Sifting & Shifting
By Margaret D. Mitchell
May 17, 2026
As I look up from working to bring my surroundings into a new order, it’s undeniable that our Lord is shaking away former things at large to make room for His fresh, new faces, spaces and formats.
For many, this is a welcomed exhale as His prepared ones walk into new assignments on levels new to them.
God is inviting us to step up and grow even more as He continues to manifest new treasures in our lives. The time is here for things He planned long ago to come into place for those He fashioned over time.
And some of what these highly-fashioned ones have handed over to Him in surrender, our God will now hand back to them to steward anew.
Just like in a relay race, as we align with God and wait for His promise, there comes a time to reach for His magnificent hand-off and run fearlessly into better and far better for His glory.
And nothing can stop us.
The power that deeply transformed us inwardly is now being expressed outwardly with so much more to emerge.
The small breakthroughs we experienced then were more than a natural progression. They were expressions of God’s nonstop miracle power to help us run in greater victory. They functioned to help lead us into bigger breakthroughs, as God continues to make space for what’s fresh, new and high-purposed of Him.
So, let God’s voice resound and His Presence be the most impactful.
Where many have waited a long time for God to fill their hands with His next best assignments and blessings, know that His dynamics are in motion and His angels will go with you. Keep syncing with Him in the race to see greater promises come into your blessed hands.
Keep releasing former things and fearlessly apprehend His new-for-you. Regarding those things that have fulfilled God’s purpose and have been re-moved by His hand, let Holy Spirit settle this in your soul once and for all; and keep moving forward with Him.
Time matters.
Divine purpose matters.
What some expect on the other side of breakthrough will not be as they have thought. It will be far better, more highly-purposed and will even cause them to surrender more of what they’ve been holding onto. The freedom that comes from this surrender will prove greater than they’ve ever known.
Old mindsets and limited beliefs will have to go in order to step into the beauty-for-ashes provision that God has for them. Deep things they have desired, hopes that God put in them, will be possible as they rise and believe again beyond their current circumstances and vision.
It won’t take long as God gives rapid revelation.
And what has clashed in the past will give way to a crescendo moment.
There are even greater shifts at the outset of these new beginnings that await God’s willing and courageous ones. These blessings will be far beyond what they could have accomplished on their own, and their heart’s desire will be made full.
They will realize once again that nothing is impossible with God, as they surge past dry, old-wine structures and governments and more fully apprehend Heaven’s government on earth.
As a result, many will come to believe more as they witness God’s miracles in the midst.
It’s time now to believe and receive, to bust through fear and limitations that would try to linger and lie. It’s time to revive truth in our hearts on a greater level for us personally and at large.
So, keep the faith. If you’ve felt heaviness, get up again. Believe in what God has revealed to you and has in store for you. It’s yours in the progression. Get excited about Him expressing Himself as beauty to you in various forms, as He continues to open your eyes to His truth and love.
Look not unto the hindrances but keep your eyes on Jesus.
Let Holy Spirit resolve siftings in your soul—those things that have served their purpose and have fallen away. The former things—let them go to The One you can trust more than anyone else to bring new life to your life.
Know that you are on His heart and not forgotten, that you are very special to Him, that He will make up to you, in far greater measure, what you’ve felt you lacked previously.
Let Him multiply life and love through you for His glory to prove out His hand on your life and beyond.
The latter shall be greater!
Trust Him for the new.
In Jesus’ Mighty Name,
Amen.
Margaret D. Mitchell is the Founder of God’s Love at Work, a marketplace outreach purposed to share God’s greatest power source – the love of Christ.
