Last night I had an intercessory dream where I began to say "Lord, bring them out. Bring them out of the wilderness! Lord, bring them out. Bring them out of the wilderness! God, bring out the wild ones who have been in hiding. Bring out those who have been in death, those who feel like it's all over for them. Those who have been counted out, those who have been assassinated, those who have been robbed, plundered, and destroyed. God, bring out those who feel like they are being decommissioned. Bring out those who feel unclean. Bring out those who feel cast out and rejected from the church. Bring out those who have been silenced, muzzled, and voiceless, God, and anoint them! Put hot coals on their tongues!" Suddenly, the scripture Luke 4:14 came before me - “He came out of the wilderness in the power of the Spirit." And I knew in my spirit that this intercession was for the changing of the guard, for those who feel disqualified and broken because of what they’ve walked through, for those who feel like they’ve lost their anointing and strength, like Samson after his hair was cut. Then I continued to pray: "God, bring them out. Bring out the Nazarites! Bring out the new watchmen on the walls for the nations. Bring out the prophets and the intercessors, the apostles, the evangelists, those who have been in hiding, bring them out!" And I felt the Lord say that it was time for these hidden ones to come out of their season of wilderness warfare and torment, and they were going to come out with a fresh, hot coal on their tongues, to speak a fresh word of the Lord into this current moment in time. Suddenly, the dream shifted, and I began to hear the intercession of the saints. I could hear the tongues - a mighty roar rising from a generation that had been silenced and quenched for so long. I began to feel the birth pangs of the nations coming to a finality - a tipping point. This intercession felt like the midwife prayers of an impending birth of the nations in the earth. It was a prayer over the church, calling her to become the pure, spotless bride she was meant to be. I could feel the intercession of agreement with long forgotten words spoken over nations, cities, and regions, for revival, for reformation, for Jesus to be revealed in the earth. Then I began to cry out: "Lord, come! Lord Jesus, come!" Then suddenly, the prayers of the saints rose up in unity, crying out together: "Yes, Lord Jesus! Come, Lord Jesus, come!" I believe i had this dream because God is raising up a battlecry from the John the baptist, wilderness voices that are coming out of hiding to take thier post as the watchman of the hour and the fresh sound in the earth declaring “Prepare ye the ay of the Lord! So to the wilderness voices, maybe you’re feeling this. Maybe you've been through a season of robbery and wilderness - a season where it feels like you've been removed from your calling. But this is the season where God is bringing you back! He is placing a hot coal on your tongue! So if that is you today, I want to speak and prophesy over you: The hot coals are coming. You're about to feel a fresh unction. You're about to feel a fresh flow. And out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water in Jesus’ mighty name!

While the nations are in the pangs of birth right now, upheaval, chaos, and major transition, so is the church and so are you... True revival requires messy. It’s the oxen in the stable that disrupts man’s tidy plans that exclude the move of the Spirit, and shatters the veils of culture’s desensitization. And you are there right now. In the messiest of messy seasons, not because you failed but because you ASKED FOR IT. You cried out for breakthrough. You cried out for restoration. You cried out for the more of the Lord. Messy personal revival upsets the rhythms of your life that are no longer moving you forward but instead are keeping you stuck. Messy revival breaks ties and contracts and bondages you have been under that have been putting a ceiling over you and quenching your fire. Messy revival exposes the snakes in the grass and the places of robbery that have been depleting you and shifting your focus. Messy revival moves you out of limiting environments and causes you to long for wide open fields again. Messy revival brings a discontent for any sliver of complacency and religion you have tolerated. Messy revival brings death to everything in your life that is an obstruction to the “greater” God is wanting to pour out. Messy revival confronts and administers healing balm to places to deep seated trauma and pain keeping you in “medication” mode and staying in your sick bed. Messy revival redirects, corrects your steps, recalibrates, and sets your feet on the right path. Messy revival opens your eyes to where you have even in survival mode and going through the motions. Because messy revival comes primarily to set you on fire so you BURN again after years of warfare and walking through endless battlefields. And messy revival is here because God knows who you really are and what you are called to step into in this new season. It re-mantles you, leads you to surrender old manna and burn the old plow, renews your youth like the eagles, and restores the joy of your salvation. Do you feel it?

