The Partnership Within Mature Faith

Hebrews 10:38  But My righteous one shall live by faith;
And if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him.


From the times that we mature from disciples to sons and from sons to Elders who can teach others, we find ourselves in a progressive cycle of building.  Faith requires that we continually judge and discern the matters that are before us in a manner that builds us and others in the righteousness of Christ.  From the time that we become disciples, our eyes are opened to see and discern the realm of the spirit.  This spiritual discernment causes us to see the relationship that the Kingdom of God has with all people and all things on earth.  Therefore, having been enlightened as to the fellowship that we are to be partakers of, we likewise extend relationship to build the same.  


The Greek word, koinonea, means fellowship.  Koinonea fellowship of Acts 2:42 serves to bring us into intimate relationship with the spirit life of God and man through the image that God created man in.  (Know no man after the flesh)  Another word for fellowship is Koinonos.  Koinonos fellowship further leads us to combine mature faith with others to become mutual partners in greater community.  (Matt 18:20 For where two or three are gathered, there I am in their midst)  Whether we gather ourselves into fellowship as disciples, sons, Elders, or Five Fold ministers, the ministry that is born out of the first fellowship is purposed to build greater community.  The later part continually serves to demonstrate the greater works that Jesus promised we would do.   


To understand how Kingdom community is formed beyond the local church body, we must have some understanding of God's divine order in how He creates.  All spirit led ministry will raise a mutual witness in the spirit man of all who participate in Kingdom community.  


It's easier to understand spiritual precepts of divine order by examining them in relationship to analogies that practical methods can be taught through.  A Carpenters Square is associated with building.  We can also connect prophetic teaching to the same analogy by using the Angles that are commonly used in geometry.  From what stands upright in righteousness (faith), anointing and ministry flows downward to be distributed to greater community.   

The Building of Community through Spheres (Metrons) of Influence and Favor

Right Angle

    Koinonea fellowship:  Mature fellowship in the Holy Spirit.  Koinonea means fellowship, association, community, communion, joint participation, intercourse, distribution (as exhibiting an embodiment and proof of fellowship)   Acts 2:42  

Psalm 133

The Excellency of Brotherly Unity.

A Song of Ascents, of David.

133 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is

For brothers to dwell together in unity!
² It is like the precious oil upon the head,
Coming down upon the beard,
Even Aaron’s beard,
Coming down upon the edge of his robes.
³ It is like the dew of Hermon
Coming down upon the mountains of Zion;
For there the Lord commanded the blessing— life forever.

Straight Angle


Apostolic ministry is ministry that flows out of the Apostles gift.  Much like the Scales of Justice that we see in the picture above, apostolic ministry is always "weighted" with another part for balance.  This is especially so in ministry that is operating to build community outside of local church bodies.   

     Koinonos fellowship:  We experience this fellowship of mature faith with other believers of like faith.  Koinonos is defined as a partner, sharer in anything, associate, comrade and companion.

  

2 Corinthians 8:²³ As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker ^[a]among you; as for our brethren, they are ^[b] messengers of the churches, a glory to Christ.

Those who participate in apostolic ministry know that it takes mature partners to co-labor together in ministry that leads to regeneration.  True companions in the faith serve to produce the synergy needed for greater ministry.  Fellowship in the anointing builds us until Christ be formed in us through the ministry gifts.  The gifts then raise relational standards of family and community.  Divine order is further revealed through ministry that raises standards.  The glory of God will be seen resting on divine order.   

1 Cor 6:14 speaks of another fellowship that we are to guard against.  Although every standard that is raised is for the purpose of building greater community, we cannot have part in any fellowship that participates with the works of darkness.  Apostolic ministry reproduces itself in the lives of others after the order it was established through.   

1 Cor 6:14  -  Do not be ^[a]bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Full Rotation

Even as rotation means to turn completely around on an axis, the same rotation in the spirit leads to Revolution where Christ is fully formed in a person, body or community.  

Revolution follows reformation (re-form-ation) to reveal regeneration where ministry once again takes on a new face and new purpose.  Even as the form of ministry continually changes, divine order always remains the same.  God's glory will continue to rest on divine order from one community to the next to illuminate The Way of Kingdom building.  From the continual renewing of our minds in Christ, we likewise continue to grow in our discernment of Christ in our midst from glory to glory. 


