Re-mantling

Re-mantled.

Without question.

What is your question?

Why question yourself?

Without question.

This is the word that shall be used to describe you “without question”

For no one shall question your authority.

I know how you feel about this.

For you want to question everything about yourself.

Particularly how I have positioned you as the answer to the question, as the one who loves to answer the questions.

Have I not partnered you with the one who asks the best questions?

For you thrive in the place of the question.

Yet do not question your standing, your position, your authority, your place, your vision, your focus, your intent.

Yet Lord it seems that in this time, these are the questions I have for myself. As I assemble the fragments it seems that you are assembling me.

Piece by piece, line by line, precept by precept, step by step, word by word, principle by principle, declaration by declaration, all leads to proclamation.

Be bold.

Step out.

Genesis 41:14-16 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. But Joseph [first] shaved himself, changed his clothes, and made himself presentable; then he came into Pharaoh’s presence. And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it; and I have heard it said of you that you can understand a dream and interpret it. Joseph answered Pharaoh, It is not in me; God [not I] will give Pharaoh a [favorable] answer of peace. Genesis 41:32-33 That the dream was sent twice to Pharaoh and in two forms indicates that this thing which God will very soon bring to pass is fully prepared and established by God. So now let Pharaoh seek out and provide a man discreet, understanding, proficient, and wise and set him over the land of Egypt [as governor]. Genesis 41:37-42 And the plan seemed good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of all his servants. And Pharaoh said to his servants, Can we find this man’s equal, a man in whom is the spirit of God? And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Forasmuch as [your] God has shown you all this, there is nobody as intelligent and discreet and understanding and wise as you are. You shall have charge over my house, and all my people shall be governed according to your word [with reverence, submission, and obedience]. Only in matters of the throne will I be greater than you are. Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt. And Pharaoh took off his [signet] ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in [official] vestments of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck;

Here in this moment, what is it you see?

A new robe, reflecting a very old robe, it was the cloak placed upon me by my father, a special robe, a robe of uniqueness. Signifying an authority, laying aside the old, and taking up the new. A re-mantling. A make over, an acceptance of a new position. A new suit. Yet what you have shown me, is too much for me to bear.

A robe of distinction, a robe of royalty, a ring of authority, a new standing, reflective of a new position.

It feels so uncomfortable. Everything comes flooding back to my eyes and my heart. For I turned my back on Egypt, wishing never to return. Yet here I find myself. With the gathered fragments, yet still with the pieces of myself scattered before me.

Yet it is I that calls you by name.

These are my words over you “you are worthy”.

Yet Lord I don’t know how to be me anymore. I feel so bruised and battered from all the battles. I stand before you covered in blood, raw with the wounds of the battle, exhausted from all that has gone before.

Yet I have gone before.

Do not be apprehensive about this, for you have already apprehended, you wonder if you will know, if you can hold it all together, if you can utter an intelligent word.

You want me to send Aaron, yet you know that I have appointed you for this role.

For you shall be as God to them.

For one shall speak on your behalf, declaring what is to come, declaring your intent.

”You are moving again here on the earth, your glory will not be contained, the day will come where you will rush in and fill this place again.”

I know you just want to debate with me my selection criteria. For you know what it is like to be a prisoner, contained, restricted, prohibited, limited, bearing no rights or authority, subservient to the whim of your masters.

Yet you know this is futile. So futile, worthy of no merit. For you know if you win the argument the result is to remain in solitary confinement.

Yet you also know that the one who considers himself free, does not hesitate to argue with his Master!

You know the right choice to make.

For the one I declare to be worthy, is worthy.

Will you accept this mantle?

For you know what I am up to now.

The re-mantle in the place of the dismantle.

For your enemy crafted the plan and even called it the “creative destruction” of MB. Boldly declaring this over your life, and even to your face.

Such a brazen display of such evil intent, full of malice and contempt.

Yet if they had known my plan, they would not have taken another step.

Tearing away from your very heart, pulling out all that I had planned within you, causing you to step back from yourself.

Yet what is it you now see?

My new self, lying alongside my old self.

Yet it is I that says to you arise, and come away with me, leave the past behind you and step into a dazzling future.

For I have called this season “the re-mantling”

For I have given you all authority.

You carry my endorsement.

What you say goes.

What you prophesy will come to pass.

Lift your expectation.

Step out into the new.

Arise to a new life.