Mantle Of Elijah, Growing Beyond Success Into Legacy (Part 3)- Rod Mills

The connections between spiritual fathers, restoration, and generational transfer, are not automatically intuitive to some. Our goal here is to look through the divine telescopes and peer back across time at this tidal wave we call the mantle of Elijah, that began in an encounter with God in a cave and created an incredible chain reaction move of the Holy Spirit that is increasingly impacting the human race and eternity.
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Elijah’s life is the tale of two paradigms, two ways of living: a success paradigm or a legacy paradigm. The success paradigm is a way of thinking, living, and developing focus around being successful while a legacy paradigm focuses on reproducing a legacy. In it, personal success takes a back seat to the success of others and investment in others. This paradigm is all about love. It thrives out of the overflow of the Great Commandments.

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​We are continuing this mantle of Elijah teaching now, we gave some of these teachings last year. And, and I did them in a started, I introduced the some of the concepts we're going to talk about today, originally in the seven pillars, excuse me in the seven pillars teaching in the summer, of last year, and then I introduced this concept of the hidden Elijah's during the retreat in September, we came back in November, I did one installment in November and did one installment in December talking about the hidden Elijah's again and Dick dung and told me he said, I really think you need to expand your teaching on these two paradigms that Elijah was living in before the cave. And after the cave, the success paradigm and his transition into the legacy paradigm. So we had already taught on it. So I did expand my notes and study and we did that teaching Mike, you were there for the sabbatical in Nebraska. And then some of those concepts we talked about in the sabbatical in Georgia, and in April. But I've really felt pressed in my heart to double back and share these here in the Mission House family. Some of this is going to be review. And some of this is going to have bits and pieces and sections and part and segments that will be kind of new, or maybe you didn't have heard it. I want to say this that I know many of you have already kind of caught this already. But there's an there's an old saying that you have to know a topic pretty well to understand it, but you have to know a much better in order to teach it. And to impart it, my desire for us is that we become a family and a family of families who can impart this teaching. So my desire for us is really to master not just the knowledge of it, the wisdom of it, but the revelation. So we need a revelation, it's not enough just to have the facts and the information in our heads. But I'm praying for us that God will continue to open our eyes to see the the intensity that the the the extraordinary ramifications of what we're talking about. So if someone is listening to this today, maybe you guys that are here or that are on Zoom, and you're sometimes people will come in and they'll come into a session, they're like, Man, I feel like I'm kind of lost. It's because they need to hear some of the previous teachings, I encourage you to go back and listen to some of the other teachings Now, last two weeks ago, that teaching and Today's teaching will be published probably tomorrow. But you can go back in the teaching library and listen, I think to number 207, and to number 212. And to number 214 those teachings will give you more on this hidden Elijah's and some of the the the success paradigm versus the legacy paradigm. Now there were a few others before that in the seven pillars teaching. And you'll have to go search that, by the way, in the the teaching Library app. Did you guys know there's a search feature? Did y'all know that? Yeah. So you can go and search. There's a search feature, and you plug a word in, and it'll search all the teachings in the library. Now, I think it only searches the titles. I don't think it searches the transcripts of the whole teaching, but I think it just searches the titles. But there is a search feature there for that. So we were we had been talking about these two paradigms in Elijah's life, how and we talked in the previous teachers about how before he was focused on his success in ministry, and how he made this transition at the cave and God began to focus him on the success of others and his legacy. A lot of people believe and I'm not talking about necessarily the kingdom even though yes, the Kingdom too. But a lot of people believe we should spend the first half or so of our lives on our own success, and then re transition or focus over to legacy because now we've got to focus on our kids and grandkids. There is some truth to that. But I believe if we are invested in the legacy paradigm from the beginning, we actually will see more fruit and more divine success in our lives. Because this is the selfless way