Prophetic Administration

We are in the midst of an apostolic reformation. In this reformation we are seeing the church re-formed as an army as we receive revelation of our God as "Lord of the hosts." Leaders in the body of Christ are seeing changes in:

Apostolic leaders are taking on more and more of the characteristics of military officers as we realize our responsibility in the administration of warfare.  There is a new understanding permeating the body of Christ regarding our responsibility to steward not only money but the gifts and talents resident within each believer.

In the 1980's and 1990's we saw an emphasis on prayer, prophetic gifts and office of the prophet.  God also began restoring the Watch of the Lord (see Mahesh Chavda, Jim Goll, etc).  The prophetic gifts are very powerful weapons in our spiritual warfare.  We see some of the effectiveness of this gifting in Jeremiah's commission.

Jeremiah 1:10
10 See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms,
To root out and to pull down,
To destroy and to throw down,
To build and to plant." 
NKJV

There has been awesome progress made in the increase and amount of coordinated corporate prayer in the 1990's as was evidenced in projects like Praying through the 10/40 Window wherein corporate prayer was coordinated with ground forces (prayer teams sent into the countries).  In the 2000's we see that progress continuing as evidenced the the "Target 40/70 Window."  The prophetic giftings were evident and essential in these operations.  They were used offensively and to gather intelligence.  This kind of operation could only be administrated by apostolic vision and gifting.  

This occurs as the apostolic giftings take responsibility for the operations just like military officers would. 

op·er·a·tions [ òpp ráysh’nz ]

controlling of organized activities: the supervising, monitoring, and coordinating of the activities of a military or civilian organization or a complex machine ( often used before a noun )   the operations console of a computer.  Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition] © & (P)2003 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 

In the few years after my return from Desert Storm God began dealing with me about some of these very issues.  It was based upon a principle of warfare called the "principle of mass."

Lev 26:8 - Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; your enemies shall fall by the sword before you. NKJV

In order to glean the greatest benefit from this  principle requires intelligence, communication and  the coordination of people.  The prophetic gifting evident in many people in the body of Christ today has provided a tremendous amount of insight and information.  In essence they often are used to "spy out the land."  They provide spiritual intelligence.  

More and more prophetic reports are being generated as the church is entering a time when the "Watch of the Lord" and a "Wall of Prayer" is being built around the world.   For an excellent book see Jim Goll's book on "The Lost Art of Intercession, Restoring the Power and Passion of the Watch of the Lord" or "Watch of the Lord" by Mahesh and Bonnie Chavda. 

There is also an increase in not only prayer, but praise and worship unto the Lord as David's Tabernacle is restored.  The measure of the kingly anointing released will be proportionate to the amount of priestly ministry that occurs before the Lord.

As prayer increases so do the reports of what people see or hear in prayer.  These reports are spiritual intelligence and are very important in developing corporate strategy.  In order for an apostolic leadership team to get the maximum benefit from these reports requires stewardship and administration.

CONECT stands for The Christian Outreach Network Establishing Church-wide (city-wide or country-wide) Teamwork.  It is a strategic communication system that will assist leaders in any organization to become a better steward of their personnel assets.  It's kind of like a communication center and an intelligence gathering organization all rolled into one.  It is a scalable system that can be used to establish and administrate prayer and the prophetic reports.  It provides an operational plan and tools to help a leadership team steward the prophetic reports they receive and it strongly encourages linking up with other ministries with whom you have relationship with and it provides a structure to facilitate corporate teamwork.  

CONECT has several goals but there are two primary goals that are relevant to this discussion regarding prophetic administration.  First it is to provide leadership with timely intelligence so that they can make the best decisions and secondly, to encourage corporate teamwork within the body of Christ.  The leadership team is also provided training on the Biblical Principles of Warfare.  These are the same principles that have been taught to military officers over the last 2500 years.  They worked for the military because they are all Biblically based.

Before corporate teamwork in a city can be effective, the local church first has to learn to function as a team.  Hence, CONECT starts in the local church.  Communication and teamwork are essential if we expect a corporate anointing to develop.   

CONECT provides the communication, administrative plans and tools that empower a leadership team to collect, compile and present a succinct concise reports on the present situation facing that church.  A leadership teams ability to make good decisions is based upon good intelligence and  CONECT provides a way to help that leadership team steward all of the prophetic gifts and reports they receive so that they have the best information available.  

CONECT is a tool that can be used to coordinate the gifts in a local church, churches in a city or churches in a country.  Once you have established a communication plan to receive reports you automatically have a way to communicate back to the people.  Hence, once you receive the strategy from the Lord you have  the ability of mobilizing many people to implement the prayer or evangelistic strategy.

Besides being likened unto a Strategic Communication Center , CONECT can also be likened unto a LIGAMENT in the Body of Christ.  It is like connective tissue joining parts of the body together.  It establishes lines of communication with those whom you have relationship with.  It empowers the Army of the Lord to pray and work together corporately to establish our Lord's purpose in each church's area of responsibility.

CONECT can be used to establish a prayer chain all the way up to a 24 hour prayer watch.  It defines new roles for intercessors and watchmen and is based upon a strategy used by Nehemiah.  If you already have a prayer watch established then you will find that principles of warfare will only help improve your teamwork and communication.

I hope you have caught the vision and will join us in establishing the "Watch of the Lord" and building a "Wall of Prayer."