The Apostolic Function by Apostle Colette Toach

every single one of these seminars and workshops they're like a family reunion because there's a lot of us that always come together and we always have this party in the spirit and for me it's so exciting to see the journey that everybody's gone on because every time we get together again I see the next step that you take and that you have taken since we last met and you'll see how hard it is to say goodbye when everybody leaves and when you see each other again and I promise you they are faces here you will see again as we meet we don't know when we will meet or where we will meet it could be in the states it could be in South Africa it could be in Europe I don't know but when we do we'll all see what God has done with us in this time and I think that's what I love about this process the most is that it is a process you go from glory to glory and I think it's only someone who was called to this level of ministry that understands that you know when I was young and first got on fire for the Lord and wanted to do the work of the ministry I wanted everything to happen tomorrow everything was I had to do everything today because the world was going to change tomorrow you remember those days and in the Lord tempers you a little bit and you realize no you actually don't need a daily plan you need a yearly plan you realize that the Lord moves in times and in seasons and that all we need to do is remain obedient and as you take those steps in his time and in his season you see the doors open you see the land shift you see him do what you couldn't do and again I want to remind you that it's your part to be obedient but it's his part to make you into the vessel you need to be you cannot shape yourself you cannot make yourself into an apostle you cannot make yourself into a prophet you cannot call yourself you cannot empower yourself this is a calling from the Most High God and he who is called you will complete he will equip he will shape he will bring you to the cross you cannot even crucify yourself all you can do is recognize the nails and give up the ghost our place is to submit obey and serve and when we do these things for the Lord he equips he empowers and he releases us to do the things that we need to do and I want to bring each one of you to rest this evening as we continue with the grand finale I first want to bring you to rest because you're trying so hard to do the work of God to find your call to get the answers to be the Apostle to be the proper to be the teacher the Evangelist pastor whatever it is you're trying so hard you starting grace and ending works hmm did you forget why you're on this road the greatest challenge that I have for you is the SOS but the rest is really up to the Holy Spirit and we forget that sometimes I forget that sometimes you you get so busy training your mighty men you get so busy identifying them and applying all the principles you get so hung up on the principles that you forget why you here and at the end of the day when all the principles are gone and all your strength is gone and you've got nothing left that's when you realize that it's really the hand of God that puts you here and it's the hand of God that will keep you here and we have to trust him to do what we cannot do we have to trust him in spite of arson in spite of our failure in spite of our pushing through in spite of everything in spite of what people say in spite of the teams that let us down in spite of the mistakes we've made we have to trust God more than than we trust ourselves than we trust our weakness then we trust others to let us down we have to trust God more this is not about the title or the position this is about doing what we were put on this earth to do and although I'm speaking on the Apostle I hope at the same time I'm tearing away the title of the apostle because it's not about the position but about the work that God has called us to do and it is time for us to put our hand to the plow it is time to count the cost it is time to look at the building materials and see how much it will cost us to build this magnificent temple the city on a hill that God has called us all to build it is time to stop playing around with what I want and what I feel and about my ministry and what I think and it's time we start doing and building and establishing God's will in the earth now if I have to do that as somebody who has no title as a little pawn on the chessboard then I'm going to be a pawn on the chessboard I don't have to be the bishop or the knight or the king or the Queen as long as I am in the hand of God as long as I am in his will is there anything else is there anything else I would rather be hmm I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of the Lord I would rather be had nothing and know that I'm in his will and then I'm the most anointed doorkeeper that there is empowered to keep that door then a king upon his throne knowing that that's not what God called me to be every single one of us have a part to play we have a ordained by God not ordained by man and yes as leaders God needs us to help others recognize that ordination in their lives that's certainly a big part of what the Apostle does but this evening as we come to look at the Apostolic function I want to lay the weight of the church on your shoulders apostles I want you to feel the responsibility of the title I want you to bear the care of the church upon you and I want you to feel the intensity of it of what we're called to do and it's no longer about what is my calling what is my vision what is my place but lord whatever my hand finds to do today may I indeed do it with every breath that is in me let us run this race at a set before us let us lay aside every weight and sin that so easily beset us that we might run with endurance every one of us has a different race every one of us looks before us today with a task at hand now you're never going to complete the task at hand tomorrow if you don't deal with the task at hand today if all you are aiming for is finally one day reaching your mandate finally one day reaching your vision doing that one great thing one day you will miss what God has called you to do today can I bring you to contentment can I bring you to peace what if all God needs you to do is to sit at his feet and worship Him what if that's all he requires of you what have you gone through all the death or the suffering or the rejection to do nothing but to tell him I love you because I was born as a vessel to worship you Adam and Eve's fellowship with the father in the Garden of Eden did you know what their calling was to fellowship with God and to take care of the garden so simple our first ministry is to the Father and we so easily forget that and yes this evening we're going to look at a bunch of fantastic juicy principles and get your mind ticking and your spirits soaring and reminding you why you're here but before I go there might I just bring you back to the child in you that was cold so long ago in your foolishness in your weakness in your selfish ambition and that God saw through all of that and determined that you would be called a mighty warrior a king a queen of the Most High God can we please go back to why we stand here today before we put all the stripes on our shoulders and the badges across our chests and wear all our medallions to prove to the world why we're so magnificent can we go back to the seed of the Apostleship within us this heart that beats for something new willing to pay the price to change not just the church but our communities our nation's feel the weight of that and remember that you're never going to be able to carry that weight with all your talent skill ability and principle because God didn't call the big strong gladiator he called the shepherd boy there's nothing but a sling and a stone to take down Goliath evening as we look at the Apostolic function I want to ask you how do you know when you're doing your job when it comes to the Ministry of the Apostle some people say I'm an apostle some people say I'm apostolic some say I'm doing an episodic work and all in all of that we're all trying to figure out what is it a puzzle supposed to do exactly and as an apostle how do I know if I've done my job well that is the crux of what we're going to be looking at this evening and how can um you begin to tell me if you've done your job if you don't know what your job is hmm it's like that in the workplace how can your boss come and say you've done a fantastic job if you don't have a job description what are you called to do and so we're going to look at two aspects this evening we're gonna look at your mandate and we gonna look at your purpose in fulfilling that mandate how you know if you're on track and looking a little broader how do we know when an apostle has done the work he's meant to be doing in the church how do we identify not just the character of the apostle because I'm spoken about that before I've I've given you a picture of what an apostle looks like in my other teachings but I want to go a little deeper and I want to say what is he supposed to be doing what is his function when all is said and done can you tick off the list that says I've done it good and faithful servant you have completed what I've given you to do but like in all things we kind of need to start at the beginning and we need to ask ourselves okay what is our job in the first place to know if we have fulfilled its requirements and so I'm going to look at six at the Stalag mandates this evening and as I share each one of these from the word you're going to begin to see the different places that God has take new if you're an apostle or feel that you may be an apostle perhaps you can already begin to identify some of these patterns in your life now taking the dictionary definition of mandate any contract by which a person undertakes to perform service for another pattern Commission these are words we can look up in the word the purpose of why you've been put in the serve an apostle has a mandate a prophet has a mandate the end goal the thing that you were born to do and I'm going to look at six different types specifically and there's some things I want you to recognize and think for yourself as I go through each of these because I'm not going to give you all the answers your apostles I'm giving you the highlights the main points and I want you to think about them flesh them out and allow the Holy Spirit to give you further revelation but I want you to recognize these specific points and really think it through each of these mandates are going to require different kinds of trainings because of the nature of each of them and as I go through you'll get it you're going to require a different kind of training and perhaps as I go through you might suddenly understand why the Lord suddenly shifted you here and shifted