Hierarchy of believers in God's Kingdom
KINGS AND PRIESTS
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Understanding Spiritual Hierarchy,
Maturity,
and Divine Assignment in God's Kingdom
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"And hast made us unto our God kings and priests:
and we shall reign on the earth."
— Revelation 5:10
Not everyone in a kingdom occupies the
same office.
In any functioning kingdom
— whether natural or spiritual — there are those who serve in the court and
those who govern from the throne. There are those who carry messages and those
who make decrees. There are those who guard the gate and those who sit in
judgment. The diversity of function is not a sign of inequality in worth — it
is evidence of a well-ordered kingdom with a wise King.
The kingdom of God
operates on the same principle. Every believer is valuable. Every believer is
loved. Every believer is called. But not every believer carries the same
authority, the same assignment, or the same level of access to the secrets of
God. And the difference is not random — it is the direct result of spiritual
growth, consecration, faithfulness, and the willingness to carry divine burdens
that most people would rather set down.
This document is a study
of that order. First, the three stages of spiritual maturity that determine
what God can trust you with. Then, the five spiritual offices that represent
the highest functions of kingdom authority on earth. This is not a document about
titles. It is a document about transformation — the kind that turns spiritual
children into sons, and sons into those who govern with God.
Read it as a challenge.
Read it as an invitation. And when you finish, answer honestly: where are you,
and where are you supposed to be?
Chapter One
Who We Are in the Kingdom
The Identity That Makes Everything Else
Possible
Before we examine the
levels of spiritual authority, we must settle the identity from which all
authority flows. Every believer — regardless of where they currently stand in
spiritual maturity — has been given a positional identity that is nothing short
of extraordinary.
"And hast made us unto our God kings and
priests: and we shall reign on the earth."
— Revelation 5:10
Kings and priests. Not one
or the other — both. Kings rule, govern, establish, and enforce. Priests
worship, intercede, represent, and minister in the holy place. Every believer
in Jesus Christ has been constituted as both. This is not aspirational language.
It is a present declaration about who you already are in Christ.
1 Peter 2:9 develops this
identity further and gives it a mandate:
"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the
praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous
light."
— 1 Peter 2:9
Notice the four
descriptors: chosen, royal, holy, peculiar. You were selected — not by your own
merit, but by the sovereign decision of God. You carry a royal identity — not
from an earthly lineage, but from the throne of heaven. You are set apart —
consecrated to a purpose that the world cannot understand. And you are peculiar
— conspicuously different, designed to attract attention not to yourself but to
the God who made you what you are.
And Paul settles the
question of rank in the world's kingdoms: "Now then we are ambassadors for
Christ" (2 Corinthians 5:20). An ambassador does not speak for himself. He
carries the full weight and authority of the government he represents. When you
speak as a mature believer, properly positioned in your spiritual office, you
are not speaking as a private individual. You are speaking as a representative
of the kingdom of God.
The mission is clear:
Matthew 6:10 — 'Thy kingdom come. Thy will be
done in earth, as it is in heaven.' Every believer is commissioned to advance
this agenda. But how much of it you can carry and how much of it you can
accomplish depends entirely on where you stand in your spiritual development.
This is why growth is not optional.
Chapter Two
The Three Stages of Spiritual Growth
Children, Sons, and Fathers — and Why
the Difference Matters
In 1 John 2:12-14, the
apostle John addresses three distinct groups in the body of Christ — not by
age, not by denomination, not by years of church attendance, but by spiritual
maturity. He calls them little children, young men, and fathers. These are not
static positions — they are stages on a journey, and every believer is expected
to move through them.
The question is not
whether you began as a child. Every believer does. The question is whether you
are still there — and if so, why.
Stage One: LITTLE CHILDREN
The Entry
Point of Faith
Little children are new
believers who have just entered the kingdom. Their defining revelation is that
their sins are forgiven, and they are beginning to experience God as Father —
perhaps for the first time. This is a beautiful and necessary stage. It is
where every spiritual journey begins. But it is not where any spiritual journey
should end.
"I write unto you,
little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's
sake." — 1 John 2:12
Challenge:
What are you feeding on? Are you still on milk — or are you pressing into the
meat of the Word?
