With the recent release of the song album, God Meant It for Good, I have had opportunity to share my enjoyment, experience, and burden behind the writing of it. There is a wonderful story behind the album and each of the 12 songs on it that brought me into a further enjoyment of God’s word and the […]
Having God’s Speaking through Things that are Negative under God’s Shining Light
We praise the Lord for showing us that, according to the Holy Word, all believers in Christ are priests to God, those who are qualified and required to be in God’s presence, be filled with God, minister God to others, pray at the incense altar to cooperate with God’s operation and release his will on […]
To Serve God in the Gospel is to Worship God; our God is Living to us and in us!
According to the divine revelation in the Bible, all those who believe in Christ and receive Him as their Savior and life are priests to God, and they are ministers of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, laboring priests of the gospel (Rom. 15:16). We need to see a clear vision of who we are and […]
Being People of Incense who Inwardly Contact the Lord and Pray one with Christ
All believers in Christ are priests to God, and one of the most important things in serving as a priest is to spend time with the Lord. We all know that we need to have such a time with our dear Lord Jesus, but again and again, as things press upon us, this time is […]
Proper Prayer (burning the incense) issues out of God’s Light from Reading the Word
Lighting the lamps in the Holy Place goes together with burning the incense; when the priests were dressing the lamps in the morning, they had to burn the incense on the altar, and when they set up the lamps at twilight, they also burned the incense (see Exo. 30:7-8). Every time we read the Bible […]
Coming into God’s Light and Walking in it to have God as Light Shining in our Meeting
The service of the priests was to offer sacrifices on behalf of the people, to take care of the tabernacle with all its furnishings, to light the lamps in the Holy Place, and to burn the incense. Many Bible commentaries on the matter of lighting the lamps tell us that we need to be enlightened […]
As Priests we Come Forward to the Throne of Grace to Receive Mercy and Find Grace
The Lord’s heart’s desire is not only to save us from the world, from sin, and from the self; He wants all His people to be a kingdom of priests, kings and priests to God. As God’s spiritual people today we are His personal treasure, His peculiar possession, so that we may be a kingdom […]