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CONTEXT USED IN:
We will often ask a student signing up
for the apostolic course,
“What is your mandate?” By asking
this question we are hoping to find out what direction the Lord has given
them and what direction they see themselves going in their apostolic
calling.
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BOOK:
The Way of the Apostle - Volume 1:
The Apostolic Appointment
CHAPTER:
Signs of the Apostolic Calling
AUTHOR:
Les D. Crause
ApostolicAppt 2:12
- "He had a vision burning in him. He
had something strong burning in him. He had a clear goal, a clear mandate.
That mandate was given to him as he was struck to the ground, as the light
shone around him and the Lord Jesus spoke to him and said, "Saul, Saul, why
are you persecuting Me?" We will look more at that as we go on.
13 Paul had a unique passion burning in him. He was a
spiritual entrepreneur. And every man that God is raising up today to take
the title and the role and Office of Apostle is somebody that has a cause.
He is somebody that has a cause burning in them and somebody that has a
goal, a vision, a clear mandate from the Lord to go out and do what perhaps
nobody else is doing. He is a spiritual entrepreneur."
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CONTEXT USED IN:
When someone has received a call to the
Apostolic, either from a prophetic word or direct revelation from the Lord,
we would say that, “You have been called to the Apostolic Ministry” This means that they have been chosen to pass through the
preparation and training required of one to stand in such an office, but
this call does not place them in the actual office. (See also: Fivefold
Ministry: Ministry and Office)
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BOOK:
Apostolic Office
CHAPTER:
Apostolic Fatherhood
AUTHOR:
Les D. Crause
ApostolicOffice 4:34
- "Now I am not talking about a child
in the natural here. I am talking about a spiritual child. I am talking
about somebody who has not attained the spiritual maturity to stand on their
own, and in the context of the apostolic I am referring to somebody who has
not yet been placed in apostolic office. Until you are placed in apostolic
office, as far as the apostolic ministry is concerned, you are still in
apostolic childhood or adolescence. So I want you to think in that context
as we look at this."
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Anointed and Appointed
AUTHOR:
Colette Toach
"Can you identify a time when the Lord anointed you for
ministry? It could have been through a prophetic word, it could have been
through a personal revelation directly from the Lord. Either way, you KNOW
the Lord had called you. But what now? Does this now mean that you must
begin functioning in the office the Lord has called you to? Not at all, what
this means is that from this day, the anointing that was poured upon you,
will now begin forming you into the image of Christ and will be preparing
you to take the throne of office!"
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When a person has passed through the
preparation and training that the Lord leads the apostle through, they will
then be released into the full function of their calling by a prophet or an
apostle. When such a person is put in this position by the direction of the
Holy Spirit, we would say that,
“They stand in apostolic office.”
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BOOK:
The David Dynamic
CHAPTER:
The Davidic King
AUTHOR:
Colette Toach
DavidDynamic 23:4-7
"3 So all the elders of Israel came to
the king at Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before
the LORD [Yahweh]: and they anointed David king over Israel. (GMR)
As we have
been making progress through the David Dynamic we were first introduced to a
shepherd boy, and slowly we have seen a transformation take place in David's
life from image to image, from insecurity to security, from need for
acceptance to boldness and leadership. Now we are going to take a global
look as the Lord has prepared you as a Davidic apostle, from one who just
received the revelation of, "Hey, I'm called to be an apostle," and all that
it was about, to coming to the place where you finally rise up and stand in
the office of apostle.
{ Office the
End Goal }
You see
everything that I have shared up until now and all these points that I have
covered have simply been a journey. But really the office - standing in the
full authority and designation of apostle - is your end goal. That is where
you are aiming towards. That is the end goal. Perhaps you think that when
you get there you stop and you have arrived. I have news for you though.
Once you finally reach the stage of standing in office, you have only just
begun, because now comes the part where you can practically apply everything
that Lord has been taking you through all those years."
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Anointed and Appointed
AUTHOR:
Colette Toach
"You see, it takes more than the appointment of man to
set you in office. It takes the appointment of the Holy Spirit and being
released by a prophet or an apostle of God who is already in office.
