2026, The Year of the Favour of the Lord & the Day of the Vengeance of Our God
A Prophetic Teaching Guide for this Next Season and Year
By Barry C. Maracle
INTRODUCTION
First of all, I love you all and am so excited for our future together!
So here we stand at the precipice of a New Season and a New Year!
Review of the Past Seasons
The seasons of Psalms 23 and the season of death is over and we are stepping into a new season of life, and life much more abundantly!
For approximately past five years, we have been in quite a season of tearing down strongholds of the flesh like selfishness, self-entitlement, self-promotion, etc. God has been on a wee rampage of destroying the works of the evil one in our lives. As we have submitted to the process of alignment, we have been being prepared for the greater works that the Lord has longed for us to manifest and operate in.
Then, at the same time, we have been under significant assaults from the enemy. I actually believe the enemy has emptied his arsenal in an all-out last-ditch effort. I liken it to Daniel 7:21, which states, That the enemy was warring against the Saints of the Most High God AND prevailing against them… It seemed like every time we turned around, there was another assault from the enemy in a different area. It seemed like we could hardly catch our breath, and there would be another volley of incoming! The prolifically prophesied decade of Voice turned out for the first five years to be the complete , and I mean the COMPLETE opposite! We had shutdowns, distancing and masking mandates, and unapproved regulations. I would say that most of us all went along with it, because nobody really knew what was going on, and we had not been this way before. We used words like plandemic and conspiracy. Our mouths were trying to be stopped up so that we would prophesy the Now/New season of the Lord!
For more details about the past few years, please visit barrymaracle.ca, where you can read the Words shared over the past 14 years.
The NEW SEASON
We have now turned the corner, and we have stepped into His Divinely Designed Favour! The revealed mysteries are being prophesied, and we will create Heaven here on earth!
We are living in the season of the Final Restoration of All Things, and in this moment of history, access to His Greater Glory is available to us like never before.
We will see with our naked eye, the manifestation of the Greater Glory in signs and wonders, miracles, words of knowledge, healings, and deliverance. We will see the manifestation of the largest influx of souls coming into the Kingdom. We will see the transfer of the wealth of the Kingdom of darkness into the authority of the Children of Light!
Vision of the Lord for the New Season
The Lord began to reveal to me the timetable we have been on for the last 6000 years. For 4000 years, God was rooting out, pulling down, destroying, and throwing down the works of the evil one. Then ever since the birth, death, resurrection, and ascension of our Saviour Jesus Christ, God has been, for 2000 years, through the Holy Spirit and the Ekklesia (The Bride of Christ) been building and planting. So here we are 6000 years later. In the latter part of 2024, I go into an open vision, and I see this spout come up from the ground and two leaves pop out, and the Lord said to me, This is the beginning of the Restoration of ALL Things.
So 2025 was the transition year. The Lord began to share with me that all the infrastructure is in place, and now is the time. When July 15th, 2025 came, it was the actual moment in time where there was a significant shift in authority and that is when God began His preparations for 2026.
So here we are about to enter 2026, and the Lord says to me, We are NOW stepping into The FINAL Restoration of ALL Things!
Isaiah 6:3 says, And one cried to another and said, Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of Hosts; the WHOLE EARTH IS FULL OF HIS GLORY!
Habakuk 2:14 says(paraphrased), that there is a time coming when the whole earth will be filled with the KNOWLEDGE OF THE GLORY.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have never been this way before. There is a convergence of times and seasons because of significant demands being made from earth to heaven. It is so great because of the evil of the day and also the perfect timings of the Lord are causing synergistic collisions of unprecedented measures and we are seeing and will continually see the Greater Glory God demonstrated with excellence, accuracy, powerfully, all in limitless volumes.
This NEW YEAR
As we enter this new year, I am sensing that a number of different things are about to change!
We are at a turning point, causing a tipping point in our Favour!
