Where is the house of God?

[Amanah]

Now listen friend, you have been so kind and patient with us; but can you answer us one more question? You seemed to have a great deal of knowledge of these miraculous events. Supposing we go to our homes and clean them up from ungodly action and turn them to a place of prayer and worship and do all things in the Name of Jehovah; will such miracles take place in our homes?

Well, if you do this just for the sake of curiosity and working miracles, it won't work this way, no! But if you consecrate your house, your business and your lives to God and earnestly pray to that God of Jacob to come and sanctify you and your household for His own indwelling place, you will also see that God answers prayers miraculously and that He honors them that honor Him.

So dear friends, believe on the Name of that Son of God which is Jehovah God and worship Him with all your hearts in the beauty of holiness and give yourselves to prayer continually, you will at once feel that very God in His Son Jesus the Messiah is one of your companions, and that it is in His holy and loving presence, sins, sickness, sorrow, flee away, hence, working of the miracles in the Name of the Lord.

"My house" says God. Our creator with His creatures know well that, though His is everywhere, he omnipresent God, yet He can be revealed as if He would love to dwell in the little hearts of even children and manifest there His miraculous power as in Heaven itself. His marvelous love and almightiness makes this manifestation of His hallowed presence possible.

Praise His great Name. To His ancient people Israel, He commanded to build Him a house to dwell in it, to meet His people from over all the earth there and bless them abundantly; they did that for Him and they believed that that great temple was "The House of Jehovah," they worshipped the very stones of that building when they were in good humor. That is why our Lord emphasizes that title "My House."

A house is a dwelling place and the house of God means, the place of His habitation.

But where is the house of God? Where the prayer lodges, that is the house of God, "for my house shall be called the house of prayers." When we make our homes the house of prayers, they become the house of God.

When our lives are purged from surfeiting, drunkenness, and care of this life, and when they are turned toward God's Name in continual prayers, we make at once our hearts the house of God. Sooner, or later He will fill that home, that life and the miracles will take place.

It is the living presence of God that works wonders. It was Jesus the God in the flesh and in the house of prayers that did wonders. These modern Cathedrals and great big stone and brick churches where crowds gather for religious socials are not the house of God until occupied by praying men and women of God only. When that takes place and when all worldliness with merchandise are cast out, then in the Name of the Lord miracles will take place there too and there will be shouts in the camp.

But Sad, we have there now prayerless folks; who fill those building with man-made trained unregenerate solo singers and orchestras and choirs, etc. No wonder the days of miracles with such folks are past.

Oh give me a family who nightly worship Jesus and never neglect family altar and closet prayer; and I will give a home where the miraculous peace, joy and healings are in operation.

Give me an assembly of the saints who pray more then they dance and sing; who pray more than visiting; who pray more than talking about each other and who pray with a holy life behind their prayers, and I will show you in truth an assembly of God where He actually talks and works miracles.

So the secret of working the miracles that Jesus and His apostles wrought is, a cleansed life first; a cleansed temple second; then praying, praying, praying, because, “It is written my house shall be called the house of prayer.”

(Urshan from pages 35 & 36)

Urshan, Andrew D, "The Supreme Need of the Hour, Prayer"
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