Prayers
by Raymond Sloan
November 7, 2022 · Cornerstone Apostolic Church
Kind: sermon
Scripture: 2 Timothy 3:13-16, Exodus 30:22-33, Exodus 30:34-38, Revelation 5:1-10

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pray with me Church would you pray Lord one more time we come to you thankful we come to you Lord hungry and thirsty we entered into this place God earlier today with Worship in our heart thankfulness Lord God on our lips unto you we have sung the songs of Zion Lord we have prayed and we have taken our needs to you in faith believing God you hear the prayers people when they pray right now Lord we need your word to touch us and help us to lead us help us today God to back away from the distractions Lord and to connect with you right now let this time lord be precious in our heart and in our sight let us find you Jesus let us remove the thoughts of the wheat to come and concerns of the weak past Lord and today let your words speak to us let your words speak into us today so need you right now Spirit of the Living God fall fresh upon us today Lord before you sit down would you lift your voice to him one more time come on fill this room with praise I love you Jesus come on fill this place with praise I love you Heavenly Father I glorify you I magnify you I need you I Need You Jesus nothing without you lord I am nothing without you I need your hand in my life Lord God I need you thank you singers thank you musicians teachers today those working on media and audio those setting out water those helping with cars everything that you do at Cornerstone I want you to know I love you and I'm thank you for that if you're not connected and you're not doing anything you need to that gives it value to you right amen amen to all of you who came out last week for the Fall Festival thank you so much for being here give yourself a hand for that that was a great time candy and cookies and all the like and I heard there were some upset tummies after the fact but that's just part of the fellowship in the Kingdom amen I love all of you and I'm so glad you're here today the Lord is moving in this room even right now right now the challenge of the hours to push back the distraction that's the challenge because everybody's got them today I love y'all you can be seated thank you brother herb thank you so much when we look into the word of the Lord we are of course reminded that we are looking at writings of historical accounts we understand that the Bible in and of itself is an incredible Wellspring of information and history on all all kinds of things aside from it being word from heaven we can also read a lot of the scriptures and we find out how people used to do things how people used to interact with one another historians in fact scientists alike they use the Bible to confirm or deny certain dates and events in history the flood for an example that's questionable and then they go to the word of God and they find this information and they begin to work through it and they discover wow the flood actually happened the workings in the temple various cultures and generations when when you find an old bone buried wherever it is you begin to learn things about past cultures and societies because the Antiquity of the written word of God there are many who use it as as a way to either give value or to discredit things that are going on in our lives to you and I though sitting in here today I've come to let you know that I love and I cherish the word of God I love and I cherish the written word of God we have learned to adore the righteous things of God the instructions the directions that we can receive from the word of God now the reality of our day has put much of biblical accounts in question only because the society in which we live they give little or no time to fully discover the values that are in the Bible y'all hang on to me a moment all right it's amazing that a college or a university will allocate millions of dollars to study snail or zombie apocalypse they won't spend five minutes going into the word of the Lord it's amazing to me that they will look at the effects of weather on a species or fish or subsoil creature but they won't wonder what is in the Bible that literally has changed and shaped our world come to tell you today the times in which we are living changing some people's perspective I would declare to you that we still believe in the Bible as the word of God second Timothy there's a writing here chapter 3 verse 13 but evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse the Bible says deceiving and being deceived 14 but continue thou on the things which thou Hast learned and has been assured of knowing of whom thou Hast learned them that from a child thou Hast known the holy scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus listen to this verse 16 all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for Doctrine reproof correction instruction and righteousness that the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished under the unto all good works I believe today that seducers those who will come into the scene of culture and Society they will begin to wax worse and worse I think we have identified that even in our day of 2022. Paul wanted to make sure though that in that particular day that Timothy understood the value of the word of God the instruction that can change and alter your life I believe today that you and I we must have a love for the word of God you have got to develop a passion for the things of God listen carefully to Pastor I know there's a lot of things in our world today that we are focusing on and putting our attention to there's education to be concerned with there's your family and future of your family there's what you're going to do as a career how much money will you have when you retire on and on and on it goes but suffice it to say there are many that are turning away from the word of God and they're not listening to what