LIFE LESSON FOR TODAY

I need to improve my prayer life.I do pray and say blessings over my meals.   However, I should start praying as soon as my feet hit the floor each morning. I could also say a prayer before going  to bed too.  I am thankful for God blessing me with a trauma free day.I need let Him know it. My goal is to avoid distractions.I am seeking God’s help in this area. I looked at the prayer life of some notable people in the Bible. Here  are scriptures I studied :    LIFE LESSON   JABEZ 'S PRAYER 1 CHRONICLES 4: 9-10   9 Now Jabez was more honorable than  his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore   him in pain.” 10 And Jabez called on the God of  Israel saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my  territory, that Your hand would be  with me, and that You would keep me from evil, tha...

I discovered other interesting things about this sweet aroma during my  Bible Study.   There were men in the  Bible who understood the importance making offerings to the Lord. Their offerings were so pleasing to the Lord that sweet smells filled the air. Here are some scriptures that show when and why they gave an offerings to Him:     LIFE LESSON: MEN WHO UNDERSTOOD THE SACRIFICE  JESUS EPHESIANS 5: 1-2    1  Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2  And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.   PAINTING: LANDSCAPE WITH NOAH'S OFFERING: JOSEPH A.KOCH: CIRCA 1803   NOAH GENESIS 8:20-21   20  Then Noah built an altar to the Lord , and took of every clean animal and of every cl...

I never knew that offerings and  prayers could bring about sweet smells and aromas. Dr Richard E. Eby discussed this in his book, “Didn’t You Read My Book?” The altar smoke from burnt offerings  became sweet aromas. This was  a very interesting concept to me.  So, I looked up the scriptures he listed as documentation of this precept.   My Bible study revealed that there are several times when the offerings  and sacrifices caused supernatural  sweet smells to fill the air.  Here are some of the scripture that  I found: DEPICTION: ANIMAL OFFERING  @ ALTAR http://www.freebibleimages.org LIFE LESSON: OFFERINGS BY FIRE BECOME SWEET AROMAS! GENESIS 8:20-21 20  Then Noah built an altar to the Lord , and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 21  And the Lo...