Moving From a Priest to a King….

Kings           I have been sharing with you these the past several few weeks out of the incredible teaching of Prophets, Priests and Kings, the importance of our roles as Prophets and Priests.  In the last session that I have posted on the blog, I have shown the importance of our ministry as Priests unto the Lord and our ministry of the Priesthood of the Believer.  I will just go over some points that I have talked about in the last installment.  If you have not had a chance to go over this teaching from the very beginning, I strongly encourage you to do so, in order that you may be able to comprehend the fullness of this great revelation.             Remember how I said in the teaching of the PRIEST that we ARE NOT talking about a horizontal forgiveness, like “I forgive you,” we are talking about having the AUTHORITY and PRIVILEDGE of going before the God of the Universe and saying, “Father, let it be as if it never happened.”             Next, I wrote about the importance of laying the groundwork for the Priest BECAUSE the Priest is like the LIGHTNING ROD OF GOD that ATTRACTS THE INTERVENTION OF GOD ONTO THE SCENE.             Beginning with this segment I will be sharing with you about our ministry as KINGS.             WHAT IS IT ABOUT KINGS THAT RELEASES THE REVELATION AND THE LIGHTNING OF GOD?   Because this is such a long session, I will have this broken down into more installments at different times.  But remember from the very 1^st lesson, KINGS SPEAK ON BEHALF OF GOD TO MEN.  If I may say, Kings have THREE MAIN roles.  They have others as well, but I will only be focusing on the THREE most important ones.  1. THEY DECLARE AND DECREE THINGS  2. They sit as Judges, and 3. They fight WARS.  I will get into this later.            Let’s look and see.  There are FIVE spheres of AUTHORITY in the Universe:1.                 The INDIVIDUAL2.                 The FAMILY3.                 The CHURCH 4.                 The GOVERNMENT 5.                 PRAYER The first FOUR spheres have LIMITED AUTHORITY.  The FIFTH sphere SUPERCEDES ALL other spheres.  Prayer is the HIGHEST AUTHORITY in the Universe – the authority of God Almighty.  ALL of the other 4 spheres ARE subject to change as you release the 5^th sphere of authority which is PRAYER.             All this to say, whatever you are facing in your individual life, in your family, in your church or in your government, they ALL are subject to CHANGE when you release PRAYER into any of these situations that you are facing!  WHY?  Because when something is out of order in the first FOUR spheres, we have a MANDATE from the FATHER to DISALLOW and SUPERCEDE ALL that OPPOSES God’s will and IMPOSE God’s AUTHORITY!                In the natural, you have the Law of Gravity.  It is a fixed law in the universe, is it not?  BUT it is a LIMITED LAW!  There is a HIGHER LAW, the Law of Lift.  PRAYER IS THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY!  The HIGHEST form of prayer is to pray the WORD OF GOD!  We see in Psalm 138:2b “…for You have exalted ABOVE ALL ELSE Your Name and Your WORD, and You have magnified Your WORD above all Your Name!”             Now with that said, let me go on to also say the Word of God is the REVEALED WILL of God!  It is HIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT!!!!!  For instance, when a rich father dies, he leaves his children the Last Will and Testament right?  In that Will and Testament are his LAST words and desires and wishes given to his children, including all his assets, everything he had and worked for all his life that he wants to now pass to his children.    HOWEVER, this Last Will and Testament COULD NOT come into effect TILL the death of the father!            NOW when Jesus died, He left us His Last Will and Testament.  That is, ALL that He died on the cross for us to have, ALL the victories,  His entire WORD, meaning, EVEYTHING that is written in it, ALL that is OUR FINAL WILL and Testament that our heavenly Daddy left for us!  It was ALL SEALED, RATIFIED AND PUT INTO EFFECT BY JESUS’ DEATH!             ALL OF THE PROMISES OF GOD FOUND THEIR YES answer in the BLOOD SACRIFICE OF JESUS!  II Corinthians 1:20 tells us this very REAL fact. “For NO matter how many promises God has made, they are “YES” in Christ.  And so thought Him the “Amen” is spoken by US to the glory of God.”  What does “AMEN” mean?  It means “So be it” or “So let it be”.  SO THEN, the verse says that THROUGH HIM that is IN US, WE say the AMEN to ALL of His promises that ARE, NOT WILL BE MADE, BUT ARE ALREADY “YES” in CHRIST!             So then, what form of word is the AMEN?  