I woke up with John 11:11 on my heart this morning; “After he had said this, he went on to tell them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I am going there to wake him up.” I’m highly aware that God is awakening many right now that have been through the intensity of years of hard battle. It can break you. Dismantle your faith. Crush your courage and distinguish your fight and fire for the Lord over time. It can even feel like it’s de-commissioned you. But right now in a short period of time the Holy Spirit is dealing with the past seasons STUFF.. I wrote this, this morning; God sees your process and he isn’t rushing you right now. You have walked through alot and seen alot. Your heart has been through 20 years in 4 years so give yourself space to let Him revive you and reinvent you. Give Him room to clean out the hope deferred and cobwebs of the past seasons. Right now it’s all coming to the surface and He is tenderly scooping it out and breathing life back into your lungs. Soon you’ll wake up no longer feeling heaviness, anxiety, and deep unshakeable weariness, but it will feel like a valve was just flipped on the inside of you and out of your belly rivers will flow again. You’ll feel the pain and hardship of this past season and the toll it took on you mentally, emotionally, physically, and even spiritually begin to lift as God OVERHAULS you in a short period of time. It’s an Ezekiel 37 - army of dry bones moment and it’s necessary so you don’t stay in your sick bed but are revived back to full health. Is this what is going on in you? There are great days ahead for you.. lean in and let the finished work complete the job. Can we pray for you this week? This is what He is doing; “who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s” Psalms 103:5 Lord I pray that you would renew their youth like the eagles! Restore the joy of their salvation! Bring that back into full health and joy in Jesus name! 

This week's prophetic insight speaks to the current clash of kingdoms between those warring for legacy and the Jezebel spirit trying to hold onto its ground in a time of exposure and eviction on all levels. It’s a word of hope for those who have been on the journey with the Lord to break into a greater level of authority and victory over the enemy's schemes in this time we are living in. So let me start here: I believe this is a season in which the Lord is calling us into a higher place of spiritual intelligence and to take back the reins on the earth. They have been in the wrong hands. I believe this is a season when the Lord is giving back His power to the Church, but right now, God is dealing with the house of Ahab. The house of Ahab has robbed the Church of power and authority, which is why we have seen a recession of signs and wonders. The Church has been run by Ahab, but God is removing Ahab, and the drought will break over our lands. We will enter a season of glory once again. In an atmosphere of glory, power will return to the church. Signs, wonders, and miracles will be restored because, in an Ahab system, there is a brass-ed heaven. In this season, we have seen this brass covering over the Church, a ceiling caused by what we have allowed to rule there. But God is now dealing with the house of Ahab, and as He does, the Church will enter a realm of supernatural clarity and flow we haven’t seen in years. But how does this happen? FOR THE BLOODLINE BREAKERS There are people God has been raising up - His bloodline breakers. A generation - young to old whom God has called to break generational curses in their own lives, marriages, and families in a culture of acceptable Jezebel-ic influence and narcissistic dominance. But the purpose of God calling you, your family, and your marriage into this isn't just for your sake. While God is certainly working in your life, the most integral part of your divine calling is LEGACY. How do we establish legacy? We establish a legacy by breaking the dysfunctions and toxic patterns of the past that have seeped into our family lines, shaping the way we think, act, and engage with life. These dysfunctions are inherited not only from biological parents but also from spiritual influences. God has been working in your life, but there is a far greater reason: He is doing this for the church. God knew you could not break a corporate bloodline unless you first broke a personal one. You could not be a Jehu for a generation unless you were first a Jehu for your family. Does this make sense? Right now, I believe God is bringing decades of battling the Jezebel and Ahab spirits to a head. Many of you have been fighting this war in your personal lives, which is manifesting in various circumstances. Some of these may make you feel you have lost as if you've been through a warzone and have come out worse for wear. But let me assure you, it all will be worth it. This year, you will begin to notice that the battles you once fought are losing their steam. Why? Because whether you see it or not, you have stepped into your role as a Jehu for your family. Your strength has increased, and your spiritual muscles have grown. The