Today's Daily Lesson comes from Revelation chapter 5 verse 8:
8When he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, each holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
Almost every Tuesday morning throughout the pandemic I have gathered by phone with five or six women from the church to pray four congregation, community, and world. These ladies are so faithful to pray, and they teach me so much about faithfulness, the release of judgment, and turning things over to God.
It is an inherently humbling act to set aside an hour of "work" and devote oneself to asking someone else for help. But the fact is there is so much work to be done, we have to have help.
The discipline of daily and weekly prayer reminds us that we can't do this on our own -- and don't have to. God is here to help. And it pleases God when we ask and give thanks.
Today's Lesson tells us the prayers of the saints are incense in the worship of heaven. A long time ago most Baptists gave up incense. But the Tuesday morning prayer group still knows how to make it.
They're teaching me how to make it too.
Rev. Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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