SheShaeSpeaks | A Journal Entry

I know this government shutdown has had a lot of people in a scarce environment, not knowing what’s coming next, food stamps being shut down, Medicaid paused, and help feeling out of reach.

But as I prayed and meditated on God’s Word, the Lord reminded me of a prophecy I gave back in 2016.

I remember sitting in conversation with my sister, and out of nowhere, I said, “The bigger corporations are going to fall, and the smaller businesses are going to rise.”

We paused, looked at each other,

and the Spirit fell silent.

Then I told her,

“If you have any gifts in you,

any little thing you call a hobby, it’s something God put in you to cover you, to produce for you.”

Because the Word says,

“A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.” Proverbs 18:16

Later that year, my sister started her cleaning business, and I knew God was speaking.

That same season, I had a vision.

It was quick but clear, I saw myself carrying a storage container. Inside it was what looked like a survival kit, candles, blankets, the kind of things you’d need in a crisis.

Then the vision shifted.

I was stacking water, case after case and the room was filling up.

I saw shelves lined with preserved food. And the Lord whispered,

“I am preparing you for something. Store. Preserve.”

I told my sister, “The Lord is preparing us for something coming.”

At the time, I didn’t understand.

But now, in 2025, I see that word breathing.

Because God always reveals before He reveals, and what He speaks, He establishes.

I think of Joseph,

who interpreted Pharaoh’s dream

in Genesis 41:

“Behold, there come seven years of great plenty

throughout all the land of Egypt:

And there shall arise after them seven years of famine.”

Genesis 41:29-30

Joseph told Pharaoh to store food during the years of abundance

so that during the famine the people would live.

“Let them gather all the food…

that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine.” Genesis 41:35-36

And I think of Daniel, who stood before King Nebuchadnezzar and said, “There is a God in heaven that revealed secrets, and maketh known… what shall be in the latter days.” Daniel 2:28

Both men were dream interpreters. Both were preservers of people. Both moved in obedience to divine instruction.

In March 2024, before the Passover season, the Lord began to stir me again. During prayer, He said, “You are entering a season of scarcity and shifting in the land.

But the answers are in your house.”

I didn’t understand at first.

It felt heavy, like a warning wrapped in love. As I prayed, I kept hearing Him say, “Do this in remembrance of Me.”

Soon after, one of the elders in the house handed us a small red ribbon, a symbol to hang over our doors. And in that moment, my spirit trembled. It felt like the days of old, like Exodus, when the blood of the lamb marked the doors for protection during the Passover.

That night, I sat with the Lord and said, “Father, what are You saying to me? What did we do? What is in my house?”

And He spoke again, gently,

“Daughter, the answers are in your house.”

I sat back, thinking about my children, my promises.

The very ones I had prayed for.

He reminded me that everything He had spoken over my life

was already present within what He had given me. As I reflected on their names, the Word of God began to open like a scroll,

and the Spirit revealed what the people had done, what we needed to repent of, and how to return.

It was a word of warning, but also of mercy.

Weeks later, I found myself sitting in a corporate prayer gathering, intercessors, mothers, servants, crying out before the Lord.

And as I sat there quietly listening,

the Spirit of God spoke again.

He said, “Tell them what I told you in 2016. And share what I have shown you for 2024.”

Everything in me wanted to shrink back.

I thought, “Lord, not me. I don’t want to speak out of turn.”

So I sat still, hoping He would move on.

But as the prayer ended,

someone looked at me and said,

“The Lord said you have a word for us.”

I froze.

It felt like the whole room turned.

My heart pounded,

and I whispered inside, “Lord, if this is You, give me courage.”

So I stood up, trembling.

I began to speak of what the Lord had shown me, first the prophecy from 2016, then the word He gave me weeks before Passover 2024.

I told them about the vision of preservation, the water, the storing, and the warning that scarcity was coming. I told them how He said, “The answers are in your house.”

Then I shared the Scriptures, He had given me.

He led me to Jeremiah 3:25

“We lie down in our shame,

and our confusion covereth us:

for we have sinned against the Lord our God.”

Then He took me deeper, Jeremiah 3:12-13: “Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the Lord…Only acknowledge thine iniquity,that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God.”

And then Nehemiah 4:9:

“Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night.”

The room grew still while I read, and I continued, “From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.

Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.”

Nehemiah 4:12-13

The Lord was showing us that, like the builders in Nehemiah’s day,

we must pray, watch, and prepare, building with one hand and guarding with the other.

When I finished, they didn’t just nod. They wept. Later they told me they had been in prayer about many of these same things,

and what I shared came as confirmation of what the Lord had already been revealing among them. That moment humbled me deeply, because I had come thinking I was small, but obedience proved that when God speaks,

it’s never about who’s qualified, it’s about who’s willing.

So don’t find it strange when He unction's you to grab extra food,

pick up a generator or store extra water. That’s not fear. That’s strategy.

Remember 2019, when people fought over tissue? That was the test run.

This,this is the proving ground.

Because even in scarcity,

God still provides.

Even in shutdown,

He still sustains.

“And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten. Joel 2:25

He has not forgotten His chosen.

This is a test of faith.

And to those who are suffering right now, those who feel forgotten, overlooked, or tired, hear me: The Lord has not forsaken you. He has not turned His face from you. You are being refined, not rejected. To suffer is to reign with Him. To weep now is to rejoice later.

He is still the same God

who fed Elijah by the brook,

who covered Israel in the wilderness, who provided manna when there was no storehouse.

Hold on, because this suffering is not the end; it’s the making of something eternal.

And for those who have already suffered and been positioned in higher places, remember what He brought you through.

Feed the hungry.

Clothe the naked.

Cover the widow.

Care for the fatherless.

Because the same mercy that lifted you is now required to lift others.

In this season,

the ones who were once “put up” may fall, and those who fell may rise. The ground is shifting,

and the Lord is humbling and exalting as He wills.

But even in the shaking. He is faithful. He is gathering hearts together again.

This prophecy is not just about preservation. It’s about unity, compassion, and the returning of hearts to God.

So whether food stamps stop or systems fail, remember, the Lord will provide. He is our Source, not the system.

Obedience is the oil that keeps the lamp burning. This is your season to prepare, preserve, and trust.

~She Shae Speaks~

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