The Sweet Fragrance of Prayer
Revelation 5:8 - And when he had taken the
scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before
the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the
prayers of the saints.
Psalm 141:2 - Let my prayer be counted as
incense before you, and the
lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!
We have learned why we pray, what hinders our prayers, and how to pray over the past 40 days. My prayer is that you have heard His Voice and sought to understand and know His ways regarding prayer. In knowing Him, we will pray well and our prayers will be a sweet offering unto the Lord.
Exodus 30 tells us of the requirements of the law for the altar of incense. The altar was to sit in front of the ark of the testimony, in front of the mercy seat where the Lord met with His people. Every morning and every evening Aaron was to burn incense. Revelation tells us that the incense is a representation of the prayers of the saints.
We have tremendous responsibility and power in prayer. It is an opportunity to commune with our Lord; an opportunity for us to hear from Him, for Him to see us, and for Him to respond from the Mercy Seat. May we be careful to only pray for good things that are in accordance with His will and to not doubt that He hears us. We are privileged to be able to kneel in confidence through the blood of Jesus before our Creator. May we come before Him reverently, in wonder, with hearts bent with yearning for His whisper. May our time before His throne be without ceasing and a pleasing, sweet fragrance for His glory.