you there to suddenly establishing you some character traits or even spiritual gifts that you didn't have before the trainings are going to be different a different price is also required have you ever asked yourself well how come I have to pay this price how come that guy doesn't have to pay this price I mean certainly we see that with everybody else in the church but even from apostle to apostle you know you look at other apostles who have the same call and you're like but how come they didn't have to give that up I can imagine that's how Paul must have felt many said whoa hey guys what's the deal you know Peter gets to to have a wife with him the other apostles get to travel but us what are we you know we're just nobodies they can do what we can't do this I mean I don't think any of us we have an episodic call has not been there it's like really Lord it's not fair how come I have to pay this price they don't have to pay that price because they're paying a price of their own and they're saying the exact same thing about you because every mandate is different and a different price is required for each each requires a different character have you recognized the shaping of your character as a person some people might want to call it a paradigm shift I call it character training with the Lord will make you from one person into the next entities miraculous nothing you could have done with your own strength now there's something else you need to do realize you can fulfill more than one mandate in other words you can complete a mandate and then move on to another it is indeed progressive and here's something else you need to keep in mind this is a commission by God you do not choose your mandate your mandate chooses you and as I go through each of these perhaps you'll say woohoo Nina David sounds kind of nice I wish I was a David well tough test because God called you to be a Moses so what you're gonna do about it well I'm going to meet Moses argue my words be a David I want to be this I want to be that oh I wish I was that sorry guys there's some things that are written in stone and this is one of those things God is the one the father is the one who called Jesus sit in the church the Apostles the prophets and the rest of the fivefold ministry he's the one that calls Commission's and releases you you do not pick this for yourself you were born for this you were created for this even as a possible fit that he was called in his mother's womb so when you get that memo firstly you can just let all the rest go and you can also come to peace realizing God's got this God's always had this you don't need a panic that you're gonna lose your calling how can you lose something you never had if you try to hold on to something that's not your call how can you lose something you never held in your tent and if you do hold it in your hand you can rest assured God Himself put it in your hand and Satan cannot snatch it from you come to peace we we keep thinking we're gonna miss God gonna miss Gohan I'm not gonna fulfill my call gonna miss God I'm not gonna do what he's told me to do and then I'm not gonna I'm gonna lose my calling because you were literally born for this you were born for this you were created for this your spiritual and physical DNA was shaped for this if you don't have the cooling means you weren't born for it God has already given you everything you need come to peace and let's get on with business and discover what your calling is so that you may begin walking it out so let's look at these episodic mandate and I'm going to use some New Testament examples and some Old Testament types side by side okay now done teaching on each of these types separately but I want to look more not so much as the types that as the mandates that they for fall and the first one are is our patriarchal spiritual parent mandate and some fantastic examples of this are Peter pull in the New Testament and in the Old Testament Abraham and Sarah now virtual parenting is something that is becoming very popular in the church right now God is reviving spiritual mothers and fathers to reparent the flock we we have a generation of orphans a broken men and women in the church from this way society is being the way we've gone we have a lot of brokenness in the church and God is raising up Abraham's and Sarah's to raise up these broken orphans to equip them and send them out again and I'm going to read a passage here that defines Abraham and God's promise to him and I want you to see the price that he paid to fulfill that call because I remember I said I want you to keep in mind the different trainings the price each one pays and the kind of training that they go through Genesis 12 verse 1 now the Lord said to Abram get out of your country from your family and from your father's house to a land that I will show you how will make you a great nation I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing I will bless those that bless you and I will curse him who curses you and all the families of the earth will be blessed I love the blessing part but so many skim over the first little verse there don't they Abraham paid quite a price to fulfill this mandate and what we're looking here is an apostle who's called to be a spiritual father a patriarch somebody who starts something new one who originates a new tribe we talked a lot about tribes somebody who begins a whole new spiritual DNA if you will now I need you to realize something not every apostle is the same I'm talking about six types just for now and I'm sure that there are more perhaps you have had a revelation of some for me these are the six that I personally live that the Lord showed us that we've gone through so I'm sharing them with you and one of the first is that of a spiritual parent now not every apostle is called to be an Abraham get the memo get the memo guys because you've got these rising up in the kingdom of God right now true apostles of God and you're expecting them to be something that they will never be you wanting them to be a spiritual father but they were never meant to be one and you putting this expectation and getting disappointed when they don't pay up or if God has not called you to be a spiritual father you're trying to be something you're not and it's discouraging for both sides so let's really identify your mandate and let's focus just on that like I said God can shift you when you complete one mandate he can take you to another but let's look at where you're at right now now a spiritual father is one that raises up spiritual sons that's why Peter and Paul are fantastic examples of this as well especially Paul he raised up Timothy and Silas we've got titles in there he was one who didn't just teach the word but one that raised up sons who continued the work long after he left a lot of the other disciples did not do this they had different mandates I think Peter had John mark for what we can see in the scriptures all of the others John I believe had a disciple that continued you've got all Polycarp in there with a couple of generations down but that's church history but from what we can read in the word they were very few of them that were fathers you know we just assumed an apostle as a spiritual father but it's not true it may not be your mandate so if you're not such a spiritual father huh take a deep breath many guys are calling you to be one and it's okay there are a couple of other types that perhaps you can identify with not every apostle is called to be a spiritual parents let it go however if that is something that's been burning in you and something God's been doing in your life it's time to begin looking at it and realize that God is calling you to establish a new family but make no mistake it comes with one of the highest prices of all the Apostolic types what does it mean to start a new spiritual DNA now that man verse one didn't it get out of your country from your family from your father's house to a land that I'll show you in other words go to who-knows-where and Eve everything you know everyone you know every spiritual DNA you had everything you received everything every archetype the food you ate the people you know leave that country completely and become someone completely new if God is calling you to be a spiritual father you don't get to stay at home you don't get to keep what's familiar you don't get to keep your nation and your archetype and your family so what God has called to be an Abraham make no mistake there is a price that comes with it but not everyone is called to be an Abraham and we make this mistake of imposing our mandates on others just because God asked you to give up your country doesn't mean that every apostle is asked to give up their country some made just to be give up their status maybe they just have to move within country I don't know there's certainly a lot of shifting around when God called you to be an apostle I promise you don't get comfortable they will be a shifting you will be changed but not everybody is called to the same dramatic shift as Abraham was or as Paul was he was saying from the Pharisees to the Gentiles complete complete shift Peter didn't have to pay that so realize a different mandate requires a different price now we have mandate number two and I called this apostle the pattern maker I had to some that's very incorrect notion I thought that all Apostles should be packing makers and when somebody didn't know how to make a pattern of civil then you couldn't be much of an apostle I didn't realize there was more to being an apostle than just someone who evangelize and made patterns this is just one type of apostle and I think you're going to know pretty clearly who the New Testament example and the Old Testament type is and we look again at Apostle Paul but our Old Testament type there's no better one than Moses the ultimate pattern maker right Exodus 24 verse 9 according to all that I show you that is the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings just so you shall make it Moses I'm going to give you the patent for the tabernacle for the furnishings for everything but just so you will make it you will make it exactly to spec you are not going to add an extra ring wear a ring shouldn't be or a cubit where a cubit shouldn't be it will be a exactly as I tell you to do it and for one who is a patent maker they have this kind of attention to detail it should be just so they're annoying they're fussy they're picky they're detail-oriented it has to be just so well what did you expect their pattern makers so what kind of training do you think a pattern maker would have to go through for somebody like me a lot of it because I am NOT analytical and I don't like thinking about details I just want to run and do and hop and skip and jump and pick up my sword and fight bad guys that's me becoming a pet maker was the hardest hardest season of my