Until you can recall a specific time and date where the
Lord set you into office and appointed you to the throne, as it were, then
you are not functioning in office and cannot wear the title of that office.
You have not yet arrived and still have a path of training and preparation
to walk."
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CONTEXT USED IN:
Before someone who is called to the
apostolic ministry will qualify to be placed fully in the office of apostle,
the Holy Spirit will take them through a phase of preparation to make them
ready for the mandate he desires to give them. This is a difficult and
changing time for the ‘apostle in learning’. This phase can last anywhere
from 14 to 30 years. When we see someone going through this kind of change
in their lives we say that
“They are in Apostolic Preparation.”
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EXCERPT:
BOOK:
Apostolic Appointment
CHAPTER:
Apostolic Preparation
AUTHOR:
Les D. Crause
ApostolicAppt 12:10
- "The apostolic preparation needs to
be strenuous because God is raising up the apostle to be the leader in the
Body of Christ. The Apostolic Office is the highest leadership office, and
the apostle needs to coordinate all other ministries together. In order to
do this the apostle has to go through a training mechanism that enables him
or her to function and to understand and interact with and coordinate all of
the fivefold ministries."
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CONTEXT USED IN:
Once the apostle in learning has gone
through preparation the Lord will then begin taking him through his paces
and begin refining him for the mandate he has been called to accomplish.
This is an intensive time of about 3 years. Once someone called to the
apostolic ministry passes through these 3 years, they rise up fully into
apostolic office. When we identify someone facing this stage of their
learning we say,
“The Lord has called you to apostolic training”
or
“You are ready for apostolic training”
or
“You are
already in apostolic training”
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EXCERPT:
BOOK:
The Moses Mandate
CHAPTER:
Climbing the Mountain
AUTHOR:
Colette Toach
MosesMandate 4:11
- "There needs to come a time of
separation from the world where the Lord can draw you to Himself for a time
of intimate training, change and teaching, and the face-to-face
relationship. You cannot move fully into the Apostolic Office until you have
had this time of separation. Because until you are able to hear the voice of
the Lord for yourself, you cannot move into all that He has for you. If you,
standing as an apostle and a leader in the Body of Christ, are not able to
hear the Lord's Word clearly and precisely and know exactly which step to
take next, you are not going to make it as a leader. Because at the first
sign of opposition, and at the first sign of deception, you are going to
fall."
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CONTEXT USED IN:
Each apostle will have a certain
emphasis and direction. Some will feel a burden for the church within the
system, others will feel a burden for those without it. When identifying the
emphasis and mandate of an apostle, we can easily see what apostolic type
they are in training for. We will often say to an apostle who is prophetic
and functioning out of the realms of the system,
“You are Davidic in
nature”
Or to someone with more of a pastoral and teaching emphasis,
within the system,
“Your function is a Mosaic one”
You will
often hear us say,
“You are called as a Davidic Apostle, Mosaic
Apostle, Joshua apostle or Solomon apostle”
depending on the mandate
and burden of the apostle in training.
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BOOK:
The Apostolic Types
CHAPTER:
Apostolic Types
AUTHOR:
Les D. Crause
ApostolicTypes 1:8-11
"{ Full Picture in Old and New }
And so if we
are going to have an understanding concerning the function and the ministry
of the apostle, it is necessary that we go back and start in the Old
Testament.
Now the Old
Testament, according to Paul, was written as an example or an illustration,
as a model for us in the New Testament. In other words the Old Testament had
types and shadows, pictures or symbols that give us an indication of what is
clearly taught in the New Testament. And so very often to have a clear
understanding of principles in the Word, we need to put the Old and New
Testaments together, and we need to look at the type and the shadow in the
Old and then see how that type or shadow was fulfilled in the New. As we put
the two together we get a full picture of what God is trying to teach us in
His Word concerning that subject.
The
Apostolic Ministry and the Apostolic Office fall into this category. In
order to understand them clearly we need to start with types and shadows in
the Old Testament and then add to it the teaching that we have in the New
Testament. As we put them together the picture starts to become clear. Take
out the Old Testament and you have a puzzle with some key pictures missing.
You would be amazed what a difference one piece of a puzzle can make."
