“The Levitical priests shall step forward, for the Lord your God has chosen them to minister and to pronounce blessings in the name of the Lord and to decide all cases of dispute and assault.”
—Deuteronomy 21:5 NIV

It seems as though another level of evil has been released upon the earth. Pain and suffering are all around us, and there are no doctors, kings, or presidents who can bring healing and peace to our world. One day my heart was so burdened by this that I cried out to the Lord, “What about Your people? How are we to survive and persevere through the intensity of the end times?”

As incense rises upward, so my prayer rose to our heavenly Father. And He answered: “Though Satan is releasing curses, I equip My people during the end times. My equipping will keep them to the end. My people are to bless.” With His words came a great revelation: blessings trump curses. Blessings powerfully transform people and circumstances.

As believers in Messiah Jesus, we can know that Father receives our prayers as incense (Rev. 8:4) and has assigned us as priests to call down blessings from His heavenly realm.

One of our assignments as His priests is to speak blessing, as we see in today’s verse. The Scriptures also tell us, “Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing” (1 Pet. 3:9). Beloved, I challenge you to do a Bible word search and study the word bless. You will be amazed to see the power of blessing revealed throughout Scripture! If you want to heal physical, emotional, and relational dysfunction, pronounce blessing. Bless your enemies in Jesus’ name. Bless the ailing parts of your physical body. Bless the people you encounter throughout the day.

You have the power to bring heaven down to earth by calling Father’s blessing into every situation!

Thank You for the privilege of being called as a priest—an intercessor—unto You. Yeshua, cleanse me and purify my heart. By Your Spirit and authority, I touch and bless this body You created. Bless my day, Lord. I move forward in Your Spirit to bless the people and situations I encounter. Bless Your people through my life. Today I move mountains by transforming curses into blessings and evil to goodness, in Jesus’ name.

Cynthia Schneider, From Passover to Pentecost (Lake Mary, FL: Charisma House, 2021), Used by permission.