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DANIEL IN PRAYER

Text: Daniel 9:20-23
8 July 2013

DANIEL IN PRAYER

1. Speaking Daniel 9:20a

2. Praying Daniel 9:20b

3. Confessing my sin Daniel 9:20c

4. Confessing the sin of my people Israel Daniel 9:20d

5. Presenting my supplications Daniel 9:20e

6. Consciousness of the presence of God

a) Before the Lord my God Daniel 9:20f

b) The holy mountain of my God Daniel 9:20g (Cf. Psalm 15)

RESPONSE TO DANIEL’S PRAYER

1. While I was speaking in prayer Daniel 9:21a

2. The man Gabriel Daniel 9:21

a) A mighty angel of God

b) Described as a man because this was the form in which he appeared to Daniel

c) Daniel had previous encounters with him

3. He was caused to fly swiftly Daniel 9:21

a) Swift answer to Daniel’s prayer

b) Gabriel reached Daniel at the time of the evening offering

c) He was sent forth “at the beginning of (Daniel’s) supplication Daniel 9:23

d) There seems to be a spatial element (between heaven and earth)

GABRIEL’S WORD TO DANIEL

1. Addressing Daniel

a) O Daniel Daniel 9:22a

b) He is “greatly beloved” Daniel 9:23

2. The purpose of Gabriel’s visitation

a) I have now come forth to give you skill to understand Daniel 9:22

b) He was sent forth by God Himself Daniel 9:23

3. Daniel’s part

a) To consider what Gabriel would teach him

b) To understand what Gabriel would reveal to him Daniel 9:23