MINISTERING TO FATHER GOD (full sermon) - R. Loren Sandford

New Song Church and Ministries
8242 Pecos St.
Denver, CO 80221
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Senior Pastor: R Loren Sandford

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Ministering Unto the Lord
If the Body of Christ really, really wants an explosion of a pure and enduring Jesus movement revival, we need to understand and respond to the OBVIOUS call of our Priesthood. This nameless faceless grassroots revival will be firmly rooted in the potency of our Priesthood revelation.
There was no greater privilege God would grant to people under the Old Covenant than to allow them to minister to Him in the inner court. What was granted to a very select group of individuals in the Old Covenant has been granted freely to every single New Covenant believer in our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. We were made priests unto God, new creations in Jesus’ name at the very same moment we became born again Christians.
There is profound transforming power in ministering unto the Lord. The potential for true worldwide revival is completely dependent on the church responding to and understanding the present day calling out of the Priesthood.
Ministering unto the Lord is our first ministry and our ultimate destiny. It’s the best-kept secret of the Christian life. We must teach and practice ministering unto the Lord if we really want a true and pure revival. While ministering unto the Lord we experience God’s presence and have firm faith in the hope of our calling as a Kingdom of Priests!
As regenerated believers our ministry to God personally in worship, in time spent in stillness before Him, in quality time with and for our Savior comes first. There’s a clear line of demarcation between that which ministers to man and that, which ministers to God (inner court vs. outer court). And there is something that happens to us when we regularly, purely minister unto God. It’s part of the transforming work of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer.
Our highest, purest, most crystallized form of being a believer is our Priesthood to the Lord. We submit to God’s will and heart’s desire when we set aside time to regularly minister to Him. This ties directly into our honestly beholding Him, into our being able to perceive into what He’s doing in our lives; into our hearing His voice; ministering purely unto God, solely unto God, is the richest thing God can bless His children with, and the richest thing we, as His children can bless God with.
Ministering unto the Lord is our eternal identity, our testimony to the world and our authentic call to service. God is presently granting the revelation to the Body of Christ the pre-eminent value and awesome privilege of our Priesthood onto Him.
If we respond to and begin to understand our calling and adopt or “put on” our identity as a Priest unto God the Body organically becomes a spiritual house which naturally declares the excellencies of Him who called us out of darkness into His marvelous light.
Adopting a Priesthood mentality is more a matter of being. We have been made somebody special (i.e. Royal). There’s an anointing. There’s an office. There’s a mantle. There is a robe. There is a vision. When one walks in the calling of their Priesthood there’s intimacy with God, a stronger Christ centered identity, along with a new vision and a prophetic power to be a living witness of the Resurrection Power of Christ. We naturally reflect the presence of God as we spend time near the showbread of God’s presence and the almond budded lampstand of the Light of Christ!
As we minister unto the Lord as His Holy Priesthood, worshipping and pouring out our hearts and love to God, purely for Who He is and what He has done, we continually see the excellencies of Him. The more we behold God’s excellencies, the more we are transformed by God’s excellencies and the more we proclaim God’s excellencies to this World.
What purpose and activity could be better for a believer than to spend quality time in heartfelt magnification and adoration of Christ, and then going forth under prophetic anointing to declare His excellencies. Our Priesthood unto the Lord is our eternal identity, part and parcel of our salvation. We need to be “lit up” with God to be the salt of the earth, the light of the world. Ministering unto the Lord is how this happens.
Ministering unto the Lord is authentic Christianity. The growing awareness of the Revelation of our Priesthood comes to us while ministering to Him in the inner court or “inner room.” Nothing will draw us closer to our true identity in Christ than ministering unto the Lord. Nothing brings the Light of Christ truer and purer into the Church and our testimony to the world than ministering unto the Lord. And there is nothing that could be a higher and holier way to be called into ministry than through ministering unto the Lord (Barnabas and Saul).