Today I spoke with a young man who feels "stuck" in his transition. Transitions are like this. You do not pass until you are supposed to. They always last too long in the middle an and never long enough when you look back. He asked me, "Have there been times when you did what you were supposed to do and it did not look like you thought it should look?" There are lessons in this that I am supposed to teach him. But the hardest lesson of them all is this: who decides what it should look like? And WHEN? When God trains a man, He allows them to purchase relevance and relatability and authenticity to such a degree that they cannot be ignored in future seasons. You walk through what you're called to address - and it is not easy. One of my anointing is to show you the trustworthiness of God in a way that is irrevocable. This cannot be done with the mind. The realm of the intellect cannot keep up with the realm of the spirit. I know God is who He is not because of what I see but what I perceive. God is trustworthy whether I get my way or whether I get the opposite. God is trustworthy when it works and when it doesn't. God is trustworthy at the top and He is trustworthy at the bottom. But I did not learn this in a book. My anointing is not powered by what I have learned. You do not LEARN to walk into the river of anointing - you find it and feel it while you are drowning in the middle of the river. I am sorry that it is this way. There are many who will disagree - not because they know but because they simply do not like it. It sounds bad when you look through the lens of the intellect but in the spirit it is a wonderful gift. What better way to train than to discover RIGHT at the edge, just before you need it. If you discover your anointing any other way you will think you own it. But I did not respond this way to him, though. I just said "Yes." Then laughed. There was deep emotion, not because I said anything special, but because anointing was surfacing. The moment you shift from speaking to a person's mind to speaking to their heart - you have stepped into anointing.