I AM MORNING GLORY/REPAIR & RESTORE ALTARS OF PRAYERS

Noah built the first altar to the Lord. Just having survived the flood, Noah was grateful, and he sacrificed a burnt offering to God. Ever since that time, people have built altars. Altars were places of prayer, places of assembly. Altars were considered safe from your enemies. Altars were built out of thankfulness, and altars were often built to commemorate special events in the lives of God’s people. But by and large, the main and most important reason people built altars was for sacrifice. They were meant to be a place, set apart for God, to spill the blood of an innocent animal. It was through blood that people were made right with God – Hebrews 9:22 – “without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.” So, an altar represented being in a right relationship with God.