THREE WHYS IN PRAYER

BIBLE PASSAGE: EPHESIANS 6:11-18

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• Lesson Prepared by: Krisha of Solomon’s Wisdom FB page
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SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

 

MEMORY VERSE

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.

EPEHSIANS 6:18

 

INTRODUCTION:

We always hear that we have battle to face in this life; the verses in Ephesians 6:12 & 13 are always mention on this kind of battle. Let’s read these verses.

 

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places

Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

 

From these, we see that the battle is in spiritual.  If it’s spiritual how can we fight it? It’s because it’s in spiritual realm, that’s where our fight must be. It means fight it in spiritual too. Thinking the fight in spiritual, it’s hard, right? But good news God tells us to stand firm because Jesus has gotten already the victory. Let’s take the note that whatever we’re going through in physical realm, in spiritual unseen realm, Jesus Christ has gotten the victory.

 

Have you thought that we are victorious in spiritual realm because of Jesus? We are victorious in the invisible even you may thoroughly have defeated in visible. What do I mean? Victorious tayo kung tutuusin sa spiritual pero bakit talunan pa rin tayo dito sa mundo? If we want to be victorious in physical like we are in spiritual, we must address the physical a spiritual lead. The toughest thing God wants to get people to do is to look life and live life from the spiritual frame of reference and not from the reference point of the five senses.

 

God has given us equipment to which to do the fight. In Ephesians 6:13 says,

“Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.”

How do we put on the armor? How do we wear the armor? Again, because the battle is in spiritual, we need to fight in spiritual too. Bible says in Ephesians 6:18,

“Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;”

The answer is PRAY!

 

If we understand prayer, it changes on how you pray and whether you pray. For some, prayer is like the national anthem before an event. It’s actually no reverence; it’s an exercise of habit. Most of us, for example when we pray before we eat, it really doesn’t need our minds to do that because it’s the same thing we do every day.

“Lord bless this food and make this as nourishment to our bodies in Jesus name amen.”

Also most of us really don’t need our minds when we go to bed; we’re tired.

“Bless me, my family, give me a good night sleep. Protect us through the night. Wake us up tomorrow. In Jesus name amen.”

 

Some of us, prayer is like a spare time; we want it there in case we really need. If we don’t need it; it is back in there somewhere. Honestly, I have personally questions regarding prayer that’s why I titled my lesson “THREE WHYS IN PRAYER.”

LESSON OUTLINE:

1.  WHY I NEED TO PRAY IF GOD ALREADY KNOWS MY PRAYER?

 

Besides the fact it’s God’s command, what else is the reason of saying my needs in prayer? Let’s read James 5:16-18

¹⁶ Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. ¹⁷ Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. ¹⁸ And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

In verse 16 we can see that praying one another makes the condition of the healing. Then there’s statement says, “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”  In verse 17 explains that Elijah, just like an ordinary man, like you and me but he was righteous man and he prayed earnestly. This ordinary man got the heaven moved by pouring rain. Before we proceed to this, let’s take a look where the source of this verse in Old Testament. Let’s open in 1 Kings 18:1

“And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.”

In verses 41 and 42,

⁴¹ And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain. ⁴² So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,

 

If we compare these passages, we can see that in the book of James, Elijah prayed not to rain and it did and again he prayed for rain to pour and it happened. In 1 Kings we can see that what Elijah had prayed for was the command of the Lord to him in the first place. It means HE ONLY PRAYED WHAT GOD HAS SAID. Though Elijah knew that God would send rain, still, he prayed for it.

⁴³ And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times. ⁴⁴ And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down that the rain stop thee not. ⁴⁵ And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

If you notice that Elijah prayed, then the rain came. We can say that what God had said didn’t come true until he prayed even though God declared it. Prayer is not making God to do something He never planned to do. The result was brought it down on earth by PRAYER.  Prayer is the human means of entering in to the supernatural realm in order to utilize the physical. Prayer is an earthly permission for heavenly interference. Though God can do everything He wants without any man’s permission but in this case is different. Let me ask this, how God organized the world to work? It is through people, if we remember Adam and Eve were given the rulership, “Let them rule.” God does not intervene unless requested; He has given us the right. He wants to know, you want Him, you need Him, desire Him and expectations of Him.

