DOUBLE PORTION
Second of four devotions in Chosen People Series
1 Peter 2:9-10
“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.”
2015 is beginning just the way God intended. If you read the devotion God’s Memo, you learned that you: 1) Are saved, 2) Are identified as God’s kid, 3) Are positioned for Jesus’ protection and provision, and 4) Have a mission to demonstrate God to the world.
You belong to God.
You may even have resolved to be faithful to God in 2015, from Promised Return devotion.
The opening Scripture offers so much more. As a chosen people, Christians did not have to fight to be in God’s family. He chose us! The Creator of the universe actively sought you out—from all others—to have a forever relationship with you!
“Royal Priesthood” is something new. In the Bible’s Old Testament, a person could be a king. Or a person could be a priest. But no one was EVER a king/priest. Or priest/king. But you are!
Revelation 1:5-6 says, “and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His blood, and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve His God and Father—to Him be the glory and power forever and ever! Amen.” (Emphasis mine.)
Ecclesiastes 8:4 says, “Since a king’s word is supreme, who can say to a king, ‘What are you doing?’” So, as kings in Christ, our words are supreme too.
Deuteronomy 21:5 says, “The priests, the sons of Levi, shall step forward, for the Lord your God has chosen them to minister and to pronounce blessings in the name of the Lord and to decide all cases of dispute and assault.” (Emphasis mine.
King/Priests have a double portion of speaking power. That’s you. That’s me. It’s important that Believers-in-Christ be very careful with the words we choose to speak.
Take Home Nugget
The devil delights when believers put down or curse one another. Let’s get used to saying only positive life-affirming words that bless…even more powerful when speaking God’s Word.
Negative words only curse and defeat people. Check out the lesson linked below to practice saying only words that bless.
Let’s blow peoples’ minds! Let’s watch blessings come after putting our double-portion of speaking God’s Word power to use.
J.D. Griffith
Written for http://www.Biblestudyforkids.
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