Galatians 4:1-2 is
sobering: "Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth
nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and
governors until the time appointed of the father." The child may be heir
to everything — but until maturity comes, he cannot access his inheritance. He
cannot carry the father's assignments. He cannot govern.
This is the state of much
of the modern church. People who have been in the faith for years, who are
heirs to extraordinary spiritual authority, who are still being managed by
tutors — because they never pressed beyond the milk. Still moved by every wind
of doctrine. Still unable to distinguish between the voice of God and the voice
of the enemy. Still treating Christian life as a Sunday activity rather than a
daily mandate.
A word to the church:
1 Peter 2:2 says 'As newborn babes, desire the
sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.' Milk is for newborns. The
expectation is growth. A thirty-year-old who still requires only milk is not
precious — he is in need of urgent intervention. How long have you been a
spiritual child?
Stage Two: YOUNG MEN
The Warrior
Stage
Young men are believers
who have grown beyond spiritual infancy. They have encountered the enemy and
overcame him. They have been tested in the Word and found standing. They are no
longer passive — they fight, they stand firm, and they refuse to be moved. The
Word does not just inform them — it lives in them and works through them.
"I have written
unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you,
and ye have overcome the wicked one."
— 1 John 2:14
Challenge:
Are you still making peace with sin — or have you risen above it? God can only
trust sons with His burdens.
At this stage, something
critical must be said plainly: sons live above sin. This is not perfectionism —
it is the basic expectation of a maturing believer who walks in the Spirit. In
this age, people comfort themselves with the philosophy that everyone is a
sinner. This is a lie from the pit of hell, and it is designed to keep
believers at the child stage indefinitely, never pressing into the holiness
that unlocks divine trust and divine assignment.
Galatians 5:16 does not
say you might overcome sin if conditions are favorable. It says: "Walk in
the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh." The power to
live above the dominion of sin is not a spiritual luxury — it is a present
provision. When God finds a young man who has genuinely overcome and in whom
His Word dwells richly, He begins to trust that person with things He will not
entrust to spiritual children.
Stage Three:
FATHERS
The
Governing Stage
Fathers are believers
who have moved beyond both personal spiritual survival and active warfare into
something rarer and deeper: intimate knowledge of God Himself. Their
relationship with God is no longer primarily about overcoming sin or fighting
the enemy. It is about knowing the Ancient of Days — His heart, His ways, His
burdens, His agenda. And from that knowing, they govern.
"I write unto you,
fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning." — 1 John 2:13
Challenge:
Do you know God — or do you merely know about Him? There is a world of
difference.
Fathers mentor. They carry
what others cannot yet carry. Like Paul who poured into Timothy, like Moses who
trained Joshua, like Elijah who raised Elisha — fathers reproduce their
spiritual depth in the next generation. They do not hoard what God has given
them. They invest it.
And because they have
walked long enough with God to know His ways — not just His acts — they become
the carriers of divine secrets. Amos 3:7 says: "Surely the Lord God will
do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets."
The revelation of God's secrets is reserved for those who have paid the price
of deep, sustained intimacy.
God reveals His acts to
the curious. He reveals His ways to the consecrated. He reveals His secrets to
those who have paid the price of the father stage.
Chapter Three
Five Offices of Kingdom Authority
The Functions Through Which God Governs
the Earth
Beyond the three stages of
personal maturity lie five distinct spiritual offices — functions through which
God exercises His authority and advances His kingdom on earth. These are not
titles to be claimed; they are burdens to be carried. They are not positions of
prestige — they are posts of responsibility that come at tremendous cost.
Understanding these
offices is not merely an academic exercise. It is a diagnostic. The church that
does not know these offices cannot raise them up. And the church that cannot
raise them up is a church that is perpetually overrun by the darkness it was meant
to push back.
Where are these offices in
your church? Are they being cultivated? Are they being recognized? Or are they
being suppressed because they make leadership uncomfortable?
