There’s a kind of darkness you don’t find in shady backstreets; you find it in boardrooms. In global health policies that quietly erase God’s image. In technology and social media algorithms designed to addict and rewire attention. In education models that either build brilliance and delete conscience or demand conformity while starving creativity, mass producing job seekers rather than culture-shapers.
We live in a time where the battleground isn’t always the church pew ; it’s the marketplace, the classroom, the stage, the lab, the media room and most critically, the human mind. This is why Paul said we don’t war against flesh and blood, but against systems and powers (Ephesians 6:12). And that our weapons are meant to tear down ideological strongholds: to take thoughts captive (2 Corinthians 10:4–5).
Systems have become spiritual landscapes, subtly shaping how and what people think, vote, create, buy, even dream. Many of these systems are groaning - waiting for light.
But here’s the crisis: we’ve often taught believers how to flee from the world, not how to govern within it. We have discipled believers to escape system and culture, not engage and transform it.
Closing the Gap
For Charles and Joyce, this gap in knowledge and strategy wasn’t abstract; it was alive in the systems they served in seventeen years ago.
They were stationed on the mission field while still working in the airline industry. Like Nehemiah, they learned to build with one hand and war with the other. The strategy to just preach from pulpits was not sufficient; they had to intervene in systems that had swallowed people whole. Due to this shift they started watching gangsters and addicts transform into kingdom envoys.
That experience became a blueprint.
From it was born the Kingdom Legislators Conference; a prophetic response to the growing need for kingdom presence within dark systems. Apostle Michael Orokpo, their spiritual authority, recognized the weight of this mandate and watered it with years of teaching and intercession in Kenya.
But conferences were just the beginning.
They launched into weekly ferocious night vigils, praying with men and women already embedded in systems: leaders actively shaping industries and culture across the 7 mountains.
And now another shift must occur.
On Sunday, July 27th 2025 at 2PM, 45 pastors will be commissioned into the marketplace. Not as Sunday preachers, but as priests in systems. These men and women already interact with hundreds daily through business, service, education and influence. From now on, they will step into those arenas with apostolic backing.
So... Why Does Commissioning Even Matter?
We get it… some might ask, “Aren’t people already doing kingdom work in the world? Why formalize it ?”
Here’s why:
1. The Biblical Precedent: Heaven Honors Sending
Commissioning isn’t some trendy ministry move. Jesus didn’t just show up on the scene with a good heart and a message : He was sent, empowered by the Spirit (Luke 4:18). The Twelve? They didn’t just follow Jesus around. They were commissioned, given real authority to heal, cast out demons and shift entire cities. And then there's Paul and Barnabas, their assignment wasn’t random either. They were set apart through fasting, prayer, and the laying on of hands (Acts 13:2–3).
That’s the order. No one sends themselves. When people step into assignments without alignment, they may have passion, but heaven doesn’t back unauthorized ambition. Commissioning is heaven’s way of saying: “I support this .” It flows through covering, through legitimate spiritual authority. When God sends, He covers, equips and defends.
2. Commissioning Is Apostolic Protocol
The Apostolic Church doesn’t just “release people into ministry”, it sends envoys; there is a difference. It’s not casual or merely ceremonial, it’s governmental. In the Kingdom being gifted isn’t enough. You might have the fire, the talent, even the burden, but if you were not sent, you will step into spaces without jurisdiction. And spiritually speaking, that’s dangerous.
Without commissioning, you’re not a representative; you’re like a freelancer in hostile territory.
That’s why voices like Apostle Michael Orokpo and other apostolic leaders of this generation have been sounding the alarm. Systems are spiritual and influence is legal. Heaven doesn’t move on presumption but through alignment, authority and sending. Therefore, commissioning isn’t optional in this era. It is a protocol for real and sustainable impact.
3. It Transfers Mantles, Not Just Mandates
When someone is truly commissioned, something happens in the spirit. Mantles are released. Not just in responsibilities, but in divine backing, angelic partnerships, and supernatural endurance. Thereby providing clarity in chaos and access to realms others would otherwise crash inside. It’s like heaven stamps your assignment and says, "Now you can go - and win."