life because I had to do something I'd never done before I had to think in detail and put the pieces together as God gave it to me not everyone can get the patent and even as I go through each of these mandates I want you to already start seeing how possible it is for apostles to work together because not everybody can be a spiritual parent and not everybody could be a patent maker but you could certainly work together towards the same goal couldn't you absolutely because you're going to have different functions in the church the goal is the same but how are you walk it out is going to be different by apostle and you can start seeing how it is possible to bring unity in the body of Christ each of the Apostles even in the Old Testament I mean New Testament sorry you saw how they had their own mandate but you see how they did join together you see how Timothy and Silas and Peter I mean Paul got together and they could work even as apostles together as one it is possible I know that right now we're not seeing it the only way we really see apostles working together in today's day and age is in ministry Association you know I rub shoulders with you you rub no apostle so-and-so and yes my good friend the Postal Service oh and we all so jolly good my good friend and my good buddy so that I can bolster my ego and sound really good that's a really only way we see Apostles working together today but a time is coming at Ange of coming to the church we God is calling his apostles to work together to build the end-times church we can't do it alone each of us have different mandates each of us have different visions but if we bring it all together we'll get the full picture no one apostle has the full picture even in the New Testament not one had the full picture and even in the Old Testament although Moses got a large part of it we see how the judges come along and the kings come along and God even adds to that not even Moses had the fullness of understanding God added to it through the years and it's the same with us you can't be a solo player here it's time that we recognize each of our places and acknowledge the places of others and have a little bit of humility and readiness to listen to serve one another in love this is guys this is something we don't see in the church can we change it here in our hearts can we take the first step forward in the right direction can we build those patterns and this is something you need to realize as well is that just because you're a patent maker doesn't mean that you get to build the patent look at David hmm he got the patent for the temple and he was so excited about it and he was ready to build and what a God say no you will not build it his eyes never saw the glory of the temple of Sonics hm and we misunderstand that sometimes God has called you to get the patent and oftentimes that means he needs someone else to build it because you need to continue seeking him for more patents because you're a pattern maker that means that more petals are required for more works if that is your man then God will always give you patterns patterns for different things different visions it will evolve now you if you try and build as well as get the pattern you're going to stretch yourself out way too thin you can't do both at the same time and even when Moses got the patent he did not build the tabernacle guys he got the patent for it but the Lord told him exactly who should be involved in the building of it others built it but he went up the mountain again and again to get the patent so that they could build each one of us have a place to belong the patent maker is one who does a new thing creates a patent and a way of doing things that we didn't know before he's an originator now not every apostle is an originator and not every apostle needs to be one because that's only mandate number two I used to lump all of these into one and then consent then realize I fell short all right well I guess I'm not an apostle after all now we've got to realize that there's a lot of diversity in what God is doing in his church well there was always diversity if you look in the scriptures you see the diversity from Genesis to Revelation we just haven't taken time to really look at it that way and see how vital each part is so the third episodic type is what I like to call the Trail Blazer in my opinion the most fun of all the episodic types and my New Testament example of this is Peter and the Old Testament type Joshua Exodus 1710 so Joshua did as Moses said to him and fought with emilich and Moses Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill today's Moses yay go boys and where was Joshua hmm down in the trenches with the sword in his hand taking the land for God's people he was in battle Moses didn't have to be in battle he was the pattern maker it was smart for him to stay up on the hill he was getting a little old I mean he'd be a little tired I mean the dude couldn't even keep his arms up the whole time you needed an errand and her to keep his arms up I think even it just made a bit of sense for him to stay safe on top of the mountain because had he been taken out tell me who was gonna finish the patent because he got more than just the pattern for the tabernacle remember it got more than just the law in the presets he also got the patent for how to divide the land between all the tribes there was a lot of pet news that he got in his last time it was a good idea that he didn't die not yet anyway but there was somebody that needed to go and take the land to blaze the trail to go away angels feared to trade much like Apostle Peter and I call in the trailblazer because you know he was the first to step into a Gentile home and bring salvation to the Gentiles he broke a barrier a social barrier a religious barrier that no one had ever broken before he stepped into the unknown the unexpected and did what everybody thought was the worst thing to possibly do he wins an eight and fellowship and fits into the home of a Gentile and he broke the veil he tore it right down the middle and that is what the trailblazer is called to do to go ahead to have the courage yet to go where angels fear to tread with the sword held high to break those barriers to get in people's faces to smash they are the ones with the sharp edge the foolishness the ones that get in Jesus face and say oh that's not going to happen to you Jesus has to say get thee behind me Satan because sometimes that contella Satan driving me my place driving me all the Holy spirt driving me because they all just all over the place sometimes what a different character to Moses again he got Moses he's a thinker he's putting the pattern together he's got patience because the Lord knows he climbed up that mountain how many times you need patience hmm and then you got Joshua so fiery stayed in the presence of the Lord longer than Moses did everywhere you place your feet I've given to you boldness courage stepped out sword in hand we need those trailblazers and we'll see that they they tend to be very evangelistic sometimes they go into the worst places now you can fulfill more than one mandate but if you are the pattern maker you need yourself at Joshua you starting to see how the Apostles begin to work together yet and now you don't have to do it all yourself that's the biggest mistake you can make is try and be it all yourself I know I've been there guys it's impossible you can't stand at the top of the hill get in the pattern like this and then hop and jump down the hill pick up a sword and fight the enemy at the same time alright what's it gonna be what's it gonna be what do you what is it God's calling you to do you know the job that needs to be done but you can only do the job you are called to do since of all the mandate that God has put on your life you come fulfill the mandate somebody of somebody else's and that is why we need one another because more often than not God will send a Joshua sometimes even ahead of you you patent makers to go and break the hard ground to go prepare the way to upset people to unsettle the status quo so that you can come with the patent so that they will be ready for the patent when it's time you say hey Joshua not taking the land how could they have established the kingdom we need the Trailblazers we need the Peters who had the courage to step in and look at what happened had Peter not taken that step forward to the Gentiles and spiritually and physically unlocked with his key the realm of heaven for the Gentiles where would Paul be today because you see Paul was our pattern maker and he needed to bring that pattern to the church where would we be today had Peter not been obedient to the voice of God and the church to come and realize aha so salvation is for the Gentile vote for he broke barriers he went when no one else had gone and we need such Trailblazers again but what are we doing tying them down telling them to behave to be nice quiet little girls and boys because the rest of us are pattern makers or spiritual parents and these Trailblazers keep upsetting the status quo that's their mandate their means to break ground they're the kind that will go into a territory maybe they'll even start a couple of churches start something completely new break the ground and then leave and you're thinking what kind of person is that sounds like a Joshua to me sounds like a trailblazer someone that goes ahead we just need another apostle to follow that work up with a pattern so that something can truly be built these are men of war and as because of the nature of this mandate this episodic mandate is going to include a lot of spiritual warfare you'll be doing warfare at the highest level they will be backlashes there will be demon manifestations there will be nasty words there will be words spoken against you this is not an easy mandate but it really is the most fun it is the most fun because you get to shout you get to scream you get to upset people you get to go ahead break new ground going to new territories challenge new archetypes challenge denominations and for anybody who is called to that mandate it could be a lot of fun right okay only it's only fun if you're there if you're cold to be there the rest of us are like why I just wanted a nice afternoon tea we were going to sit down with the leaders we gonna fill a ship in the Lord and have a nice time but you invited a Joshua what did you expect the fire was going to come with their hard-edged and so that had been sharpened over years and years of usage but we need each other we need each other and you can't be a Moses and the Joshua at the same time you can't move from one to the other and I started out as a Joshua actually I broke the ground when the ministry first started Craig and I were both the Joshua's together side by side and when the opportunity came we were the first ones to go to Europe we went where angels fear to