The Coming Visitation: A Call to Watch and Pray

From the beginning, God begins revealing himself in creation through what is first measured through time.  In Gen 1, our attention is first drawn to the waters in their unformed state and God says, “Let there be light”.  Suddenly, light appears within what was once void of God.  God separates light from darkness and He calls light Day and calls the darkness Night.  In the Second Day, God created an expanse that separated waters from waters and He called this expanse heaven.

The Third Day 

In the Third Day, God gathered the waters below the heavens into one place so that dry land appeared.  God spoke again and the earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind. 

The Third Day also represents the time that Christ was resurrected from the dead to redeem man from sin and from the fallen nature.  A Priesthood seeks to be joined to the works within the Third Day of Christ so that all they do manifests light.  We become joined to Christ in this way through our words, actions and deeds, especially those that are done in the secret places of worship.

The Midnight Watch

I was recently given a dream about a person who represented prophetic ministry or a prophetic people within prophetic times.  This Prophet sat at a table with a handful of money in their hands.  Just as the Prophet was about to place the money into a purse, I saw a spirit that represented an opposite or opposing nature to the prophetic.  This opposing spirit was looking into a computer monitor sitting before them.  As she looked into the monitor, she spoke to the Prophet and said, “Look at what they’re saying about you”.  Suddenly, the Prophet became distracted in the moment and their attention was diverted to what was sent to distract them.

The Priesthood

Not long after I had the dream that represented a Midnight Watch, I was given an open vision of a Pastor and a Prophet standing together.  Both were wearing a full vestment of Priestly robes.  In the vision, I discerned many layers of clothing beneath the outer covering.  The garments carried a weightiness and presence of God that manifested His glory.  The undergarments that I discerned represented the building of the Priesthood through many foundations of precepts and truths.  I also discerned that the full vestment of Priestly robes represented the full expression of Five Fold ministry through Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher.  (Eph. 4:11)

When God visits His people within the Times and Seasons (prophetic times), He purposes to bring division of light and darkness within specific communities.  From the greater light that becomes manifest, He purposes to build upon foundations of greater truths.  Through choices made towards the Kingdom, a people are made holy, as God is holy. 

Regarding the dream, I sensed that the spirit that opposed the Prophet or a prophetic people to be that of a thief.  Some would call her Jezebel, others would call her the Spirit of Slumber or Slothfulness.  Whatever form that darkness can manifest itself through should not become the focus in the times of visitation.  The darkness itself should become the focus so that we know where and how to build in order to fill what is void of light. 

Where God is bringing the works of darkness to light, accountability will always fall upon those who are equipped to speak as God speaks and create as He creates.  The young, the broken or the unformed can easily fall prey to becoming joined to the darkness through works beyond what they can discern.  Warfare strategy is changing in the coming days for a prophetic company.  These are called to manifest the times through the Dayspring, which is the direction of the Sun’s rising.  This is also a time to reveal the Secret Place of the Most High. 

Luke 1:78 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,

Job 38:12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;

In Revelation 16:15, and in Rev 3:3, the Greek defines “thief” as:

1) an embezzler, pilferer

a) the name is transferred to false teachers, who do not care to instruct men, but abuse their confidence for their own gain

Revelation 16:15 KJV
Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

Revelation 3:3 So remember what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent. Therefore if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.

I feel that it is of great importance for those in ministry to form Prayer Watches with those they serve with in the coming days.  It is especially important to allow a gift mix within your company that will serve to represent Christ more fully.  When God’s glory first becomes manifest in the night season, there is a weightiness that the Priesthood must bear up upon their shoulders.  Once the low places have been built up, the glory that becomes manifest brings much light, wisdom and discernment.  Ministry flows without labor in God’s glory and the spirit of liberty and peace dwell among the people.

I believe the purpose of this move of the spirit is to reveal Zion and the glory of God in Zion.  Psalm 102:16 When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.

Kingdom blessings,

Cindy Allen

www.eagleslandingnetwork.com

Understanding the Nature, Purpose and Progression of Apostolic Ministry Within These Present Times

Apostolic ministry flows out of the gift of Apostles and is known by its ability to reproduce itself.  We see the evidence of this in how the ministries are spiritually reproduced from one generation to another.  While the generations are first defined through personal relationships between spiritual fathers and mothers with spiritual sons and daughters, the Kingdom will always demonstrate relationship through the community that each are planted in.  

The father to son order within a local church will produce relationally in respect to the community that the local church is planted in.   If relationship is drawn to an equipping order of ministry within the local church, the ministry will harvest sons within the same ministry.  Within the same local church, if ministry is drawn for the purpose of discipling various aspects of community life, the gifts will reproduce after an order that builds people within that specific community.  Once the ministries become trans-generational, we see a tension drawn between what measures the father to son order.  When a plumb line is formed between the balance of the two, we again see apostolic ministry begin to progress.  As long as the function of apostolic ministry remains within a local church setting, it will continue to reproduce after this order. 

