If my prayers weren’t written down, it would be easy for me to forget how God is the True Giver of all Good Gifts. I’ve kept journals for years, and it’s amusing to look back and see how hard I prayed for certain things (like a husband!). And He’ll speak to our hearts too, if we do not give up.ĭo you write your prayers down? Sometimes we pray so hard about something, but if it’s not written down, we can quickly forget the anguish our souls went through as we waited for God’s answer. It may seem like God isn’t listening, and that our prayers are merely bouncing off the ceiling.īut God is listening! He chose to answer Daniel’s prayer right away through a direct message from Gabriel. Wouldn’t you love it if a messenger from heaven would come tell you right away the insight you’re longing for in your prayers? Sometimes, when we pray, we can almost instantly feel in our hearts the answer is “yes” or “no,†yet other times, we can do nothing but wait. As soon as you began to pray, an answer was given, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed†(Daniel 9:22,23). How incredible that in the midst of Daniel’s prayer, the angel Gabriel appears to him and says, “Daniel, I have now come to give you insight and understanding. This lesson showed me brilliantly how I must pray FIRST. He ends with, “O Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, hear and act! For your sake, O my God, do not delay, because your city and your people bear your Name†(Daniel 9:19 NIV).Īfter studying and discussing this, I realized that in my own life, prayer often comes as a last resort, after I’ve mulled over a problem, worried for days about it, written in my journal, whined and complained to others about it - THEN I remember, “Oh yeah! I think I’ll pray about it!” Wow - reading through that chapter several times reminded me what urgency there is to Daniel’s praying. This week’s lesson focused on Daniel’s prayer in the 9th chapter of the book of Daniel. It’s true that trivial things can distract us from what’s important - and sometimes we just need to stop and pray! For us moms in the study, we talked about how the little distractions of daily life can get in the way of our main purpose of teaching and training our children to become more like Christ. “For a minute I thought I’d have to go back in the house for a spoon to dig it out,†she writes. She said she was leaving her house one day with serious ministry matters on her mind when a gnat landed smack dab on her lip gloss. We all cracked up about Beth’s “gnat in the lip gloss†story. We had a blast this week discussing the homework.
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