Glossary of Key Terms
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Abandon
To discard or to dispose of without protection or covering. To leave as an orphan. We at Dominion-Life International Ministries have a serious heart for the Saints coming into their purpose in God so we will not cause abandonment.
Aggressive
Firm, confident and positive in attitude and discipline.
Apostles
An apostle is "one chosen and sent with a special commission." They are referred to as "wise master builders" or "spiritual architects" (1 Corinthians 3:10). They are neither infallible nor superhuman beings but are ‘naturally supernnatural’ imparting a grace from God that activates knowledge skill, creativity, spiritual force, government, leadership, insight, accuracy and performance in accordance with the exactness of God.
Apostolic
The apostolic anointing is given by God for the building of the Church, as the first of the five-fold ministries, which are needed for its perfect functioning. The office entails outward ministry to the Church throughout the earth and is not confined to one individual part of the body or to one specific type of gifting. The apostle also plays a key role in the local church.
Quite apart form the original apostles, it is clear from the scripture that the apostolic office is a continuing one within the Church, as are those of Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher (According to Ephesians 4 verse 11). The apostolic ministry is pioneering and foundational, essential to the building process in the Church and to its Reformation in line with the continuous revelation of Scripture. Apostles father sons who, in turn will raise up to be fathers and ensure the generational transfer that is so essential to the continuation of the Church.
Apostolic Network
An apostolic network is a gathering of autonomous churches, ministers, ministries and Kingdom organizations that are voluntarily united around a common vision determined by a called, gifted and spiritually functioning Apostle. It is headed by a functioning apostle or apostolic team.
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Babylon
The term derives from what Biblical Babylon represented – A system of success and material wealth, which is the fulfillment of everything man can be in the natural realm without God; a system built without faith in God, which desires to conquer and destroy God’s purpose and people. God’s people are to live in and excel in Babylon while fleeing its values. Daniel is our model for successful Babylonian living.
Body
One of the three components of man: body, soul, and spirit. It is the will of God for the entire man to be redeemed and sanctified (I Thess. 5:23). The physical body most usually expresses the intent of the soul. It is the corporeal form of man, that which can be seen outwardly, by others. The total redemption of the body is still future, occurring at the point where we transition from mortality to immortality. However, management of the process must be instituted now, in that the body must not be abused and put in the way of physical sin (Rom. 6:13). Personal responsibility and personal choice are paramount in managing the body.
Breakthrough
The ability to spiritually blast through, penetrate, overcome barriers (spiritual, social, economic, political) through the grace and power of Jesus Christ.
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Character
The true essence, or inner substance of a person, the integrity of which is refined and tested constantly by God.
Church
The universal Body of Christ, likened in Scripture to a Body with Christ as Head and to a building with Christ as ‘the chief cornerstone’ and the Believers as “living stones”.
It has no relationship to denominationalism but rather the Church consists in all those people who have committed their lives to God in their hearts, who are purposefully walking towards His determined end.
A people called out to journey to a destination, which is the perfection of Christ.
The Church is a community without bounds of time and space and will one day be ‘a seamless robe’ of oneness in Him.
Covenant Relationship
A relationship birthed by the Spirit of God and developed through continued commitment to the agreed values and principles of God.
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Discern
Spiritual perception of a situation, season or person. God gives us keen discernment for all our circumstances, but we must be sensitive in listening for His spiritual direction.
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Ekklesia*
The Greek word for an assembly that was selected and organized by government officials to pass a ruling or deliberate in judiciary/legislative matters. This word is translated as ‘church’ approximately three times in the New Testament, and points to the governmental capacity of the Church as a ‘called out’ assembly that has the ability to magistrate on universal (natural and spiritual, present and future) concerns.
Elder
The Ministry of an Elder An elder is simply someone more mature in the faith - a "father or mother in the Lord". An elder is not a particular type of ministry, but rather is a leader in the Body (1 Peter 5:1; 2 John 1; 3 John 1). "To the elders among you...Be shepherds of God's flock that is under your care, serving as overseers..." 1 Peter 5:2 (also Acts 20:17, 28-31). The word "elder" - presbuteros - refers to any leadership ministry. An elder may be one of the five or an "overseer" - episkopos - over a local church. But whether a person is a pastor (one of the five-fold ministry) or an overseeing elder (in charge of a local body), both are called to be shepherds. Following the example of the Chief Shepherd (John 10:1-16), a shepherd's ministry is to feed (verse 9); protect (verse 12), guide (verses 3-4) and love (verse 15) the sheep.
