🔥 How to Follow the Lamb

I recently asked the Lord about the specifics of following Jesus, the Lamb. I am naturally prone to be independent and to take initiatives that occasionally turn into dead works, so I’m interested in having the spiritual agility to move with the cloud and to keep in step with the Spirit.

Sonship is voluntary. God’s Kingdom isn’t built on obedience and compliance. Jesus calls us friends, sons, and family instead of servants (Jn 15:15). The Kingdom, your sonship, and your inheritance are being offered, not demanded. The price of admission is initiative in responding to Fathers invitation to enter His Kingdom. Passively waiting for God to do everything and calling it faith will cost you the Kingdom.

Here are 7 suggestions that will help. It is the essence of Sonship, Ascension, and Reformation.

Rev 14:4 – They follow the Lamb wherever he goes.
  They were purchased from among mankind
  and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb.

#1).  Sons are Thankful – Rehearse for yourself all you have been shown in the Council and what Father has added to your life already. Start from a place of praise and thanksgiving because God has done a great job so far.

#2).  The Courts – If you are carrying some baggage (like orphan independence), take it to the Courts of Heaven.

1. 1. Accusation – you have no living words.
   2. Take it to the cross – Trade for sonship, conversations, and Reformation.
   3. Decrees – Jesus is your access to the Council, to sonship (Jn 1:51).

#3).  The Council – Ascend and take your seat with Father, Jesus, and the Seven Spirits in the Council. Hear from each and allow them to speak into your life. Take notes. “See” your own identity, story, purpose, strategy, tactics, heritage, courage, clarity, and culture.

#4).  Poor in Spirit – Have the attitude of needing direction instead of having it all together. Admit Father’s purpose is dynamic and that spiritual agility is in order. Today’s Living Words are not yesterday’s manna.

#5).  Things to Come – Allow Father to show you things to come. Have a vision and a plan to get there. Yet, expect daily adjustments and mid-course corrections. Hold your precious plan loosely and allow Father to continually refine it. Give Him the right to abandon it!

#6).  Spiritual Agility – Look for the new every day. Start every morning asking the Lord to show what He’s doing today. Develop the Prophetic Agility to have a vision and still take a turn. It’s your prophetic agility that builds the bridge from destiny through the chaos of spiritual warfare into everything Father has for you. Spiritual agility is trading your own soulish opinions and agendas for something much better:

1. 1. To See and Do what Father is doing (Jn 5:19-20)
   2. To Say what Father is saying (Jn 12:49-50)
   3. To Follow the Lamb wherever (Rev 14:4)
   4. To Keep in step with Holy Spirit (Gal 5:25)

#7).  Fellowship in the Council – Not everything happens on our timeline. Have a proactive strategy for waiting on what Father adds (other than frustration). Instead of inventing Ismael’s, learn to enjoy conversations in the Council. Deepen your relationship with each of the 7 Spirits. Engage in Father’s next steps.

The Two Choices – Keeping in step with the Spirit or following the Lamb is simple when you understand the alternative; there is only one. We can choose our own soulish desires, or we can hear His voice and follow the Lamb wherever.

The supreme irony is that the shortest path to your heart’s desires is following Jesus and putting the Kingdom first. Dying to self is an intentional trade in the Spirit that sons and daughters make. Father loves to add what is missing. He is generous and loving enough to grant the desires of your heart. The sweet spot is when Father and I share the same desires because we’ve had conversations.

Plan and purpose to please your Father (not just yourself).

• Put the Kingdom (Living Words) 1^st intentionally – before your needs (Mt 6:33).
• By seeking the Lord (being in the Council).

Ps 37:4 – Delight yourself in the LORD,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Gal 5:25 – Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

Rom 8:4 – in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us,
who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
5)   Those who live according to the flesh
  have their minds set on what the flesh desires;
but those who live in accordance with the Spirit
  have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.

My Agenda – When you put Father first and your agendas and needs second:

• Clarity of purpose becomes possible. You’re no longer serving two masters (flesh & Father)
• Great courage flows from those Living Words; Great power, authority, anointing, and authenticity. You’re flowing instead of pushing, faithful instead of fearful.

Culture – You can create a whole business culture around following the lamb. Even unsaved people are ignited by a purpose that has roots in Father’s heart. Build a culture that Ascends and Sees via your Prophetic Seer gift what Father’s immeasurably more looks like.

Eph 3:20 – Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more
  than all we ask or imagine,
  according to his power that is at work within us

Our whole approach as sons and daughters in business
is releasing what our Father can do:
(Miles away from releasing everything I can do in my own strength)

Father’s purpose, power, and presence.
It’s co-laboring in His mighty power (Eph 6:10).
Operating in the name of Jesus.

 

This blog was inspired by two Council sessions you will find interesting:

• 2025-08-04 Council – Following the Lamb
• 2025-08-02 Council – Trading for Authenticity

 

Progression to Sonship – Your Kingdom Purpose and redemptive stories all form the basis for your personal identity, value creation, and your business offer. Becoming your authentic self is the biggest practical key to fruit in business and life. We can help you get there, flowing with your Father (co-laboring) instead of fighting circumstances and resistance on your own. Click for Live links to PDF for examples. Schedule a Zoom appointment with John and see if this is a fit for your business.Get a glimpse of what Kingdom business is all about in Sonship, Ascension, and Reformation, available on Amazon.