Even as these works continue within the local church, we see another order being drawn to more regional ministry.   Local church ministry is as a womb to birth sons and daughters into the various functions of ministry that build people within specific community.  Outside of a local church order, apostolic team ministry serves to birth sons and daughters through an order that is more relational to community development in respect to the marketplace.  Here, standards are raised for the purpose of building community life, as opposed to building people within communities. 

From apostolic ministry that operates through regional and national Elders, the move of the spirit operates more for the purpose of releasing revelation towards witty inventions, technology, wisdom and strategy.  These strategies are purposed to build nations through their economy.   When spiritual fathers and mothers begin to see the glory resting on the sons for this purpose, it’s needful to become assembled within an order that will release the sons into these purposes.  If fathers and mothers are misaligned through the community that they’re engaged with, the doors of destiny remain closed to the sons.  Ministry will always reproduce in respect of the community that the fathers are aligned with. 

Once the plurality of Elders and Leaders are present within this order, apostolic ministry begins reproducing outwardly.  Ministry begins to take shape much like the spokes of a wheel.  The wheel within begins serving as the hub that empowers the outer works in their various forms. 

The Kingdom of God is very near for the purposes that the spirit is about to move in.  We want to be alert and ready to enter into these appointed times to see the fullness being demonstrated through the sons.

Kingdom blessings,

Cindy Allen

www.eagleslandingnetwork.com  

IDENTIFYING ORDER AND PROGRESSION THAT LEADS TO PRESENT TRUTH MINISTRY

 When we can identify the gifts of the spirit with the many works and ministries of Christ, it's much easier to discern the times within our present progression.  Times of transition can be discerned inwardly within our spirit man.  These times can also be discerned outwardly where vision is needed to bring clarity and understanding to God's purposes in relationship to a body or community of people.  Any time that God is moving amongst His people, the ministry of the Holy Spirit begins operating very strong.  The first ways that the Holy Spirit manifests Himself to us is through the spirit of peace and unity.  In this way, people become gathered into one mind and one accord.  This Koinonea Fellowship can become manifest through the ministry of praise and worship.  It can also be manifest through prayer and fellowship as well as Bible study. 

From this fellowship, the Holy Spirit begins moving to stir the gifts of the spirit in people.  The ministry of the Holy Spirit serves to knit people in bonds of love.  This is often where covenant blessing is first discerned. Through this fellowship, we often experience a visitation through the scriptures within the Book of Genesis.  

From Genesis 1:22 to Genesis 1:28, we begin seeing order through an arrangement that relates to creation and the Garden.  Here, we also begin seeing order that is sequential. In Gen. 1:22, God blessed man through Adam and Eve and said:  "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth."  In verse 28, God blessed them again and said, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

Every gift given multiplies us in the purposes that we appropriate the blessing towards.  From the dominion mandate given to us in the Book of Genesis to the ministries of Christ to the Church, the Holy Spirit is present to manifest gifts, blessings and ministries.  The ministry and gifts of the spirit lead to greater demonstration in bodily form through the ministries of Christ.  

A church body who can carry the manifest presence of God and become His dwelling place will steward the same by building community through discipleship.  Apart from stewardship of faith from church to Kingdom, and from church to greater community, we cannot adequately fulfill the mandates given to us in Genesis.  Making disciples, releasing sons, building people and community is all part of tending the Garden of our lives and that of our church community.   Even as the Ministries of Christ builds the structure within the local church, the same ministries must equip disciples and sons within their own sphere of influence of lifestyle and ministry.  

A balance of ministry serves to build both.  In doing so, we minister to a corporate move of the spirit as opposed to separating Kings and Priests. Although the partnership of Kings and Priests is not fully understood until each sees the separate function of the other within this relationship, the first blessing serves to establish all on same foundations.  

The move of the spirit that follows will distinguish the differences so that we begin to understand how to receive of the second blessing.  From ministry that fully builds the gifts and expressions of Christ within the church to how these same gifts build disciples and sons in the marketplace, we see a different manifestation of the spirit. 

1 Corinthians 12:⁷ But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

Even as this scripture is fulfilled in building us towards the ministries of Christ, it also builds us towards fulfilling the second blessing spoken of in the dominion mandate.  In the second blessing, this scripture fulfills a Melchizedek Priesthood order of Kings and Priests.  While the first blessing brings fulfillment to natural seed, the second blessing births strategy that is born out of this seed, much like Jew and Gentile.  