Office
One: Intercessors
Those Who Stand Between
Heaven and Earth
Intercession is perhaps
the most misunderstood and most undervalued office in the modern church. It is
often reduced to prayer meetings and vague petitions — when in reality it is
one of the most powerful spiritual functions on earth. Intercessors are the
ones who stand in the gap between what the enemy intends and what God has
decreed, and they refuse to move until heaven answers.
Ezekiel 22:30 reveals what
is at stake: "I sought for a man among them, that should make up the
hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy
it: but I found none." God was looking for an intercessor. He found no
one. And judgment fell. The absence of intercessors is not a minor
administrative gap — it is a national catastrophe.
Abraham — The
Intercessor Who Negotiated with God
The evening the angels
came to Sodom, Abraham did not simply receive the news and accept the outcome.
He planted himself before God and began to plead. Not once — repeatedly. Fifty
righteous. Forty-five. Forty. Thirty. Twenty. Ten. He kept pressing until God
agreed to spare the city for ten righteous people (Genesis 18:23-32).
Abraham understood
something that few believers today fully grasp: intercessors do not merely
inform God of situations. They actively influence divine decisions through
persistent, faith-filled prayer. The cities were destroyed — but Lot was
spared. Why? Verse 29 of Genesis 19 gives the answer: "God remembered
Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow." Intercession had
already done its work.
"But I have prayed for thee, that thy
faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren."
— Luke 22:32
Jesus Himself is the
supreme intercessor. Even in the hours before Calvary, He was already
interceding for Peter's future — not just for his present failure, but for what
Peter would become on the other side of it. Hebrews 7:25 declares that He
"ever liveth to make intercession" for those who come to God through
Him. The intercession of Jesus is perpetual, continuous, and anchored in His
priestly office at the right hand of the Father.
A question for every pastor:
How many intercessors do you have among your
members? Not people who pray occasionally — people who carry the burden of the
house, who weep for the congregation, who stand in the gap for the city? If you
have none, the enemy has an open access point you are not guarding.
Intercessors are also
prophetic — they often know what to pray before they know why. Romans 8:26 says
the Spirit intercedes through them with groanings that cannot be uttered. There
are breakthroughs that will never come until someone agrees to carry the burden
of intercession for them. There are cities that will not be touched, families
that will not be saved, churches that will not be revived — until an
intercessor stands in the gap.
Office
Two: Watchers
Those Who See What Others
Miss
Watchers are the seers of
the kingdom. Their primary function is spiritual intelligence — they perceive
threats before they materialize, identify movements in the spirit realm,
discern false teaching before it takes root, and sound the alarm before the enemy
gains a foothold. A church without watchers is a church operating blind.
"Son of man, I have made thee a watchman
unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them
warning from me."
— Ezekiel 3:17
God did not appoint
Ezekiel merely to prophesy to Israel. He appointed him to watch over Israel —
to monitor the spiritual health of the nation, to listen for the voice of God,
and to warn the people of impending danger. Ezekiel 33:6 is devastating in its
honesty: if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet,
the blood of those who perish is on the watchman's hands. The watcher carries
that weight. It is not a comfortable office. It is a responsible one.
Paul — The Watcher Who
Stood in the Gate
Acts 20:29-31 contains one
of the most significant pastoral warnings in the New Testament: "For I
know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you,
not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse
things, to draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch."
Examine this carefully.
Paul did not just say wolves were coming — he said they were coming after his
departure. While Paul was present, he was functioning as a watcher and a
gatekeeper over Ephesus. His presence was a barrier. His vigilance was the reason
those wolves had not yet entered. The moment he left, the danger became
immediate.
This raises a sobering
question for every leader: what is being held back by your watchfulness that
would flood in if you stopped watching? And who are you raising to watch after
you?
Watchers discern at multiple levels:
They see spiritual atmosphere — the heaviness
over a region, the oppression in a household, the shift in the spirit before a
meeting. They discern people — identifying genuine calling versus counterfeit
anointing, true peace versus false unity. They see ahead in time — warning of
things that have not yet happened but are moving toward the present. This is
not natural gifting alone. It is the fruit of consecration, prayer, and
attentiveness to the Spirit.
