Fervent Fire: Understanding the Pattern of the Priesthood for Prevailing Intercessory Prayer: The Priest and Warrior Intercessor Series

By L. Williamson-Reeves

Set your intercession ablaze, effectively deal with evil altars, and bring transformation to your life, family, community, and nation. This book reveals the "altar blueprint," and provides a scriptural explanation grounded in the pattern of the priesthood to empower you to deal with evil altars and rise to new heights of effectiveness in prophetic intercession. All believers, and intercessors especially, must embrace that they are first priests, and gain an understanding of the pattern therein, which is necessary to maintain fervency in prayer, understand how prayer watches originated, and how altars work. This books swings open a door of insight to the present-day workings of priests, sacrifices, altars, thrones, and angels. You'll also discover the exciting journey of the early priesthood, its connection to Israel's history, and how a shrewd, scheming politician manipulated the pattern of the priesthood to secure his throne—just as some do today. All the while, you'll be building up to a wonderful and new revelation of exactly why Jesus calls us a royal priesthood. This book is essential for all intercessors, fundamental to every believer, and of utmost necessity to those who have purposed for their Christianity to add value to the royal priesthood and holy nation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: L. Williamson-Reeves
• Release date: Dec 3, 2015
• ISBN: 9781519974389

L. Williamson-Reeves

Lenita Reeves is an author, speaker, counselor, pastor, wife and mother of four children. As a rape survivor and former teen mom, God has graced Lenita to be an outspoken overcomer, delivering insight in an approachable yet enlightening manner. From senior class president to founder of a non-profit, leadership has been an evident mark of Lenita's calling and passions throughout her life. She is an international speaker, member of the RAINN speaker's bureau, ordained pastor and founder of PurposeHouse Christian Counseling. Lenita has a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech, a Master of Arts in Dance Education from the Ohio State University and a MBA from the University of Maryland, College Park. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Christian Counseling and attended Beulah Heights Bible College in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Fervent Fire:

Understanding the Pattern of the Priesthood for Prevailing Intercessory Prayer

By L. Williamson-Reeves

Part of the Priest and Warrior Intercessor Series

PurposeHouse Publishing

Copyright © 2015

The Priest and Warrior Intercessor Series

By L. Williamson-Reeves

Lenita Reeves is the founder of PrayerWatch with Pastor Lenita, PurposeHouse Biblical Counseling, and the lead pastor of Action Chapel Baltimore and Action Chapel North Carolina. She is the author of Understanding the Power of Agreement: A Necessary Key for Prayer, Relationships, and Progress and The Spirit of Rejection: Heal it wounds, Restore your Self-Esteem, and Move on to Promotion. The ministry of intercession undergirds her apostolic and prophetic ministry. She is an international conference speaker having ministered in the Caribbean, London, Haiti, Kenya, Uganda, and Ghana. For more information, visit www.lenitareeves.org.

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Dedication

For my children, who will walk in the priesthood at their appointed times.

Epigraph

Time spent in prayer is never time wasted. – Author

Acknowledgments

I am grateful to men and women who have yielded the tangible fruit of community transformation by laboring in the priesthood and in intercession, including the Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams, Bishop Earnestine C. Reems, and Rev. Eastwood Anaba. May the Lord richly bless you and empower you to raise up others. I also give thanks to God to the remnant of Action Chapel Baltimore intercessors, who inspire me to pray daily through the sacrifice of their time and faithfulness.

Introduction: A Nasty Creature

I saw a nasty creature. It wasn’t massive, but something about it was vile and repulsive. As I watched, there was a throbbing, strain, and stress—a tension—in my entire body as if I had just worked out and overworked my muscles. Although I lay in bed, the comforts of my warm bed and soft sheets eluded me. I was intensely aware that my heart had been racing. But I was sleeping—at least my body slept. More accurately, I was between consciousness and sleep; but what I was seeing wasn't from my mind's eye. I had been carried out in the spirit, as if the subconscious me—the inner me—was watching a movie without my body participating.

I had a deep sense of revolt when I saw that creature. It was spewing out what looked like vomit from its mouth while at the same time talking. I couldn't understand what it was saying, but I knew it was speaking. It was a little thing—it looked like a thin lizard with tiny hands, and it was standing upright atop what looked like a narrow, waist-high wooden dresser or rectangular box. As small as it was, the intensity and power of its words penetrated me. It was like the words were what was beating my muscles and causing the tension in my body.

And there was the figure of a man standing behind the creature, just a black silhouette of a man. Even though I didn't see them very clearly, somehow, I could perceive that there were other narrow wooden boxes lined up in a row. Some had fallen, lying flat. Everything underneath, behind, and on top of these things was blood red, as if the floor, walls, and sky had been taken over by a seething red substance of heat. I looked to the right because I heard a voice screaming, Why won’t you let me in! It was a family member knocking on the other side of what looked like a blood red wall. This family member was beating the wall vehemently with their fist at me and screaming, Why won’t you let me in. There was such anger. This particular family member was living a homosexual lifestyle. As this person beat the wall, it started rising from the bottom up. It got to their ankles and the vision stopped.

When I came back to myself, I knew that God was showing me an evil in my family line. Its name was perversion, and it was enraged at me. However, I didn’t instantly understand that the wooden boxes were altars.

At that moment, a conflict ensued. On one hand, I had experienced other dreams and visions. I had been taught about spiritual warfare, demons, the supernatural, and intercession; but seeing this thing—this nasty thing that had been so real that my body was in physical stress—brought an awakening and reality in me that vibrated.

Like never before, I knew what was fighting me and my family was in another realm, carried great power, and was not operating in isolation. I knew that God had revealed this thing so that I could deal with it in prayer—but, on the other hand, I wasn't exactly sure where to start. Binding and loosing didn't seem commensurate or sufficient for the weightiness of what God revealed to me; and my mind was still pondering what I had seen. I was still trying to interpret it all, so it was hard to advance or take measures.

My search began. It led me to great times of prayer and the discovery of the meaning of evil altars. However, the greater discovery was that altars don't work in isolation. In the same way that I knew what was fighting me and my family was in another realm, carried great power, and was not operating in isolation, we must all understand that altars never work in isolation. To fully understand altars, we must understand God’s design because Satan copies what he saw in heaven.

We can gain a great understanding of the dynamics of altars by understanding the priesthood. God made altars an important part of the pattern of the priesthood, and the priesthood has its earliest biblical roots in Melchizedek. But there are few details about Melchizedek in Scripture. We know the most about the priesthood from the details given during the time of Moses for the Aaronic priesthood.

New Testament believers often address the priesthood as a thing of the past, a role and function that holds relevance only to the time of Moses. But the priesthood holds the keys that helped me deal with the powers represented in that awful vision. And, for a believer, being without an understanding of the priesthood is to exist without a fundamental understanding and truth of who God made you. It's like living in a house with part of its foundation missing or walking on a floor with a serious crack in a load-bearing beam. In Matthew 5, Jesus told his disciples, Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled (Matthew 5:17-18). So although the priesthood originated in the Old Testament, Jesus testified that it still has relevance today and into the future. In 1 Peter 2, Jesus called us a royal priesthood (1 Peter 2:9). For these reasons and more, this book is devoted to helping believers understand the pattern of the priesthood and its application to prayer that destroys evil altars and gets results—prevailing prayer—fervent prayer.

Today,