Prayer and 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

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

Priestliness – a mind intensely occupied by considering Jesus.Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession. Hebr 3:1

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

Priestliness:Substantiated experience of Heavenly realities.

Priestliness – a desire to press on to perfection.

Priestliness:The outshining of the Glory of God.

Peter describs the priestly role as 'to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ' - 1 Peter 2:5 and 'to bear witness to his saving work in the world' - 2:9.Thus the priesthood is a mediatory role into which all Christians are enrolled through prayer and proclaimation.Lord, fill your people with your Holy Spirit that they might be a royal priesthood, until that time comes when we are all called to partake in your rule over the new earth (Rev 5:10)Dave

Waiting – the very heart of Priestliness.

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 measured – The mind of Christ on display.

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

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

Priestliness:Agreeing with the need of a sacrifice.

Priestliness:The Mystery of Christ.

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

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

PriestlinessThe sign of the Spirit of Christ present and at work.

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

There is a cry of God for the restoration of priesthood that alone will save us from the superficial demonstrations that are ostensibly performed in His Name.Art Katz

“I have come to believe that no worship is wholly pleasing to God until there is nothing in us displeasing to God. If there is anything within me that does not worship God, then there is nothing in me that worships God perfectly.Note that I am not saying that God must have a perfection of worship or He will not accept any worship at all. I would not go so far; if I did, I would rule myself out. But, I do say that the ideal God sets before us is to worship as near to perfectly as we can. Faith and love and obedience and loyalty and high conduct of life—all of these must be taken as burnt offerings and offered to God!”A. W. Tozer - A thorough summary of what growth unto Priestliness contains.

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

PriestlinessTo stand entirely in the enjoyment of the proclamation of the exaltation of the Lord Jesus.