THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IN EVERY BELIEVER

Rom 8:11-12
The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you... So, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation whatsoever to do what your sinful nature urges you to do.  (NLT)

Rom 8:28-29
And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, to them that are called according to (his) purpose... (to be) conformed to the image of his Son,  (ASV)

One of the Designs of this web site is to work in cooperation with the plan and purpose of God, to do our part in helping every Believer we can come in contact with, be "conformed to the image of His Son". When we are Born Again, the Child of God receives an inheritance of Eternal Life, and is now controlled by the life force of God's divine nature through the new birth, and the Believer is now controlled by the Holy Spirit, and as such is no longer a "slave" in bondage to sin and death, capable of reproducing the Father's love and righteousness in others.

As Believers, we are PREDESTINED by God to be conformed to the image of His Son. Our destiny is to be 100% like Jesus in holiness and righteousness and to live eternally with Him in such a state that God promises that sin and death will never interrupt the plan of God for mankind ever again. Looking back at how great Adam's fall was and how that one sinned condemned the entire race to be born in sin and in bondage to fear and death, it is no small thing to marvel at how God plans for mankind to never make the same mistake Adam made, ever again.

This is of course is accomplished by the New Birth experience, by which every Child of God inherits the Father's divine nature. It is through the complete development of the maturity of God's nature in us that we are being "conformed to the image of His Son" and will be 100% like Him one day, living above sin ETERNALLY with no chance of sin ever entering humanity ever again. That Brothers and Sisters is our DESTINY!!! More than physically dwelling with God as Adam did in the garden, it is the righteous character of God's divine nature being fully developed in us that secures our Paradise. While Adam was made in the "image of God", it is important to note that Adam's nature was completely human and as such, was capable of allowing failure to come into humanity. Jesus came as the Last Adam, and although He was human, the generating life force of His humanity was completely divine. The nature through which He lived a sinless life is the same nature God gives all His Children who accept Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. It is through allowing ourselves to be ruled by Christ's divine nature that we are capable of achieving ultimate and permanent mastery over every and all sin.

If what I am saying is not true, how then can God promise us Eternal Life with Him if it would ever be possible for sin to enter humanity once His divine nature is fully matured in us as His full grown son (or sons and daughters)? We are predestined to be ruled by the holy character of God's Divine nature which we have inherited from Him through the death and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ. We are now joint-heirs with Christ Jesus in all He was able to accomplish for us through His death. More than anything, His death, burial and resurrection accomplished for us to live eternally with God without there ever being the possibility of failure, by securing for us the ultimate weapon against sin, the flesh, and the devil....HIS DIVINE NATURE!!!

PROPHETIC HOPE

2 Pet 1:3-4
His divine power has given us everything we need for ... godliness through our knowledge of him who called us ... so that through (the knowledge of) his very great and precious promises you may participate in the DIVINE NATURE and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

Rom 8:29-30
For those God foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of His Son ... And those He predestined, He also called ... and He also glorified."

It's a sad thing to say, and I'm not saying this to put anybody down or to make others think less of themselves, but the fact is that most Christians have no idea how great and how powerfully God has glorified the Believer, even to the point that at Calvary He exchanged the clothing of our sin stained garments for His very own coat of divine glory!!! When His blood was shed His life was being poured out for all Believers so that they might partake of His Life, the divine nature, His clothing of divine glory!!! Those He foreknew HE ALSO PREDESTINED TO BE CLOTHED IN THE LIKENESS OF HIS SON THROUGH EVERY BELIEVER'S POSSESSION OF HIS DIVINE GLORY, even the majestic garment of His divine nature. And those He predestined to wear this divine coat, them He also called or personally invited. And those He personally invited "HE ALSO GLORIFIED"!!!

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, I have to tell you that I know what it is to struggle against condemnation and sin, but I was sent to tell you that I know the Divine Master, the Master who has personally invited you to wear His coat of Divine Glory by us partaking of His Divine Nature. This is the true communion God has called us to. To eat of His flesh and drink of His blood, and so be the ones who are chosen and predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son.