Blessings and peace,


Cindy Allen
www.eagleslandingnetwork.com 

Intercessors at the Gates

As we continue to be led in cultivating the gifts to minister to greater community, we will also continue to grow in discernment of what is in our sphere of authority.   Ministry to cities and regions become strategy given of the Holy Spirit.   In the days ahead, Intercessors, Gatekeepers, and Watchmen will be given the wisdom, authority and discernment to stand in the gaps to heal breaches that have allowed entire cities and regions to come under attack.

As we witness the recent events that took place in Aurora, CO, we also understand that repeated attacks against cities and regions can shatter the lives of families and entire communities.   The tragic Columbine shooting that devastated so many families took place a little more than thirteen years ago.  Since that time, the State of Colorado has suffered devastating fires that have ravished their land.   Now, Colorado once again faces great tragedy and is in need of Intercessors who will contend at the Gates to rebuild what has been destroyed by evil.  Covenant must be re-formed (reformation) to include the communities that need to be rebuilt from the ground up.  The hedge of protection that is established by covenant must again be put into place as the walls “of the city” are rebuilt.  From rebuilt walls, the arms of ministry become an outreach where we will again see Zion raised up from out of the ashes. 

Grief can overtake the core of our being where the lives of entire families and communities have been shattered.  Grief is often followed by sickness, disease and even infirmities that are far more difficult to heal.  It is better and wiser to rebuild the walls of our cities!   Where the Kingdom brings Zion to the heart of grief-stricken communities, mourning will be exchanged for joy and beauty for ashes.  Forgiveness is at the heart of Zion and there is healing for all who enter in.

   

Isaiah 61:3

³ To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

A great part of the role of Elders (of the City) is to build the church in respect to sons in the marketplace.  Elders, Gatekeepers and Watchmen serve together to impact greater territories.  Those who continue on as Repairers of Breaches will see the Ministry of Reconciliation in the healing of relational standards that build family, community and the infrastructure of our cities.   The ministry that flows out of healed standards of spiritual structure continues on to heal broken order.   (i.e., How does a garden grow, how do healthy families relate, how do “whole” communities build towards becoming a great, fortified city?) 

While we may not have the answer as to “why” many tragedies occur, we will always be empowered to build Zion in the heart of all community.  This is especially so for those who once again need to experience the Hedge of Protection that God’s covenant brings to the land.  

For some time, God has led us to expect great breakthrough in the healing of emotional illnesses.  Only The Father knows the Times and Seasons.  Until then, WE must move towards the goal of seeing complete restoration within the spheres and venues that we build through the Kingdom of God.

Kingdom blessings,

Cindy Allen

www.eagleslandingnetwork.com   

Cultivating Community to Bring the Works of the Kingdom

Regardless of what area of lifestyle we see God moving to equip the saints through, we will always see His order of equipping in relationship to Five Fold ministry.  As soon as prophetic ministry begins flowing, foundational teaching follows.  Regarding prophetic ministry, one of the first foundation stones that we see being put into place serves to reveal spiritual authority.  In respect to lifestyle, the authority that we speak out of will also reveal the authority that we live from.  The gift of prophecy serves to bring light and vision to our lives in order to equip us to make choices towards the Kingdom of God.  (Let there be light…Gen 1:3)

The choices that become illuminated through the light that prophetic ministry brings to our life serves to establish us in the Kingdom of God.  The authority that we become established in as sons further prepares us to fellowship with others in relationship with new communities.  Fellowship that is drawn with others in relationship to works that are multiplied from the Five Fold ministries serves to establish sons in their given spheres of influence.  This fellowship is especially needed where we seek to discover the blessing of multiplication through the greater works that Jesus promised we would do.  The fellowship spoken of in 1John 1:3 is defined as a gift jointly contributed.  It’s also described as a contribution, as exhibiting an embodiment and proof of fellowship.  Any time that we draw ourselves into fellowship with others, we gather for the purpose of embodying ministry that will become a dwelling place for Christ.  Whether we gather ourselves as a local church body, or whether we gather ourselves in relationship to marketplace venues, the ministry that follows is purposed to manifest the works of the Kingdom.  The ministry that flows from this relationship will send us in new directions to minister  beyond that same body.  This is better understood as overflow. The ministry begins resting on other communities that we're called to influence and we recognize the ministry by it's works.    

Matt 7:  ²⁸  When Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were amazed at His teaching; ²⁹ for He was teaching them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.

