[Darris McNeely] Our prayer lives always need a little bit of a boost as we think about God, as we kneel and pray to God on a regular basis. Again, I get a chance to teach kids about the Bible, and recently going through the book of Revelation, chapters 4 and 5, they just kind of opened up my mind's eye, once again, to the vision of God's throne. Chapter 4 talks about the one sitting on that throne being the Father, and the glory worship and majesty that is afforded him. Chapter 5 of Revelation focuses upon Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God. It begins in verse 1 where John says, Revelation 5:1, "I saw the right hand of Him who sat on the throne, a scroll he had written inside and on the back and it was sealed with seven seals." And the question was, who's worthy to open these seals? No one in heaven, or on earth, or under the earth was able to open it or to look at it. John says that he wept, but one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep. Behold the lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David has prevailed to open the scroll and to lose its seven seals." 

"And so John looked and he saw in the midst of the throne of the four living creatures and the elders, there stood a lamb as though he had been slain, having seven horns, seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent to all the earth. And he came, and he took the scroll out of the hand of Him who sat on the throne." (Revelation 5:1-7) This is a vision of the Lamb of God, the one who is the Root of David. It is the vision of Jesus Christ who is worthy to open the seals as the story goes. He has seven horns and seven eyes, emphasizing that Christ does see and know all from His position as High Priest, as the Lamb of God at the throne of God, and He is the one who is worthy to open all of these scrolls.

The vision goes on. And these heavenly beings of the 24 elders and the four beasts, they bow down before the lamb and they have in their hands, bowls of incense, which it says are the prayers of the saints that are offered up to the lamb. (Revelation 5:8). And so again in this chapter, we are given a stunning clarifying focus of the throne of God, where sits the Father and the Son, Jesus Christ, and the activity, and the majesty, and the glory that is there. Keep that in mind as you pray and as you prepare yourself, your heart even to come into that presence to make your request known to God. Focus from that angle of that perspective and I guarantee you that your prayers will be more effective. They will be more satisfying and you will be closer in connecting to your Father in heaven and to Jesus Christ at His right hand and activating your spiritual life in your condition.

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