of God. This is the cruciform lifestyle It says, No, this has never been about me in the first place, I will tell you that there were many things I wanted to do in life that I did not do. Because God said, I want you to marry this woman at this time. And if I had not been married, I could have gone and done those other things. I'm talking about accomplishments. And some people look back with regret. And they go, man, if I just had waited, I could have done these things. No, because that was what God's calling was. Well, then Beth and I were planning on waiting to have children until after our grad school experience. And the Lord's I remember very vividly, I was in Japan, and the Lord had me increasing my prayer life. And the Lord spoke to me. And he says, I don't want you to wait, start having kids, I want you to start now. Well, man, that was like, oh, Lord, that's hard. Because that means I have to go all the way through 151 credit hours of graduate school, not even counting the doctorate, working full time, because my wife is going to be engaged with these kids, you know, and that's exactly what happened. So I knew it was going to be a lot harder for me. My point, though, is that there are certain things we give up to invest in the lives of others. I'm using the family as an example, because everybody can understand the nuclear family. Well, not everybody these days, but they should be able to. But the same is true in spiritual family. So now, I mean, if I were looking for the greatest opportunities, I've had many, quote, great opportunities come my way. Job offers come my way you could do this, you could do that, you'll have a lot more impact and more influence people, millions of people will see you if you go do it. I'm not exaggerating. This is what people have told me. But the Lord says, That's not what I called you to do. And the only way we can make decisions like that in life, is to live in the cruciform lifestyle where we say, You know what, I am a servant. I am not my own. I'm bought with a price. And I belong to Him. And that means I do what he's called me to do. And when we reach that point of the Crucified flesh, we take our cross, I love this. Shawn said this to me on Friday, we met with Sean and Jill on Friday. And Sean said to me, he says, There's not one cross in the Bible, there's two crosses in the Bible. You guys know that, right? There's the cross that Jesus died on. And I know there's the cross, the thief and the robber and all that. But the point he was making is, then there's the cross, Jesus talked about, take up your cross, and follow me. And his point was, there's the cross Jesus died on, then there's the cross that I carry, there's the cross that you carry. And that's the second cross. There's a whole teaching on that. And I will tell you, brother, Dick dung, and I have been talking and he was sharing with me yesterday. He said, You know, as I'm praying over the, over the retreat, he goes, I just keep hearing theology of suffering. And I said, I think you're right on the money, because this is where the Lord has us now, what is what I'm talking about is, we don't like to teach on theology of suffering. I guarantee you right now, if you go out and see all the different themes of the series that are being taught in the city that you live in, and the churches that are teaching, probably there are no series on suffering. Yet the Bible is filled with it. And so I'm like, Okay, wait a minute. If the Bible is filled with it, then I'm interested, I want to know, now, God is not a masochist. He's not he doesn't want you to hurt, you know, it's not like God is going I want you to hurt some more. It's not like that. But there is a suffering, there is a taking up our cross, there is a sacrifice. That's what we're talking about the sacrifice of pursuing the riches of the kingdom. I'm not talking about earning our salvation. I'm talking about entering into our inheritance. If you think there's not suffering, and you're going to be a parent, now, you're not a parent yet. But if you want to be a parent, and you think there's no suffering, you are you're very wrong. Yeah. There's a lot of suffering. And then if you think when they're grown, and there's no more suffering, and everything's gonna go the way you want it to, again, wrong. But we can either get frustrated because our kids don't do what we want them to or things don't turn out like we want God to do them and bla bla bla bla bla bla, or we can say, You know what, I'm going to be an overcomer. I'm going to carry my cross. Because we're entering into God's lifestyle. Think about the suffering of God. We've done several teachings on God's suffering. We've done several teachings with suffering heart of God. Imagine the pain of someone who loves as much as he does, and he has to see everything going on in the world and the suffering of people he loves. Can you imagine the pain God endures every day? And I said this the crucifix and was not just the one day God suffered. The crucifixion was just a pin hole into the suffering heart of God every