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To Be A Christian without prayer Is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
~ Martin Luther
Now, Daniel, 80 plus, been in the land 65 to 67 or 68 years, is doing what every man of God does reading the Word of God.
So does Daniel pray.
And as he prays, we find eight elements of true intercessory prayer emerging, flowing out of this marvelous prayer.
And as I say, they are not explicitly taught.
They are implicitly found.
They are not the purpose of the prayer, and yet they become, for us, a very good purpose, because it helps us to see what is included in proper intercessory prayer.
Now, frankly, folks … we have two basic problems when it comes to prayer.
Number one, we don’t do it enough.
True?
And so the Bible, again and again and again, says continue in prayer.
Pray without ceasing.He was a man beyond eighty years of age, and he knew that when God made a prophesy, God’s prophecies came to pass.
And so he knew that Jeremiah said it would be seventy years.
And when he read that in Jeremiah and knew that, at least in his case, sixty-seven had already gone by, he knew the time was imminent.
You might think, at that point, as we said last time, that Daniel wouldn’t have anything to pray about.
He’d just sorta throw it on the sovereignty of God and say, “All right, God, You’re gonna do it in seventy years, then do it,” and leave it at that.
But Daniel knew that somehow fitting into the sovereignty of God is the choice of man.
It’s like salvation.
The Bible says that God has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world.
The Bible tells us that we are elect according to His foreknowledge and predestined to be redeemed.
The Bible tells us that God knows them that are His.
The Bible tells us that God said, “I have much people in that city that I want you to reach,” affirming that He knew who they were.
In other words, God has chosen us.
And, yet, our salvation is also dependent on the fact that we make a choice, isn’t it?
Daniel knew that God’s sovereignty would come to pass, but not without the response of human choice.
And so in view of God’s sovereignty, knowing that there must be a human acceptance, a writing of the heart for God to end the chastening, he begins to pray.
Not unlike the Apostle John in the Book of Revelation who, hearing the Word of God, “Behold, I come quickly … he says … even so, come Lord Jesus.”
He lines his prayers up with what he knows God will do.
And I guess you might say that that’s the character of every single amen in the Bible.
For amen means so let it be.
And when we say to God, “Bring it to pass.
Let it be,” we are simply affirming that God’s will will be done and realizing that man must line his heart with God to know the fullness of that accomplished purpose.
Prayer, then, is necessary, even though God is sovereign and absolute and will do His will.
And, by the way, there have been times when God extended things.
And there have been times when God’s shortened things.
And so in connection with His sovereignty, we cannot box Him in.
He may shorten things.
He may lengthen things.
And so Daniel sets about to pray, knowing that somehow the rightness of the human heart has to fit into the sovereign act of God …
MacArthur, J. F., Jr. (2014).
John MacArthur Sermon Archive.
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