Daniel 9:123

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In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus the Mede, who was made king over the kingdom of Babylon 2 I, Daniel, learned from reading the word of the Lord, revealed to Jeremiah the prophet, that Jerusalem must lie desolate for seventy years. 3 So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and fasting. I also wore rough burlap and sprinkled myself with ashes.

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So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and fasting. I also wore rough burlap and sprinkled myself with ashes. 9:3

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So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and fasting. I also wore rough burlap and sprinkled myself with ashes. 9:3

great works of God are accompanied by the disciplined intercession of Gods people

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So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and fasting. I also wore rough burlap and sprinkled myself with ashes. 9:3

an opportunity: to participate in the supernatural to bring praise to God

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I prayed to the Lord confessing: O Lord, you are a great and awesome God! You always fulfill your covenant and keep your promises of unfailing love to those who love you and obey your commands. 5 But we have sinned and done wrong. We have rebelled against you and scorned your commands. 6 We have refused to listen to your servants the prophets, who spoke on your authority to our kings, princes and ancestors.

Lord, you are in the right; but as you see, our faces are covered with shame. This is true of all of us, including the people of Judah and Jerusalem and all Israel, scattered near and far. 8 O Lord, we and our kings, princes, and ancestors are covered with shame because we have sinned against you. 9 But the Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him 11 All Israel has turned away, refusing to listen to you.

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So now the solemn curses and judgments written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured down on us because of our sin. 12 You have kept your word and done to us and our rulers exactly as you warned. Never has there been such a disaster as happened in Jerusalem. 13 Every curse written in the Law of Moses has come true. Yet we have refused to seek mercy from the Lord our God by turning from our sins.

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O Lord our God, you brought lasting honor to your name by rescuing your people from Egypt in a great display of power. But we have sinned and are full of wickedness. 16 In view of all your faithful mercies, Lord, please turn your furious anger away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain 17 O our God, hear your servants prayer! Listen as I plead. For your own sake, Lord, smile again on your desolate sanctuary.

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O God, lean down and listen to me. Open your eyes and see our despair. See how your citythe city that bears your namelies in ruins. We make this plea, not because we deserve help, but because of your mercy. 19 O Lord, hear. O Lord, forgive. O Lord, listen and act! For your own sake, do not delay, O my God, for your people and your city bear your name.

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O God, lean down and listen to me. Open your eyes and see our despair. See how your citythe city that bears your namelies in ruins. We make this plea, not because we deserve help, but because of your mercy. 19 O Lord, hear. O Lord, forgive. O Lord, listen and act! For your own sake, do not delay, O my God, for your people and your city bear your name.

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pleas are specific

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pleas are specific direct repeated plea to supernaturally change the course of history

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pleas are confident

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confidence in who God is

pleas are confident

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O God, lean down and listen to me. Open your eyes and see our despair. See how your citythe city that bears your namelies in ruins. We make this plea, not because we deserve help, but because of your mercy. 19 O Lord, hear. O Lord, forgive. O Lord, listen and act! For your own sake, do not delay, O my God, for your people and your city bear your name.

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confidence in who God is God is not aloof!

pleas are confident

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confidence in who God is God is not aloof! Gods faithful legacy

pleas are confident

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confidence in who God is God is not aloof! Gods faithful legacy

pleas are confident

O Lord our God, you brought lasting honor to your name by rescuing your people from Egypt in a great display of power. 9:15

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confidence in what God says

pleas are confident

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confidence in what God says
O Lord, you are a great and awesome God! You always fulfill your covenant and keep your promises of unfailing love 9:4

pleas are confident

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confidence in what God says
The whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years. Jeremiah 25:11

pleas are confident

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confidence in what God says

pleas are confident

The Lord declares, When seventy years are complete for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill my good word to you and bring you back to Jerusalem. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for your welfare to give you a future and a hope. When you call out to me, I will listen. When you seek me with all your heart, you will find me. Jeremiah 29:1113

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confidence in what God says God says he is for you

pleas are confident

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confidence in what God says God says he is for you
If God is for us, who is against us? Who will condemn Gods chosen? Who will separate us from Gods love?

pleas are confident

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confidence in what God says God says he is for you
If God is for us, who is against us? Who will condemn Gods chosen? Who will separate us from Gods love? neither death, nor life, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth nor any creating thing can separate us from Gods love in Christ. Rom. 8:31ff.

pleas are confident

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O God, lean down and listen to me. Open your eyes and see our despair. See how your citythe city that bears your namelies in ruins. We make this plea, not because we deserve help, but because of your mercy. 19 O Lord, hear. O Lord, forgive. O Lord, listen and act! For your own sake, do not delay, O my God, for your people and your city bear your name.

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pleas are rooted in grace

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its always an act of mercy!

pleas are rooted in grace

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its always an act of mercy! nature versus grace

pleas are rooted in grace

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its always an act of mercy! nature versus grace
its not about your rights

pleas are rooted in grace

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its always an act of mercy! nature versus grace
its not about your rights dont negotiate

pleas are rooted in grace

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its always an act of mercy! nature versus grace
its not about your rights dont negotiate no magic formulas

pleas are rooted in grace

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its always an act of mercy! nature versus grace
its not about your rights dont negotiate no magic formulas

pleas are rooted in grace

here I am humility

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its always an act of mercy! nature versus grace
its not about your rights dont negotiate no magic formulas

pleas are rooted in grace

here I am humility pleas imply vulnerability

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its always an act of mercy! nature versus grace
its not about your rights dont negotiate no magic formulas

pleas are rooted in grace

here I am humility pleas imply vulnerability why gratitude is so crucial

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O God, lean down and listen to me. Open your eyes and see our despair. See how your citythe city that bears your namelies in ruins. We make this plea, not because we deserve help, but because of your mercy. 19 O Lord, hear. O Lord, forgive. O Lord, listen and act! For your own sake, do not delay, O my God, for your people and your city bear your name.

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pleas are to glorify God

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to bring God honor and praise

pleas are to glorify God

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to bring God honor and praise

pleas are to glorify God our greatest good is to share in Gods glory

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to bring God honor and praise

pleas are to glorify God

our greatest good is to share in Gods glory people who know God want the world to know him

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to bring God honor and praise

pleas are to glorify God

the greatest good is to share in Gods glory people who know God want the world to know him
I have given them your glory, that they may be one, just as we are one; I in them, you in me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know you sent me. John 17:22,23

what if we all united in the work of prayer: participate in the supernatural & bring praise to God

what might change? what might this work look like?