What happens to the prayers of the saints?
The prayers of the saints are not lost but accumulate in glory as sweet-smelling odors and fragrances before the God of Heaven. In Revelation, the four living creatures and twenty-four elders hold golden vials full of odors, which are identified as the prayers of the saints.
Les explains that whenever you pray, you should never think for a minute that prayer is lost. He teaches that the prayers of the saints are accumulating up in glory as sweet-smelling odors, as fragrances before the God of Heaven. This imagery is drawn from Revelation, where the four living creatures and the four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps and golden vials full of odors, which are the prayers of the saints. So the prayers are not discarded but preserved as a sweet aroma before God.
And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.