How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

Prayer is agonizing.

It's getting through these barriers today that will release spiritual power.

Friends, we're fighting a spiritual battle today.

Welcome to Through the Bible. That was our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, with a reminder of the spiritual battle we face and the only power we have to get through it.

We're continuing our five-year journey through God's entire word with another stop in the

book of Daniel. Now, in our travels, we've learned that this Old Testament book can be divided

into two parts. The first part is biographical, studying Daniel's life. And the second half

explores the prophetic insights

that God gave to Daniel about the future. Now, in this study, we're going to dive into a great

lesson on the power of prayer in a man or woman of God, specifically how prayer connects us to the

word of God when we face battles in spiritual realms that are far beyond our ability to fight.

So if you got your Bible ready, then by all means, turn to Daniel chapter 10 beginning at

verse 10. And before we dive in, we got just enough time for a quick letter from a fellow

passenger on the Bible bus named Pam. When we get to Daniel, Pam says, I will have completed my second five-year cycle on the

Bible bus. I started listening on the radio at lunchtime when I was a visiting nurse in Connecticut.

Now that I'm retired, I listen on the app every morning as I start my day. In August 2023, I was

diagnosed with breast cancer. While I was waiting to learn my stage and treatment plan, I admit I was full of fear, not of dying, but the dying process. As I had watched my mother and sister die long, painful deaths from breast cancer, I long to see my Savior, the dear Lord Jesus Christ, face to face in heaven above in his perfect timing. That morning when I was so

full of fear, Dr. McGee taught on Psalm 30, which he called the cancer survivor Psalm, especially verse 2,

O Lord my God, I cried out to you and you healed me. I had forgotten that Dr. McGee had male breast

cancer and was not expected to survive,

but he did for many years. That message gave me so much courage and peace. The next week,

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