All believers in Christ are priests to God, and one of the most important things in serving as a priest is to spend time with the Lord. We all know that we need to have such a time with our dear Lord Jesus, but again and again, as things press upon us, this time is […]
Proper Prayer (burning the incense) issues out of God’s Light from Reading the Word
Lighting the lamps in the Holy Place goes together with burning the incense; when the priests were dressing the lamps in the morning, they had to burn the incense on the altar, and when they set up the lamps at twilight, they also burned the incense (see Exo. 30:7-8). Every time we read the Bible […]
Coming into God’s Light and Walking in it to have God as Light Shining in our Meeting
The service of the priests was to offer sacrifices on behalf of the people, to take care of the tabernacle with all its furnishings, to light the lamps in the Holy Place, and to burn the incense. Many Bible commentaries on the matter of lighting the lamps tell us that we need to be enlightened […]
We Need to be Holy Persons Filled with God to Light the Holy Lamps in the Holy Place
One of the functions of the priests in the Old Testament was the lighting of the lamps in the Holy Place; God ordained that the light has to be on all day and throughout the night, and it was the priests’ responsibility to make sure this happens. The details of this picture are quite interesting, […]
Daily Eating and Enjoying Christ as the Reality of all the Offerings for our Food
Jesus Christ, our High Priest, testified that the living Father sent Him and He lived because of the Father; He ate the Father and lived because of the Father, and now we as the sons of God and priests to God need to eat Christ and live because of Him (John 6:57). Our food as […]
A Priest is a Person who Serves in Newness of Spirit and Ministers to the Lord
This week we have been both enjoying and prayerfully studying the definition of a priest: what is a priest according to the Bible, and how can we be priests to God today. Christ Himself is the High Priest, and the way for us to be priests is to have Christ reproduced in us. A priest, […]
A Priest lives the God-man life by Living in the Mingled Spirit to Express Christ
“The focus of God’s economy is the mingled spirit, the divine Spirit mingled with the human spirit (Rom. 8:4)” – this statement is of tremendous importance in our Christian life. Many believers have missed the aim of God’s purpose for their life simply because they don’t see that all our experiences of God are in the […]