So Daniel’s prayer is born out of the study and understanding of the Word. There’s no self-seeking here. And his heart was filled with hope, for God promised to answer his prayer. Those who are spiritually broken will be blessed because they will see God, and God’s power will flow through their lives. He’ll build His church and the gates of hell, which is a Jewish euphemism for death, will not be able to prevent it. And people have often wondered, “Why did He go and pray with such compassion, pray with such a burdened heart, pray to the point where He almost died in the garden because of the intensity of His prayer? First of all, true prayer is in response to the Word of God. It’s quite another for Him to be able, isn’t it? O Lord, don’t allow the church to fall in to disrepute, don’t allow Your name to be besmirched by those who would tear it down. Now Daniel had such an extreme burden for the restoration of his people, spiritually and physically to the land, he had such a deep heart- felt compassion that his people come back to God and back to their covenant place and back to fulfillment that he actually became ill over it. This page has a collection of prayers to gently lift your mind and soul heavenwards. And rather than stand afar off in damning judgment of his people as if he is holier than they are, he embraces them in his own arms and with a plural pronoun incorporates himself in their own struggle and does, I suppose, what we could say is in the heart of Paul as he writes, “Bear one another’s burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ.”. Very few people would have lasted through such an over turning of government, to have the single greatest power in the world dethroned and destroyed and a new power put in its place and keep the same Prime Minister is indeed amazing and speaks of the integrity of the life of this unusual man of God. So I kneel before you and lay out my heart, the tiny pieces of lost hope, the fragments of shattered dreams and the missing pieces of a picture I've lost. Always it’s “we,” “us,” and “our.” Always the plural pronoun is used. He zeroes in, he sets his face. God, give the church intercessors in replace of critics. The very opposite of the Luke 18 Pharisee who goes in the temple and says, “I thank Thee that I am not as other men.” Remember that? True prayer is realized in self-denial. But rather he involves himself with their own sin. If you have trouble fasting, it is because you have trouble being concerned. It is my deceit to preach and pray and to stir up other spiritual affections in order to beget commendations whereas my rule should be daily to consider myself more vile than any man in my own eyes. She knew there was only One who could meet her desperate need. The essence of real prayer is a cry for righteousness, a cry for holiness. All rights reserved. We have seen that he is full of faith, he is unselfish, he is humble and meek, he is resistant to the encroachment of the world. That’s just the point. And when Daniel saw what was coming in the history of Israel through this tremendous really judgment of God through the vehicle of Antiochus Epiphanes and also Antichrist, though at that time he didn’t know specifically their names and we yet don’t know the name of Antichrist. But that’s not a problem for me because there are a lot of things I don’t know. Most of the time giving thanks for all the things you have provided to me, for your care and love. A Daily Morning Prayer A Prayer for When You're Overwhelmed by Fear A Prayer for a Broken Heart A Prayer for Worry A Prayer for First Thing in the Morning A Prayer for When You Don't Know What to Do. In fact, by now, he’s probably over 80 years old. Fervency in prayer, by the way, in the Scripture is indicated by a lot of things. For as long as we ask You with a genuine heart, Your blessings will come in abundance. Oh, God, don’t let it happen. It’s just amazing the instructiveness of this prayer. But I just want you to notice in verse 5 the word, “we,” and then in verse 6, “we,” “our,” “our,” “our.” it’s used three times. Prayer: Thank You that You are close to the brokenhearted. The books, the scrolls which Jeremiah had – which Daniel had included the prophecy of Jeremiah. It isn’t as if we’re just getting introduced to this man, by now we know very much about him. And somebody is going to come along and say to him, “What are you all worried about? He had just had a vision of the coming disasters in the history of Israel, a vision of Antiochus Epiphanes, the one who would desecrate the temple, a vision that stretched even beyond Antiochus, who was a Greek who desecrated the temple in the intertestimental period between the Old and the New, but the vision also stretched forward to a vision of Antichrist and the terrifying reality of what was going to happen. Nothing could be further from the truth. Please contact the publisher to obtain copies of this resource. It was written by Rev. Third, as Hannah prays, she makes no attempt to draw attention to herself. And so, his heart is burdened with the fact