This is very relevant to me because I bought a maize mill more than five years ago but am failing to finish building a house for the maize mill. Every time am geared to finish building something happens and I stop. All I need is to finish the windows and the doors and plant the maize mail. I was like what is happening but this post now I get it and God is in control. Amen

  3. Goodness! This is like reading my script of my past month (s). The enemy has been resisting me on something God spoke about. And I decided to do the fast a 2nd time so that I make sure all doors are closed and he’ll have no excuse to accuse me with and repayment is done in full.

    While this is happening, he has made sure that each day takes a nosedive, from the laptop suddenly not working when I am re-applying for other jobs (yeah my job came to a sudden end mid this month). Yet I have been at peace and giving thanks in it all, satan is trying to bring anger and frustration from all corners, but he’s failing terribly.

    The prophetic words you’ve shared the last couple of months and including this braces one for the worst without losing their cool. So thank you for this must- grounded ministry that’s a blessing in this tough but peaceful season.
    Blessings.

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