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CPT: Daniel’s humility and purposefully seeking God in prayer resulted in his answer from God.
Purpose: Our church needs to move from praying sometimes to being a praying church.
CPS: Seeking to understand God’s ways needs humility and purposeful prayer.
Introduction
I have been struck quite a bit lately about our need for prayer.
Today, I believe it is important to speak about Daniel, the man of prayer.
Daniel was confronted with a lot of prophetic visions, and he sought to understand God.
We may not be people who see prophetic visions, but like Daniel, we also want to be people who understand God.
If you want to understand God, you must first be a person who submits to God in prayer.
Seeking to understand God’s ways needs humility and purposeful prayer.
When I was 18, I got my first learners permit.
I went to the DMV, took the test, passed it, and got my permit.
For some reason, and I don’t remember why, we planned a trip to the Poconos, and someone needed to drive my grandmother to the Poconos in Pennsylvania.
We were in New York City.
I had just received my permit, and I was the only one who could drive my grandmother.
So, without any drivers lessons or anything like that, I got in the drivers seat, and my grandmother was in the passenger seat.
I don’t even know if this is legal, but I drove my grandmother from New York City to the Poconos in Pennsylvania with just my learners permit.
I had never seen my grandmother pray so much.
That day, my grandmother became a woman of prayer.
Often times, we forget prayer until the last minute.
Have you ever heard someone say, “All we have left to do is pray?”
As if that is the worst option.
In fact, prayer is the first thing we should run to.
How can we learn to be men and women of prayer?
Scripture Reading
In Daniel 10, Daniel is in mourning for three full weeks.
He had a vision from an angel of God who came to give him an explanation of the future.
I want to focus today on the angel’s description of Daniel.
Read Daniel 10:10-12
Pray
Daniel shows us so much about being people of prayer.
Daniel was confronted with a lot of prophetic visions, and he sought to understand God’s ways.
How can we be people who understand God’s ways?
First,
Seek to understand God's ways by being a person of prayer.
State the point; Anchor the point; Validate the point; Explain the point
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Daniel was a man who interceded in prayer before God.
In chapter 10, Daniel says he was in mourning for three full weeks.
This mourning certainly included prayers.
It was a combination of prayer and fasting, where it sounds like Daniel 1 again.
Daniel is in a difficult place, and at this time in his life he knows the faithfulness of God.
This is not the first time we see Daniel in mourning and prayer.
You see this kind of heartfelt, passionate prayer from Daniel in Daniel 9:3:
What stood out to others about Daniel was his passion for prayer.
More than his knowledge and his understanding, it was his devotion to prayer that rattled his enemies.
You can learn a lot about someone through what their enemies are saying about them.
Listen to what his critics say about him in Daniel 6:13:
We see this as well in how he sought out to understand visions and prophecies.
Daniel interceded before God for understanding.
In Daniel 2, Daniel is up against a big problem.
King Nebuchadnezzar demanded that the wise men tell him his dream as well as the interpretation.
It was something no one could do, but God.
How does Daniel find his answer?
He goes to his friends, and look at what he says to them, in Daniel 2:17-18:
Daniel and his friends interceded on the king’s behalf to God to learn the meaning of his dream.
Daniel seeks to understand God’s ways in revealing this dream to the king.
Seeking God’s ways means to intercede to God for understanding.
We also see Daniel interceding for the people of Israel.
Daniel interceded before God for others.
The prayer in Daniel 9 is an amazing prayer of intercession for others.
Look at Daniel 9:4-5
Daniel goes to his knees in prayer for his people.
Notice that it’s not just their sin, but our sin.
Daniel realizes that he is a sinner needing the grace of God.
He and his people need the mercy of God.
I love what it says in Daniel 9:18:
The basis and drive within him that calls him to prayer is not his own righteous deeds, but the abundant compassion of God.
He knows who God is and that drives his prayer life.
The Lord showed us the necessity of being people of prayer.
The Lord in his ministry shows us the absolute necessity of being people of prayer.
Being a Jesus follower means being a man or woman of prayer.
Luke wrote his Gospel by speaking to different people who knew Jesus.
It’s amazing that, as they are remembering Jesus at the height of his ministry, where he is going around healing people and doing amazing things, where crowds were forming around him, what did Jesus do?
What did they remember about Jesus?
It says this in Luke 5:16:
Jesus talks of his followers of people of prayer.
Matt.
5:44: Pray for those who persecute you
Matt.
6:5: Whenever you pray...
Matt.
6:9: You should pray like this...
Matt.
9:38: Pray to the Lord of the harvest...
Matt.
18:19: If two of you agree about any matter that you pray for...
Matt.
21:13: It is written, my house will be a house of prayer...
Matt.
21:22: If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.
Matt.
26:41: Stay awake and pray...
It is clear that Jesus calls his people to pray.
Heading: I think Christians sometimes treat God like Facebook.
Maybe you have about 700 friends that you are connected to on Facebook.
You have this one person that you are connected to who is special to you.
And you scroll on Facebook, you scroll in your feed, and sometimes you see a post in your feed from your friend, and sometimes you don’t.
You know, maybe your friend has posted something, and you look at it in your feed and go, “That’s interesting.
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