Summary

Show Notes

• Ephesians 1:3–6 reveals our identity before creation: spirit beings patterned after Christ.
• Walking in this revelation brings urgency and clarity to the present day.

• The Church is like Ezekiel's dry bones—divided, lifeless, fragmented.
• The Word and Spirit must be spoken to revive and unite the Body.
• Life must be breathed not only into “the church,” but into all who hunger for God.

• Access to God is based on relationship, not doctrine or denomination.
• Denominations often create barriers to oneness; God is bringing forth a united family.

• Yesterday emphasized preaching; today emphasizes impartation and priestly ministry.

• God does not recruit the qualified—He creates servants by His Word.
• Joel 2’s army represents people who walk in divine oneness, without competition or division.

• Ministry is no longer about individual greatness but Body expression.
• The creative Word is restored through the Body of Christ, not celebrity ministers.

• God is not complicated.
• The Kingdom is relational, intimate, and rooted in hunger and willingness.
• “It’s not what you do—it’s who you are” in Him.

Quotes

• “We were dead in our trespasses—until the Spirit brought us into a new level of life.” —Ken
• “Before creation, we stood before Him as spirit beings patterned after Jesus Christ.” —Mike
• “The church today is like dry bones—lifeless until the Word and Spirit bring them together.” —Ed
• “He doesn’t recruit worthy people. He creates His servants by a word from God.” —Ron
• “Denominations oppose oneness. God is forming a family, not organizations.” —Ken

Scriptural References

Takeaway

Ken: We were dead in our trespasses and sins until we were born again by the Spirit of the Lord. When we received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, there was a new level of Spirit, and it was a level of Spirit that we're living in today.

Mike: Part of that is understanding that Ephesians 1:3–6. Paul sharing with us that time before time existed, before creation ever was made, where we're standing there before the Lord, created in His image as spirit beings patterned after the Lord Jesus Christ, the firstborn. And we begin to see this thing of how it has transpired, ’cause it went from Him promising us that we're blessed with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places. Then we're gonna stand before Him holy and blameless. That only happens by the blood of Christ. And then we're predestined to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, back unto Himself, where we come full circle from the family in the heavens back to now the family down here representing the heavens and seeing who we really are. This opens the door now for all these words that have come to speak to this remnant, this body of people that He placed here at this particular time. Now things come alive in a way that you realize the urgency of the hour, how soon He can return.

Ed: The church today are those dry bones. They've got to come alive, and we have to speak that word to them to create for the prophets and the priests to be one. Right now the church age, they're dead. Church age has been so dead for so long, arguing with one another, not relating to the Body of Christ as one. “We don't believe in dancing, so we started a religion. We don't believe in something else, so we started another religion.” That's not the Body of Christ. No. The Body of Christ is one. And when we start speaking this word to all of these people, then the dry bones will come together. They will start growing. He breathes into them life. They will know Him.

Debbie: I'm not sure it's just the church though. I think it's breathing life into more than just the church. I think it's breathing life into everyone—minister that wants to walk with God. And now we have to speak life to them, minister life to them so that they can come alive again, that these bones can live. The Lord will breathe into them His Spirit, and then we'll be one, one body.

Ken: It's really all about the lordship of Jesus Christ, isn't it? Because you don't have access to God without having that relationship with the Lord on that basis. He's the Lord of our lives. And if we can have that relationship, that experience, then as we seek God and walk with Him, He opens up these different things that we're talking about tonight. As we walk with God, God opens up new light. And one of the things I think the Lord is really developing—and this is gonna be a shock to a lot of people that are depending on their denominations—I don't think denominations are the key, because they have ideologies, they have laws and doctrines and things that oppose oneness. They literally oppose oneness. And you say, “I believe this,” and they say, “I believe this.” You're divided. Division's not a part of the oneness in the family that God's bringing forth today.

Mike: We need that prophet-priest ministry to fulfill what God has in store, because it can't be fulfilled without the combination. Yesterday was preaching and evangelism. Today it's impartation and becoming the priesthood before the Lord.

