Tuesday, May 24, 2016
10:17 PM

I smell incense during the inner healing seminar at The People Church on Sat 21 May 2016.

I meditate and find out the symbolic of 'incense'

Incense-symbolic of prayer, Ps. 141:2

Let my prayer be set before you as incense, the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Psalm 141:2

then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
I Kings 8:45 NKJV

For You have maintained my right and my cause; You sat on the throne judging in righteousness.
Psalms 9:4 NKJV

"Aaron shall burn on it sweet incense every morning; when he tends the lamps, he shall burn incense on it. And when Aaron lights the lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense on it, a perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations.
Exodus 30:7‭-‬8 NKJV

So it was, that while he was serving as priest before God in the order of his division, according to the custom of the priesthood, his lot fell to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord. And the whole multitude of the people was praying outside at the hour of incense. Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
Luke 1:8‭-‬11 NKJV

Now when He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sang a new song, saying: "You are worthy to take the scroll, And to open its seals; For You were slain, And have redeemed us to God by Your blood Out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth."
Revelation 5:8‭-‬10 NKJV

Then another angel, having a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel's hand. Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it to the earth. And there were noises, thunderings, lightnings, and an earthquake.
Revelation 8:3‭-‬5 NKJV

Behold, bless the Lord , All you servants of the Lord , Who by night stand in the house of the Lord ! Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, And bless the Lord . The Lord who made heaven and earth Bless you from Zion!
Psalms 134:1‭-‬3 NKJV

I desire therefore that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting;
I Timothy 2:8 NKJV

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I had dreams during afternoon nap. The words
"Essential covering" came to my mind again and again during my sleep.

Essential: absolutely necessary; extremely important.
"it is essential to keep up-to-date records"
synonyms: crucial, necessary, key, vital, indispensable, needed, required, called for, requisite, important, all-important, vitally important, of the utmost importance, of great consequence, of the essence, critical, life-and-death, imperative, mandatory, compulsory, obligatory, compelling, urgent, pressing, burning, acute, paramount, pre-eminent, high-priority, significant, consequential
"it is essential to remove all the old plaster"

Covering: a thing used to protect, decorate, or conceal something else.
"a vinyl floor covering"
synonyms: awning, tarpaulin, cowling, casing, housing; wrapping, wrapper, cover, envelope, sheath, sheathing, sleeve, jacket, lid, top, cap
"the canvas covering of the back of the wagon"
a layer of something that covers something else.
"the sky was obscured by a covering of cloud"
synonyms: layer, coating, coat, cover, carpet, blanket, overlay, topping, dusting, cloak, mantle, canopy, film, sheet, veneer, crust, surface, skim, skin, thickness, deposit, veil, pall, shroud
"a decent covering of snow on the slopes"

Lord, what are that that are of absolute necessary and extreme importance that You are telling me specifically in my rest? What are that that are critical urgent pressing burning significant and of high priority? Am I pressing close enough to You to understanding You and what You are doing and giving us?

Things that are concealed by the Lord are of absolute necessary, extremely importance, keys, vital, called for,  imperative, mandatory, compulsory, obligatory, compelling, urgent, pressing, burning, acute, paramount, pre-eminent, high-priority, significant, consequential.

It  is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter. As the heavens for height and the earth for depth, So the heart of kings is unsearchable.
Proverbs 25:2‭-‬3 NKJV

"The secret things  belong to the Lord our God, but those things  which  are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 29:29 NKJV

Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out! "For who has known the mind of the Lord ? Or who has become His counselor?" "Or who has first given to Him And it shall be repaid to him?" For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.
Romans 11:33‭-‬36 NKJV

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Perversion and apostasy arising
Intercede for the elect that I may preserve those who are ignorant and foolish and lack of knowledge, being misled by false spiritual leaders who are bringing people into destruction with them. This is in my heart. Pray for My grace and mercy to preserve them. They do not know their own condition, they are blinded. Pray for removal of that spiritual blindness. They are negligence and careless. 'Lest they should see with  their  eyes and hear with  their  ears, Lest they should understand with  their  hearts and turn, So that I should  heal them.'

God gives us the gift of insight and discernment not so that we can boast or mock at those who do not have. God gives us the gift so that we have the responsibility to pray for them who lack understanding. God holds us accountable if we know yet do not pray. What is our attitude? Are we contented because as long as we know and we are saved? Do we not care for what God cares? Do we not go out there to find our brothers who are still lost?

The readiness of our heart allowed or disallowed the doings of the Lord in our lives.
Lord I am ready to be broken by You, to be bend by You, to be undone by You. You decide where, when, what and how. Holy Spirit we flow with You. Let there be no strivings, no struggles, no resistance.

Lord, I do not want to forever hearing and not understand. I do not want to forever seeing and not perceive. I do not want my ears to be hard of hearing and I do not want my eyes to be closed. I do not want to be dull. Bless my eyes and ears so that I could hear You and see You and understand You. I want to be called Your friend and You will not hide anything from me. You will not bypass me. If my Lord allows me this, one thing I ask of You, I desperately want to be so closed to You so that You will call me Your friend and not hide what You are doing from me. Deal with me face-to-face so that I receive healing from You. Hold my hands so that I will not cover my ears and my eyes. So that I pay attention and take heed to what You are doing and what You are giving us.

Matthew 13:
And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: 'Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, And seeing you will see and not perceive; For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their  ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with  their  eyes and hear with  their  ears, Lest they should understand with  their  hearts and turn, So that I should  heal them.' But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear;  for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.
Matthew 13:14‭-‬17 NKJV

The disciples came up and asked, "Why do you tell stories?" He replied, "You've been given insight into God's kingdom. You know how it works. Not everybody has this gift, this insight; it hasn't been given to them.

**Whenever someone has a ready heart for this, the insights and understandings flow freely.

**But if there is no readiness, any trace of receptivity soon disappears.

**That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight.

Nudge: prod (someone) gently with one's elbow in order to attract attention.
a light touch or push.

In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it. I don't want Isaiah's forecast repeated all over again: Your ears are open but you don't hear a thing. Your eyes are awake but you don't see a thing. The people are blockheads! They stick their fingers in their ears so they won't have to listen; They screw their eyes shut so they won't have to look, so they won't have to deal with me face-to-face and let me heal them. "But you have God-blessed eyes—eyes that see! And God-blessed ears—ears that hear! A lot of people, prophets and humble believers among them, would have given anything to see what you are seeing, to hear what you are hearing, but never had the chance.
Matthew 13:10‭-‬17 MSG