1 Corinthians 12:28 · World English Bible
God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.
The church is not a building or a crowd. It is the assembly of states that rise in a person as he awakens, and every office listed is a stage the same power passes through inside him.
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The church is not a building or a crowd. It is the assembly of states that rise in a person as he awakens, and every office listed is a stage the same power passes through inside him. Apostles come first because a thing must be sent out from awareness before it can appear; the assumption is dispatched into the deep. Prophets follow, for once a state is held it foretells itself, announcing what it must become.
Teachers, then works of power, then healings, are the ordering of one growth: understanding settles, circumstances rearrange to match it, and the disordered life is made whole. All of it is set by God, and God here is your own imagination arranging its own household. No stage is earned by merit. Each appears in its own appointed season as the state assumed hardens quietly into fact.
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What am I trying to force that is simply not ripe yet?
A tall tree grows from a shoot and a long road starts under your feet. Nothing arrives out of order, and nothing is rushed into place.
Sit quietly, do nothing, and spring comes, the grass grows by itself. Your part is the seed and the waiting, not the pulling.
Do your part fully and release your grip on the result. The fruit ripens in its own season, not on your schedule.
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