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Revelation chapter 8, verses 3 through 5, and another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden

censor, 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. Then the angel took the sensor and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth.

And there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

So there's a lot going on here that requires a lot of discussion and even

some disagreement among different followers of Jesus, Bible believing fathers of Jesus, who

understands some of the timing and events that are happening here in Revelation a little

differently. But these verses are a powerful picture of the

effect of prayer. And specifically our prayers, your prayers. The takeaway that's clear here in Revelation

chapter 8 is that it's the prayers of the saints that are rising like incense before God. And it's in response to

those prayers that God sins these peals of thunder and rumblings and flashes of lightning and

earthquake and all that flows after that in Revelation 8. It all happens in response to prayer. So I just want to encourage

you today to not underestimate the effects of your prayers. God is making clear here in Revelation

chapter 8 that it's the prayers of his people that will bring about all that's

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