Finding the Apostolic Frequency of Spirit is clearly demonstrated by the example we have in the book of the Acts of the Apostles of Agabus trying to warn Paul.  Charismatic preachers who have preached a self-centred faith message have said things like :If Paul knew what we know today,  he would not have had so much trouble. Or, if Paul had only listened to the prophet Agabus we might have lived longer. It is clear that these teachers have their own interests in mind and do not pick up the FREQUENCY of the Apostolic Spirit.

In a governmental house such as an Apostolic Reformation Assembly, the holy Spirit sends out a certain frequency of spirit, which is in the atmosphere of whatever that group of people set out to do.  Unless people determine in their hearts to pick up that frequency, they will have a distorted view of what God is busy doing or what He is about to do.

THE RADIO

In the natural world the radio has progressed from short-wave, to medium -wave, to FM.  In the cinemas the sound has progressed from old amplifiers to stereo, to quadraphonic sound and finally to sensurround.

In the Spirit realm there is a similar progression.  The new frequencies have always been there,  but we have only recently learnt how to tune in to those Frequencies of the apostolic spirit.  The churches and denominations who have not as yet tuned in, are hearing distorted messages concerning the things God is already doing in the earth today.  While they are debating over the validity of the existence of present day apostles and whether the church should merely acknowledge the apostolic function but not the apostolic office, there are those liberated believers who already walk in apostolic dimensions experiencing not only the fruits of the promised land of the apostolic dimensions, but actually possessing that land, bit by bit!  Hallelujah!

HEARING THE RIGHT FREQUENCY

How can you vote about what the Spirit is saying and doing?  You can either hear or not hear.

You are either tuned in or you are not.  Jesus said: “If you have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying...”.  If your spiritual ears are dull of hearing, you would not hear what God is saying even though He spoke with an audible voice where you regularly meet.  When Jesus was baptised in the river Jordan ( by the way Jordan means “to go down”, this alone should convince people to get baptised by emersion, to go down into the water!  Yet there are those who still argue about the traditions of the old denominations to sprinkle water on the heads of infants and they want to compare it with actual emersion and maintain that it is just as good!  Their radio receiver is not even picking up short wave yet, let alone medium wave.  They are still playing around with valve jobs while the Spirit is moving beyond fibre optics to transmit the mind of Christ to the Church.)

As Jesus came up out of the water ( why would He go into the water , if it was just as good to sprinkle water on His head?)  the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form from above and the Father spoke with an audible voice, saying: “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased,  hear ye Him.”  Those who recorded and reported this incident obviously heard what God’s voice was saying, but those who stood by thought it had thundered.  Do you stand by, or are you under God’s commands?

STAND BY PASSENGERS

The problem with self-centered believers is that they are always on stand by. They never get involved.  Especially people who give themselves the ministry of intercession.  Let me say it clearly, once and for all, there is no such ministry as Intercession in the Bible.  Prayer is a life-style, not an excuse to do nothing in the church.  And most intercessors constantly want to tell the elders what the church should be doing.  Or people who always try to prove that they heard what is being preached, long before the preacher got it.  Yet they will never dirty their hands to assist with the packing up of sound equipment after a meeting in a hall.  The are the stand by passengers, always waiting for a discounted flight, never willing to pay the full price, seeking a way out to justify themselves for not doing the will of the Father and finishing His work, but like Pharisees they pretend to know everything, while their own lives are always in a mess.  Pretenders they are, trying to offer something they themselves do not have.  They do not have peace, they do not have joy, they have no victory in their lives, they are always blaming others for their own  situations, they never take full responsibility for their own decisions and they are forever trying to spiritualize their situation to cover up their foolish mistakes.  These people always want to take credit for what they never did, but because they feel they knew it before the others, they feel more spiritual and only want to relate to   “leaders” and not to believers.  They cannot fit into a home cell, because they see themselves as too spiritually advanced.  Yet they will not take the responsibility of running a home cell and caring for people.  Bystanders.  Stand by passengers.  Always hanging around air ports, they know all the flights and all the prices, but they are always looking out for a discount, a cheap ride, one that won’t cost them too much.  This mentality has always been in the church and many prophetic ministries are trapped by that same attitude, thinking because they have a gift, they should not get involved or have any responsibility in a local church.  They New Testament prophet is a bona fida church member, for the information of those super spiritual individuals out there who disassociate themselves from active membership in order to be “free” to minister any where.  Bystanders.  Stand by passengers.  Not hearing the apostolic frequency of the Spirit at all.  Most of them playing mind-games with their thoughts, hoping that is could be prophetic words.  They always have a word for everybody else, except themselves and their lives are always in a mess.  They struggle for a life time or resort to schemes and men’s devices to manipulate people to put money in their account.  Stand by passengers in the kingdom.

These loose hangers-on need to be disciplined by apostolic ministries to bring order to the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and raise the standard of human life to the status God had originally intended for it.  Amen!

WHAT DO YOU LOVE ?

Acts 21:10-15: A certain prophet named Agabus came down...Agabus means “he loved”.  One wonders what he loved!  What do you love?  Your ministry or God?  Your reputation or obeying God?  Applause  or God’s rewards?  Man’s approval or Gods?  Good offerings or delivering Gods message? The frequency of spirit that you are tuned into is predetermined by what you love...

A FINISHING MENTALITY

A few years ago Agabus had predicted a great famine which came to pass and established him as a prophet in the eyes of the people (Acts 11:28) Yet he himself did not physically do anything to alleviate the situation, but Barnabas and Saul took relief to the brethern in Judea.  Apostles always  know what to do.  Jesus always knew the will of the Father and finished His work.

Its one thing to know, its something else to do something about it!  Apostolic finishing mentality is required to DO something about it.  The disciples determined to send relief, but the apostles had to take it.