Without it? People enter systems with sincere passion but no clearance. They fight battles they weren’t trained for. They burn out. They go quiet. Not because they were not called, but because they were not covered.
Having titles, getting applause, or being “seen” is not the goal. Commissioning is legal activation in the spirit realm - and systems respond to it.
4. The Marketplace Doesn’t Need More Religious Professionals
It needs reformers.
We don’t need more people trying to be spiritual in secular spaces. We need kingdom people who are sent with clarity, with authority and with oil.
The marketplace isn’t craving another church title, not at all. It’s groaning for teachers who disciple minds, coders who write with discernment, policymakers who carry righteousness into the legislative floor. Doctors whose touch heals more than bodies. Filmmakers who translate heaven into story.
But here’s the thing: just being in those spaces is not enough. Commissioning is the thing that seals your entry as a priest. It says : You’re not here just to survive culture but govern in it.
Too many Christians are surviving in the world systems, and without that spiritual license, they risk showing up with good intentions but no jurisdiction.
Commissioning is heaven’s green light: Go - legislate. Influence. Reform.
5. It Marks a Shift From Formation to Assignment
A lot of the pastors being commissioned in this season didn’t get here through fame or big stages. They’ve spent years in the background; growing, learning, carrying real responsibility, and walking through the slow, sometimes quiet process of preparation.
Commissioning, in a way, is how both heaven and earth say, “It's time now.” It marks that moment when formation shifts into actual assignment. Think about David… The oil did not make him king overnight, but once it was poured, something changed. The process was still ahead, but from that moment on, everything started aligning around what God had already spoken.
That’s what this moment is. Not just a nice ceremony, but a prophetic activation. A recognition that something new is beginning to move.
6. It Aligns Reformers to Kairos Timelines
It’s not just about being in the right place, but about being there at the right time, for the right reason. That’s what commissioning helps with. It brings clarity and alignment, to where someone is sent, when and how. Synchrony in the timing, territory, and specific sphere to which someone is called matters.
Even Jesus waited for His moment - “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me and sent Me” (Luke 4:18). That’s timing, divine alignment. Paul didn’t just wake up out of the blues and launch into missions either. In Acts 13, the Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work…” It was after prayer, fasting and discernment; in season, not out of impulse.
Then there’s territory. Paul says in 2 Corinthians 10:13, “We will not boast beyond proper limits, but will confine our boasting to the sphere of service God Himself has assigned to us.” That tells you: we don’t just go everywhere.
There are fields heaven assigns, places you’re graced to govern. Even Jesus told the disciples where not to go at first (Matthew 10:5–6).
And then there's the sphere; the specific mountain of influence. Romans 12 talks about different functions in one body, and Ecclesiastes 3 reminds us that there is a time and season for every purpose under heaven. That “purpose” speaks to your domain, your mountain. Paul and Peter were sent to distinct spheres: one to the Gentiles, the other to the Jews. Same gospel, different fields of operation.
So this is calibration, because in this prophetic age, the body of Christ can’t afford to release people into culture prematurely or misaligned. A person can be anointed and gifted but if they’re out of sync with their kairos, planted in the wrong territory or misaligned to their actual sphere, they will be exhausted and ineffective.
…So , That’s why Commissioning
These reformers are going to be publicly recognized as kingdom agents, each one strategically sent across society’s key spheres:
In education as curriculum designers, policy thinkers and mentors, shaping minds with wisdom and truth.
In government and law as legal advocates and diplomats, writing and defending policy with righteousness.
In media and arts as content creators, storytellers and artists, capturing narratives that carry the heart of God.
In business and finance as entrepreneurs and strategists stewarding wealth with integrity and Kingdom purpose.
In family as counselors, social workers, and advocates strengthening family systems and generational legacy.
In science and technology as engineers, developers, and innovators, building tools and infrastructure that solve real problems, carry redemptive intelligence, and reflect God’s order in innovation.
And yes - even In religion , not just behind pulpits, but as spiritual leaders set in systems, bringing priesthood to culture.
Sent to reform, to legislate, to reveal light in dark structures.
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