Your Assignment for Session 3 - Brazen Altar

Rather than testing your knowledge of each session, it is more important that you start praying the Tabernacle Prayer.

The Brazen Altar

Read what Dr. Cho writes then pray what is in bold. Expand your prayer as the Lord leads you.

Dr. Cho: The Brazen Altar is a type of the cross of Jesus Christ. In the Old Testament, they all started to worship God at the place of the Brazen Altar.

Likewise, when we pray, we must start from the cross of Calvary. This is a very, very powerful prayer. I always pray according to this Tabernacle Prayer more than three times a day. This prayer gives me power so that I can easily carry out my ministry in all my responsibilities.

1. Every day you must come to the cross of Jesus Christ. There you worship the Lord. There you see God judging your sin through Jesus Christ. Just as God judged the sin of Israel through the animals, your sin is judged through Jesus Christ. This is a very serious thing.

I come to the cross and worship Jesus Christ saying, "Dear Jesus Christ. I worship Your blood. I thank You because Your blood forgave all of my sins. All of the sins that I have committed, and all of the sins which I am going to commit in the future, You have forgiven me eternally."

2. Pray this prayer: "Jesus, I worship You because through the Blood You have delivered me from the power of Satan and the world. You move me to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. Now I am living in Your Son's Kingdom through the blood of Jesus Christ."

Only the blood can set you free from the chains of Satan and the world. Now I have cast out all the influences of Satan and worldliness from my life, and the Holy Spirit has taken it all out of me. I am living in the kingdom of the beloved Son by the power of the blood of Jesus Christ. I am in the kingdom of the Son of God, and the Holy Spirit leads and guides me. Jesus Christ moves me and takes care of me. I praise Him because of the blood.

3. I praise the blood of Jesus Christ because that blood declares to me that I was completely freed from all kinds of sickness and infirmity.

I pray, "Jesus through the stripes which You received at the courtyard of Pilate, my sickness and diseases have been taken away since 2,000 years ago. I declare that because of the blood of Jesus Christ that Christ's blood speaks better than the blood of Abraham, and so I praise you. I praise You for divine healing through the blood of Jesus Christ."

4. Then I pray, "Dear Jesus, through Your blood I have been redeemed from the Adamic curse. Because of Adam the earth was cursed. The earth was to bring forth thistles and thorns. That is the symbol of all the failure in life.

Oh God, You took our curse on the cross. Because the Bible says that Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law making a curse for us (for it is written cursed is everyone that hangs upon a tree) that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles.

So through Your blood I am completely delivered from the curse. I am delivered from failure and poverty. I am free from the curse. I have the blessings of Abraham. I am a blessed person."

I very strongly confess the point about being a blessed person because many people are living in failure consciousness. They live in a poverty consciousness. Before they get rid of that consciousness, they can never, never move onto Jesus Christ.

Jesus was rich but He became poor for you so that you might be rich in Jesus Christ. So you must really saturate your mind with the redemptive blessing of Christ. We should worship Jesus about that point and must declare that point powerfully. You must say: "By His stripes I am healed... By His cross I am delivered from the curse."

When you really have the blessing of God in your heart, many times God will perform tremendous miracles in your life. From an unknown source, blessing will flow to you. So you must claim those blessings because you are a blessed people. You are not a cursed people. You are a blessed people so only the blessing will come and dwell with you. The curse will not dwell with you any more.

5. Next, I pray, "Dear Jesus. through Your blood I am delivered from death and hell. Jesus, You died and You were resurrected. You conquered death and hell. You brought the glory of the kingdom of heaven. By the blood of Jesus Christ I am completely delivered from death and hell and am now living in the glory of Jesus Christ. I am a member of the kingdom of God. I have the eternal kingdom in me so praise God because of the blood. I worship Jesus and praise Him because of the blood."

For me, it usually takes five to ten minutes to praise God for the blood. When you really praise the blood of Jesus Christ, you feel so free because the devils all leave. The devil is afraid of the blood of Jesus Christ. So when you really worship the blood of Jesus Christ point by point, the devil leaves and you feel the refreshing presence of the Holy Spirit powerfully in your life.

When you worship the blood, you see the devil flee. When you worship the blood, you see the Holy Spirit come and dwell within you. So it is very necessary to start your worship through the blood of Jesus Christ.

If you are worshipping without the blood, then that worship is not very powerful. Only the blood opens that door for you to come near to the Lord with boldness. That is the reason in Tabernacle worship that God always wanted the people to come to the Brazen Altar.

First the sacrifice, then we can approach the Lord. Without sacrifice, you cannot approach the Lord. Jesus Christ offered the eternal sacrifice for us so we don't need to bring any animals. Jesus is our sacrifice, our eternal sacrifice. We worship Him over and over again. By our worship, we are offering sacrifice to Jesus Christ, to our heavenly Father. You can pray: "Lord you gave your life as the ultimate sacrifice for me. I desire to surrender my life for you today. I will pick up my cross and follow after you."