From Seed to Bloom

In a world saturated by busyness and chaos, it is so easy to miss the small and quiet beginnings.

For the past few months, the Lord has been taking me through a masterclass in stillness. As an Events Manager, used to juggling multiple projects, family, career, business and ministry, I have become used to working at a fast pace 90% of the time. Usually, if I was slow, it was because I was forced to be.

But coming into 2026, God had other plans for me.

I recently left my corporate role - a move that was necessary for my mental and spiritual health - and entered straight into a season of total reliance on God. It has been a shift far deeper and longer than I ever expected.

The Echo

This past Sunday I led worship at my church. In preparation for it, I asked the Lord if there was anything He wanted me to share, and I kept hearing a single line echoing in my mind: “Do you not perceive it?”.

So I turned to my Bible to see what the Lord was sharing with me:

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? - Isaiah 43:19

Holy Spirit stopped me right there. And I pondered, why? Then He began to speak.

My church has recently moved into a new and larger building and God has been speaking a lot about this new season and what it represents for us as a corporate body but also individually.

But what Holy Spirit shared with me was interesting. He began to reveal that many of us in my church - and I believe for many in the Body of Christ - are in a place where we’re about to enter into a new season. A promise, a new beginning, an answered prayer. Yet, we find ourselves in a “middle place” between the old season and the new, but we are stuck in the tension between the two.

He called it friction.

The Nature of the Shift

He gave me two scenarios to understand the tension:

1. Childbirth: In labour, the body logically knows it must push, yet instinctively tenses up to protect itself from the impending pain. To bring forth life, the mind must override the body’s fear to lean into the push.

2. Seed to bloom: When a seed sprouts, there is a natural friction as it forces its way through the heavy soil. New life is being born into unfamiliar territory, and it must break through the ground to reach the light.

Notice that with both scenarios, the womb and the soil was once a place of comfort and a home. A place of nutrients, and room to grow, eventually becomes a place of darkness that can no longer serve its purpose.

To live, it must enter into the light. In our lives, that Light is Jesus Christ.

Holy Spirit shared that many of us are experiencing this friction without even realising it.As we’re stepping into the new, the enemy uses anything he can to keep us anchored in the past - aiming to delay, destroy or kill what is promised ahead.

He often keeps us stuck by:

• Making us believe this “middle place” is all there is and nothing will ever change

• Causing us to doubt God and His word/promise

• Using those closest to us to sow seeds of hesitation or doubt

• Hidden truths from the past the enemy has tried to keep hidden

The Revelation of Surrender

What I didn’t yet have the revelation to share on Sunday, I want to share with you here:

Friction can only dissipate through surrender to Jesus.

Often, the tension exists because we are using our own will, power, strength and understanding to shift into the new. We stay trying to force a move when we lack the power or insight to do so.

Jesus is asking us to let go of the steering wheel. He is asking for your hand in the mid-season, calling you to put your full confidence in the Father who created all, and knows all to do exactly what He promised.

7. But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. 8. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit. - Jeremiah 17:7-8

Seed to Bloom

For the season ahead, we cannot rely on our own power. God is calling for consecration. And as you do so, He may call you to do absolutely nothing but worship. He may call you into a time of prayer and fasting, or give you an instruction that feels random or irrelevant.

Trust God anyway!

Your obedience to His instruction is the bridge. It is what carries you from silence to promise, from friction to birth, from seed to bloom.

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