Topic: Ministry of the Priesthood
Greetings Sons of God:
1 Peter 2:9: But ye are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the
praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
Many of us have heard this Scripture and today I want to
focus on the priesthood portion of this.
We know generation speaks to family and we know the family is the House
of God. But what is the priesthood and
how is it functioning in the earth. Well
with a priesthood there must be priests.
Who are the priests? The sons of
God! What are priests? Priests are simply representatives of
God.
In the royal priesthood, Christ ever lives to intercede
through us. His intercession is from a
place of knowing who we are and what we are to do and be. This requires us to mature and go higher in
Him. One of the beautiful things is that
He desires for us to go higher and will take us higher if we want to go
higher. But understand he more we know
about Him or the knowledge of Him the greater the responsibility and
accountability we are held to. The
priests in the old testament were held to a very high standard because of who
they represented and the job they did.
Even as it pertained to the moving of the holy furniture, only certain
people can do it and it had to be carried a certain way and even in a certain
order. All of that had spiritual meaning
for us as the sons of God. But just as
when Jesus came the priesthood changed from the Levitical priesthood to the
royal priesthood, we must let go of the lesser that we may obtain the
greater. As a son to function as a
priest and representative of God, we must see things the way He sees them and
that includes people.
2 Corinthians 5:16: Wherefore henceforth know we no man
after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now
henceforth know we him no more.
To see people after
the spirit is to see them into being. We
see them the way God sees them and from that position and only that position
can our prayer and intercession will be effective. This is called praying in the spirit. When we do this, we become co-creators with
Christ creating and releasing each other into all that God has and is.
Romans 8:26: Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our
infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the
Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be
uttered.
We must have this drive to walk on this level of the spirit
and become instruments of release. This
requires us to mature. The only way we
are going to really help people and set them free is by intercession born out
of revelation of those whom we walk with.
Mark 8:23-25: And he
took the blind man by the hand, led him out of the town; and when he had spit
on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought. And he
looked up, and said, I see men as trees walking. After that he put his hands again upon his
eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man
clearly.
We must come to a place in our maturity where we are seeing
clearly and I mean seeing spiritually through the physical eyes. Your ability
to see, understand, rightly discern and judge will affect changes on every
level within the Kingdom.
We have come to the end of the partial where there is
dominate rule of the soul which limits our view spiritually. To please the Lord we must walk in His
fullness and that means no longer do we see men as trees walking but we see man
clearly as God sees them. This is the
ministry of the priesthood.
Peace, Love and Grace,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
