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When
we speak of unity it is not just words — it is our mission. The
time has come for the Priesthood of Jesus Christ to come together.
To step out of the Inner court (Church) And into the most holy
place (Kingdom)
For
too long the ministry has been divided by man made walls. ICOF
is the fellowship of ministers of the Most High God. Not a denomination,
but fathers and sons in the domain of the King.
Many
Christian Leaders today, when questioned, give a list of men whose
teaching influenced their lives, but these same leaders cannot
point to a Father in the Ministry.
Although
it is true that many men have contributed to our education and
spiritual enrichment, few of them have been empowered to impart
to us the rich inheritance that God has promised.
Thus,
like the Corinthian Church, we have ample instruction and abundant
gifting, but we have not many Fathers
Our
Goal is to recover the generational blessing by turning back to
the foundation of spiritual inheritance in the Kingdom of God
through the relationship of Father and son. We are committed to
helping those in Ministry today develop the heart of a father
and rise up a generation of sons and daughters in Ministry.
The
Revelation of God to his people has always been in the order of
father to Son.
That
is how we embrace our status as the children of God and how we
receive Salvation and relationship with God.
This
is our inheritance as “heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ”
(ROM. 8:17).
Our
relationship with God is a reflection of the order of Father and
son.
We
must also understand that ministry relationships are to reflect
the order of father and son as well.
However,
because the Church doesn't realize the essence of Father and son
relationship in ministry, we do not receive our inheritance. Our
adaptation of other models has caused the Church to lose connection
with spiritual inheritance.
Although
God has given us all things in Christ, the Church has not received
the fullness of that inheritance because her immaturity
This
is why God is sending us the spirit of Elijah. God is restoring
the alignment between fathers and sons in the ministry.
The
Relationship between a father and a son in the ministry is not
an employee/boss relationship.
The
Church is an outpost of the Kingdom of God. God always deals in
relational terms.
His
actions and expression are the revelation of his person and essence,
and God revealed himself to us in terms of Relationship: Father,
Son, and Spirit. He created and redeemed us; we are His Children.
God requires that the covenant He made with us through His Son
also be the Model for all relationships in the Kingdom
Many
are like Benjamin who was inappropriately named by his dying Mother,
Rachel who named him Benoni, “son of my sorrow”, but his father
changed his destiny and named him Benjamin, “son of my right hand”,
or “son of my strength”. Out of his fathers prophetic utterance
came t he lineage of King Saul, the First King who reigned over
Israel. It is a tragedy for sons to be misaligned to someone,
something, or some system that cannot speak to their Destiny.
Many
of us have been misnamed in the dying arms of a Rachel-like system
that named us on the basis of its own calamity. It is to those
bleeding sons whose cracked identity and broken dreams have halted
their growth that the ICOF extends an invitation to walk in relationship.
Come
journey down the road to truth that brings us into the recognition
of our fathers.
It
is here in their arms that we receive the name that unfolds destiny.
Fulfilling
Malachi 4:6
(Turning
the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the
children)
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