PRAYER IS A DAILY SACRIFICE
Prayer is a sacrifice which we offer, and it goes directly before the throne of the most High God in Heaven.
In the old testament, in the temple there used to be an altar called an altar of incense and this altar was the altar of prayer.
Revelation 8:1-6 says that, ‘and when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and they were given seven trumpets. And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand. And the angel took the censer, and filled it with the fire of the altar, and cast it unto the earth: and there were voices, and thundering, and lightnings, and an earthquake. And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
The angels of God will have nothing to do for you on earth when there are no prayers being prayed. When prayers being prayed by saints on the Earth, then the angel on the altar will be given incense plus prayers to offer before God. There is a golden altar built before the throne of God purposely to receive our prayers from the earth. Our prayers are well catered for in Heaven with an angel assigned to handle only prayers before the Lord. And there are seven other angels who are given the trumpets of authority to execute judgments of God according to the incense from the golden altar of prayer.
Prayer has a golden altar which means prayer is very important for anyone and for everyone. Its of great value to us all and to God our creator.
Heaven will not pass any judgment on earth without prayer. God will do nothing on Earth without prayers of man to God because the scriptures say in Psalms 115:15,16 that ‘you are blessed of the Lord which made heaven and earth. The Heaven, even the Heavens, are the Lord’s; but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
The earth is handed over to man by God and it was not handed over to satan, so satan has no rights or authority on earth. Whatever satan and demons are doing on earth, they are doing it in rebellion to God. And since God has handed over the ruler-ship of the earth to man, therefore, he will always come in to help man in every way, when man tells him what he wants God to intervene in. So, prayers are important to bring God in operation on earth for our own good.
When everybody begins to pray on earth to Yahweh (Lord), then satan will have no place on earth and his works will come to an end, and that is why, satan is seriously fighting against prayer and fasting.
Many people preach against prayer and fasting today because they do not understand the importance of prayer to them. Those who preach like that, they do that because they do not understand very well the plan of God for them and how to access the wealth of God which He has in store for them to acquire.
The altar of incense (altar prayer) in Heaven will never function when there is no altar of incense on earth which is asking, seeking and know. In the old testament, the altar was in the physical form because it was seen by our physical eyes, but today in the new testament, we are in the generation of people who walk by faith, so there is no need to see it physically, yet it still exist for you in every place where we worship God.
The altar of incense used to stand in the holy place, therefore prayers to be heard by the Lord, we need to have a right standing with God. That is why in John 9:31 the bible says that ‘now we know that God hears not sinners: but if any man be a worshipers of God, and do his will, him he hears. Therefore, when anyone goes before Yahweh (The Lord), he should first examine himself in prayer and then confess any known sin and repent because the bible says in 1 John 1:8,9 that ‘if we say that we have no sin, we deceives ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Any lying preacher, his father is satan because satan has been a liar from the beginning. Therefore, whoever preaches that we have no sin and we do not need to repent, he’s a preacher of another gospel which is not of the kingdom of God. That preacher makes God to be a liar, and him to be true and holier than God.
In the world today, whoever preaches that we do not need sin offering is a liar and he does not understand the truth of the word of God. About sin offering, what was changed was only daily offering of sin sacrifice, because the bible says in Hebrews 7:27,28 that ‘who needs not daily , as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. For the law makes men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of oath, which was since the law, makes the son, who is consecrated for evermore.
The reason why Jesus Christ was offered once as the sin sacrifice for the whole world, its because he had no sin infirmity and the bible says that his flesh and blood was consecrated for evermore to take away the sins of the world. Father God saw the spotless pure blood of Jesus, and he said, it’s enough for every man’s sin, who will believe in him.
When people have brought the sacrifice of sin to the priest of God, they didn’t just give it to the priest, but before the priests take it from their hands to the slaughter as a sin offering, the person who brought it have to confess his sins before the priest and after his confession then the priest will pick the sin offering from his hands and offer it to God for the forgiveness of his confessed sins. What made a sin sacrifice to be a sin sacrifice was the confession of their wrong deeds before the priest, so even today Jesus has offered his body once and for all people, for the forgiveness of our sins, and his blood sacrifice will be effective to cleanses us from all our iniquities and trespasses, when we humbly go to him and confess our sins in repentance because he is our high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.
According to the order of sacrifice in the tabernacle, everyone had to first begin from the altar of sin offering before going to the altar of incense. Even today, its better to begin from the altar of repentance and forgiveness before going to the altar of asking, seeking and knocking in prayer to God.
Repentance and forgiveness are a back bone in prayer, and without it, you will never get a breakthrough in your prayers to God. In Ecclesiastes 7:20, its written that, ‘for there is not a just man upon earth, that does good and sins not’ and the scriptures is very clear that God does not listen to the prayer of a sinner therefore, the first prayer of a sinner which God listens to, is a prayer of repentance to God. Repentance ushers us into God’s grace and favor, so that we again are counted righteous before God through the washing of the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Prayer is a daily sacrifice to God because in Luke 18:1-8 says that ‘and Jesus spoke a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint’.
Saying, there was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: And there was a widow in the city; and she came unto him, saying, avenge me of my adversary. And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, though I fear not God, nor regard man; yet because this widow troubles me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. And the Lord said, hear what the unjust judge says. And shall God not avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bears long with them?
I tell you that he will avenge them speedily, nevertheless, when the son of man comes, shall he find faith on the earth? Our Lord is telling us to pray daily and never to grow weak in prayer. For anything you want according to the will of God, when you persist in prayer to the Lord day and night, you will be given by God himself.
An enemy will never win the case against a person who prays daily day and night to God. Witch doctors, voodoo, sorcerers, enchanters, necromancers, new age movement, Hinduism, magicians, etcetera will never win the person who daily prayer to Yahweh (Lord). The world will be taken over by the powers of darkness when the church stops to pray to Yahweh, but if there are still the branch of the righteousness who are praying daily in this world, no evil can take over the world.
The reason why satan is fighting against the preaching of the gospel, evangelism and prayers, is because when those activities are still moving on in the world, darkness will never rule over the world, but when the above activities are no longer moving on in the world, satan and his demons will be everywhere in the world, and that will take God himself to come the second time for our deliverance.
The vengeance of God on every evil in the world depends on our daily prayer. I wish every believer becomes a prayer tool for the kingdom of God, then the glory of God would shine everywhere in the whole world. But most believers are lazy and careless about prayer. Every evil in the world has the same evil spiritual backing from satan, and through prayers we can handle the evil spiritual powers behind every wrong activity and thus bringing an end to every evil which is going on in the world today.
Satan is working hard to remove daily sacrifices so that there will be no one who fast and call upon Yahweh (the Lord) for any help. He is fighting so hard so that there will be no daily repentance and forgiveness, and no daily praise and worship to the Lord. He does not want people even believers to give daily thanksgiving to the Lord in prayers. If the church does not pray hard today, if the church does not seriously begin to pray now, satan is going to bring things whereby people by having them, they will see that there is no need to prayers any more to God.
Our Lord Jesus said in Luke 21:34-36 that, ‘and take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your heart be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. You watch therefore, and pray always, that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the son of man.
Jesus Christ warns us by telling us that the evil which is to come in the world will bring affliction to the whole world but those who will be praying always or daily, are the ones who will be counted worthy to escape. Our escape from evil is through prayers and praying always to Yahweh (The Lord) our God.