I don't care how weak your character is or how badly you have sinned, God sent me here today to tell you to NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF HIS DIVINE NATURE TO CHANGE YOU AND COMPLETELY TRANSFORM YOU INTO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON!!! Never underestimate God's power to change you from a wimp to a warrior, from a sinner to a saint, from a heathen to a genuinely righteous man or woman of God. God has the ability to change you from a coward to a king, from and ugly duckling to a queen. You are the sons and daughters of the King of Kings. You are of the class of being considered Divine Royalty!!! You don't have to live homeless in the streets. You don't have to live in the gutters and slums of life. You are the sons and daughters of the Lord Most High. He has a new set of priestly and kingly clothing for you. He has a Divine Garment to place over your life. The Master is inviting you to a Divine Feast, even a Royal Wedding. He is inviting you to eat at His Table with Him. To come feast, fellowship, and rejoice IN HIS ROYAL PRESENCE!!!

God says you've spent enough time squandering your inheritance. You've spent enough time living and worrying about the cares of this world. God says, "I am personally going to take you by the Hand and lead you, my sons and daughters. You who have longed for me but were lost along the way. You who have desired my presence, but who have never seemed to be able to obtain righteous living. Behold, I am going to raise you up and set you in a high place. Even in such a high place that you will be a prince and ruler with God. You will no longer be Jacob the deceiver, for I will call you Israel, a prince with God."

"Then you will see that you are not a hypocrite. You are not a wolf in sheep's clothing, you are not the anti-christ, nor are you a Sadducee or Pharisee. You are the personally invited ones, predestined to be conformed to the image of MY SON and clothed with Him in Glory. You are joint-heirs with Christ Jesus. It's time for you to see yourself in all the fullness of who you really are. In all the fullness of who I say you are, and not what everyone else says about you!!! You are seated with Christ in His Majesty and Glory and you have been SENT to this earth through your mother's womb to Glorify your Heavenly Father and to accomplish His will and purpose for your life!!"

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations (a spokesman to the world). Thus says the LORD who made you and formed you from the womb, who will help you: 'Fear not, O Jacob My servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and floods on the dry ground; I will pour My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring; They will spring up among the grass like willows by the watercourses."  (Jer 1:5; Isa 44:2-4)

"You are the head and not the tail. You are above and not beneath. You are a holy priest, set apart by God, called out of this world and you are being made fit for the Master's use! I am not done with you yet," says the Lord. "Who you are is nothing compared to who you are going to be. The devil has been lying to you, and he has been trying to assassinate your faith in who you are in Christ Jesus and has been trying to convince you that because of your weaknesses and sins you are no longer the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus! That is a lie from the pit of hell designed to destroy your faith. He's been trying to corrupt the seed of life in you and strangle your life out with the tares and worries of this present world. He has been trying to put you in bondage again to condemnation and he has been trying to destroy your hope of ever being made right in Me!"

"I, the Lord, am here to tell you that your position as a son is greater than the condition of your weaknesses and sin! You may have failed, but I do not see you as a failure! You may have sinned, but I don't see you as a sinner! I know the reality of your pain, because I have been there. I know what it is like to bear the burden of shame and humility and to bear the burden of guilt. Some of you have felt so ashamed that you feel you don't even deserve to live. But I the Lord say to you, Who dares accuse whom God has chosen for His own? Will God? No! For He is the one who has given us right standing with himself. Who then will condemn you? Will Christ Jesus? No, for He is the one who died for us and was raised to life for us and is sitting at the place of highest honor next to God, pleading to God on our behalf."  (Rom 8:33-34)

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A WORD TO SPIRITUAL FATHERS

Rom 8:24
"For we are saved by hope"

True spiritual fathers are not only called to correct character, but they are called to restore the hope of being made right in character with God. If you are a spiritual father who emphasizes correction more than the hope of restoration to right standing with God, then your ministry gift is out of balance. As spiritual fathers, now more than ever, we are called to be encouragers TO RIGHTEOUSNESS more than CORRECTORS of unrighteousness!!! Some fathers have over corrected their sons and daughters in the faith to the point that they no longer walk in the hope of righteousness, the hope of ever being able to live right before God. Too much correction can lead to condemnation, depending on the degree of the sensitivity of the heart and soul receiving the correction.

