TSK · Acts 10:4

Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, obey you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you.

May you accept my prayer like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering!

I have not spoken in secret, in some hidden place. I did not tell Jacob’s descendants,‘Seek me in vain!’ I am the LORD, the one who speaks honestly, who makes reliable announcements.

Then those who respected the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD took notice. A scroll was prepared before him in which were recorded the names of those who respected the LORD and honored his name.

And Zechariah, visibly shaken when he saw the angel, was seized with fear.

The women were terribly frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them,“Why do you look for the living among the dead?

and said,‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your acts of charity have been remembered before God.

Do not be anxious about anything. Instead, in every situation, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, tell your requests to God.

For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love you have demonstrated for his name, in having served and continuing to serve the saints.

The smoke coming from the incense, along with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel’s hand.