Daniel's Prayer

O. T. #2006  "Daniel's Prayer"

August 19, 2021

Daniel 9-Part 2

LET IT GLOW

After Daniel read about the captivity lasting 70 years, in Jeremiah, he knew it was about time for it to end and be fulfilled. so Daniel sought God by prayer and supplication. Daniel's mind-set, habits, and dress were all designed to place his focus on the Lord's character:

• the great (gadowl/gaw-dole') means noble, high, mighty, exceedingly God;
• dreadful (dechal/deh-khal') refers to fear, make afraid God;
• keeping the covenant God;
• keeping mercy (checed/khch'sed), which means kindness, favor, good deed, pity  to them that love Him and to them that keep His commandments.(verse 4)
• Righteousness (tsedaqah/ tsed-aw-kaw') refers to justice, virtue belongeth unto Thee.(verse 7)
• To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses. (verse 9)
• The LORD our God is righteous in all His works which He doeth.

  Is He your God, the One who is merciful, righteous, forgiving? Is He your covenant-keeping God? Is He righteous in all His works in your life?

Our God does not make mistakes.

 

LET IT GROW

Daniel admitted that he, his nation, and God's people had:

• sinned against God (verses 5, 8, 11, 15)
• committed iniquity (verse 5)
• done wickedly (verse 5)
• rebelled, departing from God's precepts and judgments (verse 5)
• did not harken unto God's prophets, which spoke in His name (verse 6)
• have trespassed against God (verse 7)
• neither had they obeyed the voice of the Lord our God (verse 10, 11, 14)
• did not pray to God so they turned from iniquities and understand Thy truth (verse 13).

What a list of sins that Israel had committed against God and His Word. Folks, we Americans are guilty of those same sins. Are we willing to confess them to our righteous God? Will we intercede for our country so judgment does not fall upon us?

LET IT GO

Righteous God, we have sinned against You and rebelled against Your Word, turned away from following You. We have allowed homosexuality to be acceptable. We kill innocent babies because of sexual sins. We have become self-sufficient, materialism, pleasure-seeking people. We shut out Your Truth and those proclaiming it. We do not keep the Lord's Day as a day of rest.

Please forgive us and have mercy on us sinners.

We need revival in Your churches, so come Holy Spirit and convict us of our sins.

In Jesus' name,

Amen