Ezekiel Kimosop Supporter

How can we make our prayers like "incense" as in Psalm 141:2?

Psalm 141 is reckoned as a psalm of David. The writer seeks God's protection not only from the snares that his enemies had laid on his path (v.9) but also from the vagaries of a foul mouth that utters words in foolishness (v.3) and an evil heart that practices wicked works (v.4). In short, the psalmist is asking God to sanctify him and preserve him from evil in his journey of faith.

Psalm 141:1-2 says "Lord, I cry out to You;
Make haste to me!
Give ear to my voice when I cry out to You.
2 Let my prayer be set before You as incense,
The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice." (NKJV). 

This is the opening section of the psalmist's prayer. He asks God to listen to his prayer. Every believer who appears before God in prayer with a clear conscience longs for God's attention. The mention of incense and the evening sacrifice is a simile, a poetic figure of speech that David employs in this context to illustrate the significance of a godly prayer in the presence of God. It is like a temple sacrifice where the incense is a sweet smelling aroma before the presence of God (Genesis 8:21; Leviticus 1:3; 2 Corinthians 2:15; Philippians 4:18). 

The writer prays that the lifting of his hands in prayer may be acceptable before God just as the evening sacrifice which was offered to God by the priest in the temple or tabernacle. 

This text of Scripture reminds us of the privilege of appearing before God's presence in prayer and in submission to God's divine discretion in handling our petitions. The writer is conscious of God's holiness as he appears before Him. God desires that we hallow His divine presence and sanctify His Name. We should approach Him by faith as His covenant people who have been redeemed by the blood of Christ. 

Psalm 141 also reminds us that God values our spiritual standing whenever we appear before His presence. The psalmist was concerned about his moral integrity and his speech even as he prayed for God's protection. Notice his plea in vv. 3-5. No believer is perfect in the sight of God and this is the reason that Jesus taught us under The Lord's Prayer to seek God's forgiveness for our trespasses and to seek His leading and deliverance from temptations of life (Matthew 6:9-15). 

We make our prayers like incense when we align our hearts and minds to the truths of God's word; when we choose to allow God's divine influence to shape our thoughts and convictions. This can only happen when our lives are totally yielded to God under unflinching faith.

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Donna Williams Supporter

Our prayers are like incense, or a sweet smelling savor to God; because we are in Christ! To be offered daily unto God our Father through the Lord Jesus Christ. Not just our prayers, but our praise and worship as well. 

It is because of our relationship with Jesus, that we have been made acceptable to God the Father, through his death, resurrection, and his ascension. As Christ, ministers as our Great High Priest in the heavenly realm.

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Leslie Coutinho Supporter

Psalm 141:2: Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

In the Psalm of David, one needs to discern to have the heart of humbleness, which will then lead one unto the Lord God the Father, who shall then give, “Ear unto thy voice.” One who then sets in the right spirit of discernment, shall then hold their mouth that will control their tongue to hold the door of their lips. This will lead one to discern then, not to incline thine heart to any evil things, wicked works, with men that work iniquity and eat their dainties (delicacies). (Psa 141:1,3-4) One who then discerns to have the heart of humbleness, the Lord God shall then sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be cleansed of all your filthiness. You shall then have a “New Heart in you, with a New Spirit, for He has taken away the stony heart out of your flesh.” For thus one shall be then given “His Holy Spirit in you, leading you to walk in His statutes, to keep His judgments.” He shall then multiply the fruit of thy tree, who shall then “increase in the field and shall not receive reproach of famine among the heathens that are around you in the field.” (Eze 36:25-30)

Today, for one to set their incense of prayer in their lives, they need to have the humbleness to discern, for the Holy Spirit shall then guide them and lead them to set the incense. For the Spirit beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. The Holy Spirit shall then help in your infirmities (weakness), for we know not what to pray for, for then the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered through our humbleness. God the Father who then searcheth the hearts, then knoweth what is in the mind of the Spirit, that maketh intercession, according to the will of God. (Rom 8:16,26-27) When Lord Jesus followed a ruler to his home, who wanted Him to lay His hands upon his daughter, who was dead, there was a woman who had issues of blood for twelve years. She followed and set an incense of prayer, who said then within herself, "If I touch His garment, I shall be whole," and she touched Lord Jesus, then turned and saw her and said, “Daughter, be of good comfort, thy faith had made thee whole.” And the woman was made whole from that hour. (Mat 9:18-22)

The ones who then set the incense of prayer, Lord Jesus, who sits with God the Father, will then pray to the Father, who shall then give you another Comforter that shall abide in you. The Comforter is the Holy Ghost, whom the God the Father will send in the name of the Lord Jesus. “Who shall then teach you all things and bring all things to Remembrance whatsoever the Lord Jesus said unto you.” (Joh 14:16,26) The ones who then abide in our Lord Jesus, He shall then abide in you, as the prophet Ezekiel was revealed, (Eze 36) for you shall then bear fruit, abiding in Him. (Joh 15:4) The ones who are left behind during the rapture, God the Father will send the messengers who witnessed the Lord Jesus. (Mat 17:3,5) They shall then prepare the way before Him, before the great, dreadful day of the Lord that shall then come. (Mal 3:1/4:4-5) This was Malachi, who was revealed by God the Father, as the Lord Jesus said. This is he to whom it is written, “I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.” (Mat 11:10,14)

Revelation 2:7: He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; “To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.”

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