Tuesday February 11th, 2025
« A fire shall always be burning on the altar; it shall never go out »
11 So he came to a certain place and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep.
12 Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
13 And behold, the Lord stood above it and said: “I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants.
14 Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
15 Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you.”
16 Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.”
17 And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!”
18 Then Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put at his head, set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on top of it.
19 And he called the name of that place Bethel; but the name of that city had been Luz previously.
Don’t be desperate for the spotlight
Abraham was a man who raised many altars for God Genesis 12:7, Genesis 13:4, Genesis 13:18, Genesis 22:9 .
Little wonder why he had transgenerational blessings.
An altar is a meeting place between God and man.
In our Bible reading for today, we see how, even when Jacob was unaware that he was at an altar, he saw in a dream that the place was a meeting point between heaven and earth.
For example, an altar can be a corner of your room if you are living in a one-room apartment.
You could set aside a corner in your room with a commitment to meet with God there regularly.
- You must treat the place as holy; because that is the altar of the Almighty God.
The moment you set aside that place as an altar to God, any time you go there, God would be waiting.
When man goes to an altar, he does so to offer sacrifices to God and to worship Him.
In Genesis 22:1-14 when God asked Abraham to offer Isaac as a burnt offering, He asked him to go to a particular place, raise an altar there and present a sacrifice.
- When visiting a great man, because of how much you honor him, you don’t go empty-handed, so why do so when going to meet with the Most High God ?
Don’t go to God empty handed.
If you don’t have anything at all, He will accept a sacrifice of praise Jeremiah 17:26.
- When God comes to meet man on the altar, He comes to bless.
Psalm 67:5-7 tells us that when praises go up, blessings come down.
In Genesis 22:15-18, when Abraham brought Isaac to the altar to be offered, God stopped him and said, “You have done your part, let me do mine, in blessing I will bless You, in multiplying, I will multiply your seed”.
God meets with His children during services to bless them, especially those who come with a sacrifice.
I raised an altar in a small room inside the first house I lived in the Redemption Camp well over 20 years ago. The house is now called the ‘Open Heavens International Centre’.
Since that place was marked out as an altar, up to today, people who go there to pray in faith receive mighty miracles from God that even I find amazing.
Application – Identify a specific part of your house or environment that you will mark out as your altar and ensure you meet with God therefore regularly.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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