Rick Joyner Rick Joyner has authored more than fifty books, including The Final Quest Trilogy, There Were Two Trees in the Garden, The Path, and Army of the Dawn. He is also the Founder and Executive Director of MorningStar Ministries, a multi-faceted mission organization which includes Heritage International Ministries, MorningStar University, MorningStar Fellowship of Churches and Ministries. Click here to take a look at Rick's latest Rant #ricksrants

The Minds of the Futile

This week’s text is Ephesians 4:17-19, This I say therefore, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them,...
10-6-02

Fitting Together

For the last few weeks we have seen that the ministry the Lord gave to His church is a team. When the church is led and equipped by this team it will: be built up by the saints doing the work of the ministry, the people will grow until they attain to the unity of the faith, the knowledge of the Son...
9-29-02

Speaking the Truth in Love

The verse for this week’s study is Ephesians 4:15: But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head, even Christ. This is another one of those verses that could be worthy of a lifetime of study. If this one verse had been heeded it is likely that literally...
9-22-02

Stability and Discernment

This week we continue our study with Ephesians 4:14: As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves, and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming. This mature condition is stated as being the result of...
9-15-02

The Measure of a Ministry

This week we continue the study of the purpose of equipping ministries listed in Ephesians 4:11 with what must be considered one of the most amazing verses in the Scriptures, Ephesians 4:13. It states that these ministries are given: “until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the...
9-8-02

The Purpose of Ministry

For the last few weeks we have briefly discussed the functions of the five equipping ministries listed in Ephesians 4:11. Now we will proceed to discuss their purpose in a little more depth, which is stated as being “for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the...
9-1-02

The Teacher

The teacher is the last of the five equipping ministries listed in Ephesians 4:11, but it is foundational for all of the other ministries. To equip others will require teaching as well as training and impartation. However, the teaching ministry is one that focuses on imparting the knowledge of God’...
8-25-02

The Burning Bush Ignites

Since the last bulletin in which I addressed the jeopardy of the Bush presidency, and the Republican Party, there has been a noteworthy surge of effort on the part of the President to confront the very issues discussed in that bulletin. There is no way that this is in response to the bulletin, because the effort he is now making required a great deal of forethought and planning. This should be interpreted as evidence that he is in touch with the basic economic issues and is taking decisive leadership action in confronting the problems.

Thursday, August 22, 2002 - 00:00

The Pastor

In our study of the equipping ministries listed in Ephesians 4:11, our next ministry is the pastor. Last week we discussed that there were over twenty people in the New Testament who are referred to as apostles, only a couple who are referred to as prophets, and only one who is called an evangelist...
8-18-02

The Evangelist

This week we are continuing our study of the equipping ministries listed in Ephesians 4:1, and will take a brief look at the ministry of the evangelist. In the New Testament, there are over twenty people referred to as apostles, only a few who are referred to as prophets, and only one who is called...
8-11-02