Will you be made whole? part four

God is setting his house in order. Ephesians 2:19-20 says "the household of God" is "built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone". No man can be the cornerstone of the work God is doing in the earth today save "Jesus Christ himself" but God does choose men whom he anoints as apostles and prophets to birth and found his household all over the world. Jesus surrounded himself with twelve apostles, not pastors. The apostles were the ones to ordain and set in place pastors in the local churches. The concept of the pastor as the head of the local church does not come from the Bible. A careful study of scripture will reveal this. In the New Testament there are 246 mentions of apostles and prophets. The next most mentioned headship ministry is that of teacher with 13. Evangelists are mentioned three times with pastors just once in ephesians chapter 4. Shepherds are mentioned 17 times but 11 of those refer to Jesus as our "Great Shepherd" or to the shepherds present at the birth of Jesus, almost all New Testament mentions of shepherd do not refer to pastors. So we see the overwhelming emphasis in the New Testament is on apostles and prophets.
A pastor after God's heart will rejoice for true apostlic and prophetic ministry, recognizing they are sent by God as a blessing to his fellowship, a sign from God that he is willing and wanting to build their fellwoship his way. Under a true apostle's care, everyone else's ministry will flourish and blossom as never before. If there are no apostolic training centers in your part of the world, ask God to start one! He will respond to your passion, if you are hungry and thirsty enough, for he sends his apostles to the poor and needy, not the rich and greedy. The thing about the poor is that they are always hungry. It wasn't until the Israelites "cried by reason of their bondage" that God sent them a deliverer, Moses. God is releasing the Moses anointing today in his apostles and prophets wherever his people are desperate enough to cry from the depths of their hearts for freedom.
If you cry out to him, he will start an apostolic work in your area that will bring freedom to the captives, set at liberty them that are bruised, that will bind up the broken hearted - all these, the captives, the bruised and the broken hearted have all become that way from being in Babylon! Christianity as a religion steals, kills and destroys all of the blessings, the ABUNDANT LIFE Jesus died to give us. Religion leaves people broken and disillusioned about God or worse yet, deceives them into thinking they are right with God when in truth they are "wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked" Rev:3:17. Religion quenches the hearts on fire for him but God is rescuing those same hearts for even as I write this, your heart is being rescued from a religious oblivion, from a spiritual black hole that will suck out all the light, all that is godly in your life, leaving an empty shell that has a form of godliness but no power, for REAL POWER CAN ONLY COME FROM HIM, FROM HIS PRESENCE.
Be free! Where the spirit of the lord is, there is liberty. Is the spirit of the lord abiding in you? Then freedom and liberty are abiding in you, in your heart. "The wind blows where it wills and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it came from or where it goes, SO IS EVERYONE THAT IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT" Jn:3:8. Religious people are forever wanting to know WHERE YOU CAME FROM AND WHERE YOU ARE GOING because they aren't walking in the spirit, they cannot understand anyone who is. They are driven by the religious to define you (what church do you go to?) so they can accept or reject you. They only have a concept of love in their minds, not real love in their hearts.

to be continued...