How to Recognize the Spiritual Season of Life You’re In (Ego’s voice versus God’s Voice)
by Nikki Walton of Curlynikki.com
You will not leave this article the way it found you. You are so close. But you’re also close to giving up. You are ready to start over, to start digging a new hole… when the gold, the GoOD is just another foot deep right where you’re digging, right where you’re seeking, right where you’re praying, right where you’re knocking, Jesus is there.
This is where He meets you. Not in the next plan or the next opportunity or at the next door. It’s not even about the door or the opportunity. It’s about His Presence. You must enter into HIM. Your work is inconsequential. Even these words, this blog, my reels… none of that matters. None of it is my real job. He is. You are. Your awareness of this. I have been assigned to you and you to me, and us to Him so that our Joy may be full. He will multiply it when you do. He will release it when you do.
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Everything you’ve been asking for is already here, buried under the noise, hidden beneath the fear, waiting beneath the fatigue. You don’t need to start over; you need to see again. You need to bring it up, bring it out, bring it into view with Him, with Joy (they’re one), because Joy is the shovel. Joy is the revelation. Joy is what unearths the treasure that’s been under your feet this whole time. You’re rich. You just forgot the treasure you’ve been sitting on…sleeping on.
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He’s waking His child up right now with these words. You are reclaiming your inheritance with that breath, with that smile, with that improved posture. SIT LIKE THE ROYALTY YOU ARE. PLAY TIME IS OVER.
What It Means to Be in a Spiritual Season
There are moments when God pulls you close and moments when He sends you out, times when the light shines on you and times when it hides you in His shadow, and both are mercy. Every believer walks through divine rhythms, through stretches of silence and floods of favor, through growth that feels invisible until it blooms all at once. YOU ARE BLOOMING. That’s why He sent you here.
The spiritual life is not about constant motion, it’s about awareness. Seasons change because the Spirit breathes differently through them. The question is never whether God is moving, but whether you can still hear the wind. LISTEN.
When you start feeling that tug, that soft confusion between peace and pressure… it’s not a crisis. It’s an invitation. He’s shifting the temperature of your life to match His will.
1. Your Peace Starts to Relocate
Sometimes the move isn’t a new assignment. It’s a new depth in the same one. You’ll feel peace begin to migrate. It won’t vanish; it will simply move slightly to the left of where it used to be. The same job, the same people, the same ministry might suddenly feel off-center. You’ll try to push, but something in your spirit will whisper, “dig deeper instead.”
That’s your cue. The Presence hasn’t left; it’s gone lower. What once came easily now requires intimacy. The grace that once covered your effort is now calling you closer.
When God shifts you, peace doesn’t disappear… it changes form. You find it again in surrender. You find it again in praise. You find it again when you stop trying to manufacture it.
Philippians 4:7 says His peace surpasses understanding, which means you might not always comprehend why you’re uncomfortable, but you’ll always know when you’ve drifted from that still, knowing place. Follow the peace. That’s where He waits.
2. The Doors Begin Closing Softly
It rarely happens all at once. The doors just start to close quietly, without fight or fire. The texts slow down. The calls stop coming. The opportunities dry up. And your old self panics… thinking something’s wrong. But what’s wrong is assuming you were meant to stay forever where He only called you for a season.
When God ends a season, He ends it with peace, not punishment. Sometimes, He lets the brook dry up so you’ll finally look up. Elijah didn’t lose favor when the brook ran out; he gained direction. God was saying, MOVE, I’ve prepared another place for you.
When a door closes softly, bless it. You’re not being locked out; you’re being led through to the next. To bigger. TRUST.
3. Desire Starts to Change
You’ll notice your desire shift long before your circumstances do. Things that once thrilled you now drain you. Things that once felt like calling now feel like noise. In fact, everything, the whole world begins to feel like noise.
The same Spirit that once anointed you for visibility might now anoint you for silence. The same God who once used your voice might now use your pen. Don’t confuse the method with the mission. Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart, not because He gives you what you want, but because He changes what you want. The new desires are clues. They point to the next layer of your calling. BE OPENED.
4. Provision Moves Before You Do
When your heart begins to move, Heaven starts rerouting resources. You’ll see provision dry up in one area and overflow in another. It might look like people pulling back, ideas no longer bearing fruit, or a shift in what actually prospers you. THIS IS LEADING, not loss.
God never drains without redirecting. He never closes without calling. When the manna stops falling, it’s because He’s teaching you to eat from the land of promise instead of the wilderness. Pay attention to where favor flows. That’s where your feet should follow.
5. Confirmation Comes After Obedience
Everyone wants confirmation first, but faith rarely works that way. When it’s God, peace follows obedience… not the other way around.
You might not feel peace until after you’ve said yes, after you’ve walked away, after you’ve put the thing down that no longer carries His breath. The Red Sea didn’t part until they stepped in. The miracle doesn’t meet you in the plan; it meets you in motion.
Obedience is the ultimate act of discernment. If it’s Him, you’ll know… not because it feels easy, but because once you move, the wind returns. It’s important to note that Joy will be your companion all along the way… in fact it gets a little louder the deeper you go… the closer you get. Even when fear comes to visit, this Energy, His Energy doesn’t leave. Some liken the human emotions and thoughts to the moon during the day… insignificant in the light of the Son/sun.
When It Feels Like Nothing Is Happening
Discernment can feel like stillness, and stillness can feel like failure. But stillness isn’t absence; it’s alignment. The Holy Spirit often hides His favorites before He reveals them. The deeper the call, the longer the incubation. You are being formed for something you can’t see yet, and when it’s ready… when you’re ready, it will unfold in a single moment that makes every quiet night make sense.
Don’t mistake His silence for distance.
He’s closer in the hush than in the applause.
As I sit here writing this, a Peace Dove landed near my window, in the pouring rain, and was looking right in at me. I could sense him telling me to look outside. There was a rainbow. That’s your peace dove. That’s your rainbow. This is your sign. MOVE with the wind of the spirit.
How to Stay in Step With the Spirit
Stay in prayer, not panic.
Stay in stillness, not stagnation.
Stay in praise, not performance.
Ask every morning, “Father, where is Your peace today?” Then go where it leads.
If you can follow peace, you can follow destiny.
The same Presence that tells you to rest will tell you when to rise. The same Voice that hid you will reveal you. The same God who planted you will harvest you.
There are no wasted seasons. Only unread instructions.
What God Is Doing When You Don’t Feel It
You’ve been praying for open doors, but He’s been praying for open eyes. The miracle is already at your feet. The treasure is right beneath your praise. So before you move again, pause. Smile. Breathe. That peace you feel rising in your chest right now? That’s Him. That’s the sign, too.
Prayer for Discernment
Father, thank You for the season I’m in, even when I don’t understand it.
Teach me to hear Your whisper in and beyond the wind, to recognize Your peace in every direction, to follow the sound of Your stillness instead of my fear.
If You’re shifting me, let me feel Your hand.
If You’re planting me, let me trust Your soil.
Keep me close enough to know Your timing, and brave enough to obey it.
In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
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Thank you so much! I needed these reminders today ( and so beautifully written too!)
I paused, smiled and breathed and sure enough was lead to activities today that created peace and joy.
May the spirit always bless you.
Another curly one
I am awaiting a financial breakthrough. When it comes it will empower me to move the way the gift of Empathy He gave me, moves me according to His will. I eagerly await this day this blessing of abundance arrives.! It will lift weight on my spirit and break chains on my powers and abilities. JOY will abound unharnessed!❤️ GLORY BE TO GOD!
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I love you!!!