On His robe and on his thigh He has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lord. Rev. 16:19

Typically when a problem exists we look at all possible solutions and try to pick the best one. If that solution doesn’t work we may try another or even expand the pool. In trying to solve the problems sin creates, all the ways we hurt other people and ourselves, we may try a number of solutions but, Jesus is the Solution of solutions. He’s not your average Messiah.

Hallelujah, Lord, You truly are  King of kings and Lord of lords.

For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? Is. 43:19 And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives. Rom. 6:4 Behold, I make all things new. Rev. 21:5

At times the new feels like it’s worn off, we feel stained by our failures and tattered by our disappointments. Christ set renewal in motion for those who believe in Him. He is always making us new and wants to help us see our new lives and to live them out through the power of his resurrection.

Lord, make me new again.

And when he took the scroll, the four living beings and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they held gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of God’s people.  Rev. 5:8

How absolutely astounding that our prayers –  the very ones we prayed this morning, some half-asleep whispers, some spoken with only a shred of hope, the joyful anthems we sing on the happiest days of our lives, and our desperate cries on the worst – are so valuable to God that he keeps them in golden bowls.  How amazing that they are incorporated as perfume into the worship of heaven. We don’t need to fully understand the nature of prayer, we just need to pray.

Lord, you are worthy of my trust so I lay before you the hopes and needs of my life.