Recognizing Rebellion The rebel seldom defines their posture as “rebellious.” Few are proud of being rebels. Rebels functions in a delusion warp of personal justification. Rebels offer any authority ultimatums. A spiritual father should avoid the relational death that comes with ultimatums by anticipating them and heading them off before they arrive. Rebuke the rebellion […]
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The Todd Bentley Affair and Kingdom Accountability
The Kingdom Approach Every believer in the kingdom of God should reach a clear conclusion about this tragic situation because it is much larger in scope than Todd Bentley. Yes, you should be angry, and you should share God’s opinion. We know that Todd is a predatory wolf in sheep’s clothing, using the smell, feel, […]
Charismata as Spiritual Capacities, not Motivational Gifts
Every person arrives with created destiny and matching dispositional tendencies. These qualities and conditions are immediately challenged by a blighted world controlled by the influence of satan. Charismata are capacities of spirit bestowed upon believers who have active spirits. Having been born of the Spirit, they begin to operate SpiritFirst in the grace flows of […]
Providential Pathway: Identity, Christ, and Process
The Involved God symphonically orchestrates All to the good of those that love Him, people appointed, chosen, ordained, and authorized (by His intention) to produce His purposes. You have created dispositional tendencies that observation and measuring tools can identify. You have spiritual gift tendencies that discernment and development can discover and hone. You have a […]
A BOOK OF ACTS KINGDOM CAPITALIZATION
Holy Spirit moved my imagine about financial integrity and the Bible’s presuppositions about giving. After much research – haven’t stopped that – I felt that I heard some things from the Bible with application and implementation for the Roaring Twenties. Among them, I saw in the Spirit a kingdom-wide movement to capitalize the greatest harvest […]
Modern Metaphoric Messes
Biblical metaphors are as common as verses. Similes and metaphors are literary tools used to communicate spiritual reality by comparing some aspects of spiritual things with natural things. The metaphor and allegory usage of Jesus fills the red letter part of the Bible. Jesus is continually saying, “The kingdom of Heaven is like.” We understand […]
Restoring Fallen Kingdom Leaders
Personal and Leadership Restoration Keep in mind that restoring a kingdom leader requires a different process from restoring a believer who has not taught, preached, prophesied as a prophet, or been a functioning elder. If a person holds an eldering leadership position and fivefold ministry function, the process for restoring requires both personal and ministry-function […]
Preparing and Positioning: Fathering Elders
“He gave apostles, prophets, evangels, shepherds and teachers to prepare and position the holy ones to operate in serving within the systems of Christ’s body” (Ephesians 4:11-12). The elders are the kingdom leadership dynamics Jesus bestowed upon the kingdom Ecclesia as He ascended with all authority in Heaven and Earth. He designed and assigned them […]
People and Process in Kingdom Culture
God designs all kingdom processes. To speak of them in terms of customer service excellence, we start by answering the question, “Who is the customer served?” This is true with the process of reconciliation to which Jesus refers in Matthew 18. The first answer is always “the King.” The primary customer served is the King […]
All Kinds of Prayer
Spiritual warfare occurs when we positively press for the purposes of God and run into usurpers, enemies of God, and prevailing, spiritual conditions called “this present darkness. Once we have taken the position assigned us, we don God’s armor to stand in the evil day, expand from that secured position, and establish God’s kingdom purposes […]