that he is a sinful man and he is coming to confess for himself, first of all. I am engulfed in the same passion that engulfs the heart of God. Look at verse 20. In other words, when we go to God our whole petition is built upon the constant reality of who He is. ... May the fragments of our world and the brokenness of our souls be blessed with strength, wisdom, and compassion. Father, thank You for our time tonight. Now therefore, our God, hear the prayer of Thy servant, and his supplications, and cause Thy face to shine on Thy sanctuary, which is desolate” – watch this line – “for the” – What? Lord Jesus, I bow before you in humility and ask You to examine my heart today. And so, Daniel’s soul is clothed in a just shame. Why are you so concerned? The stalk that stood straight stood straight because it’s so light headed and good for nothing. Psalms 147:3-5 – He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. By Mery Beth Ebol. I don’t understand how Jesus can be God and man. Nothing could be further from the truth. Guest. God shut the mouths of the lions and he was greatly spared. Brokenness and wholeness: a service of prayers for healing (PDF Download) quantity. He regarded the sins of his people, the sins of the priests, the sins of the rulers, the sins of the judges, the sins of the kings as his own. Standard shipping is free for all orders within the United States. What kind of deity do you have who can’t even protect you?”. This man does not exalt himself above everybody else and demand things out of God but rather sees himself as one desperately in need of confessing his own failure. He found there some positive wickedness. Forgive me for all my self-protection and self-redemption, and for all my false comforters. And the marvelous story that you all know so well took place. A farmer one day went with his son to a wheat field to see if it was ready for harvest. There’s no self-righteousness here. – “throw the first stone.” Who do you think you are? And this is the time in which Daniel makes his prayer. The one that hangs down is hanging modestly because it’s full of the most beautiful grain.” The heads that hang are the ones, I think, that appear the most beautiful and useful to God. We would say he set his jaw. Why are you so burdened to run across the country and send out tapes and messages and write books to try to help the church? But some of us never get beyond that. And God responds to that. Read More. And so we’re being chastened. To be able to understand on the one hand that God has a sovereign plan and that that plan is very clearly indicated in Scripture, even to the point of the number of years, 70 years, and on the other hand, to still be burdened to pray, is to hold that in perfect balance. It is the prayer that comes from the heart of the shepherd. So, Daniel passionately intercedes for his people. Prayer for a Broken Heart. And so, even as Jesus taught us, we are to pray that the will of God would be done on earth as it is in heaven. On the one hand, he could see the certainty of divine sovereign purpose and yet on the other hand he could see the necessity of prayer. I don’t understand how you as a Christian can live your Christian life, beat your body to bring it into subjection, how I am called to obedience and commitment on my own, and yet every good thing in me is produced by the Spirit of God. And I see a self- denying spirit here. Here's more on beauty in the brokenness. He cannot be bought. Sometimes in a hospital situation where someone has lost a loved one, people are forever trying to tell someone, “You need to eat something, you’ll feel better if you eat something.” That – that’s just the antithesis of what’s really going on because fasting in Scripture is always connected to great importunity and fervency and prayer when the heart is so exercised over a spiritual reality that it has no desire for food. He prayed in response to the teaching of Scripture. And what would be the books? The man entitled Darius reigns on the throne. It’s impossible. We cry out to a God who is righteous, a God who is merciful, a God who is forgiving, a God who keeps His promises and a God who is powerful. True prayer is – the essence of true prayer is not self-consumption, the essence of true prayer is a heart that’s so overwrought and burdened and broken that it is a heart given to self-abasement, a heart given to self-denial, not a heart given to self-consumption. Brokenness | Valentine. Worse than that, if you’ve got every – everything dispensationally pigeon-holed, if you’ve got everything cut and dried in terms of Scripture so you see no point in prayer, you probably are betraying a very, very cold heart. (a prayer for healing and comfort from www.lords-prayer-words.com) Prayer for a Sick Person O Father of mercies and God of all comfort, our only help in time of need: We humbly beseech thee to behold, visit, and relieve thy sick servant N. for whom our prayers are desired. The Palmist posed the question now before your hurting people, “The foundations of law and order have