Your -1’s are your disciples, your mentees. Your neutrals are your peers. Your +1’s are the more seasoned players - the disciplers. If you don’t have an inlet (+1’s in your life) you dry up. Likewise if you don’t have an outlet (-1’s) you become the dead sea. The dead sea cannot support life. The river needs to keep FLOWING through you.
Jesus modeled discipleship when He drew 12 to Himself. Effective, generational discipleship grows the Kingdom exponentially.
For +1’s, discipleship is breaking off a piece of your life and sharing it with someone. As a -1 discipleship looks like in humility coming into the sphere of influence and covering of someone who has more favor than you and receiving that impartation of life.
Moses was called to lead the nation of Israel from slavery into the promised land. In Exodus 24:13 Moses takes his assistant, Joshua and goes up the mountain to receive the Law, the 10 Commandments, and the instructions on the temple. Moses had Joshua up there with him! Joshua was someone he could trust, someone he could impart life to. Joshua was the only person to go up the mountain with Moses to meet with God face-to-face. Joshua was getting an inside view of what was going on - of how God spoke to Moses face-to-face.
Elijah was a prophet, was walking along, sees Elisha plowing a field with a whole bunch of oxen, takes off his mantle and tosses it on Elisha. Elisha says goodbye to his parents and then becomes Elijah’s servant (1 Kings 19:21). That word for “servant” is actually the same word that was used for Joshua as Moses’ “assistant.” It means “minister.”
If you are a -1, seek out +1’s with something you might need help with - like a breakthrough that you are looking for. What kind of favor does this +1 walk in / possess that I am going for?
If you are a +1, believe that you have something to give - because you do. You absolutely do. You might have just received the Lord last week and had a conversion experience - but there are a lot of people that haven’t had that conversion experience. “Let me show you how this works because God is REAL!” Pray for your -1’s. Cover them in prayer and favor. See your -1’s through a prophetic lens - speaking to them about their destiny and reminding them of who they are supposed to be after the Spirit. Assume that it is the heart of the Father that our -1’s outgrow us. John 14:12 shows that Jesus modeled exactly this expectation. “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.” It doesn’t always happen that the -1’s outgrew the +1’s. You can’t control that, but it is still the heart of the Father … that our ceiling becomes their floor.
Our body is overflowing with talents, gifts, and influence in the arts, business, education, parenting, et cetera. Kenton thinks it is really time to prepare ourselves to extend our influence through discipleship.
