We cannot let today pass without remembering 9/11 and saluting those who sacrificed their lives in rescue and defense efforts. It is important to remember; at the same time, it is important to know what God is saying at this hour. Please take a moment and hear the threads that the Holy Spirit (the Spirit) has been weaving together to speak to us.
Approximately two weeks ago, during our midnight prayer watch, the Spirit told us we were entering a new season—specifically, a season of rest from the days of adversity. “That You may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked”(Psalm 94:13 NKJV).
He also admonished us not to grow weary in doing well because the enemy wants us to feel as if nothing is happening, so we don’t perceive the new season. “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland” (Isaiah 43:19 NIV, italics added).
Has Your “Perception” Been Attacked?
Surely, if we don’t perceive the new season, we will not muster the strength to press into it. We are more likely to do the same old things, respond in the same ways, and give up before we reap. “And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart [KJV says faint]” (Galatians 6:9 NKJV, brackets added). To faint or lose heart means: to dissolve, weaken, or exhaust; to have one’s strength relaxed; to be enfeebled through exhaustion; to be tired out, despond, or become faint-hearted. The attack of fainting often comes before the due season.
Your Response
If you’ve been attacked with weariness, wanting to lose heart or give up—don’t give in to it—you’re on the brink! Instead, join us and do what we did that night on the midnight watch: pray. In response to the Holy Spirit’s leading, declare a new season of rest and pray against the assignment of fainting (losing heart) to pray.
You Are In a New Season: This Is Where the Feast of Trumpets Comes In
By His grace and lovingkindness, He confirmed that we are entering a new season. He said specifically that we have entered a season of rest from the days of adversity. This is key because the Feast of Trumpets begins today at sundown. It is a day of rest, a sabbath. Pause and think about the Lord and your relationship with Him.
Scripture ascribes this feast day to the seventh month because it follows the biblical calendar (not the Jewish civil calendar). Nissan (the month of Passover) is the month designated as the biblical first month by the Lord as the Hebrew New Year. It is considered the beginning of the new religious year (not the civil year). The civil calendar holds that today, also called Rosh Hashanah or Feast of Trumpets, is the civil New Year.
The Feast of Trumpets is also the beginning of the Ten Days of Repentance (also known as the Ten Days of Awe, or High Holidays, or High Holy Days), ending on Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement). The name, Yom Teruah, from the Torah translates to the “Day of the Sounding of the Shofar” or the “Feast of Trumpets.”[1]
Understanding the Jewish background of today’s Feast of Trumpets helps bring enlightenment to the new season we have entered:
Jewish tradition asserts that God writes every person’s words, deeds, and thoughts in the Books of Life or Death, which He opens and examines on this day (the Feast of Trumpets or Rosh Hashanah). If their good deeds outnumber the sinful ones for the year, that person’s name will be inscribed in the Book of Life for another year on Yom Kippur. For this reason, the Feast of Trumpets, or Rosh Hashanah, is also known as the “Day of Judgment” or Yom Hadin.
For the Jewish people, it is a time of introspection, personal growth, and spiritual rebirth. This is accomplished through forgiveness: apologizing, forgiving, and receiving forgiveness. Many use this time to make amends with loved ones and heal broken relationships. By the time Yom Kippur arrives, they are ready to begin the new year with clean hearts.[2]
So What’s the Point for Us?
The blast of trumpets was a call to repentance and preparation for the Day of Atonement. For New Testament believers today, this day reminds us that Jesus’ blood was the price for our atonement; “. . . but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement” (Romans 5:11 KJV, italics added). We should not take that sacrifice for granted and should commit to a lifestyle of repentance and reconciliation (all year, every year) because He will return with the blast of a trumpet. “For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first” (1 Thessalonians 4:16 NIV). The Feast of Trumpets points to Jesus.
How Does All This Relate to Your New Season?
It also warns us not to let any unforgiveness, offenses, resentment, bitterness, or malice keep us from reaping any good thing God has for us in this new season. There is something good God wants you to reap. To reap means to obtain a good harvest for well-doing. If you are offended, bitter, or operating in malice, you can’t reap.
Holy Spirit said we were entering a new season; we should not faint so we can reap. Then He said, guard against offense, and I will bring a refreshing, an outpouring. A week after He told us to guard against weariness, He spoke Isaiah 44:3: “For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, And floods on the dry ground; I will pour My Spirit on your descendants, And My blessing on your offspring” (NKJV). He reinforced it a week later, after I saw water overflowing a riverbank in midnight prayer. He spoke Isaiah 66:12: “For this is what the Lord says: ‘I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees. 13 As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted over Jerusalem’” (NIV).
Isaiah 44:3 promises:
- Outpouring of water on the thirsty
- Floods on dry ground
- Outpouring of the Spirit on our descendants
- Outpouring of blessing on our offspring
Isaiah 66:12 promises:
- Peace extended like a river
- Glory or wealth of nations as a flooding stream
- Carrying and comfort
Indeed, there is a season of rest from adversity—a season of refreshing, peace, and water in exchange for dryness. We must believe, guard against weariness, posture ourselves by putting off offense, and enforce what God has said.
I pray for us all. I pray we all enter and reap every good thing God has for us in this new season. Shalom.
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Dr. Lenita is the senior pastor of Action Chapel Baltimore and Action Chapel North Carolina churches. She is the host of Prayer Power for Life Podcast, the author of nine books, and an international speaker on a mission to communicate with passion, propel people into their purpose, and teach transformative truth across the globe. She is the founder of the APT Apostolic and Prophetic Network and Midnight PrayerWatch with Pastor Lenita. She is a former Accenture consultant with college teaching experience, professional instructional design experience, a member of the RAINN speaker’s bureau, and a trained counselor. Lenita is also a Christian International/Bishop Hamon authorized prophetic instructor and graduate of the CI School of the Prophets. She has traveled the globe as a keynote conference speaker in the United States, London, Jamaica, Ghana, Uganda, Haiti, and Kenya. She has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech, a Master of Arts in Dance Education from Ohio State, and an MBA from the University of Maryland, College Park. Sign up to connect, receive more blog posts, and updates on courses, books, and events.
[1] Rabbi Shawn Ruby, “Rosh Hashanah: The Original Meaning of Blowing a Teruah,” September 18, 2022. Accessed September 11, 2026, https://www.thetorah.com/article/rosh-hashanah-the-original-meaning-of-blowing-a-teruah.
[2] Voice of Judah Israel, “Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah/Rosh Hashanah),” accessed September 11, 2026, https://vojisrael.org/feasts/feast-of-trumpets-yom-teruah-rosh-hashanah/.