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Apostolic Operators: Selection, Training, Deployment ... English

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We call out the drift toward shallow waters and invite a costly, courageous move into the deep where control is surrendered and authority can flow. Drawing on the Delta Force analogy, we map the path of selection, training, and deployment, and activate gifts with a clear call to operate now.

• the cost of selection: trading control for calling
• crucifying distractions and weights that blunt focus
• submission as the only path to true authority
• humility as protection and mission focus
• faith as risk and timely obedience
• moving from preparation to deployment with bold action
• activating gifts: prophecy, prayer, laying on of hands
• honoring leadership, covering, and accountability
• leaving shallow thinking for deep, Spirit-led living

“By the authority of the word of God and by the power that is in the name of Jesus, I command you right now to operate in apostolic authority. I release faith in this house, I release prophecy in this house, I release apostolic identity into this house.”


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SPEAKER_00:

What a sweet presence of the Lord is in this room right now. Can we just receive that word together right now? Can we just receive that word? Why don't you open up your mouth right now and just say, Lord, I receive that word. I receive it, God. I receive it, God. Come on, I'm not satisfied living on the shallows. I'm not gonna be satisfied living in ankle deep water.

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Ya talamaha yala shatalamaha.

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Jesus Jesus Jesus.

SPEAKER_00:

You know, there's there's a place on the safety that brother brother Treadway is talking about. That's just it's ankle deep. There's a lot of there's a lot of dirty water and ankle deep. A lot of mud gets stirred up, a lot of flesh gets stirred up, a lot of junk on the surface. But once you break out beyond, that's what the prophet was talking about, those knee-deep waters, waist deep waters, waters to swim in. It's dangerous, it's dangerous in the deep. You don't have control in the deep. You lose a lot of control. The deeper you go, the greater the pressure. I want to give honor to this team. I want to give honor to you for being in this place. It's intentional. Yeah, you've intentionally gathered here. It's a sacrifice. I want to honor that. I want to honor this missionary team, Brother Doherty, his family, his daughter, Haley. Hallie, I'm sorry. Forgive me. I have a daughter too. She's she getting messes with me when I mess up her name. Give honor to my dear friend, Brother Robinette, his wife, his family. What an awesome, awesome opportunity it is to serve in the kingdom of God with such great, great apostolic leadership that we find ourselves in this place with. You've not come into this. This is not a normal room. These are not normal people. You found yourself into a place where it's beyond capacity. I do this every time I speak, and unless I fail to mention it, but I always give honor to my pastor, my pastor O. L. Powell Sr. I give honor to him this morning, and if you will allow, I feel real comfortable. I don't know if that's a good thing or not. But the word of God has already gone forth. The treadway has already knocked it out of the park. So all I've got to do is get on base. But I do agree with what Brother Robinette said. God is going to do something mighty. Before you leave this room today, let me just join with that word of prophecy and say God is going to impart into your spirit, into you, things that you have never operated in before. There are going to be giftings in this room that are awakens. You felt like you're on, you can't touch that, you're not worthy. Let me just say right now, you throw that thought into the garbage this morning. You are qualified, you have been called, you are chosen, and God is using each and every one of you in this day and age to reach his harvest field. Delta Force operators are elite members of the U.S. Army's First Special Forces Operation Division. They're called Detachment Delta, commonly known as Delta Force, formed in 1977, highly classified in this specialized unit, known for their precision, adaptability, ability to operate in high-risk environments around the globe. Delta Force operators have been involved in many critical missions, including high-profile raids, intelligence gathering, covert operations, often remaining unknown, completely classified. They are among the most skilled and discreet warriors in the U.S. military arsenal. Recruited primary from the U.S. Army, Delta operators undergo an intense selection and training process that tests physical endurance, mental resilience, tactical proficiency. Once selected, they become part of a small secretive brotherhood operating under Joint Special Operations Command, otherwise known as JSOC. This selection process is often referred to as Q course. Although highly secretive, it is said to be one of the toughest tests of endurance for any special forces group on the planet. In fact, Brother Robinette, the attrition rate is said to be 90%. For those of us from the country, that means that only 10% make it and pass the test. I can't help but to relate the similarities between these elite military warriors and those that I find myself in this room with here today. And I feel like God wants to do something in this room this morning. He wants to take us into a place of apostolic authority. If you will allow me just for a little while, I want to speak from this subject, apostolic operators. Apostolic operators. I want to talk about selection. I want to talk about training, and I want to talk about deployment. If you just look around this room, you can see the God-ordained impact that He wants to have on the nations as well as the United States. We have representatives here from California. We have representatives from Florida, from the Carolinas, from the Dakotas. I'm from Texas. I'm sad to say I'm the only representative here from the great nation of Texas. But imagine with me, if you will, if we took this global harvest impact back home with us, we will hit every single part of our great United States because it needs a harvest just like we see here in a foreign land. We need to be comfortable saying the uncomfortable. Many people around our world, many people. I looked this morning, Brother Robinette. You have some 48,000 followers on Instagram and Facebook and whatever else. But there's 40 in this room.

