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Topic: Set Apart, Sealed and Sent Pt.2 ~ Christine Beadsworth ~
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Tina Sundstrom
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Posted: 09/29/2016 at 1:24pm
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Set Apart, Sealed and Sent ~ part Two
Recently, I went for walk round our neighborhood and, as
He often does, the Lord directed my attention to
something on the way in order to speak to me. There were
a couple of leaves lying at my feet and I got the
impression I should take a photograph of them. When I
got home, I asked the Holy Spirit what He wanted to say
about them. As I studied the photograph, I saw a line in
tar with one dead leaf fragment below and a 3 pronged
leaf on the line.
Then He said, “The 3-in-one God is drawing the line and
summing up His handiwork in you, His vessels. It is all
about His glory, not yours; His purposes, not your
plans. You must be brought to a place of complete death
to self. To step into His 3-fold purposes and become one
of those leaves released from the tree of Life for the
healing of the nations, ‘I’ must be replaced by ‘You’!
That’s the bottom line.”
The next photo I had taken as instructed was of piles of
rubbish and cardboard boxes outside a house. They had
obviously been cleaning out and discarding what was not
needed. The Holy Spirit said, “Throw out all the rubbish
in your understanding of who God is and how He works.
Make space for further specific revelation to be
downloaded. Do not let wrong understanding and lies
clutter your storehouse”. I knew He was teaching me
about being streamlined and kitted out for the
assignment ahead.
Much general ‘clutter’ of Christian teaching over the
years would have to be discarded to make space for up to
date revelation specifically for each individual
assignment. I almost had the sense of a person storing
each box from which a nourishing meal had been eaten
over the years, so that the cupboards were overflowing
with empty containers of food long ingested and digested
and used to build muscle and bone. The storage of
messages that have blessed one many months and years
ago, whether in our memories or on electronic devices or
hard copies, has sustained us for the past season, but
now there is fresh sustenance from Heaven waiting to be
delivered and we have to let go of anything that is
being kept sentimentally, in order to make space for
cutting edge vital information that the Spirit wants to
download for each individual tried vessel. The supply of
the manna of yesterday is to be replaced by the food of
the Promised Land. Good food must make space for ‘now’
food. The past must be released in order to embrace the
future. The general food of yesterday must be replaced
by the Heavenly Dietician diet to provide nourishment
and stamina for each specific assignment.
This apostolic company that is being separated from the
crowd must be released fully equipped. So let us look at
what this means. The Greek word for apostle is
"apostolos". In ancient times, "apostolos" referred to a
naval fleet carrying supplies that was sent out for a
mission. It is significant that the "apostolos" took no
initiative itself, nor did it authorize the mission. In
addition, they were richly supplied to accomplish that
mission. The first apostles did not initiate their
missions. All initiation and all power came from the One
who sent them. In Eph. 1:1 Paul used the phrase, "an
apostle of Christ Jesus." The Lord initiated the sending
of Paul, and gave him all the power necessary to be an
apostle. He will do the same for the apostolic company
released in the year 5777.
A navy operates on the sea, not on the land. In the
Bible, the sea spiritually signifies the nations. They
were sent out to pioneer for the Lord’s interest in
places where darkness had previously held sway. It was
in the midst of this darkness that the spiritual riches
within the sent ones were poured out for others. The
space that the general food of yesterday has taken up in
our spiritual storehouses must make way for the riches
of the revelation of Christ to be downloaded for our
particular place in the big picture. The Word you have
previously consumed and digested has now become flesh in
you and you will not lose anything by letting go of any
old packaging reminding you of those wonderful meals.
Fresh food is of paramount importance in the hold when a
vessel sets sail. The hold of the vessel contains not
only nourishment to sustain the crew but also supplies
to offload at the destination.
Let us separate the word "apostolos" into its two
components, the Greek words "apo" and "stello", to
understand more deeply what is taking place within and
through us. "Apo" means "from", which implies that the
sent one has a master. "Stello" has three meanings,
which when looked, will show us the steps of the process
we are going through.
1)Firstly, "stello" means "to set apart and to send",
according to Thayer. Before he was sent, Paul was set
apart by the Lord for a particular purpose. He was drawn
out from among mankind in the sense of being "hand-
picked" by the Lord. Paul spoke of God setting him apart
from his mother's womb (Gal. 1:15). The Lord spoke to
Paul and explained what was happening, "I have appeared
to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a minister
and a witness…" (Acts 26:16-18). Paul received his
revelation personally given by Jesus Christ during a
wilderness time and not from general teaching going on
in the church circles of the time(Gal. 1:11-12,15-17).
All he had learnt before that through study and all his
life experience formed the backdrop from which the main
feature of the revelation of Christ would be displayed.
When the time was ready and Paul was sufficiently
equipped, then he was sent out by his Master.