collapsed. And Daniel did. O God, revive Your church because Your church bears Your name. Brokenness is a blessing because it puts us on the road to a breakthrough. Somebody said to me years ago as I was kind of developing in seminary, “God not only plans the outcome, but He plans the process as well.” And our prayers are a part of the process. Now the stress in this third point of fervency is on the attitude of Daniel. Cortney is a wife and mother of two wonderfully energetic children. So again, we learn that true intercession is generated by God’s Word, grounded in God’s will, characterized by fervency and realized in self-denial. - Psalm 20:1 … In Christ’s name, Amen. A second aspect of Hannah's prayer to note is that it was silent. What are you so concerned about?”. Here at Grace to You Europe we take our data protection responsibilities very seriously and, as you would expect, have undertaken a significant programme of work to ensure that we are ready for this important legislative change. He is able. It is the very essence of prayer that it is not concerned with little things. “O my God,” – verse 18, “incline Your ear and hear, open Your eyes and behold our desolation in the city which is called by Thy name. This is a model of how to pray. “We do not” – verse 18 says in the middle – “present our supplications before Thee for our righteousnesses but for Thy great mercies. He is not standing aloof from his people, praying for them as if he was detached from them, praying for them as if he was some holy creature and they some unholy. During this time – let’s look at verse 2, “In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books,” – not just any books, literally in the Hebrew, by the books. When it speaks of promise, we ought to long to see it realized. We’re not talking about saying, “Well, I’m praying and this is the will of God, it’s all cut and dried,” in a – sort of in a bitter resentful way, I just acquiesce to it. And that is a very difficult tension to hold. I realise that I am a sinner not only in the terrible things that I have been engaged in, but in my very heart, which is overburdened with sin. I don’t understand how those things work at all. Verse 7, “Righteousness belongs unto Thee.” I know You’ll do what’s right. God is a God of forgiveness. – “As men of Judah, inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all Israel, that are near and far off – “because we have trespassed against thee.” In verse 8, “O Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, we have sinned against thee. Until we realize that we cannot stand apart self- righteously judging them, we’re not going to see God do what He ought to do, what He would desire to do through our prayers. Why should God answer prayer? The greatest indication of his prayer life, of course, we find in the incident in chapter 6 where he is told that he is not to worship his own God, he is not to pray to his own God. If all you ever do is ask for this little thing and that little thing and the other little thing, you’re dealing in superficial realities. Accordingly, we have updated our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions in order to comply with GDPR. Great and awesome God, clothed in majesty, splendor, and power, we come before you on behalf of our nation’s brokenness. But you understand the heart cry of this man. He senses that the 70 years is up because he himself was taken into captivity. So in chapter 9 as God’s compassionate heartbroken servant, he intercedes for the people whom he loves. And then in verse 15 he emphasizes that God is a God of power who brought His people out of the land of Egypt “with a mighty hand” and has become renown. And it’s fine to pray for physical things. If you or someone you know is sick, turn to this prayer: Dear Jesus, Divine Physician and Healer of the Sick, I turn to You in this time of illness. But then there are a lot of impossible things. May the LORD answer you in the day of trouble! And he prayed according to God’s will. If God started counting the 70 years from the second deportation in 597, it was a little further off but still imminent. Let me learn of Paul whose presence was common, his weakness great, his utterance contemptible, yet Thou didst account him faithful and blessed. And yet Daniel, customary in his life, throws open the windows of his room and prays facing the city of Jerusalem as he always did, and does not hesitate, does not compromise in his prayer life. Since the UK is now no longer a member of the EU, you may be charged an import tax on this item by the customs authorities in your country of residence, which is beyond our control. Afterward I rose up and did the king’s business and I was astonished at the vision but none understood it.”