SPEAKER_01:

Wow. That's a revelation.

SPEAKER_00:

Many are called, but few are chosen. The selection process into the king's special forces is a hard task. It will cost you dearly. That's why the attrition rate is so high, because so many are not willing to pay the price. Jesus said, My kingdom looks like this. It looks like a man that found a treasure in a field and he sold all that he had. What did it cost him? Everything. If you want to be an apostolic operator, it's going to cost you everything. That man that found that pearl of a great price, he sold all that it had. It's not coincidence, it's not happenstance that he just happened to have all enough to buy. How much did he have? I don't know how much he had in the bank, Brother Treadway, but it was just enough to buy the great wealth and the great treasure. And let me tell somebody if you think you're going to get this cheaply, you are sadly mistaken. It is going to cost you. If you look at uh Brother Robinette and Sister Robinette, Brother Doherty, and these awesome apostolic operators that are in this room this morning. If you look at individuals like our great ambassador, uh Brother Wilson, and look at his sacrifice, it he did not get to that place cheaply. It cost him everything. Dynamic apostolic ministry only comes when we sacrifice this flesh for the kingdom of God. I want somebody to understand that this is the day and the age we're living in. This is the last hour. God, it's not, we don't have time to play around with God. We don't have time to just uh play around with the world. We've got to be intentional. I know there's a lot of pastors in this room, and I'm I submit myself to you when I say this. And if I'm wrong, your pastor will uh will correct me, and and I'm just gonna say it. We've got to crucify our flesh. If we want to operate in the kingdom of God on a greater level, where we have divine moves of God and a reaping of a harvest, it's gonna come when we crucify our flesh. I'm not talking about sin, I'm talking about weights, I'm talking about distractions, I'm talking about things that will so easily beset us. If we look at these Delta Force troops, we can look at how they operate and how they move. And they're they're not normal troops, they're not easily spotted because they don't wear a lot of insignia, they don't have a lot of uh display badges. In fact, they they're very dressed down, they're covert operators, and what it takes to be covert operators is to crucify this old man, and it's not it's not enough to do that, and I I I'm not telling anybody something they don't already know, but let me reiterate: you've got to die daily to the flesh, you've got to allow the Holy Ghost to be stirring you, put down the phone, turn off Instagram, turn off Twitter and Facebook and TikTok and Netflix and whatever it is. I understand I'm not preaching against sin, but it's weights. We don't have need, we don't have time to have these things in our life. We don't have time to have the distraction, we don't have time to have the the question of, oh, well, is it a heaven or hell issue? I'm sick and tired of as a pastor, I can speak for your pastor because I know he's tired of the question, is it a heaven or hell issue?

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Wow.

