The Prayers of the Saints

And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand. Then the angel took the censer and filled it with the fire of the altar, and threw it to the earth; and there followed peals of thunder and sounds and flashes of lightning and an earthquake. (Revelation)

These verses should mean so much to us, now that we’ve had days and days of devotionals on prayer.

Every prayer of the saints (that’s us!) God heard and he saved them.  

And look what happens!  Thunder, flashes of lightning, and earthquakes!

To me, this means that our prayers, when offered out of an obedient, surrendered heart, coupled with thanksgiving and praise, moves and shakes the universe.

This is huge, if we really get it.

Our prayers are not mindless little petitions we throw out to God, hoping he’ll maybe hear us and send a genie to blink her head and “poof!” there’s our answer.  

Our prayers are not just wasted words in the wind that are just blown back in our faces, stinging like the slap of a kid annoying his father.

 

Our prayers are something God takes very seriously.  When we talk to him, he listens, he stores up our faith and our prayers, and he moves his hand.

If Elijah could pray and affect the weather in the skies, prayer must be a pretty powerful tool God has placed in our hands.

And we must use that tool if we want to see His kingdom come, His will be done, on earth…as it is in heaven.