In this context, the Greek for "authority" is, Exousia.  Exousia means power of choice, liberty, and the authority to manage domestic affairs.  It also means jurisdiction, as well as a sign of regal authority, such as a crown.  God, the Father, afforded each one of us with a life on earth that began with Him through Christ.  There is no greater discovery than to realize the hidden treasures of the Kingdom that God placed within each of us.  This discovery is made yet again when we gather ourselves to participate in body ministry with the saints.  It continues on where apostolic team ministry is formed.   In the knowledge and experience of God's Son, Jesus, we have the power and the authority to create the world in which we live.  

In Matt 9:6, we see Jesus exercising authority to forgive sins.  To forgive one's sin also means to deliver, to send forth, to give up a debt.  In other scriptures within the New Testament, it means to restore one to another.  Much like the paralytic was crippled in the natural, sin can blind us from seeing the Kingdom of God.  Without the vision of the Kingdom, we wander in darkness and loose the mobility needed to progress us forward in the Kingdom.  Deliverance and restored mobility follows forgiveness. 

Every level of fellowship that we practice is followed by ministry that requires two or more participants. This agreement serves to jointly express covenant that will be further demonstrated in the power of the Holy Spirit.  Power in the Holy Spirit is followed by true authority.  

1 Corinthians 2:4  and my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

Ministry that is followed by both power and authority will also be followed by signs and wonders.  Signs and wonders are needed to identify where the overflow is taking place so that we can extend relationship to new communities.  Fellowship serves to engage us in ministry on many levels.  Without vital fellowship, the ministry that we're engaged in can suddenly become immobilized.  

Until we witness how the Holy Spirit moves in power and demonstration from one community to the next, we never see or experience the the greater works of the ministries that we're to lay hold of.  Unbroken fellowship from one community to the next keeps us vitally joined to the greater Priesthood.  Discerning Christ in a Priesthood further equips us in marketplace spheres.   In relationship to the Priesthood, we become engaged with the greater works of ministry in respect to two or more communities.  Matt 18:20 - Where two or three have gathered in my name, I am there in their midst.  As we continue to cultivate the ministries through new venues, Matt 18:20 serves us in whatever measure of ministry that we appropriate faith through.   Once the works of ministry are being reproduced through community as a finished work, we will consistently see Kingdom order rise to the surface in diverse circumstances.  When this is so, the people who are joined to the works need to be discipled in respect to their own spheres of community and influence. 

Special Note:  Much like technology is progressive, so are the works of apostolic ministry.  Apostolic ministry is marked by the passing of the baton of ministry from father to son. The ministry is further cultivated through apostolic teams.   Apostles who are breaking ground in new areas of business development can experience times where the ministry seems to bog down, or it appears that the works have become immovable.  In these times, be resolute to "occupy" until sons are given time to carry the mantle into the fullness of times.   

Business venues will continually subject us to environments that are dominated by world systems.   As long as apostolic ministry is cultivated in relationship to the generation shared by fathers and sons, the Kingdom will continue to rise as the governing rule in whatever venue that we're in fellowship with.  

Kingdom blessings,

Cindy Allen

www.eagleslandingnetwork.com 

Restoring Watchmen and Gatekeepers at the Gates

It’s very important to discern where we are in our ministry progression so that we know how to respond relationally through the witness of Christ that we’re presently occupying. Greater ministry and greater works will always line up with the responsibility and accountability that goes with the calling.   Once ministry begins functioning beyond the traditional order of Five Fold ministry, all ministry must be discerned in its progression.  Knowing the body that we’re co-laboring through prepares us to identify with the community that we should be ministering to. 

The Greater Works of Christ

The greater works of Christ comes as team development progresses.  Teamwork can only progress at the pace and the purposes that are established in and by the Holy Spirit.  In both our personal lives and in respect to corporate ministry, the Holy Spirit keeps our members on the “same page” at the “same time”.  Once Team has been fully formed, no one person or ministry can control or manipulate the plans or works of ministry.  We discern the times that the Holy Spirit is moving in and minister accordingly.  In the ascension ministries of Christ, ministry in its progression witnesses of how God restores the fallen nature of man. 

We should be mindful that apprehending Kairos times in terms of ministry will be balanced by an equal measure of ministry to a defined sphere.  This ministry is purposed to build specific communities of people.  This is especially so where relational structures need to be raised to build people. 

The ministry of Elders of the City positions us to receive of ministry in respect to “the buildings” of a city.  The knowledge of what governs or drives people comes out of how they have built their lives.  The Holy Spirit simply follows the blueprints of what has been built while raising relational standards that serve to reveal God’s divine design.  With Elders being a fathering community, the ministry that follows is a function of the father and son order in relationship with greater spheres of ministry.  The order that we convene through in relationship to cities further positions us to receive of the counsel needed to minister to regions.  

