Title: Prayer for mercy
Contents Bible text: Daniel 9:13-19 Title: Prayer for mercy
1. Daniel is now pleading for God's mercy in faith.
1) God has always forgiven sins. (verse 4).
'You are a God who forgives' (Nehemiah 9:17).
'He will forgive widely' (Isaiah 55:7).
2) Daniel is looking back on the past to strengthen his faith.
You brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand (verse 15).
But now the Lord has brought them out of Babylon with that mighty money.
Do you not want to give? God saves us from Babylon
better than deliverance from Egypt.
Didn't He say? (Jeremiah 16:14,15)
2. Here he describes the humiliation of God's people and,
They are lamentingly pleading for the destruction of the sanctuary of God.
Their neighbours mocked them and saw them humiliated.
The momentum is rising, and God's holy dwelling place is desolate.
And the holy city of Jerusalem became a derision (verse 46).
The holy house was made desolate (v. 17). the altars were destroyed
All buildings were turned to ashes.
3. He asked God to restore the captive Jews
persistently petitioning. Lord, I beg you (verse 16).
Wherefore, our God, hear now the prayer and supplication of your servant (verse 17).
Then what did he ask for and pray for?
1) God asked them to take his wrath from them.
This is also what all saints fear and long for more than anything else.
Take away your wrath from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain (verse 16).
He did not pray for them to be released from captivity,
“Do what is good in the sight of the Lord.” First, God will take away His wrath.
prayed for Eliminate the cause and the effect will cease.
2) It was asking them to shine the light of God's face on them.
Let your countenance shine upon your desolate sanctuary (verse 17).
God's face in restoring the ruined sanctuary
Above all, it is precious. for the sanctuary will be rebuilt upon its
Because. Therefore, those who want to start work with the right purpose
First, we must pray for God's grace.
4. He pleads more strongly through pleadings and arguments.
God allows not only to ask, but also to supplicate
also allow This is not for God to move
(He knows himself what he will do)
To encourage our own faith.
1) They did not rely on any righteousness of their own.
That is, as if they deserved something from God.
They did not consider it, but thought that they deserved wrath and curse (verse 18).
Moses told the people of Israel that all that God had done for them was
It was never said that it was because of their righteousness (Deut. 9:4,5).
2) They only got strength from God in their prayers.
This means that the mercy and grace they are seeking will come from him.
Because I knew it was coming.
① Do it for yourself (verse 19).
“That is, for the fulfillment of your own will and the fulfillment of your own promises.”
② "Do this for the Lord." Christ is Lord. That is, he is the Lord of all.
When sinners repent and return, they are satisfied, and God gives them the light of His countenance.
Unhappiness is for yourself.
③ “Thou shalt walk according to all thy justice” (verse 16).
That is, according to your justice, repay us against our persecutors and oppressors."
④ “Act in Your great mercy (verse 18).
Show that you are a God of mercy.
The sanctuary that is desolate is the sanctuary of the Lord (v. 17).
And Jerusalem is 'Your city,' and 'Your holy mountain' (verse 16).
It is 'a city that is called by the name of the Lord' (v. 18).
The people who are now reviled are 'Your people', that is, 'Those who are called by your name
' It is the people (verse 19). They are 'Thy's; save them'" (Psalm 119:94).