Prophetic Word: Strength, Boldness, and Authority for God’s Daughters

Woman of God, this is your time to thrive.

This is your time to live fully alive in Christ. The Lord gave me this assignment to write this because I believe that it is His heart for you to discover more and more each day what it means for you to live as a Woman of God, Fully Alive.

I believe that what you read is going to be a deep well of encounter, healing, awakening, permission to flourish and be yourself and arise and run into your destiny in unprecedented ways.

A mighty move of the Holy Spirit has begun on earth among His daughters as He leads us deeper and deeper into what it means to truly live the abundant life in Christ (John 10:10). I have encountered the Lord’s heart over and over again the last number of years for His daughters to arise, be free in Christ, and be all He has created them to be. That time has arrived.

I hear the Spirit of God say, “You shall go deeper into My heart and encounter Me in new, fresh and unprecedented ways” and “You shall ascend My mountain, you shall come up higher and grow in greater ways, what it means to be a woman who governs from her seated place with Me.” You will hear the sound of boldness and authority loudly, because the Lord is raising up His daughters living fully alive in Him, in deep intimacy and a fresh boldness and a mighty ferocious awakening to their authority is happening, right now. An army of dangerously powerful daughters of God, living fully alive in Christ are arising on earth like never before.

I sit here writing this as a woman who is deeply in love with Jesus and my greatest desire and pursuit in life is to know Him. I also sit here as a wife to an amazing man, Kevin, and I also sit here writing this as a mother. A mother of four beautiful children— Elijah, Judah, Benjamin, and Isabella Joy. I have learned so much about living as a woman of God, fully alive and still on a journey, as I raise my children and I encounter His heart for me as His daughter and for His daughters all around the earth. He has “met me in the mothering,” and I have learned so much about His unconditional love and delight in me as His daughter as I sit at His feet and I raise my children.

So let us start this journey of discovering together…

As I sit here beginning to write this, I hear His whisper, “Tell them, Lana, I am raising them up in this hour, stronger than ever before and that strength is found in Me and in deep dependency.”

I believe God is raising up an army of women in this new era who are an unstoppable force. They are not an unstoppable force because of their own ability or their own strength, they are a company of women arising in strength from the place of deep intimacy with their King and deep dependency upon Him. They are arising with greater revelation and conviction of their oneness in and union with Christ. I hear His heart for you to flourish in this hour like you never have before. This is the time for you to be—in greater ways than you have ever experienced before—enjoying the abundant life He has created for you, living fully alive and being who He created you to be.

I hear the Lord saying: “Their complete dependence upon Me is dangerous to the enemy.”

And the words of Graham Cooke surround me: “Your intimacy with God is your greatest weapon.”

So…

On your feet, Daughter of Zion! Be threshed of chaff, be refined of dross. I’m remaking you into a people invincible, into God’s juggernaut to crush the godless peoples. You’ll bring their plunder as holy offerings to God, their wealth to the Master of the earth (Micah 4:13 MSG).

I hear the Lord saying:

Many of My daughters have been in a very intense battle and many of them for a very long time. They have been to the threshing floor and refined of dross, but in the battle they have faced, I have been birthing strength and courage within them like they have never known before. The strength of the wind of My Spirit is accelerating in intensity and My daughters are “getting up on their feet again.” I have done a very deep work within them and their roots are going down deeper and deeper in dependency upon Me and founded in Me, the One who never changes.

Within many ferocious battles My daughters have faced where the enemy has been roaring at them, in the fire, in the wrestle, in the intensity and onslaught, they have found Me, and they are finding the roar of My authority and victory in deeper ways, and now it is coming forth stronger than ever. They have discovered and will continue to discover the roar that I have placed within them. My roar over them is awakening them to their true identity. It’s a dynamic deliverance. I am awakening them to My goodness and My destiny for their lives. The lies and captivity of the mind, heart, and soul are suddenly falling off. The chains that have held My daughters for years, the chains that have come through generations, are suddenly breaking off.

I am raising up My daughters in unity, My daughters the juggernauts in Me. Unstoppable in Me! No longer held back, but empowered and strengthened and unstoppable, branded as unstoppable from the place of deep dependency. (Juggernaut: a huge, powerful and overwhelming force.)

They are an army! My daughters are now rising up free from slavery and bondage that has held them. They are rising up to a new level of freedom that is already theirs. They are rising up and stepping into greater levels of healing that is already theirs. They are rising up awakened to My roar in them and within them and My roar through them. They are going into areas where the enemy has set up camp through their prayer, intercession, and assignments to release the roar of My rhema and decreeing that which I am speaking.

Daughter of God, the time has arrived for you to flourish in who you are in Him in ways you’ve never imagined or dreamed. I have never been more convinced of the plans and purposes for His daughters on earth to arise and flourish in all they have been called to than I do right now. It is His heart for you to flourish in who He has created you to be and to flourish in all He has called you to.

