Moving in the Apostolic

Pioneering: Back to the Basics

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people. These areas and people need sent ones. When apostles are sent into a region, they have the ability (through the anointing) to penetrate the darkness and bring light and revelation to the people. There is no substitute for the apostle. This ministry is like a battering ram against the citadels of the enemy. Apostles are pathfinders. A pathfinder is one who discovers a way, especially one who explores untraversed regions to mark out a new route. Pioneers are the first to enter a new region. This can be a new region geographically or a new region of knowledge. Pioneers leave a heritage for others to follow. They leave a spiritual legacy for those who will come after them. This ministry precedes and opens the way for others. The early apostles left a spiritual legacy for the Church to follow. We all have inherited the spiritual legacy of the early apostles. A pioneer is also a frontiersman. Pioneers live and minister on the frontier. A frontier is a new field for developmental activity, a region that forms the margin of settled or developed territory. We call this "living on the cutting edge." Often the Church becomes settled in a certain place. The Lord continues to send apostles to expand the Church's borders. They expand our spiritual horizons and release us from spiritual boundaries and limitations of tradition and past experience. There is a song that we sing in our church, written by my good friend Kevin Leal. Following are the words to the chorus:

Opening places in the spirit where men have never been. Opening places in the spirit so He can come again. Opening places in the spirit letting men break through. Opening places in the spirit touching you and you and you!

These are new places in the spirit that need to be opened where many saints have never been. It takes the anointing to