3 So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded … No pain, no gain. If we are there, no less and no more than what we are, what do we look like? “In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the LORD given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years” (v. 2). He has authored, co-authored, edited, or contributed to numerous books. We are told in those verses that as Daniel prayed, God sent Gabriel. The English Church never accepted The Confession. The Daniel Prayer is born deep within your soul, erupts through your heart, and pours out on your lips, words created by and infused … Open Thi… Notice also that in verse 2 we are told that Daniel, while he was reading Jeremiah, discovered that by his calculations the exile should be ending soon. We’re not going to study verses 23 through 27 in detail tonight. Our Lord and our God, we marvel at what a man You made out of Daniel, and we want to have a heart like he had. True prayer is grounded in the word of God. Daniel was a loyal servant of the King, but he always put God first and didn’t violate any of God’s laws. Daniel had cultivated a lifetime habit of prayer and was unwilling to compromise even the smallest detail in his worship to the Lord. That's an encouraging passage to me. He had official duties as a governor and a manager of … THE DANIEL PRAYER. He came to aid Daniel in understanding. True prayer recognizes who God is and who we are in relation to Him. And so our hearts are captured for what God's heart cares most about. Daniel started his prayer with “O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with all who love him and obey his commands” (Daniel 9:4). Many … When he sees that God is about to bring an end to the exile, he immediately confesses ‘Lord, the fact that we're here in exile is all our fault. Daniel doesn't draw attention to that. Now you bring that to me and you say Lord, do what You promised. So many implications of this for us. All Rights Reserved. And we've already said that when you move from Daniel 6 to Daniel 7 the scene changes a bit. He's been studying the book of Jeremiah, and he has discerned that the time of the exile is drawing near. Anne has found that while prayer does work, sometimes the “pray-ers” don’t. Daniel’s Prayer 9 In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes [] (a Mede by descent), who was made ruler over the Babylonian [] kingdom— 2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the Lord given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years. Daniel earnestly prayed that God would end the exile. How do I discover God's will? As in other things, so also it is true in the Christian life. Conclusion: We can feel the intensity of Daniel’s prayer. Seventy years during which Daniel had never observed any sacrifice offered. Thank you for your patience! Daniel’s prayer was a testimony, not only to the glory of God over the glory of Darius, but also, to the fact that his life was built on prayer. Daniel's prayer for Israel provides an insightful glimpse into the prophet's commitment to God and is a model for earnest, intercessory prayer. Daniel 9:17 "Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake." He sets one person praying who faithfully prays according to Scripture, and that becomes the seed of revival that spreads among God's people. I want you to listen to what Calvin says about this: “Already seventy years had passed away. Because he prayed that prayer, his prayer becomes an instrument of God's activity on earth. Anne Graham Lotz writes about the Daniel Prayer on two levels—she takes the literal prayer and describes the implications of praying that prayer in the United States for our nation. and he appeals to those things as the basis of his petition. And after he lifts up that prayer based on God's mercy, not on his deservings, but on God's mercy, he touches the deep places of the heart of God and moves Him in His compassion for His people. They desired earnestly that He would be glorified by seeing one united Reformed church in that great nation. And then in verses 20 through 23 we learn something quite unique and glorious. | March 8, 1998. It has come to them from God and they send it back to God just like the homing pigeon. The message Daniel received from the angel confirmed to him that he had a vital role to play in the battle in the heavenlies between demons and angels, between good and evil. It's not unlike the book of Revelation where the first eleven chapters of the book of Revelation focus on the war between the church and the world, and then the second half of the book focuses on that which is under and behind that war between the church and the world. In the Book of Daniel, Chapter 9, Daniel is praying for his country, which is caught in sin and rebellion and needing the mercy of God. Let us pray. I. And so Scripture is a key matter in finding God's will because it shapes our heart to His heart. II. And our last prayer is in Daniel 10. Ligon Duncan (MDiv, Covenant Theological Seminary; PhD, University of Edinburgh) is the Chancellor & CEO of Reformed Theological Seminary and the John E. Richards Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology. He does not despise the other prophets. When you emerge from the womb, you slowly unfold, simply as a flower opens it petals. 