What Is Spiritual Agility?

Hearing God vs. Following Your Own Plan

(Intro Video) We all have dreams — a vision of a future self, and some plan we’ve sketched out to get there. Here’s the strange part: the heritage Father has actually shown you can be prophetically correct and still feel impossibly distant. You know where you’re going. You just can’t seem to close the gap.

Here’s the irony of Spiritual Agility: the fastest way to that heritage was never just pursuing it harder yourself. It’s deciding every morning to do what Father is doing today — to co-labor with Him. That’s what spiritual agility actually is, and it comes out of real Council conversations: compelling Living Words that override your own ambition, and yet somehow propel you further into the very purpose Father wrote in your heart to begin with. Your dream come true turns out to be Father’s dream come true as well.

What Are You Doing? Not What I Can Do?

There’s a subtle but total shift buried in one small change of subject. Most of us default to asking what I can do? — my dream, my plan, my next move. The Council points somewhere else entirely: what is Father doing? Not “what’s my dream and my plan to get there,” but “what’s Father’s dream, and His plan to get there.” It’s not a smaller question. It’s the same size ambition, aimed at the actual source.

That shift is what turns “here am I, send me” (Isa 6:8) from a slogan into an actual posture — hearing Father’s heart in Heaven first, and volunteering to do it with Him on earth.

 

The Irony of Laying It Down

Here’s the paradox: you have a path to your heritage — and you’re always laying it down in order to get there. That’s not defeat. It’s the same shape as the Gospel itself. Whoever wants to save their life will lose it; whoever loses their life for His sake will find it (Mt 16:24-25). Jesus said the same thing about His own authority: “I lay down My life so that I may take it back… I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it back” (Jn 10:17-18).

Mt 16:24 – If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.
             25)    For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

Jn 10:17 – For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it back.
            18)   No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own.
                     I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it back.

Death of a vision, and resurrection of it, are part of every story — not a detour from the story.

That means the plan you’re gripping so tightly might not need to be abandoned. It needs to be laid down daily, on purpose, so it can actually be picked back up as something alive instead of something you’re forcing in your own strength. The secret of sonship is that we’re releasing Father’s power when we co-labor with His purpose; when I realize His Purpose is my Highest Purpose.

 

Your Daily Bread Isn’t Your Agenda

There’s something that feeds your heart, and it’s new every day — worth laying down your preoccupation to actually receive it. Worship, in this framework, is simply putting His Kingdom purpose first, every day. Your own agenda, run in your own strength, drains you no matter how good the agenda is. Life is in Jesus, in the Council, in His purpose, and in His Name. Choose life.

 

Aggressively Entering the Council

None of this is passive. The strategy of sons — mighty men and women — is to leverage Father’s power, releasing greater works in miracles, in people, in wisdom. But that only happens when we lay down our own path, power, and strategies first, and aggressively take the new and living way into the Courts and Council (Heb 10:19-20). “You will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man” (Jn 1:51) — sons, not spectators. He’s not ashamed to call us brothers and sisters, in bringing many sons to glory (Heb 2:10-11). That’s an invitation to agility and ascension, not a doctrine to admire from a distance.

Jn 1:51 – Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened
and the angels (Sons) of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.

Heb 2:10 – For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things,
in bringing many sons to glory,
to perfect the originator of their salvation through sufferings.
11)   For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one Father;
for this reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,

Heb 10:19 – Therefore, brothers and sisters,
since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
20)    by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil,
that is, through His flesh.

 

Before the Day Starts, While the Slate Is Clean

Practically, this means being in the Council before your day starts — hearing Father and His Living Words before the cares of the world flood in and crowd them out. Putting the Kingdom first starts with putting Council conversations first. Even when there are multiple ways to accomplish one purpose, and Father doesn’t always tell you which one to pick, give Him the honor of the conversation anyway. “In the morning, LORD, You will hear my voice” (Ps 5:3). His mercies are new every morning (Lam 3:22) — which means yesterday’s breakthrough was never meant to be rationed out over today.

 

Living Words Lead to Life

Here’s the line worth remembering: Living Words lead to Life — Father adds. Our intellectual worldviews, processes and systems lead to Work — we serve alone, in our own power. Living Words produce multiplication, fruit that remains, cups that overflow because we are co-laboring with Father. Ambition implemented with the plans of men produces effort; hard work and dead works!

 

Have the Conversations

This isn’t a one-time epiphany — it’s a daily practice of hearing what Father is saying and volunteering to do what He is doing. Agility makes the mid-course corrections it takes to actually follow the Lamb rather than defend yesterday’s ambition. Wisdom is more profitable than silver, more precious than rubies — nothing you desire compares to her (Prov 3:14-15).

So don’t wait for the distance between you and your heritage to close on its own. Show up tomorrow morning, before the slate fills up, and ask the only question that actually gets you there faster: Father, what are You doing today?

This blog was inspired by a Council Session – 2026-08-22 Council – Father Always at Work

 

 

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The graphic below is a summary of the Nine Conversations in the Council.