The Apostle Paul taught us through
The Apostle Paul taught
us through his second letter to the Corinthian congregation that God “has
reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of
reconciliation (II Corinthians 5:18).”
What is this ministry that God has given to each of us individually and
to the Body of Christ collectively as a people?
And if this is THE ministry that He has entrusted to us, how can we be
sure that we successfully fulfill this tremendous mandate and responsibility?
Of all the messages
Holy Spirit has ministered to me over the years, it is His impartation
concerning these questions that has tied them all together. Through Holy Spirit’s ministry to me, He has
called the HOW of the ministry of reconciliation the “Apostolic Process”, and
equated this process with the mandate of true Biblically based Kingdom
education. I truly believe that it is
God’s purpose to scribally excavate the depths of the revelatory treasure of
this apostolic process of reconciliation through us, not only in word, but also
in deed. I can truly say that my heart
has been seared with the urgency of this message to such a degree that I am
overwhelmed by it.
In fact, there was an
unforgettable defining moment in my life when the necessity of embracing and
surrendering to this God ordained apostolic process became crystal clear to me. I have shared it before, and I will share it
again for clarity sake. While on a
ministry assignment interceding for a loved one’s salvation, Holy Spirit abruptly
grabbed my attention with these words: “You
know your being here is more about you than her?” Instantly, He had my undivided
attention. After all, how could this
be? I had already received the precious
gift of being reconciled to God through Christ’s death and resurrection, and as
far as I knew this individual had not.
Perceiving my shock and confusion, Holy Spirit proceeded to speak
saying, “Christine, if you will allow me to complete My assignment in you, then
you will complete your assignment.”
For many years, Holy
Spirit has been progressively revealing Holy Spirit’s assignment in us as the
apostolic process of reconciliation. He
has also been ministering to me the necessity of our role and responsibility in
embracing and surrendering to His work through that process in order to become all
that God created, called and ordained us to be in Christ. In other words, the apostolic process is the
SECRET of fulfilling our God breathed purpose and assignment on Earth as it is
in Heaven. It is the SECRET to actually
walking in our true identity as Christ modeled for us during His Earthly life
and ministry. Recently, Holy Spirit has
been ministering to me regarding how, SO FEW people EVER truly walk in the
fulness of their identity and fulfill their God given life assignment. Truly, this failure of so many to apprehend
the fulness of their identity and fulfill their God given assignment is a tragedy
that grieves the heart of God beyond measure.
The Apostle Paul described God’s reconciling
work in our lives as a process that is so transformational that we actually
BECOME a “New Creation”. Furthermore, he
explains that “old things have passed away” and “all things have become new.” Now, this is absolutely amazing if you think
about it. IN CHRIST, we are REcreated! We actually DIED (passed away) with Him on
the cross. Our old unregenerated self
CEASED to exist on the cross with Jesus, just as HIS former Earthly state also
ceased to exist and was buried in a tomb.
Likewise, we were RAISED as a NEW CREATION with Christ, just as HE
RAISED in a new form and state of being that was manifested through His ability
to suddenly appear and walk through walls.
I was awakened to the
reality of this truth several months back when Holy Spirit spoke the Scripture,
“Isaiah 48:7” to me. When I looked up this Scripure the words, “THEY
ARE CREATED NOW and not from the beginning” jumped out at me, and I began to
understand that Holy Spirit was revealing that He wasn’t “just doing a new
thing”, but that He was actually doing a RECREATIVE work pertaining to the
things that I had laid before Him through intercession. Just as He spoke through the prophet Isaiah
so many years ago, “And before this day you have not heard them…”, He was
RECREATING according to His PRESENT / NOW will, NOT JUST fulfilling a previously
spoken prophetic word. You see,
sometimes we hold onto prophetic words and labor in prayer seeking their
fulfillment, and this is not necessarily wrong, but IN THIS CASE God was
revealing that THIS NOW WORK was a NEW CREATION, not a mere fulfillment of a
previously released prophesy.
Get this! According to Apostle Paul’s teaching in his
letter to the Corinthian congregation, a NEW CREATION is established EVERY TIME
a soul is RECONCILED to God through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. HOW DARE we take SO GREAT a salvation and work
of reconciliation for granted! But get
this! We are called to COLABOR with God
in this SAME ministry of reconciliation, and our unique God ordained assignment
can only be fulfilled through the Holy Spirit’s apostolic process in and
through our lives. Therefore, it is time
for us to truly embrace and apprehend the magnitude of this process in order to
walk in the fulness of our God breathed identity on Earth as it is in
Heaven.
