The Mantle of Jesus Christ

By Theresa Maxwell

Theresa Maxwell loves God and earnestly walks in the demonstration of the Holy Spirit and teaches how to walk in the mantle that God has given us. Her heart desires to teach God's elect that we are a chosen generation that most grow up in our salvation. We must walk in the mantle that God has given us just as God gave to Elijah and Elisha and go out into the world with power and demonstration of the Holy Spirit, bringing people to the knees of the cross so that the manifestation of God's glory may rest in us. In the march of being the Jesus that God calls us, He said we should do more excellent works. The power of God may work through us. He is showing the love of God that is manifested in our hearts, displaying and teaching others how to walk in God's power.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he also do; and more wondrous works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. (John 14:12)

The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hears, the dead are raised, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. (Matthew 11:5)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 21, 2024
• ISBN: 9781685701390

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The Mantle of Jesus Christ

Theresa Maxwell

ISBN 978-1-68570-138-3 (paperback)

ISBN 978-1-68570-139-0 (digital)

Copyright © 2024 by Theresa Maxwell

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Prepare for Your Prophetic Mantle

Prepare for Your Prophetic Mantle

Chapter 1

The Mantle of Jesus Christ

Chapter 2

Putting On Your Spiritual Mantles

Chapter 3

The Prophet Elijah and Elisha

Chapter 4

Edifying Examples

Chapter 5

The Prophets of The Bible

Chapter 6

Building Up One Another in Edification

Chapter 7

Having Complete Control

Chapter 8

Mantle of Supernatural Favor

Chapter 9

Control Your Change

Chapter 10

Elijah Mental Health

Chapter 11

Company of Prophets

Chapter 12

The Prophet Samuel and Hanna

Chapter 13

Sir Up the Spirit

Chapter 14

Cain and Abel

Chapter 15

Mantle of Meditation

Chapter 16

Activating Your Mantle

Chapter 17

Lessons

Chapter 18

The Prophet Works for God

Chapter 19

Putting to Rest All Doubts

Chapter 20

Even in the Darkest Night, God's Love Shines during It

Chapter 21

Training Your Heart into Your Mind

Chapter 22

The War between the Flesh and the Spirit

Chapter 23

Overcoming the Flesh

Chapter 24

Basic Activation Exercises

Chapter 25

Fasting and Praying

Chapter 26

Intermediate Activation

Chapter 27

Choosing Your Type of Fast

About the Author

Introduction: Prepare for Your Prophetic Mantle

Prepare for Your Prophetic Mantle

Does the call to the prophetic inspire you? That tug or pulling might just be God calling you to come up hither! Do you feel called to prophetic ministry? If this sounds like you, come in for the ride of your life; get ready, get ready, get ready for this joy ride to discover you in your prophetic calling.

The Mantle of Jesus Christ guides and shows the crucial steps to Christian maturity. We are designed and connected to God by Jesus Christ's Spirit, who guides us in all truth. We must have enough faith to apply the principles in the Word of God. By walking in the spirit of man, God speaks through the demonstration of His Spirit in man. God Himself took self out and put His DNA in His seed, demonstrating to a man that we can live sinless lives because of Jesus Christ, who died for us on the cross for the remission of our sins—healing the brokenhearted and setting the captives free. We are a slave to sin; Jesus came to free us from the bonds of slavery, healing us from sickness and disease, poverty even raising the dead. Unfortunately, we have forgotten how to tap into those fruits, and there is no demonstration of the Spirit living in the church today. The Mantle of Jesus Christ directs us back into God's arms, demonstrating that the fruits given to reveal who Jesus Christ is and who we are as a royal priesthood are known by our fruit in the demonstration of His power living in us.

Salvation is given and made for man by God the Father through His mercy and grace that allows us to walk in the spirit of man and not be victim to the flesh activated by the flesh, but learning to defeat the flesh is a task of its own to dictate our future. This character is not made by self-effort. A born-again believer controlled by the Holy Spirit will exhibit sound speech, a consistent spiritual walk, and decision-making based on the Word of God. But if we apply God's elected Word to our lives, His Spirit guides and directs us into His Kingdom principles where there is self-control, love, devotion to God, submission to His Holy Spirit, and humbleness to His divine will.

God's plan for humanity is to enter everlasting life through the love of Jesus Christ by perfecting and equipping the church through the prophetic knowledge that God is not a man and that He should lie, and neither is He the Son of man to repent. If He said it, He shall bring it to pass. God's Spirit draws us to Him, and the love for Jesus Christ keeps you there. He is the keeper of your soul. He can do exceedingly more than we can ask or think. The Mantle of Jesus Christ directs you into all truth directed by His prophetic Spirit of God. There are several ways to prepare for your prophetic calling. Reading the Bible helps to provoke your mind in the will of God and learn about God, which is the theology study of God. However, you must learn about all three as a person. Two, we must be encouraged to walk in obedience to God's person, and three, we must be able to gravitate and increase the measure of faith that God has given us all. Jesus said you will there be any faith when he comes for us. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God. Faith is a significant step to maturity. If you have no faith, you have not matured.