However different each is expressed in bodily form, both are of the same spirit.  Of Kings and Priests, the relationship that each has with the other raises Christ again through an administration.  This administration is expressed beyond the original order of governing through the Five Fold ministry gifts.  In our forward momentum, each ministry stream quickens the other and each feeds off the other.  This is the making of the Melchizedek Priesthood.  As Melchizedek brings bread and wine, Kings and Priests are brought into Holy Communion (of the saints).  

The Order of Melchizedek

Multiplication has a pattern.  First, two are made one, and then the one becomes divided for the purpose of being multiplied.  This is the order through Melchizedek.  Each time that two are made one, new birth (increase/harvest) will bring holy division.  Here, we begin discerning the greater works of Christ.  The new birth is revealed through the community that begins being raised.  In this way, we discern "the House" so that the building of the house (works of ministry) follows.  The building pattern of "the House" is ministered from disciples to sons and from sons to Elders.

Important Note for Elders and Five Fold Ministry Leaders

Spirit led ministry equipping follows a progressive order of building in relationship to scripture and the ministries of Christ.  Even as we see a progressive pattern of building in respect to the Garden and the marketplace, we also experience a progressive order of building for leaders.  Those who co-labor together to receive of these mantles will also co-labor together in leading corporate moves of the spirit.  The corporate moves of the spirit are purposed to mobilize the greater church body to advance the Kingdom of God.   


As we gather ourselves for this purpose, the ministry continues to be spirit led and we see the same patterns of ministry being reproduced.  For the purpose of identifying progression, it becomes needful to discern the works of ministry in how they become manifest.  In doing so, we become aligned with the works that we need to be quickened in.  Discernment of the works of ministry, as opposed to their form, serves to equip all in the wisdom needed to release the saints in the Priesthood in the times to come.  (This is why there is an assembly of Elders within the local church and an assembly of Elders of the City.  Both are needed)     



While the form of Five Fold Ministry remains unchanged, an order of Five Fold Ministry serves to raise administrations that will better serve the marketplace through a Melchizedek Priesthood.  For this reason, a Melchizedek Priesthood will apprehend the times, as well as mantles of ministry through identifying with the works of Christ.  


Within a church order, we identify the function of the gifts in their relationship to a church body.  A Melchizedek Priesthood will identify with the works of Christ and what is multiplied from these works.  As standards for corporate sonship are raised through lifestyle and the marketplace, the form of the ministries change according to the marketplace structure that people are being discipled through.(i.e., family, community, industry, services, etc.)


Any time that we find ourselves being gathered to new purposes, we will always find the move of the spirit working to gather man into Christ.  From the standard that we're being gathered into in Christ, Melchizedek is revealed.  The paradigms of ministry that we often see God move through is that of a father to son order.  From a father to son order of ministry, we progress to a King and Priest order.  The first order of building will always serve to establish us on a foundation, while the second order serves to build us upon that same foundation.

Gathered Into One

Matthew 18: ²⁰For wherever two or three are gathered (drawn together as My followers) in (into) My name, there I AM in the midst of them.

Christ Brings Division to Reveal Kings and Priests

Hebrews 6: ²⁰Where Jesus has entered in for us [in advance], a Forerunner having become a High Priest forever after the order (with the rank) of Melchizedek. 

 The greater part of the Priesthood is seen in the whole context of the above scripture.  WE are called to go beyond the veils (of flesh) that exist within worldly systems and structures.  In doing so, we receive the strategy needed to disciple the nations. 

Hebrews 6: ¹⁹[Now] we have this [hope] as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul [it cannot slip and it cannot break down under whoever steps out upon it--a hope] that reaches farther and enters into [the very certainty of the Presence] within the veil,    ²⁰Where Jesus has entered in for us [in advance], a Forerunner having become a High Priest forever after the order (with the rank) of Melchizedek.

The works that Christ has already put into place in these appointed times will follow through those who are spirit led.  We only need to gather ourselves to the order that we may receive them through.  

Kingdom blessings,

Cindy Allen
www.eagleslandingnetwork.com  

The Bittersweet Fellowship of Ministry in the Holiest Place

1 John 2:²⁷ As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him.

Years ago, God began leading me into the fellowships that he wanted to demonstrate ministry through.  In gathering with others for this purpose, we soon began to experience the quickening spirit of Christ through relationships that demonstrated covenant in respect to the ministries.  Matthew 18:20 says that “where two or three are gathered in My name, I am there in their midst”. 

As soon as we gather ourselves into fellowship, whatever ministry God has called us to becomes activated through Koinonea.  Koinonea fellowship brings all into one mind and one accord.  Once fellowship becomes corporate to be mutually shared by all, we begin seeing progression where fellowship begins to demonstrate stewardship.  Once the ministries begin being stewarded, new administrations of ministry begin being birthed and raised up for specific communities.  Whether we gather for the purpose of discipleship, Five-Fold ministry, Prayer and Intercession, or other ministry, we see the same patterns of progression through each expression – except one.  The one ministry that will always be different is with that of Elders. 

