Prayers Rising Like Incense: Worship as a Living Sacrifice

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A sacred breath. An inhale of divine life. An exhale of worship. This profound rhythm forms the heartbeat of authentic covenant relationship with our Creator.

Discover how the simple act of breathing becomes a holy exchange when viewed through the lens of covenant. Your prayers and worship rise like golden incense before the sapphire throne of heaven, joining the vast multitude clothed in white whose offerings transcend time and space. When you draw in the fragrance of worship and release it back to God, you participate in something far greater than a religious ritual—you enter the very covenant exchange established with Abraham and sealed in Messiah's blood.

The Ten Words, once engraved on stone tablets, now find their home written on human hearts through the Spirit. They stand as eternal vows of the Bridegroom to His bride, not burdensome commands but promises spoken in love. This devotional journey illuminates the critical distinction between the Book of the Covenant and the Book of the Law, revealing what remains primary and what has been fulfilled in Yeshua.

True Sabbath observance emerges not as restriction but as profound liberty—a day set apart not for religious performance but for divine communion. Learn what it means to speak words of "gold and silver" rather than "wood, hay and stubble," understanding that every word uttered rises before the throne of Yahweh. The same power that raised Messiah from death now dwells within you, empowering you to move in the rhythm of covenant love.

What would change if you approached your next breath as a sacred exchange? How might your understanding of worship transform if you saw it as participation in heaven's reality? Join this intimate exploration of breath, covenant, and presence—where earth and heaven meet in the simple holiness of prayer.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good morning, it's Sabbath and I've been doing my
worship time.
So the first thing when I gotup this morning, you know I want
to get myself right.
You know I do my ten words andthis is.
It doesn't have to be exact.
It's becoming more prayerful asit's becoming more internalized

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.
We start with allegiance to theking.
He's number one, one on oneShema Israel, yahweh Elohenu,
yahweh Echad, he is one, he isone on the list of ones.
So I want to set thatexpectation, set that tone, set
that right in the morning andthen flow from there.
So I work my way through theremaining uh words, and so I did

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that.
And then, you know, I cameupstairs it's my, was my sacred
space and get that.
Put some incense on, as incenseis the prayers of the saints,
revelation eight.
They're standing on the uhSapphire floor of the sea of
fire and glass.
They're sitting on the Sapphirefloor of the sea of fire and
glass.
They're standing on thesapphire floor of the throne

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room, palms raised, dressed inwhite robes, prayers ascending
to the throne.
That's the picture in my mind.
So we take that, then, and wemove forward with the devotion
for today, which is songsraising up, songs rising up in

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worship.
Songs of the saints, prayersrising before the throne that's
the title of the devotional thismorning, and what I see is a
vast multitude clothed in white,and they stand before the
sapphire floor of heaven withtheir palm branches lifted high,

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as their prayers and the songsrise like golden incense before
the throne of Yahweh, and thesmoke of the incense, together
with the prayers of the saints,went up before God from the
angel's hand.
That's revelation eight four.
So we open up with that and weoffer that worship.

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This worship transcends earthand time.
The rising smoke, mingled withthe prayer, reveals that what is
spoken in faith doesn't stayconfined to human lips.
It ascends as a living offeringbefore the throne of Yahweh.
In the scene lies the heart ofthe covenants of promise.
In this scene lies the heart ofthe covenants of promise.

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Every prayer that rises rests onthe oath Yahweh swore to
Abraham and finds its completionin the blood of Messiah.
When you take a sacred breathduring worship, drawing in the
fragrance and exhaling it back,you're stepping into that same
heavenly reality.
Each inhale becomes a receivingof his life, echoing Genesis 2.
And when Yahweh breathed intoAdam the breath of life, each

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exhale becomes an offering areturn of life back to the one
who gave it a living sacrificerising in covenant love.
This act gathers the wholecovenant story into a single
rhythm.
Abraham believed Yahweh and itwas counted to him as
righteousness.
And that faith opened the doorto the covenant of promise,
where Yahweh alone passedbetween the pieces, swearing by