Evangelist
Evangelists extend the frontiers of God's Kingdom (see the ministry of Philip in Acts 6:3-7; 8:5-40; 21:8). They are co-workers with and extensions of apostolic ministry (2 Timothy 4:5; 1 Thessalonians 3:2). They also equip the body of Christ with the Evangelistic spirit of outreach.
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Fatherhood
The apostolic ability to raise up sons in the ministry who tap into grace by their ability to draw from the apostolic head, not through organizational or structured Pharisee positionings but by correct understanding of covenant and ranking. Elijah and Elisha, and Paul and Timothy, are excellent examples of the father-son relationship necessary to apostolic generational transfer.
Finishing Mentality
The mode of thought and operation, which will bring a course, task, or undertaking to completion.
In the Church context, it is to operate as Paul did and to ‘press on towards the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus’, knowing as Christ himself did, that ‘to finish the work’ is of paramount importance.
Five-fold Ministry *
The operation of the governmental offices of Apostle, Prophet, Pastor, Evangelist and Teacher. A dimension of grace has been given to some to equip the saints and edify the Body of Christ (the Church), an ongoing process whose conclusion is unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, i.e., the man Christ (Eph. 4:11-13). These differ from a grace gift, where the Spirit of God moves upon a Believer to function for a time in these dimensions, but with limited capability.
Foundation
The basis (as tenet, principle, or axiom) upon which something stands or is supported. The foundation of the Church is Christ (the Chief Cornerstone) and the Apostles lay the foundation as “wise master builders”.
Frequency *
In physics, the rate of repetition or number of cycles per second. Usually, God communicates at a state or level that is incomprehensible to humans. However, enabled by the mind of Christ, the ways and operating principles of God can be tapped into by His sons. This level or state of transmission is defined as a frequency. With discernment, maturity and obedience, the rate of repetition with which God communicates His intent to the individual Believer or corporate body can be apprehended with greater regularity and clarity. Frequency also refers to the current speaking of God (I Cor. 2:9-16) and its transmission from one Believer to another.
Fresh
Having its original qualities unimpaired; not stale, sour, or decayed; newly come or arrived.
A fresh ‘Word’ from God is fresh revelation of Scripture that may have been previously hidden or ‘locked’.
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Generation
A group of individuals born and living contemporaneously.
Generation of Destiny
A group of individuals born and living contemporaneously according to the predetermined course mapped out by God for them.
Gatekeeper Generation
A group of individuals born and living contemporaneously who guard the spiritual activity and purpose of God in their vicinity through their Kingdom lifestyle and their governmental prayer.
Gentiles
The nations, the unsaved of the Earth who do not know God.
Global
Relating to or involving the entire world.
Global Vision
Mode of seeing or conceiving, involving the entire world. Coined phrase: "think globally not locally".
Global vision may be opposed to the limitations of a ‘parish mentality’ which has bound churches in the past (and still does today) to limited, sometimes futile, activity within the confines of their own community.
Globalization
Systems designed to encompass the entire earth in their executive actions.
Govern
To direct, or strongly influence the actions and conduct of others.
To exert a determining or guiding influence in or over.
Government
The process of governing the Church, imbued with ‘the power to bring divine regulation and divine impact upon human and demonic systems in the earth’; right government causes the eternal intents and purposes of God to proceed according to plan.
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Heart attitude / position
One's innermost character, and condition, validated by a lifestyle directly reflecting this position / attitude.
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Impact
To strike forcefully.
Impartation
Communication of knowledge, not just by mind but by Spirit.
Apostolic Impartation
The resource that gives momentum and breakthrough power for the next phase of God’s Reformation movings in the earth.
Prophetic Impartation
The resource for prophetic fulfilment of God’s purposes and plans.
Iceberg Principle
One tenth of an iceberg is seen on the surface, but nine tenths of it is hidden. As citizens of God’s Kingdom, we must have a depth/foundation (based on character and intimacy with God) that is the core of who we are.
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Jabez Spirit
Jabez was one who overcame the words spoken over him at birth and the restrictions implicit in his name. The world may give you a name which is negative, but God can still use you as a prototype if you are willing to rise above it. Daniel and his friends also rose above the names which Babylon imposed on them.
Jack in the Box Principle
A Jack jumps up and displays himself the instant his box is opened, but as a people of God, when our boxes are opened, we must serve God effectively but unobtrusively; there must be a death to self in the service.