tread we didn't even know half the people there we were the first to go and start the works and get the people challenged and get them all inspired and try and train if I if I look back sometimes to be honest I'm a little bit embarrassed because I had like this much zeal and this much wisdom and about this much knowledge at the time we were very young we were very ambitious we were going to change the world tomorrow we were Joshua's and that is the nature of it we did spiritual warfare we went from region to region declaring and decree and releasing stuff in the spirit we were upsetting people and we were having the time of our lives so I said it's the most fun tough but the most fun and when my father handed the ministry over to Craig and I I was all ready to be Joshua again because I was so used to going ahead always broken your ground and then you would follow after you know fill the teaching and whatnot and God said yes that's great you know you've got to be Moses now that means a descend top of the mountain Lord yes like this connect just like this and someone else is going to do the fighting now you can shift mandates but it meant a character change for me it meant that I had to go through a bit of a process and when God has had you in one he will take you through a transitional season to move on to the next because you've got to finish the one first before you can go on to the next and you've got to make sure you complete that mandate and I did complete that mandate and actually when I look back today I look at see exactly what that accomplished because now we have ministry centres in all those places through the years God actually used those seeds that we sold back then the ground that we broke back then we're now building on we need each one of these mandates in the church today and then we have our first mandate who I like to call the trainer's and new Testament examples I've got Jesus here although to be really honest with you I could have put Jesus on every single one of these but I just really loved how he worked with the 12 disciples specifically so I wanted to focus on that of course Paul again he was another one that was a trainer he shifted to and if you look at actually all the disciples I mean I could have put others on there too you can see how they moved from one to the other as well as they got more mature as they got more wisdom and the low train them further and what I have here is X 19 verse 9 but when some were hardened and we believe but spoke evil of the way before the multitude he departed from them and withdrew the disciples reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus and you look how he continued they for two years I see such a sudden shift in Paul's ministry he now sits and he trains for a couple of years and isn't that what Jesus did as well with his twelve disciples he took three years to train them and I love the example of our Old Testament type who is come on David what a fantastic example of a trainer taking those mighty warriors getting the strength bending them together making them a unique and powerful force for the Kingdom of Israel he is a trainer of mighty men he trains up leaders and believers to do good works of every kind now I want you to understand something he's not just a teacher he's a trainer and equipment another action word Moses although a pattern maker actually is also a really good teacher spiritual father teacher and you will notice how each one of these epistatic mandates include evidence all of the fivefold ministry other more of a teaching orientation or an evangelistic or a prophetic but I'm going way beyond that I'm looking at your Commission as a whole how you fulfill your Commission will differ from apostle to Apostle but I'm looking at this commission that God has given each of us to fulfill and David is a fantastic picture of a trainer he banded the mighty men together and look at Paul he trained up the elders the Apostles so spiritual sons he worked with he didn't just parent them he trained them to do the job that he could leave them behind or send them ahead to handle it and if you've got a heart to equip and you're going to find these guys starting prophetic schools not just Bible schools we're talking about people that are training up intercessors teaching them hands-on come on let me teach you how to pray let me teach you how to evangelize let me let me show you kind of come on the streets with me let's evangelize together this is somebody who's a trainer Andy Cooper not just the teacher yes teaching will be involved you can't train without doing some teaching but your main focus is again a doing word let's do the job and let me show you how to do the job and when you're a trainer you are very focused in what you do in that when you're working with someone you're always going to see the flaws I know that I'm dealing with the trainer when all they see is what needs to change well of course they're like a coach a personal life coach that says if you want to be a success we need to deal with that let's change that haircut let's change that attitude let's work on this character of yours and it's make you successful that's what a trainer does pushes you to your limit so that's the potential in you can come out now they are a parcel to have just this passion and you know we get so much pressure from those around us fellow leaders those who follow us other people in the church to conform to what everybody else is doing well that's not the way you mean to be doing it how can you be a trainer you need to be a teacher you need to have a Bible School you need to start with the basics and you can come under so much condemnation because you keep doing things so differently guys you're an apostle you mayn't to be doing things differently it is part and parcel of the call it is our difference that unites us it is our diversity that makes us strong God has put us in these positions for a reason if you conform yourself to someone or something else you're not going to be effective in the mandate God's called you to do you're going to have one foot in one mandate and another foot in someone else's mandate and you're not going to move forward or backwards you're going to be stuck in the mud going nowhere fast if you want to move forward you need a focus on the mandate God has given you and if you've been called to be a trainer it is one of the most difficult mandates that there is and it is a thankless thankless job and let me tell you it's a calling because no one else can handle that much rebuff rejection failure people bailing out on them without it being a call you know I look at what so many of my team goes through as trainers in our ministry the hours the days the years they travail with each one of these students they're disciples they cry over them they pray over them they work day and night with them for many of them when the going gets tough to them to turn around and say I'm done I can't do this I'm out of here Hibs now I don't need to take that from you I don't need that correction I don't need to hear that I need to deal with my son I don't have any son I don't need to deal with that do you know how much courage it takes to get into someone's face and say you are full of bitterness and pride die ready do you know how much courage that takes when you know the rebuffs that you're going to get now sorry that word is a spirit of divination you're in complete deception and you're demonized and you need to deal with that people love hearing that like all the time all the time they'll love it when you told that say for everything to hear but it's unavoidable when you're you know kind of training prophets who thought that they would go looking for the Spirit of God in places where they should never have gone looking and activating certain things in their spirit that really didn't need no activating at all and weren't exactly activated by the Holy Spirit either you know I'm saying that were born with generational bondages and divinations and then try and bring that into the prophetic ministry you know what I'm talking about we see this rampant in the church and why is it grandpa in the church because no one has the courage to get in their faces and say that is a demon but a trainer does the trainer does and they're prepared for the backlash it doesn't mean it's easy of course it's not easy who likes to be spewed at who likes to be told that you're just being a dominating so-and-so trying to push your agenda on them and they don't know anything what price they paid to get this and what would they be without this if you don't want that but when you're a trainer you've got the courage for that you've got the courage to get up again and again and face it again and again and I tell you what I take my head off to those of my team that are such trainers because they take more rebuffs more backlashes more bitter words as these students are going through their training you know tomorrow we have our graduation each one of us will cry because we know the journey that each one of you have gone on but when I sit there and cry and I do every graduation I try not to but I do I cry for my trainers because I remember the price they paid to get you there I remember sitting around that dinner table talking about each one of you and how they wonder if you're going to make it through I remember sitting and praying them through when they were crying on my shoulder saying I've obviously failed I'm the worst trainer ever what have I done wrong what do I need to do we should I go next that's what I remember when each one of you stand up there on that stage I look at the price that each one of these guys prayed to paid and prayed to put you there now that's the heart of a trainer and when you have that heart only the holy spirit could have put it there because no one could take that much punishment just for the fun of it and we need more David's in the church who have the courage to go through with God's people look we've even got some we've got the boldness to get in your face and say you've got a demon but how many have the courage to then take you by the scruff of your neck and deal with them until the demons go on to deal with your spirit and your business and your garbage until the demons gone how many people have the courage to go through after they've made you manifest me not a whole lot not a whole lot and that's why we need more trainers in the body of Christ and if you are a trainer then please stop trying to be a pattern maker pleace trainers are like the worst pattern makers because their pattern is all about change let's change let's change this change let's change this die already change this change this it's like what are we going to build you're always spending the time tearing things down terrible pattern makers terrible terrible and pattern makers make the worst trainers too but you can now let's