Word of God says in Leviticus 21:15, "So that he does not corrupt his bloodline among his people, for I am Yahweh who sets him apart." You have been set apart for this! Do you see it? Well done for battling all these years because it’s now coming to a head! Well done for being a Jehu for your family. You are now stepping into a season where you will witness the fruit of what God has done through your life, not only personally but in a corporate context. Did you know that the word of the Lord came to Jehu to annihilate Ahab and his sons? (2 Kings 10) We are witnessing this unfold. It wasn’t just about Jezebel; it was about dismantling an entire system. Jezebel created a subtle but powerful force, not only through her daughter Athaliah but also through an Ahab army, a mindset that would permeate the culture of the Church and dominate the world stage. In 1 Kings 21, Jezebel killed Naboth to get his vineyard for Ahab. When I think of the vineyard, I think of revival, the Jesus People Movement, and the place Lonnie Frisbee called a refuge. But Naboth’s name means "prophecies and words." Jezebel knew that if she could steal the prophetic voice of the Church, she could take the vineyard, and we would have to lean on man’s ways. That is where Ahab stepped in—a palatable form or derivative of Jezebel that would infiltrate the Church and establish idols of compromise and error. This is what the Church has seen for so long. That's why you've been on a take-back mission in your own life: to restore your bloodline from Jezebel and Ahab so you can be ready to be a Jehu, slaying the Ahab spirit and regaining the prophetic voice in your life and the Church. I’m saying this because right now, look at the battle in your family and the Church. It’s a battle for the future of our families and the future of the Church. Breaking out of the dysfunctions of Ahab’s system and beginning the vineyard again. By the way, this doesn't mean coming against people. It's coming against a spirit that has permeated culture. And that's been your take-back mission, to restore your bloodline and also to step into a place of being a Jehu that will restore the Bloodline of the Church. I want to be bold and say you're about to step into your shoes as a Jehu for your generation. You have pioneered well, and you have walked the hard road of not tolerating Jezebel. You are taking back your voice in the places it's been muzzled. This is why you have been on a mission to restore your bloodline from Jezebel and Ahab. First, to reclaim the prophetic voice in your own life, and then, to be a Jehu to restore the prophetic voice in the Church. LEAVING THE ESCAPE ROOM Now, let me speak to you about inheritance for a moment. Many of us have inherited the fruit of Ahab in our families and churches. It's permeated culture, and we've inherited its fruit. Yet we have been given the task of stepping out of that culture, stepping out of that mindset, and beginning to replace the fruit, replacing the root systems in every area of our lives that we've become used to. It's even been normalized in the Church. But let me say this very clearly: The Lord is bringing us out of our imprisonment. God is giving us the true inheritance that we are meant to have received through the finished work of the cross of Jesus Christ. Just a few days ago, the Lord spoke to me while I was driving, “It’s time to leave the escape room.” There is a very popular activity that people do called an Escape Room. They are locked in this room and must look for clues and keys to help them ‘escape’ before an allotted period of time. What was God saying? He wanted to paint the picture to me that our generation, young and old, have been on a quest to find the keys to break this demonic culture that has been killing our families and society. For us to unlock the prison doors once and for all! We've been pioneers of this revolution to break the bloodlines of what's been acceptable and normal in the nations and our families and bring it back to a biblical standard in our churches. God gave me this phrase because we have been in an escape room. We've been in this place that has felt contained, this place that's felt like a war room, a battleground. It's like we've been in this place where we've been contending for so long because we know there HAS TO BE MORE than what we have seen or been handed! It’s where people have said, “I’m tired of seeing suicide and addiction rob my family! I’m tired of seeing divorce! I’m over seeing moral failures and perversion!” So we're looking for keys, we're looking for clues. We're looking for those things to break out of that place. And in our nations, we see abortion-to-birth laws passed and gender confusion, to name a few. All these different things that are constantly going against God's plan and design. And there's a generation who were born right now to say, “God, that is not your plan or design for my nation or my city. Give me the key. Give me the key!” And I want to prophesy to you that we are in a season that the Lord is giving us the keys to break out of that escape room for our families and for this generation!
