Multitude Monday: bowls of prayer

I'm studying the book of Revelation right now by using Beth Moore's study: Here and Now...There and Then. I'm so thankful for this study that is helping me understand better the book of Revelation. Notice that I said understand "better"...not sure if we can ever understand the book of Revelation completely! But what a joy it is to understand pieces of scripture for the first time.

Beth says that our prayers "...are sitting right before God in a bowl".

"Each one (the 24 elders) had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints." Revelation 5:8b

I praise God that our voices are heard when we pray and that our prayers are like incense to Him!

Psalm 141:1-2 (New International Version)

1 O LORD, I call to you; come quickly to me.
Hear my voice when I call to you.

2 May my prayer be set before you like incense;
may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.




Hebrews 4:16 (New International Version)

Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

Multitude Monday - "Overflowing with Thankfulness"

So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
Colossians 2:6-7

Today I am "overflowing with thankfulness" to God for the joy that my children bring me!

Multitude Monday

Giving thanks this day...
~for my son's excitement about his new school
~for my husband's employment
~for my baby girl's cute drooly face smiling up at me
~for a completely free (used, but still working) washer and dryer set that we are undeserving of
~for delicious vegetables and fruit given to us from gardens
~for the peace that passes all understanding (Phil.4:7)

For this and more I praise you, my Lord Jesus Christ.