repair the altar of prayer

Daniel 9:3-5) 3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:  4 and I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;  5 we have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments

Daniel 9:16-19) 16 O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.  ¹⁷ Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake. ¹⁸ O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies. ¹⁹ O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

Daniel saw the condition and was moved to prayer . prayer is where we get answers and we see fruitful results. how many of us today se the condition of our nation and the condition of the church ? many of us do see . are me moved to prayer where we can see and hear God's heart ? so many call out the evil and speak against the evil but I am convinced that few weep over what is seen few labor in prayer as much as they spend time speaking about the condition of the church and the nations.


we can have prayer among two or three we can have prayer before a meal or with our family or corporately together with the church but what about the secret place our closet ? how much time do we spend in there ? prayer is where we commune with the Lord prayer is where we get replenished refreshed and where we receive instruction.

Matthew 6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

Luke 18:1 And He spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint.

Jesus set the example and in scripture reveals the secret place of prayer , away from the crowds alone away from the noise that's our secret place where ever we can get away from the crowds away from the noise and distractions and find prayer un-interrupted .

Mark 1:35 And in the Morning , rising up a great while before day, He went out, and departed into a solitary place and there prayed.

Matthew 14:23 And when He had sent the multitudes away, He went up into a mountain apart to pray : and when the evening was come , He was there alone .

The Lord is calling His church to pray. His house shall be called a house of prayer . continue stedfastly in prayer .

Ezekiel 22:30 And I sought for a man among them who should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before Me for the land, that I should not destroy it.

Lamentations 2:19 Arise, cry out in the night in the beginning of the watches pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord : lift up your hand toward Him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger in the top of every street.

Nehemiah saw the condition and prayed Daniel saw the condition and He prayed ! what will you do with what you see and hear?

when bad news and crisis comes what will you do ? will you humble yourselves and pray ?

Nehemiah 1:3-7)   ³ And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
⁴ And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven, ⁵ and said, I beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments: ⁶ let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father’s house have sinned. ⁷ We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses
we have got to pray in our secret place and we have got to build again the walls of prayer in the church which shall be called a house of prayer and not just in the church but in our homes . will you heed this trumpet being blown and spent time in that secret place of prayer ? will you heed the trumpet being blown and begin to rebuild the altar of prayer in your church house ?

it is time to set thy house in order ! a house divided shall not stand !