May my prayer be set before You like incense; my uplifted hands, like the evening offering.Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.Let my prayer be set forth as incense before thee; The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
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… I want to go to Psalms 141. Let my prayers be set before thee as incense and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. Let my prayer be set before you as incense. Incense. I want to preach today on God. Why are you ruining my life? because there are seasons in your Christian walk. I don't know what you came to hear this morning. I'm a faith preacher. I'm a victory preacher. I believe in overcoming, not undergoing all the time. But the truth is, you're going to go through seasons where you say, God, why are you ruining my life? What in the world is going on? Incense are a type of prayer in the Old and New Testament. You find it in the book of Revelation, incense on the altar. And they represent the prayers of God's people. In Exodus 30, God gave the dimensions of the tabernacle. And in those dimensions, he also gave the altar of incense. This is interesting. The altar of incense was the last thing the priest would pass through, the high priest, to go into the Holy of Holies behind the curtain where God's presence was. …
… And I'm going to direct it to you because you're so good. Psalm 141 verse 2. Let my prayer be set before you as incense, the lifting of my hands as the evening sacrifice. I love those verses because all through the Bible, in fact, the Bible mentions the word daily 60 times. 60 times the Bible says daily, daily. every morning and every night make it about Jesus. And I just want to encourage us to go long obedience in the same direction. I'm going to let my morning be about God. I'm going to let my evening be about God. I'm going to let my life be about God. Why? Because every day I'm going to pick up my cross. I'm going to deny myself and I'm going to shift my focus, not from what I want, but from what God wants. He said, if you do this, look out because you're going to gain your life because if anybody loses their life, they're going to gain real life. …
The second is bounty to the poor. Christ accepts what is done to them as being done to himself. Matt. xxv. 40. “And the King shall answer, and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” This God prefers before the legal sacrifices. Hosea vi. 6. “I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.” 5th. Another offering of this spiritual priesthood to God, is the prayer of faith. Though this is rather compared to incense in Scripture than to a sacrifice, yet it is equally an evidence of their priesthood. Incense was that sweet confection which we read of. Exod. xxx. 34. “And the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices, with pure frankincense; of each shall there be a like weight.” These they were wont to burn upon the censer as they offered it, which made a most fragrant smell. That incense is a type of the merits of Jesus Christ, and seems also to be a type of the prayers of God’s people in faith of the former. It was the custom, when the priest in the temple was burning incense, for the people to be praying without. Luke i. 10. “And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.” And gracious prayer is compared to incense. Psal. cxli. 2. “Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.” The prayer of faith is as a fragrant savour to God, through the merits of him towards whom that faith is exercised. …