In The Lord!

“A fire shall always be burning on the altar; it shall never go out” Lev.6:13.

The Bible says people perish for lack of knowledge; but you will not perish because you will learn and grow in the Word. The challenge with us human beings, everybody including me, is that we need encouragement time and again. We build an altar to God and we are excited about it but then after a while, we get tired and just do not want to go on. Which is the difference between a child and a man; a child does only the things he feels like doing. Have you tried to make a child do what he does not feel like doing? What happens? He will throw tantrums – kick, bite, cry and say anything just to get you to leave him alone. A man, however, may not feel like it but he knows that if he does not go to work, his family will starve. So whether he feels like it or not, whether he likes it or not, he still goes to work -at least until God provides an alternative. How often is the priest to do his duty? “And the fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not be put out. And the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order on it…” Lev.6:12 [emphasis added]. You need to arise to your priesthood my brother and sister. You need to arise to your priesthood over your family. You need to arise to your priesthood over your business. You need to arise to your priesthood even in your office. There is a priestly duty for you in whatever position God has put you.

The Lord’s Supper [Holy Communion] is so powerful, even as it relates to altars. When you partake in communion at the Lord’s Table, you are saying, I am eating at the altar of the Lord. And when you eat at the altar of the Lord, you are saying every resource that belongs to that altar has access to your life. This is so powerful! My pastor told us a story of a certain woman, every time she got pregnant and reached the third trimester or there about, she would dream of a ram running into her stomach with its horns. And by the following morning she would bleed and lose the baby. This happened repeatedly. Then she ate at the Lord’s altar during a Holy Communion service and the Pastor declared, ‘once you take this, everything that tries to resist you will have to resist Christ’. And again she got pregnant and she was expecting the ram. And true to time, the ram showed up and charged at her but just before it hit her, a rock appeared in between her and the ram. The ram ran into the rock and died. What is that rock? Jesus! Working your altar, functioning in your priesthood makes your life impregnable to the enemy. They may keep trying but they will keep failing.

Prayer: The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him [Ps.28:8 NIV], in Jesus Name.