KEY SCRIPTURE: Exo 25:11 KJV “And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.”

The Lord asked that Moses instruct the makers of the Ark to overlay it with Gold, both inside and outside. There is so much to discuss about this act, but let’s pause for a moment and talk about the basic significance of the Ark. God Almighty lives in heaven. He needed a place and a means where men could come to Him, seek forgiveness, and he could likewise talk to them and also leave a testimony among men that He is alive among men. The ark was that means. Dear brethren, this role has squarely been laid on us, His children.

Our Lord Jesus on earth was a physical representation of God. Everything about God could be seen, received, and presented to Him. Jesus was the only begotten of the Father, and so the only living Ark of God. John 3:16. From the day He died and resurrected, everyone who believed in Him became the begotten Son of God. John 1:12 KJV But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” Dear ones, our Lord Jesus is no longer the only begotten Son of God; every one of us who has truly surrendered his life unto Him is also begotten of God. He or she enrolls as a living Ark of God.

The Ark reveals God. It shows His power. Miracles are wrought wherever the Ark goes. When the high priest presents the blood of the animal once a year, the presence of God manifests as fire over the mercy seat, and He speaks to them. In our time, our Lord Jesus has sacrificed His blood once and for all for the eternal redemption of mankind. Heb 9:12 KJV “Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.” We do not need any sacrifices made to us, but we make sacrifices on their behalf through our intercessory ministry. Every Christian is a priest, and intercession for humanity is our first calling. 1Ti 2:1 KJV “I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;” Intercession is not a pleasure trip it is a real sacrifice and that is what moves God’s hands to intervene as well communicate His mind for the people. Intercession is not a duty of a special few. Every Christian is a priest, and it is a must for you to make intercession for all humanity.

I pray that the Holy Spirit would enable us to appreciate our role as the living Ark of God, to reveal God to humanity like our master Jesus successfully did.

PRAYER

Lord Jesus, help me to understand my true representation in the Ark of testimony, so that men would encounter God through my testimony. Let whatever way, thing, or person that may be a stumbling block be taken off my way, in Jesus’ name I pray.

FURTHER STUDIES

Joh 17:18 KJV” As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.”

Rom 8:29 KJV For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.