 We are in a period of time where God has given the keys to the house of David back to the Church. That is why God had to shift the Ahab culture that has been permeating every facet of our lives. It's so that David can get back the keys. And when David takes back the keys, the door of that escape room swings wide open. And we are no longer receiving the inheritance of that confinement and imprisonment. We're no longer receiving the inheritance of an Ahab culture but rather the inheritance of the Davidic line and the finished work of the cross of Christ. So let me say this again: you are coming out of that place; you are coming out of the escape room right now. Do you see it in all the things God's been doing in your life? He has been confronting all areas of bondage in your life. He's been pulling, prodding, and shaking things upside down because he wants to set you free in you r finances and your health. We have to leave the escape room of man's methods where we are constantly trying to do things to break ourselves out of what God can only break us out of and what the blood of Jesus could only break us out of. And right now, the Blood is speaking a better word over us. We are in a revolution of the blood of Jesus where it's breaking that which has felt unbreakable and where you've said, “God, you could never heal that person of that Jezebel spirit. You could never set them free of that addiction.” But in this season, because of your contending and your prayer, God is breaking them free, setting you free, and setting your nation free right now. Can you see it on a global scale right now, too? Where there is shaking, things are coming to the surface; things are being resolved and exposed on high levels because God is shaking the earth upside down. The glory is revealing that which needs to be broken out and exposed, and the light of God is shining; it’s shining into those places because God is bringing the gold to the surface. In this hour, the glory of God is being revealed to us and through us. LANDING PADS & OPEN DOORS So, in this season where the Lord is leading and summoning the Church out of dysfunction and out of those escape rooms, he's revealing greater revelation on what we have been battling for so long. What we're going to see in the days ahead is essentially a lot of spiritual assignments unmasked. And what this is going to look like in many ways is even doctrine and areas of beliefs that we've had that have sadly, for many, been foundational and cornerstone beliefs that we, as Christians, have believed; certain things that we've accepted and ingested. We're going to see many of these things unmasked as counterfeits and demonic assignments. The smoke and mirrors battle of our age has been demonic assignments trying to lead us to false virtues, false fathering, false comforts, false accountability, false covering, all those things that look like the right and authentic thing, but they're just counterfeits. They fall short. They're plastic. And so, we're about to see the revealing of these spirits for what they truly are, and in that, the Lord will then bring the Church up to a higher place of understanding who they are and their authority. That can only come by experiencing the genuine and authentic thing. So, as these spirits are unmasked, it will help us understand, and we'll have a greater awareness of the spiritual realm, the mechanics of the spiritual realm, and an understanding of what we are dealing with. We can't keep going into a church, sitting in the pews, and having a cushy Christian experience when there's a dying world out there. And you can't keep being robbed in your marriage, your finances, and your health on a weekly basis, paying your tithes, and going home to brokenness and chaos. No, those days are coming to an end. But the area that I want to highlight to you in this unmasking is what the Lord's been speaking to me as: landing pads and open doors. He's highlighting to us through all this shaking, where we ourselves have actually been landing pads to the enemy's plans, keeping us in further bondage personally and corporately. In 1 John 14:30, Jesus said this powerful scripture: “I don’t have much more time to talk to you because the ruler of this world approaches. He has no power over me.” Some other versions say, “he has nothing in common with me.” You see, when there's nothing inside you that resembles or looks like the enemy, he has no power over you. That means you are no longer a landing pad for the enemy. And so, the Lord said to me last week, “Nate, I am removing the landing pads in your life from the enemy!” What I'm seeing is that we're coming out of an era of battling that Jezebel spirit and the Ahab spirit, but in that, God is actually revealing the landing