I believe this is the prophetic pattern in which this
end-time apostolic company will be equipped and made
ready. They carry finishing revelation which has been
kept for this specific time in the history of Kingdom
purposes. It is fresh and not regurgitated nourishment
from previous dispensations.
2)The second meaning of "stello" is "to set in order, to
arrange, to fit out, to prepare, to equip, and to
prepare one's self" (Thayer). Before being sent out,
Paul was trained, furnished, equipped, and prepared by
the Holy Spirit, so that he could be of use to the Lord.
This is the building and then, finally after the
receiving the building inspector’s seal of approval that
this vessel is seaworthy, the filling of the hold of the
vessel takes place. The building is meticulous and can
take a long period of time. The vessel must be strong
enough to withstand stormy seas and demonic winds.
Then the cargo on board must be loaded and checked. So
often, one can feel ready and ‘fully loaded’ with riches
and ready to go, but only the supply room of Heaven
knows what is on the inventory list for your particular
cargo. You cannot afford to set sail without the full
load of revelation set apart and held in Heaven for you.
You will need every small bit of it on the journey the
Father has appointed you. You do not want to come face
to face with someone at your destination and realise
that tiny space at the top of the cupboard in your hold
was intended to bring them life-changing truth and
impartation – but you could not wait and sailed without
receiving it!
3)The third meaning of "stello" is "to cease to exist,
to remove one’s self, withdraw one’s self, to depart and
to abstain from familiar interaction with one" (Thayer).
Here, we refer back to my photograph of the dead leaf
below the line in the tar. The word for tar or pitch in
Hebrew means ‘redemption price’. There was a price paid
to redeem you for the express purpose of fulfilling a
part in God’s Kingdom purpose.
As I said before, it’s no longer about you. It’s about
the full manifestation of Christ in you. We talk about
it theoretically but to come to the actual living
manifestation of ‘it is no longer I who live but Christ
who lives in me’ is another story. Paul had to remove
himself from whatever was from his old life and his old
world. Everything that he had considered to be gains in
his life before Christ, he now considered as loss on
account of Christ (Phil. 3:5-11). Paul was crucified,
terminated (Gal. 2:20; 1 Cor. 15:10). It was not about
him. His wishes, his personal plans had to cease to
exist. In the same way, we have withdraw ourselves from
‘self’. It is no longer what we will, but what He wills
that counts. This is consistent with the divine ways of
God. As those who follow the Lord, everything of our old
life and old world has to go. Then everything of God
must be brought for us to be reconstituted. This is
God’s way with all of us, but it is especially and
particularly true of those whom He is setting apart as
part of this end-time apostolic company. There must be a
leaving and a cleaving. The rending precedes the
sending.
Some time ago, I sent out a message called the
Transition Bridge, in which I described 3 parts of the
process of traversing this bridge. They line up very
clearly with what we have been learning about being set
apart and sent:
1)DISORIENTATION – a moving away from what one was
joined to before; a leaving and setting apart from,
2)RECALIBRATION – a setting in order, equipping and
preparing of oneself, which requires an emptying in
order for a filling to take place
3)REORIENTATION – a leaving of oneself and saying
goodbye to who you used to be; a turning towards what
lies ahead with fixed purpose, no turning back. A
cleaving and setting apart to.
We see this whole process in the lives of Jesus’ 12
disciples. They were set apart from the unbelieving
rabble and walked with Him, being fed daily with truth,
seeing miracles and hearing Him share His heart. They
were recalibrated and had their understanding adjusted
concerning the Old Testament Scriptures. However during
these 3&1/2 years, there were many things that they
didn’t understand. They had a general understanding of
what being a disciple meant. Then they became completely
disorientated by the crucifixion of the Lord. Only after
the resurrection, when they received 40 days of teaching
on the Kingdom, did they get the full picture and became
kitted out with the necessary Truth to carry to their
apostolic destinations. One would have thought that this
was enough and they could set off right away. However,
they had to again go through separation as Jesus
ascended and they were set apart from all they had
experienced before and told to wait in the upper room.
Here, during prayer and fasting and worship, specific
revelation was given for completion and once they had
been obedient and Matthias was added to the number and
Heaven’s perfect time had fully come, they were filled
and empowered and quickly poured out onto the street.
Here they affected the local community for some time
afterwards, until persecution scattered them to their
individual assignments in other parts of the world.
During the time in Jerusalem, the Spirit was working
deep within each individual vessel, imparting specific
heavenly downloads into each one’s hold in preparation
for the coming assignments. And finally the moment of
separating, sealing and sending came for each one. And
so too, will it come for you - when the time has fully
come and your hold is completely full! Be at peace with
the pace of the process. The Holy Spirit knows what He
is doing. Your moment of pushing off from the shore and
waving the last chapter of your life goodbye will be
here sooner than you realise.
Selah
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