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At Caesarea Philippi in Matthew 16, Peter says, "You are the Christ." Neville Goldman calls it a place of many gods, and he reads Peter's words as Messiah, the only One. You will not know who you are until you know who God is, and from that revelation he draws the rock, the church and the keys of the kingdom. A kingdom, he argues, is not a church: it takes in schools, roads, business and medical care. Then he goes to Apollos, who in his telling knew the Scriptures up till John, and to John 11, where he hears Jesus fighting for one thing. Jesus never aligns Himself with you. You have to align with Him. Is He just the Saviour to you, or the Messiah?

If you don't know your true identity, you will never know your true authority, and you will always be pushing to be accepted. Neville Goldman takes that into Matthew 16, where Peter says, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God," and the revelation comes from the Father, not from flesh and blood. From there he follows the sonships he finds in the passage: Son of Man, Son of God and, in the name Bar-Jonah, son of the Holy Ghost. Psalm 8:4 and Genesis 5:2 lead him to Adam, the one name God gave male and female, and he reads that name as aleph for God and dam for blood, the DNA of sonship. You were born blessed, he says. Stop carrying what Jesus has taken. Receive Him, not accept Him.

The Secret History Of The Mantle // Kingsmen Conference draws on rabbinical writings and tradition for a mantle handed down from Adam. Leon du Preez traces it from Jacob, Moses, Samuel, David and Elijah to John the Baptist and the seamless robe of Jesus. God looks after a lineage, so the church you are in, the voice you listen to and the hands laid on you all matter. But a vow made at a men's conference is still you and not God. The covenant that holds is the one God made with Himself, and it can never be broken. Everything Jesus carried was poured out in Acts 2, and it is on you the moment you are born again. Every sin is forgiven, past, present and future. Believe it, and receive that assurance today.

Through years of counselling men, Maartin Bezuidenhout has found three battles every man will face, and he takes you to 1 Samuel 17 to meet them: Eliab, the battle of offence and rejection; Saul, the battle of identity and inadequacy; Goliath, the battle of purpose and destiny. The first two he calls false battles, distractions from the assignment God has placed on your life. David turned from Eliab, took off Saul's armour and ran towards Goliath. So forgive and let go, and stop measuring yourself against another man. Prophetically, he sees David go down into that valley wearing the shepherd's mantle, the mantle of Christ the good shepherd, and the five smooth stones speak to him of grace. What mantle are you wearing? He answers from Galatians 3:27: you are clothed with Christ. Rise up, Kingsmen. It is time to rise and lead.

Leon du Preez speaks from the seer realm in this first part of a three-part series and shares what he saw for 2027 and the years beyond. He saw infighting break coalitions apart, three to four hard years for South Africa, and nations secretly preparing for war. South Africa, he says, has been weighed in the balances and found wanting. If hearts do not change and the church does not pray and get into unity, he warns, South Africa will see civil war. Yet there will be a hardening before a softening and tears before joy, and he saw South Africa beginning to smile in about eight years. If you are born again, you hail from another kingdom: you are not under the national curse but under the blessing of Christ. Pray for the nation and that the next president is in God's will. If you are a minister, forgive, release bitterness and build unity. Stand on the prophetic words spoken over this land, because a prophecy is a light in a dark place. This is what he saw, not yet what God is saying; the word that contradicts the enemy's plan comes in parts two and three.

Many do not manifest the invisible just because of a lack of knowledge, and the moment a truth is presented to you is the moment you can experience it. From 2 Corinthians 4:18 and Colossians 1:27, under the new covenant eternity now lives inside you: Christ in you, the hope of glory. A true encounter with God must produce revelation, revelation must produce transformation, and transformation must produce manifestation. 1 John 1 opens four dimensions of God to experience when a message is preached: what you hear, what you see, what you look upon and what your hands handle. Move from information to experience. Take the message, prepare it as if you had to preach it, then go and preach it at work, with demonstration and not words alone.

Does grace give you a license to sin? Leon du Preez takes on the accusation that has followed the gospel of grace since Jesus was accused of eating with sinners and Paul was slandered for it in Romans 3:8. Grace is not a message but a person, Jesus Christ, and Titus 2 shows that the same grace that saves you also teaches you. You have died to sin. You cannot add works to grace and still call it grace, and the law strengthens sin. Jude, read in context, shows who really turned the grace of God into lewdness, and John shows why a believer who knows they are loved stays close to God. The first thing God called holy was the day He rested, in Genesis 2:3, so rest in total forgiveness and know you are accepted in the Beloved.

A burden from God is a weight in your spirit that moves you to act. In 1 John 1:1, the Word of life is heard, seen and handled. Because you are united with Christ, His leading can become familiar within you. Prayer makes you sensitive to that leading, and obedience to small promptings prepares you to recognise a greater assignment. A burden may move you to pray for someone, speak, give or change direction. Learn the difference between a burden and anxiety, and let prayer expose your own desires before you call them God's will.

Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. In 1 Corinthians 1, the answer to those demanding a sign and those seeking wisdom is Christ crucified. At the cross, God's love and justice meet. His presence stays with you beyond a Sunday encounter. Ask God for wisdom when you need direction, and trust His power when you reach the end of your own strength. You carry Christ into your workplace, your family and the situations you face tomorrow.

God's Spirit bears witness with your spirit. The Urim and Thummim provide the picture for five inward lights, each with a different meaning for your decisions. A delay calls for patience; a firm warning calls for obedience. Yet a troubled soul may still be facing the right assignment, as Jesus shows in John 12:27. Learn to recognise quiet assurance and the stronger urging of the Spirit without waiting for a dream or vision. Hebrews 5:14 calls you to exercise your senses through use. Keep the Word of God within you, notice the inward witness and check the outcome as you learn to follow His leading.

The joy of the Lord gives strength when the work is hard and opposition is real. In Nehemiah 8, the people hear that God's joy is their strength. Joy grows in His presence and rests in the grace Jesus has given, rather than in a good week or a cheerful personality. When praise becomes a duty and you stop expecting good, return to His presence, speak truth to your soul and remember Christ's finished work. Put on the garment of praise. Keep building people and carrying God's Word to the next generation, even when the work takes longer than you hoped.

God's favour is found in closeness to Him. Proverbs 3 calls you to bind mercy and truth around your neck and write them on the tablet of your heart. Let His promises become the foundation you trust and the words you speak. As you learn to see yourself through God's eyes, you can act wisely, honour the people around you and guard your heart against fear and offence. Stay close to Jesus Christ, receive His grace, and allow the Holy Spirit to remind you of what God has freely given.

Legacy grows through the people you help to know Christ. Jesus builds His church from living stones, joining believers into a spiritual house [1 Peter 2:5]. Your place in that house carries a call to strengthen others. Lasting fruit comes from abiding in Him [John 15:4]. Faithful lives pass on more than knowledge: they help others know the Father. Teach what you have received to people who can teach others [2 Timothy 2:2]. This is a legacy that can continue beyond your lifetime.