At the beginning of 2025, I wrote a blog post that was more prophetic than I first realised!

There were four key points:

1. Confess comparison, don’t get caught up in it.
2. You will face trials of many kinds – Consider them pure joy.
3. You will get through your trials with Jesus. Only with Jesus.
4. You are building faith – which may be overlooked by people – but God always sees what you are building.

As I look back over 2025, I recognise that I should have held onto those words. God was prepping me, ahead of the year’s events.

Truth be told: It was November when I thought to look at that prophetic blog post… December when I actually gave it a read.

I don’t say this to berate myself publicly.

I finish 2025 and I realise that I must hold onto the words that God has given me. I believe this is God’s message for me in 2026:

Grab hold of my words, Beth. Don’t forget my promises, don’t forget what I have spoken to you.

My Written Words

I feel like God wants me to practically use the words He has given me. I believe he wants me to trawl through my blog archives, my past preaches and my unpublished journals and jottings.

One of my all-time favourite bloggers recently published a post, all about pinning her past posts on Pinterest. As I read her commentary on this experience, I detected notes of joy in her tone. This pinning business wasn’t a chore for her. What she was doing was:

a. Therapeutic and

b. Resulted in people reading her words, for the very first time.

I believe there’s some words that I have already written that can be used for blessing and healing. God doesn’t want me to spend all of 2026 writing a bunch of fresh stuff, He is also giving a fresh breath of air to words written a while ago.

Why?

• Because He wants to bring that blessing and healing to others.
• He wants me to know that He sees what I have done in the dark
• He wants me to know that when I turn to Him, He makes all things new.

Resurrection is what He is about.

He is making all things new. I get the sense that I am to be careful not to call something dead just because it looks like it’s not doing anything. There is life where I have not considered life, because His fresh breath on things makes them new.

Perhaps you began a work that is yet to be completed? Ask God about those old things! Maybe He is wanting to resurrect something in your life.

Words Given to me

I feel as though He also wants me to steward my personal, prophetic words well. Get them out, dust them off. Stick them up on the wall. Read them, pray about them.

I don’t know what God has personally spoken to you in the past. Do you have any unfulfilled promises from God? Maybe it is time to get those things out.

I believe this is a season where old promises are given a fresh wind.

There was a season in which I was not living fully obedient to God. I experienced His unfathomable grace during that time – He kept picking me up when I made the same mistake, over and over. Yet, now that I have truly repented of the mistake, I realise that I really was missing out on His presence. His catalytic power.

God can catalyse the good – Make something begin, be successful, or happen more quickly. Without Him we cannot do that.

Catalyse is a word that has been used in my church a lot lately and I do think some of us are about to see God’s catalytic power at work in our lives. We are then going to be able to pour this blessing out to those around us.

Time for you and I to get those old promises out of the spiritual cupboard! Remember, God breathed on dust and created the first human being – Adam. In other words: He can bring life to any old, dusty hope or dream.

Digesting rather than Over-Consuming

Some of you will know that I have been a stay-at-home mum for six and a half years. Recently however I have been given two jobs!

With this transition, I have experienced imposter syndrome. Thoughts like: Can I do this? What have I missed? Do I know enough?

But, as I re-enter the world of work – I realise that God doesn’t need me to learn new things. He actually wants me to go back over what I learnt in the past. He has led me to this point in my journey and He has fully prepared me for it.

Sometimes, you and I can know too much.

What if we simply need to digest what we already know?

Maybe you don’t need to learn anything new, maybe you need to go back over what you have learnt. Let God lead you through that process.

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The Word of God

With all this in mind, I came across a verse in Joshua that I believe will be key for me, this year. It might be for you, too:

[…] you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one word of all the good words which the Lord your God has promised concerning you has failed; all have been fulfilled for you, not one of them has failed.

Joshua 23: 14, AMP.

Not one of the words God has promised you has failed. Not one.

If you are reading this and thinking – How can I get a promise from God? Are you suggesting God actually speaks to me? Does God have personal messages for me?

Yes. Yes He really does.

Jeremiah says:

You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

Jeremiah 29: 13, NIV.

That, in itself, is a promise from God, for you – whoever you are reading this! If you seek Jesus with your whole heart – He will answer. Don’t hold back.

What is God trying to Revive in Your Life?

I love hearing about what God is saying in the lives of others. What is God saying to you, ahead of 2026?

Is He resurrecting or reviving something in your life, too?

Whether it is old promises, songs that you forgot you wrote or relationships He wants to rekindle – I would love to hear from you. Write a message in the comments below.