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I feel like we cheapen the sacrifice of Abraham when we talk about laying things on the altar, and we say, you know, well, we we we're we're we're it's dangerous, it's a dangerous place to get in when we when we cheapen the sacrifice and say, well, if you lay it on the altar, you lay it all on the altar and God will give it all back. See, we have example with Abraham. He took Isaac up the mountain and he laid him on the altar, and then they came back down together. But the realization in that story is this they did not come down that mountain the same way they went up. They came down that mountain with Isaac and Abraham having the revelation that Isaac is not uh more important than God, that the calling is the most important thing that there is, that my own flesh and blood is not more important than the call of God on my life. If you want to be a true apostolic operator, you're going to have to get to a place where your spouse knows they don't come before God, where your children know they don't come before God. It hurts, it stretches, it pulls. It's a hard thing to go through to sit down with your children and say, I love you and I would die for you and I would do anything for you, but you do not come before the call of God. That's selection. That's selection, that's getting into these elite forces. Uh, let me talk about training. Training. There are three areas I want to briefly touch on here, if you will allow me the time. I want to talk about submission. I want to talk about humility, and I want to talk about faith. This is our training. I want to impart something to you as I have been imparted already in this room. And uh the scripture says the weapons of our warfare are not carnal. Why do I have to turn off the carnal? Why do I have to deny the flesh? Because the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, they are spiritual, they are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. Special forces troops are effective. They are powerful strike force, they are intentional. They operate in authority, they operate in dominion, they operate in power. Let me tell somebody here this morning that authority only comes by submission. It's already been said, I'll reiterate, submission is the only thing that breeds true authority, and with greater submission comes greater authority. Pastor Mike Mindenhall has this to say about submission. He says, a man without submission is like a mule that wanders around the earth, consuming resource and leaving nothing but dung behind. As a Texas rancher, I can add to that the knowledge that mules do not have the ability to reproduce. A man without submission is like a mule that cannot effectively reproduce. Let me challenge somebody here this morning. I I'm a pastor, but I have a pastor. I have a pastor, and I am I am in authority, but I am also under authority. I I didn't step foot on this ground without submitting myself to these missionaries and to Brother Robinette. I am all I am absolutely submitted to God, but I am also submitted to the man of God. And if you feel like you're going to want to operate in the kingdom of God and with any uh efficacy, with any power, with any authority, it will be through submitting yourself to the man of God in your life. Pastor provides accountability, a pastor provides correction, a pastor provides guidance, a pastor provides counsel. So many, so many in our world want to be number one. So many in our world, and if we're honest with ourselves this morning, even in Pentecost, so many want to be number one. Oh, I'm the pastor, I'm the bishop, I'm the evangelist, I'm the missionary, I don't need a pastor, I don't need an authority, I don't need to submit. Let me remind you here this morning that Moses, the great man of God, was number one. He spoke directly to God, he spoke to the people from God, he was mightily used, but he also did not go into the promised land because he didn't have anybody over him that could provide a shelter and a protection and a place of grace and forgiveness and correction and opportunity. He didn't have that in his life, he was the man. And through that, he did not enter in. No thanks, give me a pastor. No thanks. I don't want to be the number one, I'd rather be under authority. I I'm I'm very comfortable in my stance here this morning as being submitted to you great men and women of God. I find myself in this room outclassed, outqualified, and I'm ex I'm totally comfortable with where I am at because I understand who I am and I understand who God is. And as Brother Robinette says, I don't get the two confused. You'll find the seven sons of Skeva that went in and tried to kiss the devil out of one dude. They didn't, they were overwhelming him, seven to one. They had overwhelming odds, but they could not operate for one ounce of authority and left that place beaten and bloody and naked because they failed to pass the very first test of training, and that is that I must be submitted in order to operate. We talk about the second part of training, and that is operating discreetly. We see these special forces troops. They are covert, they fly under the radar. It's said about them that they are silent professionals. This is what we call in the kingdom of God humility. It's been said that humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less. Humility is knowing. I've already said this, but I'll say it again. Humility is knowing who you are and knowing who God is and not getting those two mixed up. Humility, let me tell somebody, will keep you hidden from the enemy. Humility will keep you covered and under the radar. Humility when you humble yourself under the mighty hand of God and say, God, you've placed me here. I'm not gonna back down for my calling. I'm not gonna be ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I'm gonna speak the word that you say, I'm gonna operate in my place. I'm not trying to take somebody else's role or cheapen mine. I'm exactly where I need to be. So I'm gonna do what you've called me to do. Humility is tested. Let me tell somebody, humility, if you don't have it, you're gonna end up a shipwrecked life on the side of the shallows. Because humility will keep your flesh and your spirit in check when you are attacked and you are ridiculed for what you do and for what you say in the kingdom of God. It is humility that will cover and protect your spirit. When you go home from this mission field and you're excited and full of faith, and and you're sharing the report, and your friend says, Well, I don't know if I believe that. It's humility that will cover, it's humility that will keep your spirit right. What you've got to understand about special forces operators is they're not like big army. They don't look like big army, they don't talk like big army, they don't operate like big army. They are absolutely orderly and professional, and they they have rank and they have file. That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is they have operators that are more worried about the mission than they are their career. Special forces operators are more worried about accomplishing the task rather than the arc of safety of indecision. It's big army that's worried about their politics, it's worried about their career, it's worried about their status, it's worried about uh evaluating the risk and only taking the certain measured movements. You are being you uh let me just say this right now: you have been called, you have been chosen to come out of the regular troop and step up into another level, a new level of operation, a new level uh of authority, a new level here this morning.

