Exploring Priestliness

Priesthood and priestliness is to be found at the heart of anything truly spiritual.Priesthood and priestliness is to be found at the heart of anything truly relevant.Priesthood and priestliness is to be found at the heart of anything truly operative in the realm of prayer.He abides forever and holds His priesthood permanently. Hence, also, He is able to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. Hebr 7:25

Priestliness,An approach to men and their affairs in which mind, heart and spirit convenes and covenants to bring forth kindness and favour.

PriestlinessRecognised and identified through the presence an altar – a willingness to sacrificial living – at the center of the history of an individual or a community of believers.

PriestlinessHaving the eyes of ones heart opened towards Heaven.Having the eyes of ones heart opened towards man’s dilemma.

PriestlinessCelebrating the eternal, immutable will to all goodness, which is the very Life of God.

What rests in and belongs to priestliness is marked by an unambiguous ”Unto God”.

Priestliness – a desire to press on to perfection.

Priestly ministryA wearisome work in which the fruit of the Spirit is desperately needed.

Priesthood and priestlinessA corporate vessel, a solemn gathering, even a spiritual condition, in which the Lord’s controversy with His people may be discerned and eventually settled.

PriestlinessServanthood – to be set aside for the purpose of revealing God’s mystery, which is Christ.

PriestlinessTo hide nothing.To pretend nothing.To obscure nothing.To avoid mixture.To shun applauds.To break away from majority rule.“We are all unclothed in the prayer closet. Maybe this is why we are so uncomfortable there. Do we shrink from the eyes that are a flame of fire because we know He cannot be deceived?He cannot be influenced by anything except pure motive.He cannot be persuaded to give us our priorities just for the asking.Our poverty in prayer is the seedbed of all our failure.”Leonard Ravenhill

Priestliness:The outshining of the Glory of God.

Priestliness:Time and strength offered up and given away in prayer as a sacrifice.A sacrifice in which intercession has its beginning.

Priestliness:To live, act and interact not on our own seeing but on God’s sending.

Priestliness:To live, act and interact not on our own seeing but on God’s sending.

PriestlinessThe lordship of Jesus Christ in the totality of life.

PriestlinessCelebrating the eternal, immutable will to all goodness, which is the very Life of God.

Waiting – the very heart of Priestliness.

Priestliness:Agreeing with the need of the process of the Cross.

Priestliness - Being made a part of His Heavenly intercession for the completion of the salvation of the saints.