"Now as Solomon finished offering all this prayer and plea to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, where he had knelt with hands outstretched toward heaven. And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice."
Solomon makes a plea that God will keep His eyes open night and day toward His house and listen to the prayer that His servant will offer toward this place. When he makes that plea, he knelt with his hands outstretched toward heaven! When we plead with our whole heart, we will find ourselves kneeling with our faces bowed toward the floor, or kneeling with our arms outstretched toward heaven, lying down with face down, or even stand tall with our arms outstreched toward heaven. We can plead Him in any different ways, we will plead Him in our own "prayer mantis" posture! But it is up to you to believe in Him and plead Him with you whole heart like Solomon did. When you really want to plead Him something in your own room or closet, to plead Him in private, you will know what kind of praying posture you want to set yourself to be in His presence. You will know. You got to set yourself into an act of surrender, to believe!
After his act of surrendering, he stood up to bless all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice! It shows that he followed this, "Let Go, Let God"! He surrendered, and allowed his plea to go to Him and then he stood up to bless Israel in a loud voice because he lifted those up to Him! "It is finished!" (John 19:30) Jesus said when he gave up his spirit and bowed his head to die physically, then God raised him up into a new victory! Sometimes we need to find a time to fall down in surrender to Him, to die to ourselves. So that it will be finished, and He will raise us up into a new victory and we will stand up and shout our victory in a loud voice like Solomon did! An act of surrender will lead you into a renewed life, into a new victory!
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