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The New Door!
A prophetic exhortation released July 2019
The New Door
I believe we are living in truly exceptional times, the reason I say that is not simply because I happen to be alive in the midst of these times, but because I believe that we are positioned at a tipping point moment of kingdom advance that has been set up by the preceding generations in the last century. We are now over 100 years past the outpouring of the Spirit during the Azusa street revival, and many believe that we have come full circle with regards to the restoration of all the fivefold ministry functions that the apostle Paul outlined in Ephesians 4:11 namely the restoration of pastors, evangelists, teacher, prophets and apostles.
These are important markers for the body of Christ as we press on into the mission of kingdom advance in the 21stcentury. All of this activity is not without purpose and macro intent from the throne of God. The Holy Spirit is leading His church somewhere and into something for His glory. Many voices are trying to decry where the church is at presently in the nations and many are suggesting that the church is in a state of decline. I believe nothing could be further from the truth, we are about to experience an explosion of kingdom advance that will be evidenced by the greatest harvest of souls the earth has ever seen, the billion-soul harvest is truly upon us. We are about to experience the greatest outpouring of miracles signs and wonder that will be greater than any generation including the early church has ever encountered.
You might be thinking, “how can you be so sure”? Well, the reason I believe this to be so is that we are in the midst of a mighty global awakening of the saints to the work of the ministry. Almost every past revival has unfortunately been largely contained by the “clergy” (professional church ministers) being dominantly responsible for the work of the ministry. I believe that coming outpouring of glory that will manifest in kingdom advance will be outworked dominantly at the hands of the “laity” (the saints that are in the marketplace) with the congregational leaders championing them on. We are going to not only see people being added to the kingdom on Sundays during formal church services but also Monday to Saturdays in the schools, business houses, shopping centres and the homes of the saints.
This will not only be about people getting saved into the kingdom, but also the reign of Christ manifested in all the spheres of our cities, regions and nations. We will literally see the dominant thinking and behaviour patterns of the unsaved begin the yield to the operation and culture of the kingdom at the highest places of government, business, arts and philosophy. The interesting thing about all that I am saying is that the church has been here before a couple of times. The early church experienced this under the ministry of the apostles, especially under the ministry of Paul and his apostolic team. Also, during the outflow of the protestant reformation in Europe under the ministry of Luther and Calvin, we saw this. Somewhere along the way the body of Christ lost her way a little in the early to mid-1800s and then slipped deeply into a dualistic form of Christianity in the 1900s which caused us to evangelise the world but lose our ability to disciple the nations. Yet here we are on the precipice of a new era of kingdom advance with a new door presented to us by the Holy Spirit with His voice beckoning us to come up here!
David Balestri July 2019
I believe we are living in truly exceptional times, the reason I say that is not simply because I happen to be alive in the midst of these times, but because I believe that we are positioned at a tipping point moment of kingdom advance that has been set up by the preceding generations in the last century. We are now over 100 years past the outpouring of the Spirit during the Azusa street revival, and many believe that we have come full circle with regards to the restoration of all the fivefold ministry functions that the apostle Paul outlined in Ephesians 4:11 namely the restoration of pastors, evangelists, teacher, prophets and apostles.
These are important markers for the body of Christ as we press on into the mission of kingdom advance in the 21stcentury. All of this activity is not without purpose and macro intent from the throne of God. The Holy Spirit is leading His church somewhere and into something for His glory. Many voices are trying to decry where the church is at presently in the nations and many are suggesting that the church is in a state of decline. I believe nothing could be further from the truth, we are about to experience an explosion of kingdom advance that will be evidenced by the greatest harvest of souls the earth has ever seen, the billion-soul harvest is truly upon us. We are about to experience the greatest outpouring of miracles signs and wonder that will be greater than any generation including the early church has ever encountered.
You might be thinking, “how can you be so sure”? Well, the reason I believe this to be so is that we are in the midst of a mighty global awakening of the saints to the work of the ministry. Almost every past revival has unfortunately been largely contained by the “clergy” (professional church ministers) being dominantly responsible for the work of the ministry. I believe that coming outpouring of glory that will manifest in kingdom advance will be outworked dominantly at the hands of the “laity” (the saints that are in the marketplace) with the congregational leaders championing them on. We are going to not only see people being added to the kingdom on Sundays during formal church services but also Monday to Saturdays in the schools, business houses, shopping centres and the homes of the saints.
This will not only be about people getting saved into the kingdom, but also the reign of Christ manifested in all the spheres of our cities, regions and nations. We will literally see the dominant thinking and behaviour patterns of the unsaved begin the yield to the operation and culture of the kingdom at the highest places of government, business, arts and philosophy. The interesting thing about all that I am saying is that the church has been here before a couple of times. The early church experienced this under the ministry of the apostles, especially under the ministry of Paul and his apostolic team. Also, during the outflow of the protestant reformation in Europe under the ministry of Luther and Calvin, we saw this. Somewhere along the way the body of Christ lost her way a little in the early to mid-1800s and then slipped deeply into a dualistic form of Christianity in the 1900s which caused us to evangelise the world but lose our ability to disciple the nations. Yet here we are on the precipice of a new era of kingdom advance with a new door presented to us by the Holy Spirit with His voice beckoning us to come up here!
