Prayer is the act or practice of praying to God for ourselves or others asking for mercy, grace, help, or forgiveness.
It was spring cleaning again at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
Two times a year, cleaning teams using long sticks gouge out tens of thousands of written prayers that visitors traditionally cram into the crevices of the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
Workers in hazmat suits and gas masks sprayed sanitizer on the wall’s ancient stones while others held onto their sticks with gloves as they extracted the paper notes left in “God’s mailbox”.
People can email their prayers for placement between the stones.
The Western Wall is whats left of the Second Temple that was destroyed in 70 AD by the Romans. It stands today beneath the Temple Mount.
Jews still believe in the Old Testament and believe the Messiah is still to come the first time.
Romans 11:8 According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear; unto this day.
Romans 11:9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
Romans 11:10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
Romans 11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
Romans 11:18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
Romans 11:21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
Jews still believe in 613 commandments of the law.
Christians believe they fulfill the law by loving God and loving their neighbor as thereselves.
Matthew 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Matthew 22:38 This is the first and great commandment.
Matthew 22:39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Matthew 22:40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Christians believe in the Old and New Testament and believe the Messiah has already come.
Jesus or Yeshua in Hebrew will return the second time to receive his church before he ends the world.
Christians believe in the New Covenant which was sealed by the blood of Jesus on the cross.
Hebrews 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Matthew 6:28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Hebrews 13:20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
Hebrew 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
Christians don’t need a mailbox to God, since we believe in Jesus. We have a go-between with God through Jesus.
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Christians don’t need to write a letter to God and place it in a ancient wall, we can pray and come boldly unto the throne of grace, Jesus being our mediator.
1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
Jesus fully understands our weaknesses and has experienced our pain, so we can pray and come to God asking for mercy, grace, help, or forgiveness, we can be confident he hears us.
Hebrews 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
1 John 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
1 John 5:15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
Philippians 4:6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Psalms 34:17 The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
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