God's instructions have been throughout all the generations of time now there are many things that we have seen in the scriptures that directly relay to us what our generation needs to be watching out for anybody read some of those things there are things that are specific of the day in which they were written listen to this but the concepts and the precepts that were put there they apply still to us today for an example does anybody here own a table that is made of pure gold that you pray at anyone I wish somebody'd raise their hand right now because we need to sell that thing I'm joking I'm joking the interview still own a large bowl that you use to hold water so that you can wash the blood from off of your hands and your feet after you've killed the fatted calf and offered the calf on an altar that you built overlaid with gold does anybody still have one of those help me watch brother Daniel see if anybody raise their hand Jaden's got one of those we need to see you after church no think things we understand there are things in culture that adjust and change exactly what we all really grasp and understand and the fact of the matter is is I'm again let me just ask is there anybody today that woke up and climbed on your rooftop to pray now we don't want to talk to you we simply want to know who to send the help to if you slide and fall off here's the fact of the matter these are just a few really simple examples though of how important and even how salvation explains itself in the word of God but yet as cultures change and as methods change the doctrine and teachings are not changing we are simply saying to each other I am thankful today for the Heat or the air that's on in the building and I don't have to walk to church 17 miles anybody understand where we're coming from things sometimes change God though he gives us to wisdom to understand that we do not negate the principles we simply learn how to understand them the doctrines and teaching they are the same somebody know what I'm talking about but the methods you adjust because of the situations in your life I taught my children this way I was taught this way when I have grandchildren I'm going to teach them harder come on Tim is that how it is man for me you go to the word of the Lord you can find out there are certain foods that you could not eat but today we can eat my near anything my near that's the southern term for put it in your belly huh we used to consider I never would eat eat certain things and and and and then my parents changed that I got hungry and my dad said liver is good for you and now guess what I like liver my father would say brussels sprouts are good for you so guess what I like them well you know I feel real bad for kids in our culture that don't like stuff I'm like you know you never heard of ketchup man kill anything with ketchup times change we know this things alter we know this but God's word is applicable to every part of your life and in every season in your life that is why we must understand the purpose of the inspired word of God grasping the why and the why not is vital to the existence of the Bible and future Generations I want to draw your attention to something today that that I've been rolling around in trying to figure out and again all of you guys are probably biblical Scholars and you've already figured this one out but give me just a few moments to show what I've learned they gave me a microphone so Exodus chapter 30 says this in verse 22. moreover the Lord spake unto Moses saying take thou also unto thee principle spices of pure myrrh 500 shekels of sweet cinnamon have so much even 250 shekels of sweet calamus 250 shekels of cassia 500 shekels after the shekel of the sanctuary the oil olive and hen verse 25 are y'all following and thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment an ointment compound after the art of apothecary and it shall be Unholy anointing everybody say holy anointing a holy anointing oil and thou shalt anoint the Tabernacle of the congregation therewith the Ark of the testimony the table and the vessels the Candlestick and his vessels and the altar of incense verse 28 the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels and the labor and his foot Thou shalt sanctify them that they may be most holy whatsoever touches them shall be Holy Verse 30 and thou shalt anoint Aaron his sons to consecrate them they may Minister unto me and the priest's office and thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel saying this shall be in holy anointing oil unto me throughout your Generations 32 says this upon upon man's flesh follow this shall it not be poured neither shall ye make any other like it after the composition of it it is Holy follow this and it shall be holy unto you whosoever compoundeth any like it or whosoever put it any of it upon a stranger shall even be cut off from his people y'all read this in history hmm Apothecary now that to me is just a very interesting word it was the last time you used that in your conversation anyone why yes the Apothecary of that would be I mean you probably now this week you're going to determine I'm going to use this in a sentence and everybody's going to know how smart I am come on Bill you know how it's going to be right he's gonna yeah he's gonna figure it out in the days of old follow this Apothecary was a very very important profession the art of mixing ingredients that served as perhaps medications medicine for certain infections or or for the purpose of easing pain Apothecary they they would take things and they put them together and you could fight diseases you could clean wounds with it when we mix the correct amounts of spices and herbs and done correctly there would could be a healing and a restoration in it my wife and I a couple years ago had an opportunity to go to Williamsburg and Jamestown in Yorktown and they had this this Apothecary building there in the city The Old City and I went in there