day, he is experiencing the pain of the crucifixion every day, every single day, God experiences that pain. If you think you feel pain, when you look at people you love and they're suffering right now, and they're making bad decisions and hard things are happening to them. If you think you have pain, think about how much pain God has, he loves them way more than you do. Right? He loves them way more. So when you and I have pain when our loved ones are injured, or harmful things are happening, or they make bad decisions, or whatever it is. Take that and multiply it times a million. And that's the pain God feels in his heart. So when we enter into love, we automatically enter into this. We we are we are submitting ourselves to pain. Because there's no such thing as love without pain. The more you care, the more painful it is when something when someone is hurting, or someone is hurting because someone hurt them or because someone is hurting because they made bad decisions. Whatever it is, it doesn't change your pain level, the more you love them, the more painful it is. And so we become like God in carrying this pain, right? Are you guys tracking with me? So now, when we look at a lifestyle of legacy, you see if I'm in it for myself, if I say you know what I want to be successful, I want to have a lot of money, I want to do great in my career, I want lots of promotions, I want to end out on top, I'm not going to have any kids, we're not gonna have time for that. I'm not going to invest in other people, I just want to be successful, you're going to be a very lonely person, but there's a lot of pain you won't go through. Because there's no kids to worry about. There's there's there was no years of potty training. There was no years of the messiness. There was no years when they were struggling in their marriage, or they were struggling raising their children. There was no of those pains. They don't have any of those painful years, right? They don't experience that pain. But neither do they have the love. Right. And so this is the way of God is to the way of legacy is to invest our lives into other people like God told Elijah to do in that cave, the Lord in a kind and gentle way, redirected Elijah, into his pouring his life into other people. And we talked about how that brought the rising of the sons of the prophets, those schools of the prophets that were more than just students, they were sons, and began to invest his life. And he began operating out of that legacy paradigm. The legacy paradigm is a way of thinking. It's not just something you do, it's a way of thinking. It's a way of living. It's a way of developing focus around helping others grow in success. And we're talking about Kingdom success, especially as Christians, we may be living out of this paradigm. And or we may be focused on the success paradigm. If we're living in focusing on the success paradigm, we might actually be doing it for the right reasons we might be going well, I want to be successful. I want to be you know, of course, we want to obey God, we want our ministry to be fruitful, we those are not bad things, we can be doing the wrong thing for the right reasons. The point being, though, that if we focus on the legacy paradigm, I kind of I like to say it this way, let me see if I can find in my notes if we if success is a whole target. Legacy is the bullseye guys tracking. So you get a target. If success is the target legacy is the bullseye. But if you aim for success, are you listening, we may not achieve legacy. If you aim at the whole target, you might not hit the bullseye. But if you aim at the bullseye, you're probably going to hit it and you're probably going to hit of course, you're gonna hit the whole target. The point is, if you and I aim for legacy, like we see in Elijah's life in the second second act, we're going to be successful. Now maybe the world does not say that successful. I will tell you I have known a growing number of people over the years in the military. And they've turned down promotions turned down opportunities, because they said I need to leave and I need to spend time with my family. My kids need me and they turn down those future promotions they turn down success, because legacy was more important to them. Everyone in this room has done this somewhere some time in your life. And God says, this is the way I live. When Jesus came to Philippians two says he gave up everything to come and be a servant, because he wanted to rescue us. And you know what, in the end, it all turned out pretty good, didn't it? Listen, you're not going to give anything up for God that he doesn't repay you for multiplied times, I can promise you that there is no one in history who's ever out, given God, you can make a sacrifice and say, Lord, I'm gonna go ahead and do this, because I really think I need to invest into the people that you've called me to be a steward of their lives, that is, they're my family, or my spiritual family, or whatever. And you may feel like I gave up this promotion, I gave up this raise, or I gave up this