9 In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes [] (a Mede by descent), who was made ruler over the Babylonian [] kingdom— 2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the Lord given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years. Daniel knew God and knew how to talk and listen to God. Why in the world would you bother praying about it? The Daniel Prayer is based off the prayer of Daniel, who prayed on behalf of his nation, Judah, which had come under God’s judgment. Simply put, The Prayer is described as a 6.5 foot tall "praying mantis." God is telling us that He always hears our prayers immediately, even if His answer delays. The Daniel Prayer is a commitment. And then in verses 18 and 19 he offers arguments to God as to why God ought to honor His promises. 2. It's not only that he says ‘Lord, we're here because of our sins.’ He goes on to say, ‘Lord, You were righteous to send us here. And yet Daniel had time for God, for the scriptures and for prayer. With Pastor Shodankeh Johnson You can also Listen to Radio Newsong FM 97.7 on Radio Garden:... 01/02/2021 Welcome to our Daniel Prayer Day 1. One of the great struggles that we all have in life from time to time is the issue of what would God have me to do. We should always come to His throne with praise and thanksgiving before we petition. Do we have time for God and for His word? His belief in God and his drive to follow his God and to comply with God’s Laws, was central to who he was. Daniel was ready to endure the pain because he desired the spiritual gain. Daniel desires his heart and his mind to be informed by the Scripture. Receives Answers – Daniel 9:20-23. God's will in the specifics of how their work would be used wasn't made known to them, but their heart was with God and so He used their labors. 17 “So now, our God, listen to the prayer of Thy servant and to his supplications, and for Thy sake, O Lord, let Thy face shine on Thy desolate sanctuary. We go to the Scripture and the Scripture informs us how we ought to pray. In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, observed in the books the number of the years which was revealed as the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet for the completion of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.”. John Owen once said, “What an individual is in secret on his knees before God, that he is. We talk about our hecticness all the time. Daniel 9:1-27 is a long explanation of his prayer life, complete with fasting and prayer answered by an angelic visit from Gabriel who would later visit Jesus’ mother Mary. He would have been there earlier, … My prayer is that Daniel's prayer would stimulate us and move us to new levels of confession with our heavenly Father who loves us. Many of the men who came together at the Westminster Assembly, that wonderful Assembly that wrote The Confession of Faith and The Catechism, many of them came together because it was the desire of their hearts to see God establish one united Reformed church in all of Great Britain, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland. Now, unless you believe in the sovereignty of God and unless you believe in what the Bible says about how God's sovereignty and man's responsibility, and how they go together, that makes no sense. Gabriel came to him about the time of evening offering. And Daniel's awesome prayers in time of crisis actually reflect the regularity of his discipline in prayer. Daniel is one of our great biblical models for what it means to know God. The greatest and best men in the world must not think themselves above their Bibles.” We live in a hectic world. Jesus would mock the Pharisees for such outward expressions, but Daniel's self-denial was a genuine expression of the devotion of his heart. No question about it, because their ultimate desire was to be faithful in recording the truth of God's Scripture and to present to another generation those truths in a digestible form which could foster true devotion to the doctrines of the Scriptures and thus foster Christian life. If Daniel had a hard time with verses 24 through 27, I'm really comforted by that because I have hard time with verses 24 through 27. Notice how God-centered this prayer is. That has already been stressed in this book in Daniel, chapter 2, verses 17 and 18. That's exactly what Daniel does in this prayer. He was intense. The Daniel Prayer, Wounded by God’s People, Fixing My Eyes on Jesus, Expecting to See Jesus , and her first children’s book, Heaven: God’s Promise for Me. The Daniel Prayer is born deep within your soul, erupts through your heart, and pours out on your lips, words created by and infused with the Spirit of God quivering with spiritual electricity. If you want to skip this review and want to learn about this 4-Sentence Prayer than download 7 Day Miracle Prayer by clicking the button below: Now we need to treat this in a very precious way because we don't have many examples of this. We go to the Scripture and we focus our hearts and we focus our prayers on that which God has called us to focus them on. Daniel was thrown in the lion's den in Daniel, chapter 6, but that happened chronologically after this prayer. You answer these prayers. First, Daniel praised God as great and awesome, who keeps His covenant with and extends mercy (loyal love) to all who love and obey Him (v.4). That is the logic of scripture and of prayer. If you and I had heard that the exile was soon to be coming to an end, perhaps we would have called for a party in the