 

Elijah prayed what God has said. The bible says we need to use the SWORD of the Spirit which is the Word of God. In our present position, the problem is what if we don’t know what God has said; we don’t know the SWORD. If that so, we have empty prayers and the armor won’t seem to work because we are not connecting it with the spiritual realm.

 

In praying, you’re not making God do something; you’re simply receiving by faith what He’s already planned to do. Let’s make an example: In our place, we’ve got radio and tv signals all around us but we’re not seeing anything on TV today, Why? We don’t have anything now to pull it down the signal. If we turn the TV on, what’s invisible become visible.  We need something in the physical to receive the waves in the invisible. If we don’t have the radio or the television, the waves are still operating; it’s all over the place. What’s the point? God is moving; He is over the place. The spiritual realm is totally surrounds us but we can’t see and feel it (angels and demons are here around us). PRAYER means contacting the invisible spiritual realm and bring it down to the visible physical realm and that’s the way we engage the armor and put the armor to work.

 

2.  WHY I NEED TO PRAY IN SPIRIT?

In Ephesians 6:18 says, “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;” This verse mentioned “always” which means not just the specific time but every opportune time we have. Why we need to do that?  Let’s see in verse 13.

“Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” There are some days we are fine and good but we know in ourselves that not all of our days are good. In here it’s talking about the “evil day.” That’s the day when you feel like you lose your mind. That’s the day when nothing’s going right. That’s the day you might not make it. That’s the day you wonder how you’ll make it through another day because you are under attack. Some days it looks like the devil’s riding your back and it looks like everywhere you turn something is going wrong. It looks like every direction you look in, God is invisible and nowhere to be found; that’s the evil day.

On that day, at that time, when you are at that kind of attack, you need that kind of prayer. That day demands the armor of God be worn by you in all of God’s power brought to bear on your circumstances.

 In this kind of times, we need to call on God in spirit; we need to call on Him spiritually. The opposite of spirit is flesh. So maybe if we say how to pray in the flesh we can define pray in the spirit. Pray in the flesh is simply mouth words coming out of our humanity with no spiritual attachment.  Most prayers or many prayers are just that routine things and no spiritual connection to it.

To pray in the spirit means that you’re making a spiritual connection to the communication that you want to take place with God. We can do that in number of ways: we can quote scripture in prayer or take a principle of scripture and mention that in prayer. Because God’s word is spiritual, we can include that in our conversation with God (mention an example of prayer in spirit).

What happens when we pray spiritually? Let’s look at Romans 8:22, 26

^“For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.”

There are times we groan; life is hurting us.  When we groan and don’t know what to say, the Spirit is there.  So what this says that when you bring what you know the will of God into His presence and you are groaning, the Holy Ghost draws with you and because He knows how deep the problem is, how deep the need is, how bad the attack is, He comes alongside and helps in our weak moment.

So now we see how important to pray in Spirit. It’s not just saying mouth words but in connection or conversation to God.

3.  WHY I NEED TO KEEP ON PRAYING? (DANIEL 9:2-3, 20-23; 10:10-14)

Sometimes our prayer is boring and we don’t see the urgency of it and there are times we have a day ended without prayer. If we only could see what is happening in the invisible, it wouldn’t be boring anymore. Let’s read the passage we have here.

² In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

Daniel was reading the Bible and he observed something; he observed what the scripture said. In verse 3,

 ³ And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

Daniel read what God said then he talked to God about it. Why we study the Bible? To know more about God and also for you to remember what God had said and put that in remembrance and throw back it to God in prayer.

²⁰ And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God; ²¹ Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation. ²² And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.

Daniel read the word then he talked to God about the word he read then God sent an angel to help him understand the word. Notice he didn’t send the angel to give him understanding about his situation until he prayed. Daniel didn’t pray until he found out what God had to say. He found out what God had to say and prayed then God sent a messenger to give him understanding. Let’s look at verse 23.

²³ At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.

He said that when he prayed the command was given for the angel to come. Now let’s go to chapter 10 verses 10-14.

¹⁰ And, behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands. ¹¹ And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling. ¹² Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words. ¹³ But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. ¹⁴ Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.

