Revelation 8
Eternal Prayers!
Is there anything you can invest your time in today that is guaranteed to last forever?
Listen to Revelation 8:1-4,
When the Lamb broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. Another angel came and stood at the altar, holding a golden censer; and much incense was given to him, so that he might add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand.
In Heaven, the prayers of God’s people go up before God. This same truth is also referenced in Revelation 5:8, where we see the “prayers of the saints” in “golden bowls full of incense.”
Your prayers, lifted up to God, last forever! Take time today to invest yourself, your time, and your energy in eternity.
As you read the rest of Revelation 8, you will be confronted with how so many other things we invest ourselves in just won’t matter at the end of the age. So much of what we get caught up in will be long gone when our prayers lifted up to God will still be like incense to God in the throne room of Heaven.
Seize the moment and praise God today. Share with God what is on your heart, submit yourself to His purposes for your life, ask Him to lead you and then listen for His guidance, and may the God of all love and grace guide your steps through His Word and Spirit.
I encourage you to continue to review all of your memory verses. Let’s recite this week’s memory verse from Romans 12:3 (NAS95), “For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.”