beautiful home or I gave up, you fill in the blank. But you, you and I, when we do that, God has a way of multiplying it back to us. Now, we still had to give it up, right? We still don't have what we gave up, right? That I love the words of David, whenever he said, I will not give him anything that costs me nothing. You see, David saw the beauty of the sacrifice. He realized, man, when I give to the Lord, I want there to be a sacrifice on my part. And David valued sacrifice so much he has the heart of the Father, we see the heart of the Father. Remember when they were on the battlefield, and behind enemy lines was the well, Beth lamb. And David says, Oh, if I could just have a drink from the well of Bethlehem, and two of his mighty men, I think it was too, went across enemy lines risked their lives, to get him some water from the well, in Bethlehem. And David understood sacrifice. When those men came back, he understood what it meant to risk your life. And he says, I'm not worthy of the sacrifice. You see the respect for the sacrifice. He has so much respect for the sacrifice, that he says I cannot drink this water. Now I'm imagining those guys going what? You can't what you can drink it, you know. And then, but then he says, I'm gonna pour it out. And I could only God is worthy of this level of sacrifice. But that same value was in David's life whenever he had to pay the price whenever Israel was under judgment, and he says I will not because they had offered him the land and all the implements and everything to make the sacrifice when judgment was at their doorstep. And that's when David goes, No, I will not give him anything that costs me nothing. And I pray God, make this our hearts. We will not give him anything that cost us nothing. There's a man who said I'm going to take up my cross. You see beyond himself, he saw beyond himself. You see beyond yourself. This world right now is polluted. It's polluted with cesspools on social media, of people living life hedonistic, Klee for themselves. This is idolatry. This is idolatry in its offense against God. Now, if you're listening on the, on the teaching library, and that you feel like that you I'm not here to condemn you. But what I'm saying is this, that we need to repent when we offend God, in the scriptures are very clear, that, that, you know, friendship with the ways of this world is enmity that is enemy ship, enemy ship against God. I don't want to live like that. And so this is so far from the nature of God, God in His very nature, he's a giver. And so he gently took a prophet who loved him who was powerful in Israel. And he gently redirected him into the way of legacy. He's, you know, he didn't say this overtly. But you know, you do hear the Lord's rebuke to Elijah. I don't know if we'll have time today to get into it. But I want to revisit the unknown, or the unseen Elijah's we, the Lord keeps telling me revisit this revisit this we need to be we need to see the selflessness of the unseen Elijah's because God looks at Elijah, and he goes, Hey, you're not the only guy. There's 7000 others. There are 7000 others, and I can't help but read between the lines. Now I'm speculating because it's not in the Bible. But when God says something like that, let me put it to you this way when God's says something like that to me. Let me tell you what I hear God saying, when and believe me, he has said something like that, to me many times, when God says something like that to me. A lot of times he's saying, you think you're given a lot, you think you're the only one who's investing in sacrifice like this? Look at all these people you don't see. And what I hear him saying is, there are others who've given much more. There are others who are closer to me than you are. Now, he, he's kind in his approach. Because God wants He doesn't want us to feel condemnation. He wants us to feel the conviction of His Spirit, don't come to me, and I will bring you deeper, I will bring you to a way in me, that will change your life forever. And so when I see that, and he says that to Elijah, I see other things between the lines, I hear the heart of God, and I'm like, Oh, this is a rebuke. Elijah, you might think you're powerful. But hey, God, I can do this with anybody. And by the way, here are 7000 people. And oh, by the way, in Romans, he said, and I have reserved them for myself. He didn't even say that about Elijah. Oh, wow. You hear what he's saying. So my desire, God, help us to be this way, help us to live with our hearts and lives where it's not about us. I don't need people to say a certain thing about me, I don't need a certain brand and ministry, I don't care who knows my name. What I do care is that heaven knows my name. That's what I care about. Does God know my name? Now, I don't just mean know who I am. I mean, that heaven is with us and behind us because we have lived selflessly in God. And this is God's call to us. The success paradigm focuses on how much I can do. And I was telling several of my spiritual leaders this yesterday in a meeting we had, and I and some one