The Independent Spirit

We must get free from having an independent spirit and identity when it comes to the Kingdom of God. 

One definition of independent is as follows. 

1. Free from the influence, control or determination of others or others specifically free from the rule of another, controlling or governing oneself, self-governing.

When it comes to the Government of God, we are not able to be without government because He is Sovereign over us.

After 28 years of salvation and many years of ministry, I see the same cycles over and over again when it comes to the Body of Christ.
Individuals feel a new and fresh anointing come upon them and they want to run and do an independent work instead of learning how to work in the Church and Corporate Body.

Jesus said and Upon This Rock I will build my church.

Many individuals look at themselves and say "well, I am the church." 

The truth be told though, there's an aspect of the church that many individuals never connect with when it comes to the corporate gathering of the  believers.
It is one aspect to have Fellowship, it is another to understand that the church is to grow into a governmental structure where individuals are set in a Presbytery that brings accountability, direction, inspection, correction, protection, etc.

In this day we have many independent spirits operating  in the Name of Christ.

When this type of spirit, personality, and attitude operate, individuals that come into their company develop a standoffish and stand alone position especially against what many term organized religion or the institutionalized Church.

We must understand, if there is a counterfeit, then there is a genuine. Even though we may have been wounded by what we have experienced, we must still cry out for the genuine.
We must seek and search out for that which is an authentic representation of the Government of God in the Earth

Imagine the first century Apostle's feeling a call on their life and deciding that they didn't need to work together.

Many times we miss the fact that the reason why our anointings activate is because we connect with certain offices and giftings.

I have personally seen individuals come under the mantle and covering of an apostle or prophet and they were able to flow and operate as long as they were connected with that man or woman of God.
Then, suddenly Pride would set in and they would say I can do this without them. Little did they realize that the flow that was coming upon them was in part  because they had a covenant with a set man or set woman.

We must watch out for that independent spirit that connects with pride that says we don't need one another. Especially when it comes to those who have been set in the Church by the Lord.

I've heard many times individuals say, "I don't need that person and I do not need that leader for me to be who God has called me to be."
We must watch out for the subtlety of pride. If the Lord allows certain leaders to be in our life and they are not in sin teaching heresy, then there is something they had to offer to us that we needed for our growth and development.

In Acts 19 we see a group of individuals who only developed in a revelation of John's baptism. John's baptism was a baptism of repentance.
When the apostles asked what baptism had they been baptized in they said John's.
They had remained stuck in that position anywhere from 13 to 16 years. The revelation was important for its season. Unfortunately they had never progressed while many others around them had already moved on.
See what happens when an individual runs into a real Apostolic company of individuals that are working together?
That group got filled with the Holy Spirit after waiting so many years for a promise that had already been fulfilled.
They just had not ran into the right individuals who could speak it into their life.

When we learn how to work interdependently the independent spirit will break and we will learn how to lift each other up to help each other move in maximum capacity.

Instead of the spirit of fear operating where many individuals feel they will be shut down from flowing in their gift and anointing they will now find leadership that wants them to excel and even flow in a double portion.

We must pray for a true governmental order that allows for offices, gifting and personality to flow to develop because the scripture is clear
in Isaiah 9:7 when he prophesied 
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

Until then, many will stay stuck in muddy spiritual waters in life and ministry.

We can be holy and miserable because we're not flowing together. If we don't grow together we cannot flow together!

Ask yourself, "where did I last really feel the glory?"
Ask yourself, "where did I last feel my gift most activated?"
Ask yourself, "where did I feel last released to be who God has called me to be?"

That just might be your tribe!

Don't let fear, pride, gossip, rumors, familiarity to cause you not to shift when the Holy Spirit is showing you it's time to move from an independent spirit to an interdependent working together.

The time is now!

In His Love,
Jesse #KingdomReign

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