structure it to make sure that this doesn't happen again so I haven't got time to figure that out we're going to demon to deal with here we've got a life to change we've got some equipping to do each one of us has a place find your place and recognize this is a mandate from the Father and honor a privilege you're looking for a position and a title here it is right here bundled in with the price that you're called to pay for it we have the first mandate I like to call these apostles the builders I think the builders probably have the best work satisfaction because they get to see the finished product they the Solomon as you can imagine and James Jesus brother James the Apostle in Jerusalem I love the book of James a lot of people don't understand the book of James but I get James because this was his mandate he was a builder you see you got Paul and Peter you got Peter with these big mouths breaking ground there you got Paul getting his patents and laying out the structure and even if you look at all the patterns that Paul set for the New Testament church I mean we would we even be as a body without that pattern right I mean he set us up on how we should be prophesying the gifts of the spirits the hierarchy of the fivefold ministry I mean he laid every every pattern for for marriage and Christianity for so many different aspects of our Christian walk we really needed it but then there was someone that had to make it happen you know it's one thing having a pattern but then you need somebody to live with it you know Paul did so much moving around and we look maybe two years here maybe three years there but for the most part he did a circuit and he was always moving around listen how can you build when you never stay in one place long enough to build I mean look at David same thing right he was all over the place he was always going out for war and even when he stayed home while we know how that was for him right not good to leave a David at home he gets up to way too much hanky-panky send the man out to walk please and again I thought so sure Solomon was any better but at least he kept to his own right oh he certainly knew how to make able to sunshine anyway you're builders are James and Solomon 1 chronicles 22 verse 10 and he shall build a house for my name is speaking of Solomon now and he shall be my son and I will be his father and I will establish the throne of his kingdom of Israel forever and I love as well this illustration of James we look at Galatians 2:9 and this is a writing of Paul but Paul is explaining what happened when he'd been running the race a little bit and he'd been sent to the Gentiles he's getting all these patterns and then he said you know what maybe I should go hang out with some of the other apostles to find out if this race has been invade I mean I'm pretty sure I'm on track but let me go see if I'm really on track and who did he go and visit in Galatians 2 9 and when James Cephas and John she was being Peter who seemed to be pillars perceived the grace that had been given to me they gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised James stayed at home to build he built the church at Jerusalem he paid his life for the church at Jerusalem and it became this hub we even knows from the center in Antioch visited to make sure that they were still on track sure there were some things about James he was a good Jew there came some conflicts in some of the building later on between how Antioch was built and how Jerusalem was built but still I love the illustration of James when you read the book of James it just I could just put the whole book of James there you get them in guys this is how you baletta behaving in your fellowship you know you guys are acting like a bunch of children you're busy striving I love James for my famous show the favorite chapter in the whole of the book of James you know you're striving for your pleasures you're bickering amongst one another you're striving here and there I'm like James were you just at one of the church meetings down the road the other night where is the thriving and conflict coming from among you your desires for pleasure that's try within your members you last and do not obtain you murder and covet do not have you do not have because you don't ask when you ask you ask amiss just wear your own pleasures yeah last week right los Sunday this is a man who knew what it was like to live at local church every single day he was a pastor's pastors pastor he lived with the people every day he didn't just talk about patents he loves the patents and made those patents very very practical for the people to follow and if you're called to be a James or a Solomon you're called to build and guess what you're called to stay at home you think I was I know an apostle is one who was synched and certainly James was sent he was commissioned by Jesus himself but we always think that that means leaving country remember like I said for the spiritual parent we think that that means leaving country leaving family but it wasn't so with James James stayed at home he stayed and took care of business he built up and established the work right there and if you just stop for a minute you'll see that we already have a lot of James is in the body of Christ right now we love to knock those bishops I'm first in line really have you just not got the courage to call yourself an apostle really you think that wearing a collar and calling yourself a bishop you kind of like don't have the courage to really say I'm an apostle but if I'm a bishop it's a little bit more like a foot in the door hmm just to James there's nothing wrong with that we need them we need those who stay at home to build not everybody can go out he's going to stay at home in Jerusalem we were going to be the covering or that place of warmth with the rest of the apostles who have been going out need to come and find shelter because actually Peter was one of the elders in the church of Jerusalem but he was never at home see because Peter he was out there blazing trails everywhere you in he was always breaking ground and going out and healing the sick and sending out the gospel and going and doing and fighting but then he needed to come home every now and again to a place of refuge he came home to Jerusalem you know what that's where James were keeping the camp fires burning mmm we need the Jameses who will build the patent you will establish it and cause a place of comfort a place where people can belong and if God keeps grounding you and not letting you go out but keeps telling you to build and maybe you're a Solomon maybe you're a James and you're meant to be hands-on you're practical and you're going to teach you're going to instruct and you're going to get involved day by day it's not for everyone and if you're not a Solomon if you're not a James don't feel guilty because you're not a James you're not mean to but because I think this is probably the most common episodic type that we see in the church right now everybody thinks that that's what it should be you know I consider Jesus so what church did he build we were he steeples yeah where was his congregation I didn't see a building I didn't see a big church that he established by the time he had died but yet he started a movement that we're still in today yeah not all of us can be a Jain some of us have to go out and just because you haven't built a big Church doesn't mean you're not an apostle it means you're just not a James and perhaps you're not mean to be but if you are then it's time for you to begin to build to take the pattern and to establish it now that you may not receive the patent but you sure know how to take the pattern and know what it's mean to look like look at Solomon he didn't get the pattern but I tell you what what he did with that petal he made it shine he rocked that pet and I love that because even in our ministry me being the pattern maker I think that I've got it all together and I say this is how we gonna do it and then one of the Solomons in my team get a hold of that pattern and they put bling all over it they just bling it and they just make it all extravagant they're builders that's what they do they're like hmm I'm going to bedazzle this bat check this out and that's what they're meant to do they make it look good Solomon didn't just build the temple he built so much more than that he built his palace he built cities and he took the land by building on it you see David also took the land but he took it with the tip of a sword Solomon took the land but in a very different way he did it by building on it and establishing in it and making sure that they couldn't be routed up from it very quickly then we have our last at the stolid type and I like to call these guys the finishers a New Testament example is Timothy and our Old Testament type is Aaron 1 Corinthians 4:17 for this reason I think Timothy to you who is my beloved and faithful son in the Lord who will remind you of my ways in Christ as I teach everywhere in every church number 3 perfect also they shall attend to all the furnishings of the tabernacle of meeting and to the needs of the children of Israel and to do the works of the tabernacle and you shall give the Levites to Aaron and his sons they are given entirely to him from among the children of Israel Moses got the the picture he got the pattern you have Paul who got the pattern but I love 1 Corinthians 4:17 3 it says this is my son he will remind you of my ways in Christ and when Paul is said to be beheaded Timothy is still finishing the work that Paul started just like Aaron took the pattern that Moses had begun and from generation to generation to generation continued the work even long after the tabernacle had been exchanged for a temple we still see Aaron and his sons continuing the work working side-by-side with Moses and Aaron is one that may not get the patent but he is certainly the one that see to the eggs and continues it he is the finisher the one that makes sure that the job gets done very pastoral very hands-on as a heart for the people he gets involved he takes a patent that's been given to him and he makes sure that it's finished to the end that the lights or things are on that the finishing touches are on he doesn't just build he completes the building completely now this takes a lot of pressure of you if you're called to be an errand or a Timothy you don't have to be the Trailblazer you don't have to get the patent you don't have to even be a spiritual parent you just have to make sure the job gets finished is the mandate completed and there are some people I'm sure you even know who walk in that anointing they're finishers you get your starters and you get your finishers your Timothy and your heir and they have a patience to see it through to the end I am NOT one of those people at one time yes but that time is gone I am NOT that person anymore