Morning by Morning, August 10 - Pouring Out the Bowls of Prayer
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Put Your thoughts in my mind and Your desires in my heart, as I begin my day embraced by my Father, centered in Christ, and filled with the Holy Spirit. ...
"Then another angel, having a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel's hand. Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it to the earth. And there were noises, thunderings, lightnings, and an earthquake” (Revelation 8:3-5).
Our prayers go up and Your fire comes down! We send our prayers and Your send Your word!
Prayer changes things. Prayer is our participation with You in the releasing of Your will on earth, Your kingdom on earth, as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:10). Prayer draws us near to You in intimacy and prayer allows us to encounter Your power in our lives and through our lives (Matthew 7:7; John 15:7; 1 John 5:14-15).
Our prayers are not like vapors that aimlessly rise and dissipate somewhere up on the atmosphere. No, Your Word says our prayers “ascend before God” until it’s time for Your fire to fall, Your word to be released, Your kingdom to come and Your will to be done (Revelation 8:4).
And at the same time, there is a timing to Your answers to our prayers. As our prayer go up, they’re filling up “golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints” (Revelation 5:8).
I tend to think of these bowls of the incense of our prayers as involving all the seasons and situations of our lives. There will be the ultimate fulfillment of the bowls being filled up and poured out upon the earth at the time of the end, seen as “the seven bowls of the wrath of God” (Revelation 16:1). Surely on that day there will be “noises, thunderings, lightnings, and an earthquake!” (Revelation 8:5)
But even before that day to come at the end of days, I believe the bowls of our prayers are being filled up and poured out -- as Your kingdom is already coming and Your will is already being done, here on earth, here in our hearts, here in the seasons and situations of our lives right now. Prayer makes a difference. Prayer changes things.
“The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much” (James 5:16 NKJV). “The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working” (James 5:16 ESV).
So Lord, hear our prayer. Move with noises and thunderings and lightnings and earthquakes in the seasons and situations or our lives today. Let us not wait for the end of days for You to set things right. Move in our hearts to pray Your Word and Your will by the leading of Your Spirit today.
“Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God” (Romans 8:26-27).
Let our prayers go up and Your fire come down! Let our prayers fill up the bowls of Your will to be released on earth and in our lives -- all in Your time, all in Your way, all in Your will. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
Be encouraged today! In the Love of Jesus, Tommy Hays
My friend, may you be moved by the Holy Spirit to pray the Lord's prayers according to His will, as you participate in deep intimacy with God in pouring out His will on earth as it is in heaven, in Jesus' name. Please pray the same for me. God bless you, my friend!
Tommy & Rocio Hays | Messiah Ministries
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