It is A DECLARATION!  So then, the DECLARATION IS SPOKEN BY US!  What do Kings do?  They make DECREES!!!  They DECLARE!  So what am I saying here?             BECAUSE EVERY PROMISE IN THE WORD OF GOD IS ALREADY OURS BY INHERITANCE, BECAUSE WE INHERITED IT THROUGH HIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT THAT HE LEFT TO US HIS CHILDREN, WE DON’T HAVE TO ASK FOR IT IN THE FORM OF A PETITION OR REQUEST – (as we did in the Priestly Prayer.  Remember, in the Priestly Prayers we come ON BEHALF OF MAN TO GOD, we stand in the gap on behalf of MAN TO GOD so in that PLACE of a PRIEST, we have at our disposal different types of prayers for us to use including Petition, Request, Travel Prayers and others.  But because we ARE NOW NOT talking about being in the Priest Place BUT KING, KINGS DECREE!)   WE SIMPLY SAY “AMEN! – SO BE IT!”  We DECLARE IT SO!             That which He has given to us in His Last Will and Testament is FOREVER SETTLED!  IT is NOT open for debate!             When Jesus taught the disciples to pray He said to pray, “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done!”  That was in the form of an IMPERATIVE – in other words, it can be said, “KINGDOM of GOD, COME, WILL OF GOD, BE DONE!”  DECLARE IT!  So when we pray the Word of God, it needs to be in the IMPERATIVE – A DECLARATION – A COMMAND – or a PRAISE and THANKSGIVING to the Father for the FINISHED WORK of the CROSS.  WE simply ENFORCE the FINISHED work of the CROSS when we pray the WORD OF GOD, or when we DECLARE those things that are NOT (experientially YET) as though they are.             We see an example of this in Romans 4:16-17 – “As it is written, I have made you the father of many nations.  (He was appointed our father) in the sight of God in Whom he believed, Who gives life to the dead and SPEAKS of the non-existent things that (He has foretold and promised) as if they (already existed).” Just like FAITH, is the substance of things HOPED for, the evidence of things NOT YET seen!             We are speaking a CREATIVE WORD, just as GOD did when He said, “Let there be light!”  Lazarus was dead, but Jesus released that CREATIVE word of God, the word of life.             EVERY situation in the first FOUR spheres that is CONTRARY to the WORD OF GOD MUST ULTIMATELY YIELD to the HIGHER law!  The WORD is ETERNAL, UNCHANGING, FOREVER SETTLED!  EVERY SITUATION IS TEMPORAL, it IS subject to change!  EVERY TEMPORAL, which is now inconsistent with the WORD of GOD, sooner or later MUST and WILL change.  See, it is NOT a matter of, “IS God going to change my situation,” It is a matter only of “WHEN” and THAT “WHEN” is going to happen when YOU will be blessed the most, and when GOD will get the MOST GLORY!             What am I saying you might be asking yourself?  Well, let me give you an example.  With Lazarus’ story, his sisters sent for Jesus to come and heal Lazarus, but He chose NOT to go.  NOW, He KNEW that Lazarus would die if He did not go to heal him.  Could He have gone to heal Lazarus?  YES!  Would God the Father have gotten as much glory for the miracle if Jesus would have went to see Lazarus the 1^st time he was called upon, or the 2^nd time he was called upon?  Or did the Father receive the MOST glory when Lazarus was ALREADY dead and everyone thought that obviously the situation was now impossible to improve, to be solved, it was all over, it was too late, and here comes Jesus and raises him from the dead?!  When did God get the most glory?  When Lazarus was raised from the dead!             So the enemy meant you can say for Lazarus to die, BUT Jesus applied the FINAL, CREATIVE WORD OF GOD to one of the 1^st four SPHERES and in that, He turned around what the enemy MEANT for BAD into GOOD for Lazarus and his family and FOR the GLORY OF THE FATHER!  SO, NOW let me say my point again….IT IS NOT A MATTER OF IF, IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF WHEN, AND THE WHEN WILL COME THROUGH WHEN IT WILL GIVE GOD THE FATHER THE MOST GLORY, when people will see your situation turned around under such IMPOSSIBLE circumstances, that they WILL have to recognize God and His power and give glory to Him!  I encourage you when you face situations where you think that God is not hearing you, or situations where you have prayed and believed for something and still do not see the breakthrough, and you want to give up, because you think that God forgot ALL about you….REMEMBER it is not a matter of IF, only a matter of WHEN, and that “WHEN” will come down with such power and glory that it will astound everyone around you!             To be continued next week……..