As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 1 Peter 4:10.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Your purpose is to be just like Me, for I made you in My image and likeness, and I am love, so you are to be love, and being just like Me you are called into fellowship and partnership with Me. Eternal life is to know Me, the one true God, and the One whom I sent, Jesus Christ. John 17:3. So now you know your purpose but what is the plan for your life? You are My workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which I prepared beforehand so that you would walk in them. Ephesians 2:10. The word “workmanship,” in the Greek language in which it was first delivered is poiéma (ποίημα), it means workmanship and creation but it also means the weaving of a fabric. The English word “poem” owes its origin to this Greek word. You are My poem, My song, I have the plans I have for the fabric of your life all written down in a scroll as I weave you in your mother’s womb and even before.
For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth; Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them. How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. When I awake, I am still with You. Psalm 139:13-18.
I skillfully wrought you, the word there in Hebrew is raqam (רָקַם), which means to embroider, to weave with colored threads. This word is used in the instructions for making the vestments of the High Priest as well. And you are clothed in Christ, who is your great High Priest. I have woven the royal priesthood into your life as also it is in Christ.
You are in My image and according to My likeness, which you see manifested in Christ as Son of Man. And what did He tell you about the plan of His life, which is also yours if you wish to be great in the Kingdom?
But Jesus called them to Himself and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them. It is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave; just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.” Matthew 20:25-28.
To serve. When people would call out to Him, He would say, “What do you want Me to do for you?” And when they articulated the need, He met it on the spot.
As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed Him. And two blind men sitting by the road, hearing that Jesus was passing by, cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!” The crowd sternly told them to be quiet, but they cried out all the more, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!” And Jesus stopped and called them, and said, “What do you want Me to do for you?” They said to Him, “Lord, we want our eyes to be opened.” Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes; and immediately they regained their sight and followed Him. Matthew 20:29-34.
He was moved by your troubles and weaknesses. And He understood them for He too was tempted in every way you are but never sinned.
For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:15-16.
Enter the High Priest who ever lives to make intercession for you.
When Jesus was on earth among you as My Son and Son of Man, He prayed constantly. He offered intercession for you in prevailing prayer even to the point of loud cries and tears. He wept over Jerusalem, Luke 19:41-42. He rose early and sometimes spent nights with Me in prayer. While on earth He loved, yearned, and prayed for you constantly. I reveal to you His prayer to Me at the Last Supper, John 17, and it is all about you.
Jesus won His forty-day testing in the desert overcoming the devil through prayer. He selected His apostles through a night of prayer. He only said the Words I gave Him and did the works I showed Him and it was in prayer He heard and saw. He prayed for Peter that his faith would never fail, and He is praying that today as the author and finisher of your faith.
Because He poured out Himself to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet He Himself bore the sin of many, and interceded for the transgressors. Isaiah 53:12.
Even in the pain of the Cross, He was interceding for you, “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do!”
His prayers prevailed over hell and rendered the devil powerless as He took back the keys to death and hell. Revelation 1:18; Hebrews 2:14-15.
Prevailing prayer was His lifelong vocation. All that He accomplished during His earthly ministry was born in intercessory prayer. And Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. While on earth, He prayed for you and asked His disciples to pray with Him. He is intensely concerned about and interested in every one of you. Today on the throne with Me, He continues to intercede for you as your great High Priest.
Jesus, on the other hand, because He continues forever, holds His priesthood permanently. Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. Hebrews 7:24-25.
And His blood also continually makes intercession for you.
But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel. Hebrews 12:22-24.
And He has made you a kingdom, priests unto Me, Revelation 1:5-6, to join with Him in His intercessory prayer together with Him on His priestly throne by a new and living way paved by His blood.
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. Romans 8:31-34.
My plans for you outnumber the sand for they are for eternity. But you who believe all have the assignment that Jesus won for you and appointed you to. He has released you from your sins by His blood and made you to be members of His Royal Priesthood now and forever. Take your assignment seriously. Do not neglect so sacred a charge, especially for the current times when so many are in the balance in the valley of decision. Your prayer can mean the difference between life and death.
This is the time you should be joining with other believers to intercede with your High Priest Jesus to open the eyes of those blinded by the devil as you take down strongholds of the enemy in people, places and things.
And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God, you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2:4-5.
I love you. There is a reason Jesus told you to pray in His Name for where two or three are gathered together in His Name, there He is in the midst as your great High Priest praying with you so that your prayer will come to pass.
Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near. Hebrews 10:19-25.