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BOOK:
The Apostolic Types
CHAPTER:
Apostolic Types
AUTHOR:
Les D. Crause
ApostolicTypes 1:16-19
You say, "What do you mean by the
apostolic types?"
They are
different types of apostles.
"You say,
'But I thought an apostle was an apostle, was an apostle.' "
No, an
apostle is not. He is one of several kinds of apostle. You put two apostles
together and they may not look the same. They will have many similarities,
but there are distinctions and there are different categories or kinds of
apostle in the Scriptures. That is what I am going to try and show you here,
beginning in the Old Covenant.
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EXCERPT:
BOOK:
The Apostolic Types
CHAPTER:
Apostolic Types
AUTHOR:
Les D. Crause
ApostolicTypes 3:1-6
"{ The Moses Category }
Let's begin
with Moses. The Moses apostle has these functions and responsibilities.
Firstly, he
directs ministry largely at the status quo church.
You say,
"Status quo church? Which chapter and verse did you get that from?"
Les chapter
three verse two! It is a term that I made up and which other people also
use, and you know what it means. The status quo is what everybody does. It
is the 'in thing'. It is the fashion of this world. The status quo church is
the church that is following the patterns of this world, that have become
absorbed and controlled by the world, by the status quo and doing what
everybody else does. The church is behaving just like the world.
The church
has become an organization no different to any worldly organization. The
church has become a business, no different to any other business out there.
It is has become a club, just like any other social club out there. The
church has become absorbed into the World System, and the Moses apostle is
called primarily to address that aspect of the church, to deal with it and
to break the church free. Why? Because Moses was called to deliver them out
of Egypt. They cried to be delivered out of Egypt, until they had to leave
behind all the good things. The Moses apostle has a big job on his hands,
and we are going to be dealing with a whole series just on how he has to go
about it."
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BOOK:
The Apostolic Types
CHAPTER:
Apostolic Types
AUTHOR:
Les D. Crause
ApostolicTypes 3:22-24
"What comes next? It is naturally
the David type of apostle. What did David do?
David
directs his ministry largely to those who have already left the System or
the status quo church. They have become fed up with it. They have had enough
and said, "We're out of here." Or, they received the left boot of
fellowship. They have been kicked out. Most of them have the title
'prophet'.
They claim that they want nothing to do with the
System, but usually the truth is the System wants nothing to do with them.
Nevertheless they have left. They are a bunch of dropouts. Nobody wants
them. They are considered losers. They live in the Cave of Adullam, and that
is where David will gather them together and he will bring them outside of
the System. He will minister to them and build them up and bring them to the
same kind of thing. He will build them up, show them a pattern and indicate
to them what God has for them."
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BOOK:
The Apostolic Types
CHAPTER:
Apostolic Types
AUTHOR:
Les D. Crause
ApostolicTypes 3:49
- "Joshua was Moses' disciple and was
discipled by him."
ApostolicTypes 3:53-54
"The Joshua apostle takes over where
Moses left off and completes the work. It was not Moses who led the
Israelites into the Land of Canaan and gave them the land, but it was
Joshua.
The Joshua
apostle displaces the System. Joshua went into the land and drove the enemy
off in order that the Promised Land could be inhabited and taken over by the
people. The Joshua apostle hands over the church to a new generation. Not
one of those that left Egypt made it into the Canaan Land except Joshua and
Caleb. Joshua handed over the Promised Land to a young and new generation.
The church of tomorrow will be led by a new generation and the old will die
out and will fade away."
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BOOK:
The Apostolic Types
CHAPTER:
Apostolic Types
AUTHOR:
Les D. Crause
ApostolicTypes 3:59
- "And so, we come to the final
apostolic type - the Solomon apostle. Solomon was discipled by his father
David. Solomon is zealous of introducing change, according to David's
pattern. Just as Moses lays out the correct structure for the church, Joshua
goes in, smashes the old one in order to introduce the new, so as David has
introduced the new concept to those who have left the System, the Solomon
apostle takes them in and shows them how to set up and put in place the
pattern that David has introduced."