Chapter 1

The Mantle of Jesus Christ

Genuine Christian

A genuine Christian is among the most influential, spirit-filled, supernatural, and born-again people. Who lives daily dying to their flesh, training, and renewing their minds to be in Christ Jesus and not to allow their flesh to dictate to them to pick up sin again.? Striving daily to fight the good fight of faith. It is not by might nor power but by the Holy Spirit who puts us in Jesus Christ's proper perspectives in serving God. His pureness of heart, love, and knowledge shows that His love toward us is accurate. God created us to live in the prophetic and be free from sin. Once you have learned God's principles, only then will you be able to understand your prophetic mantle.

The enemy cannot tamper with what was given to you—only. by God. It is the soul living in the prophetic. Unfortunately, this world has brainwashed many Christians. Many believe that the prophetic ended with John the Baptist; the truth is that it was the beginning. This is the only way we can heal the sick, open a blind eye, and give a hearing to the deaf. Rather than adapting ourselves to the pattern of this world and eating and digesting the world's order, and never understanding the Bible as the mantle of Jesus Christ, we should yearn to please God in all that we say and do without conviction ns. We will be transformed by renewing our minds and modifying our behavior into Christ's earthly life model. This change requires putting off the old self and putting on the new one throughout the Christian life. To achieve this transformation, we rely wholly on our righteous standing before God, made possible in Jesus. Christ. The mantle of Jesus Christ is God's authoritative Word, giving us the authority to write this truth so people may live free in their minds and learn to become overcomers by applying the strengths in this prophecy. Deuteronomy 18:19 says, And It shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. Deuteronomy 18:19 58

When Someone loves, they learn to forgive you no matter what life brings because the love of God compels us to love others. Jesus keeps loving us. It is a life worthy of its saying to put on Christ. The mantle of Christ itself represents His divine love and intimacy with The Father can manifest in this beautiful demonstration of love dwelling inside the believer in love with God with all their heart, mind, and strength. Focus on your intimate relationship with God, your prayers, Bible study, and holy life—in secret—before anybody sees its result. You are now.

God positions you with people and leaders that He wants you to serve now. Serving with faithfulness and a teachable heart is a powerful means of being posted to attain your God-ordained destiny. Furthermore, God's mantle ministry for you will be above and beyond anything you could ever have dreamed. Put on then as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, with compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another; and if one has a complaint against another, forge each other. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, you also must forgive. In Romans, the apostle Paul instructs believers to put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires (ESV). The phrase put on Christ means to figuratively clothe oneself with the Lord Jesus Christ to reveal the glory of God in the world. We must identify what is derived from prophetic mantles. Put on your new nature and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him. No Christian should ever be without the Lord Jesus Christ's spiritual garment. Putting on Christ means letting the Lord be our armor, embracing Him repeatedly, and trusting Him daily in faith, thankfulness, and obedience. Putting on Christ is holiness and gentleness. To put on Christ means to follow Him in discipleship, letting our lives be conformed to the image of God's Son, Jesus Christ.

Mantles are given to every born-again believer. It will establish their identity. God's desire in our hearts is just one indication among other conformations of the calling on your life. Although there are variations of the meaning of mantle in the Bible, the main idea is a covering, such as a cloak or other articles of clothing that represent the mantle of Jesus Christ. The New American Standard Bible uses the Word mantle in Joshua 7:21 and Hebrews 1:12. In the former passage, the ESV translates the Word as a cloak and, in the latter, as a robe. A mantle was typically a large, loosely fitting garment made of animal skin, probably sheepskin in biblical times.

Several people wear a mantle, including Job (Job 1:20) (Ezra 9:5). God's ministry for you will be above and beyond anything you could ever have dreamed of. Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, patience, bearing with one another, and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, you must also forgive. We must be born again, which means that if you think the same way the world thinks and capitalize on it, you are not born again. If you feel like a criminal, you show ways like a criminal. We must put on Christ to keep and sustain us from doing the things we were born into. We must eat the Word of God, put on the Word of God, and walk as living epistles, even as living tabernacles that God Himself dwells in! Prophets wore mantles as a sign of their calling from God (1 King 19:13). The prophet Samuel wore a mantle (1 Samuel 15:27).