I shared from Daniel 7:21, a season where it looked like the enemy was prevailing, but now we’ve crossed into the new and now season of Daniel 7:22. What I’ve been prophesying for some time is officially in full swing this year. Daniel 7:22 says, UNTIL… We are in an until moment! In 2026, you will see the evidence that the Lord has pronounced a judgment of Favour upon the saints of the Most High God (Ekklesia), and the time came for the saints to possess the Kingdom!
We are HERE right now!
This advancing Favour of God for us is about to produce severe judgments against everything contrary to God’s Dream for this world! I’ll get more into this further down in this prophetic teaching.
The Lord is watching and waiting for a remnant to arise and take Him at His Word!
AFTER THIS…
A PROPHETIC APEX MOMENT OF RESOLUTION!
“AFTER THIS, the Moabites, the Ammonites, and with them others came against Jehoshaphat to battle.”
2 Chronicles 20:1
This guide is for people who are standing in an “after this” moment.
After obedience.
After alignment.
After stepping into God’s dream.
And suddenly, resistance rises.
Scripture reveals a profound truth: Opposition often appears not because you are off course, but because you are right on time. The attack is not random, it is a reaction to divine alignment.
What came against Jehoshaphat, according to 2Chronicles 20, was not just a flesh and blood attack alone. It was a coordinated resistance against purpose, promise, and prophetic inheritance.
This is the context of favour and vengeance.
Just before your inevitable elevation comes an attempted assassination!
In Joshua 3:15(b), The bible says, … for the Jordan overflows all its banks during the whole time of harvest!
Somebody say, IT’S MY HARVEST TIME!
The opposition to you receiving your harvest and taking your promised land always looks greater than any other time in your life.
The enemy is always trying to capture your imagination!
The enemy is always trying to amplify to your ears and illuminate to your eyes everything that he is stirring up to cause distractions.
He is always yelling loud and roaring, and trying to steal your moment of acceleration and advancement!
Like I said earlier, the seasons of Psalms 23 and the season of death is over and we stepping over into a New season of Life and Life much more abundantly!
We are in the Greatest season of The Greatest Comebacks of ALL TIMES!
Your setback of the past seasons are nothing more than a divine setup for this year!
Your Setback is your Setup for your Getup, to Go-Up, to be Filled-Up, to Reign back down, so you and all the people in your spheres of influence and metron of ministries will see your GREATEST COMEBACK!
PART 1
THE FAVOUR OF THE LORD IS A DIVINE REPOSITIONING, RIGHT IN THE FACE OF OPPOSITION, right in the face of opposition
“For surely O Lord, you bless the righteous; You will surround him with FAVOUR as with a shield.”
Psalm 5:12
The Favour of the Lord is not for indulgence, but is authorization.
Biblically, favour is God’s intentional leaning toward a person or a people to ensure His purpose prevails, even when circumstances say otherwise.
In Genesis 37 to Genesis 40 we follow a story of The Favour of the Lord.
Israel senses something different on Joseph. It wasn’t just that Joseph was the oldest son of his favourite wife. There was something, and that something was the Favour of the Lord, which we will soon find out, he will desperately need!
Joseph, a prototype of end-time favour and vengeance of God:
Joseph went from The Pit to The Pad to The Pen to The Palace for the Preservation of a Prophetic People!
The Pit
Rejection & Betrayal (Genesis 37) Reuben saved Joseph from being murdered, and the Pit became a launching place! Sometimes you have to go low before you can be propelled properly. Joseph was thrown in by his own blood. But the pit was a repositioning for divine visibility. Hidden, but not forgotten.
The Pad (Potiphar’s House)
Temporary Promotion & False Accusation
Even in slavery, favour followed him (Genesis 39:2-4). Injustice came, but God was still working behind the scenes. It seemed like the worst-case scenario, but Joseph was committed to the process and was further stripped of the last vestiges of dignity and yet was protected and would not be rejected!The Pen (Penitentiary)
A Place of Preparation, Prophetic Activation and Purpose Acceleration
Here Joseph interprets dreams, not his own, but others'. He is tested by what he carries (Psalm 105:19). His gift made room.Palace
Promotion, Provision, Prophetic Fulfillment
In one day, Joseph went from prison to the Prime Minister. This is what the Favour of God does in Vengeance season: it’s time-accelerated fulfillment.
