Today we look again at the prayer of Solomon at the dedication of the temple, this time in the parallel version in 2 Chronicles 6. Reading Solomon’s prayer here is greatly enhanced when we read it in a New Covenant context. When we consider that we ourselves are the real temple of God’s presence upon which God has put his Name and through which he promises to make blessings flow, we can pray this prayer with a greater significance. In fact, we can now pray this prayer with a much stronger appeal. If God was pleased to answer Solomon in his prayer for a temple of stone and wood, how much more will God answer our prayers as the temple of flesh and blood. Solomon appealed, in his prayer, to the covenant that God had made with David. But our appeal is to the new covenant that Jesus Christ, the greater Son of David, ratified with his own blood. We have a strong appeal. If the glory of God entered that old temple of Solomon, how much more then should we expect the glory of God to inhabit the living body of Christ, the church. In the light of this, we should lift our expectancy to the high level of God’s promise and seek his face as Solomon seeks the face of God here. Let us pray for nothing less than Solomon prayed for.
Pray this prayer of Solomon.
Read 2 Chronicles 6:12-42