Elders are mature leaders who manifest the Holiest Place in each new sphere, or new administration of ministry.  However sweet the fellowship is, we know that once God’s synergy becomes manifest, His glory will follow.  Where God’s glory begins being poured out, we also know those who have taken part in birthing new administrations will soon be scattered like seed in the wind.  However sweet the fellowship is, sent ones will often know the bittersweet of goodbye where our inner circle becomes greatly expanded.  Ministry and relationships that manifest the 100 fold realm quickly become disbursed to pollinate other communities, as each is sent to reproduce the seed that they hold in their hands.

New community often means new soil that doesn’t yet produce fruitful crops, but this is the suffering of servant leaders.  This morning, my Pastor confirmed a word I heard earlier this week about the fellowship of suffering so that we may know Christ and the power of His resurrection.  This is for the purpose of the glory being revealed to us and in us.  Rom 8:18. 

Below is a word shared by my friend, Apostle Jim Becton regarding the fellowship of suffering. 

There is a 1) Fellowship in the gospel, mentioned in Phil. 1:5, that has to do with the fellowship of the brethren, that brings UNITY!  Then, there is a 2) fellowship of the mystery, which has to do with an administration, as in a "stewardship of the gospel" and a "manifestation of the mystery".  This has to with the "riches of His glory." Col. 1:25-29) But then there is a 3) Fellowship of His SUFFERINGS- THAT I MAY KNOW HIM AND THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION AND THE FELLOWSHIP OF HIS SUFFERINGS, BEING CONFORMED TO HIS DEATH, (Phil. 3:10) This is where we "willingly" suffer the loss of ALL things, that we might gain Christ! This has to do with His GLORY being revealed in us- Ro. 8:18- For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us. This "manifestation" or the revealing of the sons of God, is in all reality, the manifesting of "Christ in YOU (Us), the hope of glory..." (Co. 1:27) - end.

Even as some of us are being sent in different directions in these times, networking is still a vital way of remaining connected where miles will soon divide us.  In God’s House, multiplication comes from all that he brings division to.  We can be thankful that love and honor will continue to grow and multiply, even when these heart connections are no longer present with us in the body.  May our loved ones continue to be blessed as they are met with God's grace and love in each new assignment. 

Grace and love,

Cindy Allen

www.eagleslandingnetwork.com

Becoming a Habitation for Christ

Apostolic and prophetic ministries are foundations for the whole church.  Those who build their lives on these foundations come into the experience of dominion and multiplication that God blessed Adam with in the Garden. 

Within the church, the foundational ministries build people on the order of the Kingdom of God.  Outside of the church, these same ministries build families and community through God’s original intentions and purpose for relationship.

Gen 1: ²² God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

Garden ministry reveals the holistic flow of the Kingdom.  Here, we experience the ministries as a seamless garment in Christ as sons and daughters of God.  Within the church, the Pastoral gift gathers people into a body.  In corporate ministry, the move of God can be seen and experienced within a body that serves to raise relational standards of ministry.  Outside of a church order, people draw from this gift to gather families and build community.  Here, the Pastoral gift functions to gather and teach people how to stand unmovable on spiritual ground.  The spiritual land of the Kingdom is revealed through the foundational ministries of Apostles and Prophets.  The experience of how Christ embodies this relationship is especially needed where natural landscapes are changing.  The prophetic reveals the spirit life within the spoken word.  It also reveals the spirit that animates the body that represents Christ.  Sheep are led to feed from healthy pastures.  Even as some fields are pure food, some fields are a mixture of weeds and thorns.  We learn to eat of the Tree of Life, who is Christ, through learning to tend our own Garden.   

Within a church order, the Evangelist’s gift functions to save lost souls of people.  Within a Priesthood, the gift functions to save the soul of communities.  In doing so, corporate standards of sonship are raised to reveal a greater Priesthood.  Through a Priesthood, we learn to recapture and recover works of ministry that Christ has already set in place for these appointed times. 

We can discern a move of the spirit through stepping into the River of the Holy Spirit.  In this River, we come to know Christ in all of his expressions of Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher.  Discerning Christ draws us into the relationship needed to govern our lives as disciples and sons.  In Christ, we have fellowship with God through His word.  Not only do we watch God create, but we participate with what God is doing through our relationship with our Creator. 

Eph 4: ¹¹ And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, ¹² for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; ¹³ until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. ¹⁴ As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; ¹⁵ but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, ¹⁶ from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

In His love,

Cindy Allen

www.eagleslandingnetwork.com