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The Sleeping Beauty

I believe the Lord’s Bride is, in a way, a "Sleeping Beauty" right now. Her sleep is deep, poisoned by tricky doctrines or growth‑focused trends. But when the Prince comes, His kiss changes everything and brakes the darkness.. The Bride awakens. When Her beauty is being restored - She radiates!

When Her beauty is being restored
- She radiates!

My vocation is the calling of an educator: discovering and nurturing faith, finding talents in an atmosphere of adoration, praise, and creative worship. I want to encourage, support, and strengthen the members of this “Sleeping Beauty” so she may become more vital, finding his/her way to the Christ: To follow His life, to be active in Christ, that is, to find the way into the Master's sphere and from there out into society.
Every human community consist of various characters - this is the key for the various talents, life pathes & services...
But how could we catch up with that characters? How can we learn from their lives? What is the inner motivation in apostle Paul's heart when he says:

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
But when the perfect comes, the partial will come to an end.
1Cor 13:9-10

I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you— that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.
Rm. 1:11-12

…what is this imprint of reciprocity - behind apostolic authority and an utterly devoted life?

that we may be mutually encouraged
by each other’s faith..
{Ap. Paul}

Irrigation & help

Our next step is to become a help — a genuine helping hand: bringing irrigation to dry land, where “worship” has been reduced to “Sunday Morning Music”, where church "service" is {simply} dry, an often: quite inert, on-the-spot gathering.
I wrote “inert.” Sometimes it truly is… "stage - auditorium" situation generates consumers, and consumers have nothing to do with love. Neither with the love of Filadelphia nor with the Agape Love and Missional Activity.
This love- and prayer‑filled environment nurtures the House of Adoration and Worship alongside the coworking Prayer Workshops.
These places — or tasks — are not primarily about living or working in a particular geographical or cultural region. Rather, it is living before the heavenly Throne, "knocking on the Heaven's door" and inviting others into the Kingdom culture by the Christian priesthood activity. Living in His presence, in His love and in His Power. Understanding His Briefing through His Wisdom.

Worship and respect...

Worship in Scripture is a complex lifestyle, not an event. Adoration, honor, praise, and reverence focus on the holiness of the majesty, the mightiness, the beauty of the Lord, – this is a constant priestly activity: sacrifice before the Lord, per-se.
When we worship in holiness, unity and agreement, "God dwells among us": JHVH Shammah is his name which also clearly points to the name Immanuel: "Gd is with us".
Gd's names represent His mighty character. Jesus clearly teaches that His Name should be holy before us: hallowed be Your Name". His prayer model is the foundation of the everyday priestly prayer and adoration.
In respect. In unity. In love.

Some trust in chariots and some in horses,
but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
They collapse and fall,
but we rise and stand upright.
Psalm 20:7-8

Priestly culture

While priestly dignity and function have been fully expropriated by the Catholic leadership culture, the Protestant life is almost completely devoid of the New Testament-based, apostolic, priestly vocation. Yet this life‑form is taught by Jesus and through His apostles. Protestants reduced the worship to musical activity and Sunday events, maybe conducting some "encounter nights". These are often self-centered events; they do not aim to celebrate the divine, the Holy, but rather allow us to immerse ourselves in a kind of pop festival—as a continuation of childhood traditions. Meanwhile the mature Christian identity is a priesthood identity. Many of us have already “thrown out the baby with the bathwater.” Avoiding Catholic practices doesn't mean avoiding the multiplex representation of the Royal Priesthood, mentioned in the apostolic letters.
This means that the vast majority of Protestants reject the so called "Catholic interpretation" of the clergy, but they also filter out the NT. apostolic priestly activities {described in 1Pt 2:9 or Act 2:41-43; 6:4;}. Spiritually speaking, Protestants do not know the “Davidic tabernacle” described in the book of Samuel. But we have path to the original: The apostles knew exactly the connection between Melchizedek, David's tent and God's gravity. {Act 15:13-18; Heb 7}

Modern Protestant culture has simply forgotten the perpetual Priestly tasks and representation, not only reducing the worship to 'musical prep for the sermon' but keeping itself in the tradition of "occasionally-important" prayers, more or less aiming the recent problems, local activities. They are not gazing, adoring, addressing the Heaven and building the Throne's glory. In this way church ceremonies {and the members} became more and more self centered and flesh centered. Rituals have been degraded into experiences for human community, rather than being the constant priesthood, showing honor, giving Praise, being an Incense and Sacrifice for the Heaven. Per Se.
Moreover, only a few congregations keep bilateral Bible teaching as a priority - which is also a priestly task: passing on the representative ID to the next generation.

Melchizedek's line

But good things and promising changes are arriving, when more and more ministries / churches have sound teaching on Melchizedek's priestly order and ministry, as we can read and learn this from Gen 14:18-20, Psalm 110 and we see the connections: the spiritual significance of Heb 7 and 1Pt 2:9.
I admit: churches need more practical help and methodical mentorship in this area of Christian identity.

If you like this approach, here is an opportunity to say: I share what I have learned.. We can seek practical models around the world, we already have practical approaches on the daily priestly life. We have partial truth according to 1Cor 13 {especially. v.9.} but we are called to share that part.

Questions

• The millennial generation has lost its interest in written informations and does not read. In 10 years they won't even need to write. This youth never watches a single YT video longer than 1 minute. How do you want to "share the Word"?
• The world around us is noisy - do we need more focused believers, inside, in the family?
• The world gave us the consumer culture. Do we need churchy folks in the auditorium or taught Christians with personal faith?

Final Words, personal testimony

... I have many wonderful memories and testimonies of how the Lord has helped — and helps — His Church toward the way of Throne-building, serving His Greater Glory... It is a rich experience for us, especially if we reach out to the Lord and wait for His response...
I have seen historical changes during unified worship among churches.
Personally, ever since that day, I have often found myself in the presence of the Lord — it is not something to be withdrawn or withheld!

So I will display my greatness
and my holiness and make myself known
in the eyes of many nations.
Then they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 38:23

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