because it's very interesting how everybody else says the word did anybody been in that shop I walked in and there's a guy standing there with his 16 whatever Garb on and he's asking me a question of the egg no I'm joking oh y'all must have already answered that one and you'd ask a question I got gunshot oh well if you shot with a gun I'd have to look at it and I'd have to give you this again and then I would take and he pulled the spice or the thing off and he'd think this is what it was for gunshot wound what about this well we didn't have that back then hmm what about a headache didn't have aspirin okay okay okay okay what about this no yeah take deuce and I'm standing in here and I'm looking at this guy he's got literally about 50 or 100 bottles and every disease known to man could be fixed with those I said what if you don't have the answer Two Doors Down is what the what no the mortuary so you better come this way before you go that way because if it can't be fixed you're gonna die that's just what it was and so my interest of course is peaked there and I began to ask questions I begin to look at some things and and now I get into the word of God and I find out here that as part of the work of the things of God is this same word the mixing together for specific reasons God in fact gave to Moses the exact ingredients with the precise amounts in the mixing together of these things listen to this it would bring a completeness to the work that had already been done by making sure that all of the procedures were carried out the way God ordained for that place that Tabernacle that place where he would come to make sure that it was received out of all the things that the men and the women of that day had done God told Moses you let nobody have that recipe anybody that's a theologian you go in you begin to discover that out of the tribe of the Levites that worked in the temple work there was a family and it was this family's job that was in this tribe to make sure that they held accountable the recipe for this ingredient that would be used to anoint the things in the temple in fact the Bible gives us five or six ingredients agreed that would go into it historians proclaimed that there were actually 11. God gave to Moses this is what you use but then in the course of this hypocrisy you're taking you mix this and you make sure that it works because if you don't it will not be acceptable unto God y'all hang on to Pastor a minute on this Sunday if you ever allow the recipe to get out then others can mimic the anointing of the Lord God and folk will be lied to because the odor will appear the same there will be no glory because they are not my people this family that I'm speaking of if you went to them and said I need this anointing oil they would ask you to Simply leave the room and they would go and they would draw this together and it would have all the exact thing in fact there was a time on Earth that they feared that they had lost some of the ingredients because there was a certain way that it had to burn there was a certain way that it had to ascend there was a certain way that God would receive what they did in the temple if they didn't do it correctly y'all got to understand something that God would not see that fire he would not receive that anointing he would not allow that to happen therefore he would simply say I don't accept your sacrifice and every person in the tribe that God established to be his people they were patiently waiting at their tent doors I'm praying that god Jehovah will come down and receive the sacrifice we live in a day today though where folk are hoping to have a form of godliness if I if I'm just gonna get closer to the things that God's telling me to do that that I gotta I gotta realize that as long as I can get close to heaven then I might slip in through the door see that's the beauty of the place that God's preparing for us and you're not going there working you can't build a back door you can't build a side around or you can't build something that allows you to sneak over the fence you're going to come through into the Gates of Heaven because one thing you obey the word of God you submitted yourself the generations came before you and after you to the way that God ordained that you need to do things and the fear that I have in 2022 is this some are trying to come up with a concoction of worship but it's not touching the Throne of God some are trying to come up with a A recipe that says if I can just get seven out of the 11 right therefore I can justify who I am and I can tell to everybody else I don't believe in the life of Holiness or I don't believe in an Old Rugged Cross or I don't think you've got to repent of your sins I don't think that Godly sorrow Works repentance I don't think that tears of repentance need to go down my cheeks and you can begin to establish things in your own right simply to say if I look like it if smell like it then God's got to receive it friend of mine that is not the case that is not at all the case y'all hang on to me a minute one more thing here notice this this is so cool Exodus chapter 30. one more thing I want to share with you verse 34 the Lord said to Moses take unto thee sweet spices galbanum these sweet spices with pure frankincense of eat shall there be a lightweight verse 35 and thou shalt make it a perfume a confection after the art of Apothecary tempered together pure and holy and thou shalt beat some of it listen to this very small put of it before the testimony in the Tabernacle of the congregation where I will meet with thee listen to this it shall be unto you Most Holy and as for the perfume which Thou shalt make you shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof it shall be unto thee holy for the Lord verse 38 notice this whosoever shall make like unto that to smell thereto shall even be cut off from his people you need to take these spices you need to take these ingredients and you need to