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Heaven's Prayer Bowls Revealed 0:01 The church in America has never needed revival more than it does now, and revival begins with you. Introducing pastor Tyler Gaulden's book, Revive0:13 Us Again. Inside this book, he shows us how to have revival in your life, home, and church. You'll find these truths to be challenging to your soul,0:25 but also comforting to your faith. Revive Us Again is yours in appreciation for your generous gift of any amount to unspeakable joy this month. Let this booklet0:36 challenge you, change you and comfort you. Write or visit online to request your copy today.0:49 This morning in the book of the Revelation chapter number 5, I wanna talk to you about the prayer bowls in heaven. Right now in the heaven,1:01 there are these vessels. The Bible tells us in the book of the Revelation chapter number 5 and verse number 8.1:18 Revelation 5 and 8, the bible says, and when he had taken the book, the 4 beasts and the 4 and 20 elders fell down1:29 before the lamb. Now notice that phrase, the lamb. The reason that it's capitalized is it's trying to show you it is a 1 of a kind.1:41 It is nobody like this 1 lamb. That's why it doesn't say a lamb. It says the lamb Because there ain't another 1 like him. Who is the1:52 lamb? The first time John wrote in the book of John chapter number 1, he didn't get 28 verses into it. And he looks up out of the muddy waters of the Jordan River, and he says, behold,2:05 the lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. It says they fell down before the lamb. Before John ends this verse, he says this,2:17 having every 1 of them harps and golden vows full of odors, which are the prayers of the saints.2:30 In John chapter number 1, we read about the life of Jesus on the earth. But the moment you come into Revelation chapter number 1, we are taken to a time2:42 in the future. We are introduced to a man whose name is the beginning and the end. He is the first and he is the last. He is above all. He2:54 is through all. He is by all. He is in all, and he is all in all. He is he which was dead. Behold, he is alive forevermore.3:07 Then we get into John chapter number 2 and John chapter number 3, and we're taken to the second part of the book of the Revelation. Those things which were in the days3:19 of John. John talks about 7 different churches that represent 7 different ages of the church period beginning at Ephesus and ending at Laodicea.3:32 The moment he gets out of chapter number 3, he goes to chapter number 4 and chapter number 5, and we are raptured into the presence of God. And in chapter number 5, we are3:43 given the vision of what brother John sees up there. In heaven, John says that all of a sudden, there is this sealed scroll. And inside of those sealed3:55 scrolls are the fullness of the plan and the judgment of almighty God, but John weeps because there's nobody in the heavens that is worthy to unloose the seals4:07 and unscroll the judgments. And about that time coming off of the throne of God, they say, weep not, John, for the revelation is about to be unfurled. They4:19 say, weep not, brother John, for the lion of the tribe of Judah is worthy to open the scrolls. And man, when the lamb steps off the throne coming out of the left side and4:30 coming out of the right side, there are 3 different groups that proceed into the presence of God. The first group that comes out are called the 4 beasts. We are4:42 told what those 4 beasts look like, but then the other, the the way that you would think about is they're otherworldly. They don't make sense to our human mind. Brothers and sisters, there are gonna4:54 be things in this blessed old book that don't make sense to the human mind. 1 old preacher said this, don't let your nerves get tore up over the stuff you don't understand. You5:06 worry about doing that stuff you do understand because that'll take you all your life anyways. Because if everything in this book made sense, it had to be written by somebody that was on the same5:17 level as you and I. But, this book is not written by a man, but it came from the very finger of God. He says number 2, the second group that that comes out are5:29 these 20 and 4 elders. And in their hands, the Bible says they've got a harp in 1 hand and they've got a golden vial in the other hand. Now5:41 angels in the Bible are never said to have harps, but the elders are said to have harps. The third group that comes out is this group and all5:53 we're told about them is they are clothed in a white robe of righteousness and they have a song that has never been sung. It is6:05 a new song, but here is what it says about those golden vows. It says that there are odors. That is a word for incense, and it6:16 says what those odors are. Those incense odors in that golden vow in the hand of the 20 and 4 elders are the prayers6:29 of the saints of God. That word vow, write this down in your Bible. That's an old King James word that literally means a vow. It is a a a Greek word. It was a flat6:41 dish, a wide mouth bowl, and