Apostolic Mentoring: Effective Preparation for Mantles, Assignments, & Legacies

By Dr. Courtney A. Pope

Apostolic mentoring is training people to know their God, be strong and equip them to so exploits. It is the effective continuation of ministry from conception to completion. From ministers to lay members, people want that genuine anointing that is not limited nor bound by the traditions of man or by knowledge that despairs of truth and revelation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Feb 8, 2011
• ISBN: 9781456740153

Dr. Courtney A. Pope

Dr. Courtney A. Pope has been pasturing at the Holy Temple Church of the Fresh Harvest since 1995. He currently serves as Apostolic Overseer of Fresh Harvest Ministries Church and Mistrial Fellowship, Executive Director of Kingdom Ministry Management and Jhazi Music. His ministry gifts includes composer of songs, administration and teaching as a wisdom coach. Hes the author of several books including The Radical Supernatural Church, In Search of a King Among Sons, and Does The Bible Really Say That? He is married to Pastor Audrey Pope and they both are proud parents and grandparents.

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Dedication

To the Pastoral and Ministerial Staffs of the Holy Temple Church of the Fresh Harvest

To the Pastors of the Fresh Harvest Ministries Church and Ministry Fellowship

Contents

Prophetic Exhortation

1. Models For Ministry Development

2. Shaping Spiritual Offspring

3. Developing Ministries of the Future

4. Ministry Leadership as an Apostolic Team

5. Apostolic Mantles

6. Apostolic Assignments

7. Apostolic Legacies

8. Kingdom Transition

Prophetic Exhortation

You and I are living in such a prophetic hour within God’s master plan and destiny of mankind’s existence. Life as we know it races towards the completion and scheme of God’s desire for us upon this earth. The conclusion of the whole matter is now imminent. We are now on the brink of the restitution of all things before the heavens release our Lord Jesus Christ for his imminent return to rapture the believing church. As in the era of Old Testament days, so now are we in these latter days, with receptive hearts and joyful expectation, ready to receive and welcome the glorious appearing of Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God.

In this hour of finality, we must be aware that the time frame for the work each of us has been assigned to is about to expire. Time is not what it used to be. We no longer have the time to get saved, mess up, repent, and go back to our first works. We now must redouble the efforts in fulfilling the desire and expectation of the one who has called us out of darkness and into His marvelous light.

As I write this prophetic exhortation, the Spirit of God is heavy upon me to be cautious, yet accurate in relaying this message to you dear reader. The winds of the Spirit are blowing as never before. Mediocre prophecies, watered down sermons, and shallow praises have had their day. There is urgency from God for us to work diligently and yet vigilantly to fulfill His will in bringing His kingdom to all mankind.

Accept this apostolic mandate and do not refuse what is spiritually our right to manifest His glory upon this earth. He is ready to be revealed! Are you ready and willing to reveal Him?

Dr. Courtney A. Pope

Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto Him, yea Lord. Then said He unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.

Matthew 13:51, 52

Models For Ministry Development

As powerful and dynamic the early church was as recorded in the book of the Acts of the Apostles, it clearly survived persecution and scattering due to the wisdom of the early apostles to appoint successors to their ministries. When carefully reviewing our New Testament text, you first find this example in the leadership model of Jesus Christ. Jesus not only performed miracles, walked on water, healed the blind, cast our demons and taught in parables. His earthly ministry was only the duration of a three-year span. Knowing that His real assignment was to be born so that He could die as our sacrificial lamb for sin’s atonement; He made sure that during and in between divine acts, that it was important for Him to develop His followers into doing the works that He did, and even greater. In John 14:12, Jesus makes the