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Chapter Two

THREE AMAZING TRUTHS

I believe that there are 3 wonderful truths that God wants
us to learn from this passage in Luke chapter 1. So pay
attention, because though each truth is simple, it is loaded
with significance.

The First Truth Is - OUR PRAYERS ASCEND AND
REMAIN BEFORE GOD

The fervent prayers of the godly are never wasted. They
ascend as incense before God and He remembers and
records them!!’
Read Luke 1: 8 - 10 with me -“Now it happened that while he
(Zacharias) was performing his priestly service before God in
the appointed order of his division, according to the custom
of the priestly office, he was chosen by lot to enter the temple

of the Lord and burn incense. And the whole multitude of
the people were in prayer outside at the hour of the incense
offering” (Luke 1:8-10).

According to the custom, Zacharias was chosen by lot to
enter the Temple of the Lord and burn incense while the
whole multitudes of the people were in prayer outside.
Since there were 24,000 priests divided into 24 divisions,
and Zacharias belonged to the eight division of Abijah,
this privilege for Zacharias to burn incense in the Holy
place in the temple, would probably come just once in his
lifetime.
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