Happy Friday beloved, I missed you all so much! I hope that you are still well and in good health. I have learned that through prayer, our perspective about who we are in God changes. Taking time out away from our comfortable beds has never been in vain. We are forever in pursuit of God and our strength gets renewed everyday!
So, they went straight to the king and reminded him about his law. "Did you not sign a law that for the next thirty days any person who prays to anyone, divine or human, except to you, Your Majesty, will be thrown into the den of lions?" "Yes," the king replied, "that decision stands; it is an official law of the Medes and Persians that cannot be revoked." - Daniel 6:12 NLT
The Bible speaks of a time when an entire parliamentary body got together to discuss a young man by the name Daniel. And in their hour-long deliberations they came out and said, "Daniel, all we want you to do is stop praying for 30 days." They didn't say they will attack Daniel; they just asked him to stop engaging God! Dear beloved, there's power in prayer!
And how did Daniel respond? The Bible says, "...he went home and knelt down as usual in his upstairs room, with its windows open toward Jerusalem. He prayed three times a day, just as he had always done, giving thanks to his God." - Daniel 6:10 NLT
Remember, when the temple was being dedicated, Solomon laid a covenant and said, "Whoever prays facing Jerusalem, oh God, my covenant is that you may hear them!" (1 Kings 8:30). He didn't place a condition that the prayer needed to be accurate but that the direction needed to be right! Face Jerusalem! And so, Daniel not only prayed but prayed in the right direction! There's power in prayer and even greater power in obedience to divine instructions! #powerofprayer #lookuntoGod