For so long, so many daughters of God have felt so contained. So many women of God have felt anything but “fully alive,” and the question is posed by many women, especially those who have walked and endured really hard seasons, some over the last few years and some for decades: “What does it even mean to live, fully alive?” And for some who have been in these seasons of life where they have felt plummeted and pummeled by the waves of life, especially in the last few years, one blow after another, that question is even louder, “What does it mean to live as a woman of God, fully alive? I don’t even remember what it feels like when I’m thriving, I feel like I am living in a constant state of survival….”

Can I encourage you and remind you that our peace and joy and thriving come not from circumstance, but are founded in Him. Could it be that His definition of “thriving” is very different from ours at times? (I know at times for me, it certainly has been!)

I hear Psalm 1:2-3 over you:

But His delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper (NKJV).

But they delight in the law of the Lord, meditating on it day and night. They are like trees planted along the riverbank, bearing fruit each season. Their leaves never wither, and they prosper in all they do (NLT).

If you find yourself in that survival mode, that “barely making it through each day,” can I encourage you, this is your defining moment. This is the season when the Lord is breathing resurrection life upon your heart. First and foremost, hear me daughter of God, woman of God, sister in Christ, He cares about your heart. He so intricately created you. He gave you the beautiful heart that you carry, and who you are is a dream birthed in His heart—He cares about you. He cares about you flourishing. He cares about you being fully alive, not for what you can do for Him, but because of who you are. You are His! You are His delight! You are the very theme of His song (Song of Songs 2:1-2). He is enthralled by your beauty (Psalm 45:11), and He is bringing you deeper into a divine dance of intimacy, wholeness, and life. His heart is for you to flourish and live fully alive in your divine dance of intimacy with Him.

Knowing Him and being fully known by Him.

This is not a “how to” live fully alive, this is a journey of discovery into the depths of who He is, the space of deep intimacy with your King, heart to heart entwined with your Beloved, moving, swaying, living, breathing, having your being in the divine dance of intimacy with Him.

This is an invitation to behold Him! This is filled with revelation, prophetic insight, encouragement, wisdom, strategy that all come from the divine dance with our Beloved Jesus. This is filled with insight into the fruit of “in Him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28 NKJV).

To live fully alive, daughters of God, women of God, is not complicated. It’s not a ten-step formula—to live fully alive is to abide (John 15) in Him, to yield to Him, to know Him, to let Him lead us in the beautiful divine dance of intimacy and be fully known by Him. To seek first His Kingdom and all else will be added unto us (Matthew 6:33 KJV).

Living fully alive, is to know Him deeply in deep intimacy, to behold Him and then to become!

Are you ready to dive deeper into the journey of beholding His beauty and beholding His Majesty and letting Him love you and behold your beauty? To deeply and truly know your King and His adoration, devotion, and love for you like never before? And to live even more deeply seen, known, and loved by Him?

This may be a courageous step to “Let Him,” but this is the positioning, the invitation to living as a woman of God, fully alive. “Let Him smother me with kisses—His Spirit-kiss divine. So kind are your caresses, I drink them in like the sweetest of wine!” (Song of Songs 1:2 TPT).

As Brian Simmons writes in his book, The Sacred Journey:

To enter the doorway of Jesus’ heart we must begin by saying, “Let Him.” We only bring him a yielded heart and must “let him” do the rest. God’s loving grace means that he will be enough for us. We can “let him” be everything to us. We don’t begin by doing, but by yielding. The Word of God is the kiss from the mouth of our Beloved, breathing upon us the revelation of His love. The Shulamite doesn’t ask him for power, position, or promotion, but for a kiss. Intimacy with Jesus Christ is more important than anything else he can give us. The word for “kisses” and the word for “take a drink of wine” is nearly the same. The implication, as seen by ancient expositors, is that God’s lovers will be drunk with love, the intoxicating kisses of His mouth. The Hebrew word for “kiss” is nashaq, which can also mean “to equip” or “to arm” (for battle).

We need His kisses to become equipped warriors for Him. Daughter of God, as we sit as His feet like Mary, yielded, adoring Him, letting Him love us and knowing Him in the place of deep intimacy, we are arising as warriors on earth, partnering with Him in what I believe is the greatest move of God among His daughters that we have ever seen. You are part of this mighty move. He is calling you. It’s time to ascend. It’s time to come up higher. It’s time to dive deeper into His heart.

This, my dear sister in Christ, is where it begins, and where everything changes; there are deep hidden things that He has for you to search out in the place of deep intimacy with Him. They are hidden for you to find, in Him.

It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter (Proverbs 25:2 NKJV).