pads and open doors in our lives, enabling them access. I'm talking personally about where we have things in common with that spirit, where we have things that actually cause us to be landing pads for those things. We are coming to a place of complete victory over those spirits. But in order for that to happen, God had to expose the commonality in us with those spirits and reveal the other faces of how this has manifested in culture in the Church and the world around us. For instance, to make this practical right now, we are seeing two faces of Jezebel. For so long, we've said, Jezebel wants to silence you. Jezebel wants to muzzle you. Jezebel wants to intimidate you. Jezebel wants you to be in fear for your life because we look at the passage of scripture about Elijah running into the cave. But did you know there's another face to Jezebel? That there's also the side of Jezebel that wants to lure you into speaking out of turn? Into being a bitter, angry, venom-spitting voice? It’s where Jezebel puts on a different face and, instead of muzzling voices, seeks to raise up voices with the wrong spirit. It’s sneaky because it looks like God’s heart... from a certain angle. It’s cunning because it plays on the pain and experiences of the hurting Church. But it doesn’t carry His heart. That is why Elijah had to go into the cave and be refreshed in his awareness of the voice of God and the mantle that he carried; otherwise, his pain and his fear would've sent him out of that place and deviated from his calling. Does this make sense? God, right now, is dealing with the landing pads and the triggers and the open doors we've had in our lives. He's destroying the commonality that we've had so we can step out of pioneering and contending for breakthroughs and legacy and finally taste it! So even right now, give the Lord any areas in your life, the landing pads and the places of commonality that you've had with the enemy, forgive those you need to forgive, and give God the pain and the wounds of the past. And lastly, let me say this. THANK YOU for walking this narrow road. It’s not been easy, and it’s been costly when so many are choosing to walk in the dysfunctions they  inherited and have leveled oj, choosing not to fight to break free. But you have stood and contended, like Hannah who was barren...you stood. Like Ruth, you stood. Like Jacob, you have wrestled with the promise even when it looked bleak or as if it had failed. But now, you will see the fruit of this long battle and lead others into the same legacy.

Calling California 📣 This is something that has been on our hearts and in our dreams for a long time now… and we’re ready to put action to the dream. This will not be a church but a gathering of the Bride.. to pray, contend and seek the Lord. To magnify Jesus and lift Him high. We’re excited to have @lou.engle join us for this first gathering 🔥 Come join us and let’s set this state on Holy Ghost fire 🙏🏽🔥

I will never forget the moment that the Holy Spirit invaded my life and set me free of demonic oppression. I was about 17 years old and after being through around about 11 years of spiritual, verbal, and physical abuse in my home, I'd become very bitter, angry, and jaded against God because I'd always felt like the Father never protected me. And in fact, I thought maybe God hated me as well, so I strangely toed the line between going to church and being involved in a worship team while at the same time being heavily demonized by listening to heavy metal music and giving myself to darkness in it. I felt that this music in some way comforted me in that pain by telling me it was okay to feel hate and bitterness, and it was okay to feel depressed and like the world hated me. From the age of around 14, I began seeing and experiencing demonic presences in my room. At first, it was just the feeling like something was in the room with me and then over time, I accepted it to the point that when I would write lyrics and write songs, I'd begin to feel demonic presence in the room with me, and in many times, overtaking my pen and writing the songs! And then eventually it got to the point where I began to see them for moments of time and it was in that moment I knew I was in a deep, dark hole and I didn't know how to get out of. And no matter what I tried, I would stay stuck there. I went to church but nothing would shift the deep, dark depression that I was feeling until in my 17th year I begin crying out and asking God if you are real, that you would encounter me. You see, when I was 10 years old, I encountered God, and heard his voice. Yet over time and add much more pain, I felt like maybe that was a figment of my imagination. But over the span of a month, I began just really seeking God to see if he was