Your Gift: Discovering Your Own Personal Paradigm of Ministry

Greater demands for ministry will often lead us beyond the original, more relational community of discipleship.  When this is so, unless we draw relationship with specific areas of community, we risk loosing the stewardship factor needed to occupy any new spiritual ground that we’ve gained in the Kingdom.   Since the Kingdom will keep us in a forward momentum, it is needful that we understand the order of its progression once it leaves a governing body of ministry within the church. 

Kingdom community requires that we identify more with the fruit of the ministries that become multiplied through the gifts.  In Kingdom community, we compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges, etc.  In doing so, we begin seeing the works of ministry being reproduced through spiritual patterns from one community to the next.  These patterns reveal a sequence that can be likened to what we know as Geometric Sequence.

   

In a geometric sequence, the common ratio is the constant number that is multiplied to each term to the next term.   In math, a sequence is a set of numbers that follow a pattern.  In the same sequence, each number in the sequence is known as a “term”. 

In terms of the Kingdom, we can replace the terminology to begin identifying with spiritual patterns that manifest within our individual spheres of relationship.  Before we’re able to fully discern divine order, we first begin discerning repeated spiritual patterns that consistently show up in each of our spheres of relationship.  What first defines relationship will later be expressed in ministry through influence and favor within spheres of greater ministry.   Just as God created each of us with our own individual set of fingerprints, He has given each disciple their own Paradigm of Ministry.  Even where our ministry equipping jump started us beyond our years, we can still recover the original treasure that reveals “our gift”.  Each of us has a Taylor Made paradigm of ministry that is like no other.  Discipleship serves to excavate this hidden treasure in light of Five Fold ministry equipping.   

The Kingdom of Heaven is like……….

Jesus made disciples who were then sent out two by two.  We can be sure that the same order that Jesus activated the disciples through would be reproduced in them.  Before we can be fully activated in the ministries as sons, we must first “see the Kingdom” as disciples.  “Seeing the Father” as disciples immediately activates us in our sonship in every sphere of ministry.  Sons become established in the Kingdom through their own earthly spheres of influence.  

Jesus modeled his ministry in light of his own personal relationship with his Father.   When Jesus sent the disciples out two by two, he would have removed himself from this equation.   We should take note that our "sending" is often followed by ministry activation in it's various forms of ministry.  If disciples and sons are not sent out beyond those who instruct them, the ministry that is reproduced will continue to consist of the spheres of those who equip them.    

Once the disciples had seen the Father through their own personal relationship and experience, Jesus continued to teach them through the authority and the spheres that he was given to instruct them through.  (These spheres of authority would later be known as Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers.)  Once the Kingdom becomes resident within us as disciples, we relate to spiritual and natural fathers and mothers as we should.  This same relationship would extend to all leadership in all spheres of authority.  Before we can truly be “fathered” by spiritual leaders, we must SEE the Father as a disciple of Jesus Christ. 

The geometric sequence of Disciples:  1 – make  disciples, 2 – discipling people in respect to their lifestyle, 3 – Ministry to the Sons (heavens open so that we “see the Father” in relationship to sons, as well as specific communities), 4 - doing/speaking what we see the Father doing in heaven in relationship to sons/community on earth. 

We know that disciples learn to disciple other disciples.  Outside of a church body, ministry reproduces after the fullness of Christ and is represented through divine order.  Through divine order, the fullness of Five Fold ministry is always represented through its redemptive value in relationship to greater community.   Once our sonship has been fully activated through Five Fold ministry equipping, our Sonship acts as what is known as a “common ratio” in relationship to greater community.  Relationship becomes defined through the communities that we begin seeing the Kingdom of God manifesting through in our midst.

In terms of the Kingdom, we can replace the terminology of “geometric sequence” to begin identifying the spiritual patterns that manifest within our individual spheres of relationship.  We first begin discerning parts of divine order through the spiritual patterns that consistently manifest the Kingdom of God in our midst through different spheres of relationship.  Much like the Garden spoken of in Geneis, this is progressively cultivated.   The secret of discovering our own personal paradigm of ministry is rooted in the spiritual patterns of the Kingdom that consistently show up in each community of relationship.  Identify the patterns, and then draw a circle around the communities.  From discernment that defines community, we begin seeing what defines relationship.  Kingdom ministry will always follow relationship.  The blessing of multiplication will always show up in the increase from one community to the next.

Kingdom blessings,

Cindy Allen

www.eagleslandingnetwork.com 

The Ripple Effect of the Kingdom of God

It always seems that God delights in using the most simple principals revealed in creation to demonstrate the greatest secrets of His Kingdom.  When I was first called into team ministry, God purposed that my awareness of Christ greatly increase through each expression of ministry in Eph 4:11.  Not only in the knowledge of these individual expressions of Christ, but also in the knowledge of the fellowship that the Holy Spirit would honor with his manifest presence.