they would use those wide mouth bowls in the temples of the Greek gods, and they would put in6:52 them fruit and produce and incense or liquid that they would take into the the the holy place of those temples. And what went in that was7:04 used in the worship of that god. So you and I, when we hear that word vow, we think of a jar, a a a vase. If you're from Tennessee, it's a vase. If you're from up north, it's a vase.7:16 But if we think about that tall, slender thing, but that's not what that word is in the Greek. It literally means a bowl. Here is what it says. It says in 1 hand,7:28 they've got these hearts, and in the other hand, they're holding a bowl full of prayers. Brothers and sisters in the heaven of heavens right7:40 now, the 20 and 4 elders representative of the church age have in their hand prayer bowls. What7:52 did God intend when he told us what was in them prayer bowls? He didn't tell us what they're wearing. He didn't tell us what they look like,8:04 but he wanted us to know that they had prayer bowls. Let me help you with these prayer bowls. They teach us a little something about praying. Number 1,The Path of Our Prayers 8:16 whenever we look at those prayer bowls, we understand the path of our prayers. Have you ever wondered how it is that your prayers and my prayers as the people of God8:28 get from earth to heaven? How is it that once a prayer is uttered from our lips that they make their way into the presence of God? Well, prayers in the bible are likened8:40 to incense, and so incense has a specific path. Incense back in the old in the new and the old testament, it would start out as something on the ground in its own environment.8:52 It was cut out of that environment, and then it was given to these priests. These priests would take that incense and make it acceptable to go into the temple9:04 or the tabernacle. Those priests would then hand it to the high priest who would ultimately take it into the throne room where the holy of holies9:16 is. Brothers and sisters, your prayers and my prayers don't just end up from here to there. There is a specific path that your prayers and my prayers take.9:27 Number 1, prayer has to start as a burden. Where do I get that? Philippians chapter 4 and verse number 6. Be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and9:39 supplication with thanksgiving, let your request be made known unto God. Whenever that churning, that burning, that turning, or that yearning is on the inside9:51 of your heart, it turns into something that you know you can't do anything about so you pray it. That's the first step. The second step after it begins in the heart, number10:03 2, it has to be offered in faith. Matthew chapter 21 verse number 22. And whatsoever things ye ask in prayer, believing,10:16 you shall receive them. Hebrews 11 says, whatsoever is not of faith is sin. He that cometh to God10:28 must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. So the second thing is10:40 after that prayer comes off of the heart, out of the mouth, number 3, it is taken to heaven by the Holy Ghost. Now I'm gonna get a little mystical10:52 right here and I'm about to make some Baptist people nervous, but I got bible on it. Romans chapter number 8 verse number 26 and verse number 27. Likewise, the11:04 spirit himself maketh intercessions for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. What does that mean? It means this. When I get on my knees11:15 before a holy God, I've got feeble words. I've got unable words. I've got an in, an incapable vocabulary. I don't even know how I'm supposed to pray, but I've got a helper.11:28 I've got an advocate on the inside. It's the third person of the trinity. Now beloved, our charismatic friends believe that until you pray in tongues, you've not got it heard. Had ain't11:39 got nothing to do with praying in tongues. It's not my tongue that gets it to the father. It's a Holy Ghost tongue that gets it to the father because here's what he says. He says you ain't praying. You don't know what11:51 you're doing. You don't know. Here's I'm your helper. I'll be your advocate. He takes that prayer and just like an intermediary priest would take that offering, that incense from the door outside12:03 the veil. He would take it on the inside of the veil. And what went from the outside got in the priest's hands and when the inside it was going somewhere. You see the holy ghost, he finds you on an12:15 altar mama. He finds you in a car daddy. He finds you in a back prayer closet somewhere and he sees those tears running out of your eyes and you don't really know how to pray and you say, lord I don't know what to say.12:26 The Holy Ghost said, yeah. I know what you're trying to say. Oh, I I feel that burden. I feel that prayer. And he says, I'm gonna take it from here. That's the third. But what happens to it when it gets to12:37 heaven? The intermediary priest, number 4, it's given to the high priest. You see the high priest is the only 1 that12:49 can get it to the throne room. What does that have to do with us? Hebrews chapter 4 