of them says, How do you get so much done, I said, I don't. I believe in delegation, and I believe in other people doing what God's called him to do. My job is to come alongside and do everything I can to help bring them into the fullness of their calling. And when we do this, amazingly, you guys know, we, that is we as a family of family, spiritual family, and families can do way more than I can do or you can do, right, we can do much more. And I said, My desire is to is to come alongside and help people grow in this. That's the apostolic call, but it's also the call of a spiritual father or spiritual mother. The legacy paradigm focuses on how much others get to do and do well and to flourish in the kingdom. The success paradigm focuses on how much I can affect that is how much I can directly make happen. The legacy paradigm focuses on how much I can effect or how much I can help others influence and operate in the kingdom. Now in the world, that's not impressive. The world doesn't like that. The world, the flesh wants to say, this is what I did. This is what I do. Look at me. That's what the flesh does. But you know what, guys? I'll tell you right now, there's no fulfillment in that. Yeah, you might feel real good about it for a while. And after a while, you're like, Man, why am I so empty? You're so empty, because this is not the way God made you. God made you and me and his image, and his image, his nature is as a giver. That's who he is. Have you ever noticed how God's just kind of silently in the background? A lot of people think he's not involved. Oh, he's involved. But he silently in the background because he's investing in us. He's pouring into us. He's saying you do this. Remember, Moses is like, God, you know, what are we gonna do? He's like, Hey, you speak to the Red Sea, you know, he is in invested in us. The first that is, the the, the success paradigm is how much I can personally, personally give first hand influence. The second is how much I can help others influence. Now, a lot of people want credit for that. Listen, don't worry about credit, you're gonna get it. The books are being written, God's building your legacy. I want to tell you right now, it doesn't matter that the history books, record, all these things that we do now on Earth are not what's going to matter is that the Books, the history books of heaven are recording your legacy and mine. And they will those stories that listen, this is in Revelation, He says the books were open and another book was opened. Well, the books are recording our works. A lot of people think this is so God can bring condemnation to the center, yada, yada, yada, listen, it's so the record has been made good and evil. And every man will receive his just reward, even for his works. That's what the Scripture teaches. I'm not talking about salvation. But ultimately it will amount it will have an effect. But what I'm saying is that we're saved by grace, but the rewards and the consequences come in the age to come in the judgment. And the scriptures are very clear that everything has been written down. Everything has been recorded. Remember what Jesus said, You will give an account for every single word idle word, even that you have spoken. And all of us that are extroverts says, Oh, boy. And all the introverts go, oh, yeah, I don't have as much to worry about, oh, well, yeah, you also give an account for every thought. Is everybody sufficiently scared now? You we should be we should have the fear of the Lord. But thank God for the blood of Jesus. Thank God that scripture I sent out this morning for First John, we have an advocate with the Father, he is there to wash away our sins not so we can go sin again. But so we can pursue Him and live in Him and live by His commands in his ways. And this is the call of God, if I'd already told you if success is a whole target legacy, is the bullseye. So I won't repeat that in the notes, the legacy paradigm. It's crowd sourced by impartation. Think about that. It's a crowd sourced impartation paradigm that operates. Multiplication happens through relationships. So many ministries focus real heavily on this the way they operate. We actually operate backwards to this, we actually as a ministry, and as a spiritual family, we actually operate almost exactly the opposite. But let me say this most ministries, what they'll do is they'll say, Okay, we have this vision. And I'm not totally criticizing this approach. But I am saying there's some things that could be changed. But what they'll do is they'll say, this is our calling, this is our vision, this is our, these are our goals. And then they'll have all these all set column round holes. So they go out and look for round pegs, people that fit into the round holes, the job descriptions, and they plug them in to those. And then some people find out you know what, I'm a square peg, I'm not a round peg, I don't really fit here. And so they go, Okay, we'll have a good day, we'll get somebody else. Well, we do just the opposite. What we do is we say, Okay, what kind of peg Are