streets. He saved Daniel from the lions. She is the founder and president of … God's promises are intended not to supersede, but to encourage and excite our prayers. That is, the war between Christ and the beasts. Even though he was in captivity and under constant threat, three times a day — without fail — he Do what you promised.” That's exactly what God wants His children to do in prayer. So also in Daniel, behind the spiritual biography of Daniel in the first six chapters of the book from Daniel 7 to Daniel 12, what we really have is an account of what is behind the biography of Daniel. In fact, while Daniel was still praying, the Lord sent Gabriel with a message—the famous message about the seventy sevens, which is the foundation stone of biblical prophecy. There are many things Daniel could have been praying about. 01/02/2021 Welcome to our Daniel Prayer Day 1. Daniel's prayer teaches us about the nature of true prayer and it calls us to true godliness. Because God had promised a specific end to the captivity, Daniel felt the responsibility to pray that God would do what He had promised. Daniel’s prayer is an example of a true heart of prayer because it was rooted in Scripture, was revealed in confession and responds in supplication. We talk about knowing God a lot, and most of us, I would think, would say that we want to know God. No wonder, friends, no wonder he didn't stop praying when Darius issued that decree, that everyone should cease to pray to anyone but him for thirty days. It expresses the plight of God's people to the Lord and asks Him to forgive them. A commitment that perseveres over any and every obstacle until Heaven is moved and nations are changed. Gabriel, we are told in verse 22, came for a very specific reason. Won't you be conformed to His heart by the word and reflect it as you plead His promises back to Him? And Daniel, because he prays for God's will be to done — basically his prayer is what? That was their desire and they had no doubt prayed about that before the Lord. **Please Note: Order fulfillment and delivery may be slightly delayed due to current conditions and restrictions. Gabriel had already met the man and there was no one in the world that was going to stop Daniel from faithfully praying to the God who had comforted him in prayer, not lions, not kings, not decrees. Notice also in verse 23, that Gabriel gives Daniel a benediction, a blessing that comes from God Himself. The Prayer Let's turn to Daniel's prayer. Can you imagine a greeting from heaven that informs you that you are dearly beloved of God. He hears our prayers immediately. I. So she turned to the prophet Daniel for help. He says it in passing. The second thing we learn in this passage we see in verses 4 through 19. The first thing I'd like you to see you’ll note in the first three verses. (This story is found in Daniel 6.) I want you to note two things that we learn in verse 21 and following. He was a man of prayer; he was a man of godliness. Their heart had been captured by God. “The Daniel Prayer is born deep within your soul, erupts through your heart, and pours out on your lips — words created by and infused with the Spirit of God quivering with spiritual electricity.”. Daniel’s God is the living God; he lives forever. Daniel begins with praise. And so it's no wonder that Gabriel had to be sent for even Daniel to understand. He doesn't say, ‘Lord, respond, do what You promised because we're such a deserving people. PRAYER THAT MOVES HEAVEN AND CHANGES NATIONS, “The Daniel Prayer is born deep within your soul, erupts through your heart, and pours out on your lips — words created by and infused with the Spirit of God quivering with spiritual electricity.”. And again we learn a lot of things from the way he prays. I want you to notice that when Daniel realizes what Jeremiah has promised, he immediately begins to confess his sins and the sins of his people. It is sent out and it lands in the heart of God's people who then send it back to the heart of God.” That's how all Christian prayer actually works. We’re not here because You’re not a good God. The sanctuary in Jerusalem had been a place where all the believers in the world had looked to. But they are among the most difficult passages, not only in the book of Daniel, but in all of the Bible. In public we may successfully disguise the truth about ourselves but not in private prayer or in the lack of it.” What do we look like in private, in secret, on our knees before God? Daniel prays, \"O Lord, in accordance with all Thy righteous acts, let now Thine anger and Thy wrath turn away from Thy city Jerusalem, Thy holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Thy people have become a reproach t… And so this prayer, you will see, will have a great similarity to the prayer that the Levites were going to be praying in Nehemiah, chapter 9, verse 5. I want you to see finally, that in answer to Daniel's prayer, God gives him a vision, a picture, words about the coming of the Messiah. And primarily he calls on God to respond to his prayer because of God's name and because of God's city and because of God's people. Notice how this prayer appeals to God's covenant mercy over and over. Daniel’s prayer life is highlighted throughout the book and a prime cause of his fortitude and wisdom. Daniel, in Daniel 9, has recognized that the people of God are at a critical point in their history. Anne answers questions such as: For