Enter The Wheelbarrow Phase.
When you're in the throes of Apostolic training, it can feel like you're a rock in a wheelbarrow. You're just getting spun around and smacked against something new every five minutes. One minute you're flowing like a Pattern Maker, and the next you're laying down spiritual bricks like a Builder. What is that about?
The Chaos Is Training, Not Confusion
Here’s the truth: during Apostolic training, God may lead you to walk through all the mandates. Not because you’re called to all of them, but because you need to understand the language and function of each. You can’t lead what you haven’t lived.
Why You Touch All the Mandates
Each mandate develops a different part of your apostolic character:
- As a Spiritual Parent, you learn compassion and legacy.
- As a Pattern Maker, you learn how to access heaven for blueprints.
- As a Trailblazer, you step into warfare and expansion.
- As a Trainer, you master how to duplicate yourself.
- As a Builder, you gain structure and timing.
- As a Finisher, you learn to bring vision to completion through relationships and collaboration.
Even if you're not called to all six, you'll likely touch them, because the Body needs well-rounded leaders.
So... Am I Called to All 6? No. You’re called to one primary mandate. But your training will take you through all six so that by the time you walk into your true office, you can recognize every part of the apostolic team—and function with them, not against them.
Final Encouragement If you feel like a jack-of-all-trades right now, that’s okay. It’s not confusion, it’s crafting. God is shaping your identity by exposure. Stay in the wheelbarrow. Eventually, He’ll plant that rock where it belongs.
I highly recommend getting Apostle Colette Toach's The Apostolic Mandate, as she dives deeper into your Apostolic calling:
