…Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You.
May Your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You would put Your Name, so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.
Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place.
Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?
But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.…
Illustration
Whatever you yield yourself to, you become a slave to it
InDepth
THE ALTAR OF PRAYER APOSTLE JOSHUA SELMAN NIMMAK
Know how to receive God’s presence
Altar – Definition
System of authorization
Not just a monument
Platform
Realm of spirit makes contact with the physical realm on legal grounds
Territory
Cannot enter without configuration to suit that territory
A body is required to come into the world
Manifestations of Altars
First Death
Adam
Adam taught Cain and Abel how to entertain the spirit
Cain
Blood was the witness
Judgment to probe
Judgment still manifests after Abel dies
Altar
Covenant activated and maintained
Covenant cannot work without an altar
Manifestation
Physical
Solomon’s Temple
Anytime when someone faces this temple
Jesus, the High Priest, carried his blood to the alter
Hebrew
Institution
People
Prayer Life
The most accurate measure of your spiritual life is your prayer life
