Your Priestly Separation

Monday, September 2, 2024

Have you known rejection in your life? Luke 6:22 says, "Blessed are you when men...ostracize you". The Greek word for ostracize is aforidzo and it is the same word that's also used to speak of God's separating someone for ministry and for His purposes. That's profound. It means God uses the rejection of people in your life to separate you for Himself. Many people come to the Lord only by knowing rejection. If you had been accepted by everybody in the world, maybe you wouldn't have come to the Lord. So God used rejection for your good. And even in ministry, it was used that you would come to God and serve Him. Even now, God will use the rejection and the persecution to purify you and to separate you for Him. So don't go through life wounded and fearful. Be healed. Thank God for it. There's healing in God's promise to use all for good. The same word God used to separate the high priest, He will use to bring you blessing, and all the rejection you've known will become the holy separation that was needed to bring about your divine ministry.

From Message #953 - The Priest's Separation