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Altar of incense in the Tabernacle, Aaron is instructed to burn fragrant incense every morning

before the Lord. And he shall burn it a regular incense offering, verse 8 says,

before the Lord, throughout your generations, this picture of, at every moment,

a picture of worship going before God, worship from among God's people rising to God

in a pleasing way to him. That's the picture here in a way that throughout the rest of the Bible,

we often see prayer described as being like incense before the Lord. In fact, when you get to the

end of the Bible and you see the culmination of the coming of God's kingdom in a place like

Revelation chapter 8 says, another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden sensor and he

was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before

the throne. And the smoke of the incense with the prayers of the saints rose before God from the

hand of the angel. So the picture here of the prayers of God's people rising like incense before

God. So now you think about a command like we see in 1 Thessalonians to pray continually like all

the time when you rise in the morning and all day long. I just even picture it in our lives as

the church. I think about the church that I'm a part of like as we are praying all day long. I

pray that they would just be incense rising from the claim Bible church all day long before God

through brothers and sisters praying continually for the moment we wake up in the morning the

first time somebody wakes up or somebody who's working a night shift that they're praying

while they're working on their way home and there's we wake up different people just

incense rising and all day long as we walk through all kinds of different things. This is

what we do is the body of Christ is the people of God. We lift up prayers continually like

incense before God. Prayers of praise, prayers of confession, prayers of petition, prayers of

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