Jehu Technology
Jehu was destined to destroy Jezebel and that spirit which would corrupt and destroy the Church. To that end, he 'rode furiously' to his destined encounter with her and was not beguiled by her distracting words but kept absolutely to his purpose.
Jezebel Spirit
A Spirit within the Church that is bent on the suppression of God’s prophetic Word and the disruption of strong government by any means possible. The Spirit is deceptive, self-seeking and yet knowledgeable. Attributes of this mentality include a usurpation of spiritual authority, idolatry, manipulation of individuals, deliberate slaughter of the apostolic/prophetic spirit, corruption of spiritual values of purity/righteousness and domination of Godly leadership (Rev. 2:20-24; 1 Kin. 16:31, 18:4, 19:2, 21:4-8). It must be annihilated at all costs as Jezebel herself had to be annihilated.
Jubilee
A year of emancipation and restoration provided by ancient Hebrew law to be kept every 50 years by the emancipation of Hebrew slaves, restoration of alienated lands to their former owners, and cessation of all cultivation of the land; a season of celebration of God’s goodness.
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Kairos
Kairos time refers to a special season during which the Lord releases a particular phase of His purpose. Reformation has a fixed and definite time in the mind of God; there is a critical season when the mighty power of God is released and displayed to bring His plans to pass. In order for the Kairos to be complete, a pre-ordained sequence of events (a process) must be brought to completion. Therefore, it is a time that is highly charged with a sense of urgency and impregnated with a sense of destiny, in which a certain mentality prevails. There must be an awareness of the absolute necessity of the ongoing process or task, a willingness to deny the demands of the flesh in order to bring that process to completion, an intolerance of any resistance or hindrance, as well as a seamless joining, through prophetic illumination, of our hearts and minds with God’s desire.
Kingdom
The Kingdom of God refers to that system which Christ came to usher in, established through the beliefs, values, and heart positions that God would build in His people on this earth (see for example Matthew 13). It is the expression of God’s sovereignty in the Earth (1 Peter 2:9-10) and is to be manifested by His Church (Ekklesia).
Kingdom Advancing Prayer
Breakthrough, penetrative prayer. It is offered up by those saints who seek out God’s purpose within their own Church body and the wider Church and seek His will and success in their purposes by their declarations and decrees into these purposes. It is strong warfare prayer directed to circumvent Satan’s strategies and effect God’s rulership on the earth.
Kronos*
The Greek word for physical time. Physical time is the operational framework for man. Complex, sanctified man operates in this context, yet by principles from an unseen realm, which is regulated and defined by God’s timing.
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Language
A system of communication common to a speech community and reflecting their common understandings and shared philosophies. It expresses a singleness of intent. (Genesis 11:1) The men building the Tower of Babel tapped into the power of the technology of a common language, which multiplied their strength and productivity.
Law
The system of customs, practices, traditions, regulations, rules, governing the sacrifices, ceremonies, and the structures of Jewish lifestyle in the Old Testament. The Law represents a system that was created to keep sinful man in check. It was intended to bring man closer to God through teaching obedience but instead drew him further away because of his attention to the ‘letter’. The letter kills but the Spirit brings life’. It was the foundation of the Old Covenant.
Leading
To have a leading is to be hearing something from the Holy Spirit; to follow a leading is to listen to what the Spirit says and obey.
Listening
In order to hear (passive) we have to actively listen for God’s direction/speaking; listening is impeded by all traditional mindsets and ways of thinking: ‘hearing they will not hear, and understanding they will not understand, because of the hardness of their hearts’
Legalistic
This term describes a mentality that is validated by the former Old Testament relationship between God and man, rather than by a New Testament understanding of grace. It refers to a mental position that places the emphasis on the old Mosaic system of laws, rituals, sacrifices, rather than the new system of grace.
Lifestyle
An individual’s way of life; this term has gained currency as an abbreviation of the expression ‘lifestyle Christianity’ or ‘Kingdom Lifestyle’. ‘Lifestyle Christianity’ is a way of life that is shaped by the accurate application of Kingdom principles to our everyday lives.
Light
It entails illumination or knowledge gained by divine revelation (when God shows you something), or prophetic discernment (spiritual gifting), and a total break with the ways of the world which led to darkness. God represents light, and the Devil represents darkness; once He has brought us into the light, we must choose to walk in the light consciously (Ephesians 5:8-14).
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Mandate
Both a formal order, commission, command given by God to an individual or community and the authorization to access anything necessary to fulfill that command.
Maturity
The state in which full development or completion of a process, has been achieved.
