Pure Holy Incense - Incense Morning and Evening (Daily Devotional)

Greetings! Thank you for joining us today and it is our privilege to come to you and spend these few moments in the word and prayer. This week, we are looking at the pure and holy incense which God had instructed the high priest to offer in the holy place at the altar of incense to Him. We read about all the details in Exodus chapter 30. What I want to highlight today is from Exodus chapter 30, verses 7 and 8, where God said, the priest would have to offer this, morning and evening every day. Think about this, every day, you bring this incense the way God prescribed it and you burn it/ put fire to it at the altar of incense, evening and morning; every day the priest had to do it. Now, there is rich meaning for us as New Testament believers. Of course, we are not doing this literally in the natural but what God is telling us is that we offer to Him our sacrifice of worship, praise, prayer, intercession morning and evening. In fact, the New Tetsament teaches us to do it without ceasing, at all times, that we offer our sacrifices. There is this incense that is continually going up before God, nonstop, continuous worship and prayer before God. We are called to do that in the New Testament, let us pray without ceasing all the time. Doesn’t matter where we are, we don’t have to be in a certain physical place or location but from our hearts there is this incense always burning or going up before God throughout the day, morning and evening, always being offered up, up to God. What a beautiful picture of what God desires from us as a holy and royal priesthood, that there is always this incense, this sacrifice, this boldness of prayer, with intercession for the needs and the purity of praise and worship being offered up to God continuously from our hearts, that is what we are called to do. So, let us pursue that, that from our altars of incense, there will always be incense going up before God.

Let us pray, Father, we ask that you will help us to maintain this, morning and evening and throughout the day, all the time, incense being offered up from the altars of our hearts to you, of worship, of prayer, of sacrifice, of intercession always. We thank you, in Jesus’ name, Amen.

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