. We have examples in Scripture of groaning, loud crying, Christ sweating blood, of agony of a broken heart, a broken spirit like in Psalm 34 and Psalm 51 where David cries out with a broken heart; rending the heart, making an oath, making a sacrifice, a lot of things to demonstrate fervency in prayer. God is a God of mercy. When I hear these people today who pray prayers that are so unbiblical that know nothing of what the Scripture teaches, prayer that demands this and demands that out of God and corners God and tells Him He has to do this and has to do the other thing, I see that as a false kind of prayer not generated by the Word and not, secondly, grounded in the will of God but rather grounded in the will of the individual. Beauty for brokenness Hope for despair Lord, in the suffering This is our prayer Bread for the children Justice, joy, peace Sunrise to sunset Your kingdom increase! After clicking 'Register', you will receive an email with a link to verify your account and to complete your registration. His prayer was characterized by fervency. Prayer For those who are crying out to God. Thank You for what we learned from him. We read in 1 Samuel 1:10, "In her deep anguish Hannah prayed to the Lord, weeping bitterly…". He prays for others but encompasses them in his own prayer. By the time we get to chapter 9, we already know a lot about Daniel. All this while in complete obedience to You. I come to You in brokenness of heart, for I am beginning to understand what the Lord Jesus Christ actually did for me on the Cross. She was praying out of her deep anguish and brokenness. Confusion of face means shame of things. He has been Prime Minister in the nation during the Babylonian kingdom and continues to be Prime Minister during the Medo-Persian kingdom which is quite a comment on his character. And then fifthly, it is identified with God’s people. It is dependent on God’s character, a seventh principle. That’s basically what it means when it says in Galatians, “Praying in the Spirit,” when it says in Jude, “Praying in the Spirit.” Praying in the Spirit isn’t some kind of ecstasy, it is praying consistent with the will of God. As a result, he was thrown in to a – a den of lions. O Lord, righteousness belongs unto thee, but unto us confusion of face” – distortion. Father God, I pray that You be with this world. Prayer then is modeled here, generated by the Word of God, grounded in the will of God, characterized by passion and fervency, realizing self-denial that identifies with others. What was all that about?”. Free Shipping. It is identified with God’s people. We have seen him to be a bold and courageous man. Jesus says in Matthew 16, “I will build My church and” – what? Verse 27, “I, Daniel, fainted and was sick for days. The completed registration allows us to send order and donation receipts to the email address you provided. The Bible says in spite of what we know to “pray without” – What? Daniel, as I said, is over 80 years of age. And those that hang their heads down, I’m sure, couldn’t be good for anything.” The farmer plucked a stock of wheat of each kind and handed it to his son and said, “You’re foolish, my son. Psalm 51:17 – The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart – these, O God, You will not despise. God help you. Therefore hath the Lord watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.”. – “for the Lord’s sake.”, Not for us. Fatalism is deadly to anyone’s prayer life, and as I said a moment ago, betrays a heart of indifference and a theology that is a theology of indifference is no biblical theology at all. Prayer is predicated on an unchanging God. Register. I don’t understand how it is that you can be chosen in Him before the foundation of the world and yet come to Christ on your own choice, and if you go to hell you go because you personally rejected Christ. In fact, I can tell you that I am a follower of Christ and a servant of Christ because God answered the prayers of my mother. But the issue for me is a recognition that I’m not what I ought to be and my prayer needs to pour that out to God. Out of her prayer will come a man who will influence the course of history in a mighty way—a man who will anoint the king from whose lineage the Savior of the world will be born. I only refresh your mind. Pt.3: Beauty in the Brokenness. That’s not grounded in God’s will that’s grounded in my will. Sometimes God seems far away but his Word promises us he … I get notes from people, “Please pray,” I get phone calls, and it’s difficult to feel like you’ve even covered the – the minimum in terms of your prayer life. And there are plenty of charlatans running around telling them God wants to make you healthy, wealthy, wise and happy and give you a new car and all of this, and not the kind of prayer we see here. (You’ll want to renounce specific sins you are aware of here.) Verse 5, “Ezra opened the book in the sight of the people; he was above all the people; and when he opened it, all the people stood: And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God. We’re not talking about some kind of passive resignation that just flops and says, “I can’t do anything about it, I give in.” We’re not talking about any kind of acquiescence at all. Your name is being dishonored. That’s not Daniel. There are no demands made on God because of who He is. True prayer is realized in