KINGS AND PRIESTS

You will be for Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. - EX 19:6

ISA 61:6 And you will be called priests of the Lord; you will be named ministers of our God. You will feed on the wealth of nations, and in their riches you will boast.

1PT 2:5 And you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house, to be a Holy Priesthood.

REV 1:6(KJV) And hath made us kings and priests unto God and His Father. REV 5:10(KJV) And hast made us unto our God kings and priests and we shall
reign on the earth.

Kings and priests unto Him: One of the ministries of priests is that they have a part in administering the Covenant blessings. Just as Jesus entered the Heavenly Holy of Holies, the one the earthly one was patterned after, and offered His blood upon its altar. So too we were blessed at the establishment of the New and Everlasting Covenant, the Word says that we were blessed with EVERY SPIRITUAL blessing in Christ Jesus (EPH 1:3). The power of life and death is in the tongue (PRO 18:21). In Luke 10:5 Jesus instructed His disciples to bless the houses they entered. We should have an image of each other in our hearts that is Word-Inspired and Word-Formed; we should be full of words of grace to pronounce over each other. Under the first Covenant they were blessed by Moses, under this One the Word says God himself blessed us. As priests who are to be pronounced of that blessing we are indeed ones whose tongues have the power of life. This is something we too often overlook, we should be conscious of the call of God upon our lives to speak the blessings of God over His people.

Let the Lord define your priestly service to Him. Ask Him to increase your faith. Let Him define your duty for the days ahead. Determine whether you are plowing, planting, watering or harvesting. However, the greatest duty of a priest is that of ministering to the Lord. He is worthy to be praised indeed. Since the only blood sacrifice of the New Covenant has been offered, the primary ministering to the Lord we will do as priests is to praise and worship Him in one accord.

Thank You, Father, in the name of Jesus, that You have qualified us as kings and priests unto You. You are faithful, and I thank You that You are no respecter of persons. We appropriate Your promises and stand on them. I thank You that You have made us ministers of reconciliation whether we stand behind a pulpit, on a street corner, in a business place or in a school. We have been rescued from the dominion of darkness, and placed into the kingdom of light. We rescue others and bring them into the fold and make disciples of all men. And as messengers/ ministers of reconciliation we do not shy away from the proclamation of the Glory of God’s Word. It is as Romans 1:16 says, the power of God for everyone’s salvation. As priests we are messengers of that salvation. We thank You as we reach the unity of the faith, we will see Your Glory in greater and greater manifestation. Amen.