{"id":66570,"date":"2023-09-18T12:13:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T12:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=66570"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:13:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T12:13:46","slug":"heirs-not-spares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=66570","title":{"rendered":"Heirs, not spares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">I have been reading an intriguing story of a popular Prince. In his book titled \u201cSPARE&#8221;, the prince outlines <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\"><b>the pains, shame and crisis of identity arising from being treated as a \u201cSPARE<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">\u201d, even though born a Prince.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">All who are born of God in\u00a0 Christ Jesus are\u00a0 \u201c\u2026<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\"><b>a royal priesthood, a holy nation &#8230; kings and priests<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">&#8221; (1Pet. 2:9; Rev.1:6). This comes with immense privileges and responsibilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\"><b>As priests, we stand before God making intercession<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\"> primarily on behalf of others. The Lord hears such pleas, and either averts judgement or rains blessings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\"><b>As Kings, we stand before men on God&#8217;s behalf<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">, not as mere preachers but to enforce divine decrees. This\u00a0 requires authority and courage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\"><b>Jesus Christ is God\u2019s anointed heir<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">, and all believers in Him are co-heirs. \u201cIf we are children, we are also heirs,\u00a0even the heirs of God, and co-heirs with Christ\u201d (Rom 8:17)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">I<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\"><b>n Christ Jesus there are no spares, we are all heirs.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\"><b>\u00a9 Buti Sam KPUTU<\/b><\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_230918_131000_047.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading an intriguing story of a popular Prince. In his book titled \u201cSPARE&#8221;, the prince outlines the pains, shame and crisis of identity arising from being treated as a \u201cSPARE\u201d, even though born a Prince. All who are born of God in\u00a0 Christ Jesus are\u00a0 \u201c\u2026a royal priesthood, a holy nation &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[6204,5553,6205],"class_list":["post-66570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-faith","tag-heirs","tag-kings","tag-priests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}