Today we're going to look at a man who was in secret before God, and that's who he is and who he was.

His prayer, and I'm so thankful that a secret prayer, the prayer of Daniel in chapter 9, was recorded

and that survived 2,600 years so that you and I can be blessed with it today.

On this particular day in Daniel's life, he was reading the prophecies of Jeremiah.

It is most likely that when Daniel was a young boy, before he was caught in the net of Nebekat-Nasr

and taken all the way to Iraq, most likely he heard with his own ears and he saw with his eyes

the prophet Jeremiah preaching in Jerusalem.

Most likely he remembered the words of the prophecies and the words of the

prophets. Most likely, Daniel remembered those words because he trusted in the words of Jeremiah to be

the words of the living God. We have people today in the Church of Jesus Christ who are

doubting the authority of the scripture. But here's a man who was living in the time of the

scripture being written, and he never doubted that what Jeremiah had spoken were directly

Holy Spirit inspired and Holy Spirit written. So in this particular day,

he begins to read chapters 25 and 29 in the book of Jeremiah. So what is this prophecy in Jeremiah?

Why, and he was reading it? There, Jeremiah was, had prophesied that Nebeck and Nassah, the king of Babylon is going to come and is going to invade Israel.

At that time, there were no war cries.

In fact, most of the prophets, with the exception of Jeremiah, who were paid by the state in order to tickle the ears of the king and please the people. They said,

peace, peace, peace, don't worry, nothing is going to happen to us. We are God's chosen people.

Nothing possibly could happen to us. And Jeremiah was alone, crying out and saying,

Nebekat Nazareth is coming. Israel and Jerusalem will be desolate.

People will be taken into exile, and at that time people were laughing at the prophet of God,

but not Daniel. As a young boy, he trusted in the words of the Lord through the prophet

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