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! 

This feels like a very simple yet direct word for the pioneers out there this week, and I believe it will be a continual theme for the year. It feels as though the Lord is setting us on the right path right now. He has been shifting us off the wrong track and onto the right one, aligning us with the right conditions and out of the round-the-mountain-goose-chase many have been on. It almost feels like God is bringing us into an environment or season where things around us finally work or connect. It no longer feels like we are living in clutter or at least God is beginning the process of getting us out of it. We can no longer live bombarded by a constant, overwhelming number of influences and distractions on a daily basis. For the last four to seven years, our pioneering journey has felt noisy, filled with constant swirling chaos. It’s normal in that part of the pilgrimage. It’s settling sail with little to nothing to go on. It’s the season of trial and error - learning to hear His voice and lead as best as you can. That’s why 2024 felt difficult because at the end of that road it feels like it’s the culmination of some wins and advances but so many more painful outcomes to navigate, regrets, and even failures. But coming out of that, the Lord wants to establish us. He wants to set us up for victory in our pioneering efforts so that we are no longer expending so much energy defending ourselves or constantly being on the offensive due to a lack of wisdom in certain situations, circumstances, or decisions we have made. Over the past few years, we have been moving toward a new level of maturity. I believe 2024 was the year of realizing what was not going to work and what would. Now, in 2025, the Lord is bringing us into a place of settling and clarity in key areas, our people, our mission, and our calling. Many of us have gone through a season of redefining our calling. As pioneers, we tend to see needs, recognize things that must be done, and take action. However, not all of these tasks are what the Lord has called us to do. Many are simply things that need to be done by someone, but not necessarily by us. The Lord is teaching us to discern what is from Him and what is simply a distraction. This also applies to the people in our lives. As highly empathetic individuals, we naturally see the needs of those around us. We see hurting people, and we see those who want to run with us. Because we have experienced seasons of isolation, times of feeling like an outsider, there is a part of us that craves companionship. We don’t want to feel like a Lone Ranger right? As a result, we may gravitate toward people who validate or flatter us. We may also be drawn to those who are needy and require help. While these things are not inherently wrong, they can drain our energy and prevent us from fulfilling our main mission. This is something we must address. Right now, the Lord is calling us to establish boundaries. He is leading us to greater wisdom and discernment regarding who we align with, who we pour into, and who we allow into our lives. In our desire to avoid loneliness, we have sometimes allowed “bad apples” into our circles. But the Lord is dealing with these misalignments now. Another challenge pioneers face is our familiarity with mess. We have spent so long dealing with chaos that it has become normal to us. We have accepted clutter and disorder as part of our calling. Some of us have even come to associate progress with drama, as if things must be chaotic in order to be “The Lord” But I truly believe this next season of pioneering will be different. It will be a season of building from a place of peace and rest. The Lord is bringing the right people into our lives, and He is making our assignments clear. We are shifting from a pilgrimage phase of pioneering into a settling phase. This means we are coming to the end of searching for the right location or environment. Migrations are still happening but that will begin to change as God anchors people. Now, it is time to plant, establish, and build the things we have been talking about for the last seven years. At the beginning of this year, I felt a strong warning from the Lord: “Do you really want to go around the mountain again?” There are areas in our lives where the Lord has been calling us to maturity. Yet, it is easy to fall back into old patterns, opening the floodgates once again to unnecessary drama, noise, and distractions. The Lord is asking: “Do you really want to go around that mountain again? Do you really want to keep expending energy filtering out the noise just to hear My voice?” I know the answer is no. The wisdom of the Lord in this season is clear: We must filter better. We must discern better. We must step out of the cesspool of drama, noise, and constant demands. We must break free from the need to appease people and from our own need for affirmation from the wrong places. We must embrace the truth that less is more. We must work smarter, not harder. I believe the Lord wants me to pray today for pioneers, that a great level of discernment and wisdom would come upon your life in this next season. Write this down in a journal: People, Assignment, and Heart. The Lord is calling you to govern and steward these areas well. He is calling you to guard your heart well. He is calling you to steward your one true calling well. He is calling you to nurture the small community of people He has placed around you. As you do this, you have permission to block out everything else. Focus on His face. This will ensure that you are no longer caught in the enemy’s wild goose chase, constantly going around the same mountain, losing time, losing joy, and nearly losing your divine calling. It is time to move forward with a high altitude, spiritual and emotional aptitude, and a clarity and peace that only comes by getting off the broken carnival car of demonic distraction and coming back in step with Jesus. I prophesy, you will not go round the mountain in 2025 in Jesus name! 

