In John 16, the disciples were being faced with transition: from 3½ wonderful years with Jesus to the awesome Holy Spirit in the Book of Acts. But in between walking with the Master and being empowered by the Holy Spirit there was their transition: the transition of the Garden and the Cross, the dark night of the soul.

Peter had to be transformed from one that had the boldness to walk on water to becoming an Apostle of Faith. In between these two faith-filled seasons was the Garden and the Cross; being so confronted with the ugliness of his humanity that he wept bitterly, a broken man.

God wasn’t finished with him, He was preparing him! [As He was with all of the disciples at that time.]

And Jesus, knowing this, addresses it in John 16.
[21] A woman giving birth to a child [the Church in the Book of Acts] has pain because her time has come but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. [22] So with you: Now is your time (travail or) of grief, but I will see you again (or “you will see Me again”) and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy. (The joy of new birth.)

I believe many of you are in a season of birthing: birthing the new chapter, birthing the future destiny, the future DNA. Many of you are in the process of conceiving and bringing forth.

Definition of ‘Transition’: movement, or change from one position, state, subject, season, concept, etc., to another; change: the transition from adolescence to adulthood.

I want to declare to you that you are pregnant with tomorrow’s potential but for there to be a birthing of it there is always that uncomfortable change in the body, that internal struggle, that travail, that transition, that brings that Body from the point of conception to the point of birth.

The tragedy is that there are always those who are robbed of the promise because they fear the struggle that that birthing will bring, the need for change that confronts them in that Body. And some people abort the process rather than face the need for change. So they draw back from that transition and shelter themselves in the familiar, the way things used to be. They do not embrace that season of transition and change and they, consequently are not empowered by it: God’s intention is not realised.

Transition is empowering when it is embraced, but only when it is embraced.

When you reject the need for that transition, you reject the increase that that transition was destined to birth in your life. And when you mishandle that transition, you corrupt that birthing process and its intended result. But, friends, God intended that transition to empower you and your relationship with Him, whilst bringing forth the new day of promise.

Look at God’s intended result and allow fresh grace to flow into your heart. He has promised it you.

Believing for you,
David