self-denial. Look at verse 16, “O Lord,” – cries Daniel – “according to all Thy righteousness, I beseech Thee, let Thine anger and Thy fury be turned away from Thy city Jerusalem, Thy holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Thy people are a reproach to all those around us. Do these prayers help you today? Father, who do YOU say that I am? Show me how You respond in the face of failure. Lord, let me lean on Thee as he did and find my ministry Thy ministry.”, For all of us, prayer is only genuine and only powerful when it comes out of a pure life and an attitude of self-denial that says Thy will, Thy name, Thy kingdom. When it speaks of judgment we should long that it be avoided. It is still the cry of my heart that He would purge His church. And he is a living model of James 5:16, “the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” It’s a prayer not unlike that of our Lord in the garden who poured out His heart to God to the extent of sweating, as it were, great drops of blood. But we go one step deeper into his prayer life in chapter 9. Show me anything that is not pleasing to You. I mean, for 21 chapters you’ve been telling us He’s coming, now what are you praying like that for?” Because it isn’t something that you study theologically, it’s something that rises out of the desire of your heart that you are involved in desiring to see that very promise fulfilled. Brokenness is a great off-ramp to prayer! 83 Comments. Used by permission. What kind of a God lets you all be taken into captivity? “Lord, solve my problem, Lord, fix my job up, Lord, I need transportation.” And all of those things are okay, I’m not saying you shouldn’t pray that. “Help me to rejoice in my infirmities and give Thee praise, to acknowledge my deficiencies before others and not be discouraged by them that they may see Thy glory more clearly. That doesn’t mean that I don’t cry out, “Even so, come Lord Jesus.” And Daniel knows the 70 years will be up when the 70 years are up and yet he is compassionately involved with the tragedy of his people and he cannot restrain his heart and so he lines himself up in his own heart with the purpose of God. True intercessory prayer then, generated by God’s Word, grounded in God’s will, characterized by fervency, realized in self-denial, identified with God’s people and preoccupied with righteousness. A Prayer for Wholeness. I want a new car and I want this and I demand my healing and I want the other thing. 11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured on us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. Verse 9, “Mercy and forgiveness belong to Thee.” God is a God of righteousness. Prayer of Brokenness Here’s a prayer of confession inspired by Matthew 5: 21-37, Mark 12: 28-31 and other texts. God’s reputation. Secondly, and very closely related, prayer is generated by God’s Word and it is grounded in God’s will. A Prayer for God’s Presence By Debbie Przybylski. International orders will be charged a flat rate of $5.95 per pound. You wanted us before we could ever want you. God blesses the broken spirit. Brokenness, in His eyes, is to be broken, crushed, and torn in spirit over sin. And here we move in to verse 3 and a marvelous thing. Holy One, we confess that we have been caught up in the ways of the world. These are the prayers of brokenness, and He delights in answering these prayers. Hannah knew there was only One who could meet her desperate need. Prayer is a means by which the believer lines himself up with the sovereign purpose of God. Once he read the Word he was engulfed in the heart of God, then it was grounded in the will of God. There’s no place for fatalism. Go away, it’s the middle of the night.” He said, “I need some bread.” And “for your much knocking you’re going to get some bread.” And the point of the parable is that if a man will give you bread just because you beat on the door and the man is mad and the man doesn’t like you, what do you think God will do who loves you when you have a need? Mindi. I mean, prayer to so many people is so shallow. It has always been part and parcel of the church of the redeemed and of Israel of old, those who were true-hearted Jews, to respond to the plan of God with the affirmation of an Amen. Fasting, by the way, is the most natural response to a consumed heart. What I’m concerned about is that if I’m the right person I’m going to be in the place where God’s blessing is going to be part and parcel of my life. I’m reminded of – and you are too, I’m sure – of Abraham in Genesis 18:27. There’s a sixth note here and that is that prayer has inherent in it a longing for righteousness. “In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans” Now the Medo-Persian kingdom has come. Should be our desire to have a deep repentance, a horror of sin, a dread of its approach, to pray as one Puritan prayed, “Plow deep in me, Great Lord, heavenly husbandman, that my being may be a tilled field, the roots of grace spreading far and wide until Thou alone art seen in me.
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