Mentality
Mode or way of thinking. For example, a "big stick mentality" is a mode of thought characterized by a dependence on external policing and motivation, and a lack of self-government and personal responsibility.
Migration
A change in mental or spiritual position Refers to the constant shifts in mentality which must be accomplished by Kingdom people who are always listening to God and adjusting themselves to a moving target. The meaning of the word is derived from an understanding of the need for open hearts, flexible mentalities, and a desire for increase. Reformation people are not stationary, passive and rigid.
Mindset
A rigid, inflexible mentality.
Momentum
Spiritual impetus: the unstoppable advance of a spiritual activity that crushes all opposition in its path.
Mortality
The ultimate limitation of the human race. Death is our final enemy, and our final obstacle in the race to immortality. But death has already been conquered. Therefore, mortality is a present reality that Reformation people reject, prophetically laying hold of a more perfect reality that is to come.
Mosaic
Relating to the system of external rituals, sacrifices and externally imposed law, instituted by Moses, when he led Israel out of Egyptian slavery and through the wilderness.
Move (verb) of God
To arise from apparent inactivity or to display power in some perceptible way. (Noun) Used to describe the different phases by which God establishes his Kingdom on the earth. Although the word is used to describe both God’s former phases and the current Reformation, an important distinction exists between previous moves of God and the present Reformation move of God. The Reformation "breaks the established patterns of the moves of God in the Earth. It is of a higher frequency and has a more devastating spiritual impact. This Reformation is of a higher rank than the successive moves of God that we have experienced up to this time."
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Natural
Most usually opposed to ‘spiritual’. Man has natural or carnal inclinations which often oppose his spiritual call. We may look at things in the ‘natural’ or in the ‘spiritual’ – tantamount to the difference between looking on the seen as opposed to the unseen.
New Age Modern (demonic) spiritualism which purports to be a movement for self development of the individual while actually making him/her a prey to demonic influences through mind penetration.
This prominent feature of the world system at the turn of the millennium capitalizes on Man’s continued attempts to attain self-sufficiency and self-aggrandizement and, paradoxically, to that element of man which craves spiritual fulfilment. Many self development seminars as well as Professional Development courses are geared towards releasing the mind to infiltration by alien spiritual forces.
New Covenant
The effective spiritual order of Divine Grace. Jesus’ appearance on Earth permanently brought the entire complex Mosaic system to termination. He ushered in a transition that simultaneously invalidated the old order and introduced the new order. He came to give us access to Him ‘by a new and living way’, that is through faith and grace, and, having so done, we were commissioned to work out his purpose in the earth, to build his Church and to manifest Kingdom reality in the earth.
Next Level
Refers to God’s immediate upward purpose for His people, to which He is constantly directing them. It involves our increasing in our Christian walk, that is in character, lifestyle, closeness to Him, because only through personal increase can we access the next level of purpose that He has for us.
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Overcomer
An aggressive, bold, Spirit-filled Believer who does not and will not let anything stand in their way of fulfilling the Lord’s purpose in their lives. They are spoken of in Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 26, 3:5, 12, 21, 21:7 and 1 John 5:5.
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Pharisee
A religious person, who thrives in legalism and bondage. They profess to know God but denies His power.
Pharisee Spirit
A spirit of religiosity that seeks to hold people in bondage to dead works and forms. It is a spirit that seeks to enforce legalism in the Church. Jesus warned of us of that spirit when He said to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees.
Praise
The manifestation of our glorifying God through song, dance, audible prayer, the lifting of hands. God inhabits our praises; they release Him to war on our behalf, to direct us and to come close to us.
It is our essential purpose to praise God in all circumstances and situations. David recognized more than any other the righteousness and power of praise.
Prophet
The ministry of the prophet involves being "moved by the Holy Spirit" (2 Peter 1:21) in prophetic utterance, which can be: Predictive (Acts 21:10-11; 11: 27-28), Directive (Acts 13:1-3), or Corrective (Acts 15:22-23,27,32). There is such a thing, however, as a false Prophet (1 John 4:1); therefore, God sets clear guidelines: Prophecies should be time-tested (Acts 11:28). The words of a Prophet are judged by church leadership (1Corinthians14:29) Any prophecy should be confirmed independently (2 Corinthians 13:1). Any prophecy should line up with Scripture, "the sure word of prophecy" (2 Peter 1:19-21). The Prophet operates best in teamwork with the Apostle (e.g. Paul and Silas). A Prophet is not just someone with a prophetic anointing, but a recognized ministry to the Body at large. There are at least five dimensions of the prophetic:
Prophetic
The God-given ability to sense the mind and will of God, either past, present, or futuristic, for a person, group or situation and to communicate it accurately through divine anointed speaking.
