{"id":3410,"date":"2014-09-30T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T23:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2014-09-18T10:25:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T09:25:56","slug":"prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2014\/09\/30\/prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there 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\u2019 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand\u2019 Rev.8:4 [KJV]<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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God perceives our prayers as incense before Him. Erroneously some people think that means we should burn incense before God. Not at all! Your prayers ascend to God as a sweet smelling savor of incense before the throne of God and that is what the altar of incense represents. Over the next few days we will be looking at prayer and learning how to pray from none other than Jesus Himself.<\/p>\n

\u2018One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, \u201cLord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.\u201d \u00a0<\/sup>He said to them, \u201cWhen you pray, say: \u201c\u2018Father, hallowed be your name your kingdom come\u2019 <\/em>Luke 11:1-2[NIV].<\/a> Jesus was praying in a certain place and His disciples said to Him, \u201c\u2026teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.\u201d<\/em> From this conversation, the first thing that stands out is that you can be taught how to pray. You can learn how to pray. Jesus taught His disciples, so you can learn how to pray. Secondly, note that the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray because they saw Him praying. Don\u2019t learn how to pray from people that don\u2019t pray. Some people can preach about prayer but they don\u2019t pray. Some people can write books about prayer but they don\u2019t pray. Don\u2019t learn from such people. The disciples saw Jesus pray and they asked Him to teach them how to pray. And Jesus said you want to know how to pray then listen, \u201cWhen you pray, say<\/strong>\u201d. <\/em> In other words, when you pray open your mouth and speak. Jesus did not say when you pray imagine, or when you pray think. Of course you should think before you speak. Jesus did not say when you pray whisper or mutter or murmur. He said, \u201cWhen you pray, say<\/em>\u201d. Your voice needs to be heard in heaven. When we lift up our voices in prayer, it is not because we are crazy or about being Pentecostals. It is about praying according to what the Bible says. Jesus said when you pray say<\/strong>. Speak! David said, \u2018Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry<\/strong> aloud: and he shall hear<\/strong> my<\/strong> voice\u2019 Ps.55:17<\/a><\/em>. David didn\u2019t say hear my thoughts; of course God knows your thoughts even from a distance. He didn\u2019t say hear my imaginations. He said, \u2018he shall hear<\/strong> my<\/strong> voice\u2019. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Prayer<\/strong>: Father, today by faith I take off everything limiting me from vocalizing my prayers, in Jesus Name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there 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\u2019 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3412,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions\/3412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}