One of the first lessons about prayer from the altar of incense is the place of prayer. God said, "And thou shalt put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee:
(Ex. 30:6). This, we know, was in the holy place just before the veil which stood between the holy place and the Holy of Holies where God dwelt with His people. To offer the incense the priest had to be inside the holy place at the place of worship.
There are two prerequisites for anyone coming into the holy place and to the altar of incense. First, he had to go to the brazen altar where the animal was slain and the blood shed. The brazen altar, the place of sacrifice, was the picture of Calvary and of Christ suffering, dying and shedding His blood for our sins. No one dared enter the holy place without the blood having been shed. Today this means that anyone who wants to pray must first of all be sure that he has been to Calvary, where by faith he has offered Christ as his Savior, as his Substitute and sacrifice for sins. He must claim Christ's blood to cleanse him from all sin before he can ever come into God's presence. He must believe Christ suffered and died for his sins, was buried, (proof he was dead) rose again and was seen by hundreds (proof He was alive). An unsaved person has no access, no right, to come into God's presence in prayer and expect anything. The first prerequisite, then, is that a person must be saved , be born again. He must have sacrificed the Lamb of God for himself (when he claimed Jesus as his personal Savior by faith.
When a person says, "I never see wonderful answers to my prayer, I question if they are truly born again. To God be the glory but Celeste and I have seen hundreds if not thousands of wonderful and miraculous answers to prayer and so have millions of other Christians. We all need a good Spiritual check up. Here is a good place to begin.
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