Not all of us are able to receive the same degree of correction and maintain the same level of hope as perhaps other members of the Body of Christ who may have a more stable self image. As spiritual fathers we have to be sensitive to the weaknesses of others and speak more to the champion than to the chump. Of course correction is especially sometimes the only way the person will ever turn their lives around, but at the same time, once they have turned to God and repented, make sure the chump knows he or she is no longer displeasing to God, but is NOW A CHAMP!!!

If you take the personal time to correct, then you should take the same personal touch to reconnect the Believer back to their right standing of faith, encouraging them back into the Victorious Life in Christ. When you break out your faithful knife to wound like a friend, make sure you break out the bandages to bind the wound for healing. Don't leave the patient on the operating table still laid open after the cancer has been removed, take the time to stitch them up so that they can begin to heal and have hope restored in a clean and sterile environment.

And to you spiritual sons and daughters in Christ, don't run from you father just because he confronts you and deals with your character. That wound is the wound of a friend that is faithful to look you in the eye and tell you like it is to bring true and lasting change in your life. Even if your father often fails to bind your wound after correcting you, don't run to another father or look for another church. Seek God for your healing and pray for him or her to be more sensitive to the gentleness of the Holy Spirit and the fragileness of your spirit.

My youngest daughter Brittney is very sensitive and fragile when it comes to correction. I almost never have to spank her when she does wrong. All I have to do is begin to talk to her, even in a gentle way without yelling, about what she's done wrong, and she's already crying her eyes out. After I explain to her that what she did was not the right thing, I also make sure she knows that she is not in trouble. Correction doesn't have to be punishment. Correction can be gentle instructions. While my daughter is standing there crying after I've talked to her, I always have to bend down and hug her and give her a kiss on her little lips or on her chubby cute cheeks and tell her I love her. I always make sure that she knows that her daddy loves her. Her position as my daughter is greater than her condition, no matter what she's done wrong.

Now more than ever spiritual fathers, your children have to know that you love them. Your love for them should never be a question in their hearts. Sometimes you need to deal with the chump, but more than anything, make it a point to build up the champ!!! You might just find that you don't need to correct them as much...

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Spiritual Fathers & the Orphaned Path

Eph 4:11-12
He is the one who gave these gifts to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip God's people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ,

It is impossible to begin to discuss spiritual fathers without first at least briefly discussing God's divine order in the use of the 5-Fold Officer Gifts. I am not meaning to step on the toes of any Pastors in this article, but I must boldly proclaim the Word of God anyway.

Quite simply, the purpose or the reason God gave apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers to the Body of Christ is to "equip God's people to do His work", according to each member of the Body's individual calling and gifts. It is important to note that even though not all Christians are called into the 5-fold office, every believer is called into the ministry for some particular area of service in the Body of Christ.

ALL BELIEVERS ARE CALLED TO DO GOD'S WORK & ALL BELIEVERS HAVE GIFTS AND TALENTS TO COMPLETE THEIR ASSIGNMENTS ADEQUATELY, EFFECTIVELY, SKILLFULLY, AND WITH SATISFACTION TO BOTH GOD AND THE ONE PERFORMING THE SERVICE!!!

Every believer has an assignment, and every believer has the equipment or tools necessary to complete that assignment successfully. It is the responsibility of the 5-fold officers to help believers first of all discover what their gifts are, then help them mature and become skillful in the use of each person's gift (or gifts) so that they can complete their assignment successfully. It sounds like God has placed a lot of weight on the shoulders of His commissioned officers, but that is exactly what He has called them to do. It is important to note, that what God has called them to do, He has divinely equipped them to do it also.

