FATHER has revealed to us HIS expectation of our walk as mature Sons and Daughters in Love and Unity!
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Ephesians chapter 4:
11 And Jesus has appointed some with grace to be apostles, and some with grace to be prophets, and some with grace to be evangelists, and some with grace to be pastors, and some with grace to be teachers.
12 And their calling is to nurture and prepare all the Holy believers to do their own works of ministry, and as they do this they will enlarge and build up the body of Christ.
Most churches have not emphasized the true mission of the five-fold ministry. It is to bring us to full maturity so that we become effective in our individual callings! Shouldn’t this mandate be emphasized in every service to those who are in attendance? What should be the end result? The fullness of Love and Unity!!!
13 These grace ministries will function until we all attain oneness into the faith, until we all experience the fullness of what it means to know the Son of God, and finally we become one into a perfect man with the full dimensions of spiritual maturity and fully developed into the abundance of Christ.
In other Words:
[13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
14 And then our immaturity will end! And we will not be easily shaken by trouble, nor led astray by novel teachings or by the false doctrines of deceivers who teach clever lies.
15 But instead we will remain strong and always sincere in our Love as we express the Truth. All our direction and ministries will flow from Christ and lead us deeper into Him, the anointed Head of His body, the church.
16 For His “Body” has been formed in His Image and is closely joined together and constantly connected as one. And every member has been given Divine gifts to contribute to the growth of all; and as these gifts operate effectively throughout the whole body, we are built up and made perfect in Love.
Exactly 30 years ago, I went on a missionary trip to Romania. FATHER told me to go on the three-week trip with five others from the church: the pastor and his wife, an auto finance manager, Jerry (retired head of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol), and Bend (an auto mechanic). Romania was the essence of a third world country where the average worker’s pay was equivalent to $25, rent averaged $19, and the remainder was for everything else. The pastor’s contact lived in Aiud, the home of the Aiud Prison a prison complex in Aiud, Alba County, located in central Transylvania, Romania. It is infamous for the treatment of its political inmates. You get the picture.
We split into two teams where Jerry, Ben, and I were on a team together. Each morning, the three of us prayed together to seek FATHER to see which one of us was to preach that night so that the message could be prepared. We were all in full unity and we truly Loved the Romanian people. Everyone showed up for our meetings in the small towns since there was nothing else going on. No TV, no Internet, no entertainment. They were skeptical of us as expected.
Each night, one of us would get a Word of knowledge concerning an ailment of someone in the meeting. That person would come up and we would lay hands on the person. The anointing came forth and FATHER healed the person who typically screamed in Romanian “I’ve been healed”. Once that happened, everyone came up for healing and salvation. This would go on for hours. Blind eyes were opened, ears were opened among many other miracles. The anointing was on us for all three weeks. When we returned to the U.S., it subsided as the three of us were not asked to minister back in our home church. You can draw your own conclusions.
Love, unity, and The Fear of THE LORD were central to the three of us.