A Dual Identity

We were not made to shrink. We were made to reign. Revelation 1:6 declares that Christ Himself has made us a kingdom and priests, and 1 Peter 2:9 confirms it: we are royalty. We are a royal priesthood, a holy nation, women chosen, set apart, and sent. As priests, we carried the very presence of God. We were the ones who stood in the gap, who moved heaven through prayer, who walked into a room and changed the atmosphere. As kings, we did not wait for permission to lead, we governed with wisdom and authority, we built, we protected, we advanced the kingdom of God in every arena of our lives. This was not a title we had to earn. It was purchased for us, declared over us, and it was time we walked in it. This retreat was our moment to rise, to shed every lie that had kept us small, to be filled, to be sharpened, and to step into the fullness of everything God had already called us to. We came as we were. We left as who we were always meant to be. Intimacy with the King of kings, our divine prerogative.

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvellous light…

1 Peter 2:9

Meditation Scriptures

  • 1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvellous light…
  • 1 Peter 2:5 …you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
  • Hebrews 7:24 But He, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood.
  • Revelation 1:5-6 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, 6 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen
  • Revelation 1:1-8 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants; things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John 2 who bore witness to the word of God, and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw. 3 Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near. 4 John, to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, 5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, 6 and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. 7 Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen. 8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

…you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:5