Belonging House Fellowship Christ John Otto

The gift of prophecy is going to come from the Comforter, Advocate, and Giver of life. The New Covenant is about life. New Covenant Prophecy is a gift of life, not judgement and death. And Paul says this in I Corinthians 14. Prophecy first is for upbuilding, encouragement, and consolation. The gift of prophecy is going make people feel stronger, strengthened to go in the right direction, and be healed and restored. Christ John Otto leads a community of Artists and Creative People called Belonging House. His most recent book is Artists at a Shift in Time (ISBN 979-8987409916), available wherever books are sold. https://bookshop.org/shop/christjohnotto You can find his Friday email at https://christjohnotto.substack.com He writes longer essays at https://missionofbezalel.substack.com You can be part of the provision flow at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto #fivefoldministry #creative #belonginghouse #artists #faith

Paul says that the five-fold gifts are for the Body. And what is the Body? It is the physical presence of the spiritual reality of Jesus in the earth. It is not a group of people who have embraced some doctrine, it is the embodiment of Jesus in the earth. You and everyone else are supposed to be the body of Jesus on earth. This is Incarnational reality: As it says in Colossians: This is the mystery: Christ in You, the hope of Glory. Christ John Otto leads a community of Artists and Creative People called Belonging House. His most recent book is Artists at a Shift in Time (ISBN 979-8987409916), available wherever books are sold. https://bookshop.org/shop/christjohnotto You can find his Friday email at https://christjohnotto.substack.com He writes longer essays at https://missionofbezalel.substack.com You can be part of the provision flow at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto #fivefoldministry #creative #belonginghouse #artists #faith

You don't have to stop being artistic if you want to function as an apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, or teacher. God uses artistic people to release his glory in the earth. When we talk about the Five-fold ministry, the personality and unique qualities of the artist are going to manifest in particular ways.

So when you are baptized and are filled with the Holy Spirit,
Jesus,
out of his all-powerful sovereignty over all things
imparts his spirit into you
and you are given new DNA.
Jesus makes some people
Apostles,
Prophets,
Evangelists,
Pastors,
and Teachers.
These types of people
are the gift,
and their role in the body
is to perform functions.
And the purpose of these functions
is to make the whole body stronger
and help the body mature
so that we can all attain the full stature 
of the mature Jesus.

When God calls you,
there is a creative power in the call
that keeps you going.
There is the same power in a call from God
that raised Jesus from the dead,
that calmed the storm,
and that created the galaxies.
And sometimes,
when you have a call from God,
you are asked to make choices:
Will you leave mother and father,
houses and lands 
and brothers and sisters for my sake and the sake of the gospel?
And Jesus tells us,
we will receive a hundred fold in this life,
and much, much more in the life to come.
 
The call of Christ makes everything possible.

God is looking for people who want to be famous in heaven. The Holy Spirit is holy. We can't cast lots, and use the Bible to make a new thing. We can’t create another strategy or an initiative and then ask God to bless it. We have to listen to the Lord and do what he tells us. Nothing more, nothing less. Christ (rhymes with "wrist") John Otto leads a community of artists and creative people called Belonging House. Each week we gather as a community for Beth Charashim: the House of Artisans. For more information about Belonging House Media, go to our website, https://Belonging.house.   Christ John Otto writes on Substack. Get his Friday email here: https://christjohnotto.substack.com Our community connects on MightyNetworks here: https://belonging-house.mn.co If this teaching is helpful, please help keep it going by buying a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto #pentecost #Holyspirit #testimony #bornagain