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.

Priestliness – Persistency in regards to priorities.Priestliness – Provocations paralyzed by sanctified partiality.Priestliness – Polite practice of the lordship of Jesus Christ.

The world is destitute of the sense of things heavenly for the lack of priests who are able to bring that dimension of reality. Another synonym for heaven is reality. Whatever reality is, then that is heaven. It takes even a priestly mentality to sense that, and to feel for that, and a priestly ministry to introduce that in a world that is inhospitable to heaven. Earth resists heavenly things, and yet mankind languishes for the lack of priests.Art Katz

Priestliness – The consciousness of greatness is the secret of Humility. All things had been given into His hands, so He used those hands to wash the disciples’ feet.E. Stanley Jones

Priestliness – Affords to bow down and serve.

The priestly way – Giving up rights to live, this way ministers life.Giving up rights to master life, this way ministers life

Waiting – the very heart of Priestliness.

Priestliness;Not what I am but what He is.There is no need dying to the fact that I am somebody,but to the urge to try to be somebody.

Priestliness:Substantiated experience of Heavenly realities.

Priestliness,Intensity, living on the edge. . .Not nervously moving about,But productively reaching out.

Priestliness:The outshining of the Glory of God.

Priestliness requires a thorough preliminary work of God to disqualify us before we can be qualified.

PriestlinessA state of being and living which brings you into the prayer chamber on God’s terms.

Priestliness;The exquisite confrontation of profanity.

Priestliness – Crystallizes in washing other men’s feet.

Priestliness:Ability to forgive.