more about Anne’s book, The Daniel Prayer, click here. Daniel says, almost incidentally, that Gabriel came to him. No need to do anything about that.” Those promises are there to encourage us to pray that God will bring about those promises in our experience. The original Daniel Prayer was a desperate plea uttered by one man, Daniel, on behalf of his nation—Judah— … Daniel was purpose driven and was able to stand on his own two feet, both of which were solidly founded in the tradition of his Hebraic religion. Prayer Lessons from Daniel Daniel 6:10 By Daniel Eberly Bible baptist Church, Ballincollig, Cork, Ireland www.biblebc.com ü Intro: Most of us here would probably be able to give a definition of prayer. Because that is how God desires us to respond to the promises of His word. No more, no less.” If that is true, then we are seeing what Daniel was like in this prayer, and by the grace of God it is a beautiful sight, for Daniel shows us what a man of God looks like. Anne and her late husband, Danny Lotz, have three grown children and three grandchildren. He seeks things in God which belong to God. Praying through Daniel 9:20 Heavenly Father, we praise and thank You for the wonderful example of Daniel, who was a man of prayer who knew the Scriptures, trusted Your Word, prayed into Your will and translated the Our Father, You are indeed worthy of all our praise and honor. Gather together all the exiles and let's celebrate the fact that God is going to liberate us. He alone can root out the inward-rottenness and make us a new creation, a new nation, and a royal priesthood for Himself. God’s answers to prayer come in His timing. Could it be that Daniel's prayer started a pattern and a tradition of prayer that continued into the time of Ezra and Nehemiah? God helps and saves people. We’re such a wonderful people.’ He says Lord, ‘Do what You promised because of Your name, Your reputation. In those first three verses we learn something about the context and the content of true Christian prayer. Daniel's response to God's promise moved him to confess his sins and I wish that we had several weeks to look at this confession of sin, but let me outline it in brief for you. He was resolute; he was a man who loved God's word; was obedient to Him. God didn't answer that prayer. That's something that Matthew Henry said about 300 years ago, “God's promises are intended not to supersede, but to excite and encourage our prayers.” When God promises us something in the word, that is not designed to make us think, “O. The fast is based on the fasting experiences of the prophet Daniel along with standard Jewish fasting principles. The original Daniel Prayer was a desperate plea uttered by one man, Daniel, on behalf of his nation—Judah—that had come under God’s judgment. Daniel realized that his most important assignment from God was prayer. This 4-Sentence Prayer is similar to the prayer that Prophet Daniel did that helped him to rise from slave to co-ruling the country. This prayer from beginning to end seeks God's glory. And so it is for us, if our hearts are right. He was sincere. People begin life in the womb, folded up like the bud of a flower. 1. K., well, God's promised that. All those things we learn from Daniel's prayer of confession. Daniel prayed in times of crisis, but he also prayed regularly. Our entire life remains in the mirror of this natural kind. Are words in prayer all that matter, or does my attitude affect prayer. He recognizes that righteousness belongs to God alone (Daniel 9:7). Many people today find that their prayers don’t “work.” And like a broken cell phone, prayer gets thrown out as unnecessary “clutter” in most people’s lives. Notice also that this prayer doesn't try and escape the issue of sin and of misery. Right? And yet, every time we pray based on the merits of Christ in Christ's name, we must realize that God has not simply sent an angel to assure us of the greatness of His love for us, He sent His own Son to die on our behalf and that is a pledge of His love for us; not an angel, but His Son. Position yourself in prayer by reading Scripture first. This entire book is about the blessings of knowing God. This passage tells us something about the covenant God of prayer and we learn here that true prayer recognizes who God is and who we are in relation to Him. Daniel attends his prayer with acts of self-denial; fasting, sackcloth, ashes. Gabriel comes to aid Daniel's understanding here. Praise before confession, praise before asking for anything because God is worthy. Can you imagine a more encouraging thing. That's so often how God works, doesn't He? If Daniel's keenness of prayer flows from his study of the word, his meditation on that word and his regular practice of prayer, how much more ought we to be in the pattern of study of Scripture and meditation on its truth and regular prayer. When you emerge from the womb, you slowly unfold, simply as a flower opens it petals. Prayer for Daniel 4 Submit Prayer Request Title Your Prayer Write Your Prayer Name Category Verify Code Submit Choose Verse Praying through Daniel … A commitment that perseveres over any and every obstacle until Heaven is moved and nations are changed. Sinclair Ferguson has said, “Prayer is an expression of what we know of God and ourselves. Prayer is = entreating / making requests of God, simply asking! God is a just God and merciful. 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