I was led to this message from THE BEREAN Daily Verse and comment.
It is about a king who decreed that no one should pray.... fancy that.
But Daniel still obeyed God and he prayed.
What does this teach me today?
There may come a time when a human being dares to decree that we do not pray.
Or that we abandon the way we pray.
Or that we change the way we pray.
So this has been fore told and we have been warned.
We must be like Daniel...
To grasp just how important prayer is, notice the example of Daniel, one of the three most righteous men in the Bible, according to Ezekiel 14:14. Part of his story is in Daniel 6:7, 10:All the governors of the kingdom, the administrators and satraps, the counselors and advisors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute and to make a firm decree, that whoever petitions any god or man for thirty days, except you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions. . . . Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days.Daniel believed that prayer was so essential that he chose to risk his life to lions rather than lose contact with God for even a part of a day. We could say that he feared the Lion of Judah more than any physical lion. To him, prayer was a life-and-death issue. Is it to us? How many excuses would we have made to avoid those lions? What excuses do we make today to justify a lack of prayer?
It is about a king who decreed that no one should pray.... fancy that.
But Daniel still obeyed God and he prayed.
What does this teach me today?
There may come a time when a human being dares to decree that we do not pray.
Or that we abandon the way we pray.
Or that we change the way we pray.
So this has been fore told and we have been warned.
We must be like Daniel...
To grasp just how important prayer is, notice the example of Daniel, one of the three most righteous men in the Bible, according to Ezekiel 14:14. Part of his story is in Daniel 6:7, 10:All the governors of the kingdom, the administrators and satraps, the counselors and advisors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute and to make a firm decree, that whoever petitions any god or man for thirty days, except you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions. . . . Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days.Daniel believed that prayer was so essential that he chose to risk his life to lions rather than lose contact with God for even a part of a day. We could say that he feared the Lion of Judah more than any physical lion. To him, prayer was a life-and-death issue. Is it to us? How many excuses would we have made to avoid those lions? What excuses do we make today to justify a lack of prayer?
Prayer is our telephone contact with God.
ReplyDeleteJesus said: Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all this these things shall be added unto you. (Matt 6:33)
Prayer is our spiritual weapon against temptation
ReplyDeleteJesus said to his disciples:
"Why do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into temptation." (Luke 22:46)
Thank you Jallin and Jay Len..
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