Apr 4, 2025 … Treasured Prayer …

Apr 4, 2025 … Treasured Prayer …  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with music and lyrics with Matthew West singing about  … Don’t Stop Praying,  reassuring Christians that God hears and treasures our prayers.  

God treasures oru prayers ... 

Highlight Passage: … Revelation 5:8 … [NLT] … 

8  And when He took the scroll, the four living beings and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and  they held gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of God’s people.            

…  God reveals the box in God’s Throne room which held the incense of the prayers of God saints. 

           

Highlight Passage (in context): … Revelation 5:7-14 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…  God reveals Heaven’s throne room to John and the box containing the treasured prayers of His people.                                                                              

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Reference Passage: … Mark 11:24 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God reveals, thru John Mark, of The Lord’s willingness to reveal His glory to those who are willing to pray to Him … in His Name.  

Reference Passage: …   John 15:7  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …</b> 

… God reveals, thru the Apostle John’s writings, of The Lord’s willingness to provide His power thru prayer in accord with His word and in His Name.  

Reference Passage:… Romans 8:26 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… The Apostle Paul teaches truth of God’s Spirit helping born-again Christians to pray in accord with God’s will. 

Reference Passage: …  Philippians 4:6-7  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Paul teaches fellow Christians that they (we) can bring all our worries and cares to Go in prayer and receive God’s peace.

Reference Passage: …  James 5:16b [NLT] …</b> 

The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. 

… James teaches other Christians of the power God releases through the prayers of righteous believers.  

                        

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - James Banks  … AT THIS LINK -       … told of how his father treasured an old, rather worn, pocketknife which had been given to the ODB author as the only thing his dad had to remember his grandfather.  And so the ODB author also treasured the knife, given to him by his father as a family heirloom.    

And this treasured family object reminded the ODB author of the Revelation to John of the throne room of God in heaven, (see the Highlight passage) revealed to John where John saw The Lamb of God Who opened a box which contained God’s treasures of the prayers of the Saints from all eternity past.  Do we realize the value of our prayers to God?   After meditating on the Scriptures above and taking in the linked song, I’m reminded and convicted that I don’t take my prayer life as seriously as I should.   How about You?  

         

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for treasuring what I pray to You, Lord, … every day.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray, … again today, … that all reading here will join me, …  to pray to You, Lord, knowing that You treasures what we pray.   … AMEN

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