Saturday, January 5, 2019

Praying Like Daniel

Happy New Year! Welcome to the very first Wisdom Walk reading of 2019. Bear with me through January as the focus will be on laying a spiritual foundation for our year, through prayer and fasting.

Some of you may have already started the Daniel Fast but don't forget to include Daniel's prayer which he prayed during the fast. Adapt it to reflect America, your state, or country, and pray it along with your personal prayer . Here is the first portion of the prayer found in Daniel 9:

O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, 5 we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments. 6 Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our (Leaders), to our fathers and all the people of the land. 7 O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day— because of the unfaithfulness which (we) have committed against You...

Let us take the Word seriously, if we confess and repent of our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive. May God strengthen you as you fast.

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