What You Thought Would Kill You Will Propel You

March 2026 Word

What You Thought Would Kill You Will Propel You

As I usually do every month, I prayed to God to receive revelation about this month of March and the season ahead.

He gave me a dream in which I was sleeping. I woke up and went to check on my son, but he was very young. When I entered the room, I realized that the window was open. I became very upset with myself because I am extremely careful with things like this. I check all the doors and windows before going to bed, as well as the stove, to make sure the knobs are turned off. I couldn’t accept the fact that I had been so careless and didn’t notice that the window was open. I closed the window and went back to bed.

I woke up again, and I felt I needed to check on him once more. When I did, the window was open, and I could feel a presence. As I stepped forward to close the window, my leg hit what felt like a huge, sitting animal with short, coarse fur on its body.

The room was dark, and I could only see its body because its head was hidden under a table. At first, I thought it was a very big dog, but as I focused my eyes on the color and the shape of its body, I realized it was a lion.

At first, I was terrified and wanted to scream and call my husband. But then I realized that the lion was actually guarding my child and protecting him. It was sitting just as a dog sits when it’s guarding something or someone precious. It reminded me of the sphinx in Egypt guarding the pyramids.

Then the Holy Spirit said:

“I want to open windows of opportunity to you. I want to reveal more to you. I want to show you hidden things, fresh revelation from heaven. These are windows of blessings and promises fulfilled, but because of fear and control, you keep shutting them.

You think you are stewarding what I have entrusted you with, but you are only hindering its growth. These windows are to bless you, not harm you. They might look unsafe and different from what you are used to, but I am doing a new thing for you, in you, and through you. Open your eyes and see what is hiding behind these opportunities. You are trying to preserve and protect what I have given you, almost to the point of hiding it, when I have actually called you to use it and multiply it. I am mantling you with a new assignment. I am propelling you forward as you step in faith and obedience in this new territory. The transition feels unnatural because it is not a gradual, natural transition. You’re not going from level 1 to level 2. It feels as if you’re going from level 1 to level 10 because the waiting was the training. The tension was the preparation. The crushing was the ranking system. It is not meant to be natural or normal. I am not a human. I am the Almighty God, the Creator of the universe. I am the One guarding over your life and everything that pertains to it. The Lion of Judah has entered the room, and no matter what comes your way, if you keep being obedient and faithful in all you do, you are guarded. You are safe when you are in My will.”

Then I heard Him say in a loud, roaring voice:

“What you thought was going to kill you will actually be what propels you.”

Then I woke up, and as I wrote the dream, the Lord instantly brought to my mind the story of Daniel in the lion’s den.

In Daniel 6, Daniel is serving under King Darius. Because of his spirit of excellence. He had integrity, and wisdom, 10 times more than the others, and the king plans to elevate him over the entire kingdom. This stirs jealousy among the other officials. They cannot find any corruption in him, so they decide to use his faith.

Knowing Daniel’s devotion to God, they persuade King Darius to sign a decree: for 30 days, no one may pray to any god or man except the king. Anyone who disobeys will be thrown into a den of lions. The law of the Medes and Persians cannot be revoked once established.

When Daniel learns of the decree, he does not hide or stop worshipping God. He goes to his upper room, opens his windows toward Jerusalem, and continues praying and giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before.

He refuses to compromise.

The officials catch him praying and report him. Though King Darius is distressed and tries to rescue Daniel, he is bound by his own law.

Daniel is thrown into the lions’ den, and the entrance is sealed with a stone.

That night, the king cannot sleep. At dawn, he rushes to the den and calls out in anguish. Daniel responds that God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths. Daniel is unharmed because he was found innocent before God.

Daniel is lifted out without a scratch. Those who accused him are thrown into the den and destroyed. Then King Darius issues a new decree that in all his royal dominion people are to tremble and fear before the God of Daniel, for He is the living God who endures forever; His kingdom shall never be destroyed, and His dominion shall have no end. He rescues and He delivers; He works signs and wonders in heaven and on earth. And Daniel prospered during the reign of King Darius.

What Daniel thought would kill him became the very thing that propelled him and destroyed his accusers.

We see this pattern repeated all throughout the Scriptures.

Joseph: his brothers wanted to destroy and humiliate him, but they only positioned him for elevation. Genesis 50:20 says: “You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good”

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: the king meant to make a public example of them, but that furnace became the stage for their promotion and for God to manifest His glory.

Daniel 3:29-30:

“Therefore I make a decree: Any people, nation, or language that speaks anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego shall be torn limb from limb, and their houses laid in ruins, for there is no other god who is able to rescue in this way.” Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.

Moses: rescued, raised, and trained by the very system that tried to annihilate him and his people. What was supposed to kill him prepared him in a way that went deeper than what he could have ever received from his own people.

Exodus 3:7–12:

“Then the Lord said, ‘I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey… Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.’ But Moses said to God, ‘Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?’ He said, ‘But I will be with you’”

Esther and Mordecai: what should have killed her activated her identity and fulfilled her purpose, which was to save her own people from annihilation.

The weapon that was meant to destroy and humiliate Mordecai publicly was used to bring destruction to his enemy and his legacy and to promote him instead.

Esther 4:14

14 For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

David: what the enemy meant to use to kill David and his calling was used to propel him out of obscurity and into royalty.

1 Samuel 17:54–58 and 1 Samuel 18:1–5 describe how after defeating Goliath, David was brought before Saul, and Jonathan’s soul was knit to David’s. Jonathan made a covenant with him and gave him his robe, armor, sword, bow, and belt. David was successful wherever Saul sent him, and Saul set him over the men of war.

These are just a few examples, but the pattern is clear. All of these men and women had to go through intense trials before being promoted, and in all of these circumstances, what was meant to destroy them, the Lord used as a stage to unveil them.

He used that pressure and tension to catapult them into their destiny.

The catapult, the arrow, and the slingshot are all weapons that use stored energy and then release it quickly in a sudden burst.

In each of these weapons, there is tension: the counterweight in the catapult, the bent bow in the bow and arrow, and the stored energy in the stretched elastic.

All three are meant to strike a target, launch an object, and rely on stored and released energy.

Like all these men and women, they needed tension before being released in power. Pressure, pullback, and resistance before being propelled.

But another essential thing they had in common was obedience and faith.

Their obedience is what allowed them to endure without snapping under pressure, and that is what built the power and energy behind their propulsion.

Are you getting this? You can try to shut windows and doors. You can try to protect and preserve what you have been entrusted with, but you cannot move forward until you release it.

Until you let the Lion of Judah be the Guardian over your life and everything that pertains to it, you will not make a difference and fulfill your purpose.

What you thought would be the end of you was actually the beginning of your new season of elevation.

Rosangela Atte