PRAYER EMAIL - NOVEMBER 20

 Greetings,

"but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him. . . Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; . . . he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime. . . and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God."  Daniel 6:4 - 11

I remember listening to an A. W. Tozer sermon at the end of his life, he said, 'Many want me to lead a reform movement in the church; I can't.  I'm like Moses, I've hit the rock to many times."  Stunned I was!  This great man of God; prophet; leader.  And his confession, knowing all along his own faults and failures.  And yet, we have Daniel here before us, in this passage, ' no fault or error can be found of him. . .except in his God.'  As he was faithful to God; Christ came forth and set our example as well, to be Christ-like.    It is the standard of which all Christians must seek to live - like Christ, no faults, nor errors - no sin, sanctified and holy, clean and pure..  I wonder how many pursue this passion of holiness.  I agree that the word, 'holy' is hard to be found in conversations, prayers and life styles.  But you can find frail flesh, a vile world and hell's endless pursuits against us, which has caused great errors and failures.  But striving for such a statement is our hearts desire in Him and through Him.   

And with all this against Daniel, from these other politicians and leaders, he simply went right back to what was the norm and familiar, 'he prayed'.   Is it your norm?    The last prayer email, I sent out, was focused on this phrase found throughout Scripture, 'he prayed'.  Daniel prayed 3 times a day, on his knees.  He prayed facing to Jerusalem.  He prayed when the law passed to tell him not to pray unto the Lord God.  He did what was right and what he had always done.  And if there be one thing that keeps us and points us to the place of 'no errors or faults' it will be found that the same can be said of us, 'he/she prayed'.  

There is far too many churches that are not houses of prayer.  There are far too many Christians that in their own confessions of error and faults, they openly state, 'I have no prayer life'; 'I know I should learn to pray more and better.'   Many with a confession, but few with a repentance of this.  The gift and calling of prayer is as any gifts from the Lord; easily given, and easily can be removed.  The child of God that will not pray, will lose that passion and place to pray.  And when prayer is neglected, missed, void, then error and faults are sure to be found.  IT would seem to me that almost any and all failings in our spiritual walk in this life, can directly be traced back to failed Bible and failed prayer times.  

We approach the close of the year and our 100 Hours of Prayer will be set for December 28 - Jan. 1  Numerous other prayer initiatives are continued and sought among many different churches, ministries and groups.    Of all the faults that the world points out and Satan accuses us, let the prayer life not be one of them.  Let the prayer life be like Daniel's that no matter what the laws, what the events, what the happenings, 'he went in, kneeled and prayed.'  When they come seeking us, let them find us 'praying  for them'.  Be that one, that gives yourself to what you already know to be right.  And remember the  condemnation in the verse, 'to him who knoweth to do right and does not do it, to him it is sin.'  Let the sin of prayerlessness not be named among us!   

Too much is at stake.  The spiritual warfare is like never before and oh, how the church needs to find their Daniels' again for this hour.  I thank God for every Divine saint and blessed one that God has placed in my life that taught, blessed, encouraged, and set that example of Daniel in prayer in my life.  Let us hold fast that Psalm 109:4, 'I give myself unto prayer'.    Let this be our epitaph.  Let this year find us all in the place of prayer that is pleasing unto the Lord.  If you have lost heart, desire or time in prayer, return to Him.  I opened with Tozer, let me close with him, "Wherever you left God is where you will find Him. If you left Him in your readings of the Word, then go back to the Word; if you left Him in your prayer closet, there is where you will find Him.'   The hour is late, and the need is great for our nation, families and future.  Men and women like Daniel are needed for this hour, those that will be found with no error, nor fault; but will be found in prayer.  Brethren, continue in prayer!

EPIDEMICS:
1.  Drugs/Alcohol -
reported that the last year reached over 100,000 drug overdose deaths;  blamed on covid, but the evil and sin was already in place and happening in these that are given to addiction; minds and hearts to be transformed and delivered;
2.  Children -   how many more teachers and students court cases and arrests are happening!;  Miami-Dade county have a record number of teachers removed because of this;  children groomed and taken advantage of; 
3.  LGBT -
record number of transgenders killed this year, at 47 with still a month to go;  evil affecting all around;
4.  Natural Disasters -   out west there was extreme '100 year' flooding; everything else is quiet for now;  earthquakes were extremely low, but back up to the 90"s this week;  still no major 7.0 or greater;  volcanoes in Spain are elsewhere are to be kept tabs on;
5.  Pestilence -   covid is raging again, this past week, in US we are back up to awful stats of 1200 deaths;  coupled with the drug overdose deaths and murders and suicides we are being consumed with 'the wages of sin is death';
6.   Great Evil - raging stats as we get ready to go into the last month of this year;  numerous records and continued death and dying;  minds and hearts evil affected to do this wickedness and shed blood, their own and others;
7.  Economic Collapse - that which has kept us from God and taken us way from HIm and His ways will be removed;  Ease, comfort, increase of goods shall be removed and we will know want and need;

UPDATES:
1.  Pastors Prayer in Keyser continues 1st and 3rd of each month;  Reached out to Allegany County with all that they have been facing.  Haven not heard back from them yet.  This past Sunday was our 1 year anniversary of praying together.
2.  End of the Year - 100 Hours of Prayer - Dec. 28 - Jan. 1; looking to fill 15 minutes and 1/2 hour slots;
3.  January, 2022 - Still seeking to do a Broken Before the Throne Prayer Conference for Keyser area;.  Nothing has materialized yet.  Pastors are on board.
4.  Broken Before the Throne is getting ready to conclude its 1st year.  Thank you for your prayers, support and encouragement.
5.  Thursday Hour of Prayer has continued now for 1 and 1/2 years.   A lot of material and prayer targets given for worship - confession - petitions. 

Until,

Dan

Started:  November 20, 2021

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