verse number 14, 15, 16, and following. He says, let us13:01 therefore hold fast to the profession of our faith seeing then that we have an high priest that is passed into the heavens, Jesus Christ the righteous. Let us13:13 therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may find help and obtain mercy in our time of need. And here's what happens, the Holy Ghost says,13:25 Jesus you know that child that bowed and became 1 of yours? They've got a request and I've put it in a package. I've sanctified that prayer. I've put it in a way that you can offer it before the father and he13:37 hands it to the Lord Jesus Christ. And the Lord Jesus Christ, he takes it before the father and it tells us in Revelation chapter number 8 that when it gets in the hands of Jesus, he takes that heavenly13:48 censer full of Holy Ghost fire and it becomes an incense in the presence of God. Why am I blessed this morning? Will14:00 you write a verse down in John chapter number 11 and verse number 42. Here is what Jesus said at the tomb of the dead man Lazarus. He looks up14:12 to his father and he says, father, I know that thou hearest me always. There has never been a prayer that got in the hands of the Holy Ghost that14:24 was taken to the father's footstool and given to the high priest that will ever be denied. Therefore, you gotta keep on14:37 praying. The burden in the heart has got to be prayed in faith. And when it's prayed in faith, the Holy Ghost grabs hold of it and takes it to14:49 heaven, and he gives it to the high priest. Now evidently, the high priest doesn't set every prayer on fire because it seems as if when the prayer becomes15:00 incense burning, it's been answered, but not all prayers are answered immediately. Some are put in bowls.15:14 Brothers and sisters, not every prayer you pray will be answered today, but every prayer you pray in faith will15:27 be answered. Number 2, we learn the path of our I'm going somewhere. I promise I'm taking you somewhere. Number 2, we learn from these prayer bowls the preciousness of ourPreciousness and Power of Prayer 15:39 prayers. The Bible says he puts them in golden vows. There are there are 10 I'm gonna get it to put a graphic up on the15:51 screens for you. There are 10 things in the book of Revelation that John says are golden. What's golden in heaven? Number 1, the girdle of Jesus is16:03 golden. Number 2, the crowns of the elders are golden. Number 3, the vows holding our prayers are golden. Number 4, the censer at the altar is golden.16:15 Number 5, the altar of incense is golden. Number 6, the crown of Jesus is golden. Number 7, the girdle upon the angels is golden. Number 8, the vows16:27 holding judgment are golden. Number 9, the measuring reed that measures the the walls of New Jerusalem is golden. And number 10, the streets that are made there in New Jerusalem16:39 are all made of gold. Now here is what I'm trying to show you. Here's the whole point. If the crown of Jesus is precious, yes it is. If the girdle of Jesus is precious, yes it is. If the girdle of the16:50 angels is precious, yes it is. If the very street made of gold is precious, yes it is. If the golden vows that hold the judgment of God is precious. Yes, it is. How precious must our17:02 prayers be that he puts them in gold? You know there's only 2 things that go from here to heaven. Number 1, it's our tears for the Bible says he bottles17:14 them. But number 2, our prayers. I wanna step on some Baptist toes.17:26 We practiced our sermon this morning and we practiced our song, but our songs will never be contained in anything in heaven. Our songs will never be practiced or sung in heaven for there's a new17:37 song in heaven. We worked on our lessons this morning, but our lessons will never go to heaven. What have we done with our praying?17:49 The only thing that God says is precious about the people of God, Have we even spent any time doing that? Beloved, it is an18:01 amazing thing to me that our Baptist churches know how to talk about God, but they don't know how to talk to God. They'll preach about God, but they'll never preach to people about talking to God.18:13 It is about high time that our people learn how to pray better and stop performing in front of people. We've got our preachers, man, they are politic and they're pumped up. They got their tie right. Some of them get up18:25 in no ties and we wanna argue about that, but yet not 1 of them has been under a holy ghost burden anytime to get on their face and say oh God, my fighting will not be in heaven. My urging will not be in18:37 heaven. My witnessing will not be in heaven. My sermons will not make it to heaven. My songs will not make it to heaven. Oh, god. Let me be a man that knows what goes.18:49 My prayers. How precious must our prayers be that God makes golden bowls to put them in? Now number 3, I can tell y'all wait that point up. Number 3,19:01 let me give to you the third point about these prayer bowls. It talks about the power of our praying. Did you notice what he says? Our prayers19:13 are like in that bowl. He said