Ken: Another aspect of that, Mike, is God has people out there that He's called. Some of them are open to hear the word, and they'll hear a word or receive an impartation, and it'll be real to them. Yes. I still think we're gonna see people coming in from many different directions.

Debbie: Yep.

Ken: Because they heard a word from God.

Ron: He doesn't recruit worthy people. He don't even care about that. He creates His servants, and He creates ’em by a word from God. Anyone can become a servant of the Lord by the word of the Lord.

Ken: God draws a man in and creates him. God's ways are higher than our ways, and He's not gonna let anything or anyone take His glory. Yeah, you think about that group of people in Joel 2, where they were a great army and they were one. How can you put all of those people together that don't break ranks? They don't thrust one another through. And that right there is a good one, because individuality is always singling out themselves as being different from somebody else, and it's divisive. But boy, when you have the Spirit of the living God, He wanted us to be something to Him in a relationship where He could function through us. We don't have any great things to look to—education, powerful and money, or have a position of power. No, we don't have those things. All we have is Him.

Debbie: We transferred our sins to Him, and He transferred His fullness and His presence to us.

Ken: There is something in this prophetic ministry. I was just thinking about the fact that we're all shepherds and we're all sheep. There's your ministry—prophet and priest. The Lord is really making this so very real in this day. It's not just some kind of a religious understanding. This is a reality, right, of what people walk into when they find the Lord and move on in God and find a relationship that allows this ministry to come forth within them, because it really is a choice. We choose to walk with God. We choose to have this relationship. We choose to be baptized in the Holy Spirit. So it's a choice, but it's God who gives us the opportunity.

Ron: This is the difference between church age thinking and kingdom thinking. Amen. And church age thinking—there's so many pitfalls. People fall into trying to do it themselves. They fall into “I'm a sinner and I'll never get out of it.” They fall into “I'm—wow—I'm really great and I'm a ministry.” But with this, you can, if you just stand and be open by faith, you can receive the greatest ministry ever, ’cause God can speak to you through the many-member Body and create you into what He wants you to be. It has nothing to do really with whether you're great, small, black, white, Jew, Greek. None of that matters. And I believe it's not through an individual. I believe the only way that creative word is being restored today is through the Body of Christ.

Debbie: Right!

Ron: Not big ministries, because if you have a big ministry, some of the glory is gonna go to them.

Mike: This is where a single person can walk to a hospital and empty it out, and nobody knows who was that dude—who it was. Yeah.

Ron: If or when that happens, that person before he goes there will have a complete awareness that he is nothing without the Body of Christ, and it's the Body of Christ going with him.

Ken: It's so important too, because we have gone through the church age to the point where we were conditioned and controlled by position-thinking people. And I'm not saying it was their fault—it was a structure at that time that God was using. But He also pointed out the fact that it was Him who was doing the doing and not the ministries. But we're being created to be those who can go out and be a part of people that are drawn by the Lord in smaller groups where they can interact and be the family. But God is not a respecter of persons, and He's got people out there that will come in and will connect with other people and find a relationship and begin to move. It's about our doing His will with a willing heart, and willingness to lay down our lives for whatever it is He's calling us to do. It really goes back to the hungering and thirsting after God from your own heart. I'm so concerned that we try to make God complicated. It's gotta be simple. Yes, because we're simple people. What I'm saying is, we don't have the qualities of people out there that are professional singers—and why don't we just worship God? I think we have entered into this kingdom relationship and a walk with God because it's not dependent upon position or a power or struggle or fame or any of that. It's about a relationship with the Lord—about you’re loving Him and walking with Him and being a son, being in a relationship. That's what God's looking for. He is looking for a people, a people that He can use, He can minister through, He can work through. That's why we always say, “It's not what you do. It's who you are.” It's what you've become. We don't have to put on airs about being something in God. We can just be a relationship to the Lord.