beat them and make them and put them into a place so that they can be you a small amount here this is not for anointing of everything this is a small amount that would be used on the top of the table of incense because when you come when you come into the presence of God you will not simply Sashay into there you cannot come Pence on the ground dragging your left foot behind you and simply show up and say God here I am I hope I can do something with you no it's going to be the process of realizing that there is a great recipe of ingredients that have come together and for one specific purpose will you use this again to that family who understood it they said we can't give out this recipe we can't just give it to anybody why because if you try to make this for yourself you might smell like the glory of the Lord is upon you but you haven't gone through the process in order for the glory of the Lord to be upon you God gave Moses the way that those who would work in the Kingdom for those who would work in the Tabernacle he told them I want to smell the smell of perfume as you crush it as you burn it as you put it there it better come up as a sweet smelling Savor before my nostrils I've come today to declare to somebody that there is an anointing that simply comes from on high you can't fabricate it in your prayer closet you can't fabricate it in your car you cannot buy it on Amazon or Ebay but it's only going to come when you get up under the anointing of the Lord and he begins to work in your life and you begin to allow the things of God to push you into a place where you finally discover I know God I need more of you and less of me I know God I've gotta humbly give myself to you less of me and more of you there's nothing that I can do to fabricate the owner of somebody who's truly sacrificing unto the Lord God yes you are he will cut you off from his people there's some even in this house today you've learned how to fabricate the odor but you haven't yet paid for the odor you want the blessings of the Lord but it comes at high cost pastor why all the Old Testament ancient stuff today I'm glad you asked for one I want you to leave here like you learned something I am reminded of the actions and the procedures of old and how they have lasting effects on how we learn things today and what their purpose is I will because it's due repeating I will tell you as a young child as a young boy the prayers that those ladies would pray on Tuesday prayer at my grandmother's house still have an effect on me there was no way you could have fabricated that there was no way you could have conjured it you simply had to be in that prayer room to receive some of us today in this culture Even in our church culture we want to be able to walk through the doors of the church house drop an offering in the plate shake a few hands and walk out the door and consider ourselves to be okay because we walked through the scent but we didn't pay anything for it see there's some of you sitting in this room right now under the sound of my voice you wonder why is God's voice silent right now in my life he's not silent he's simply waiting on you to return to your prayer room Revelation says it this way y'all follow me when's the last time you heard a message using revelation chapter 5 verse 1. I saw the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside sealed with Seven Seals I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof no man in Heaven Nor an earth neither under the Earth was able to open the book neither to look there on verse four and I wept much because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book neither to look there on one of the elders sayeth unto me wheat not Behold The Lion of the tribe of Judah the root of David hath prevailed to open the book and to loose the Seven Seals thereof and I beheld and low in the midst of the throne and the four beasts and in the midst of the Elder stood a lamb that has been slain having seven horns seven eyes which were seven spirits of God sent forth unto the Earth into all the Earth excuse me and he came took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne listen to this verse 8. when he had taken the book The Four beasts Four and Twenty Elders fell down before the lamb I bring every one of them harps and golden vials full of odors which are the prayers of the Saints and they sung a new song saying Thou Art Worthy to take the book open the seals thereof for thou will slain has redeemed us unto God and thy blood out of every Kindred and tongue and people and nation and that's made us unto our God Kings and Priests we shall reign on Earth who's going to open the book the Elder stood we don't know anybody the lamb that was slain from the foundation says I can open it when the elders fell down and the vials they had in their hands the smell began to ascend what was that smell what does it say it's the prayers of the Saints I come today to the Crux of my message I am certain that in the age in which we live we too are looking for answers we are hungry for the things of God and even some of us would laugh and claim that the elders were simply out of their minds and didn't know what they were doing and didn't know how how to do things they were ignorant and learned and they they simply did things because they didn't know no better I'll come today to tell you what John saw in that place is exactly what you and R I are looking for the vials had an odor it was an incense the smell of it was the prayers of the Saints and that smell was able to ascend from that place and through that there was an unction and an anointing that came and things began to happen around the throne room why because somebody had been praying I will revert back to my grandparents for an example because I know their story and I know some of your grandparents stories they didn't know any better they just thought going to church was the right thing to do they just thought that Monday night