The Covenant Life of a Priest and Walking by Faith and Surrender

Francis Isibor Snr, Samson Ototobor • July 30, 2026 • 4:00 PM • 2 views

Your life was created to become an offering of worship to God, not merely through songs, lifted hands, or public expressions of devotion, but through daily obedience, faith, sacrifice, and conformity to His will. True worship is priesthood because a priest presents gifts and sacrifices to God, and under the new covenant the sacrifice being requested is your own life—your body, ambitions, achievements, desires, possessions, preferences, plans, and every inward attachment that competes with His leadership. To live by faith is to live by every word that proceeds from God, allowing His Spirit to govern your decisions and lead you even into places you would not naturally choose. Whenever Christ is revealed more clearly, that revelation places a demand upon you to release what is inferior so that you may receive what is greater. Like the elders who cast their crowns before the throne, you must be willing to surrender every status, accomplishment, glory, and identity that once gave you confidence when a superior revelation of God appears. Paul counted his religious attainments as loss for the sake of knowing Christ, and the rich young ruler was invited into the same life of faith but withdrew because he valued his possessions more than the treasure before him. The issue was not simply material wealth but the absence of spiritual understanding; those who truly perceive the incomparable value of the kingdom joyfully sell all to obtain it. Therefore, pray for enlightened eyes, because you cannot willingly release what you still believe is greater than what God is offering. Earthly acquisitions can quietly form covenants with the heart, binding a person to temporary things that decay, can be stolen, and cannot accompany them into eternity. Seek instead the incorruptible treasures of God—His life, nature, wisdom, character, and eternal substance. God’s intention from creation has been to establish priesthood on the earth through people formed in His image and likeness, carrying His nature and exercising dominion. Humanity was placed in the garden to keep and cultivate it in fellowship with God, but the fall interrupted that process. God continued His purpose through covenants, prophets, priests, and ultimately through Christ, the last Adam, who completed what the first Adam failed to fulfil. Abraham became central to this purpose because he was available to walk with God and enter covenant with Him. When God told Abraham to walk before Him and become blameless, He was inviting him into a transforming relationship through which divine life could be deposited, reproduced, and multiplied upon the earth. The promise that Abraham would become exceedingly fruitful and produce nations and kings was more than natural multiplication; it pointed to the reproduction of God’s nature through covenant people who would become kings and priests. Covenant changes identity, nature, capacity, and destiny, making a person a partner with God in expressing His purposes. Just as Israel was prepared to meet God at Sinai through obedience and consecration, you must strengthen your heart through the terms of the covenant so that you do not shrink back when God reveals Himself. Circumcision served as an outward sign that covenant had entered the flesh; under Christ, the deeper demand is the circumcision of the heart and the willing presentation of the entire person. The bread and wine of the Lord’s table continually proclaim Christ’s sacrificial death and remind you that you have entered an everlasting covenant through His body and blood. His sacrifice cleanses and establishes you, but you must continue by willingly presenting yourself as a living sacrifice. This is not an attempt to earn salvation; it is the proper response of one who has received mercy and now desires to walk in partnership with God. Ask Him to teach you not only how to surrender but how to delight in surrender, to see beauty in sacrifice, and to wait eagerly for every season of encounter. When the voice of God comes walking in the garden of your life, do not hide among the things you have cultivated; be present, expectant, and ready to respond. Spiritual disciplines, retreats, prayer, fasting, fellowship, and practical systems can help weaken the grip of idols and create room for God’s life to increase within you. The inconveniences of obedience are not meaningless burdens but the portion of the priest, and destiny cannot be fulfilled without sacrifice. Let every faculty of your mind, every strength of your body, every resource in your possession, every ambition in your heart, and every moment of your life become an instrument of worship. Walk with God in covenant, submit to the leadership of His Spirit, release whatever He identifies, receive the superior treasure of Christ, and allow His nature to multiply through you until His glory, likeness, and dominion are expressed upon the earth.