At first, stepping into a mantle feels unfamiliar and daunting.
It’s like the moment that Elijah threw the mantle around Elisha.
It was a moment of decision.
It was a moment of knowing something needed to be let go.
Something had to be forfeited that felt comfortable, that felt… normal.
That felt effortless.
And I believe that many right now are in this uncomfortable and awkward place where you’re holding on.
This awkward and uncomfortable place where there’s something new on your shoulders, and it’s forcing you to a decision because you can’t hold both.
You have this mantle, this activity, this assignment, this calling.
You’ve been walking in that. You know how to do it well.
You know how it operates.
You know what it does.
Yet there’s this strange sense you’re meant to burn it to the ground and move into something new that feels unfamiliar, that feels unusual, that even feels not like you.
It feels like death to everything you’ve ever known about yourself and what you’re called to do.
And it feels like a moment where you’re in this awkward place of deep surrender, heart circumcision, and having to yield and surrender all your plans and expectations to God.
It’s a moment where the Lord is saying to you, “There’s something greater I have for you.
I know it doesn’t make sense right now.
I know this is not what you expected that I would put in your lap.
Yet, this is what carries my glory.
And today the Lord is saying, Will you choose me?
Will you choose my glory?
Will you choose to step into a greater mantle that’s going to lead you and your family forward for the days to come?
Will you surrender your idea of your calling and your destiny?
Will you lay down your dreams even to pick up mine?
And as you do, I will cause you to flourish and thrive.
I’ll cause you to expand to the left and to the right, where you’ve been living in survival, where you’ve been playing it safe, comfortable.
This is your breakout.
Place mantle upon your shoulders and watch me move mightily upon your life.
It’s time to shift out of the dysfunction that’s been sitting there as you’ve been in autopilot, going through the motions.
It’s time to step into that fresh mantle that comes with fresh authority, fresh power, and breakthrough.
It’s going to break you out of the prison you don’t even know that you’ve been living in.
And for those of you who are asking my advice on how to practically begin to step into this mantle, I would say to begin your day on your face before the Lord, just surrendering everything that’s in your hands and in your heart.
If it feels painful, it might be that your identity has been wrapped up in your last season’s activity or in the pain and woundedness of things that happened or didn’t happen in your past season.
This is also an opportunity just to lay it at the feet of Jesus.
I believe the story of Elisha is so applicable for us now.
We want a goodbye ceremony just like Elisha did wanting to say goodbye to his mother and father.
We want to spend a season in grief, waving off the past season’s accomplishments and failures.
It’s a season that is so seductively trying to keep us bound, when the Lord is actually saying right now, “Will you just shut the door?”
Will you just shut the door, and will you step into what you don’t understand as a worship?
It’s one of those moments where you just have to close your eyes and say, “Okay, Lord.”
I know so many who are going through this right now.
I’m going through this right now.
I know pastors who are shifting into an apostolic grace.
Prophets who are beginning to build things and do things that they never had on their radar.
It’s a season where you don’t feel qualified for the thing that God’s calling you into.
And you don’t feel anointed.
But the ironic thing is you are anointed for it.
You just don’t know how to operate in it yet.
So my advice to you is: get before the Lord.
It’s a threshing floor moment.
Bring it before Him.
Let Him take the old, and let Him begin to help you step into the new.
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