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God is calling us even now to begin to leave some things behind and press forward into his purpose and into his calling. You gotta leave it behind, you gotta leave it behind. You can't be worried about your brothers and sisters.

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You love them, you respect them, you operate in and around them, but you also have an understanding that you're called to a higher calling. There's missions that you'll go on that they'll never be able to go on without these things of submission and humility and faith. Let me let me close out this portion of our training here this morning by speaking the word of faith. Faith is, as Robinette's brother Robinette has many, many times said, faith is spelled R-I-S-K. Scripture says, for we walk by faith and not by sight. Talking about operating in the gifts of the Spirit, talking about speaking the word of faith. We're talking about being bold enough to give that word of prophecy, to operate in the working of miracles. Let me give somebody a tip in the Holy Ghost. The best practice is when God drops it in your spirit. Move, don't hesitate, don't wait, don't flinch. Go ahead and trust God. This is what you can have, all the skills that you want to have. You can be the most polished speaker and have the greatest notes, but it's the time of operating that God wants to call us into. And that is the moment where we step out on God. We've got to leave everything else by the treadway on the shore and say, God, I'm gonna trust you.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm releasing control, I'm releasing the safety of the shore, and I'm stepping out into a realm I may feel uncomfortable with, I might flounder with.

SPEAKER_00:

This is what I want us to do. I feel this in the Holy Ghost. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the last step of this is deployment. What God wants to do in each one of your life, right here in this moment in this service today, is deploy you. You have been called, you have been chosen, you have been trained. Now it is time to deploy. It is time to be boots on the ground, as we've heard so often. Now is the time to step out on that faith. God's moving, God's stirring in this house right now. This is what I want us to do. I want us to stand up. What we're gonna do is we're gonna go and we're gonna find somebody and we're gonna operate in apostolic authority. We're gonna speak a word of prophecy, we're gonna speak a word of faith, we're gonna lay hands on each other, we're gonna allow some giftings to be awakened in our hearts, in our spirits. And I just want us to lift our hands and pray right now.

SPEAKER_02:

And when we're praying, as God speaks to you, I want you to step out and begin to operate right now.

SPEAKER_01:

Shatalamaha. Holy God, holy God. Oh, I pray right now this prayer, holy God, by the authority of the word of God and by the power that is in the name of Jesus. I command you right now to operate in apostolic authority. I release faith in this house, I release prophecy in this house, I release apostolic identity into this house. Come on, begin to move right now.

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