The Prophetic Anointing Calls for Isolation and Separation
There are things God will tell you in the secret place that you will never hear in the crowd.
The prophetic anointing often calls for seasons of isolation, separation, silence, and consecration.
God cannot always speak to you fully when you are constantly surrounded by the voices, opinions, emotions, expectations, and demands of people. Sometimes God has to separate you from the noise so that you can recognize His voice without interference.
There are seasons when God will pull you away—not because He has rejected you, but because He is preparing you.
He isolates you to prepare you.
He separates you to build you.
He quiets your surroundings to teach you how to hear Him.
He removes familiar voices so you can recognize His voice.
He allows wilderness seasons to strengthen you.
He hides you so that your character can mature before your assignment becomes public.
Separation Is Often Part of Preparation
Throughout Scripture, we repeatedly see God separating people before releasing them into greater assignments.
Moses had Midian before Egypt.
Before Moses stood before Pharaoh, he spent years away from the palace tending sheep in the wilderness. The man who would eventually lead a nation first had to learn how to walk with God away from the crowds.
David had the wilderness before the throne.
David was anointed king, yet he did not immediately sit on the throne. There were caves, battles, rejection, loneliness, and wilderness seasons between the anointing and the manifestation.
Elijah had Cherith before Carmel.
God told Elijah:
“Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith.”
— 1 Kings 17:3
Before Elijah stood publicly on Mount Carmel, God told him to hide himself.
There is a powerful prophetic principle here:
Sometimes God hides publicly anointed people privately before He reveals them publicly.
And even Jesus withdrew from the crowds to pray.
Luke 5:16 says:
“And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.”
Jesus loved people. He ministered to people. He healed people. Yet He did not allow constant access to people to replace His time alone with the Father.
Isolation and Rejection Are Not the Same
One of the mistakes prophetic people can make is interpreting every lonely season as rejection.
Sometimes you are not being rejected.
You are being separated.
Sometimes God is reducing the voices around you because He is developing the voice within you.
Sometimes the crowd has to become quieter so that the instructions of God can become louder.
But biblical separation does not mean that prophetic people should permanently disconnect from everyone. God also uses community, wise counsel, spiritual leadership, correction, and relationships to mature us.
The purpose of divine isolation is not to make you inaccessible.
It is to make you prepared.
There comes a time when Moses must leave Midian.
David must leave the cave.
Elijah must leave Cherith.
Jesus must leave the wilderness.
Because eventually, what God develops in isolation must become useful to others.
The secret place is not always your destination. Sometimes it is God’s training room.
God may separate you because where He is taking you requires a version of you that the crowd cannot produce.
Isolation teaches you to hear.
Separation teaches you dependence.
Silence develops discernment.
Waiting develops patience.
Hidden seasons develop character.
And when the season of preparation is complete, God can bring you out carrying something you did not possess when you went in.
Do not despise the season when God pulls you aside.
There may be an assignment waiting on the other side of your separation.
Jen Ford
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