As this is a journey of trust for Joseph, so it is for all of us! In the Kingdom of God, there are very little point A to point B, journeys. Usually, you have to take the back forty up a hill and down into the valley, lol, say amen if you have ever been on this 3-hour tour!
To fulfil purpose is not for the faint of heart. You must be willing to stay in the process, even when it looks contrary to the mission.
Ladies and Gentlemen, once again, it’s a journey of trust, and when you come to grips with that, is when you begin to make tremendous progress in the midst of the process of life!
Don’t get me wrong, this is an invitation from the Lord to go a little higher up and a wee further in. You are in no way obligated to go further. He will love you the same, and you can still live a pretty wonderful life, but are there a few people out there who want to see more of His majesty displayed? Is there anyone out there who knows that there is so much more to discover? If so… let’s go for this ONE Heaven of a ride!
PART 2
FEAR, FASTING, AND FIXED FOCUS: THE POSTURE THAT ACTIVATES HEAVEN
“Then Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself [determinedly, as his vital need] to seek the Lord; and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.”
2 Chronicles 20:3
Jehoshaphat had favour before the battle was ever resolved.
Favour does not remove conflict, it preserves and repositions you for the greater Victory!.
Jehoshaphat’s fear did not lead to panic, it led to prayer influenced alignment.
We are not afraid of the dark nights of the soul or the valleys of the shadow of death.
We understand that we have already won the war, because we are in Christ Jesus and He has already defeated death, hell, the grave, the devil, and all of his minions.
So every day when we wake up we have already won the war, so the battles that are trying to face us are not here to define, delay, or deny us, they are here for one purpose… To propel us further than we would have ever had the opportunity, had the problem not come our way.
How? Why? Because of the Greater Grace that Jesus Himself put into that place of trial, tribulation, and/or trial, far before there was a problem.
You may have heard me say this, and you certainly need to hear it again!
Jesus was the Lamb that was slain before the foundations of the earth, which makes Jesus your SAVIOUR before He was ever your Creator!
One last thing as far as the enemy and his attacks and creating problems. We never and I mean NEVER, do we solve problems!!! We USE THEM!!!
What do you mean, We Use Them?
In Romans 5:20 it says, Where sin abounds, Grace does much More abound! Then in Isaiah 59:19 it says, When the enemy comes in like a flood (illegally) gives God an opportunity to (legally) come in with greater resources. Also, Deuteronomy 28:7 the bible says, As the enemy is being defeated before your face, the enemy is feeling in seven different directions and then my final (of many others that I could bring in on this) scripture is Proverbs 6:31, When the thief is found, you can point him out and he must pay seven times what was stolen.
So problems must have a PayDay!
Every Cross must have a Crown!
Every Trial will have a turning point and produce a greater Triumph!
This is key for 2026.
The people of God are not being called to react, they are being called to reposition.
Fasting here was not manipulation.
Prayer was not desperation.
It was alignment with Heaven’s courtroom.
PART 3
“WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO… BUT OUR EYES ARE UPON YOU”
“O our God… we do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon You.”
2 Chronicles 20:12
This is one of the most powerful declarations in Scripture.
It is not weakness, it is trust transferred.
When human efforts end, divine judgment can begin.
This is where Daniel 7:22 comes alive:
“Until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was rendered in favour of the saints of the Most High.”
Favour is released when the case is transferred from earth to Heaven.
Colossians 3:2 says to set our affections/minds/gaze on the things that are above, not on the things of the earth.
Say, my Gaze determines my days!
We are setting our focus and many times we have had to refocus our gaze on the things above.
Paul the Apostle in Philippians 4:8 admonishes us to think about whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things.
Romans 16:19 says, Be wise at what is GOOD and innocent at what is evil. Then verse 20 says, and the God of peace will soon crush satan under your feet!