it's like odors. Now, odors in our language and odors in that language are 2 different things. Whenever19:25 you see the Greek word odor, it literally means that which overtakes the environment that it's in. It's pretty much like a teenage boy. In fact, actually the19:37 Greek word and the English word may not be too far off. It's just a little bit different. The Greek word for odor, I'm gonna impress you with my Greek skills. Now when I say these Greek and Hebrew words, I'm expecting19:47 y'all to pump my ego by going oh. Okay. You ready? The Greek word for odor is thymamia. Praise the Lord. Now I'm gonna really19:59 impress you. Do you know what we get our English word from that word? You ever cooked with a fragrance called time? You see 1 of the20:11 ingredients of the incense that they would take into the the altar of incense, it was time. They would take time, and they would set it on20:23 fire. Do you know why? Because time was a fumigate. It would push out all the bugs from that holy place. You20:35 see there was blood on that mercy seat and when blood gets old and caked up, what does it bring in? Flies. Death20:47 always attracts disease. So they had to keep, they had to put something there that would say to everything that didn't belong,20:59 you got to go. He said them bowls are full of stuff that when you bow down, you21:11 declared something's got to go. You see that is what praying is. It's when you get so sick and tired of this earthly way.21:22 You get so sick and tired, mama, of the way the devil has got his little fangs around your babies, and you get under such a burden, and you say, no. No. No. No. No. We're not playing this game21:34 anymore. I'm about to light off something that's gonna push the death out of this room. I'm getting ready to turn something on that's gonna push that which does not belong out of this room. I'm21:46 sick and tired of my kids being hooked by the devil, and so I cannot talk my way. I cannot walk my way, but when I cannot talk and I cannot walk, I can get on my21:58 knees. And when my prayer is taken by the holy ghost and lift it up to the throne of God. God almighty, he says I'm gonna do something about that which is there and that belong and in the22:10 very presence of God right there in that bowl. Brothers and sisters, this is what you've gotta understand. That is nothing more than a mama, a daddy or a grandparent that said no more.22:22 Brothers and sisters, what is the prayer that changes the way? You ready? Jesus said it in Matthew chapter number 6 verse number 2 and 3. Here it is. Thy kingdom22:34 come. If you really wanna shake the gates of hell, start declaring that over your mama, over your daddy, over your grandparents, over your kids, over your grandkids.22:46 And I mean, I'm talking about Holy Ghost locking in and I'm talking about pushing everything out and saying, Lord, I'm tired of the kingdom of darkness having a say in my kids. That's not the kingdom I22:57 belong to. And so, Lord, I'm praying right now for my son. Oh God, let your kingdom come into his mind. God, let your kingdom come into his life. Lord, he's a dating girl and I don't care23:09 very much for her. She's a little no good for nothing thing and all she's trying to do is tear him up. Lord, I can't get his attention. His mama I'm gonna help somebody right now. I'm I can't get his attention.23:21 His mama can't get his attention, but I dedicated that child to you on an altar somewhere and I said his kingdom is gonna be your kingdom. And so my God, I'm praying right23:33 now. Push the kingdom of darkness out and let your kingdom come. Come out.23:45 What happened to our backbones? They're not gonna like me very much.23:57 They ain't gonna be able to like you when they're so hooked on everything from here to Beersheba. They're not even gonna be able to understand what world they're in. We've lost an entire generation afraid to offend24:09 them. I would rather stand in my children's, but now I got teenagers. I'm having to live with this. I got a little boy right now. I got a little girl that's on her way. I am not interested in what24:21 anybody else thinks and I sure enough ain't interested in what the devil thinks. God gave us those kids. God gave me this home. And if I've gotta burn on the way down,24:33 I'll stand and say, thy kingdom come.24:47 I'm from the ACC. They give us 5 timeouts. I will not. You're not supposed to put your hands in your pockets24:59 when you preach, but I'm doing it. I will not let our Baptist churches go to hell because the devil25:11 has raised up a bunch of spineless jellyfish that are afraid to stand for anything. I'm not talking about mean. I'm not talking about bulldog. I'm talking about somebody like Criswell, somebody25:23 like Lindsay. I'm talking about somebody that knows God and says you know what? That's not the way it's supposed to be. That's not the way we operate. We're not here to raise up kingdoms. We're here to build the25:35 kingdom of God And somebody that says, that doesn't belong in our churches. That doesn't belong in this nation. That