The Commonest of Human Clay

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It may be that many of us, to the best of our understanding, have gone all the way with God. By experience we know His total indwelling of us and our inner union with Him as His means of expressing Himself in action. We are being royal priests, and thus intercessors, though we have not recognized ourselves as such by those terms.

It may also be, as a consequence, that we do not function and operate as royal priests and intercessors as boldly and fully as we should through “lack of knowledge” of who we really are! It is for this reason that I am bold to run over the details of my own life’s experiences. As you follow
along with me, I will seek to outline the wonderful operations of the Holy Spirit by which He was Himself in action in my human form.

God works His mighty works in the commonest of human clay and with total unexpectedness, as in me. He turns simple, ordinary lives who do
give Him His lordship into a whole series of intercessory death and resurrection processes which result in the gaining of intercessory objectives. Just as Jesus said of the Spirit’s operation with the “born again,” that the wind blows who-knows-where-and-how, so it blows us
into the undreamed-of operations and “gainings” (Rees Howell’s favorite word) of the life of royal priesthood.

It may be the same for your life, perhaps even largely unrecognized by you in its earlier stages. And it may be that the reading of this might awaken you to know by the revelation of the Spirit who you really are and enable you to function more realistically as both king and priest.