Raised Altars II

Text: Exo. 30:1-9 More Lessons: Num. 16:44-48

As altars are raised for cursing, so also are altars or high places raised for blessing. Examples of the two are Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim in Deut. 11:29, 27:12-13. When God wanted a sanctuary- a place for fellowship and blessing of His people in Exo. 25, He included an altar in the pattern for building the Sanctuary. God gave the altar's specifications and what should be done on it, teaching us some lessons about raising altars to God. First, He said it was a place of meeting with Him regularly (Exo. 30:6). The more the altars you raise to God, the more of His blessings you will experience. There are many types: personal altar (quiet time), marriage/marital altar (by married people) and family altar.

Secondly, the altar is a place of regular burning of incense to God (Exo. 30:1, . The incense God wants to continuously receive on your altar is prayer (all kinds: worship, thanksgiving, petition, supplication and intercession).

Thirdly, it is a place of using blood to atone for the sins of the people. God no longer requires the blood of bulls or rams on altars raised to Him. A better way has been given once and for all (Heb 9:11-14) through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross of Calvary. By faith when you come to God, applying the Blood of Jesus on your life for forgiveness and remission of sins, your prayers are acceptable, bringing down the blessings of God upon your life, destiny and family. Benefits of altars raised to Jehovah are many as evident in the children of Israel when they obeyed God's instructions in building an altar for Him (Exo. 40:27-28, 34-38). God's glory descends and protects, defends, preserves, favours and takes you into fulfillment in life and destiny.

The exciting thing is that the prerogative of raising altars is not in the hand of the enemy alone, the believer also can raise altars. When the enemies raise altars to curse, we too can raise altars to reverse the curse and to pronounce a blessing. Also, we have an altar that is greater than the enemy's. It is the one raised by Jesus Himself at Calvary for which He paid the highest price ever making it the most expensive altar in the universe. This altar speaketh better things and can swallow any enemy's altar. This indeed is good news for all who know it. Prayer, fasting, prophetic declaration of God's Word are all altars that you can take a hold of to destroy any evil in your life. Raise an altar today.

Prayer/Action
* Ask God to make your life an altar of His presence.
* Ask God to turn every challenge in your life to an altar of prayer.
* Command every satanic altar against you to be swallowed up today.
* Ask God to strengthen your altar of prayer for great results.

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