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  1. My Confessions
    My priesthood and my kingship — the six spiritual sacrifices

    Speak aloud daily, this week

    On my identity as a priest and a king

    I am a holy priest and a royal king in Christ Jesus. My priesthood is the root and my kingship is the fruit. What I do in secret before God — my altar life — is the foundation of everything that is visible in my life. I am a lively stone built up into a spiritual house. I consciously and intelligently offer up spiritual sacrifices that are well pleasing unto God, and I know that the altar established by the blood of Jesus Christ is a legal gateway through which God enters and acts upon my affairs. He removes my weakness and gives me His strength. His divinity is made manifest in my mortal flesh.

    Sacrifice 1

    The sacrifice of praise

    I offer up the sacrifice of praise — not when it is convenient, but especially when I am going through contradictory things. When the outcome is not what I prayed for, when the application is rejected, when the door closes — I open my mouth and declare: God is good and His mercy endures forever. I will not let external circumstances silence my worship. The song I sing in the night season is the mist that rises from the earth and brings down the rain of God's thoughts and ways into my life. I sing in the valley. I praise Him in the difficulty. I worship in the affliction. That is my priesthood.

    Sacrifice 2

    Doing good and communicating — helping people in genuine need

    I am a person of intelligent generosity. I bear the excess burdens of those around me — burdens that are beyond them through no fault of their own — and I help lift them. I do not finance entitlement or cultivate dependency; I help people who are responsibly living their lives but have been overwhelmed by something they cannot carry alone. Every time I stretch out my hand to help a person in genuine need, angels are dispatched on my behalf. God told me: if I help a blind man cross the road, somebody will help me enter into something I cannot yet see. My giving is a sweet-smelling sacrifice, an offering acceptable unto God, and He shall supply all my need according to His riches in glory.

    Sacrifice 3

    Honouring and providing for my parents and family

    I honour my father and my mother. I show piety at home and I pay back what my parents invested in me — for this is good and acceptable before God. I understand that I owe them something, regardless of whether we agree on everything. As God begins to bless me, I accept the responsibility of the firstborn — to show up for my family, to be the one who holds the structure together, to carry the inheritance of my family line. When I take up that apostolic responsibility in my family, God pours the anointing of the firstborn upon me. Every family on this earth has an inheritance and an assignment. I am rising to carry it.

    Sacrifice 4

    Walking in forgiveness — and letting God judge

    I choose to walk in forgiveness. I relinquish my right to harm anyone who has wronged me. But I do not stop at forgiveness — I take the wound to God in heaven and I ask Him to judge the matter. I know that the judgment of God is not the destruction of the person who hurt me; it is that God repays me. Potiphar's wife did not have to die — God settled Joseph. The people who crucified Jesus did not have to die — God settled Jesus. And God will settle me. I am not vindictive. I am not petty. I pray for those who despitefully use me. I bless those who curse me. And those people in my story who once hurt me — if God brings them back across my path, the answer is yes. I am positioned for them too.

    Sacrifice 5

    Giving where I receive spiritual nourishment

    I give sacrificially and consistently to where I am being spiritually fed. This is not mere duty — it is a sweet-smelling sacrifice, an odour well pleasing unto God. And in response, God shall supply all of my need according to His riches in glory. What begins to happen in my life is an unusual supply — things that cannot be explained by what others can see on the outside — because the root of it is a spiritual sacrifice I offered up in secret at the altar.

    Sacrifice 6

    Responding rightly when I am treated unjustly

    When I am not treated right — when I am passed over, overlooked, rejected, or wrongly accused — I present my body as a living sacrifice and respond the way God has stipulated, not the way my emotions demand. I take it patiently. I do not riot. I do not retaliate. I stay settled. And God says: that patient, godly response is a sacrifice acceptable unto Him. Those things I did in secret — how I responded when no one was watching — will be speaking for me in the marketplace. They will speak in my family. They will speak into my business. People will look at my life and say: what is going on here? This is the doctrine of exemption. It may happen to others, but it cannot happen to me — not because I am lucky, but because of what is on my altar.

    Closing declaration

    It is not of him that runs, nor of him that wills, but of God that shows mercy. From my altar, things are speaking. Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice — and though he was dead, his gifts were still speaking. My spiritual sacrifices are speaking. They speak in every room I enter, every deal I approach, every door I knock on. My priesthood is the root. My kingship is the fruit. I have an altar. I am a priest. I minister to God in secret, and He rewards me openly. Amen.

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