2.11.26 – Winter Months

We are into the second month of 2026. You are thinking 2026 has started fresh, but according to God's calendar, we are in the middle of the hardest stretch—the darkest months, the testing months. And if you do not understand what is happening in the spiritual realm, you will mistake warfare for abandonment.

As I am praying for you daily and getting updates from you, I recognize that most of us, if not all of us, are experiencing Psalm 13 (feel free to read it and personalize it :-).

Let me show you something that will make your spine tingle. God's prophetic months from "our" January through March are the 10th, 11th, and 12th months on His time clock. These are not random calendar squares; they are divinely orchestrated crucibles. And every single year, believers who do not know what these months represent end up questioning whether Yahweh even hears them anymore (Ex. 17:7).

Here is what nobody is telling you: we are ten months into God's calendar year—a time of divine connection—and yet right now, during these exact months, more believers feel disconnected than at any other time of the year.

  • Prayers feel flat

  • Worship feels mechanical

  • Breakthrough seems further away than it did when this year actually started.

Do you think it is just post-holiday blues or winter depression? In actuality, these months were designed to test what you built during God's prophetic feast seasons from Passover to Sukkot.

In the previous month—the tenth month on God's calendar (Tevet)—it was a time of siege. Just as the city of Jerusalem was surrounded by the enemy, cutting off all supplies, so too many of you know that feeling.

In the eleventh month—the one we are currently in (Shevat), following the month of "madness"—growth happens underground where no one can see. But to the naked eye (and by feeling), nothing is happening but death on the surface.

Then comes the twelfth month—coming soon to a theater near you (Adar). This is the month of concealed miracles, when you move in ways that look like coincidence but are actually divine providence. You are not imagining happiness! You are living in this twelfth-month season that Yahweh designed to reveal to you what is real and what is just religious performance.

Over the next two days, I want to look at what Scripture says about these testing seasons, because this is not new. It is a pattern woven into Yahweh's redemptive timeline—His annual cycles and patterns for maximum fruit bearing.

1. The Siege Test (2 Kings 25:1–2). A siege does not attack directly. It surrounds and waits. It cuts off the supply line and tests endurance. The enemy does not need to destroy if he can just isolate you long enough for you to destroy yourself. What we often miss during these times of life is that the siege preceded the exodus—before liberation. Before the breakthrough comes the test of remaining faithful when nothing moves.

2. The Hidden Growth Test (right now). During this month, we experienced Tu B'Shevat, the New Year for trees. Why celebrate trees in the dead of winter? Because in Israel, this is when the sap begins rising from the roots. Above ground, the tree looks dead, but beneath the surface, life is preparing. This is the time of concealed growth. This is the season when Yahweh is working in ways you cannot yet see.

Psalm 1:3 describes a person who is like a tree planted by the streams of water, which yields its fruit in due season (moed—God's appointed times) and whose leaf does not wither. What this verse does not mention is the underground work: the roots deepening, the sap rising before a single bud appears.

Many of you know the Hebrew word for season is moed, which does not mean "time"; it means "appointed time"—divine timing, God's festival moments (Gen. 1:14; Lev. 23; etc.). Your breakthrough has an appointment! But first, there is the underground season.

Tomorrow I will share #3 and give you an opportunity to suggest a biblical pattern on how to follow God's daily pattern and how to navigate this "chilly" spiritual time of the year.

Do the past two months fit the divine pattern?

More to come!

Shalom,
Alan

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