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Ranking
The divine arrangement of functioning headship manifested first in the Godhead and further in five-fold ministry (Ephes 4:11). Headship does not imply qualitative superiority but a functional system of command which releases optimum performance when accepted and acted upon. Ranking and its acceptance runs counter to everything the world teaches, and recognition of its Kingdom-releasing power is a consummate act of faith.
Reform
(Verb)To make structural adjustments, to make straight again that which is broken, protrudes or has become misaligned or misshapen, to put back into the correct order or form. The meaning points to a skeletal adjustment or to a correction of the inner mechanisms which give shape or form to the outer construct.
Reformation
A reformation is brought about by a conscious deliberate people who understand the timings and seasons of the Lord and who prophetically discern His moving in the earth. It requires ‘powerful transitions to new mentalities, new expectations and faith levels, new revelation from the Word of God, for more powerful performance of the purposes of God in the earth. This powerful transition is Reformation.’ A Reformation requires the conscious choosing of a preferred destination; it does not occur automatically. Reformation does not overtake the unaware or the unperceptive; it requires obedience, courage and understanding. A Reformation move of God is ordained in Heaven and received by prophetic people in the earth but must be built by activities of sacrifice, joy and persistent proclamation.
Rahab Reality
The capacity to discern and to act according to God’s reality rather than the natural one. Rahab revealed to the spies that the enemies’ camp was filled with fear and acknowledged God’s presence with His people and the people of Jericho’s imminent defeat. She sought alignment with God’s purpose, perceiving the unseen reality by which His people live.
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Sanctification
Holiness of spirit. It not only entails separation from the world system and values, but also a joyful entrance into Godly principles and values. If it is only entering into and not separation from, it results in spiritual pollution, hypocrisy, and self-deception.
Seven Thousand others Principle
Just as God reminded Elijah that He had at least seven thousand others ready to serve Him, so we must recognize with Elijah that, however much God is using us, He has manifold others he can call upon to do the job.
Soul *
The seat of human personality, and source of decisions. It reflects attitudes developed by interaction with myriad environments. The soul is the source of our expressed characteristics and contains emotion and will. Man’s soul expresses the intent of the spirit and utilizes the body to transmit this. The soul is redeemed by the processes of life, and involves response and initiative, both of which culture the soul. The spiritual revelation from the Word of God provides a measuring stick by which the soul’s operations can be assessed and adjusted towards.
Spirit *
The innermost part of man’s being. Before salvation, man’s spirit is inhibited from operation or expression, as his activity in that state is regulated by the desires flesh operating through his soul. When Christ is proclaimed as Lord of an individual’s life, the spirit is liberated (by His blood sacrifice) with the intent/result of providing government and direction to man. Thus, by this action, man’s spirit has been redeemed. Spirit provides man with connectivity and awareness of God and His intent. It has the power to communicate (sense, feel, be aware of) with the unseen realm of God and provides a regulatory function for our activities. The spirit can be developed and made strong.
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Technology
"A system of internal spiritual principles and laws that make an external manifestation predictable and stable". There is a system of operation which facilitates the effective working out of God’s purposes in the Earth and we have to seek to lock into that system. We must unlock the technology to bring about God’s ultimate purpose in the earth.
Teflon Spirit
This refers metaphorically to the individual saint's capacity to take all the knocks that the world may give and still come up shining, like a Teflon-coated pan, with no bruise, scrape or burn since we remain absolutely whole in God.
Tuning Fork Principle
This refers to the capacity to zone in on the teaching or speaking of a person who is of like mind in the apostolic process of the Church. One Apostle can identify another by his speaking, his mode of thought, because God is speaking to both of them on the same frequency.
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Walk
(verb) To conduct one’s lifestyle.
(noun) Mode of operation; lifestyle.
Warfare Prayer
Activity undertaken by “Present-Truth”, Kingdom people to weaken or destroy satanic strongholds of forces.
Our Kingdom Advancing Prayer is warfare! We do not fight against visible foes, but against demonic powers. The battle is conducted in the realm of prayer. The Kingdom cannot peacefully co-exist with anything that is different in nature, and all Kingdom advance is achieved in the face of conflict, opposition, and resistance by satanic forces. Reformation people are Kingdom-advancing, governmental pray-ers, armed with a warfare mentality.
