Leviticus 6:13 “The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.”

DAILY READING; 1 Corinthians 3; 1 Kings 15:33-16:34; Joel 3

About three thousand years ago, King Solomon built a magnificent Temple to the Lord upon Mount Moriah.
At the dedication of this temple, King Solomon specifically asked God to heed the prayers of all people who came to the Temple to pray. (1-Kings 8:41-43). In the words of the prophet Isaiah, the temple was “a house of prayer for all nations.”
Remarkably, history shows that thereafter Jerusalem became the focus of the ancient world. Jerusalem was at the epicenter of Asia, Europe and Africa. Many people from these foreign lands, began to visit The Temple at Jerusalem, drawn by stories of the mighty power of God.
After Solomon’s temple was destroyed, King Herod later rebuilt it as the Second Temple.
In 20 B.C, during an expansion of the temple, Herod built a support wall which was called the Western Wall. When the Romans destroyed the second temple in 70 AD, this support wall was the only surviving part of the temple that still remained. Though the Romans scattered the Jews into 1900 years of exile, many of them kept coming back to Jerusalem to pray at the surviving Western Wall of the Temple.
Because of the centuries of endless tears, shed by Jews at this wall as they yearned for the restoration of Jerusalem, it came to be known as the “Wailing Wall”
God answered their prayers and in 1967, during the Six-Day war, Israel regained total control of the entire city of Jerusalem.
Today, the area of the Western wall has been expanded to create the Western Wall Plaza where visitors from all over the world come to pray. Many have the custom of writing prayers on pieces of paper and placing them inside crevices of the wall. There have been many stories of miraculous answers to these prayers.
Just as Solomon had desired three thousand years ago, today the site of the old Temple serves as a house of prayer for all nations..It remains open to all people from around the world, all day, all year-round.

Today, God no longer dwells in a physical temple. As believers, we are God’s mobile temple, where His Presence abides. .
Just as the ancient Temple was called a house of prayer, our bodies are designed to be a place of continuous prayer.
According to 1 Thessalonians 5:16-28 we are to ‘pray without ceasing.”

Indeed prayer is the breath of our spirit man. It is the engine room of our spiritual existence and the war room of our spiritual victories. It is the fuel that propells us forward in life.
Without the power of consistent prayer a believer’s life would be void of God’s presence, leading to powerlessness and defeats in life.
But through prayer we experience mighty manifestations of the Spirit and victories in our lives. Despite the gross darkness covering the earth in these last days, through prayer, we are able to shine as sons of God in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation.
As we currently watch end time events unfold, our lives need to be ablaze with the fire of prayer, along with constantly watching in the Word..
Indeed God has designed Continuous prayers as a way for believers to escape the coming judgement in these last days.

Jesus told us in Luke 21:36, to watch and pray always, so that we may be accounted worthy to escape all the things that shall come to pass upon the earth.

Truly consistent prayers and study of the Word is a great necessity for us at this time.
We can either take the risk of wishing the flood never comes or take responsibility and begin to build our ark while we still can..
The truth is that there’s just a little window of time left. It is a window of grace and we must utilize it to get spirituallly ready.
Through the Blood of Jesus we can overcome every spiritual laxity, break the chains of sin and lukewarmness and live with spiritual fervency.
We must remember that Christ is coming for a glorious Church without spot or wrinkle.
We must therefore strive to be part of this glorious assembly by keeping our lives purified by the fire of prayer burning continually in our temple.

PRAYER: Lord, please grant me the grace to live a lifestyle of consistent prayers, study of the Word and intimate fellowship with the Spirit, so that Your Presence can abide with me always in Jesus Name.
QUOTE :
The treasures of God are never on the shallow end, but are always buried in the depth of God’s Word. It takes a personal discovery to get there. – WORDBITE 222.
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