David Balestri July 2019
A Prophetic Kingdom Perspective and Mandate for the 21st Century
A new prophetic dimension of Holy Spirit activation is beginning to sprout across the earth at this time, bringing the prophetic movement out of its infancy and immaturity and migrating it into a more accurate and functional position. We honour the men and women that have gone before us and paid a heavy price to champion and establish this dimension in the earth and realise that as a result of their sacrifice we get to stand on their shoulders and look at further horizons in the spirit with regards to the purposes of God.
"Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us"
Hebrews 12:1 NKJV
The restoration of the office of the prophet and the place of the prophetic in the church has been in acceleration since the 1950s throughout the earth morphing into prominence in the 1980s, with it we saw a return to a functional understanding of the gifts of the spirit as described in 1 Corinthians 12
7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: 8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 1 Corinthians 12:7-10 NKJV
We have also begun to understand the Ephesians 4:11 ascension ministry of a new testament prophet.
11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers. Ephesians 4:11 NKJV
In the 1980s and 90s the prophets announced and grew alongside the restoration and functional activation of the ascension ministry dimension of the office of the Apostle which had been neglected and largely misunderstood by the body of Christ.
With the establishment of the apostles and apostolic anointing now activated in the church for close to two decades, the prophetic is experiencing a fresh season of maturing; Calling it out of the ankle deep activities and immature perspectives of the past decades and into a place of functional governance and building dimensions within the body of Christ. Many prophets are committed to championing this next season of the prophetic in the church, which some of us are calling the "New Prophetic Dimension".
It will see the retooling of the prophetic in the body of Christ from primarily a "blessing mentality" to a "building mentality". It will move from independent freelance function to covenanted strategic alignment, submitting to and functioning primarily within the sphere of trans local apostolic teams. It will be more committed and strategic in empowering and activating the body of Christ manifested as the "city church", than simply giving words of prophecy to individual believers. It will be concerned with empowering the believers to hear the voice of God for themselves rather than creating a culture of dependency on the prophet for this dimension. It will move beyond simply personal and congregational prophecy to the revealing of the strategic directives from the mind of God through the Church to the earth, nations and cities.
This dimension will mature to such a place that the immaturity and inaccuracy of some of the present day activations within the church under the banner of prophetic ministry will become so evident that many will begin to morph into greater alignment with Gods design revealed in the word or become irrelevant and unsustainable in the body of Christ.
It will seek to strategically partner with all of the fivefold ministries of Apostle, Teacher, Evangelist and Pastor in presenting a full spectrum of the ministry of Christos to the church so as to equip her to grow exponentially in the earth
I am encouraged and excited to see a number of Prophets in the earth presently being stirred and reconfigured by the word and Spirit of God towards this new prophetic dimension. I count myself to be one amongst an ever growing company of saints who have a continual growing desire to have an ear to hear what the Spirit "is" saying to His church in this hour!
7(a) “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. Revelation 2:7(a) NKJV
"Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us"
Hebrews 12:1 NKJV
The restoration of the office of the prophet and the place of the prophetic in the church has been in acceleration since the 1950s throughout the earth morphing into prominence in the 1980s, with it we saw a return to a functional understanding of the gifts of the spirit as described in 1 Corinthians 12
7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: 8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 1 Corinthians 12:7-10 NKJV
We have also begun to understand the Ephesians 4:11 ascension ministry of a new testament prophet.
11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers. Ephesians 4:11 NKJV
In the 1980s and 90s the prophets announced and grew alongside the restoration and functional activation of the ascension ministry dimension of the office of the Apostle which had been neglected and largely misunderstood by the body of Christ.
With the establishment of the apostles and apostolic anointing now activated in the church for close to two decades, the prophetic is experiencing a fresh season of maturing; Calling it out of the ankle deep activities and immature perspectives of the past decades and into a place of functional governance and building dimensions within the body of Christ. Many prophets are committed to championing this next season of the prophetic in the church, which some of us are calling the "New Prophetic Dimension".
It will see the retooling of the prophetic in the body of Christ from primarily a "blessing mentality" to a "building mentality". It will move from independent freelance function to covenanted strategic alignment, submitting to and functioning primarily within the sphere of trans local apostolic teams. It will be more committed and strategic in empowering and activating the body of Christ manifested as the "city church", than simply giving words of prophecy to individual believers. It will be concerned with empowering the believers to hear the voice of God for themselves rather than creating a culture of dependency on the prophet for this dimension. It will move beyond simply personal and congregational prophecy to the revealing of the strategic directives from the mind of God through the Church to the earth, nations and cities.
This dimension will mature to such a place that the immaturity and inaccuracy of some of the present day activations within the church under the banner of prophetic ministry will become so evident that many will begin to morph into greater alignment with Gods design revealed in the word or become irrelevant and unsustainable in the body of Christ.
It will seek to strategically partner with all of the fivefold ministries of Apostle, Teacher, Evangelist and Pastor in presenting a full spectrum of the ministry of Christos to the church so as to equip her to grow exponentially in the earth
I am encouraged and excited to see a number of Prophets in the earth presently being stirred and reconfigured by the word and Spirit of God towards this new prophetic dimension. I count myself to be one amongst an ever growing company of saints who have a continual growing desire to have an ear to hear what the Spirit "is" saying to His church in this hour!
7(a) “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. Revelation 2:7(a) NKJV