doesn't belong in the White House. That doesn't belong in the Congress. That doesn't belong in the25:45 state house. That doesn't belong at the church house. That doesn't belong at my house. Oh, God, I don't have the power, but thy kingdom come.25:58 He says the parables are full of the prayers where God says, I'm gonna push the devil out. And when I get26:10 ready to offer this up, can I help you with something? God can do in 5 seconds what we can't do in 5 lifetimes. Y'all don't know much about me. Boy, I26:21 should be a whole lot more dignified on a Sunday morning. I know that. I didn't wanna preach. Only thing I know about preachers is they were fat and they26:33 golfed all the time. I hate golf and I ain't interested in being fat. I wanna be a firefighter like my daddy.26:46 Well, I wanted to be a police officer, but you had to be 21 to do that and I never had patience. So you can be a firefighter at 19, so I just gonna do that. Man, I wanna be a firefighter. Firefighters work 1 day off 226:58 days, and on the 2 days off, they all had side gigs. So I was gonna start a business, and I was gonna make money, and and man, I was gonna go on vacation 3 and 4 times a year, and I was gonna have a bass boat, and I was27:10 gonna go out on the lake. I hate fishing, but I was gonna go around and pull a tube around. I was gonna have a great life. I was gonna I was just gonna have a great life. I was 1 week27:22 from starting school to be a fire 1 week. And God I didn't know it was God. Something got a27:34 hold of me. And when I say it got a hold of me, I've been trying to shake it for 20 years and I ain't been able to. What got a hold of27:45 me? I can't altogether put it, but I think I got it figured out. I hated Sunday school. I hated27:58 Sunday school. Brandon Patton, I hated Sunday school. In the first grade, I had this Sunday school teacher,28:14 and God bless her heart. She had this flannel graph and if you interrupted her flannel graph, she28:25 would grab your head and make you I'm gonna tell you something. I've been combing my hair like this since I was in the first grade. You touch my hair, I'll send you to meet your maker.28:44 I'll break you 1 way, throw you back the other way, and we'll eat a tuna fish sandwich while I'm doing it. I won't bother me. You touch my hair. I'll send you to meet your maker. Whichever 1 you are serving, you'll go28:55 meet them. And I got listen. I was acting up. I'll be honest. I deserve to have my just absolute blessings worn out of me. She came up to me, she grabbed me by the29:07 head. And I thought, lady, I'm about to kill you right here in this place, in this little Sunday school class. She held her hand on my head,29:20 and I kinda looked up at her. And she wouldn't say anything, but her lips were moving. You know what she was doing? She was praying.29:35 I don't have any idea what she said that day. But several years after God called me to preach and I was going along with my ministry, she came to a little youth revival I was preaching.29:48 And she came in and she hugged me, and she said, I knew from the day you set foot in my class, God was gonna call you to preach.30:00 Call you to preach. She said, I started praying. Wow. From the first grade until I was 18 years old, how much time that is in between. I was30:12 living and my life was being directed and my path was being put in place. Me and Chris were talking about it the other day. He said, what kind of friend group did you run with in high school? I said, brother, it's the30:22 craziest thing. I said, I never could find a crowd that I fit in with. Everybody else would be having parties, but they wouldn't invite me. Everybody else would be going to this, and they wouldn't invite me. It was as if30:33 I had been insulated. It was as if I had been put behind a veil. It was as if God had put me in a little pocket and he wouldn't let me out of I wonder what put me in that pocket. I'll tell you what happened. 1 day in a30:45 Sunday school class, a little Sunday school teacher looked up to the heavens and she said, God, I'm gonna lift up in the prayer bowl and I know you may not pour it out today, but 1 day God you're gonna pour it out and I30:56 want the devil to not have that boy. I want that boy to not be taken by the enemy. Oh God, I'm promising you right now there are people in this room. There are people right now teaching Sunday school and you are the31:07 product of a mother that prayed way back yonder, of a daddy that prayed way back yonder, of a deacon that got your name way back yonder. We are living, breathing examples of the prayer bowls in heaven.31:22 Where are mamas and daddies with a backbone anymore that go down to their house in a prayer closet? And so he asked for me, and my31:34 house, thy kingdom come. Number 4. What number am I on? Number 4.Show more In this video 0:00 Heaven's Prayer Bowls Revealed8:10 The Path of Our Prayers15:33 Preciousness and Power of Prayer31:41 The Payoff of Persistent Prayer42:04 Prayers for Future Generations
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