Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Daniel, a Man of Prayer: Prayer Note # 11

     “..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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