Daniel 11:32b Prayer
a devotional prayer by Raimer Rojas
a prayer to pray over the Body of Christ
a prayer to pray over the Body of Christ
Wanted to emphasize this verse as we pray for the church:
“...but the people who know their God shall stand firm and take action." - Daniel 11:32b ESV
“...but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.” - Daniel 11:32 NKJV
That we would be a people who...
1. Know Our God
Deep knowledge of God in both mind and heart, through His revealed Word and from experience from walking with God through all seasons of life.
2. Be Strong (Stand Firm)
To me this speaks of a strong inner core, a rich inner life, that comes from being rooted and established in His love, intimacy with Him, and an identity that came only from Him. This causes us to stand strong against the voices of our fleshly desires, the pressures to follow the thinking of this misled culture/world, and the lies of our most deceptive enemy. They call us always to settle for immediate and lesser pleasures, than the greater and eternal ones we could only ever find in God.
3. Take Action (Do Great Exploits)
“...so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation. Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life...” - Philippians 2:15-16a NIV
And for this I want to differentiate from doing good/great things FOR God, which if not led BY God could be just as off and just as misled as what worldly people do. Think of the Pharisees and of Saul (Paul of Tarsus before his encounter with the living Christ) who were supposedly doing great thing for God but turned out to be His greatest opposition! Ouch!!! Jesus said,
“Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters." - Matthew 12:30 NIV
"Anyone who isn’t with me opposes me, and anyone who isn’t working with me is actually working against me." - Matthew 12:30 NLT