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himself to uphold the oath, evenunto death In Messiah.
This oath is sealed with blood.
In Galatians 3.16 declares himto be the promised seed, the one
to whom the promise wasultimately spoken.
And when he raised the cup andsaid this is the new covenant in
my blood, he united the faithof Abraham, the vows spoken at

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Sinai and the hope of David'sthrone into one act of covenant
fulfillment.
The ten words, once engraved onstone, now live on the hearts
of His people through the Spirit.
These are the eternal vows ofthe bridegroom to his bride.
Not imposed commands, butcovenant promises written in
love.
When you breathe in thefragrance of worship, you're

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taking in the reminder of thatvow.
The Ruach HaKadosh moves inthat breath, aligning you with
the Lord's rhythm, the pulse ofheaven, where every covenant
strand converges.
It's not just a prayer, it's acovenant exchange.
His breath into you, yourbreath back out to Him, bound
together in the blood of theLamb.

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Revelations 8-4 assures us thatevery soft hallelujah, every
whispered exhale of worshipjoins the great chorus around
the throne.
It's the same offering thatrose from the wilderness
tabernacle, the same covenantbreath that filled Abraham's
lungs as he believed, the sameholy rhythm that carried David's
psalms into eternity.
It's also the same breath thatMessiah released when he

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declared it is finished.
He sealed the promises forever.
To stand in that ribbon now isto step into the very heart of
the covenants of promise, whereearth and heaven meet in the
simple holiness of breath andprayer.
Yahweh, covenant keeper andeternal king, let my breath and
prayer rise before you as aliving offering.

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Fill me with the life of yourspirit as I inhale and receive
my worship as I exhale.
Seal me again in the oath youswore to Abraham and fulfilled
in your son.
Let this fragrance of faithascend with the prayers of the
saints as a pleasing aromabefore your throne.
Write your ten words deeperwithin me as I move in the
rhythm of your covenant love.

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Write your ten words deeperwithin me as I move in the
rhythm of your covenant love.
May this Sabbath be filled withyour presence and my life be
bound to the promise sealed inMessiah's blood, now and forever
.
Amen, amen.
So to me that's very heartfelt.
This is the tone of worship thatwas set for me this morning by

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the Holy Spirit, this breathingin and breathing out, the very
breath we breathe, the verywords we say, the songs we sing,
all of it is raised up beforethe altar, before the throne of
God, which is why we should bevery careful about what we say.
We want to make sure that wesay words that are gold and

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silver and precious stones.
We don't want to speak forthwood, hay and stubble, because
that'll all burn up.
We want to speak forth thosethings that are going to be
refined.
He does take the dross, he doestake away the wood, hay and
stubble, because you're beingpurified.
That is the process ofsanctification.

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You know, in our core, in ourflesh, we have great evil and
depravity, but he overcomes thatand that's part of the
circumcision of heart, where heopens up your heart and he
writes his words on your heartas tablets of flesh.
But you've been circumcised inheart now and you're empowered

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by the Ruach.
The Holy Spirit, the Holy One,is within you, the same power
that raised him from the dead iswithin you to empower you to
live to new life.
It doesn't take you out of theflesh.
You still have the flesh.
That's still your duty, it'sstill your obligation to, to
mortify the members of the, tomortify your flesh, put your

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flesh to the grave and let thespirit reign.
Let the spirit rule, and I hopethat the, I hope the devotion,
blesses you this morning.
That's my prayer for you today.
This is Sabbath.
Sabbath, rest, have a good dayin it, just relax.

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No worries, you know I forbidit.
No worries, I can forbidnothing.
But here's the thing the spiritof Yahweh wants to commune with
you today.
He wants to spend time with youtoday.
So today's the day we rest andyou.