real. And then one morning I woke up out of a dream where I was being choked to feeling hands over my throat, choking me. Something was trying to kill me. I couldn't see it yet I couldn't breathe, and it was holding me onto the bed. I started to feel like I was about to faint when I stood up and I ran out of the room Into the backyard where it was raining softly. And as much as I could muster, I'd said Jesus before collapsing in the mud. I woke up shortly after that, got myself ready for work 'cause I had to be there because 6:00 AM working at the local grocery store and just put it behind me. At about 7:00 AM I had a call from my friend's mom saying, Nate, what happened to you this morning at 4:00 AM? And I said, why? She said, “because Holy Spirit woke me up and said to pray for you because It was life or death. And I walked up and down my hallway praying until I felt a release from the Lord” I began to cry and sob and told her what happened. This lovely lady said to me, “Nate, go and get your life right with God!” I ran home that day, opened my dusty Bible sitting on the shelf to Jeremiah 29:11; “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future” Jeremiah 29:11 As I read these words I began to feel the presence of the Holy Spirit come upon me instantly as I chose him again and accepted him into my life again but it felt like the first time. Instantly he began delivering me and detoxing me from so many demons that had just been sitting and allowed in my life. Over the span of a few years. I would encounter Holy Spirit and powerful ways as more and more waves of deliverance and healing would take place and I’ll never forget the delivering and saving power and Jesus. Christy says this all the time “People who go through what you go don’t normally make it through” and she is right. BUT JESUS… He wants us WHOLE.. I know what it's like to be demonized, and yet I know what it's like to be set free. WE ARE IN A WAVE OF DELIVERANCE I'm sharing this with you right now because I believe that the church is entering into an era of deliverance and detoxification from a past seasons of pain and trauma that the enemy led us into. Pain that has stunted us and bound us in a time we need to be FREE. But as a church we are also in a season of deliverance from toxicity and the allowance of demonic agendas, ideologies that have actually brought on mental illness, emotional instability and demonized and fractured a church that was meant to always be whole. But I also believe that we are in the days of not only mental and spiritual deliverance, but we're entering a days of physical deliverance and healing, unlike anything we've ever seen. I believe the voice of healing is coming back to the church where we will see the lame walking, the blind seeing, and even the dead raised. Bold statement right? Go read Matthew 10:7-8; “As you go, proclaim this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’ Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give” It’s the cry of Jesus to make the broken WHOLE! “And you know that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. Then Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him” Acts 10:38 And we know this happening because so much pain and brokenness is coming to the surface. We're seeing such a wave of ministers that have been living double lives in corruption and abusing the sheep, we're wondering how does this happen? It comes through the lack or resistance to intimacy with God and yielding to sanctification of the Holy Spirit. People who are compartmentalizing their life, by being bound in areas of their life yet still operating in areas the anointing is present, but overall still being fractured people. We have allowed the body of Christ to normalize compromise and error, which is only brought on mental illness, sexual perversion, gender dysphoria, identity, confusion, bitterness, brokenness, and addiction. No, we have not been the WHOLE church, yet I truly believe it is coming back to the church in the next five to 10 years as God makes us the pure bride He has called us to be! I believe that what's going to break out Is like the days of AA Allen, with incredible healings but also an incredible wave of true deliverance that isn’t for show but simply for the demon to go! A season where the Lord is seeking to make his church whole in body, in mind and spirit, where we would unyoke from the demonic agendas and contracts that we've allowed. Where Jezebel has being allowed to sit at our kitchen table and our church boardrooms. Yes, we have normalized mental illnesses and we have believed that God no longer heals bodies. God, let me say this to you right now. If you're experiencing any bondage in any of these areas today, the Lord says to you today that he