Mark 2:22, New International Version

“…No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.”

God Himself Is Training Up A New Breed of Apostles (Part One)

It seemed to be, in the year 2000, everywhere I was being told I am an Apostle in training. Having pondered on this myself because of my unique spiritual journey since 1978. I sought Father God's thoughts on the matter, and this is what I received.

Father God Himself is training up a new breed of apostles, who will offer new wine for drink. Man is not doing this. God Himself is calling them, and training them during their times of consecration and union with Him. His essence will be seen within and through their lives, even when they are unaware of such due to their spiritual union. This new breed will be rare at first, and many will miss out on the new wine they will have to offer, because they are holding onto the old, thinking it is better. Their wine will not be like the old wine, the church is instructed to lay aside. The old no longer has the same value it once did. This new wine will be from a resurrected vine and not from the old dead vine, which died at Calvary. (Inherited natural, traditional thinking about God, ourselves, others and life as whole. Exchanged for a new spiritual perspective, our having died to the old preconditioned concepts with Jesus at Calvary and through the daily experiences God is giving us, through the spiritual life we each find ourselves having.)

This new breed of apostles will carry new wine skins, pouring out the power of God within - the resurrected power of the Spirit of Christ from within, as God's Kingdom in Heaven is established on earth. Through Him living in them, and through them as neither male nor female, but Spirit manifested. God Himself is consecrating these apostles, through circumstances they will not have control over, since they have surrendered to His complete will for their lives. He is training them in the way they should go even now as He harnesses them for His pleasure and His eternal purposes and they enter into His rest having come to know of His abiding love and eternal presence in their now.

They will walk in resurrected power, (for Christ's sake), having died within to their own inherited fearful nature, while taking up their cross to die daily to their own will, to their own agenda, to any fleshly ways of thinking and being or perceiving, that God ordains, so Christ's resurrected Spirit, having renewed the Spirit of their mind, can come forth in them. They have become one, not only knowing Him in the fellowship of His suffering, but the power of His resurrection. 

They have become new creations in Christ. A whole new being. The good will die as well as the bad, as they let go of who they once were to become who it is they were created to be. There will be nothing of the old man left that will not be redeemed, restitution comes to mind. They and their role will be like no Apostle who has ever been before. Each will be unique and will walk according to the unfolding of Father's eternal plan. The works of Father's hand and heart in their life will be evident. Like Christ, their brother, they will be both fully human and fully divine. They will be aware it is no longer they who live, but Christ's Spirit which rules them from within. For by Him, in Him, for Him and through Him all is created. So we can become one in spirit and truth and walk in love, truth and fellowship with our Creator and His family. They will be forerunners.

Please come back next week to read, “God Himself Is Training Up A New Breed of Apostles” Part Two)