THIS IS THAT

Why did the Holy Spirit choose Barnabas and Saul in Acts 13:2 for apostolic work?  Because they were already known as a team who would get things done.  They knew how to turn a “THIS INTO  THAT.”  They know how to fulfil prophecy, not merely prophesy.  That is the apostolic frequency we are talking about.  They do not merely attend conferences to see what they can get out of it or to find out what they latest slogans for the year are : eg. Don’t be late in ‘98!

They actually know what the Father of Spirits require of them and they find ways to accomplish His purpose in the earth.  They are tuned in to the apostolic frequency.  They actually hear God speaking to them, telling them what to do.  His voice does not sound like thunder to them. The hear it accurately and distinctly!  They are definitely not bystanders or stand by passengers.  They actually pay the price for the ticket and get onto the flight.  If they have to pay the price for a first class ticket they do it and get onto the flight.

BUILDING INSTEAD OF BLESSING

Jesus is looking for people who will help Him build His glorious church and not merely stand around looking spiritual.  He does no want people to go around to simply bless people, he is looking for builders.  People who will roll up their sleeves and get to work.

We are finishing the building project God gave us to do, to build a house according to the design He placed within our hearts.  Now that it is nearing completion, people often drive by or stand by to look at it and to discuss it.  Then they drive on again.  Many believers are like that.  They have a look at what the Spirit is doing, they discuss it among themselves and then drive on.  They clearly do not want to have any responsibility in a church!  They would much rather just stand by.  Just intercede.  Just prophesy and pass by.  It might cost them too much if they got involved!

READY TO DIE

READY OR WILLING TO DIE INDICATES A PREDISPOSTION OR A PREPARATION BEFOREHAND.

So Agabus came down and prophesied to Paul that he could possibly be bound if he went up to Jerusalem.  His prophecy was accurate, but he did not pick up the frequency of the apostolic spirit in Philip, the evangelists, home.  Here’s the apostolic response: “What do you mean by weeping and breaking my heart?  For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”  That is the right frequency.  He overcome by not loving his life, even unto death.  Some people just love themselves to death!  You can see it in the way they parade.  Their self-image and self-esteem speaks louder than the Spirit in them.

WATCHMEN WATCHES FROM A DISTANCE

It’s one thing to predict a famine.  It’s a totally different kettle of fish to know what to do about  it.  Many practising prophets and developing prophets think if they can come up with a fear notice that it would draw attention to their gift in the church.  They would like to be known as watchmen.  They always watch what is happening and never make things happen!  They are like the disciples of Jesus when they all deserted him and watched from a distance.  In Afrikaans the word is   “TOESKOUERS”.  They never get onto the field to play in the mud to win the game.

The Levites had to bare their shoulders to carry the wooden poles of the ark.  They were not allowed to have material between the wooden poles and their skin.  The flesh always wants it easy and never hard, so we make things as comfortable for ourselves as we possibly can, even through prophecies, because we are self-centred by nature, we try to make it easy for others when we prophecy and never hard.

APPETITE FOR STRUGGLE

There is no appetite for struggle or enduring hardship in charismatic prophecies, because it is centred round satisfying the flesh and not fulfilling the purposes of God.  But where the apostolic frequencies bust through the stifling air of self-centred spirituality, Agabus is silenced by a voice that goes beyond fear into the glorious finish facing the odds and overcoming victoriously in spite of all the self-centred advice of the quasi-spiritually transmitted messages.

In the Apostolic frequency comes a new dimension of an appetite for struggle and hardship or whatever is required on whatever level of sacrifice in order to obey the commands form heaven’s command post and to bring about a glorious transformation in the earth of churches that are victorious and accurate confident of their absolute right standing with God, knowing He will protect what He had started and perfect it, without fear that something could go wrong some time or someone with wrong motives could come in and spoil what God is doing in our midst.

SLAVE MENTALITY

This is the slave mentality of those who are in bondage. In an apostolic frequency those who want to disrupt what God is doing will fall down dead!  They will be struck blind for a season!   There are earthquakes and prison doors opening in apostolic frequency.  There are releases of mighty signs and wonders and supernatural connections.

Pick up the frequency of the apostolic ministry and stop being thwarted in your own mind by suggestions from the devil in your thoughts and in your dreams and then project your fears onto an assembly, parading in the name of prophecy or intercession.  Stop being a watchman.  That is an Old Testament concept.  Jesus did not give watchman and intercessors to perfect the church.  He gave Apostles and Prophets: who know the mind of the Lord.  We have the mind of Christ.  Why would we fear what man or Satan can do to us?  We do not walk by fear, but by faith.

THE WILL OF GOD

The safest place of protection is walking in the will of God.  We do not need mere watchmen, we need workers!  People who can obey instructions and get a job done!  The labourers are few and the harvest is great.  Why do you want to watch when you can work?

Apostolic frequency will change your wave length- it will affect the way you hear and see things.  Stop being carnal and living in fear and trepidation.  All your dreams scare you and you want to project your fears onto those who are willing to lay down their lives for the gospel’s sake.  How do you think it will affect and apostle if  you try to scare him?  It will have the same effect as water on a duck’s back. Where the apostolic frequency is clear, great sacrifices are made joyfully and fear is a dead duck.  Come out of hiding all you intercessors and watchmen!  Come join the Frey!  Get your full armour on and join the fight.  It is a good fight!  It is a fight of faith and only those who believe can win.  If you fear you are defeated.  We win because we fight according to our great Advisor.  There is no thought of failure and defeat.  God cannot loose.  Love never fails.  So throw in your towel if you want to be defeated, but the apostolic frequency will battle on until all the Lord’s enemies are made His footstool!  Hallelujah!