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The Practice of Prayer

 

"And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning:when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it: (Ex. 30:7). When is the best time to pray? God instructed Aaron to offer incense every morning. Every believer will admit it is good to pray in the morning when your mind is fresh and clear, uncluttered with the day's affairs. The Bible starts out, "In the beginning God..." We too should begin every day with God. We need instruction and inspiration to face the day; we know not what the day may hold, but we know Who holds the day.

 

A good example is given in Psalm 5:3, "My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee and will look up." Many great saints of God found the early morning hours, when all is quiet and one can be alone, the best time to spend with God in prayer. Christ set an example in Mark 1:35, "In the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed." For us to find a solitary place, it is almost a must that we get up early If we wait until later in the day we may find ourselves so rushed from one essential duty to another that we shove prayer aside and never find time to pray as we should.

 

Application: What should we pray for? We pray for Joe's toe, Jack's back and Jane's pains because they asked us to. FINE. Do you pray for what God asked you to? Do it and you will be amazed . For instance, He said, "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, they shall PROSPER who love Israel," Ps. 122:6. We ought to pray for them EVERY DAY. More on praying for this and others EVERY DAY. I have prayed for this DAILY for years. It pays great dividends. Wait til you see the Scriptural admonition to pray for many things DAILY. You are loved by God and me, ABC. Sumner 1 Jn 3:2.

 

"You have no idea how you have inspired me and shaped much of who I am today." from a very successful young pastor I taught in college, being used of God greatly. We know God does it but what a joy to hear God used you. Oh dear pastor, weep and pray for God to use you to help shape young people and young preachers lives and ministry.

 

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The Tabernacle shows how to get tot God- The person of prayer

The altar of incense was to be put "before the veil that is by the ark
of the testimony' (Ex. 30:6). Without a doubt, as the priests came into
the holy place to offer the incense they were aware that just beyond the
veil was the Mercy Seat where God dwelt with His people. They must have
been conscious of how close they stood to His very presence. To come
directly into His presence, they would have to go through the veil.
Later the veil was "rent in twain" (Mt. 27:51), so we can come directly
into God's presence as we pray today.

This veil (Heb 10:20) represented Jesus in His flesh, and He is the High
Priest over God's house through whom we draw near "with a true heart in
full assurance of faith" (v. 22). In a very real sense we come to God's
throne. We come in Jesus' name, through Him, and Him alone. The Lord
Jesus said, "Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give
it you" (Jn. 16:23). We do not come to God through Mary, the saints,
angels, or anyone else, but through Christ. To get our prayers answered,
we must be sure that we come to God in prayer in Jesus' name, for He is
the One who endorses all our prayers. If you would go to a bank and sign
your name to a multimillion-dollar check without any money behind it,
you would receive nothing. If we go to God in prayer in our own merit,
we will get nothing. We need to come through the person of Jesus
Himself, not just tacking "for Jesus' sake" or "in Jesus' name" on the
end of our petitions, but in reality coming in His name.

Our greatest victory is not in never falling, but in rising every time
we fall

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"Since we met and talked I have been careful to give the whole Gospel
and not abbreviate it and we are having folks come to the Lord and in
fact we have some to baptize today. God bless you for giving wise
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Provision for prayer in the Tabernacle - we need it for effective praying

The Lampstand with its light was in the holy place so that the priests could see as they ministered at the altar of incense. Offering the incense was connected with lighting and dressing the lamps both in the morning and evening. "And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it. And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it" (Ex. 30:7-8). The only way the priest could see when offering the incense was by the light of the Lampstand.

 
Today God has made provision for the believer in prayer in the person of the Holy Spirit, who gives light, instruction, and illumination in spiritual things. "In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words" (Rom. 8:26 NASB).

The Holy Spirit shows us how to pray; He helps us to know what to pray for, and He Himself makes intercession for us. Multitudes of believers have testified that in times of deep distress, when they neither knew how to pray nor for what to pray, somehow it seemed as though, just by groaning from their hearts, the burden of their hearts ascended to God. They sensed that God heard the unvoiced prayer. There is real comfort in realizing this help from the Holy Spirit. Eph. 6:18 tells of "praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit." Prayer is to be in the light shed by the Holy Spirit, in His power and energy, directed and assisted by Him. This is the divine provision for prayer to teach us how to pray, and also to know for what we should pray.

"You need Christ to make you a Christian, you need the Spirit to make you spiritual."

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