Daniel read the word and something bothered him then he talked to God about what he just read.  If you notice twice it mentioned “On the day you prayed, God sent the answer.” In line with this, we might ask, why my prayers are taking so long for God to answer? In Daniel’s case, he told Daniel that your prayer was answered in the very day you prayed. Why his prayed answered? He is highly-esteemed, a righteous man and he’s praying according to the word. But you notice that there was a three-week delay. It took the angel 21 days to deliver it to Daniel. There was a three-week delay because the enemy showed up. He says the prince of Persia blocked the angel while he was trying to deliver it on the same day. So you see, unless you see what’s happening in the invisible world you wouldn’t understand the importance of talking to God with the Word. All we see is “God is not answering my prayers” in the visible world. We should understand that there’s enemy and he’s living where we’re living.

In verse 13, we see that God sent Michael came to help angel Gabriel. There’s a battle in the heavenlies which we don’t see; there’s a warfare in the spiritual realm. That’s why WE NEED TO KEEP ON PRAYING. Now, we keep on praying because we are trying to break through the delivery that was already granted. Pray for God to intervene. AGAIN, KEEP ON PRAYING!

CONCLUSION:

EPHESIANS 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

TAGALOG: Manalangin kayo sa lahat ng pagkakataon, humiling at sumamo sa patnubay ng Espiritu. Lagi kayong maging handa, at patuloy na ipanalangin ang lahat ng hinirang ng Diyos. 

 

Ephesians 6:18 warned us to watch which means be on alert. When you watch, it means your eyes are open. When we pray we close our eyes for distractions and reverence but do we know that there are prayers in the Bible are not with eyes closed – “And they lifted their eyes.” Why we need to watch or what keeping your eyes open for? Let’s look 1 Peter 5:8 “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”

The enemy is trying to eat us up like a roaring lion. Do we know when lion roars? Lions don’t roar when they’re coming up on their prey. They roar after they get prey; it means their declaration of victory. So let’s keep our eyes open (spiritually open) when we pray because there is enemy blocking your prayers. Let’s keep our eyes open, spiritually open, to see what’s going on around you because of the enemy. That’s why so many times when we are trying to pray, distractions show up, sometimes you’re sleepy, or something pops up. Have you realized the spiritual battle? We can’t fight it with the physical, fight it spiritually. The enemy wants to block us. Therefore, let’s keep on praying and keep our eyes open.

 

THREE TIMES A DAY

BIBLE PASSAGE: DANIEL 6:1-11; PSALM 55:17

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• September 23, 2018
• Updated: August, 2022

Lesson prepared by krisha of Solomon wisdom FB page

 Memory verse

PSALM 55:17

Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.

 

INTRODUCTION:

Introduction taken: http://heartsongworship.org/abalsamo/DanielAndPraying.html

 What are the things we do three times a day?  Do we take a shower three times a day? Do we drink coffee three times a day? Do we play games three times a day? I think most of our answers are “eating.” This is the common thing we do and sometimes some of us eat more than thrice. How about in prayer, do we do it three times a day? Is it hard to find a quiet time to pray? Finding the time to pray when you have a regular job and you’re not in your comfort zone is hard. Waking up early thinking the things you needed to do like: preparing for work and cooking for breakfast and your “baon” at work, is hard to focus in prayer especially if you wake up late. Honestly, yes, it’s hard and there’s dilemma but what if you have a rare disease which you couldn’t imagine why you have that? Do you see the urgency to pray? In our lesson for today, let’s see why Daniel prayed three times a day.

 

LESSON POINTS:

1.   DANIEL KNEW HOW DIFFICULT IT WOULD BE TO RESIST THE OPPOSITION AND REALIZED HE COULD ONLY FIND STRENGTH IN GOD (DANIEL 6:6-9).

 

-      In the Old Testament book of Daniel, we read that he lived under the rule of King Nebuchadnezzar in the Babylonian empire. Daniel was an Israelite who followed the laws God had handed over to Moses. King Nebuchadnezzar did not follow Daniel's God in any way, shape or form, and while captive in Babylon Daniel was asked to do certain things he knew were not pleasing to his God. He did not conform to the requests of his captors to eat foods he knew were forbidden by God, nor did he relent in his desire to continue praying and worshiping with the Lord. Instead, we read that he prayed before the Lord three times a day although he was living during a difficult regime and very trying circumstances. How many of us can say the same? What do you do when pressed on all sides? Complain to your spouse/friends like everyone else? Mumble under your breath? Do you conform ever so slightly to the behavior of those around you?

