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

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