Full of Words, but is it Time to Speak?

While it's tempting to jump straight to crafting the perfect message, we need to pause for a moment and talk about something far more important—the messenger.

Here’s the reality: your message will only be as powerful as the vessel carrying it. If people aren’t responding the way you hoped, chances are the message isn’t ready yet—you’re not ready yet. If what you're carrying hasn’t wrecked you, marked you, stirred you—then it likely won’t move anyone else either.

If you're reading this, I’m guessing you feel in some way called to speak for God. That’s no small thing. And if that’s true, then the best place to start isn’t writing a sermon, a caption, or a post—it’s by letting God speak to you first.

We grow into the messenger God is forming by going deep and wide in the Word of God.

• Going wide means catching the big-picture storyline of Scripture—from Genesis to Revelation. Read all of it. Saturate yourself in the full counsel of God. If you need a plan, I created The Sandals Off One Year Bible & Prayer Journal for this very reason.

• Going deep means slowing down when the Holy Spirit highlights something. Sit with it. Meditate. Cross-reference. Look it up. Don’t move on just because you read your chapter for the day. Let it get in you. When the Word catches fire inside you, it’ll come out as fire on others.

  
  

We live in a culture that celebrates speed and instant output—but Kingdom messages aren’t microwaveable. They’re conceived, carried, and brought to full term. If God is birthing something in your spirit, don’t rush it. Don’t serve it half-baked. Let the message mature in your soul until it's ready to come out with weight, clarity, and conviction.

Which brings me to a young man in the book of Job named Elihu.

Elihu waited. He listened. He watched the so-called wisdom of Job’s older friends fall flat. And when the moment finally came, he knew it was time to speak—not because he wanted to be heard, but because he literally couldn’t hold it in any longer. He described it like being full of wine with no outlet, about to burst, needing to speak just to find relief.

That’s how you know the message has come to full term. You’re not preaching to be impressive.You’re not posting to be seen.You’re not writing to fill a slot. You’re releasing what God has burned into your bones.

Elihu had no platform, no title, and no seniority. But what he had was a message born of God’s breath, not man’s opinions. He didn’t speak until the spirit within him compelled him.

And when he did speak, his words shifted the atmosphere.

So, here’s the challenge for today’s messengers:

Are you letting the Word do a deep enough work in you that when you finally speak, it carries the weight of heaven behind it?

If not, pause. Wait. Sit with it a little longer.But when the time comes—and it will come—speak with boldness, because it won’t be your words alone. It’ll be the fire of God through you.

Let’s be a generation of messengers who don’t just talk about revival—but carry the kind of message that sparks it.