Prophetic Word for May 2025

Prophetic Word for the Month of May – “The Month of Grace and Refining Fire”

By René Picota | Empower for Life

I hear the Spirit of the Lord saying, "This is the month of GRACE." May, the fifth month of the year—carries prophetic weight, because five represents grace, unmerited favor, divine enablement. But this month, grace is not coming just as comfort—grace is coming as refining fire. This is the month where God draws a line in the sand and says, “Come up higher.”

Take a moment. Look back. Reflect on how far God has brought you in the last year. Even in the times when you fell flat on your face, when everything in you wanted to give up, God was there. You are still standing not by your own strength, but by the grace of a faithful God. The very breath in your lungs is proof: your purpose is not over. Heaven has not given up on you.

Yes, I know it’s been hard. I know you’ve prayed until you had no more words. I know you’ve cried yourself to sleep, asking, “God, where are You?” And in those moments of silence, when the heavens seemed shut and the answers didn’t come, God was refining you. You’ve been in the fire. But listen: He’s been in the fire with you.

This is not punishment. This is preparation. You are being purified, set apart.

God is burning out everything in you that cannot carry the weight of the calling on your life.

He is cleansing your hands and your heart. Because God is a jealous God, and He will not share you. He will not compete with idols. He is calling you back to your first love. This is the season to surrender again. To give Him your everything. Not your leftovers. Not your Sunday morning self. But your whole heart.

He says, “You will seek Me and find Me, when you seek Me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13).

And this is that season—a season of seeking, of pressing in, of embracing the flame, not fleeing from it.

I hear the Lord say: “Trust Me in the fire. I’m leading you through it. I’m not leaving you here.”

As May unfolds, the Holy Spirit is going before you, leveling mountains, straightening paths. But listen closely: He is speaking through ordinary people, through gentle warnings, through quiet moments. Pay attention. Don’t go around the same mountain again like Moses and miss the promise. This is the moment to break the cycle.

You are standing at the edge of your Promised Land, a land flowing with milk and honey. A place of healing. Of breakthrough. Of financial freedom. Of open doors and supernatural favor. But the only way to get there is through the fire.

So don’t resist it—embrace it.

Ask Jesus today: “Baptize me with the Holy Spirit and with fire.”

Let the flame of God consume you, not just to make you holy, but to ignite a passion for Jesus and for the harvest. Because the harvest is ready, and the workers are few.

This is not the time to live for comfort.

This is the time to live on purpose.

God is calling you to be His hands and His feet. You asked to hear His voice. You asked to be used. Well, this is the place where your calling is confirmed, in the fire.

God is watching to see how you will respond in this season of grace.

Will you run?

Or will you surrender?

PROPHETIC DECLARATION:

I declare over you right now in the mighty name of Jesus, that May will be a month of miracles, of deliverance, of fresh fire. I declare that you will walk through the fire and come out not even smelling like smoke. You will be refined like gold. You will see the goodness of God in the land of the living. I declare healing over your body, breakthrough in your finances, clarity in your calling, and an overflow of supernatural favor. May you burn with passion for the lost and be fully awakened to your purpose. Let this be the month you step out in radical obedience. You will not miss your moment!

NOW IS THE TIME TO SOW.

Don’t delay. Obey.

If this word resonated in your spirit sow a prophetic seed. Let your faith be activated by your giving. Whether it’s $55, $555, $5,555, $25, or even $5—whatever the Holy Spirit is speaking—do it now, before the enemy talks you out of it.

Sow into the anointing.

Sow into the fire.

Sow into your breakthrough.

This is holy ground. Don’t hesitate.

—René Picota Empower for Life