As we take our eyes off of what we are going through and put our eyes on who were going too, is when we receive our proper perspective. Our proper perspective will give us our ability to speak in accordance with God’s purpose.
Your perspective creates your perceptions, and your perceptions create your reality.
How?
The bibles says in Proverbs 4:23, Be careful how you think, your life is shaped by your thoughts.
Then in Luke 6:45(b) it says, … out of the abundance of your heart, your mouth speaks.
God is wanting to show us things that will fill our hearts with wonder and goodness, and then we must be diligent to speak them and co-create with God.
Isaiah 48:6&7(paraphrased), You see all this and hear all of this and you will not prophesy. For I did not create everything in the beginning, I am creating some things NOW!
How?!?!
Through you!
PART 4
THE DAY OF THE VENGEANCE OF OUR GOD; HEAVEN’S VERDICT IS RELEASED
“Do not fear or be dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God’s.” 2 Chronicles 20:15
This is not just poetic language; this is judicial authority.
The Hebrew word for vengeance (naqam) means:
Divine justice
Legal recompense
God enforcing covenant on behalf of His people
God’s vengeance is not emotional retaliation.
It is measured, righteous judgment against what resists His purpose.
“You shall not need to fight in this battle… stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.”
2 Chronicles 20:17
When God fights, He fights systems, strategies, and spiritual coalitions, not people.
Can I also say that the enemy that you have seen you will see no longer!
God is against everything contrary to His plan for your life, and we bring our lives under God’s will we become virtually unstoppable. God says Genesis 12:3, that I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. When you are walking in the place of obedience to you call and are endeavouring to fulfil purpose, you have just aligned yourself with the limitless resources of Heaven, which includes divine protection and unstoppable retribution.
Luke 10:19 states, Behold, I have given you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Psalms 91 goes on to say… He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High God(El Yon, the High and Lofty One), shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty(Shaddai, the Most Powerful One). I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge, My God in Him I will trust. A thousand may fall at my side and 10,000 at my right hand, BUT it shall not come near my dwelling!
When you are on your mission, you must understand that you are a legitimate Ambassador from another Kingdom and as a representative, you have diplomatic immunity.
You are not subjected to rules that are contrary to the Kingdom you are from!
Sickness, disease, virus’s, infections, oppression, depression, suppression, perversions of all sorts, including consequences of sins, past, present or future have no authority in your life ,and He the King of Glory has given commensurate authority to destroy the works of he evil one in any area of your life that pertains to living and fulfilling purpose and mission.
We must step onto the battlefield to receive the overwhelming victories!
PART 5
PRAISE AS A LEGAL STRATEGY; YOUR PROPHETIC PRAISE RELEASES AMBUSHMENTS AGAINST THE ENEMY
“When they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushments against the enemy.”
2 Chronicles 20:22
They just didn’t sing any old thing! They got a Word from the Lord and they began to Voice Activate the victory!
This is where favour and vengeance converge.
They began to prophetically sing, Our God is Great, and His Mercies endure forever.
Praise is not just a celebration after victory! Praise is participation in Heaven’s verdict.
They praised before the breakthrough.
They worshiped while the threat still existed.
And God turned intended curses into Eternal Blessings.
THE DIFFERENT ENEMIES THAT HAVE BEEN CAUSING HAVOC AMONGST THE PEOPLE OF GOD, ARE ABOUT TO TURN ON EACH OTHER.
2 Chronicles 20:22-24 talks about how the Moabites and Ammonites began to turn on the children of Mount Seir and then the Moabites and Ammonites began to turn on each other!
This is prophetic for now!
You will see massive institutions and organizations turn on each other. We must make sure that we don’t rejoice at the folly of your enemy, because the advancement of destruction will be cut short. We need to keep our hearts pure during this season of the transfer of authority on the earth. Our war is never against flesh and blood, but evil systems and works of the evil one.
