The Purpose for God's Glory

In their individual expression, each ministry gift of Eph. 4:11 will continue to reproduce after itself for the purpose of equipping the saints.  While this river never stops flowing, the river itself splits to form new ministries for the purpose of multiplication towards greater fruitfulness.  When each expression of Christ is given place to operate through body ministry, the synergy that forms serves to make each member one with that fellowship.  The work that takes place within this body is unto healing and wholeness.   Where this circle of relationship remains unbroken, we begin to see ministry operating from an order beyond the original purposes of equipping.  In the fullness of times, the body that has formed will be able to hold, or embody the glory of the Lord.  The “fullness of times” simply marks a measure of growth in God’s glory where new administrations of ministry begin to be birthed.  Once the Kingdom begins building through the Marketplaces, new administrations are raised to minister to specific spheres and venues of community and city life.

The Glory

Ministry serves to reveal the relationship and the order that God will manifest himself to us through.  Beyond the original order of equipping, we learn of the ministries through their glory.  In Five Fold ministry, form follows function and function of the gifts follows the anointing.  In God’s greater glory where the regeneration of the ministries are revealed, ministry functions to demonstrate relationship from generation to generation through what is eternal, or everlasting.  The Hebrew associates “everlasting” with covenant and with what is ancient and eternal.  While the ways that we appropriate faith to our natural lives does change, the Ancient Paths will always reveal what is eternal through the Ancient of Days. 

Proverbs 22: ²⁸ Do not move the ancient boundary
Which your fathers have set.

Proverbs 23: ¹⁰ Do not move the ancient boundary
Or go into the fields of the fatherless,
¹¹ For their Redeemer is strong;
He will plead their case against you.
¹² Apply your heart to discipline
And your ears to words of knowledge.


The knowledge spoken of in verse twelve speaks of wisdom and discernment.  The wisdom of God greatly differs from that of man.  In the spirit, I have seen “this place” as a path where sudden contrast appears.  There is no fork in the road.  Right is as contrast to Left as light is from darkness.  From this glory, we learn to “measure ourselves” by true standards practiced through the company that we keep.  We accomplish this through ministry that is expressed corporately through a Priesthood.  We also accomplish this in relationship with a plurality of leadership.  In doing so, we learn to “measure, or discern God” through the generations that follow.  Out of this knowledge we begin seeing the greater Priesthood of Kings and Priests. 

I share this phrase, “to measure God” because this is what he spoke to a Seer friend that I’ve recently been connected with.  Godly standards revealed through a corporate witness serve to transfer the glory in the appointed times.  This can become manifest where light (glory) suddenly rises up from darkness to reveal a new season.  It can also become manifest where one order of ministry is born out of a previous order of ministry.  In these times, progression from one level of faith to another level of faith is revealed.  Both orders remain as they both serve to reveal the boundaries that are “set by the fathers”.  (Proverbs 22:28 and 23:10.)   In John 17, Jesus prayed to the Father:


John 17:22

Their Future Glory

    ²² The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one;

Years ago, when I first began seeing this glory, I was given visions of a spiritual Eye that would often appear in various landscapes.  In the times that followed, I began seeing what appeared as artesian wells springing up from the places where the Seeing Eye first appeared.  These visions revealed where new ministry was being birthed and activated for greater purposes.  More recently, I was connected with a Seer who ministers of these same Seasons through her prophetic art.  One night she ministered to me at a service through a vision sketch that she drew for me.  She not only drew the Seeing Eye, but she also drew the wells that spring up from this.  Even as she delivered a word that ministered of the two seasons that I had fully walked out, she also delivered a word that was yet beyond what I had experienced.  This witness keeps prophecy true to its original form even as it builds us to know God’s greater purposes.  As we continue to draw from these first foundations, the prophetic word also releases us into the destiny that ministers of our future.  Without vision, people perish because they cast off restraint (order). 

There is no way for a covenant people to be mobilized in God’s Kingdom purposes without knowing the order that he will manifest Himself through.  The knowledge of God’s glory leads us from faith to faith in very simple ways.  While the original form of the ministries are preserved, the soil that their seed becomes planted in will always serve to multiply us from all that we have known. 

This personal experience witnesses of how this glory was easily made manifest through someone I only recently met.  More importantly, we understand that God demonstrates his greater glory in the corporate assembly of the saints.  The simplicity of this transference of ministry demonstrates how easily we access this grace.  It is also a witness of Emanuel, who is “God with us”. 

Grace and peace,

Cindy Allen