Luke 5:15-16 "But now even more the report about him went abroad, and great crowds gathered to hear him and to be healed of their infirmities. But he would withdraw to desolate places and pray."

To live as Jesus among the broken. Through word and deed, telling people about Jesus and teaching them to follow Him.

Do you have any idea how important your prayers are?

· Your prayers are so important that God promises in Scripture that He will answer them.

· Your prayers are so important that God says His house–His temple, His church building–shall be called a house of prayer. Matthew 21:13

· According to Daniel 10 and 11, your prayers are so important that they shake Heaven and earth. Your prayers move angels and displace demons.

God keeps your prayers in Heaven. He stores them up, and they rise before Him as incense continually.

The book of Revelation tells us so. Look at Revelation 5:8. "And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints."

The twenty-four elders who are seated before God the Father are holding golden bowls full of your prayers and mine.

We see this again in Revelation 8:3-4 "And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne, 4 and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel."

Your prayers are so important that God actually keeps them, and they are offered up to Him over and over as a continual sacrifice.

Have you ever thought your prayers weren't important?

My friend, your prayers thunder in Heaven. Revelation 8:5 "Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth, and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake."

· Your prayers are being stored in golden bowls in Heaven.

· Your prayers transcend time and space.

· Your prayers are ascending into the face of God as sweet incense.

Your prayers matter.