Sanctification. It's about becoming holy through grace, through the blood of Christ. Everything becomes sanctified through Him.
It's natural to feel grateful for gifts and kindness, but it's vital to bring everything before the Lord and ask for it to be sanctified. We need to be aware of hidden intentions. Connecting with the Holy Spirit offers guidance and protection from deception.
Staying in constant prayer, asking Jesus to sanctify us, allows us to live a blessed life, the life God planned for those who love and seek Him. By asking Jesus, we become holy, like our Heavenly Father. Everything we touch should then be used to glorify His name.
Just like in Exodus 29:37, when the altar was purified for seven days, it became most holy. Everything that touched it became holy, too. That's the power of sanctification.
Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.
And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them.
And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the LORD; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the LORD God of your fathers.
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
and thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil.And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony,and the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense,and the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot.And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the LORD, which sanctify you, am holy.
And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy.And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy.
And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;
And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to sanctify them.
And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them.And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to sanctify them.
if my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:and thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: My God; in him will I trust.
And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own.
And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the LORD.The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest's office.
And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD.And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, And hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
Except the LORD build the house, They labour in vain that build it: Except the LORD keep the city, The watchman waketh but in vain.
We will go into his tabernacles: We will worship at his footstool.Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; Thou, and the ark of thy strength.
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
Behold, bless ye the LORD, All ye servants of the LORD, Which by night stand in the house of the LORD.Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, And bless the LORD.
even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves.
And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
and said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
and said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.