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Daniel chapter 9 verses 22 and 23. He made me understand.

Speaking with me and saying, oh Daniel, I have now come out to give you insight and understanding

at the beginning of your pleas for mercy. A word went out and I have come to tell it to you

for you are greatly loved. Therefore consider the word and understand the vision.

Those are two awesome verses and I wish we could spend a lot of time talking about Daniel chapter 9.

This is just quite a chapter on so many different levels. But in the beginning of the chapter,

Daniel turns his face to Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy, fasting and

sackcloth and ashes. That's Daniel chapter 9 verse 3 and then later in verse 23, this messenger

from God comes and says at the beginning of your pleas for mercy, a word went out and I have come

to tell it to you. Did you hear that? Like Daniel's prayers, his pleas for mercy, triggered activity

in the spiritual realm. Can I just say that one more time? When Daniel prayed, it triggered

activity in the spiritual world. Like his prayers mattered. His prayers affected what was happening

in the spiritual world. It was happening in the physical world. Like when we pray, it matters.

We're not just talking into the air. We're not just saying words alone in a room or with a

small group of people when we gather together with the church, just going through religious motions.

No, we're talking to God and God is acting in response to our prayers. And now easily we can forget

this. Like we can pray and just in the back of our mind, almost unconsciously thinking,

I'm just kind of saying this. Is it really doing anything? Like yes, it's doing something when we

pray. God is listening and God is acting in response to our prayers. Is that not awesome?

And obviously we immediately think, well, I've prayed for things and I've not seen anything

happen before. Isn't that the beauty of prayer though? That when we pray, we're praying to the God

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