Now if God has commissioned 5-fold officers to equip God's people for the work of the ministry, then we must also note that within every congregation there must not only be Christians called to labor within the Church, but there must also be Christians called to be in 5-fold ministry as well. This means that in order for any Pastor, Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist or Teacher to walk fully in their office, then they must themselves be able to equip Saints within the local congregation to work in all the areas of service they are called to. This means that Pastors should not only know how to train Elders and Deacons to serve in ministry, but they should be able to equip and train believers to become Apostles, Prophets, Evangelist, Pastors and Teachers as well (to those who are called to these offices). Any person claiming to be a 5-fold officer who cannot equip others to be any of the 5 offices listed above cannot adequately serve the local body in a way that would cause all who are in their congregation to become, realize, and begin to function in who they really are in Christ Jesus.

Pastors today are in desperate need to be RE-TRAINED for ministry. Some Pastors not only CANNOT equip others to become Pastors and other Officer Gifts, some Pastors don't even believe that Apostles and Prophets are for today. They are impotent when it comes to being able to impregnate others with the reality of their own spiritual gifts so that the believer can one day fulfill their destiny.

How can Pastors adequately equip the Saints to do the work of the ministry if they don't even believe in or know how to properly define the very offices and gifts they are called to "equip" others to fulfill?

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A WORD FOR UP & COMING MINISTERS

I remember when God first called me to be an apostle. I was laying down on the floor praying. At that point in time I had really next to no education on ministry and the governmental operation of 5-fold Officer Gifts.

I started reading books on pastoring and similar books, but the depth of teaching was just not there that I needed to properly understand and govern my gift.

I wondered for years what having my gift meant and how I would begin the public use of my office. Was I suppose to start a church? Do I go to a seminary and get ordained, then start my ministry? Should I just pay some money for a minister's license from the back of a magazine? Should I let my associates contact people they know and give them some money and agree to a statement of faith for a minister's license? These were only some of the questions I had for years and the issues I struggled with inside, and with no explanation as to what I was supposed to do.

The only 2 things I knew about the office of an apostle was that they are the highest ranking officials or officers in the Body of Christ and that all the 5-fold ministry gifts existed in actual use today (including the apostle and prophet). The second point was what I learned from one of the many churches I had attended and from one of the many Pastors I had been under looking for a spiritual father. (I didn't know I was looking for a spiritual father at that time, but that is what I know I hungered and desired from these men of God who had gone before me.)

Only one pastor out of several even believed that all of the 5-fold Officers are for today. How can someone be a spiritual father in ministry if they don't even know what a spiritual father is, where the term originated from, and how the term was used in the New Testament, and which Office Gifts function in fathering the strongest?

Only one church I had attended in approximately eleven years time had a pastor that even remotely taught that apostles and prophets are still functioning and in active use by God today.

I remember going to Pastors and ministry leaders and telling them I was called to the ministry, without even mentioning the title of my office. I had one assistant pastor tell me to go to away to seminary. That told me that most Pastors who hold the same thoughts on ministry training are not equipped themselves in ministry to father others and "train up a child in the way he should go."

Then I had one Pastor say he would begin to work with me. I remember he gave me a book, sent me home, and that was the last of my ministry training experience with him. We just never got back together again after that.

Eph 6:4
And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

It wasn't until I met my spiritual father Apostle Emil Cedeno and his wife Prophetess Cecilia Cedeno, that I began to properly understand what an Apostle was and the proper governmental use of this office. God allowed me to wander around for about 11 years on the path of an orphan before meeting the path of my destiny that was hid in Christ in my relationship with my spiritual father. When I met my spiritual father and began to connect with him as my father, I was taken off the orphaned path and placed on the path of covenant sonship in my ministry.

God allowed me to wander aimlessly for those many years to show me what it was like to live an orphaned life in the school of ministry, trying to figure out things on your own, not having a spiritual father to confide in about your gift and calling, trying to do it your own way, lacking wisdom, lacking guidance, filled with the motivation to GO, but not knowing where it is you are suppose to be.

God showed me the lack of spiritual fathers, or more accurately the Pastors who lacked the heart of a father to take on the responsibility of raising sons and daughters in ministry instead of pushing them away to a distant seminary that is in no way affiliated with the local church. I saw the lack of equipment some Pastors possess in being able to educate and impart the foundational principles of Divine Government to the congregation so that other 5-fold officers and other Pastors can be equipped and trained and rise up WITHIN the local church.

