The church does not need women to lead like men. The world is starving for matriarchs who are driven by compassion and intuitively gifted, nurturing leaders. These leaders foster the maternal instinct in society that gives birth to a loving, caring, patient, and merciful culture.
It is vital for prophets to work strategically with others in the five-fold ministry in order to build up the body of Christ. Within these diverse relationships, the office of prophet can offer and be responsive to confrontation, a primary tool God uses to bring accountability. God is bringing all the gifts together in one pool in order to equip the saints to be laborers, no longer spectators.
The five fold ministry was given to the church to equip the church. To each person grace is given which is the operational power of God. Grace gives you the ability to do what you couldn't do what you couldn't do a moment ago. The gift of a five fold is not to do something, but to be something. The gift gives you the ability, and the calling gives you your identity.
Grace is unmerited favor. However, grace also empowers you and actually changes how you function so that you can operate in the supernatural. The grace of God changes us and then makes us capable to do something we couldn't do a moment before. As kings, we have unlimited resources to come under people to propel them into their destiny.
Three places to get more grace in your life:
1st source of grace comes from your personal connection to Jesus. His voice, the life on the His Word Luke 4:21
2nd source of grace comes from the gifts of Christ. Eph 4: 7 & 11 According to the honor in your heart for the gifts of Christ determines the level of grace you receive the gifts of Christ.
3rd source of grace comes from words of encouragement. Eph 4:29 When you encourage someone you are saying "God add the favor on my life to the favor that is already on theirs." God is attracted to words of encouragement.
