Seize the Moment – Day 528

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27
Aug '21

Seize the Moment – Day 528

Posted on Aug 27, 2021 by Jerry Ingalls in Devotions, General |

27
Aug '21

Filled Up for God’s Work!

Leviticus 8

 

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Friday, August 27.

 

Have you attended an ordination service in your faith tradition?

 

I will never forget my own ordination. I served in full-time pastoral ministry in various areas of ministry responsibility throughout my seminary Master of Divinity degree program, while walking through the ordination and mentorship process in my local church and denomination.

 

I was filled up and ready to be poured out. The ordination service was more than an acknowledgement of that nearly six-year process, it was the seal upon it. When the stole was placed over me and hands were laid upon me, the Holy Spirit filled me up to overflowing.

 

Leviticus 8 captures the formal beginning of the priesthood and sacrificial system, and a significant part of it is the seven-day ordination service of Aaron and his sons. The emphasis is upon the priestly clothing, ordination offering, and the purification rites. Let’s focus on verse 33,
 
“You shall not go outside the doorway of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the day that the period of your ordination is fulfilled; for he will ordain you through seven days.”

 

The Hebrew translated, “he will ordain you” literally means, “he will make full with a sufficient quantity.” To ordain the priest was for God to fill up that person to sufficiency! Through an intricate process, the people set apart their priests as consecrated and purified vessels and then God filled them up for His ministry. The ordination is God’s work, not man’s work!

 

In Ephesians 5:18, Paul invites all new covenant believers to “be filled with the Spirit.” As a follower of Jesus, you, too, like the priests of old, are ordained to be a vessel of God’s glory, filled up with the Holy Spirit to walk in God’s good works. This is God’s grace!

 

Seize the moment and be filled with the Holy Spirit. Trust God to pour out your life for His glory!

 

God bless your day!
 
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