I am the one that gets the patent and then hands it out to the builders so that they might build it who then work with the finishers who see it through to the end what an incredible team we are working together hand in hand can you see how the Apostles can work together some are going to blaze a trail some are going to built the church some are going to get the patent but together we can establish the kingdom of God I wrote here one froze and other waters isn't that what Apostle Paul was talking about me one lays a foundation and other builds on it one gets a patent the next breaks ground the next builds the next maintains the next equips and trains for function within it each one of us has our place has our part to play and we can work together to do it if we got some humility if we prepared to let the me myself and I aside and just do what God has called us to do now in all of these six types mandates if you will that I've mentioned to you there are functions and I know we're going on with time but I've got nine very specific functions that regardless of what your mandate is see because I've given you your job what are you are you a builder are you a finisher are you a trainer are you a pattern maker what are you now how do you know if you doing your job you know what your job is now how do you know if you're doing your job and these are just nine points for now I hope you're going to add to these please can I challenge you don't be like baby birds fly like Eagles for yourself and get your own revelation please you're familiar with divisions 4 11 12 and 13 you gave some apostles prophets so on and so forth you know it with the equipping of the Saints the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of Christ we all come to the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God to a perfect man to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ nine functions and here they are function number one to receive a mandate and to implement it 1 Timothy 3:10 but you have carefully followed my doctrine suppose for you manner of life purpose pace long-suffering love perseverance the Commission how can you even follow your mandate you don't know what it is so let's start with step number 1 get a mandate or should I rather say recognize your mandate because you can't go get a mandate because God gives the mandate like I said with the vision you can't just catch it like here let me just throw a mandate H you just catch it you can't do that you receive one from holy spirit so number one recognize your mandate and begin implementing it okay number two equipped the leaders within that mandate all right so you know what you are you're a builder pattern maker now obviously with this mandate in place God's already brought those to you that share this that share aspects visions within that mandate right all you equipping them for it or you're just worried about yourself because I see in 2 Timothy 4 verse 1 Paul says to him I charge you therefore I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who will judge the living and the dead and his appearing in his kingdom preach the word be ready in season and out of season convinced rebuke exhort with all longsuffering and teaching he is instructing Timothy you see he didn't just give Timothy the patent he trained him in it he equipped it in the patents don't just throw a patent at someone and that they suddenly know how to build it or finish it or do anything with it Paul lays it out very clearly have you equipped the leaders you know David positioned his mighty men Moses imparted the anointing that was on him to the 70 elders Paul raised up Timothy and Silas so you got a mandate big deal who's running with you have you taken time to raise up those that are going to fulfill it with you number three if you are an apostle here's another proof of the function that you should be fulfilling in the church you have established a structure you call yourself an apostle number one I want to know what your mandate is number two I want to see the fruit of that in those that you've raised up in it and number three show me your structure 2 Timothy 1:13 hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me 1 Corinthians 14 39 therefore brethren desire earnestly to prophesy and do not good to speak with tongues and I love verse 40 it says let all things be done decently and in order you see even just teach them about the spiritual gifts he brought structure Moses gave structure Paul gave structure James gave structure even David who was a trainer had structure what does your structure look like organization hey I know you prophet ate it it's not a prophetic seminar now is it it's an apostolic one tell me a puzzle what does your structure look like number four you guys should be familiar with this phrase to drive the vision forward I love this scripture that epitomizes this concept of driving the vision forward romans 3:13 brethren i do not consider myself to have apprehended but that's one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead I praise towards the goal of the prize of the upward call of God in Jesus Christ I see Paul running a race say I forget those things that are behind and I continue to press forward I Drive the vision forward I forget those things that are behind me they're part they're over they done what's the next vision an apostle is one that drives the vision forth here's one that takes the church through transition allows it to evolve you've got Joshua who took the children of Israel from the wilderness to the promised land you've got David who took the children of Israel from a divided Kingdom to a United Kingdom you have Paul who took them from the Old Testament into the New Testament the Apostle is one that takes the church through transition because they're driving the vision forward and continue to get revelation you see you can't just rook the old way away from them you can't just take away the old vision you've got to drive a vision forward and help the church transition into it if you're an apostle what are you transitioning the church into you see even if you're a pattern maker that means that you're displacing an old pattern if you are a trainer that means that you're teaching them a new way of doing things right if you're blazing a trail of course you're completely challenging old mindset status quo doctrines religion archetypes you know these are displacement going on you're driving it forward what are you doing to transition the church from the old to the new you can't just wait for God to do it all by himself God chose you you've got to step forward and fulfill your function drive the vision forward number five an apostle isn't just one that starts the ministry I left that out of my list completely because that's in the signs of the character of Apostle I'm going deeper and Apostle is one that creates a place for ministry until Jesus had come along there's no such thing as apostles until David come along they weren't 24-hour praise and worship errs there were no mighty men and certainly the Prophet didn't have a place in court he created a position for the seer he created a position for the worshipers Moses created a position for the seventy elders he made something that wasn't there before we spoke about raising up the mighty men it's not good enough to just raise up mighty men are you giving them a place to function in once they raised up now that's an apostle and apostle looks and says you don't have a place let's make you a custom foot place for your call holy spirit what do I do guess what happens when you do that apostle your work grows you multiply you don't have five mighty warriors all doing the same thing in the same position and wondering why you're not gay anyway no you have five mighty warriors that you create a place for so that they can function in their unique calling I was so focused on the prophetic school at one time that was the birth of my ministry was what I started with and when gods started calling me to be a Moses he said your thinking is about to shift in a very big way because I'm bringing you people with callings that you didn't even know we're callings they could have a heart to do things that you don't even consider ministry but they are ministries and I have called them to do it and you better find a place for them they're going to have a heart for the loss they could have a heart for the elderly they're going to have a heart to pray they're going to have all these diverse desires and you say don't you Day sing them away but instead you create a place for them in your ministry you establish a department just for them so that they can flourish in it we're not seeing this in the church and we're not seeing this in the apostolic ministry but we need to see it more because we're too stuck in this is a calling and these are the only positions we have available in the church we need to identify the potential in the mighty warriors and then create a place for them to function to the fullest of their potential that is a sign of an apostle not one that talks about positions but one that creates and custom fits a position to a mighty warrior number six the Apostle is one who appoints people today place Titus 1 verse 5 but this reason I left you in Crete that you should sit in order the things that are lacking and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you the Apostle is one that should be appointing people to position not just himself please Lord we got to do the Apostle you're the bishop you the the senior pastor we've got what you are what's everyone else servants and shepherds and sheep I don't know can we start appointing others too job can we start appointing other reporters and they are some who are doing it so I'm not going to knock all the Apostles out they're just the ones that stand on their little Tower and try and keep all the glory for themselves not too fond of those because a huge part of our function is to a point and you know God will send Craig and I sometimes into the most obscure places just to go and appoint someone to put them in an office and leave again just that just that one thing you'll send us into the middle of nowhere to a little church a little meeting just a little side trip to go and pick up a mighty warrior or to go and appoint someone into a at the sonic office or prophetic office and that's only had us travel halfway around the world to do happened to us many many times because the Lord needs these apostles to lay hands and impart and release and place people in that office and not a lot of them are doing it there or dining because we're yeah you've been faithful to this ministry for a long time and you went through our Bible School course so we can all we've decided we can attain you to be an apostle because you look very apostolic right now really really should we ask God the Father what he wants what's this