The Spirit of Council

The Spirit of Council

The Spirit of Council is an aspect of the Holy Spirit and is a gift to all believers. We have access to the revelation of council from the thrown room of grace.

15 For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people, 16 I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers; 17 [I always pray] that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may grant you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation [that gives you a deep and personal and intimate insight] into the true knowledge of Him [for we know the Father through the Son] (Ephesians).

Authority

The Spirit of Council reflects who we really are according to the grace given us in the Body of Christ. This is the premise from which our authority should operate from. It is the mission of our spiritual leaders to hold us in the vision of understanding  the personal will of the Father for each member of the body, the corporate knowledge of revelation, and to walk in the intercession of the saints.

18 And [I pray] that the eyes of your heart [the very center and core of your being] may be enlightened [flooded with light by the Holy Spirit], so that you will know and cherish the [f]hope [the divine guarantee, the confident expectation] to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the [g]saints (God’s people) (Ephesians).

 Washing of the Word

When we have the eyes of our understanding opened through the power of the Holy Spirit, we can embrace our inheritance. Our inheritance in becoming all that we are created to be in the hope of a predestined life in the fullness of the will of God. The five-fold ministry holds this the ultimate perspective to “see” from. Our heart’s become enlightened as we “hear” the Word through our spiritual leaders teaching their “sons” by the Spirit of Council. We know that faith comes by hearing the Word of God and our spiritual leaders: apostles, prophets, pastors, teacher sand evangelists embrace the Kingdom message in terms of imparting it to the Body of Christ in their lives of Service to the King.

19 and [so that you will begin to know] what the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His [active, spiritual] power is in us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength 20 which He [h]produced in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion [whether angelic or human], and [far above] every name that is named [above every title that can be conferred], not only in this age and world but also in the one to come (Ephesians).

 The Stars are the Limit

Our spiritual leaders guide us into embracing what the power of God really is in terms of seeing the supernatural manifest in the earth. Our leaders help us reach to the stars. Their specific anointing pours out with the revelation of heaven as they lead us through the Word through the Spirit of Council. The spiritual shepherds are not self-serving–they are accountable for laying their lives down for the sheep–in terms of being the “overseers of our souls.” The Shepherd of the flock feeds the sheep–the Shepherd would never “eat up my people like bread” (Psalm 53:4). This means our spiritual leaders would never dream of exploiting the sheep for their own interest or judge the sheep as expendable commodities for self-gain or aggrandizement.

22 And He [i]put all things [in every realm] in subjection under Christ’s feet, and [j]appointed Him as [supreme and authoritative] head over all things in the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills and completes all things in all [believers].

Jesus is Lord

Above all our Apostles, Prophets, Evangelist, Pastors and Teachers, understand that Jesus Christ is the head of the church. The Body is His Bride. These men and women of God are called by God and given the authority to lead us. The commission of love is the mantle over our spiritual leaders as they scout out the land, as they are the watchmen on the wall, as they take us across the Jordan to the Promised Land because they are led by the Spirit of Council. Do our leaders declare the fact that as believers, we are now saints under the blood of Jesus Christ? God sees a saint not a sinner. Well then, since God’s grace has set us free from the law, does that mean we can go on sinning? Of course not (Romans 6:15.) The Body of Christ needs to built-up with our sainthood not torn down with our sin nature or shamed based messages.

Fresh Manna

It is the Spirit of Council that initiates movements of God. What this means is that God works in movements on this earth and we need to accept those movements in terms of God’s purpose as a body of believers—after all, we are “one Body in Christ.” God anoints movements of His Spirit through the Spirit of Council and although we may cringe at the hellfire and damnation message, there were tremendous revivals in times past that brought many to Jesus–and it could happen again. However, the reason we cringe at that message now is that it is “old manna.” Manna in the wilderness was fresh every day and aside from the Sabbath, it rotted by the next day. We are refreshed and encouraged with the fresh word of manna from our spiritual leaders who understand how to feed the flock with fresh manna.

Serving the Saints

When Paul addresses the churches, he always calls the believers, saints. Our spiritual leaders call us the same. He himself is busy readying a gift to bring to the poor Christians in Jerusalem: I am going to Jerusalem serving the saints. For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem (Rom. 15:25-26; see also Rom. 15:31; 1 Cor. 16:1-6; 2 Cor. 8:4, 9:1, 9:12). Our leaders serve the church in the Spirit of Council. What this means is in view of the fact that “all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God,” we are no longer identified as “sinners.” In fact the “sinner” is the old man; the man who walked according to the dictates of this world in the flesh. We are now citizens of God’s household walking according to the dictates of the Spirit of the Living God; in fact, we are temples of the Holy Spirit. Our leaders encourage us to be all that God created us to be as a saint in the household of the living God.

The Temple of God

Paul tells the Corinthians, Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are (1 Cor. 3:16-17). When we combine the idea of now being a temple of God’s Spirit with the idea of now being members of God’s household, our identity rests on the foundation of the apostles and prophets of God. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household, having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner-stone, in whom the whole building, being fitted together is growing into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit  (Eph. 2:19-22). Our spiritual leaders are all about receiving vision and direction in how to do this through the Spirit of Council.