puricare chronicles: KINGS AND PRIESTS - It’s easy to imagine being a king with the privilege and honor of establishing and creating things for God’s glory. It’s a little harder to imagine being a priest because that involves sacrifice. Believers are called to be living sacrifices who daily take up their cross to follow Christ. This unique privilege of being both a king and a priest explains the dominion and authority invested in humans. As a king, you are empowered to go into the world and establish the Father’s kingdom and take authority over everything that opposes itself to God and His order. As a priest, you are equipped to take the elements you establish and offer them back to God as an offering. You are a blood-bought child of the living God who is anointed to serve the King of Kings, searching for His lost sheep and bringing them back to Him as an offering. - “You have made us kings and priests unto our God; and we shall reign on the earth.” - The authority invested in you as a son or daughter of the most high God is expressed in two dimensions: king and priest. It’s not too difficult to imagine being a king (or queen). After all, we find the idea of power, prestige, and authority extremely appealing. This kingly aspect of humanity exists by divine design and is established in the opening chapter of the Bible when God determines to make mankind in His image and likeness and let them have dominion. King David describes humanity as “crowned” with glory and honor.

Sunday, January 31, 2021

KINGS AND PRIESTS - It’s easy to imagine being a king with the privilege and honor of establishing and creating things for God’s glory. It’s a little harder to imagine being a priest because that involves sacrifice. Believers are called to be living sacrifices who daily take up their cross to follow Christ. This unique privilege of being both a king and a priest explains the dominion and authority invested in humans. As a king, you are empowered to go into the world and establish the Father’s kingdom and take authority over everything that opposes itself to God and His order. As a priest, you are equipped to take the elements you establish and offer them back to God as an offering. You are a blood-bought child of the living God who is anointed to serve the King of Kings, searching for His lost sheep and bringing them back to Him as an offering. - “You have made us kings and priests unto our God; and we shall reign on the earth.” - The authority invested in you as a son or daughter of the most high God is expressed in two dimensions: king and priest. It’s not too difficult to imagine being a king (or queen). After all, we find the idea of power, prestige, and authority extremely appealing. This kingly aspect of humanity exists by divine design and is established in the opening chapter of the Bible when God determines to make mankind in His image and likeness and let them have dominion. King David describes humanity as “crowned” with glory and honor.

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Kings and Priests

It’s easy to imagine being a king with the privilege and honor of establishing and creating things for God’s glory. It’s a little harder to imagine being a priest because that involves sacrifice.

Believers are called to be living sacrifices who daily take up their cross to follow Christ. This unique privilege of being both a king and a priest explains the dominion and authority invested in humans.

As a king, you are empowered to go into the world and establish the Father’s kingdom and take authority over everything that opposes itself to God and His order. As a priest, you are equipped to take the elements you establish and offer them back to God as an offering. You are a blood-bought child of the living God who is anointed to serve the King of Kings, searching for His lost sheep and bringing them back to Him as an offering.

Rod Parsley

“You have made us kings and priests unto our God; and we shall reign on the earth.” - Revelation 5:10

The authority invested in you as a son or daughter of the most high God is expressed in two dimensions: king and priest.

It’s not too difficult to imagine being a king (or queen). After all, we find the idea of power, prestige, and authority extremely appealing.

This kingly aspect of humanity exists by divine design and is established in the opening chapter of the Bible when God determines to make mankind in His image and likeness and let them have dominion (Genesis 1:26).

King David describes humanity as “crowned” with glory and honor and says, “You have given him dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet …” (Psalm 8:6).

It’s easy to imagine being a king with the privilege and honor of establishing and creating things for God’s glory.

It’s a little harder to imagine being a priest because that involves sacrifice.

Believers are called to be living sacrifices who daily take up their cross to follow Christ.

This unique privilege of being both a king and a priest explains the dominion and authority invested in humans.

As a king, you are empowered to go into the world and establish the Father’s kingdom and take authority over everything that opposes itself to God and His order.

As a priest, you are equipped to take the elements you establish and offer them back to God as an offering.

Are you ready to use the authority that belongs to you?

You are a blood-bought child of the living God who is anointed to serve the King of Kings, searching for His lost sheep and bringing them back to Him as an offering.

When you do, you fulfill the apex of all Christian endeavor by placing the jewel of a soul in the crown of our Savior, so the Lamb that was slain might receive the reward of His suffering.

This is how you reign on earth!

As believers, we are called to be living sacrifices to follow Christ. I pray that today you make a sacrifice.

Whether it be big or small. No sacrifice goes unnoticed to the Lord.

He will provide for you as long as you continue to make sacrifices for Him.

I urge you today to think of something you can sacrifice unto the Lord.

To show your devotion to Him as a believer. Amen.

Further Reading

Genesis 1:26

Revelation 5:10

Psalm 8:6

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