Where the Holy Spirit is given place to lead all ministry, we soon begin to experience a forward momentum that further reveals the Kingdom beyond what we've ever known.  Every drop of his anointing and glory is purposed to be absorbed into the fabric of our lives.  The awareness of God that follows causes us to be one with Him through Christ, as well as with others.  


From Spiritual Alignments to Ministry That We Embody


Most of us understand how ministry flows and operates through spiritual alignments.  This is especially understood in relationship to the foundation ministries of Apostles and Prophets.  Where we allow God to lead us more fully into this paradigm, we begin to experience the formation of one vessel within one body. When our circle of ministry remains unbroken, we begin to experience what it is to embody ministry that operates beyond any one person's gift.  Once the gifts become knit together in the love of God, order becomes manifest to further reveal the Kingdom.  God's glory becomes manifest from ministry that reveals divine order.   


Kingdom ministry, as well as what we know of apostolic ministry, encircles and encompasses God's people. Even as we embody ministry that Christ will inhabit, the Kingdom encompasses us with greater knowledge of the Father.  


Perfected in Unity Through the Glory


In John 17, Jesus spoke of the glory that he had received from God.  He also spoke of how he had glorified the Father through his own life.  In verse 22, Jesus spoke of giving the glory to the disciples so that they could be perfected in unity - even as Jesus was one with the Father.  


We can be certain that the Holy Spirit will always move to glorify Christ as well as the Father in the earth in all that he leads us in.  Several years ago, I saw this glory begin to manifest for the first time.  When it happened, I was discipling someone into Christ from times where their life was manifesting broken areas of their soul.  When the Holy Spirit moves to manifest God's glory, he illuminates the areas of life that need healing.  In conversation one day, this person began to receive revelation of their own spiritual condition.  As soon as the Holy Spirit convicted her, she began sharing with me that God was showing her that because of her behavior of rebellion and defiance, her personality and character had never fully formed.   Suddenly, she was enamored in the presence of God to make straight the crooked paths that she had previously walked in.  The soul is made up of mind, will and emotions.  In the times that followed, I witnessed God lead this person's life on a path that enabled her to make willful choices towards developing her relationship with God more fully.  These appointed times empowered her to overcome emotions that had previously driven her.  Choosing relationship with Christ as Lord in these times also resulted in healing the broken areas of her soul.  Afterwards, her countenance radiated God's glory and it was clear that her spirit and soul had become one within her own body.  Many Christians are unaware of the deeper work of the cross of Christ.  There is great power where death comes to the flesh that empowers mans self-will.  


More recently, I began seeing the Holy Spirit move on a friend's situation with family.  Once again, a knowing arises in people to convict them of the areas that need to be healed.  Relationships also have a soul and spirit life.  Beginning with fathers and mothers, family life is born.  When we release these areas of relationship to God, he moves to heal, from generation to generation.  Before disciples and sons can ever enjoy the all-encompassing, convicting  presence of God, God's Five Fold ministry leaders, Elders and Deacons must enter into the Holiest Place to become set apart for God's purposes.  


More recently, God began giving me visions of what appeared to be a vertical water wheel.  One drop of God's glory causes a ripple effect that oftentimes is not discerned or understood beyond the ministry that we're gathered to.  Unless Leaders are fitly joined and knit together to see the greater move of the spirit, the wine spills out and is ruined.  Regarding the ripple effect, even as the heavens give new revelation, we often do not discern the "signs of the times" through those who are being caught up into the Kingdom.  These begin rising in the ascension ministries of Christ to "go to the Father".  Where the Kingdom envelops people through godly leadership, the youngest disciples will prophecy with a relevant word of the Kingdom.  


The Holiest Place


When our corporate worship is expressed in every facet of our lives, it produces the Holiest Place that greater ministry can flow out of.  We must become carriers of the glory that Jesus gave to his disciples.  As soon we feel that we've "made the mark", God will increase our circles of relationship so that we continue to be stretched as the new wine skins that will hold new wine.  Some circles are local and some are regional.  Some are national and some international.  Wherever we are on the map, the Presbytery that forms will always reveal new ways to stretch us so that we remain pliable in God's hands. 


Any time that God repeatedly gives me the same visions again and again, I set out to search them out in one form or another.  Beginning with Five Fold Ministry Leaders and Elders, I feel the video below speaks very clearly of what God desires to do in the earth.  The more we gather ourselves as carriers of glory, the more we learn.  A picture, or a video, says more than words can.  The video below show an amazing discovery of what happens when one single drop of water becomes joined to a much larger body of water.  Enjoy!


Kingdom blessings,


Cindy Allen
www.eagleslandingnetwork.com   

Water Drop at 2000 Frames Per Second