Daniel 9:3-19
“3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer
and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
4 And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession,
and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to
them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;
5 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done
wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy
judgments:
6 Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets,
which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all
the people of the land.
7 O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us
confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through
all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that
they have trespassed against thee.
8 O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings,
to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses,
though we have rebelled against him;
10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to
walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by
departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured
upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God,
because we have sinned against him.
12 And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against
us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil:
for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.
13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is
come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might
turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
14 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.
15 And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people
forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown,
as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
16 O Lord, 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 become a reproach to all that are about us.
17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant,
and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is
desolate, for the Lord's sake.
18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes,
and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do
not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy
great mercies.
19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do;
defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called
by thy name.”
When is the last time you sought the Lord God through prayer
and supplications for His churches and His people? These are harsh things
Daniel prays for and about all of Israel. Could these same things be in the
Lord's churches also? Please remember to pray fervently for your fellow church
members and our brothers and sisters who are members of other churches. Pray
God would keep us from false doctrine and the lust of the world. There are many
who have strayed from the truth and many more who are leaning towards false
doctrine. Pray our Lord show them the truth and cause them to follow Him.
Praise ye the Lord!!!