We can never walk a mile in the shoes of Jesus Christ. We are to mimic Jesus Christ. In a genuine sense, the Christian life is a put-on. The apostle Paul instructs believers to put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires. The phrase put on Christ means to clothe oneself with the figuratively Lord Jesus Christ to reveal the glory of God to the world. Putting on Christ means abiding in Jesus and living to please Him. It is a strong and beautiful expression for the most intimate union with Him, and being clothed with all the graces which were in Him. We are clothed in Christ when we become so closely united with Jesus that others see Him and not us.

When we are born again, we receive the Holy Spirit, who seals us for the day of redemption. Jesus promised that the Holy Spirit would lead us into all truth. Part of that truth is taking the things of God and applying them to our lives. When that application is made, the believer chooses to allow the Holy Spirit to control them. Authentic Christian spirituality is based on the extent to which a born-again believer allows the Holy Spirit to lead and manage their life.

Paul was talking about putting on spiritual clothing. Those who clothe themselves with the Lord Jesus are believers who do not focus on gratifying the desires of sinful nature. Paul had encouraged the saints to wake from sleep and cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. Paul painted a vivid picture of moving into the new life in Christ as trading the darkness of night for the light of day.

As believers, we must not only wake up and throw off our night clothes but also get dressed in the appropriate outfit for the new day. Our old clothes were the deeds of darkness, but the proper new daytime attire for the solder of Christ is God's armor of light. Put on Christ occurs again, For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ (ESV). Putting on Christ here speaks of having clothed oneself with the new nature; believers are taught to put on. the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. We put on Christ when our old ways are nailed to the cross, and we wear the grace and forgiveness of Jesus as a glorious garment for all the world to see. To the church in Colossae, Paul echoes the teaching:

The Apostle Paul tells believers to be filled with the Holy Spirit. We do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. The tense in this passage is continual and therefore means keep on being filled with the Spirit. Being filled with the Spirit is simply allowing the Holy Spirit to control us rather than yielding to the desires of our carnal nature. In this passage, Paul makes a comparison. When Someone is influenced by wine, he is drunk and exhibits specific characteristics such as slurred speech, unsteady walking, and impaired decision-making. Just as you can tell when a person is intoxicated because of the traits he displays, a born- again believer whom the Holy Spirit controls will reveal His attributes.

We find those characteristics in what is called the fruit of the Spirit. This is true Christian spirituality, produced by the Spirit working in and through the believer. Therefore, Christian spirituality is a choice we make to know and grow in our daily relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ by submitting to the ministry of the Holy Spirit in our lives. As believers, we choose to keep our communication with the Spirit clear through confession.

When we grieve the Spirit by sin, we erect a barrier between ourselves and God. Our relationship continues when we submit to the Spirit's ministry. Christian spirituality is a consciousness of Fellowship with the Spirit of Christ, uninterrupted by carnality and sin. Christian spirituality develops when a born-again believer makes a consistent and ongoing choice to surrender to the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Mantles are given to every born-again believer called Christians.

Your Father wants to reveal what He is up to even if you are feeling- in today as though you are during the trial or a long waiting period Concerning your calling. He wants to show you how He is redeeming those trials despite the failures and how He uses those aid for His purposes. We must take off our old garments and put on Jesus Christ. We must be born again.

The mantle of Christ tells us to put on Jesus Christ—to wear Jesus Christ. How do we receive the mantles? It is by accepting Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior and abiding in His presence. We apply His Word to our everyday lives. The good news is that your mantle can change as your level of maturity in Christ is demonstrated, which gives you access to God. Only then is one changed and destined to fellowship with the father.

Chapter 2

Putting On Your Spiritual Mantles

We are putting on spiritual clothing. Those who clothe themselves with the Lord Jesus are believers who do not focus on gratifying the desires of sinful nature. Paul encouraged the saints to wake from sleep and cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. Paul paints a vivid picture of moving into the new life in Christ. As believers, we must not only wake up and throw off our night clothes but also get dressed in the appropriate outfit for the new day. Our old clothes were the deeds of darkness, but the proper new daytime attire for the solder of Christ is God's armor of light. Put on Christ occurs again: For as many of you as were baptized into Christ has put on Christ (ESV). Putting on Christ here speaks of having clothed oneself with the new nature; believers are taught to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. We put on Christ when our old ways are nailed to the cross, and we wear the grace and forgiveness of Jesus as a glorious garment for all the world to see. To the church in Colossae, Paul echoes the teaching: The Apostle Paul tells believers to be filled with the Holy Spirit.

We do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. The tense in this passage is continual and therefore means keep on being filled with the Spirit. Being filled with the Spirit is simply allowing the Holy Spirit to control us rather than yielding to the desires of our carnal nature. In this passage, Paul makes a comparison. When someone is influenced by wine, he is drunk and