Session 8: Encountering God Together for 2026

Session 8: Ecountering God Together for 2026

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Some nights are built around a teaching. Session 8 was not one of those nights.

Instead of me coming in with a prepared framework, we opened the floor and spent our time doing something simple and honestly powerful, we listened together. We talked. We compared notes. We shared what we sensed the Lord highlighting as we step toward 2026. It felt less like a class and more like a family in the living room, processing what God is stirring.

That is part of what I love about this space. Wisdom for Weird and Wonderful God Encounters is a place for people who are prophetic, curious, or just hungry. Some have decades of stories with the Holy Spirit. Some are learning what it even means to hear God. Either way, it is safe, it is grounded, and it is practical.

And on this night, the “message” was what bubbled up from the room.

A few themes that kept surfacing

1) “Bursting forth” and new momentum
One person shared a simple phrase they sensed in time with the Lord: bursting forth. Not frantic striving, not grinding, but a picture of things blooming at the right time, like a garden finally coming alive. It felt like confirmation that for many of us, the Lord is not just maintaining, He is accelerating growth that has been quietly forming under the surface.

2) Two months at a time, and the grace to follow
Another person described a season where plans had been disrupted, especially financially and practically, and yet the Lord was only giving a short stretch of clarity at a time, “two months of a plan.” There was honesty in it, and also faith. Sometimes God does not hand us the whole map, He gives the next faithful steps, then asks us to walk with Him as we go.

3) Puzzle pieces, “hexagons,” and the kindness of God connecting the past
One of the most meaningful parts of the night was hearing how the Lord connects experiences across decades. Someone described it like “hexagons,” pieces that do not make sense alone until God starts linking them. Old dreams, early memories, and recent encounters suddenly fit together into a bigger picture.

That sparked a really helpful moment for others in the room. A few people shared how the Lord has been bringing up long-buried things from years ago, not to reopen wounds, but to bring clarity, alignment, and wholeness. It was a reminder that God does not waste history, He redeems it.

4) The “snow globe” image, a good shaking
Another person shared a vivid picture of the sanctuary like a giant snow globe filling with the presence of God. A shaking was coming, but not a violent kind, more like a stirring that makes the “glory snow” swirl. The point was grounding. If you are fixed and anchored, the shaking becomes wonder. If you are ungrounded, it becomes disorienting.

That sparked good questions, what does it mean to be grounded right now, Scripture, community, obedience, humility, rest?

5) Rest as maturity, not passivity
A major thread that kept returning was rest. Not laziness, not disengagement, but spiritual maturity that stops striving and starts trusting. One person pointed out how in a dream, treasures were not being forced upward, they were floating to the surface in the right time.

That hit home. Many of us are tired of “make it happen” Christianity. What we kept sensing together was that God is moving us into a season where the deep things come from abiding, not grinding.

One line that stood out was this, “If you rest, you’ll have restoration. If you don’t rest, you’ll be rationing.” That one landed like a warning and a promise at the same time.

6) Apostolic and prophetic, as a people
We also circled back to something foundational in our church DNA, not “we have apostles and prophets,” but we are an apostolic and prophetic people. The room wrestled with what that even means, not as a slogan, but as a lived reality.

A few people expressed a longing for the tangible presence of God, the kind of meetings where the Spirit moves in undeniable ways. At the same time, we talked about how revival without reformation can become a moment that doesn’t reshape life beyond the room. The longing is real, but the “upgrade” is bigger, presence that transforms people, and then transforms families, workplaces, cities.

A simple ending, prayer and alignment

We closed like we often do, not with a conclusion, but with prayer.

We asked the Lord to make us a people who genuinely carry both the prophetic and the apostolic in a way that looks like Jesus. We prayed for humility, childlike faith, and the courage to move at God’s pace, not ours. And we asked Him to teach us what He means, not what our history, preferences, or past church experiences tell us.

No big production. Just a room full of people listening, honoring one another, and letting the Holy Spirit knit things together.

Why this matters for 2026

If there was one takeaway from the night, it was this: God is doing something, and it is bigger than any one person’s word.

It felt like we were hearing the same song in different keys, bursting forth, pieces connecting, good shaking, rest instead of striving, and a people becoming aligned for what God wants to do next.

And maybe that is the point. Not a perfect outline, but a shared discernment, a community learning to hear and respond together.

If you missed Session 8, you didn’t miss a lecture. You missed a family conversation that, in its own way, might have been the most “teaching” night of all.

🎧 Listen to the full session here: Audio Link