Watchmen
Flexible, responsive pray-ers, who are discerning and prophetic, and who remain constantly alert and vigilant to the changing tactics of the enemy. God has set ‘watchmen’ on the walls of Jerusalem who are to give Him no peace until they establish God’s purpose on the earth.
Wavelength
Frequency, bandwidth, channel, means of communication or expression. Babylon (the world) is configured to transmit at a frequency that distorts or blocks out God’s speaking. Christians must make sure that they are attuned to the right spiritual wavelength.
Will
Our collective desire or intent as Kingdom people. We have the authority and power to bring to fruition whatever we have determined and declared as God’s will, as His preference. It is imperative that the leadership of the church has accurate vision, to keep the will of the people seamlessly joined with God’s will. It is not by our human effort, but by co-operation with a pre-existent divine initiative, that we achieve continued success for Him. The control of one’s own actions, thoughts, and emotions.
Kingdom people must be self-controlled, internally policed, self-governed, equipped with a sense of personal responsibility.
It is to our will in God, not to our emotions, that we must yield.
Wineskin
Systems of operation and of thinking designed to contain the purpose of God and bring it to maturity (Luke 5:37-39). New wine is God’s new purpose, which is too dynamic for the rigidity of old, existing structures. Often, when God births a new process in the Earth, the structures and mentalities that predate it are incapable of containing it until it comes to a place of fruition. Therefore, it is necessary to build new structures and to update old mentalities to create appropriate vessels for God’s moving in the earth
Old wineskins refer to the status quo, the established patterns, the traditional way of doing things. It speaks of a rigid, inflexible vessel, incapable of holding the new purpose of God.
New wineskins represent the elasticity of flexible mentalities that are in tune with God’s new purpose. The expression conjures up images of an environment in which God’s new intent can evolve, mutate, and come to maturity.
Wisdom
Deep understanding, keen discernment, and sound judgment. Wisdom = knowledge + understanding. The essential message of Jesus’ parable in Matthew 25:14 is that if we (the servants) are to engage in a wise and accurate process, we must have knowledge of who God is, as well as an understanding of what He wants.
Of course, it is possible to have an intellectual knowledge and an academic understanding without ever achieving true (God-given) wisdom.
Witness (verb)
To serve as evidence or proof, giving public affirmation, by word or example, of the reality of Christ’s sovereignty in our individual and corporate lives.
(noun) Testimony, proof or attestation of the reality of Christ’s sovereignty.
Work
Sustained effort and activity necessary to achieve God’s purpose. There is a work requirement for every member of the Kingdom. We are no longer passive recipients of God’s blessings, but active, willing participants in the process toward the completion of God’s global purpose, as well as His purpose in our individual and corporate lives.
Word Logos and Rhema.
The Logos Word is God speaking through His Word to all believers; the Rhema Word is an individual word for a single believer as God speaks particularly through a prophetic ministry, through His Word or through any given individual.
World
(noun) See also Babylon.
The political, economic, social, and philosophical systems of the world which are based on a body of understanding which is opposed to the principles of the Kingdom of God. The entire world-system in which we live is a demonically designed, man-made, flesh-based "kingdom". It is a system of human thought and government which is devoid of divine input, and which runs contrary to the principles of the Kingdom of God. For example, the religious systems that exist in the church today are opposed to the Kingdom of God, even though they parade themselves as belonging to His kingdom. Being flesh-based, they attempt to work on the external things and effect change from the outside in. In contrast, the Kingdom is spirit-based, and works from the inside out. In this example, it is a fundamental difference in philosophy, not in appearance, that differentiates world from Kingdom. Both false and accurate Church systems look the same, but they are different at root.
Worldly
Of, or relating to, the world.
Worship (noun)
The act of giving appropriate obeisance and adoration to God. Worship emanates from a heart condition which puts God at the centre of our personal universe and submits itself absolutely to Him. It is through our worship that God is released to respond to us, to answer our prayers, to engage with s closely and to direct us. Worship is central to all God-relating activity.
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Zion
The hilly central region of Jerusalem where David established his city. Known as a place of beauty, security, military strength, gathering of Israel’s tribes, seat of government of Israel. It was a place of elevation, clear vision, long sight, proclamation.
Prophetically Zion speaks of the Church in all its glory. It is from Zion that David extended his kingdom and governed the surrounding nations. Zion then is a picture of the church occupying its rightful governmental position in the earth. Zion is a place of Kingdom interface with the nations.
