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"And the Lord
answered me and said, Write the vision and make it plain
upon tablets, that he may run that reads it. For the
vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it
shall speak and not lie; though it tarry, wait for it,
because it will surely come, it will not tarry." Habakkuk 2:2,3 "And he took his staff in his hand and
chose five smooth stones out of the brook...." I Samuel 17:40
Almost 15 years ago, God
spoke to me as I read I Samuel 17:40 and said, "The
name of your ministry is Five Stones." Five Stones
has a three-fold commission from the Lord. While our
ministry applications may vary a bit over time as God
sharpens our focus, our main vision remains unchanged in
these three areas.
- We are receiving and
developing a "corporate body of truth"
that focuses on the ways satan distorts our
concept of God through beguilement and various
attacks that leave wounds. We are to help people
recognize wounds and impart methods of
understanding and relating to God through His
Word, rather than those wounds. All of a
believer's difficulties ultimately stem from a
distorted concept of God. When our concept of God
is correct, we finally see life from His
perspective, and we are at rest. Knowing God
becomes our focus.
- In addition to using
various methods to share and distribute the
revelation we receive, we are also called to
function as disciple makers, developing and
equipping laborers to assume their ministry and
responsibility in His service. As we share our
revelation of God's Truth in churches, seminars,
meetings, and outreaches, we use that knowledge
to both teach and heal. People will come and go
from this area as God leads. We wish to help
people develop their vision and answer their call
from God. Helping people develop the revelational
aspects of their relationship with God through
the Holy Spirit and blending these manifestations
with spiritual principles will develop spiritual
personal ministry. Our prayer is that the gifting
of spiritual personal ministry will then be used
as a prophetic resource to provide spiritual
resolution to difficulties with which many
Christians struggle.
- We desire to assist
local church leadership, other ministries, and
certain individual ministers with defining,
developing, and delivering their ministry. Rather
than soliciting these relationships, we are to
allow God to develop them, and we serve the
leadership or the individuals as foundational
servants, at whatever level of relationship and
responsibility God has ordained. Many times, we
are allowed to impart prophetic revelation that
is used by the Holy Spirit to lay foundations in
the spirit for their particular vision.
Don is a licensed minister
with Kingsway Fellowship International.
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