Prayer altars consist of reading God’s Word, worship, listening, journaling, studying, waiting, and “soaking” in His Presence."The ghosts of your past would like to have a word with you." Shudder has revealed an official trailer for an indie horror creation titled Brooklyn 45, the latest from indie genre filmmaker Ted Geoghegan. As we keep the fire burning in our own lives, we become the kindling for the corporate altars that must be established within our communities. It’s from this place of personal encounter that we have the anointing and authority to counter the darkness in our communities and create a place for God to come and dwell.Ĭreating a sacred time and sacred place takes practice it takes discipline. We then establish similar altars in our home as families and in our churches. It is the starting place, the consistent place, the fuelling place where we meet with God and create an environment for Him to come. When altars are repaired, God judges wickedness in the land and in our families and a new season begins.īuilding a prayer altar is foundational in our pursuit of God’s Presence. According to 1 Kings 18:39 fire came down and fear came back to the house of God. When Elijah rebuilt the altar at Mount Carmel, this singular event caused ripples in the nations. What conditions did God give David? He said, ‘David, go build me an altar, and I will not just stop the destroying angel, but will remove the plague completely.’ (2 Samuel 24:18-25). “I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none.” (Ezekiel 22:30-31, NIV) We must create an atmosphere for Him to come and abide with us so that the real work of restoration and redemption can begin in our land. We need God to show us how to build up the wall again. There is a reason why so much darkness is coming into our land and into our individual home and families. Abraham also built a personal altar where he sought the Lord “Abraham gets up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD: Gen. I want to make mention that Daniel had an altar of prayer He prayed three times a day. Prayer can transform our homes, workplaces, churches, schools and communities our health, our nation, government leaders and our marriages can all be affected by prayer if we use it. When we pray, we are making an offering to God turning away from our own lives and agenda to acknowledge God’s sovereignty and influence over everything including those things that concern us. Just as rebuilding the altar and making sacrifices was very important to the Israelites, so it is to us. However scriptures teach the importance of us having a location as our personal altar.Įzra 3:2 reads, “Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brethren the priests….arose and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it…” 1Cor.6:19, meaning you’re automatically a mobile altar. In the first place as earlier said, as believers our body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place (2 Cor. and retrieving grace, honour, strength and glory. The sum total of all that has been said, is that God wants you and I to be living, moving altars carrying the fragrance of the Lord everywhere we go, transmitting and sending signals of His majesty wherever we dwell and opening up gateways, drawing down power, taking control and dominion over the jurisdiction we find ourselves, depositing and recording prayers, fasting, worship, money, etc. The altar of incense and the brazen altar could be dismantled for convenience and transported from place to place. The Ark of the Covenant, in the Old Testament had staves which enabled it to be carried from one place to another on the shoulders of the priests. Everyone of us is to be portable moving altars of God. Ultimately, We All Are Altars Of The Living GodĮvery temple has an altar. What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in
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