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But there's liberty in thatright.
I mean, we're not under theLevitical oral code where you
couldn't go a Sabbath dayjourney or you can't lift your
mat.
We're not part of that.
That's part of the tutor, thatwas part of the tutor.
The Sefer Ha'Latorah, the bookof the law, that is, which is

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not for you, that part of thecovenant.
It's not a covenant of promise,it's just a.
It's a mosaic code and it wasadded as a prosthesis because of
transgression.
It was an accommodation.
It's not his perfect will, it'shis permissive will.
The perfect will is the tenwords, the book of the covenant,
the sefer habarit, the book ofthe covenant which is inside the

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ark Because that's his house,that's where your heart is
Inside the ark, because that'shis house, that's where your
heart is inside the ark.
And the book of the law went onthe outside of the ark Because
it was a witness against him forthe transgression and it
remains a witness.
But we are obligated.
If you're obligated to anything, you're obligated to love.

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You're obligated to anything.
You're obligated to love,you're obligated to love.
The ten words are primal.
They're primal, they're primary.
The ten words are primary.
That's the weightier part.
As Yeshua said and as Jamescalled it, the royal Torah and

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as Paul told Timothy, rightlydivide the Torah, rightly divide
it.
There is a dividing point.
There's two covenantadministrations.
There's the administration oflove, the wedding vows that were
accepted, blood ratified.
Moses put the blood on thepeople, he put the blood on the

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book and it was confirmed with ameal, a fellowship meal, in the
presence of God, on the veryfloor of the throne room.
It was confirmed, sealed,finished.
That covenant was a covenant ofpromise.
Then what happened?
That night?
The wedding night?
The bride was a covenant ofpromise.
Then what happened?
That night?
The wedding night?
The bride was unfaithful, thebride took another lover.

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The bride committed adultery.
And the husband?
What did he do?
He divorced her.
He divorced her, but he didn'tsend her away to her death,
although 3,000 did die.
He put a tutor over her.
He put an administration, aLevitical priesthood over her.

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He wanted her to be the priest.
It was to be a nation ofpriests.
When he went up that mountain,moses went up the mountain.
He was to receive the plans andthe architecture for a royal
national priesthood ofMelchizedek, but it was all
ruined, fractured before he evergot back down.

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And then that administration,instead of a nation of priests,
it became a group of priests.
The priest, ephraim, aaronik,sons of Aaron, became the priest
and Melchizedek was suspendedand the Levitical order was
birthed.

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It was born, but it was aprosthesis, it was a prosthetic.
It was there as anaccommodation to sin and it had
a terminus.
It had a terminus.
So the Mosaic code has aterminus and the terminus is
until Shiloh come.
Until Shiloh come.
So who is Shiloh?
What is Shiloh?
Shiloh is peace.
Shiloh is descent One.

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Shiloh is Yeshua Messiah.
So this administration, thisbook of the law code, this
Mosaic law, will be upon you toyour generations, until Messiah
come.
Messiah came, messiah came andhe fulfilled it.
He lived it perfectly.

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He kept, of course he kept the10 words, the covenant, book of
the covenant, because that's whohe is, he embodies it, he is
the royal Torah, he is theembodiment of it.
But he also kept the lawperfectly, the book of the law,
not the oral traditions andridiculous codes and the hand
washings and all the stupid,ridiculous stuff that the

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Pharisees and the Sadducees wereall about.
That was all from TalmudicMishneic Babel, and he rejected
it.
He rejected it, but he did keepthe Torah, the book of the law,
the Mosaic code, kept it,fulfilled it, set it aside

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because it was no longer needed.
He had arrived, the newpriesthood was alive, the
Melchizedek priesthood hadreturned, it had been restored
to the people.
So now the new covenant in hisblood is Melchizedek priesthood
had returned, it had beenrestored to the people.
So now the new covenant in hisblood is Melchizedek.
You don't need the blood ofbulls, goats, lambs and rams

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anymore, because the blood ofthe lamb has now been applied to
the holy place and it's beenfinished.
The Daniel 9.24 message fromGabriel tells us that 70 weeks
are determined upon thy people,and those six things were all

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fulfilled.
And that's where we stand today.
We stand in His presence,redeemed under the covenant, the
ten words that he's writing onyour heart.
But my prayer for you is thatyou'll have a good day today and

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a good week next week, anduntil we talk again in Yeshua's
name, amen.