How can someone claim to be a mature Pastor if they cannot even in the least bit train up other saints called to serve in the 5-fold in their gift and calling? How can someone fully Pastor a true church of the Lord Jesus Christ when they don't even know or believe that apostles and prophets are active ministry gifts within the Body of Christ for the Church TODAY? How can someone Pastor what they can't teach or don't believe in?

Pastors like this are infant leaders, not yet mature enough or even educated enough in the things of God to even begin to properly represent an officer with such a high gift and title. They are like boy children who have not yet even reached puberty and are unable to impregnate others to one day truly give birth to their vision and destiny. I am quite sure that because of men who refuse to have a father's heart and because of their false teachings that say no apostles and prophets exist today, many have gone to their graves never even knowing who they are because of the teaching of such false doctrine.

I thank God that even though the first church I attended as a baby Christian knew virtually nothing or taught almost nothing on 5-fold officers that at least they planted a seed in me that told me that apostles and prophets are for today!

I am also so thankful to God that He led me to the path of my destiny through the ministry of my spiritual father, Apostle Emil Cedeno. Without Apostle Emil and his wife and the many other apostolic, prophetic, and present truth teachers and ministers they and God led me to, I have no idea where I would be today. Still confused about my calling? Lost and wandering and homeless? Still desolate in my call? Left without shelter in ministry? Still on the orphaned path?

That is why I started NEW COVENANT SONSHIP MINISTRIES, which is simply a teaching ministry over the internet designed to connect other believers with the teachings and ministries of true spiritual fathers and mothers who are not afraid to teach the true Word of God that is able to lift you in into your rightful place in Christ Jesus and equip you to fulfill your call in Christ as a true son or daughter of God. No longer will you be a bastard ministry, left on the orphaned path as I described in my own life, but you will come into your destiny and live your life to its fullest!!!

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2-Fold Sonship in the Kingdom of God

I want to start this section of teaching with the definition of an orphan so that I can more accurately describe the orphaned path and what it means to have a spiritual father and / or spiritual mother over you in ministry.

or·phan (ôr“f…n)

1. A child whose parents are dead.
   
   

2. A child who has been deprived of parental care and has not been adopted.
   
   

3. One that lacks support, supervision, or care: A lack of corporate interest has made the subsidiary an orphan.
   
   

4. Deprived of parents
   

or·phaned or·phan·ing or·phans

1. To deprive (a child) of one parent or both parents.

An orphan is someone whose parents are dead or a child whose parents are alive, but deprive their children of parental care. An orphan in ministry is someone who has not yet had a spiritual parent over them in the Lord that is willing to take them under their wings, deal with their character, and show them the ropes of ministry (over simplifying what a spiritual parent does, of course). This principle is where 2-fold sonship or 2-fold adoption comes in.

1 Tim 1:2
To Timothy, a true son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.

2 Tim 2:1
You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

Titus 1:4
To Titus, a true son in our common faith:

We can tell from these scriptures, that Paul had adopted Timothy and Titus into his ministry, became their spiritual father, and trained them in ministry. Paul points this concept of sonship out by saying Titus was a "true son in... common faith." This means that Titus and Timothy were promoting the same concepts in ministry that Paul was teaching them and that we are to follow their pattern of father son relationships in ministry today, that is if we want to be true sons of the Apostle Paul and stand in common faith with the New Testament (this principle of course was not the only concept of common faith Paul shared with Titus and Timothy).

To adopt means to "take into one's family through legal means and raise as one's own child." Even though Titus and Timothy were already adopted into the Family of God as born again believers, we can see from these passages of Scripture that the Apostle Paul took the adoption term even further by legally taking Titus and Timothy into his family of ministry and raising them up as his own children, which is why he can accurately call them his sons. A child is someone adopted or born into a family like a baby Christian, but a son is someone who has been matured and trained by the father of a family.