you? Are you round, you square, your octagonal? What is your gifting What is your calling? Because we ultimately say, Hey, God has called me to this spiritual family of families. That's where we start, not with what your gifting is not with what you can do for us. But what we can do for you, as a spiritual family. So we'll say, hey, how has God wired you. And then in the midst of that, we come alongside one another. And as a spiritual family, a DNA develops, do you see what happens? There's a family DNA that emerges because of your calling, and your calling, and your calling, and your calling, and the calling of the people who are joining us on Zoom and the calling of the people that were connected on our leaders now that we have in other places, and in this spiritual DNA of a family, it comes about because of who we are not us trying to fit people into an organizational structure. And that's the difference between it so organizationally, or you could say, we're more organic, but we operate more in the legacy paradigm. So you're not here to help me fulfill my mission. Right? I'm here to help you fulfill God's call in your life. And in essence, we are here to help one another fulfill God's call to us as a spiritual family. And it's amazing how a Divine unity can develop out of that spiritual diversity that comes that God brings together man Are you as excited about this as I am? One person is I saw a lot of smiles out there. So I got you Hi, gotcha. In the in the legacy paradigm, well, let me say this the success paradigm you got this is more self focused. Even in good works, it's more self focused. The legacy paradigm is more others focused. You got that in the legacy paradigm. humility comes in a lot more easily. Because personal legacy is focused on others. And you know, have you ever been struggling? You're like, man, what's my problem with humility and pride? Why am I, and a lot of times, it's not because there's anything more wrong with you than someone else. Sometimes it's just you're operating in the wrong paradigm. And you get into the right paradigm. It's amazing. You're like, hey, this humility thing. It's not as hard as I thought it was. And then you say, I'm the most humble person I know. No, I'm just kidding. Yeah. But my point is that the paradigm you focus in, has a lot to do with how hard or easy humility comes, you see where I'm going. Have you noticed that when you get into a group that operates this way, that humility comes a lot easier to selflessness is not? Because there's a whole lot less jockeying of the flesh in the first place. Now, some of us have spent years in the military. Were that that is hard at times, man, you're, it seemed like man, I was always repenting of something like God, what was wrong with me, I'm repenting again. Well, the paradigm you're operating in, does make things more challenging. But sometimes that's the way God cuts the diamond, isn't it? Sometimes God will put you somewhere where you're out of your gifting, you're like, Well, Lord, what's going on here, and he's like, I need to do some diamond cutting. And he's doing diamond cutting. You guys don't look too excited about that one. If you find yourself jealous, or comparing yourself to others, you might be struggling with the success paradigm. The mantle of Elijah as a legacy paradigm, Jesus teaches us in Matthew 1711, that it's the pathway to extraordinary restoration. Now, I believe this is not just the restoration of others, it's also our restoration. So that's what he said, this mantle of Elijah would bring restoration to all things he's talking about in the kingdom, obviously, not the whole world, he will do that. That will be his operation. And again, he's operating in that mantle too, because he's the one that created it. But we see that there is restoration not only being given but also that we're operating in. And so that's that's our desire, Paul says, You guys know this passage, Second Corinthians 1012. But they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves are not wise. So if you find yourself in a situation where you're comparing yourself to brother, sister, so it's over here, such as such over here, God's Paul saying, That's not wise. You can't compare yourself to someone else. I mean, if let me give you an example, if the eagle compares himself to the owl, and says, Man, I know I can't fly at night and grab those critters like the owl does. Well, you're not created that way. The eagle was created differently than the owl. Right? There was a last week we were driving this place where we were going that cabin I was telling you about. If you go out there pretty soon you think you're nowhere because you're just surrounded like literally the trees are hugging you. You're in the middle of the woods on little trail driving. And all of a sudden, it was getting dark. And an owl. I mean, a big owl come flying through cross the trail through the trees, silent. And I'm like, How in the world? Can he fly through all these trees? And you don't even hear anything? Have y'all ever heard an owl fly through