Regional Ministry

Regional ministry prepares us to discern powers and principalities in their full stature, or full measure.   Until we can discern the form and function of a thing, we only wrestle with smoke.  Once we can discern form and function, we see the beginning from the end in regards to Time.  Prophetic revelation through regional ministry will always give discernment of governing powers and principalities while also giving us revelation of Christ through dominion authority. Discipling communities in the relational standards needed to build family and community serves to deliver people out of darkness.

Genesis 1:5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. 

Imputing Righteousness

Revelation of the higher realms will often give insight of what is to come.  Prophetic intercession serves to station Watchmen and Gatekeepers who will serve the people by imputing the righteousness of Christ.  Imputing the righteousness of Christ extends the Law of Grace, which is the Kingdom of God.  The presence of covenant dismantles the works that hold people in endless cycles of repeated patterns beyond what they can discern.  Where Gatekeepers are restored to the Gates of cities and regions, people rise according to the governing order that is in place.  Grace must be ministered from the Gates! 

Romans 5:13
¹² Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

¹³ (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

¹⁴ Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come
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¹⁵ But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

The Ministry of Watchmen and Gatekeepers

Prophetic ministry, as well as revelation, will always lift us to discern these times more fully.  It’s important that we continue to be discerning of the Law of Grace before we lay hands too quickly on works that would attribute to the fall from grace.  Ministry to the sons in their sphere of grace serves to bring relational balance to the prophetic where the ministry has been launched to function from greater heights.

    

James 2:23
And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

Preparing for the Multiplication through New Kairos Appointed Times

Kairos, Appointed Times:  The Parallel of Christ through Five Fold Ministry and the Garden of Genesis. 


Throughout the ages, from generation to generation, the Kingdom (the times of Christ) is always near to reestablish man in the covenant that Christ came to reveal between God and man.  The "times" that Christ manifests himself to us through first become present in our personal relationship with him.  This revelation of Christ becomes fully manifest in how we further appropriate this faith to every sphere of relationship and community.  


Rev. 22:10 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand (near).


The Greek word for time is Kairos, which means a measure of time.  It also means an opportune or seasonable time.  When the Lord is visiting us through Kairos times, He often "appears" to us through prophetic times that directly relate with our personal lives.  In these times, revelation is multiplied to manifest himself to greater community. Beginning with family and community, "measures" serve to raise standards that will build the people.  


Revelation of prophetic times serves to align us more fully to the ministry that the Holy Spirit will manifest his inner witness in others through. Without a mutual inner witness of the Holy Spirit, there can be no increase of Christ in greater community.  From family, to community, to Five Fold ministry, what multiplies Christ to and through a people is pure doctrine. 

The secret of forming the spheres needed to cultivate Garden ministry is in guarding our relationships that fully manifest the Kingdom of God.  We need one true plumb line of ministry in it's corporate expression before we can build beyond this.  What witnesses of Christ in this fellowship will always multiply the gifts through divine order in greater community.  Once "measure" begins to materialize through divine order, ministry begins to  accelerate people more in creativity and innovation through new spheres.




Word of Caution    



The increased presence of Christ in the ministry bodies that we fellowship with are frequently followed by times of multiplication.  Even as Christ manifests himself to a people, the gifts of Christ become multiplied in a people.  As blessed as this is, it can temporarily knock us off balance where we begin leaning more into prophetic ministry.  When discernment of the prophetic increases, we receive revelation of the higher realms. Revelation of the higher realms are needed where people are bound up in unfruitful works.  Word of Knowledge and Word of Wisdom frequently follows to release people in their destiny to overcome any presence of darkness. The apostolic serves to establish sons in the Kingdom through lifestyle precepts in relationship to prophetic times.  The fullness of both ministries operating together is the beginning of becoming built up in spheres of ministry that can be further cultivated in the likeness of the Garden of Genesis.  


Apprehending Kairos, appointed times (of the spirit) involves becoming engaged with the ministries of Christ that release people into their destiny.  This takes place through sowing into spiritual times (revelation) through natural works that relate more with lifestyle and community life.  The act of engaging ourselves in the works of Christ through his ministries serves to lead us more fully in the fellowship with the Father, as spoken of in Genesis. 