So the Apostle Paul states that not only were Titus and Timothy adopted into the Family of God and are children of God as all believers are, but they were also termed as sons of his very own in his letters. By this concept, so clearly stated in scripture, which was modeled in the life of the Apostle Paul with his sons Titus and Timothy, we can see the pattern that we are suppose to follow in our own lives in ministry. This is not some man's desire for dictatorship or some greedy desire for power, this is a principle of ministry taken straight from the Bible.

Not only are we born into the Kingdom of God as His Children and adopted into His Family, but like Titus and Timothy, God wants us to be adopted into the ministry of a spiritual father or mother, so that like Timothy and Titus we can be spiritual sons of a ministry as well. Titus and Timothy being adopted and taken under the wing of the Apostle Paul and made his sons in ministry in no way took away from them being adopted into the Family of God and made them no less sons of the Most High God. In fact, Titus' and Timothy's relationship with Paul as their spiritual father only made them more deeply engrained in the faith of the Family God and only served to make them better sons of the Most High God.

There is no place in any of Apostle Paul's writings where he says that after you get done with a study course at the local college you will get ordained into your own ministry. Ministries are built upon the foundation of relationships with other ministers. That's what true networking and ordination is all about.

A seminary cannot intimately know you and test or prove your character, a spiritual father can. A seminary can only test your degree of knowledge but cannot measure your degree of character like a spiritual father can. A seminary can give you knowledge, a spiritual father can empower you with his spirit to equip you for the work. When hard times come in ministry you can't go to the seminary for help, but a spiritual father will be there whenever you are in need. A seminary is a degree of education built by an institution, sonship is a loving relationship of knowing who you are because a father is divinely inspired by God to speak words of destiny in your life.

The orphan spirit is rampant within the Body of Christ because ministers have not embraced these principles of being a spiritual father to the Saints as defined by scripture and lived out in the life of the Apostle Paul. Because this concept is dead to many Pastors and other 5-fold ministry gifts, many members of their congregations are orphans because parenting is dead in the Pastors overseeing them and the children are deprived of parental training in their ministry gifts, especially when it comes to training for those called to the 5-fold.

The orphaned path is the path of those who are deprived of "one spiritual parent or both". The orphaned path is made up of those who it seems that their own "spiritual parents are dead". The orphaned path is made up of those that "lack spiritual support, supervision, or care". The orphaned path is made up of those "who are deprived of parental care" and "have not been adopted" by spiritual parents. The orphaned path is made up of those who been entrusted to a Pastor who has no idea of the concept of spiritual fathering and no genuine care for the training of your ministry gift.

To those of you who are hungering for a spiritual father and / or mother in ministry, God says, "I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you." (John 14:18) God will lead you to your spiritual destiny, the man or woman of God who will take you under their wing as a mother hen gathers her chicks, and genuinely train you for ministry and care for your needs.

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The Necessity of the Apostle & Prophet in Ministry Training

Isn't it remarkable to note that there are 2 ministry gifts that the Devil wants you to believe are no longer being actively used by God in these last days and that one of the definitions of an orphan is "to deprive (a child) of one parent or both parents"? Isn't it a strange coincidence that the orphan spirit is rampant in the church, the concept of spiritual fathering is widely NOT PRACTICED by the Body of Christ, and most ministries teach that APOSTLES AND PROPHETS ARE NOT FOR TODAY? This of course is no coincidence, it is the design and plan of Satan to destroy true apostolic and prophetic ministry within the Body of Christ and to get the Body of Christ to build its government on a 3-fold ministry concept instead of the 5-fold government God has ordained.

Without the ministry gifts of the apostle and prophet, the 2 chief parenting offices of the 5-fold ministry (see Eph. 2:19-20; 3:2-5), the orphan spirit will continue to be rampant within the Body of Christ and the concept of spiritual fathering will remain dormant in the practice of most people's faith. It is also no coincidence that along with the restoration of the prophets and especially the apostles, God is restoring with them the concept of spiritual fathering and covenant sonship within the Body of Christ. The 5-fold ministry office is founded upon, increased in power, and passed down from generation to generation by father and son relationships. Lack of father and son relationships within the Body of Christ has resulted in lack of apostolic and prophetic ministry and a lack of the dynamic of the Early New Testament Church recorded in the book of Acts. Even God wants us to relate to Him like Father to son, and son to Father. That is where unity and power in the Body of Christ at large will be restored, through the true practices of the Early New Testament Church, including the practice of father and son relationships in ministry training and through honoring the offices of the apostle and prophet as the Early New Testament Church did.

