Royal Priests (1 Peter 2:9)
Dear Members of the Our Savior Lutheran Church Email Prayer Chain,

Royal Priests

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. – 1 Peter 2:9

If you are a Christian, you are a priest, chosen by God. As a member of the royal priesthood, you have constant access to the King. If there is ever a need in your life, you don’t have to find an intermediary or enlist another priest in order to gain a hearing from the King. Your position as a royal priest allows you direct access. This privilege describes your position as a priest. 

However, priests also have a function. It is the responsibility of a priest to work within the priesthood. Scripture does not promote the practice of individual priests, each with a separate ministry. Rather, priests function together (Leviticus 9:1). An unbiblical sense of individualism can isolate you from functioning within God’s royal priesthood as He intended. 

The priest represents God to the people, but he also takes the people’s concerns to God. Is there someone around you who desperately needs the intercession of one of God’s priests? Perhaps someone will only come to know God by seeing Him in your life. Our world hungers for an expression of Christ as He really is, living out His life through His people. It is dangerous to put our job above our calling by God. 

We are called to be priests first and to hold a job second. When we get these out of order, everyone around us is denied access to the Father through us. God may have called you into a secular job as a vocation, but more importantly He has appointed you to be one of His royal priests.

REFLECTION

How are you doing in representing God to those around you?
If God examines how you use your time, talents, and treasure, what would be discovered about your priorities?

PRAYER REQUESTS -- Week of April 13, 2008

FOR THOSE WHO LOOK TO THE LORD FOR HEALING

Judy O’Neil        [daughter of Nora Horecny] Health Concerns

FOR CHURCH WORK

Congregational Voter’s Meeting on Sunday, April 20th. Pray that God’s will is reflected in the Ministry Plan/Budget that we adopt. 

SiMPly Listening To God: Tuesday, April 15th at 5:30 is the date for our first follow-up/progress report since our initial weekend.  

Continue to lift up our need for a Sunday School Superintendent. We are asking God to bring this person or persons forward with the desire to serve Him in this area. 

And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.--Colossians 1:10-12 

In Christ,
Paul Nickel
Director Of Christian Education
Our Savior Lutheran Church
 

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