the forest in the night or in the dusk time you ever heard it? Here's what it sounds like. Every once in a while, you'll hear their wingtip tap a leaf, because they're flying like 30 miles an hour, you'll hear. If you ever hear that sound, and you you hear it moving across the treetops, or through the trees, a lot of times that's an owl, especially if it's dusk, because they hunt at night. What Eagle can't do that they're not the same way. Now, I'm not an eagle expert. So forgive me if I'm wrong, and they can but my point, you'll hear my point on this, you don't see eagles don't normally do that. Normally, you see them in the daytime. So you don't want to compare yourself to the owl and say, you know, if you're an eagle, you don't compare yourself to how God created you different. As soon as you start comparing yourself to others, you lose the uniqueness of God's divine call in your own life. This success paradigm will cause people to compare themselves to others. Now, I'm not saying that other people can't be an inspiration to you. Absolutely. They can be an inspiration. You can that you can say, man that they're inspiring, you know, maybe I can learn something, maybe they can impart something into my life. And that's okay. It's not uncommon to find two very successful people. Well, in a profession, who appear very similar at face value, they look, you know, like, oh, both of them are very successful. But but they operate in very different paradigms. We used to see this in the military a lot, where you would see this guy's really says successful, this guy was really successful, but one of them operates and selfish that pretty soon, everybody starts figuring out, hey, they're really good at this, but they're doing it for themselves. They're in it for themselves, and then someone else who looks great too. And then the more you get to know them, you're like, Man, this person really cares about everybody else more than themselves. This is really about lifting the whole team. And they still carry about care about the mission, but somehow in their in their care about the mission, they understand that you can't do it without people. And so their care and their love for the people is extraordinary. So for a host of reasons, I will tell you this, many people go to their grave and never make this transition even Christians. And they think they've been successful. And you know what, in many cases, they have. But they missed the boat, on spiritual sonship raising up spiritual sons and daughters. They missed the boat, on spiritual fatherhood or motherhood. And being a spiritual father and mother, they missed the boat on the legacy paradigm. Jesus said many times, he would say he would end a teaching with but many who are first will be last. And many who are last will be first. I believe in this life. There are many who we don't see those unseen Elijah's, we're gonna talk about the unseen Elijah some more in the coming weeks. And they have chosen to be last. Because they are in the legacy paradigm, they have chosen to be last, because they have chosen to invest their lives in someone else, other people in the kingdom. And Jesus says, you're going to be surprised when you get there. Because some of those people you thought were super spiritual. Even Elijah's you never know, God goes, whoa, wait a minute, we got 7000 Over here, they're moving to the front of the line. I've reserved them for myself. They were they made themselves last in order that someone else could be first. And I'm like, God, help me. Help me receive this word. My desire for us, as a spiritual family and family families is not just for you to receive this word, my desire for us is to receive it so much. And to be so immersed in this, that we can impart it, and teach it and invest it and live it and give it into other people. And I believe we start in our own families, our own natural families where we start. And then we branch out as we're faithful, we branch out into others as well. In Jesus name, let's pray. Lord, we pray, give us the heart of Jesus, we pray, Lord, help us take up our cross, Lord, to see that this theology of suffering, it's not bad. It's not bad, to put others before us and to carry our cross, and to invest in others and to say, Lord, that we want to live in the mantle of Elijah, spiritual fathers and mothers, and be focused in the legacy paradigm of raising up a generation who walk and live in power of God that we did not more than we did, greater than we did further than we have gone. Lord, we pray that you will possess us with this mantle, and this call, and this love for people. And, Lord, it's our desire, we pray that you'll cause the rivers of your spirit that rise to flood stage levels in our lives, so that we have plenty to give and give and give. And thank you that in the midst of it, we will never outgive you because he who waters you said shall also be watered and there will be great floods of your blessings in our lives because of the obedience and faithfulness you've given us. So we give you thanks now Jesus name. Amen.