Anointed Sheep. Join Lady Renee Flowers of Transformation Community Church for this week’s Winning Women Wednesday, where she talks about “Anointed Sheep”. We hope you’ll be blessed by this timely and inspirational message. Many blessings!
Anointed Sheep, Chosen by God
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. (1 Peter 2:9)
In the Bible priests, prophets and kings were anointed as confirmation of their special callings.
And so, we need to take our calling as God’s sheep seriously.
The apostle Peter points out the high calling that is on our lives as “the chosen people of God”, a royal priesthood, a holy nation. . . God’s special possession.”
We are called to serve the kingdom, we are to lead in the same manner as the great high King, the Lord Almighty, as our Savior Jesus Christ.
We are to radiate God’s excellent attributes to the world through our leadership as parents, in our workplaces, in our communities, and everywhere else we go.
We are to glorify God in ALL that we do and say… how we live our lives.
As God’s chosen people, as royal priesthood, we are called to pray for a broken world, bringing that brokenness to Jehovah Rapha: the one who can heal.
Priesthood also is a representation of God to the world and invite people who don’t know or recognize the shepherd to see a glimpse of his love and mercy in our own lives.
Peter also uses the word holy, meaning that we are set apart for this valuable work, this good work that God has prepared in advance for us to do according to Ephesians 2:10. We are set apart for the sake of the Lord’s lost sheep.
Our purpose in all of this is to share with others the good news and the great works of the Lord who has called us “out of darkness into his wonderful light.”
And we can do that by asking the Lord to help us radiate his goodness in this world, by our words and actions so that we may reflect the light of his love.
Each one of us is a living picture of the shepherd’s mercy and grace, we have been anointed, appointed, predestined and equipped to invite others to the best way of life and that is a life with Christ.