Not so with Daniel. Here was a man truly set with his heart on God regardless of the prospect of certain death and many difficulties. He didn't succumb to the requests of a foreign King. He could have. It would have been easier to do that rather than risk the possibility of death, but no, not Daniel. He remained steadfast and firm in his desire to follow the Lord. So how did Daniel remain so sure in his walk? He prayed to his God; our God, three times a day. Not just a quick morning prayer before setting off to work, or an even quicker prayer before sleep. No, he prayed long and hard three times a day.

 

-      In this world we live, we know how hard to live in accordance with God’s will. Maybe we thought, the heroes of faith in the Bible hadn’t suffered the dilemma of living in this world as we live in this kind of modern world. Their experiences are the same as ours: working every day with our co-workers with a different spiritual view, the dress we need to wear for the nature of our work, the way we make “pakikisama” (Filipino culture) in order to have a good working atmosphere, and the jobs or any paper work our boss wants us to do which are against our conscience. These are just simple things compare to the experience Daniel had experienced; he was ordered to pray to a statue.

 

-      As I always mention in some of our lessons, my first time to experience working outside the Christian company was very hard but I treat those are part of my Christian life. Before, since I received Christ my Savior, I have been surrounded by Christian people, I lived with the same house with my pastor and his family, I also lived in the church as a full-time worker for so long. And after so many years of praying, my family became Christians as well, so I decided to live with them and also for financial reasons and my plan to study. Then I worked in Christian schools. Since that time, I have told myself “this is my world, my Christian world.” These, working in a different company was really hard for me. I once wrote a lesson titled, “The World Outside my World.” These experiences help me understand Christians and we couldn’t live in a Christian way with our own strength; we need God.

 

-      Daniel knew he was fighting against the leaders, therefore, he cannot do it by himself. Another lesson that can see in this situation is when we knew that in this life we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness (Eph.6:12) then we would lean on the Lord and be prayerful, but we are not that sensitive with the urgency of prayer in our lives. Daniel saw the urgency that was the reason why he prayed three times a day.

 

-      Prayerlessness is pride. Revelation 3:17 says, “Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:”

These are penetrating words from Jesus to his people, specifically the church in Laodicea, who were a self-sufficient people, or so they thought. They thought they had it all together. They thought they had all that they needed. “You say, I am rich,” Jesus says, “I have prospered. I need nothing.” It’s a pretty potent picture of pride in Revelation 3:17, a people who think they can do it on their own, a people who think they have all they need, a people who were prayer less, who were not pursuing God, who were prideful before him.

 

When we do not pray, we show that we believe we are self-sufficient. God help us to see that apart from Him we can do nothing. Like Daniel, God helped him to see that apart from Him He can do nothing and that’s why he prayed three times a day.

 

2.   HE KNEW HE WAS JUST AS HUMAN AS THE OTHERS WHO WERE IN CAPTIVITY AND JUST AS PRONE TO SIN AS THEY WERE (DANIEL 6:3).

 

-      Are we strong all the time? No, we are not! We are all prone to stumble and the Bible warns us in 1 Corinthians 10:12, “Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he falls.”

-      Daniel was in his native country and he was in a faraway country. He was taken captive by the enemy. Most of the Christians when they are in another country they compromise on how the people live in that country but it’s not the case with Daniel. He didn’t compromise his faith even though for the sake of his life. Also, he was given the task of being a president and this position is prone to sin, but he has remained faithful.

 

-      He had that strong faith not having that by himself but because on how treated his prayer life well. Prayer is power.

 

-      The power of prayer does not flow from us; it is not special words we say or the special way we say them or even how often we say them. The power of prayer is not based on a certain direction we face or a certain position of our bodies. The power of prayer comes from the omnipotent One who hears our prayers and answers them.

Luke 1:37 - For with God nothing shall be impossible.

 

3.   HE RELIED ON THE LORD FOR THE GRACE TO WALK IN TRUTH AND NOT SUBMIT into THE REQUESTS OF LEADERS AROUND HIM (DANIEL 6:11).

