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Prayer
Friday, April 3, 2015
The Prayer of Your Servant
READ: 1 Kings 8:54-58
KEY VERSES: And so it was, when Solomon had finished praying all this
prayer and supplication to the Lord, that he arose from before the altar of the
Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven. Then he
stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice.
-1 Kings 8:54-55 (NKJV)
King Solomon was serious in his prayer life with God. In his prayer, he
summarized the significance of God separating the children of Israel from
all the people of the earth to be his inheritance and dedicated the finished
temple unto God.
The seriousness and intimacy of a servant’s prayer-filled relationship with
God is on full display in I Kings 8. We see it in Solomon’s rising from his
knees at God’s altar with his hands raised to heaven, and we hear it with his
loud voice offering the blessings he declared over all of Israel, giving full
acknowledgement to the great God who had kept His promise.
We, too, should aside time to enter into the intimate, deepest moments of
prayer with the Master and, like Solomon, rise up to declare His blessings.
–Rev. Samuel Nixon Jr.
LOOKING WITHIN: How’s my prayer life? What can I do to become more
serious about spending intimate time with God?
Dear Lord, hear your servant’s prayer, that you would incline your ear
from heaven and find in me a willing habitation for thee! Amen.
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