A Royal Priesthood

The Sovereign Lord says: 

“Rejoice, My people, for I have made you into a royal priesthood for my own possession. I have laid My hands on you and anointed your head with holy oil. You have been set aside for My royal pleasure and have a dwelling in My holy city. You are seated with Me in the highest places.

Before you were just members of a human body, wandering the earth aimlessly – searching but never finding, looking but not seeing, hearing but not listening, judging but not discerning, serving but not glorifying. But I am more than just your liege lord. You have been adopted into My family. Your very identity is in Me.

You are living stones in My spiritual house. I have ordained you to represent Me on the earth and to minister to all humanity. You walk with My authority into the chambers of worldly power and you tear down strongholds of the enemy as My Kingdom advances. The gifts I have lavished on you are your priestly garments.

Go, proclaim me to all peoples, calling them out of the darkness and into My marvellous light.”

Activation: Picture yourself in royal, priestly robes. Then, in the Spirit, sit and dwell with the Lord. Thank Him for His blessings and praise Him in song, in tongues or in any language or way that comes naturally to you.

Spend time with Holy Spirit to discern what areas of ministry you are not moving in the Lord’s priestly authority. Pray for a fresh anointing of wisdom and strength so that you may walk boldly into those areas as a member of His Royal Priesthood.

1 Peter 2:9-10 (ESV)

“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.”

Hebrews 7:24-25 (NIV)

“Because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood. Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.