For the last week, I have felt an intercession in my spirit for the emerging breed of prophets that are rising up. I remember being at a massive prophetic summit in 2018 when I went into a vision. I saw an older generation of prophets and apostles opening up the gates, opening the doors of a massive church, and they were calling in the next generation of prophets to arise. I saw them coming in, and they were covered in rags, yet they carried the fire of the Lord on their tongues. As soon as they stepped inside the building, the older generation of prophets almost regretted what they had done. “Oh, this isn’t what we expected them to be. This is not what we wanted in here.” They wanted polished. They wanted suits. They wanted the image. They also wanted praise. And so, this group of prophets was turned away. I stood there in the vision, my heart sinking, knowing that the future of what God wanted to do in the church would require a healthy generation of prophets, young and old, not removing the older generation, but rather bringing them into partnership with something fresh that God was doing. For the last six to seven years, I have been praying and interceding for this next generation of emerging prophets to arise. I have seen the coming and going of trends, voices stepping out of the wilderness, only to be shut down quickly by the gatekeepers, the prophetic police, territorial prophetic guardians, wardens, and apostolic wolves. I have seen it time and time again. I have walked through it myself. It is not an easy road as a prophetic voice, especially when there is a lack of mothering and fathering in the prophetic movement. It is a difficult road, and only a few seem to make it through to the other side. But something is shifting... An emerging prophetic company has arisen, one with boldness and unbridled zeal to step onto the scene and establish what no one else is establishing. This is a company of prophets that recognizes that there is a vacuum to be filled. It is like the sons of the prophets in 2 Kings 6:1-2, who recognized that their dwelling was too small and that it was time to build something bigger. “Look now, the place where we dwell with you is too small for us. Please, let us go to the Jordan, and let every man take a beam from there, and let us make there a place where we may dwell.” (2 Kings 6:1-2) We are in the midst of empires crumbling, people who have operated with “flies in the ointment” (Ecclesiastes 10:1) are falling. This new breed of prophets recognizes that if they do not step out, ignore the fear of man, and begin to build, then: Who will be the marker for this generation? Who will point the way and lead the body of Christ forward? Who will break the stereotypes and religious, whitewashed dogma of past regimes? Who will establish something pure? Something Has Shifted My friends, in 2025, this new breed that has been underground for years—coming in and out, in and out, in and out, has finally arrived at a place of boldness and courage. They have walked through deep orphan mindsets and Jezebelic attacks, but now they are ready to step out and be who God has called them to be. In these last few weeks, I have heard the Lord say: “There is a faceless group of prophets rising up right now, untangled and untainted by the past prophetic administration. And because they have been untangled and rejected by the system, that very rejection was their protection, so they could now build something pure.” They are a generation whose hands have not been in all the religious pies. They have not been muddied and soiled by the compromise and the leaven of the Pharisees (Matthew 16:6), which have brought division, error, and polarization to the prophetic movement. A Prophetic Reset This group of prophets is rising to reset the prophetic movement. They will bring healing. They will bring humility. They will destroy thrones and golden calves. They will restore the prophetic movement to what it was meant to be. And I keep hearing the Lord say: “Listen to what the wild prophets are saying right now. Listen to what the wild prophets are saying right now!” People are looking for those with a track record. People are looking for the household names. I am not against any of that, but right now, the anointing is on the wild prophets. God has anointed the faceless for a purpose. They are like the voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.” (Isaiah 40:3) They have no agenda. They have no personal ambition. Their only mission is to lead people to Jesus and move the body of Christ forward. God is Looking for the John the Baptist Voices God is looking for those John the Baptist voices who look different, sound different, yet carry the pure word of the Lord, the kind of word that clears the air in a time of unrest, distraction, and noise. God is looking for those Micaiah voices (1 Kings 22) who will say what He is saying, even when thousands of others have bowed to Baal and kissed his lips for approval and fame. “Then Micaiah said, ‘As the Lord lives, whatever the Lord says to me, that I will speak.’” (1 Kings 22:14) Micaiah was hated by the religious system but loved in heaven. A Call to the Wild Prophets And I want to simply say to the emerging wild voices out there this week: Please rise up. Please rise up. What is the Lord saying to you? What has He put on your heart? What are the dreams He has given you? It is time to release them. It is time to decree them. It is time to pray. It is time to break past the lies of false coverings and ideologies that have tried to keep you muzzled and silent, at a time when both the church and the world need to hear what you have to say. Because you carry the heartbeat of heaven. And as you rise, it will bring a reset to the body of Christ and lead the church forward.