A House of Prayer

Scripture:

“And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ””
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭21:13‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Observation:

Jesus was upset with what was going on in the Temple area.  There were people buying and selling to make a prophet off of the sacrificial system.  They had turned the Temple into a place where they could cheat people and make money.  Jesus overturned the their tables and said His house was to be call a house of prayer, but they had made it a den of thieves.

Application:

My first application is that prayer needs to be one of the main priorities of the Church.  Prayer is our connection with the Lord and should be of primary importance.  Everything should start in prayer.  Secondly, we are told by Paul that we are the Temple of the Holy Spirit.  Our personal lives should be lives of prayer.  Prayer should not be something we do periodically, but something we are.

Prayer:

Lord, like Your disciples, I come to You and say teach me to pray.  Build up my prayer life and let everything in my life come out of prayer.  Let my prayer time increase in 2020 and let my personal temple be a house of prayer.  I want to spend more time with You this year than every before.

Yours,
Jeff