PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS
Earth limits our access to Almighty God, "except," and it's a great big exception ... through Prayer! We can go around the world in one hour through prayer; we can send supplies to missionaries through prayer; we can heal the sick, move Nations and leaders, change laws, prevent accidents, protect Israel, and send America to its knees, all through God's most treasured asset, the prayers of the Saints!
"And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four {and} twenty
elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and
golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of the saints."
What an incredible thought that our prayers are bottled up in heaven! If you ever wondered, "Does God even hear me?" Wonder no more; if the Word says it, it is! Prayer leads us directly into the throne room of our Lord Jesus Christ, where we can sit at His feet and commune with Him for hours. "Hours?" you say. It's easy to spend hours with God when we feel we know Him. To know Him is to be filled with His Spirit (Acts 2 and also Acts 19). The Lord becomes real within us; we hear Him in the very depths of our spirits; we feel His beautiful presence; and Jesus Christ is forever within us, comforting, guiding, teaching, molding and blessing us.
Prayer is the greatest privilege of the human being. It transcends galaxies, ozones, continents, and can even move a person standing right next to us. It is more powerful than a nuclear explosion; it exhumes the wisdom of the ages, knowledge and understanding; it moves through doors, buildings, and prisons; prayer opens cells, breaks chains, and looses bound spirits. Prayer is a valuable, highly volatile, serious commodity, but costs only a bended knee, and sometimes not even that ... maybe a screaming whisper!
"Another angel who had a golden censer, came and stood
at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with
the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne."
(Revelation 8:3)
Prayer in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ has the authority, the power, the dominion, and the impetus to change the world! The Bible says it this way, "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." (James 5:16)
The gateway to heaven eternally is obedience to His Word, with baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the infilling of the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in other tongues as the Spirit of Almighty God gives the utterance. Finally, that passage to answers, to healings and to miracles, to the salvation of planet earth, is Prayer. Our prayers are ever captured and saved in a vial at the very throne of God; where else in the universe do "our" words mean so much? Every word we cry out to God becomes a precious vapor bottled up and saved for unveiling at a monumental time in eternity. Oh, dear saint, your prayers are not only heard; they are caught, held to the breast of God and preserved forever! So, whatever you do, pray!
By Sheryl Fowler
(Visit promiselandchurch.net and theexperience238.com.
PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas, Pastor Kenneth Phillips)
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