wants you to be made whole! Even as you are reading this the Holy Spirit is at work. You might feel an unsettling feeling or uncomfortable confrontation spiritually. This is the Holy Spirit drawing all pain and hidden things to the surface that have kept you in bondage. Right now God is confronting this because He does not want to see his bride disabled anymore. He's coming for a pure bride, meaning not broken, not scattered and not fractured, but a whole and pure bride. That is who you really are.. Not waking up everyday in anxiety and heaviness. Not walking around feeling tormented and your mind like a vice. Not feeling the spirit of death lingering around you. Not broken in your body or plagued with illness. Those days are over. Today I pray over and command you “Be made whole in Jesus name!” “I command every demon tormenting you and oppressing you leave! Every mind blinding spirit causing heaviness, depression, anxiety and all other mental illnesses leave now in Jesus name!” “I command all pain and trauma that is crushing you and keeping you bound to be released to the Lord. Give them to him. The injustice and even the vindication is His. He will vindicate” “I command all fractures of mind to be healed and restored in Jesus name!” “And I command your body to be healed and restored completely now in Jesus name! Lastly, I hear the lord saying today “Will you forgive them?” Painful I know but as you give your pain to the Lord He will heal you. And when your whole, your voice will be clear and our voice will be clear in the earth. Watch and see.. the days of wholeness are upon us! 

A few days ago as I was driving around praying I heard this question; “Don’t apologize for your different mantle.” Instantly I thought of Elisha who In a moment had a new mantle thrown over him and his whole world changed. He slayed his oxen and his plowing tools and said goodbye to his family to be Elijah’s protege. We don’t see it in the Bible, but that could have been a movie in those unspoken lines right there. Imagine everything shifting that dramatically in your life that quickly? Yet you have been there and many are there right now. That process can be a shock to the system, adjusting to so many new surroundings but even more vividly, dealing with the internal changes. You see, when God throws a new mantle over you, it’s not just about a new anointing and role change. It leads you into an internal rewiring and initiates a season of crossing over from one capacity into the office you have been prepared for. And that’s the messy place many are in right now. But to you? You just feel lost or like something is missing. But nothing is missing, except the juice you had for the old thing running out. The oil is producing in the new thing God is highlighting to you, if you choose to see it. But the problem or challenges in this process comes if we refuse to recognize or transition over. For instance, where the grace on what you were doing or the way you were doing it lifts, but the longing for the familiar keeps you at a plow you are no longer anointed for. Refusing to adjust our lives to accomodate the new mantle can lead us into feeling like God has removed His hand on our lives when that is not the case. Mantles are upgrades not downgrades, but are we willing to surrender our desires for what He knows is best for us? And for many this is hard because their identities are also wrapped up in the old mantle and that can be hard to separate from. “But I’m a pastor and this is my role and what I do and what people expect me to do!” But what if you suddenly dream of nations and you can’t deny a pull in a different direction? Will you surrender to it, or stay stuck in the expectation you and others have placed on you? Even if it means stagnancy? No, you burn the plow and you adjust. But here's the thing, it’s not just you that has to adjust to your new mantle, but those around you. Those who have known you for a long time have been used to you operating a certain way, thinking a certain way, and being focussed in a specific direction. Those you use to run with, may not understand you, or even recognize you as you put on a different mantle on. It may cause them to feel like you are being disingenuous or being something you aren’t. But they don’t know that God has shifted your life in a moment. They see this new mantle and it looks like a costume, but it’s the most authentic you that you can be. So let me ask you again, can you handle a different mantle? Are you diagnosing this season properly? Lord I pray for those in this shift right now, out of one anointing and capacity and into another. Help them navigate their own personal process well, the relational process, and their process to adjust to your leading well in Jesus name!