prayer was a good thing to go to they just knew that Tuesday night prayer was the right thing to go to bible study on Wednesday yeah you better be there Thursday night with the ladies meeting yeah it's time to be there Friday night when the young folk yeah you need to be there Saturday whenever yeah you got to go Outreach Sunday yeah Sunday morning Sunday afternoon Sunday night I don't know when I was a kid I'd go to Sunday school I'd go to Sunday morning worship we'd leave there go to my grandparents house change our clothes we'd go work out in the garden or do whatever all of us did because there was a whole stack of us but long about two three o'clock in the afternoon my grandparents would say hey it's time to come in the house and get ready for church they don't start till later on I know but we got to start here my grandma turned on the organ my grandfather pulled out his old Fender and they start singing I'm using my Bible as a road map it ain't me at my little young age and my brother my brothers and my sister and my cousins and aunts and uncles we'd all sit around the living room yeah we'd just clapped and we'd sing the songs and we didn't know it was flat as all get out guitar Was Out Of Tune but there was some kind of Glory that filled that room and my life was changed because the odor of somebody making a sacrifice not in the house of God but at their houses changed everything I remember vividly as a young man going to my friend Tim's house and his dad pulled out his old guitar and start singing the songs or we'd sit around and sing and I was a young fella but man the glory of the Lord would move I remember as a young person going I didn't have to go to church to have church I didn't know no better I remember at youth camps when Nero sister Hedges would come in and the fire of God would come trailing behind her I don't know who she was I just knew I was afraid of her am I right because Where She Went I remember her at a rally one time Santa testify well I didn't come to preach but I got something to say there ain't nothing like the blood and here's some sinner going Lord Jesus here we go we're coming from the Pew now Lord don't let them call on me to testify because I ain't got nothing to say come on where the glory of the Lord some of y'all have zero clue what I'm talking about because I'm talking old school stuff some of you if you did a little homework you'd find out that you probably had grandparents and great grandparents that probably did the same thing well I got a Nodge in here y'all know what I'm talking about and yet now we have gotten so sophisticated that I now receive texts from people that can't come to church we're going to watch online now I know what that means that means I greatly appreciate the fact that you stream your service therefore I can sit here and drink my whatever and I can eat my this and I can say I was at church now I got it because sometimes I log in and I watch church sometimes because I ain't here well that happens once in a while plus I'm checking on y'all here's my point here's my point don't you think Pastor is upset or mad I'm trying to make you feel guilty because you have to stay home because you're sick no no you listen to me when your desire to be in the house of the God is stronger than your desire to do anything else then you can say be on a shadow of a doubt I hunger for the presence of God but if it's ever a flip of the coin and if it is ever an option I tell you what you are doing is you are corrupting the anointed things of God and you are trying to get the same result of the glory of God moving in the midst of people when you have yet to pay the price to make sure that it's done exactly the way that it's supposed to be done I believe that when you pray those prayers are stored up I am convinced that I stand here today because of my grandparents and my parents praying and praying and praying for me I'm convinced that I'm standing here today a testimony and a witness of an anointing of the Lord God that touched the family and another family and a church in a body and this and things begin to work and now I stand here today and I just I'm just dumb enough and ignorant enough in my age that I'm standing here now to tell you I still believe in The Old Rugged Cross I still believe heaven is real I still believe that you can get over yourself and you can let the work of Calvary work in your life I still believe that the safest place you can find yourself is in the presence of the Lord God at an altar I still believe that he calls people in the ministry I still believe that he heals bodies and Minds I still believe that the crosswords in your life and anyone else's I still believe that the glory of the Lord can shine into your darkest hour and revive you and breathe life into you I still believe that the joy of the Lord is simply strength to you I still believe the power of the convicting power of the word of God still draws tears from your eyes and puts you in a place where you'll say this world is not my home I'm passing through it I'm headed to Heaven one day I still believe in the place called Heaven I still believe that there are streets of gold and Gates of peril I still believe that he's going to call our names one day and we'll give an account I want to hear him say Well done I still believe in the word of God I still believe in the anointing of the Lord that's why you pray not a whole lot of us in here practicing apothecary some of y'all going home and do some research and it's going to blow your mind because you're going to find out some really cool stuff some of you are going to do it because it's called survival skills in case there's an apocalypse or something I don't know maybe you took the bait and started researching zombie apocalypse I don't know anyway listen carefully pastor and I'm done I heard would you come please brother Herman When you pray do not pray amiss because your prayer matters you pray with purpose