Overcoming the Spirit of Pride to Let God’s Spirit Move

Unto You I lift up my eyes,
O You who dwell in the heavens.
² Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters,
As the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,
So our eyes look to the Lord our God,
Until He has mercy on us.

³ Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us!
For we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
⁴ Our soul is exceedingly filled
With the scorn of those who are at ease,
With the contempt of the proud. New King James Version

Almighty Father, when each one of Your children sees a new visitor, stranger, mother in Christ, a different   race, a different hair style or economic class, let us avoid making dividing, accusing ministry stereotypes. Let us try to resemble the apostle who wrote 2/3 of the New Testament, servant sent messenger Paul who himself declared, “I resolve to know nothing about any one, except Christ and Him crucified.” I Corinthians 2:2.

The apostle Paul, who never ever used a capital a to designate his own chief apostolic sent messenger office nor any of the 5 office gifts given by God to govern the Church (apostle, pastor, prophet, teacher, evangelist) with a “Capital A” (which might imply exalted and over all the other leaders, lay followers). Rather he used servant, house to house, humble servant ministry that was called on by him to represent the Lord in true corporate house by apostolic house unity (Book of Ephesians).

Paul called upon each organic authority in Chapter 4 Ephesians, to walk in “lowliness, meekness, long suffering, forbearing one another in love” (Ephesians 4:2) and urged each mantled one to “endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”

He then wrote common doctrine that all could mutually agree to:

v. 4 One Christian Body, One Spirit, One hope of your calling

v.5 One Lord (Yeshua, Jesus Christ), One faith, One baptism

v6. One God and Father of all, who is above all, through all and in all.

v.7 To every one is given grace because of the gift of Christ (against gaining bragging rights to it based on works, senior office minister achievement)

Starting in Ephesians chapter 4  verse 12, the apostle Paul begins to list the by product of ministry leader corporate cross entire western, eastern true Body unity:

v.12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying (building up) the (entire true) body of Christ

v.13 (till) we ALL come to unity in the faith (Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and it’s overcoming, blood bought saving, delivering, healing applied power)

(till) we ALL come to the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ (all this is a creates a cross body, local community, even a dark culture displacing anointing manifestation of changed persons,destiny and society)

The linking in corporate divine appointment all body 5 fold office true common unity then produces a spiritual covering, as it were true fathering leader protective anointing which has the following affects (Ephesians 6:14)

1. It increases maturity, both spiritually, emotionally, governmentally in God’s people

2. the people will no longer be babies, “tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine.”

3. The pervading societal, corporate entire body, area, leader web of faith, will help to eliminate deceptive ministry leader government, lay and body practices “they will be no longer (gullible, overly trusting, children easily fooled) “by the slight of men, and cunning crafitness, whereby they (many) lie in wait to deceive

4. The by product will create fearless, up front apostolic, true body ministry directness (v. 15 “speaking the truth in love, to grow up into him all things which is the head, even Christ”) so this will eliminate ministry, leader, lay blame shifting, avoiding up front confrontation, and passing the proverbial leadership buck. “Truth in genuine Love” will created Moral Leader Real Authority which then strengthens the deep integrity of the 5 fold office reputation among men: in the church community but also in the local community.

Verse 16 Paul urges cross true Christ Body Unity, among the many various styled 5 fold offices which will truly knit the “whole body fitly join together, with every joint supplied, (but based on) “according to the  effectual working in the measure of every part” (in other words, each body part, taking responsibility that they have a heroic role to play in knitting the body together, and also providing the gifts, time, talents and instruction, mantle, needed to assist all of the other mantled Body offices in Building UP the entire corporate true apostolic eastern, western body.

V. 16 Paul teaches that all of the willingness to apostolically yield to the ALL of the above will  ”make increase of the Body unto the edifying of itself in love.”

This verse ties in with Psalm 133 and God’s commanded blessing on the willingness for leader corporate   true unity:

Scripture Food for Contemplation: Job 41 : Regarding the Leviathan, the  symbol of the sneaky hard to catch snake, the Spirit of Pride