Magnificent Prayer #275
Magnificent Prayer #275
Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.
Acts 10:4 KJV
What a beautiful expression the angel used to Cornelius, “Thy prayers are come up for a memorial.” It would almost seem as if his years of supplications had accumulated before the Throne of God, and at last the answer broke in blessings on the head of Cornelius.
So God is represented as treasuring the prayers of His saints. They are sent up as memorials before Him. They are kept in sweet remembrance before Him. We are called “the Lord’s remembrancers,” in Isaiah 62:6 and are commanded to give Him no rest, day nor night, but crowd the heavens with our petitions and in due time the answer will come with its accumulated blessings.
A. B. SIMPSON
Pray About It: What does God think of the prayers of His people? It is all detailed here. Our prayers aren’t bothersome to God; they are precious. And as we pray, we are the Lord’s remembrancers, remembering all that He is and has done.
Today, remember His goodness and offer up your prayers with the knowledge that they are a perpetual delight, a sweet smelling incense. And like those of Cornelius, they, along with our alms, “come up as a memorial before God.”
We are to be God’s remembrancers on the earth. We are to be men of prayer, and especially of intercessory prayer. We are to be, for a time, in this world, that which our Lord is everlastingly in heaven.
ALEXANDER WHYTE
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