Title: The Seer's Prayer for Us
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At that time, “Many of those who believed came and confessed and reported what they had done, and many who practiced magic gathered the books and burned them in front of everyone. When they counted the price of the books, they were fifty thousand pieces of silver. There is no history of such a gospel recorded as “there was this, and it prospered and gained power” (Acts 19:18-20), but now there is only the lament that “Mount Zion is desolate, and foxes play there” (Lamentations 5:18). It is just called.
This is the same as the evidence of the record, “You know that all who are in Asia have forsaken me, among them Phukelo and Hermogenes” (2 Timothy 1:15).
For this reason, the Bible says, “I will wait for the Lord, who now hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. ' (Isa 8:17-18), and he also wrote, "They have made void your law; now is the time for the LORD to work" (Psalm 119:126).
Asaph the seer was the one who led the praises to the people of Israel when David praised God. Praise to God is a melodious prayer to God. As it is written, "God is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living, for to God all men live..." (Luke 20:38), as the words of the testimony of the seer Asaph's melodious prayer are still alive.
Therefore, the Bible says, "Strengthen your hands, ye who hear at this time the words of the prophets, who rose up on the day that the foundations were built to build the house of the LORD of hosts, the temple, saith the LORD of hosts" (Zechariah 8:9). That's what you testified.
Today, when the prosperous gospel is devastated, my heart is also exhausted and exhausted. The Lord has made me stand on the foundation of the apostles and prophets so that I can listen to the song of Zion, the melodious prayer offered by Asaph the seer to God.
The central point of this prayer is, “Place your hands on those at your right hand, the Son of Man, whom you have strengthened for your sake, and we will not turn away from you; revive us, and we will call on your name. (Psalm 80:17-18).
What has we to do with those at your right hand, the Son of Man who strengthened you for your sake, so that if we lay our hands on him, we will not withdraw from the Lord. This mystery is the same as when a farmer puts his hand on the stem, the eggplant is burned.
The words of the Lord, who is now at the right hand of the Lord, when he was a man in the world, “I am the vine and you are the branches; if he in me and I in him, this man bears much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. ' (John 15:5) and as the seer Asaph prayed, "You brought a vine out of Egypt, and drove out the nations, and planted it" (Psalm 80:8).
In anger against the prayers of your people, our prayers, you will turn them away, but you will not reject the prayers of your seers, whom you have established.