Kingdom blessings,


Cindy Allen
www.eagleslandingnetwork.com 

Establishing Divine Order through Divine Authority

Elders and Divine Order (Titus 1:5)

Divine order is the sum of the expression of the fullness of the Kingdom of God operating on earth.  Even as the ministries of Christ serve as the vehicle that mobilizes people’s lives, divine order serves to plant and establish us on ground that God will continually bless.  The Promised Land represented covenant to and through God’s people in that God gave it to be cohabitated by himself and his people.   The conditions for covenant were not based so much on entering into, or possessing the land, but rather in continually occupying the land.  

Revelation of Christ is given to those who seek God’s guidance and direction; manifestation comes to those who choose to live it.  Ministry is the demonstration of the Kingdom that follows relationship where man’s self will continues to be fully yielded to God.   Demonstration of ministry serves to reproduce ministry to the sons and the generations beyond the progenitors.  Where the fullness, or what is complete, is continually represented, we suffer no relational breaches within our ranks, or in the generations that follow.  When this is so, ministry serves to mobilize people in a progressive momentum in the Kingdom of God through the fullness of divine order.

Beginning with family, divine order serves to mobilize people in every sphere of relationship and community.  In regards to the city, the Elders of Titus 1:5 were instructed to set in order “what remains”. 

That which “remains” is defined as: 

1.  to leave, leave behind, forsake, to be left behind
2.  to lag, be inferior
3.  to be destitute of, to lack
4.  to be wanting, to fail

“What remains” speaks of what is lacking, or incomplete.  Ministry that is represented through the fullness of counsel will fully reproduce itself in multiple spheres outside of itself.  This finished work is the evidence of the presence of divine order represented in Gatekeeping.  Gatekeepers guard and keep the “high places” against any insubordinate or lesser rule from dominating the relational order of the people.  While man-made structures can rule the people outwardly, the saints learn to govern their lives in relationship to God from the presence of the Kingdom within them. 

         

The Gatekeeping Ministry of Elders

Qualifications of Elders

Titus 1:⁵ For this reason I left you in Crete, that you would set in order what remains and appoint elders in every city as I directed you, ⁶ namely, if any man is above reproach, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, not accused of dissipation or rebellion. ⁷ For the overseer must be above reproach as God’s steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not pugnacious, not fond of sordid gain, ⁸ but hospitable, loving what is good, sensible, just, devout, self controlled, ⁹  holding fast the faithful word which is in accordance with the teaching, so that he will be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict.

Healing the Breaches

The key in discovering the "high places"  is in learning to minister to the low places where people's lives need to be built up.  This comes easily enough through drawing fellowship with people through their own spheres of community life.  Missionaries are sent to distant lands that are without the Gospel of the Kingdom.  In these communities, the missionary adapts to the culture of the people while being spirit led in how they impart the Kingdom of God to the people.  Likewise, Apostles are sent to spheres and communities who are also without the (function, or manifest presence of the) Kingdom of God.  Whatever defines community through lifestyle and marketplace spheres of relationship must be committed to becoming “one” with its own body.  When the Spirit is poured into “one vessel”, all labor together as Kings and Priests to set in order what is without or what is left undone.  This is more effective through community relationships where people can see how they build their lives from objective viewpoints. 

The Amplified Version reads:  ⁵ For this reason I left you [behind] in Crete, that you might set right what was defective and finish what was left undone, and that you might appoint elders and set them over the churches (assemblies) in every city as I directed you.

Even as the progressive work of the ministry continued, Paul, the Apostle “leaves behind” the Elders needed to set upright what was defective within the city.  He also instructed them to appoint Elders and set them over the churches in every city that Apostle Paul directed them in.   

Beginning with Jesus, salvation was born out of the Jews.  From Jesus, Savior and Redeemer, to Lord of all, we see how divine order progressively gives birth to greater order.  Divine order that is born out of Kingdom life will likewise be birthed in the hearts of people.  Inward change produces outward fruitfulness that witnesses of the presence of the Kingdom of God. 

Righteous authority imparts the same to the people and all rejoice together.  When relationship ministers out of divine order, the Kingdom freely reproduces itself in relationship to specific spheres of community.  What witnesses of the Kingdom of God within community life will likewise serve to draw people into the House of God, which is the church.  Once we can disciple the nations in relationship to their own heritage, we become effective soul winners to the nations.  

     

Proverbs 29: 2  - When the [uncompromisingly] righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when the wicked man rules, the people groan and sigh.

Kingdom blessings,

Cindy Allen

www.eagleslandingnetwork.com