The watcher who does not
speak is not fulfilling the office. Some watchers see clearly but stay silent
for fear of how their words will be received. Ezekiel 3:18 is explicit: if you
see and do not warn, the death is on you. The office of watcher requires
courage alongside perception. You must be willing to say what you see even when
it is uncomfortable, even when it challenges leadership, even when it is not
what the congregation wants to hear.
Office
Three: Gatekeepers
Those Who Control Spiritual
Access
Gatekeepers are the
guardians of spiritual territories. Their function is to monitor and control
what enters — a church, a family, a city, a region. They stand at the
thresholds of spiritual access points and ensure that what is holy is not
contaminated by what is profane, and that what is clean is not defiled by what
is unclean.
In the natural kingdom,
gates are the most strategic points of a city. Every ancient military commander
understood: if you control the gates, you control the city. The enemy
understood this about Jerusalem. The same principle operates in the spirit
realm.
"And they shall keep the charge of the
house of the LORD, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done
therein."
— 1 Chronicles 23:32
The Levites were not
simply temple servants — they were spiritual security personnel. They
controlled who entered the holy place, what passed through the gates of the
temple, and what was permitted in the precincts of God's presence. Nothing
unclean was allowed to enter on their watch. They bore the responsibility of
the holiness of the house, and God held them accountable for it.
Paul — The Gatekeeper
of Ephesus
We already saw Paul as a
watcher — but he was also a gatekeeper. The wolves that would enter Ephesus
after his departure were being held back not just by his discernment but by his
authoritative presence. His spiritual covering over the city was an active
barrier against forces that wanted access to the congregation.
This is what gatekeeping
looks like in a pastoral context: a leader who is so established in spiritual
authority, so attuned to the movements of the enemy, and so willing to confront
what should not enter, that the enemy cannot gain access while the gatekeeper
stands. The tragedy is when gatekeepers are removed — by death, by transfer, by
spiritual compromise — and no one has been raised to replace them.
The danger of a leaderless gate:
When a gatekeeper falls or leaves and no
replacement is raised, the gate is not merely unstaffed — it is open. The
wolves know it immediately. The spiritual vacuum left by a compromised or
absent gatekeeper is one of the primary reasons churches that were once
powerful become infiltrated by false doctrine, moral failure, and divisive
spirits. Every church must ask: who is guarding our gate?
Gatekeeping extends beyond
the local church. There are gatekeepers over families — interceding for and
spiritually monitoring their households, refusing to allow the enemy access
through entertainment, relationships, or ungodly influences. There are gatekeepers
over cities — believers who have been positioned by God over entire regions to
hold back darkness and maintain a spiritual environment in which the gospel can
advance. These are not casual roles. They are divine postings with eternal
consequences.
Office
Four: Legislators
Those Who Decree Heaven's
Will on Earth
Legislators are the
decreers of the kingdom. Their function is to receive verdicts from the court
of heaven — what God has decided, what He has spoken, what He has established
in eternity — and to declare those verdicts into the natural realm, releasing their
effect on earth. This is not positive confession or the power of positive
thinking. This is the operation of prophetic authority, grounded in intimacy
with God, that enforces what heaven has already decided.
Job 22:28 captures the
principle: "Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established
unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways." A legislator is not
inventing a reality — he is establishing what God has already determined. The
authority is not in the volume of the voice. It is in the proximity of the
heart to the throne.
"As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before
whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my
word."
— 1 Kings 17:1
Elijah stood before Ahab
and issued a decree that shut the heavens for three and a half years. Not
because he had political authority. Not because he had natural power. Because
he stood before God — and the One before whom he stood authorized what he declared.
Notice the phrase: "before whom I stand." Elijah's authority as a
legislator was inseparable from his posture as a worshipper and servant. You
cannot legislate from a throne you have not earned through consecration.
Elisha — The
Legislator Who Spoke Abundance Into Siege
The city of Samaria was in
catastrophic condition. The Syrians had surrounded it. People were dying of
starvation. The situation, by every natural measure, was hopeless. Elisha
walked into that situation and issued a decree that defied every observable reality:
"Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this
time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of
barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria."
