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What Can We Learn From Daniel’s Passionate Prayer?
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Daniel 9 contains one of the most passionate prayers in the Bible. What can we learn from Daniel’s prayer of confession and His appeal to God’s mercy?
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he ninth chapter of the book of Daniel contains the well-known 70 weeks of Daniel. What many readers overlook, in their eagerness to jump into this prophecy, is the emotional prayer of Daniel that precedes it. Daniel, who by this time was an old man, made one of the most heartfelt and stirring prayers in the Bible.
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What can we learn from how this great man of faith approached the Eternal God?
Preparing for the prayer: sackcloth and ashes
Daniel did not go straight from his study of Jeremiah’s writings (Daniel 9:2) to prayer. He prepared himself to approach the living God by wearing sackcloth, covering himself in ashes and fasting (verse 3). What is sackcloth? It was an inexpensive, rough material made from the dark hair of camels or goats. Although it was used as ordinary clothing among poorer
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