 

-      It’s hard to stand in the truth if all people are against you. Have you seen the struggles Daniel had? This was not just a simple struggle; it was huge. I remember some situations in our church wherein we were devastated and hopeless with one simple struggle we experience. Our countenance is already sorrowful. Compare to Daniel, his struggles were the leaders of the government, but he didn’t lose hope. He continued praying.

-      After He heard that the writing was signed, he went to his house and prayed. Daniel 6:10-11

¹⁰ Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

¹¹ Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God.

Tagalog (Daniel6:10) At nang maalaman ni Daniel na ang kasulatan ay nalagdaan ng pangalan siya'y pumasok sa kaniyang bahay (ang kaniya ngang mga dungawan ay bukas sa dakong Jerusalem); at siya'y lumuhod ng kaniyang mga tuhod na makaitlo isang araw, at dumalangin, at nagpasalamat sa harap ng kaniyang Dios, gaya ng kaniyang dating ginagawa.

 

As humans this problem Daniel had is a worrisome, right? We can see that Daniel went to his house right away to pray. Some of us or most of us, the reaction we do is cry, very emotional and talk to people who we think would help us solve the problem. It’s okay to cry but it’s better to cry in prayer. When we pray, we become less worry. Bible says in Philippians 4:6-7,

Tagalog: “Huwag kayong mabalisa patungkol sa anumang bagay. Sa halip, ipaalam ninyo ang inyong mga kahilingan sa Diyos na may pasasalamat sa pamamagitan ng panalangin at ng panalanging may paghiling. ⁷ At ang kapayapaang mula sa Diyos, na higit sa anumang pang-unawa, ang siyang mag-iingat sa inyong mga puso at pag-iisip sa pamamagitan ni Cristo Jesus.”

 

Another thing, in the last line of verse 10 we can see that the three times of prayer Daniel did it says, “as he did aforetime” which means he just not did it every time he was in trials or problems. He did it often. What lesson we could get on this? Whether we accept it or not, we only have the frequent prayer time if we are under trials and there’s urgent need we ask God to answer. I hope this verse would give us the thinking that talking to God in prayer is not occasionally done but often.

 

4.   HE PROBABLY KNEW IF HE DIDN’T PRAY OFTEN, HE WOULD BE WEAK AND INEFFECTIVE IN HIS WITNESS AS WELL (DANIEL 6:4- 5)

 

-      I know every one of us could relate on this, “A day without prayer is incomplete.” Our life here in earth is not perfect. Personally, we can see that our everyday life is not always prepared and began with prayer. We can compare those days with prayer and nothing can compare the day with prayer. The Holy Spirit urges us to pray too and if we don’t, we feel gloomy inside. Prayer prepares us facing the day with spiritual thoughts in mind so that even negative things happen, your heart is ready.

 

-      Daniel was supported by prayer and we can see in verses 4and 5 that his co-workers found no fault against him. He becomes faithful in his work and God’s guidance was there. He became faithful because he was prayerful.

 

Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.

Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.

 

-      He was committed to walk with god and prayer was where he knew he would gather the strength to continue to be faithful (Daniel 6:11).

Christians love to commit in a certain ministry especially if it is new-opened ministry but when times pass the commitment is longer there. Most Christians are having a hard time to continue. Yes! It’s hard to continue because we have no strength to continue. We need God that’s why prayer is very important in our lives. Like Daniel, we see in the verses we read that He always in prayer because the strength is from above.

 

-      Rice is life for Filipinos; rice flows in our blood. We can’t make it a few days without rice. It makes us stay strong in a few hours of working so it’s a bit cheaper, you’re no longer need a snack between meals. That’s the reason why we buy a sack of rice if we have extra budget for future use especially in times like this, pandemic. Why I say this? My point is we are afraid to get starving; we need rice. What if our mindset of prayer is like the food we need to take in and if we don’t partake we’ll be weak? Great possible, we all become prayerful like Daniel; we pray three times a day.

 

 

 CONCLUSION:

Daniel’s godly lifestyle confirms the significance of drawing close to God in prayer three times per day.  He believed it was so important that even under the threat of death he would not stop praying three times per day.  Daniel 6:10 records his mindset and practice; let’s read again: “Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.”  We already knew how he was arrested for this and thrown into the lion’s den, and yet was delivered by God and restored to his place at the side of the king. 

 

If Daniel felt it was worthy to risk death to keep praying three times per day, it’s worth considering that this should be the modern Christian’s practice as well.