Praying the Scripture: A Case Study
Have you at any point turned in to listen to somebody praying and asked why you don't (or can't) pray as they do? From the primary state, we should recall that petition isn't rendered ineffective in light of its absence of expert articulation or philosophical vocabulary. In the meantime, this is a territory in which adherents will reliably develop, not to compliment a group, but rather so they may supplicate working together with God's will. Inspite of the fact that it is not a decent practice to analyze the prayers of other men, it appears that a supplication particularly when asked corporately can differ in its viability in both soliciting as indicated by the will from God and reflecting with the body of Christ.
My supposition is basic: Praying Scripture promotes growth and effectiveness in prayer. In all actuality, Scripture meet a heart constrained to have faith in a God who is sovereign and consequently ready to answer petition. That is, a supplicating heart must trust in the God who wants to answer the petitions of His children. Such was Jesus' desire for His followers (John 15:7). However, Scripture gives motivated vocabulary and philosophy to petition that satisfies the Lord.
Luckily, Scripture has given cases of what this resembles. In addition to the fact that we are given petitions of God's children through the content, yet we likewise have a case of the way and aftereffect of a hireling of God who asks as an impression of his contemplation upon the expression of God. We see this in the content of Daniel 9.
Daniel 9:2 makes a fascinating movement in the book. Daniel had beforehand gotten disclosure through vision and dreams. Here, the content movements to the understanding of Scripture. Rather than getting another heavenly vision, Daniel peruses, tries to comprehend Jeremiah 25:1, and implores as a reaction to this content. The specific verse that says the 70 years is Jeremiah 25:11 (see likewise Jeremiah 29:10), however it is truly clear in light of his petition that he was perusing the entire part.
Because of his understanding of the content of Jeremiah, Daniel reacted in the accompanying way:
"So I gave my regard for the Lord God to look for Him by petition and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth and cinders" (Daniel 9:3).
Daniel truly "turned his face toward the Lord God," which is a fitting depiction of prayer. In prayers, adherents divert their face from the world, its allurements, and their distraction and turn to the Lord their God. The focal point of their mind swings to God Himself and His will for their lives. Daniel's way in supplication uncovered a decision, intense heart; not an in-passing, impudent way to deal with petition. He was urgent, and he waited before the Lord with a specific end goal to comprehend God's will. This was not just a speedy demand before perusing Scripture to request God's favoring; this was a drawn out time of fasting and sitting before the Lord in an unassuming state. We gain much from Daniel's face, however we additionally gain from the way he moved toward both the content and his reaction to it. In spite of the fact that the entries resounds with whatever remains of the Old Testament, two illustrations get the job done to make our point.
Daniel and Moses
Also, for instance for us, Daniel's petition exhibits how he supplicated as per the content. For instance, he starts his supplication, “Alas, O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments” (Daniel 9:4). Consider the expressions of
Deuteronomy 7:9: Know consequently that the Lord your God, He is God, the devoted God, who keeps His pledge and His loving kindness to a thousandth era with the individuals who adore Him and keep His precepts.
Presently, regardless of whether Daniel was not citing from this content which I trust he is doing. He is at any rate resounding the expressions of God given in the content. Accordingly, there is a reverberation between his words and those of the Pentateuch. Thusly, the suggestion is critical. As indicated by Moses in Deuteronomy 7:9, when God carried His kin out of Egypt with a forceful hand and recovered them from servitude, this ought to have filled in as an interminable case of how God would be unwavering to the pledge that He had made with His kin. This pledge was the guarantee that God had made to Abraham that these individuals would be God's picked individuals. God had guaranteed to favor them, to increase their seed, and to give them the place that is known for Canaan. In this manner, Moses and Daniel perceived that God is one who keeps His pledge, that He would keep His loving kindness (or steadfast love). Actually, later in the supplication, Daniel reflects upon the Lord's work in bringing His kin "out of the place where there is Egypt with a strong hand" (Daniel 9:15).
Daniel and Solomon
Daniel's petition proceeds with:
"We have trespassed, submitted wrongdoing, acted devilishly and revolted, notwithstanding diverting beside Your precepts and mandates" (Daniel 9:5).
