The Territorial Patterns of God.

‘….write…. the Mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candle sticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candle sticks which thou sawest are the seven churches’. – Rev. 1: 10-12, 16, 20.

Rev. 5:5 ‘ And I beheld and, lo , in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts…stood a Lamb…having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.’

Have you discerned the impartation sent from God into your city?

So many Believers are aware of the demonic forces sent into their lands, and how the evil strongholds operate. But few are aware of the spirits sent from God into their area and the strongholds of God positioned for their help.

Just as the Spirit of God has specific purposes and intentions for an individual, he has also a divine purpose and intent for a particular territory. And God therefore sends forth his spirit(s) into that part of the earth for that specific purpose.

When a people or church is aligned spiritually with the purposes of God for that land, they receive the impartation of the spirit and power sent from God into their territory to perform the intent of God for that time and season. They get supernatural strength and favour and blessings as they move, accomplishing a great deal for God.

These spirits bring forth the words and power of Christ to that town/city in the form of messengers and anointings, gifts, callings and visitations. People begin to receive visitations of truth and power to establish the word of the lord in the place. As this spreads a people arise who hold the love and truth of the Lord in the land, and become the Lords Lamp stand in that territory.

The Lamp stand Church

No one becomes a part of the Lamp stand by simply being a registered member of a church or a denomination alone. This isn’t even about a faithfulness of regular attendance of worship meetings as an end in itself. Rather it is about being faithful to the lord and His truth in our hearts and lives. Not being lukewarm but being fervent about it and ‘holding fast’. It is about a people who carry in their lives the spirit, truth and power that has been delivered unto to them and are a faithful witness of it. Their loyalty is to the Name of the Lord and the true angels/messengers who come in his Name.

These people will constitute the lamp stand for the revelation and power sent into their territory.

Kingdom Prophetic Voices

And then Kingdom Prophetic ministries now have the chance to fulfill their calls. Just as John the beloved did, in providing revelatory insight to the Churches in those cities. Not as unto denominational churches/ministries but as territorial Churches and Lampstands of the lord.

John the beloved’s prophetic sight and ministry revealed God’s design for the territories mentioned in the book of Revelations, not just local assemblies or ministries. His prophetic sight revealed a territorial pattern of God’s plan that connected seven cities in God’s visitations, revelations and judgments, i.e. it showed how several territories can be connected together in the revelations of the lord and the spiritual timing of his visitations for them. The word for one city triggered the revelation for the next. The visitation for the city of Ephesus triggered the visitation for the city of Smyrna. And the lord would not speak to one city without the presence of the other city, so also today the word he has for one city may not be conclusive or full without its connection with other cities. 

Divine Connection of Cities

Different cities and territories in Nigeria have specific anointings sent from the Lord into them. And just as there are seven churches in the book of Revelations with specific visitations from the lord, and all of them together forming a ‘prophetic circuitry’ for the messages of Christ. So also there are spirit connections of God between certain cities in different parts of this country. And the spiritual releases and breakthroughs from the lord in one place will have direct implications for the other. But the connections between these cities in divine purpose are established by the Lord alone. However, the outworking of these connections is perceptible to the revelatory ‘eye’ of the kingdom prophetic voices the Lord is releasing in this time. These callings will help the body of Christ receive the impartations sent into their territories. Entering into these designs will lift the church into the authority to fulfill the purposes of God.

Pin pointing Satanic Infiltrations

An important part of the calling on John was to point out the satanic deceptions and infiltrations against these lamp stand churches. This is a clear need in the body of Christ in Nigeria today. However such will be the sight and discernment from these kingdom voices that cleverly disguised deception and infiltrations of Satan currently in operation against the body will be identified and foiled by a church now energized and intensified with sight.

An Apostolic Spirit sent to the Middle-belt of Nigeria

I remember encountering the intense presence of a being of fire – an apostolic spirit and anointing sent into one city in the middle belt of Nigeria while on a visit there. This anointing was sent to impart and raise a home grown apostolic environment and move of the spirit from ground level upwards (not imposed from outside) through the lives of young men and women connected to that land. These men were to be taken on spiritual journeys through their callings that will take them beyond the old, weak and no longer effective wineskins found in their area into discerning and yielding into the new building patterns this anointing would bring.

The result would be a people and an environment in which God could release a whole new level of insight and unction to reveal the next levels of his plans and release men tuned with these impartations to fulfill them.

The lord had already sent some men to fore-run this release on his people. However, some of them interpreted themselves by the old wineskins, not yielding to the purpose and spirit God had sent for that season; this diverted them to seeking relevance with the old wineskin God called them to renew.

However, over time another set of young men grew into this calling. They found themselves continually leaning into apostolic and prophetic things. And are now currently developing the wineskins and fulfilling the original intent God had for that season God initiated about 14 years ago.

Does your Calling Fit Into Territorial Patterns?

Gifts and callings in this hour need to have an understanding of how they fit specifically into the overall plans of the Spirit for a specific time and season in the particular area the lord has sent them to. Interpreting ourselves and callings in these times has to be with a clear prophetic grasp of the overall picture of the unfolding divine intents, and impartation sent into our territory to accomplish it. This otherwise will leave us open to alternative measures of progress and standards that will end up diverting.

When the first set of men made a progress that wasn’t like the structures of earlier wineskins, they became distracted. However, having strong kingdom prophetic voices to impart them with and keep them focused on their specific and overall prophetic purposes would have averted this. And led them on to the finishing of the intents for which they were sent. Rather than looking for security and fulfillment in a ministry structure that looked good and successful but was out of sync with the unfolding patterns of God.

Secular Callings and the Church beyond the Four Walls

Kingdom prophetic voices will reveal kingdom patterns beyond the ‘four walls of church’ unto a territorial point of view where pastors, ministers and leaders can now function with that level of vision; and other members of the body of Christ not called to preach can now, under prophetic-apostolic impartation perceive and understand a calling and relevance upon their lives into the body of Christ in that land and also to the socio-economic structures of their area, and are tuned and activated through sustained prophetic impact to effectively and powerfully enter into anointed callings for the secular world, having an understanding of their personal times and seasons overlaid by the understanding of the overall intent of God for the land and how the one fits into the other. 

A Calling to National Structures

Jer 1:10 says ‘see this day I have set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, and to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant.’

-The nature of Jeremiah’s prophetic calling was to nations, kingdoms and territories, to destroy them or build them according to God’s specific intent for each place.

Such is the nature of calling kingdom prophetic-apostolic voices will lead the body of Christ into in this hour.

For many people in this hour feel stirrings and callings from God that has not been identifiable or explained within the context of traditional church settings. They struggle to understand and apply themselves in the ‘normal’ church settings but deep down inside do not feel a fulfillment of their stirrings. Such people’s callings are only fulfilled in the context of territorial church settings where their positioning in the kingdom is more discernable. They’re energized and find fulfillment as the Spirit of God releases them to function in a kingdom pattern he is orchestrating in that land. The environment created by these kingdom voices opens this door unto them.

It is time to discern and enter into the patterns of God for our land.

-Babs Adewunmi.