Lord I believe that when I pray it is working on the anointing and the unction that will send an odor up to you will be received at your throne now I I've come today to realize that in 2000 22 in our culture that there's a lot of folk that are trying to find the fine print you know go go and go and meeting together in a building is not that important it used to be for the old folks but now we can stay home and be saved okay stronger than I am I I realize that we live in a culture to where we can fabricate most things very quickly does anybody here still enjoy sugar but there's a hundred different sugar simulations that have got a lot of folk fooled I I was told that if you drink sugar and stuff it's bad for you and then I was told that if you drink Diet Cokes it's better and then I was told if you drink Coke Zero it's gooder but then I just heard recently it's better I thought milk was good for you I just found out it comes from enamel so it's probably not that good for you uh the last time I checked pork ribs come from an animal too and that's all good for me I miss saying and so we get all smart and we get all intelligent we study things and we figure out stuff and all the while we are listen to me we are intelligently removing ourself from what God is looking for us to do we went to a general conference a few weeks ago and man there was 16 17 000 apostolics in this room and it was phenomenal great church Preacher Man given I could barely see him he's way up there somebody had an idea put cameras on them so you could see him and then I was more focused on the camera image anyway there was glory in that room anybody ever been in kind of in that presence yeah it's pretty cool and what I decided was this if I was expecting to get everything I needed out of one of those services with the 17 000 people in there I'm probably not going to because there's only about 120 front seats and the further I get back in church sitting the more distracted I get I'm just going to tell you there's some folk that ought not get up and leave and go out and use the bathroom during church because it's a terrible show and I want everybody in here knows I'm talking about excuse me pardon me pardon me excuse me excuse me pardon me pardon I'm like what are you doing move excuse me pardon me pardon me excuse me excuse me pardon me pardon me and I'm like ain't nobody in this room looking at you would you move now y'all know what I'm talking about huh everybody in here is like yeah I used to be that person okay well I'm the one that was over there saying would you sit down listen to me careful listen okay what we we have come to the place where we make church so easy and so good and so presentable that if it were uncomfortable or somebody requested required something of us we would probably wonder why they want me to move and Wednesday nights guys y'all think I'm just asking to move around front so I could see you no I won't check your spirit he ain't talking to me he was talking to all of them I'm oh you huh well I'm getting sidetracked so bad as a pastor today God is wanting so bad to anoint and touch us but we won't pay the price for the oil the sweet smell that he requires and we want to come in and smell like a side of beef when he wants us to come in smelling like this we wonder why God's anointing won't touch our lives and why his glory won't breathe into our situation it's because we have skewed the holy things of God I'm asking you in this hour if we're going to move from this place to another place we cannot continue to Simply play it's got to be prey and God has got to move like he has never moved before into our lives because there will come a day when this prayers of the Saints will be poured out and as that vial of odor begins to break and open up there's an anointing and anuncture that will Ascend I want to make sure that there's as many CAC prayers in those vials that can be God if you're asking us to go win this city we need your glory to be upon us in us on us and through us as we walk out the door God if you really want me to witness and testify to my co-worker I'm asking you Lord give me the wisdom and the boldness to be able to Simply step out God if you're doing things in this hour and you're requiring the church to rise to the occasion I pray God that somehow I would pray myself into position so that when you speak I understand your voice so that when the anointing and the unction the odor begins to ascend I can say I'm here today because the Lord God is moving in my life anybody know the New Testament story the birth of Jesus there was a birth of another one called John anybody remember him the Bible says that John's dad was in the temple at his time doing his service as a priest anybody know that story he's burning incense you guys want to know the rest of that story well what's so cool about that in the priesthood the levitical priesthood they would be required to stand at the incense Altar and burn right outside the holy of holies and incense that had been prepared and put together exactly the way God said you guys want to hear something history declares in their life as a priest they would get to do it generally one time at his age no doubt he had given himself completely and holy to the things of God but it came his draw Zechariah I need you to go to the temple and it's your turn to stand at the altar of incense and this is going to be one and done it's your only chance has he stood there that day and began to do the office of the priest he knew brother rob it was probably going to be the only time in his life that he would be able to do that office listen to me and it was in the midst of that precious moment in his mind and in his heart that the voice of God said you're going to have a kid you're going to Bear a son he's going to bring in the greatest message the world's ever heard listen to me but in our day we could come ramshot the kingdom of God you know what I don't even feel like