apostles mandate what is they structure where is their key and they don't need you to qualify them the HAR the qualifier same you just need to put the cherry on the top lay your hands release the power and walk away they're an apostle they'll get the rest of this just fine walk next to an apostle not over him you should be fulfilling this if they're not willingness they're not apostles they're just lackeys but you gave them the title apostles they'll stay in your ministry that's not what I'm talking about okay that's not the function I'm talking about when I say appoint them today place I'm talking about releasing decree imparting giving them the anointing and power and confirming for them what God's already told them and then sending them and then in the Holy spirt send em out now they may be some McKay that will say and walk alongside you and I've got a few of those but for a mate most apostles that I've owed aimed and released into episodic office they went out to be apostles how about that they went out to do their mandate and their work in there well and that was the point not for them to stay under me I didn't appoint them God appoint to them and we need to see a little bit more of this in the body of Christ 7 to impart I already mentioned this to impart so not just a point but impart the power of God to others Romans 1:11 for I long to see you that I may impart to you some spiritual gift so that you may be established the Apostle because of the nature of his training and the journey has gone through a refining process his vessel has been stretched from here to kingdom come and as a result has accumulated the authority the power the anointing to do the work that God's called him to do now what I love about it is that we went through all of that not to hold on to it but to impart it to others so that they could eat the fruit of our labor to let them take the shortcut they don't have to go through that whole process that we went through the Apostle is meant to impart the gifts and I love doing that it's my most favorite thing to do and for any of you that have been through our schools I didn't even need to lay hands on you and how about that gift of discerning spirits right God does not mess around with that gift of discerning of spirits right those of you that it's probably one of the the one gifts that I flow in the strongest say everybody always picks it up you won't believe how many people got spirit so start speaking in tongues after going through some of our courses do that importation it establishes them in their calling and you know I don't doubt they could get it from the Lord themselves on their own of course they could but it's nice to have a shortcut and that's what the apostles there you went through the long journey so that others wouldn't have to an apostle is meant to be imparting and releasing and maybe they're mean to say maybe they are not but let's please impart the gifts and impart the anointing that God's people need to overcome the problems in their life and to be established to do the work of God that he's called them to do number eight to reveal the fullness of God to his people hmm I speak about the Prophet you guys you prophets that are here I speak how the Prophet reveals Jesus to his people how you bring the bride into reality of a face-to-face relationship with Jesus now the Apostle is meant to do the same thing however he's meant to bring a reality of the fullness of the Trinity to the church to experience the fear the righteous fear of the Father the tender love and embrace of Jesus and the fire and the signs and wonders of the Holy Spirit that is why your training is being what it is to reveal to the church the fullness of the father of the Spirit and of the son depending on where that person is right now where they are you should be able to express the nature of God that needs to be expressed to that specific person that is why you've gone through what you have why one minute you were trembling before the father the next minute you've just had this righteousness of the Holy Spirit in the next you felt the tender sweet love of Jesus and you thinking am I going psycho what is it exactly father who are you I am all I am one in three three and one don't you understand it is part of the apostolic call so that whoever comes you know sometimes when somebody comes to us for ministry they need Jesus right now they need a lover and a groom who says I love you and you're broken and you hurt and come and rest in my arms and let me heal you they need that but then there are other times when somebody needs a sign in a wonder and a conviction of sin and this times when they need the righteousness of the father to bring them to their knees and say who are you to tell God how he should use you he is God he is your father you reverence him depend what they need you as an apostle should be able to reflect every aspect of the nature of God to his people because you know God in his fullness and I'm going to end with the scripture that epitomizes that beautifully in a little bit but I just want to mention the ninth function of the Apostle and that is to establish a work that remains tell me Apostle what is the seal of your Apostleship because in 1 Corinthians 9 - Paul said if I'm not an apostle to others yet doubtless I am to you for you are the seal of my Apostleship in the Lord an apostle is one who has built a structure that remains for generation after generation whether you're a trailblazer or a builder it doesn't matter what your mandate is whatever you have done should remain and isn't that our goal as apostles you don't want to think that when all is said and done the winds and the waves will come and just wash away the work you've done like sandcastles on a beach you would like to imagine that you've raised up your team that you've imparted everything that you have that you've positioned them so that that work may remain 2 Corinthians 2:15 for we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those are being saved and among those who are perishing - the one we are aroma of death leading to death to the other the aroma of life leading to life and who is sufficient for these things for we are not as so many peddling the Word of God yeah he had them in those days to those who peddle the Word of God for their own gain it's been it's been a thorn in the side of the body of Christ for years now but as of sincerity but as from God we speak in the sight of God in Christ do we begin again to commend ourselves or do we need at some others epistles of condemnation to you or letters of commendation from use on the condemnation commendation do we need commendation sorry I'm an apostle do I need commendation to you so that I can prove to you that I'm an apostle do I do I need commendation from you do I need you to even say oh yes you're an apostle to know I am you he says to the Corinthians you are our epistle written in our hearts known and read by all men do I need a degree do I need commendation of men do I need a set of a certificate that says you are an apostle do I even need someone to say all I could see that you are an apostle no but let us say today as Apostle Paul said you are our epistle written in our hearts known and read by all men clearly you earn Epistle of Christ ministered by US written not with ink but by the Spirit of the Living God and not on cabinets of stone but in tablet of flesh that is of the heart and we have such trust Christ toward God not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything has been from ourselves but our sufficiency is from God who made us sufficient as ministers of the New Covenant not of the letter but of the spirit for the letter kills but the Spirit brings life a possible when all is said and done and you've gone through your list and you have confirmed your apostolic call and you know what your mandate is and you're running this race on whose heart have you written I don't care how many books are under your belt I don't care how many churches you have built how many ministries you have established tell me who is the seal of your Apostleship who who not what who is the seal of your Apostleship what have you left in the wake of this mandate of yours another structure of men to be torn down again tomorrow Oh have you burst in the spirit of those God has brought you this mandate he's given to you does it matter so much to you to be called an apostle and recognized as an apostle or to be an apostle because I know the proof of my Apostleship are in my spiritual children they're in mighty mighty warriors they're in those that I give my life for and invest and see them rise up and do better than me and I don't care if I have the title and I don't care if somebody says so you think you an apostle I'm like really really are we going to fight about this title are we because the title isn't something you wear it's something you do it's something you die for it's something you impart and if we could just allow the spirit to bring life instead of the letter to kill perhaps just perhaps we'll start a movement perhaps we'll begin something in this generation that will continue for the generations to come because it's not all about what we've done or what we've built but who we've established and who we raised up when all is said and done one day can I look as Christ looked when he hung on the cross and see is in essence do you see your inheritance today do you look down and say the price is worth it because I see the inheritance in the faces of every single person that I've imparted to and raised up and even if no one you my name I know that some fruit remains and it is good fruit that is why we do what we do that is why we die when we die that is why we push through when we've got no more strength to push through because it's not about the me myself my I the functions the mandates the Apostles the types those all very interesting they're all very fascinating I love to talk about and I love to teach about it but you know what I love more than all of that is to see the mighty warriors rise up and take their place and shake the gates our help and to set the captives free that's really what I love and that's why we do what we do and I thank you Holy Spirit I thank you for your conviction I thank you for your fire and father I thank you for your presence right now Lord lay the weight of this church on our shoulders bring us to remembrance why you came in the first place to set us free let us remember the child you called to do the impossible to be the impossible let us throw aside every weight every title every accomplishment to just be clay in your hands again Lord to get back to the joy the joy of why we started this road and above all ordinate asset your church is a city on a hill whatever part that means to play let us run this race and reach our goal together in Jesus name Amen hmm thank you Father