Church before awakening - 3 Practical Changes
Our Sleeping Beauty - 3
..a note for the
Man/Woman
of Prayer..
The Original Priesthood Model
Prayer With Adoration, Praise Worship and Pleas
We are to conduct Adoration and Worship because we are the New Royal Priesthood {1Pt 2:9**}, offering sacrifices, adoration, and conducting worship together with intercessor tasks.
We are to be familiar with the issues in the Heaven and in the World. For this, we have to ask for visions.
We also have a fight against the authorities in the air, a spiritual warfare.
Jesus Christ's Spirit will work in every area, and will work in the very same way like in His earthly time. "He proclaimed the Kingdom... He went around, doing good" There is no place for other focuses.
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We are to Show off The Melchizedek Order because We Christians are all the part of the New Priesthood, with a better High Priest. There is no more layer between the people and the Heaven. Our highest Priest is Jesus the Lord, the Christ - according to the order of Melchizedek, thus we are really a new type of priesthood - not according to the old Levitical priesthood.
Please do not underestimate the influence of the Roman Catholic model, the Anglican model or the Lutheran model. We have Apostolic teachings on the priestly lifestyle:
Rev 1:5b-6
Rev 5:9-10}
We are His priesthood to preach and teach the full apostolic msg with the abovementioned worship, representation, ID and we must proclaim the Word, also teaching the Word alongside with other representative tasks. We have full resource for these tasks from the Heaven.
**1Pt.2:9
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare examplify the noble character
2Pt 1:3
His divine power has given us / granted us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of Him
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.
For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Throwing off the garbage
Now, having freedom from the burden of sins, faults and a guilty conscience, it is much easier to give up bad habits. Only the Holy Spirit can do this in the heart. All religions carry an immense number of unnecessary ideas and beliefs that are based on well-known and well-worn lies and/or erroneous assumptions. The woozle effect always works in the human communities. This is a great weapon in the hand of Satan. The apostolic authority starts with the authority of their teachings & experiences. We cannot put on the scales common belief systems that are contrary to the apostolic word in the Bible. You're not under the worldly doctrine, nor under the Law. You're in the heavenly family. This brings suffering sometimes but this is our everlasting ID:
Philippians 3:8-10
I consider everything
Eph 1:5
In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace.
Being, living "after Gd's heart"
His plan is not often obvious in our lifes. We are to ask.
Isaiah 55:8-9
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Dear reader! Please don't be naive. The slaves must learn how to read the marks of his/her master:
Ps 123:2
Behold,
look
His Body - the Bride
Concerns about His Body.
a) my/your human body, the temple of the Holy Spirit.
b) the Church/es = His body in unity
c) Jesus's Body
Jesus' plan is a restoration plan for His Bride {and for the nations: the invisible church}. His tender heart is not simply a heavenly resource for You, for Us. His heart is to be resurrected and "copied", so that we may live according the abovementioned 1Pt 2:9.
If we "use" this plan and these heavenly resources of life without mastering/imbibing the desire of His heart..... well that is not "Christ following", not technically, nor mentally, nor representatively.
Negative example: Paying for the charity is definitely NOT an answer for living a compassionate life, nor the "paying missionaries" gives answer for our mission filled life.
Positive example: The apostolic circles invites church members into mission trips and personal mentorship according to the Spirit's vision - definitely not wanting to build up the Levitical layer again...
You can read it in the apostolic letters, so you can do it. You must do it. Open your heart. Offer your heart!
Our Hearts
Jesus needs our hearts. Because we needs His life, as we can see below, the "zoe" life, the LIFE filled with his redeeming power comes from this relationship. This is the Intimacy between men, women and Our LORD.
The heart - in the Biblical mentality - is the center of the emotions and Identity and even the place for thoughts, decisions. Despite of the modern sentimental thinking, the human heart is The Most Important Part of the New ID of the Christianity. The human heart is one of the main battleground in the Big War.
Prov.4:23
Above all else, guard your heart,
for life comes forth from it.
Again - Repentance for all of us
Repentance is an escape from "hamartia" errant.
I want to be a bit shorter here because I wrote an article about it earlier. You can read about the Reset here.
I mentioned the life-long learning before. The protestant "semper Reformanda" is a good approach too. But. Neglected.
Fortunately we have a very good description about the ever changing dynamic of the Kingdom.
Jn.8:9
The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.
We need Repentence, understanding the Wind simply because
Well... This demands flexibility, adaptivity. If we don't follow His nature we won't learn His nature.
Reciprocity and Love
We have a need for Repentence, because we are on the road (waterpath) so we need correction, even from each other. This is the Kingdom's reciprocity: looking at each other, caring each other.No message works in the kingdom of God without love. Without God's love.
If we achieved the New Milestone, The New Commandment: "loving each other", we are in the safe place:
Jn.13:34-35
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.
In this "place" of love we have attention to each other, we have compassion, we have more connection and connected life brings less-less fear. In this "place" we can wash each other's feet. And they are very dirty by the Road. And there is no exempt.
John 13:14
If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
For leaders and members
One of the most common ignorance in the "protestant" churches cames from the negligence /blindspot of James' teaching:
Jm 5:16
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
Every authority has problem with the transparency and vulnerability.. on the Earth. This is a common temptation. But every Christian authority has a safe background in Gd, and has a responsibility: being obedient, even if it attracts/stirs conflicts among the people shaking the existentialists, the comfort zone habitants.
Hardening hearts or Opening hearts
2 Cor.6:11
Oh Corinthians! We have spoken openly to you, our heart is wide open. You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.
Now in return for the same (I speak as to children), you also be open.
THIS
depends on you, Lord.. on Your will..
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