The Order of Melchizedek - III

Text: 1 Samuel 16

It is interesting to know that most people want to be kings but not priests. Kings in their homes; kings on their jobs; kings in their businesses; kings in the social and economic world but not necessarily priests. It is however important to note that there’s no kingship without priesthood. Priesthood precedes kingship and spiritual authority precedes executive dominion. The first institution God established was priesthood. When God instituted priesthood, the Israelites were just a bunch of slaves and they didn’t know they would have a king.

Between the priesthood era and kingship era were about a period of about 2000 years. Before God raised a king for them, God firstly introduced them to priesthood. The problem with most believers is we want to give executive expression first before giving spiritual expression. In the protocol of God, priesthood must precede kingship, it is a divine protocol.

Like I always say, there is a law on earth which recognizes happenings and events on the earth as the prototype and when we do things outside this described protocol or trend as identified and concealed by the earth, the earth prevents its success. Everything that has happened on the earth is stored in the earth. For example, whenever God was going to do anything on earth, His Spirit moved.

This means that anytime God will do anything on the earth, His Spirit must first move. The only operation the earth understands is that a seed must be planted in it. He who is not a sower cannot connect with the provision God has deposited in the earth. It is already programmed that when a seed is sown, the earth favours it. If there is a person who seems to be harvesting without having sown, it is just a matter of time before that harvest runs dry because that person isn’t doing anything to connect with the storehouse of the earth. He is doing something contrary to the vibration of the earth.

We know that the greatest law on earth is love, so when we walk in love, automatically, we cause all grace to abound towards us. Also, the only conduit through which all the families on the earth will be blessed is The Abrahamic Covenant. If you see people who don’t belong to this covenant getting blessed, it won’t last. The Arabs are blessed because they are seeds of Abraham.

The covenant says ‘through your seed all the families of the earth will be blessed’.

We as believers need to understand the dimensions of priesthood and get the right perspective about our affairs and business. Most successful people are priests. A priest serves and is given to something, pursues his focus with undeniable passion and is totally committed to it. He is disciplined to ensure its success and will deploy all it takes to ensure that.

If we do not exercise our priesthood, we become weak and susceptible to other priests. We need to exercise to build the required strength we need to develop our priesthood. Just like exercise builds muscles and the more you exercise them, the bigger they become, we also need to build our spiritual ‘muscles’ to establish our priesthood.

There’s no success outside priesthood. True riches are a function of priesthood. Priests are revered, they are deep. We only reign on the earth to the extent to which we reign with God. How long do you pray? Do you pray in tongues? How well do you study and meditate on the word? These practices sustains and builds into the future, they are seeds.

Believers need to rise up to the call to priesthood and take it seriously. True success is a function of priesthood. When we become priests, transfiguration occurs; we automatically experience growth and become relevant in all wise. When we are priests, it becomes easy to overcome obstacles to kingship; by priesthood alone, David killed goliath and by kingship, he slew many goliaths.

You are a  succeess in Jesus name!

Pastor Dele Osunmakinde

                      

Sunday Service Message of The Baptizing Church delivered on October 30, 2011.

ETAL Hall, NNPC/John Holt Junction, Kudirat Abiola Way, Oregun, Ikeja. LAGOS

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