thank you Father the Holy Spirit is certainly challenged is there something you want to shoot her no look if any of the team has something to share feel somebody of the team has something to share come up don't make me call you here has anything I feel the Holy Spirit's not done yet Kiara she tell Abbas said idea Teddy T the Lord's breaking down some old walls some old misconceptions it's been so many insecurities that you had that you've tried to cover over and build with all these walls and the Holy Spirit's busy tearing them down just trying to bring you back to the basics of ministry and what it's all about allow him to do the work allow him to breathe on those seeds that I spoke about be the children again we once were naive silly and it wasn't about your way or my way it's just about doing something anything for him it's because it felt so good it just felt so good to just be used also good to flow in the anointing remember how simple it was he felt so good to give that prophetic word because you just felt God all over you remember that it wasn't about our principles and rules it's just the pure joy of doing these work guys since when did we become so old huh make it old and grumpy when did we lose it not on you'd hello there we go I just love what Colette sharing because as I'm sitting there the Lord reminded me that 500 years ago Luther went and posted on the church door a document that changed the way the church was ever going to be again he he and he didn't do it because he wanted to do that he just did it because he was tired of seeing something wrong he took what God had put in him and he laid it out and he did something he took action and it wasn't even him that progressed it more it was good and big and all of those guys he couldn't work who took the print that that pat that does those words and he put it on a pond on his printing press and he duplicated it but because Luther was there and he did that one action the dominoes started to fall that sets in motion a movement that changed the church 500 years ago I think it's time we do another loser don't you guys the church has come a far away but it's a pretty sad state when the Christians don't even know the voice of their Jesus it's a pretty sad state when we don't many Christians don't know that can walk in victory the good news is not just that you're going to go you're not going to hell the good news is that we have a partner that came into a blood covenant with us and gave us all the blessings in him and him and amen and we need to walk in that and this is the weight that I feel is so important is that we need to take this and whatever our Luther moment is let us do it however silly it may be the repercussions of that movement that little motion that little action is what's going to spearhead the change that we're dying to see in this world and we get to do it we get to do it as a team we get to do it as a family and this is what I love that is so important to me is that Luther had himself but we have a whole family okay we get to do this together guys it changes it changes everything because you're not alone you're not going there and hoping that you're going to get it right you've got those like Colette said you've got the James to come and say you're doing a good job don't worry about where we're out there in it and it's getting a bit rough because the spears are more than the blessings we have the James in our lives they can say keep it going we're going to keep the prayers for you we've got the prayer backing we've got everything you need let's just carry on do what you're doing we've got your back and I think that's more important because when you're out there alone and you're all alone it's a pretty scary place to be but just knowing that someone's got your back just a phone call away an email away just anything you got we got there's a back King there that gives you the strength to push on a little bit more amen I just had was sitting there and I had one simple word from the Lord for each one of you now having taken everything that's been taught be bold all the Apostles in the old day they made a difference and they made the change not because of their great ideas or because of their great abilities but because they were bold enough silly enough stupid enough to stand there and be the Lord's vessel you see your insecurities and you see your flaws you see where you've messed up and you see the trail and then maybe the mess you've left behind but dare you be bold enough to make even more of a mess dare you be bold enough to be even more of a fool for Christ because you're going to make a change and it's because of your foolishness because of your stupidity that we're going to make this change in the earth so don't sit there in the quiet when you have a word to say don't hide away don't hide your light under a bushel but shine it bright it's because of that light it's because that fire that God is putting you that you're going to change the church yeah sure you're a wildfire and maybe you upset some people and you leave them away being a little bit of sport so what better than be scorned and make a change in this earth then you hide away and let them walk in the darkness be bold maybe you'll get it wrong but you know what because of that one wrongdoing you will make will change your life forever and be may give you the opportunity to go and make a change and get things right so don't hide don't be afraid to step out don't be afraid to maybe mess up with your team to mess up with the structure to mess up with whatever it is because you know what do your failure do your mistakes through your boldness and your courage being courageous for him we're going to change and we're going to make a difference in this earth just send forth the shaking in the hearts of every single person that's here right now Lord send forth that shaking right now I send forth this shaking right now and I shake everything that's in its place that does not need to be there until what remains is simply what you have for each and every one of your apostles here right now I send for this boldness right now in the hearts of every person and I cut every relationship that should not be right now and I remove these people from their homes I remove these apostles from their countries and from their homes and I establish those that need to be established in these new cities in these new families right now I establish you in this family right now and I bring forth those connections that you need and I bring forth those relationships that you need right now and I just uproot every mountain that stands in the way that you have tried so hard to uprooting your own power and I pluck it up and I cast it into the sea you be removed every last mountain that stands in the way knightly this carpet of favor before you that have struggled in travailed in your own strength and not pick you up and I give you this position of honor that God has for you for you do not have to struggle and fight for the position but I give it to you says the Lord I give you this position of Honor for the humility that you are willing to wear I give you the seat on the throne qiyam brashly kirbridge cetera mondo beings Erik asla Seabra Chiquita embrace et bien de rêve Enda he Abrash Elohim bruh Tara manzil abhi na xie brashly Katie Arikara he Ambrose o Coromandel asitv Enda he Abra cash today he am Brokaw Tobin's idea shaquiesha Takeya broto moola kravitch ng habla Toba he beretta cash lotta mondo robot on the day he a brochure Chi he imbrue Koba Chitika SIA brocco Mia's khattala Manzullo piensa que habrá Chaka tae-hee Ambro cumbia here brush it a sin forth a cloud by day in a fire by night I feel you with the protection of the Father with angels of swords to protect you right now prepare the way before you now and I open up a door that no man can close not even you and your stupidity will shut this door to the Lord it is time to walk boldly says the Lord it is time to not care about the limp that you have but to trust in the power that I have given you it is time to not care about what you can or cannot do the ability you do or do not have for I have the ability that you do not have and the power that you need I have for you and I have given it to you for you do not walk this road alone but I stand beside you I stand in front of you and I stand behind you says the Lord is it a kick you need then it is a kick you have today it is is it strength you need then today I give you the biceps that you never had before is it vision you need then I open the eyes of the blind and I give those that cannot hear the hearing that they need so do not care any longer for the journey that you must walk do not care any more about the in capabilities that you have but know today that I have set you on a new road and I will see it to the end says the Lord I just feel like there are some here who are waiting and stagnant and not moving forward but I see how if you would just lift your flag high and you would just stand in your uniqueness then those who belong to your tribe will come to you you know there's being in such a big crowd so often I realize something about being in a big crowd it only takes one person to start moving and if I just take that one step and start moving towards the car I look behind me and the whole group starts moving with me and that's all the Lord wants you to do just go just go and they will follow but they're waiting for a leader they're waiting for somebody to make a move because while you're just standing there people are conversating they're talking about their life their promotion all the things they care about what's for dinner until somebody has the guts to stand up and go I feel that some of you have compromised you let go of that that that thing that the Lord gave you that uniqueness that back in white that the Lord gave you you know the popsicle that talked a lot about apostolic Authority that is what people makes people stick and you keep being afraid to step out and move because you're afraid you're going to lose people know you're gonna lose people if you don't step up put your flag high because they don't see you that's how you're going to lose people not by making a move not making a move but because you won't step up wave your banner high so they say yes that's what I'm looking for I'm a soldier in the armies in the Lord's army and I'm looking for a general but unless you stand up and be that general how can you expect your army to recognize you and come to you the Lord has risen up many mighty men people stop looking so downtrodden and thinking over work when will they come when who where are they if you would just stand up and be seen maybe they would start coming to you so shake off the rejection shake off the hurts shake off your insecurities and just grow you

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Published: Mon Jan 29 2018