Being tested in the month of Av - Trusting Yah's voice despite circumstances
Av 5785 (July / August 2025)
Being Tested in Av - then and now
The month of Av. A month of sorrow and testing. In the past, but also in the present.
As many prophetic a believer know, we encounter situations where we hear Yah clearly speaks to us that the promise we long for will be ours but then circumstances in the natural seems to close down all possible ways we can image to get hold of that promise.
We can testify to that but also how worship arose out of this. Here is the testimony of one of our fellow worshippers, which inspired a new worship flag combination:
About a month prior a headhunter contacted me to entice me to change jobs and firms. It would have meant starting from the beginning as clients would not have been moving over to the new firm. I hadn't contemplated it, and I was about to go on holidays to look after familar affairs. After several discussions including after I had travelled abroad, I was scheduled for an interview. I was meant to be on holidays, so how should I get that done? But I was prepared - we had wanted to take recordings for our new worship flags, so shirts and ties were in the holiday bag.
The first interview being over, I understood only two candidates were left, one of them being me. By that time I had gotten more insight into the role which was different to what the headhunter had said, and actually it seemed the perfect fit with tremendous rewards and career chances. A gift from Yah. After several discussions when the second interview would be held, I managed to just about to get back to London for an in-person meeting after having been on a second trip to attend a funeral. I prepared. I was excited. I was ready. Late morning on the day of the interview I received a call that the other candidate had already accepted the job and hence no need to come to the interview. I was startled. The job was offered to someone else and I hadn't even had the chance to meet the interviewers?
I needed a few hours to deal with the disappointment. But then I arose and my spirit declared blessings over the other candidate and the firm. Irrespective of what happened and how I felt about it, I was a son of Yah and I was adamant I would be walking dispersing blessings on people irrespective of what they did, and by doing so continue aligning with Abba.
The sun set, a new day. I brought my disappointment to Abba, and asked what his plans were. Yah said that he had given me that job, that he would enforce his word and that I should keep with him.
As it was the month of Av, I listened to 'Av playlist', a collection of songs that in the month of Av in past years had carried an anointing. I listened to Phillipa Hannah's song You're still God.
As I was listening to the song, revelation came. The month of Av does not carry the promise of breakthrough. It is the month where we report to Yah what we see to be the promise that he gives us (having explored throughout the 4th month (Tammuz) up until the 9th Av). The breakthrough would come in Elul when Yah moves into the field to fight alongside us to get us breakthrough so that we can start a new chapter on the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah). Understanding that meant I could now understand why everything collapsed in Av - it was not the right time. The promise still stood, but time had to come yet.
In that situation I was pondering how to worship Yah with that Phillipa's song. It was a difficult song, emotionally and what the lyrics were expressing. But revelation came: seeing your promise in the spirit while waiting for it to manifest in the natural - the worship flags are ocean blue and fuchsia! Wow, that was a combination we had not come across before. The flags were launched in different years, and hence our minds had not put them together.
Ruach hakodesh (Holy Spirit) revealed that fuchsia worship flag represents the promise (the prophetic word) and the ocean blue worship flag the heavenly realm where the promise is held. How awesome! In the midst of disappointment and not knowing how to move forward, a new worship expression arises.
Looking back, we can also see that during the Tammuz, when we are exploring our Promised Land, Yah let us encounter the new job. We couldn't see it then, but now his timing becomes so clear, as does his affirmation of the prophetic meaning and windows that are embedded in his calendary.
To honour the revelation, we have prepared a worship flag pairing My promise in the heavenlies:
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