A few nights ago in a dream I dreamt about a season I went through years ago.
It was a season where it felt like everything in my hands was removed.
Everything I found my value, worth, and identity in was no longer there to make me feel.. covered.
Doors around me shut. Relationships ended or changed.
Back then I even had a dream where all my favorite things were hanging on a wall and yet I couldn’t grab them. I felt raw, naked, and lost.
Who was I without them?
When I woke up the Lord began to speak to me;
“So many have forgotten who they really are after a long and tiresome battle-season"
“They immersed and invested themselves fully in the last chapter and now it has come to an end are trying to remember who they are without the tools they used, and the role they fulfilled”
IDENTITY CRISIS
I heard him continue to say;
“The enemy has tried to strip them of everything by tangling and tethering their identity to their activity and now it’s over they are left feeling lost and having to pick up the pieces of who they are again”
Yes, this is an Identity crisis moment for many because the merry-go-round was spinning fast for a long time, and now it’s stopped it feels like a sudden shock to the system realizing how much heart-work was avoided in the “busy”.
Who am I again? many are asking.
Who am I without what was in my hands?
Who am I without that affiliation?
Who am I without that desk nameplate?
DAVIDS MIGHTY MEN
Last night I dreamt I was watching David’s mighty men gathering together but their armor was missing and their weaponry was gone too.
Instead of fierce men who had seen wild exploits, these were timid men who felt insecure and afraid.
They seemed like they were in a battle of inner conflict. The enemy was raging hard at their minds to make them feel disqualified and small.
They were talking amongst themselves and spewing up fear and dread when David stood up amongst them and said “Mighty men, remember who you are! Remember WHOSE you are!”
Then this scripture came up in my spirit;
“For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” Roman’s 8:14
You see, we have been seeing this moment through the lens of failure and shipwreck instead of identity upgrade and wholeness.
This is not a robbery. This is the Lord revealing where you have been robbed and Him reminding you of who and whose you are so you can come back into alignment with who He created you to be.
THE CROSSROAD
As I was writing this down the word “Crisis” kept changing into the word Crucis which is Latin for cross.
This is a crossroad right now that many have come, to realign us with the cross again.
Who we are in Christ and the finished work.
The enemy wants us to feel like this is a crisis but it’s really a God-ordained moment of deliverance.
COUNTERFEIT ARMOR
This has been a season where the old mantles we were wearing have had to be forfeited to make room for the new mantles God was giving us.
It’s been a burning of the plow and slaughtering the oxen season to get us ready for the new we were stepping into. But if we aren’t aware of that then we may feel like God is being cruel and resort to “Covering” ourselves in our own strength.
Why? Because an identity overhaul season can feel so raw that we instantly want to cover our nakedness instead of dealing with why we feel naked in the first place.
This is often achieved by running into comfortable environments where we feel temporarily covered by people and not God when that was created the warped diversions of our identities in the first place.
Anytime we cover ourselves with man’s mantles, we will always be led on a counterfeit path believing a counterfeit interpretation of who we are and sent on a counterfeit mission we call kingdom.
When David went before Saul to volunteer to kill Goliath, Saul put his armor on David but it didn’t fit.
What would have happened if David had wòrn that armor? The result may not have been the same.
Right now, God is removing man’s armor that has been on you.
The counterfeits and false mantles that have branded you in a way only God is meant to do.
It’s taken you away from your true calling and purpose and the protection and jealousy of the lord won’t let you continue that way any longer.
PICKING UP STOLEN MANTLES
Then after I woke and started writing this down I was taken into a vision where I saw people picking up stolen mantles.
They were the authentic identities, roles, and movements that God had given to people that were stolen in previous seasons when the counterfeits were handed out.
I could see them - thousands of them, forfeited, unused, and not activated.
“What a loss,” I thought.
I could see the magnitude of what had not been birthed and released and it was overwhelming.
In the void of the authentic mantles, it brought in the orphan spirit. It brought confusion. It brought in false missions and messages that were warping the gospel.
Outside of true identity and sonship, many were losing themselves and even abandoning the faith because there was a very apparent LACK OF GRACE to accomplish it.
For many have said “Lord why don’t I feel covered? Why don’t I feel your protection? Why did I lose so much?”
And right now God is redefining what was the pure call He anointed us to do and the wild goose chase the enemy led us on to divert us away from the pure call.
But then in the vision I saw believers picking up these stolen mantles and exchanging them for the false ones they were wearing.
This is the uncomfortable place we are in right now.
ROAD TO DEMASCUS
Now let me prophesy;
And just like Saul had to have a BLIND moment on his road to Damascus, right now the church is going through a blind moment to come back to who SHE REALLY IS!
It’s not a punishment or a condemnation moment but a RECALIBRATION for a new era and chapter where the errors and counterfeits of the past can no longer come with us and trip us up.
Yes, it’s a deep repentance moment and a letting go of the titles, brands, and names that held us captive in the past season and kept us limited and going around the mountain over and over.
For your next chapter won’t be known as a chapter of HIT & MISS, walking blindly, but a chapter of SIGHT and CLARITY.
You won’t walk this new road tormented by the weight of many heavy yokes, trying to fake it til you make in the tension of personal bondage and walking out of the kingdom simultaneously.
No this will be a season of knowing you are not defined by what you do or what is in your hands but by WHOSE you are.
This is a season you will know your value and worth as sons and daughters of God.
Not by the tables you are at or the circle you are invited to.
Not by the role you have or the mission you are given.
“For even now I am branding you afresh!” Says the Lord.
“I am leading you into a season of feeling KNOWN again.. and I am reminding you of who I created you to be”
So let me finish by prophesying, Let the dreams of remembrance begin. Let the reminders who He created you to be start to bubble forth. And I prophesy that you will look back at this season and realize what looked like a crisis was actually the crossroad you needed to get back on track and take back what the enemy almost hijacked IN JESUS NAME!
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