So, I continued to seek
God’s face and to excavate God’s Word regarding this revelation of the
apostolic process of true Biblical Kingdom Education. Through prayer, I sought to apply the basic law
of Biblical Hermeneutics that builds upon the foundation of the first mention
of a term or truth within Scripture. In
other words, I began to seek to find the FIRST MENTION of Kingdom education in
the Scripture. Of course, the principal
of Kingdom education can be present without the actual term being used in the Biblical
text. So, I began to search for words
such as teach, learn, know etc. But let
me tell you something! Holy Spirit just
straight up INTERUPTED my entire logical Biblical Hermeneutic process and BLEW
ME AWAY with revelation that I was not expecting in the least.
What He ministered to
me happens to relate to the Apostle Paul’s description of us being a NEW
CREATION in Christ, AND Isaiah’s prophesy “THEY ARE CREATED NOW and not from
the beginning.” Because Holy Spirit took
me to the VERY beginning of Scripture in Genesis 1, showing me that the very
first words of Scripture are the FIRST MENTION of Kingdom Education, pertaining
to the very apostolic process that He has been speaking to me about for years.
Let us take a look and
examine the relevance of this Scripture.
For in the Biblical account of Creation in the book of Genesis parallels
and foreshadows God’s REcreative work of reconciliation in and through our
lives. See, we are ALREADY a NEW
CREATION, yet the APOSTOLIC PROCESS is necessary for this reality to be
manifested on Earth as it is in Heaven.
And the Creation account in Genesis prophetically reveals this apostolic
Kingdom education process in an amazing way, as demonstrated in the chart below.
In the beginning
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Divine Appointment
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God created
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Divine Creation
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the heavens and the earth
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Divine Connection
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The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of
the deep
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Divine Set Up in the Midst of Apparent Confusion
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And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters
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Divine Covenant
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Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light
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Divine Community
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What Holy Spirit revealed
to me was that prophetically speaking, He is working in the apostolic NOW to
complete a REcreative work in the lives of His people, and this REcreative work
follows the pattern revealed in the Biblical Creation account. The apostolic NOW is a divine appointed time
through which God declared a NEW BEGINNING in our lives. This NEW BEGINNING is NOT based on any
previous or past occurrence or even word spoken or revealed as the prophet
Isaiah indicated by saying, “THEY ARE CREATED NOW and not from the beginning.” At this appointed time, God divinely
RECREATES or REFASHIONS us according to His original intent or perfect will
eternally present in His heart and mind before time began. According to the Creation pattern God created
the heavens AND the earth, signifying that He never intended there to be
separation between them. Likewise, God establishes
divine connection within the lives on His newly created people that causes the continual
and original CONNECTION between Heaven and Earth to manifest on Earth as it is
in Heaven. This DIVINE CONNECTION is
established and manifested through the divine apostolic alignment of souls
according to the original purpose and intent of God.
Now up to this point,
everything in the Creation account seems perfect, God like and pristine, until
we reach the following words: “The earth
was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep.” Wait a
minute! This is God’s miraculous and
beautiful creation! Where does this apparent
confusion of an UNformed Earth, emptiness and darkness fit into this? Holy Spirit ministered to me that this
represents a PROPHETIC PATTERN that FORESHADOWED the confusion that would
manifest through the entrance of sin within the Earth. God FOREKNEW what would take place, and
revealed it in His Word. Similarly, each
soul that enters the Earth realm experiences apparent confusion of identity through
their existence in an UNFORMED or DISFORMED state. Yet, according to the Creation pattern, this apparent
confusion is no more than a DIVINE SET UP, because God had a SOLUTION to this problem. This SOLUTION is called the apostolic process
of reconciliation through Kingdom Education.
In the midst of apparent confusion,
God established His DIVINE COVENANT with Earth and all the inhabitants of Earth
when “the Spirit of God was hover(ed) over the face of the waters”. Likewise, the “waters” represents the nations
of humanity! According to the Creation
pattern, God has established DIVINE COVENANT with the people of the Earth. His Spirit is HOVERING over the nations even
now, because He has COVENANTED with them according to His purpose of RECREATING
a people from every nation and tribe through the ministry of reconciliation. Finally, the Creation pattern reveals God’s
purpose to establish DIVINE COMMUNITY through His spoken Word, “Let there be
light.” For we know that GOD IS LIGHT! Therefore, not only did God establish His
COVENANT with the nations, but the original intent and purpose of His heart was
always to COMMUNE with us through the beauty of DIVINE COMMUNITY, just as the
Godhead (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) COMMUNE in UNITY as ONE. Thus, Jesus’ prayer in John 17 asking that
His disciples be ONE even and He was ONE with His Father. Therefore, the Creation pattern REVEALS the
foreshadowing of the RECREATION pattern that is being manifested even now
through the apostolic process of reconciliation in and through our lives. Holy Spirit has revealed to me that THIS same
PROCESS is the ESSENCE of true Biblically based Kingdom Education. And it is the will of God that we embrace
this process of reconciliation, because we will only walk in our true identity
and fulfill our God breathed assignment on Earth as it is in Heaven to the
measure that we allow the Holy Spirit to complete His assignment in us.
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