That is why the Devil fights so hard against apostles and prophets, because he wants the Body of Christ to be in the Family of God, but remain on the orphaned path in their ministry gifts and offices so that he can render them ineffective through their lack of covenant relationship with spiritual fathers, which is where God commands the anointing and the blessing.

Those who do not believe in apostles and prophets as active ministries today are murdering the Biblical Truth about apostolic and prophetic ministry to the Body of Christ and are road blocks to true apostolic and prophetic power being made available to the Body of Christ at large. I hear the Spirit of God saying to those who reject true apostolic and prophetic ministry and ministers, "you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets." (Matt 23:31)

Some partial truth ministers of the Gospel are ignorantly being used by the Devil the same way religious leaders of old use to be used by him, to murder the prophet's ministry by trying to destroy faith in it or by murdering the prophets and the apostles themselves. It is time for Pastors to repent and come to their knees and realize that the spirit of the prophet Elijah is already here.

Mal 4:5-6
"Look, I am sending you the prophet Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the LORD arrives. His preaching will turn the hearts of fathers to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise I will come and strike the land with a curse."

I know this is a strong word, but I am going to say it anyway. Unless Pastors repent of rejecting present day apostles and prophets and unless they repent of rejecting the concept of spiritual fathering and covenant sonship, God says in His Word that He will come and strike their land with a curse. The land of their ministries will be destroyed and the very foundation of their doctrinal idolatry will be brought down until they repent and acknowledge the truth.

The spirit of the prophet Elijah is already here saying, 

"Fathers in ministry, turn your hearts to your children, those who have been entrusted to you by God to be trained by you for ministry!!! Children, turn your hearts to your spiritual fathers and let them speak into your life, prove your character, and empower you to live your life and fulfill your ministry to its fullest!!! Don't forsake these principles and practices of father son relationships or you will bring your own self under a curse."

Satan is trying to keep the Body of Christ on the orphaned path by depriving it of one or both of its parents, the prophets and the apostles. Do not listen to this spirit brothers and sisters in Christ. Listen to the truth and follow the example of the ministry pattern the true New Testament ministers of the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ are following. Follow the pattern of those who follow the ministry patterns of the Early New Testament Church as recorded in the Scriptures. Obedience to the Bible in these last days is the only way to be safe.

Mal 4:1-6  {The Coming Day of Judgment}

The LORD Almighty says, "The day of judgment is coming, burning like a furnace. The arrogant and the wicked will be burned up like straw on that day. They will be consumed like a tree-- roots and all. But for you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings. And you will go free, leaping with joy like calves let out to pasture. On the day when I act, you will tread upon the wicked as if they were dust under your feet," says the LORD Almighty.

"Remember to obey the instructions of my servant Moses, all the laws and regulations that I gave him on Mount Sinai for all Israel. Look, I am sending you the prophet Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the LORD arrives. His preaching will turn the hearts of fathers to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers. Otherwise I will come and strike the land with a curse."

APOSTLES & PROPHETS AS CHIEF PARENTING MINISTRIES OF THE 5-FOLD OFFICE

Eph 2:19-20
{A Temple for the Lord--} So now you Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens along with all of God's holy people. You are members of God's family. We are his house, built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. And the cornerstone is Christ Jesus himself.

Eph 3:2-5
As you already know, God has given me this special ministry of announcing his favor to you Gentiles. As I briefly mentioned earlier in this letter, God himself revealed his secret plan to me. As you read what I have written, you will understand what I know about this plan regarding Christ. God did not reveal it to previous generations, but now he has revealed it by the Holy Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets.

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