— 2 Kings 7:1
Within twenty-four hours,
the Syrian army had fled in terror, and the market of Samaria was flooded with
provisions. What Elisha declared was not what the situation looked like. It was
what God had decided. The legislator's job is not to describe the present. It
is to declare the future that God has already written.
Paul — The Legislator
Who Spoke Blindness Into Opposition
On the island of Paphos, a
false prophet named Elymas was actively working to turn the proconsul away from
the faith. Paul fixed his eyes on him and declared:
"Behold, the hand of the Lord is upon
thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season."
— Acts 13:11
Immediately, Elymas groped
in darkness. The decree went forth — and reality adjusted to the word. This is
the function of a legislator operating in full authority: the words do not
return void. They accomplish what was decreed.
What are you decreeing?
Legislators understand that words have
legislative weight in the spirit realm. What you consistently declare over your
life, your family, and your church either enforces the will of heaven or gives
permission to the enemy. Proverbs 18:21 says: 'Death and life are in the power
of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.' Speak what
God has spoken. Declare what heaven has decided.
Office
Five: Judges
Those Who Execute Divine
Justice
Judges are the most solemn
of the five offices. Their function is to execute righteous judgment — to make
decisions in God's wisdom, enforce the standards of the kingdom, and correct
what is out of order in the body of Christ. They judge without fear and without
favor. They stand in place of God to adjudicate matters that have spiritual
weight and eternal consequence.
The question that must be
asked honestly is the one your original document raised and we must raise
again, louder: where are the judges in the modern church? A church without
spiritual judges is a church where the unrepentant flourish, where the innocent
are oppressed without remedy, and where divine standards are progressively
lowered until they disappear.
"Thou shalt provide out of all the people
able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such
over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of
fifties, and rulers of tens."
— Exodus 18:21
Jethro's counsel to Moses
reveals the architecture of a kingdom judgment system. Note the qualifications:
able men, men who fear God, men of truth, men who hate covetousness. Not the
most popular. Not the most eloquent. Not the most educated. Men whose character
is so established that they can handle power without being corrupted by it.
Moses judged from morning
until evening — mediating disputes, discerning God's will in complex
situations, enforcing the standards of the covenant over a nation of millions.
This was not occasional. It was continuous. Exhausting. And entirely necessary
for the health of the community.
Paul — The Judge Who
Delivered a Man to Satan
1 Corinthians 5 records
one of the most confrontational acts of spiritual judgment in the New
Testament. A man in the Corinthian church was engaged in sexual immorality with
his stepmother — a sin so severe that even the pagan world condemned it. And
the church was celebrating his spiritual liberty rather than confronting his
moral catastrophe.
Paul, though physically
absent, executed judgment from a distance:
"In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus
Christ, To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh,
that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus."
— 1 Corinthians 5:4-5
This was not cruelty. This
was mercy operating through judgment. The goal was not the destruction of the
man but the salvation of his spirit. And note the source of Paul's authority:
he acted in the name of Jesus Christ, with the power of Jesus Christ. No judge
in God's kingdom acts on personal authority. Every act of spiritual judgment is
exercised in submission to and dependence upon the King.
Peter — The Judge Who
Confronted Deception
Ananias and Sapphira
decided to lie to the Holy Spirit about the proceeds of their land sale. They
wanted the reputation of full consecration without the reality of it — a
transaction that is still disturbingly common in the modern church. Peter,
operating as a spiritual judge, confronted them directly:
"Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie
to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?"
— Acts 5:3
Both fell dead. This was
not Peter exercising personal vengeance. It was the judgment of God moving
through a man who was functioning in a judicial office — one who had been
entrusted with the stewardship of God's presence in the early church and
refused to allow that presence to be cheapened by religious pretense.
What the modern church has lost:
The fear of God has largely departed from
congregations because there are no spiritual judges executing righteous
decisions. When sin is tolerated, when pretense is rewarded, when manipulation
goes unchallenged and deception goes unconfronted — the atmosphere of the
church changes. The holy depart. The careless remain. And the enemy takes up
residence in what was supposed to be a house of God's glory.