In setting these three expressions together, Daniel's petition is by all accounts uniting the certainties of Solomon's supplication in 1 Kings 1:1. At the point when Solomon had wrapped up the sanctuary and when the ark had been gotten, he supplicated a petition of devotion. Close to the end, he recognized the wicked inclinations that they as a country had, thus he made the accompanying solicitation of the Lord in
1 Kings 8:46: When they sin against You (for there is no man who does not sin) and You are irate with them and convey them to a foe, so they take them away hostage to the place that is known for the adversary, distant or close.
This was the correct case, the reason Daniel was in a state of banishment. God had given them over to their foes on account of their proceeded with wrongdoing. Solomon proceeded: In the event that they take thought in the land where they have been abducted, and atone and influence supplication to You in the place that is known for the individuals who to have taken them hostage, saying, "We have trespassed and have submitted evildoing, we have acted wickedly." (1Kgs 8:47)
These are similar words that Daniel uses to make admission. If God's kin were to end up estranged abroad, the best possible reaction was to admit that they had trespassed, conferred wrongdoing, and acted insidiously, similarly as Daniel admitted. He appears to have "taken idea" similarly as Solomon had prayed later reader like us would. In addition, the adjust of Daniel's supplication appears to mirror whatever remains of Solomon's too:
If they come back to You with everything that is in them and with their entire existence … and implore You … then hear their petition and their supplication [plea for mercy] in paradise Your home, and keep up their motivation, and pardon Your kin … and make them objects of sympathy before the individuals who have taken them hostage, that they may have empathy on them. (1Kgs 8:47– 50)
What Solomon had anticipated and asked about, Daniel was living. He and his kin ended up estranged abroad as a result of the transgressions of their fathers. Presently the inquiry remained: Would they react effectively by not following the example of their fathers' response? In this supplication, Daniel shows that he was reacting effectively, in accordance with Solomon's petition many years previously.
Conclusion
I am really sure that great supplicating isn't set apart by its utilization of King James English. I think what stands out in my brain about such people is that their petitions are knowledgeable in Scripture. I think this is the reason that their supplications appear to be a declaration of the core of God. They know Him well, since they have invested energy in His Word. This reflects itself in their asking as they see life through His viewpoint, not their own.
For those of us who battle with this, supplicating in light of Scripture, I accept, is a critical standard for present day adherents. If God addresses us in His pledge and He does and in the event that we want to supplicate as indicated by His will as we should at that point we will reliably implore in light of the content. When we read Scripture, as it were, we realize what God's heart genuinely cherishes and what He wants. Thusly, when we implore with the expressions of Scripture, we are guaranteed that our solicitations are not conceited or outside of His will. Our solicitations will be engaged upon Him and His grandness and in accordance with His bigger plans. When we read the Bible for our commitments or while reflecting upon Sunday's sermon, it would be useful for us to rethink what we have realized in a supplication. This will enable us to create a superior vocabulary for petition as well as prepare our hearts to react to God in a way that satisfies Him. From various perspectives, this is the reason the book of Psalms has been so very much cherished by devotees. In it we discover the author managing the highs and lows of life, and we figure out how he reacts to those circumstances with his words. The same is valid for Daniel in this entry. His brain was loaded with the Word of God. A great part of the dialect he utilizes as a part of his petition isn't different to him; it is taken from what he was perusing in Jeremiah. This supplication may abandon you saying, "If I could only pray like Daniel!" Well, fortunately you can, on the grounds that he was essentially a dedicated understudy of God's words, and he perceived their proceeded with legitimacy in his life.
Thus, through these couple case from Daniel's petition, the example develops whereby God's worker peruses the content, works constantly to comprehend that content inside the setting of Scripture, and reacts to the content with demands affected and represented by God's words. Following Daniel's illustration can guarantee that our petitions obviously explain the will of God, with the full understanding that in our shortcoming
"the Spirit Himself intervenes for us with moaning too profound for words" (Romans 8:26).