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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

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

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