praying today you know what it only matter we can become cynical we can become angry and we can blame God for everything that's happening in our lives and the fact of the matter is this our prayers are being stored and being used I'm asking you today do you want God to move in your life then it's time to find yourself at an altar allowing the work of God to put you in a position to wear a sweet smelling odor can come from your lips as you begin to Worship the Lord God come on stand with me all over this room if you want to pray today this altar is open I'm inviting you to come come on I'm inviting you to come Lord I want to play church anymore I want to pray myself in the position God where the anointing oil Lord can flow in the glory of the Lord God can move in the midst of the church house come on somebody you want to pray I'm inviting you would you come pray Jesus let my praise Lord God be acceptable in your sight that my prayers Lord God be stored up oh Jesus there has to be sacrifice there has to be labor done there is a cost to pay there is a price to invest oh come on pray Church Mom and Dad it's a great time for you to instruct your little ones how to pray that's right this is a great time to get into the Altar and allow the glory of the Lord to move in your life that's right if you're full of the Holy Ghost I challenge you right now walk into the presence of the Lord come on let him do a work in you that's right let him do a work in your life if you don't have the Holy Ghost this is a great time for you to receive it from him come on that's right it's a gift it's a gift that's right come on open your mouth bless the Lord Worship the Lord that's right a sweet saver an owner of worship Jesus I need you Lord prayers matter yes get a hold of God prayer matters that's right come on talk to the king of glory offer him praise right now offering praise right now I Need You Jesus oh come on other intercessors in the house today are there prayer warriors in the house today that will valiantly go in prayer Jesus Jesus king of glory I'm calling on you right now I need you Jesus oh that's right come on come on that's right prayer works prayer is the process Jesus that's right yeah come on me and reach out for God come on men be prayer warriors right now Reach Out your mouth bless the Lord open your mouth worshipers come on run into his presence right now Lord I'm coming to love you I'm coming to lift you up I'm coming to magnify your name I'm coming to exalt you Jesus oh come on that's right press through it pass the doubt get past it you make a way God you make a way God you make a way Jesus you make a way Jesus you know how only you can do it Jesus only you know how only you can do it God come on somebody that's right go into his presence now I've come to love you Jesus I've come to Worship You see I've come to bless your name oh God Jesus today until almighty God pour it over myself I will keep praying and I will keep praying until Jesus oh that's right that's right come on run into his presence I've come to love you Jesus foreign I love you Jesus I need you Jesus living for the Lord is the greatest thing that you'll ever find on Earth getting you ready for heaven amen and I realize that as we mature and as we grow there are processes and there are things that that we learn but everything you do for God is going to come with price and you've got to determine the value of what you're giving come on we all like to talk about job the end result was so great and double everything and no one of us line up though to go through what he had to go through to get it foreign that's just one example but though you slay me I'm going to trust you because that's what praise is about that's what prayer does that's what sacrifice does I admonish you today fall in love with the word fall in love with the things of God your career is important sure your education yes your job yes your how things that you've got yeah take care of those things but if they ever outweigh your love for the word and the things of God then you're already off kilter and I won't judge you I won't have to because I'm not the one calling you it's him we should get close to somebody right now we're going to pray one for another as we leave this place come on God's got great things in store for all of us that's right call on the name of the Lord right now come on pray one for another Lord we need you Lord we trust you Jesus our faith is in you I pray the glory of the Lord would touch my brother and my sister God let there be a love and a passion for the things of God Lord that you would overwhelm them and overshadow them with a great desire to want to be in the house of God to do the things of God according to the word of God give us strength and courage Lord let us find you every day a desire and a hunger to want to connect with you every day Lord God you know the future Lord you know the days ahead of us and I'm believing you God for great power and demonstration we've got to give ourselves to the things of God so that you're you can be known and that your word and your name can be known protect and keep us Lord I pray let your hands shine upon it let it rest upon us Lord as we walk our daily walks let us always keep you first Dear God always considering the things of God not denying you Lord anything but loving and serving you every single day in Jesus name come on in Jesus name foreign in Jesus name I love you all thank you so much for coming to the house of the Lord today as you leave make sure you encourage somebody close to you hug their neck pay them a compliment come on love on them let them know you're glad they're here tomorrow night church prayer here in the house of the Lord my wife and I won't be here we're going to a ministers thing tonight but you guys be here tomorrow night fill this place up with prayer I love y'all Wednesday night we're back here for Bible study I'll be right here thankfulness love y'all now go away