Shalom,
Psalm 5:3:
3 In the morning You hear my voice, O LORD; in the morning I prepare [a prayer, a sacrifice] for You and watch and wait [for You to speak to my heart].
"In the morning" means the first thing! Before we do or say anything else, we should be singing His praises! Psalm 149:5 says this:
5 Let the saints be joyful in the glory and beauty [which God confers upon them]; let them sing for joy upon their beds.
In Psalm 5:3 the word "prayer" has been added by the translators. They thought it would bring clarity, but this means so much more without it! It means that our mindset will be to have a heart filled with praise, thanksgiving and worship to start the day, then we will be aware of His presence IN us and listen for His voice to lead, guide and direct us through the rest of the day! Sometimes we WILL present specific prayer to Him, but I really like the attitude of continually listening all day long! Look ate verses 7-8:
7 But as for me, I will enter Your house through the abundance of Your steadfast love and mercy; I will worship toward and at Your holy temple in reverent fear and awe of You. 8 Lead me, O LORD, in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make Your way level (straight and right) before my face.
Such a powerful and intimate fellowship we are blessed to have with the One, True, Most High, Living, Almighty God of the Bible! Take FULL advantage of it!
Matthew 5:1-2:
1 SEEING THE crowds, He (Jesus) went up on the mountain; and when He was seated, His disciples came to Him. 2 Then He opened His mouth and taught them, saying:
Jesus went up on the mountain to give His disciples a break from the crowd in order to teach them more. This is the beginning of what is known as the "Sermon on the Mount". Here is The Visual Bible: Matthew with this. It is at the end of the first one and the beginning of the second. Jesus started out with His disciples, but, as always happened, crowds began to gather! It would be wonderful if people STILL wanted to hear the Word of God like that!
In 2 Chronicles 4-5 we see the finished work of the Temple. They brought in the Ark of the Covenant. Notice 2 Chronicles 5:10:
10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tables [the Ten Commandments] which Moses put in it at Mount Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites when they came out of Egypt.
Hebrews 9:4 says that other things were in the Ark:
4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant:
Were these things actually ever in the Ark? That's a puzzle for YOU to find out! Have fun searching!
Shalom in Him!