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CONTEXT USED IN:
In this lecture
“Saul” is used as a type and shadow of the status quo system. In
other words: the worlds system within the church. When the Lord
deals with the ‘Saul in you’ He is exposing all the sinful and
incorrect templates related to the system. So you would hear us
say,
“The
Saul in you needs to be dealt with”
or
“The Lord
is dealing with the Saul in you”
Further you might see us say,
“Saul is still alive in you.”
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BOOK:
The David Dynamic
CHAPTER:
Dealing With Saul
AUTHOR:
Colette Toach
DavidDynamic 8:13
- "Well, I have news for you. Would you
dare admit Davidic apostle, that you need the System? Would you dare admit
that the System that you so despise and the System that you see so many
fallacies in, you need, you desire, you still hanker after as David hankered
after Saul? Would you dare admit that Saul is in you? That the System you
are fighting so hard is not out there, but the System you have to fight is
right within your very heart."
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CONTEXT USED IN:
When a person who is called of the Lord
is raised, instructed and received impartation from an apostle, that person
would be considered their ‘apostolic father’/ Fatherhood is an apostolic
function. It is not a mentorship relationship, which is temporary, but a
father and son relationship which is progressive. When we can see a person
displaying the characteristics of the person who trained them we would say
that
“They have been fathered by that person”
or
“We can
see that you are under the fatherhood of that apostle”
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BOOK:
The Apostolic Office
CHAPTER:
Apostolic Fatherhood
AUTHOR:
Les D. Crause
ApostolicOffice 5:5-7
Firstly, the mentorship
relationship is temporary and it ends. When it comes to an end you will
never return to that mentor again. Very often the mentor has to kick the
disciple out, because they don't want to leave. A lot of the time God has to
bring a sword between them, or God has to actually physically remove the
mentor and take him away so that the disciple can break free and rise up and
move into their own realm of ministry.
The father
is your father for life. My child can run away from home and come out from
under my authority and go anywhere in the world, but my genes are still in
him. What I reproduced in him will always be there, because it has been
imparted to him physically. Now if we are looking from a spiritual sense, we
are looking at a kind of an impartation that takes place from father to
spiritual son that is deeper than impartation of knowledge and impartation
of anointing. It is deeper than that. That is why you can have numerous
mentors, but only one father.
Now how does
spiritual fatherhood take place? It takes place through impartation, through
conception and through birth. As I meditated on this to try and get it clear
in my mind, the Lord told me to compare and have a look at natural
childbirth to see how it takes place.
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CONTEXT USED IN:
This is a term that is used very often
in all our teachings. It refers to the world system within the church. The
status quo way of doing things. 'Keeping up with the Jones’s’. You will find
this in various contexts. Some would be,
“The Lord is calling you out
of the status quo church”
or
“The Lord is calling you to
minister within the status quo church”
or
“The Lord has called
you to confront the church system”
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BOOK:
Seven Steps to the Future Church
CHAPTER:
Disassociation
AUTHOR:
Les D. Crause
SevenSteps 4:19-21
"I began to see that there was a
system set up in the world that was not designed to help, but to
destroy. And the ones that I went to that were supposed to be there to help
me, were now trying to destroy my family. They were being used by Satan to
destroy. And now, as I went to what appeared to be the church system
of the day to see whether the church would help, I found the church to be no
different to the world. They had the same attitude. They had the same lack
of love and care for those who were in need.
{
Discontentment }
That was
among some of the first tastes that I had of how the church has come to be
controlled by the world. And over time in the experiences that I have had in
ministry, in the church, in serving the Lord and in the world, I have come
to see that the Body of Christ has developed to a situation where the church
very often does not look any different to the world. Sometimes it looks
exactly the same. The world has crept into the church, and the church has
become molded after the pattern of the world."
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BOOK:
The Apostolic Types
CHAPTER:
Apostolic Types
AUTHOR:
Les D. Crause
ApostolicTypes 3:3-5
"Firstly, he directs ministry largely
at the status quo church.
You say,
"Status quo church? Which chapter and verse did you get that from?"
Les
chapter three verse two! It is a term that I made up and which other people
also use, and you know what it means. The status quo is what
everybody does. It is the 'in thing'. It is the fashion of this world. The
status quo church is the church that is following the patterns of
this world, that have become absorbed and controlled by the world, by the
status quo and doing what everybody else does. The church is behaving
just like the world."
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