PART 6
SPOILS, RESTORATION, RESTITUTION IN THE VALLEY OF BLESSING
“They found among them more spoil than they could carry away… it took them three days gathering the spoil.” 2 Chronicles 20:25
What was meant to stop them propelled them.
What was intended to drain them enriched them.
The Valley of Threat became the Valley of Berachah, the Valley of Blessing.
This is vengeance with favour attached.
Not just deliverance but, advancement.
Not just survival, but abundance.
Not just restoration, but restitution.
We are being positioned in the midst of all this for a great transfer of Affluence, producing Influence to have the resources to go into all the world and make the Kingdoms of this world the Kingdoms of our God and King!
One of our great weapons of warfare in this New/Now season, which we have dabbled in, is called, Restitution and Retribution! Restitution is the repaying of what was stolen and Retribution is the vengeance for the theft!
So biblically according to Deuteronomy 28:7, As the enemy is being defeated before your face, he is also fleeing 7 different ways.
Then in Proverbs 6:31, when the thief is found, he must repay seven time what he has stolen.
So the restitution is getting our stuff back! The Retribution is the warfare destroying the financial viability of the enemy! The only way the enemy can gain is by stealing, killing and destroying. So when we on a consistent basis demand our stuff back, our relationship back etc. is when we will continue to deliver striking blows against the enemy and we will soon get to costly to be attacked!
Deuteronomy 8:18 states, And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth… Why? So He can establish His covenant in the land!
3John 2 says, Beloved, I wish above all things that you would prosper and be in health even as your souls prosper!
God’s heart is to give you a great future and to prosper you.
Matter of The Fact in Ephesians 2:10, For we are God’s [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live].
So Saints! It’s time for us to go over, take back, take over, and Occupy till He comes!
PART 7
2026 - WHY THIS MATTERS NOW
2026 is not just about overcoming opposition.
It is about God using opposition to accelerate purpose.
We are not just surviving the assaults.
We are not saying Oh well, bad things happen to good people.
We are not just dusting ourselves off and getting up one more time.
We are about to use the magnitude of the abundant Grace that has been made available to us and for us, to more than just get back to square one. NO NO NO! We are not just getting restored to what was lost, but we are going to receive our upgrade and be propelled into greater things, places and abundant opportunities as we Voice Activate the Grace of God!
Once again, you are not fighting flesh and blood.
You are standing in obedience while God enforces covenant.
Joseph didn’t rise despite opposition!
He rose because he stayed in the process and God used every opposition to propel him and positioned him for preservation of the people of God.
For all those that are willing and will trust the Lord and His process, we will see the same victories in this Year of Favour of the Lord and The Day of The Vengeance of Our God!
FINAL WORD
What came against you was never meant to define, delay, deny or defeat you.
It was meant to expose the moment God would step in and show Himself strong on your behalf.
Favour positions you.
Vengeance vindicates you.
Obedience propels you.
And 2026 will mark the season where God turns resistance into remarkable advancement for the preservation of a prophetic people.
DECLARATIONS FOR THE SEASON
2026 shall be a year of divine turnaround!
Greater is He who is in me, and coming upon me, and about to flow forth from me, than he who is in the world!
This year, I am cognitive that I have already won the war because I am in Christ Jesus and He has already defeated death, hell, the grave, enemy and all of his minions!
I am coming back stronger than ever before!
I will call on and use the Greater Grace that the Lord has abundantly provided at this time!
I am not merely surviving, but am about to arise and shine in the face of all opposition and outgrow the containment, to become answers and solutions to all the people in my spheres of influence!
I am not a victim of opposition, and I am not merely saving problems, but I am about to use them because of the availability of God’s Greater Glory!
I am more aware of God’s Goodness, far more than the plans of the enemy.
I am living in the Glory, from His Glory and for His Glory, this year!
My proper perspective of my ultimate Victory in Christ Jesus, and seeing things from God’s way is empowering me to have the best perceptions of all things, and I am able to create a heaven on earth!
All the best ,as we are about to witness the greatest years the Kingdom of God has ever produced.
Let’s Go Team Jesus!
