FIVE SMOOTH STONES - The Five Ascension Gifts in the Heavenly Shepherds Bag

FIVE SMOOTH STONES — The Five Ascension Gifts in the Heavenly Shepherd’s Bag

His five smooth stones of ministry are today called to perfect the saints and equip them to carry out the battle plan of the Lord. Like David, and Elijah, He expects them to raise up others, spiritual sons and daughters, who will be able to show forth His manifold wisdom and authority. Like David’s five smooth stones the Lord’s stones are not exactly alike and there are five for a reason. Five is the number that signifies His grace and each of these gifts is called for a different purpose. He has apostles and prophets, and shepherds, and evangelists, and teachers, so that He can use the proper stone at the proper time to take down the specific enemy stronghold which is set against His purposes. He uses each of the five to release or manifest a different aspect of His divine nature on earth. Too often in the Church we have been limited to one or two or perhaps three of the Lord’s ministry stones. This has been a major reason that the Church has not always been able to retain the victories which we have received over the enemy of our God, and have so often had to retake spiritual ground which was once delivered to us by the Lord and held by the Church. By understanding that we need all the five ministries that the Lord has given, and also an attitude of generational thinking, we will regain and retain the victories which the Lord grants to us, and show His wisdom now, even in the heavenly places. 2 Timothy 2:2 “ And the things that you have heard from me among many gwitnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also .” In reality there are some attributes of each of these callings in just about every Christian. We all have the Spirit of Christ which is the source of all ministry. We can all learn a lot about our own selves and our abilities in Christ by learning about the five stones. By understanding more clearly the function of the five stones of the ascended Christ’s shepherd’s bag and how they best raise up the saints for the works of service in the Kingdom, we will indeed be able to have the results of functioning ministry which is something we should all wish to achieve. This is a mature Church which produces spiritual fruit which remains.

ENDNOTES: 1 2 Samuel 21:15 “ When the Philistines were at war again with Israel, David and his servants with him went down and fought against

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