Day 9

Acts 10
1At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, 2a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. 3 About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, "Cornelius." 4And he stared at him in terror and said, "What is it, Lord?" And he said to him, "Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God.

A memorial is something that provokes the memory of a thing. Our prayers and our giving ascend to God and become a memorial or they provoke God to remember us. Think about that our prayers reside in a place in heaven. God has a heavenly warehouse full of the generosity of our prayers and of our sowing, they form a place in the mind of God.