A spiritual judge must
have several critical qualities: they must be established in intimacy with God
so they are not judging by appearances but by the Spirit (John 7:24); they must
be above reproach in the area they are judging, lest they condemn in others
what they permit in themselves (Romans 2:1); and they must operate in love,
knowing that every act of judgment is ultimately in service of redemption, not
destruction. 1 Corinthians 5:5 is the standard: the flesh may be delivered to
destruction, but the spirit must be saved.
Chapter Four
The Offices the Church Has Abandoned
What Happens When These Functions Go
Unfilled
Let us speak directly
about what has been lost. The modern church, in its pursuit of growth,
relevance, and comfort, has systematically dismantled the very offices that God
designed to protect and advance His kingdom. The result is not a more
accessible church. It is a more vulnerable one.
Where are the intercessors
who will hold cities through the night? They have been replaced by prayer
meetings that last twenty minutes and end before the travail begins. Where are
the watchers who will discern and warn? They have been silenced by a culture
that values encouragement over accuracy and positivity over prophecy. Where are
the gatekeepers who will guard the house? They have been replaced by an
open-door policy that welcomes everything and discerns nothing. Where are the
legislators who will enforce heaven's decisions? They have been dismissed as
extremists, controlling, or narrow-minded. Where are the judges who will hold
the community to God's standard? They have been labeled judgmental in a
generation that has made tolerance the highest virtue.
A church without
intercessors, watchers, gatekeepers, legislators, and judges is not a welcoming
community. It is an unguarded city.
Nehemiah understood this.
When the walls of Jerusalem lay in rubble, the city was not merely physically
vulnerable — it was spiritually exposed. Every enemy had access. Every
scavenger could enter. The rebuild was not just a construction project. It was the
restoration of a kingdom's protective architecture. And Nehemiah 4:9 reveals
the strategy: "Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a
watch against them day and night." Prayer and watching. Together.
Simultaneously.
This is the pattern for
the restoration of these offices in the church today. It begins with prayer —
with leaders who are desperate enough to cry out for God to raise up
intercessors, watchers, gatekeepers, legislators, and judges in their
congregations. And it continues with watching — identifying who God is already
equipping for these roles, and creating environments where those gifts can be
recognized, trained, and released.
The Ascent
What Rank Are You?
An Honest Accounting Before the King
From Genesis to
Revelation, spiritual hierarchy is not a peripheral concept in Scripture. It is
woven into the fabric of how God governs His kingdom. Not all believers carry
the same authority. Not all believers occupy the same office. The diversity is
not injustice — it is design. And the design has a purpose: to ensure that the
kingdom of God operates with the same intentionality, precision, and power on
earth as it does in heaven.
But this much must be said
clearly: every stage is accessible to every believer. The child who is willing
to press beyond the milk will become a young man. The young man who consecrates
himself fully will become a father. And the father who carries God's burdens
faithfully will find himself entrusted with one of these five offices — not by
appointment of men, but by the sovereign recognition of God.
The pathway is the same
for all: consecration, prayer, obedience, suffering, faithfulness, and a
refusal to be satisfied with spiritual childhood when God is calling you to
govern.
Are you an intercessor —
standing in the gap for those who cannot stand for themselves?
Are you a watcher —
discerning what others miss and having the courage to sound the alarm?
Are you a gatekeeper —
guarding the spiritual access points of your family, your church, your city?
Are you a legislator —
decreeing heaven's will with the authority of one who stands before God?
Are you a judge —
executing righteous judgment without fear and without compromise?
If you cannot yet answer
yes to any of these, then ask the next question: which stage of maturity are
you currently at — and what would it take for you to move forward? Not someday.
Not when circumstances are more favorable. Now.
"To him that overcometh will I grant to
sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my
Father in his throne."
— Revelation 3:21
The throne is the
destination. The offices are the training ground. The stages of maturity are
the curriculum. And the King Himself is the examiner, the promoter, and the One
who rewards every act of faithfulness with greater authority, greater responsibility,
and deeper access to Himself.
Rise from a child to a
son.
Rise from a son to a
ruler.
Rise from a ruler to
one who governs with God.
✦ ✦ ✦
"And hast made us unto our God kings and
priests: and we shall reign on the earth."
— Revelation 5:10
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