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.