“..in Daniel
9 we’re told that while reading the prophet Jeremiah, Daniel discovered
it was time for Israel’s captivity to end. Jeremiah had not only prophesied the
captivity of which Daniel was a part, but he also prophesied the duration: 70
years.
Somehow he must have known that God needed
his involvement because he said, ‘So I gave my
attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with
fasting, sackcloth, and ashes’ (Dan. 9:3).
…the angel Gabriel was dispatched
immediately after Daniel started praying. However, it took him 21 days to
penetrate the warfare in the heavens with the message to inform Daniel that ‘Your words were heard, and I have come in response to your
words’ (Dan. 10:12).
Paul E. Billheimer says: ‘Daniel evidently realized that
intercession had a part to play in bringing the prophecy to pass. God had made
the prophecy. When it was time for its fulfillment He did not fulfill it
arbitrarily outside of His program of prayer. He sought for a man upon whose
heart He could lay a burden of intercession….As always, God made the decision
in heaver. A man was called upon to enforce that decision on earth through
intercession and faith.’”
Prayer Note # 11 Daniel, a Man of Prayer - Taken from Dutch Sheets’ book, Intercessory Prayer (pgs 31, 32)
“Now
to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think,
according to the power that works in us” (Eph. 3:20).
Next
post will be Feb. 9th- God Needs Our Prayers
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by Oswald
Chambers
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