The position of prayer is the position of ascension. You can pray only in the heavenly sphere. Whenever you leave the heavenly realm, you lose the position of prayer. You may pray, but that prayer does not count before God. I can give you several simple but true examples. When I was a boy, I […]
Nuggets from the Ministry: The Position of Prayer, a Heavenly Position (Witness Lee)
Having a life of the two altars, and how the altar of burnt offering and incense are connected
In the tabernacle there were two altars, the altar in the outer court, the bronze altar for burnt offering, and the other in the Holy Place, the golden altar for burning the incense. At the first altar all the negative things and problems are dealt with, and at the second altar we fellowship with God […]
Praying with Christ as the Incense Satisfies God and Carries out His Administration
God in Christ as the Spirit comes to us as the holy anointing oil to add the elements of God to us and infuse us with all that God is; after Christ is being wrought into us, we can go to God in prayer with Christ, in Christ, and even as Christ to offer the […]
Praying at the Incense Altar with no Strange Fire or Strange Incense in our Prayer
The Lord Jesus in His heavenly ministry is interceding for us, and He wants to gain many believers who cooperate with Him by being one with Him in His intercession. For this, we need to be in God (just as the priests were in the tabernacle when offering the incense on the altar), God needs […]
Being People of Incense who Inwardly Contact the Lord and Pray one with Christ
All believers in Christ are priests to God, and one of the most important things in serving as a priest is to spend time with the Lord. We all know that we need to have such a time with our dear Lord Jesus, but again and again, as things press upon us, this time is […]
Burning the Incense by Praying in Christ and with Christ as the Incense to God
The main commission of the priesthood is to burn the incense on the golden altar (Exo. 30:7-8). First of all, in order for anyone to enter into the tabernacle and come close to God, he had to be a priest, one who is filled and saturated with God and who expresses Christ (that is, wears […]
Proper Prayer (burning the incense) issues out of God’s Light from Reading the Word
Lighting the lamps in the Holy Place goes together with burning the incense; when the priests were dressing the lamps in the morning, they had to burn the incense on the altar, and when they set up the lamps at twilight, they also burned the incense (see Exo. 30:7-8). Every time we read the Bible […]