Daniels prayer:
(AKJV) Daniel 9:3-10 And I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from your precepts and from your judgments: Neither have we listened to your servants the prophets, which spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. O LORD, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you. O Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him; Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
We repent for the early church fathers who also refused to walk in Your laws and led us astray by the erroneous teaching of replacement theology. We acknowledge the verse from
(KJV) Jeremiah 16:19: O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
For the sin which we have committed before You by hard-heartedness.
For the sin which we have committed before You with immorality.
And for the sin which we have committed before You openly or secretly.
For the sin which we have committed before You with knowledge and with deceit.
For the sin which we have committed before You by deceiving a fellowman.
And for the sin which we have committed before You by improper thoughts.
For all these, God of pardon, pardon us, forgive us, atone for us
For the sin which we have committed before You by disrespect for parents and teachers.
And for the sin which we have committed before You by desecrating the Divine Name.
For the sin which we have committed before You by impurity of speech.
And for the sin which we have committed before You by foolish talk.
For the sin which we have committed before You with the evil inclination. For all these, God of pardon, pardon us, forgive us, atone for us.
For the sin which we have committed before You by false denial and lying.
And for the sin which we have committed before You by evil talk about another.
For the sin which we have committed before You in business dealings.
And for the sin which we have committed before You through eating and drinking.
And for the sin which we have committed before You by a glance of the eye.
For the sin which we have committed before You with proud looks. For all these, God of pardon, pardon us, forgive us, atone for us.
For the sin which we have committed before You in passing judgment.
And for the sin which we have committed before You by a begrudging eye.
For the sin which we have committed before You by running to do evil.
And for the sin which we have committed before You by tale-bearing.
And for the sin which we have committed before You by causeless hatred. For all these, God of pardon, pardon us, forgive us, atone for us.
Together: You are the Pardoner of Israel and the Forgiver of sins in every generation, and aside from You we have no King who forgives and pardons. We thank you Lord that we have forgiveness through the shed blood of Messiah Yeshua.
Avinu malkeinu, sh’ma kolenu.
Our Father our King, hear our voice.
Our Father our King, we have sinned before You
Our Father our King, have compassion for us, and also on our children Our Father our King, bring an end to pestilence, war and famine around us Our Father our King, bring an end to all trouble and oppression around us.
Our Father our King, Our Father our King, inscribe us in the book of life
Our Father our King, renew upon us, renew upon us a good year
Hear our voice, hear our voice, hear our voice
Our Father our King, Our Father our King, renew upon us a good year
Our Father our King, hear our voice, hear our voice, hear our voice
Daniel 9:3-23 is such a wonderful passage of Scripture. So many ignore it to focus on the last four verses. Thank you for sharing it.
ReplyDeleteIt is fascinating to note that the “covenant and mercy” mentioned in Daniel 9:4 can be traced through the Scriptures to Moses instructions to Israel just before they crossed over the Jordan into the Promised Land. Moses tells Israel that if they keep YHWH’s commandments that YHWH will keep His “covenant and mercy” promised to the fathers. In Deut. 9:5 it explains these “fathers” were Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Deuteronomy 7:11-12 11 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them. 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that YHWH thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
Going back even further in Biblical time we find the “covenant and mercy” promised to the fathers originates in Genesis 22 where YHWH tests Abrahams faith by asking him to sacrifice his only son Isaac. Instead of Abraham having to sacrifice Isaac we learn that YHWH “provided Himself” a sacrifice. This we know was a future picture of Yeshua’s sacrifice on our behalf on those very same mountains.
Here is where the beauty of the Bible’s messianic message really shines. YHWH, because of Abraham’s faith swore a covenant with Abraham that in his “seed” all nations of the earth will be blessed. Swore in the text of Genesis 22:15-18 is the Hebrew word shaba. It is the root from which we get the word shabuwa or sevens found in the prophecy of Daniel 9.
This shaba (I like to think of it as an oath of sevens) is the first time in the Biblical record that YHWH swore (shaba) a covenant with any man. How awesome then to realize that that “covenant and mercy” mentioned in Daniel 9:4 originates in Genesis 22 and is a oath or shaba which speaks not only to Israel’s inheritance in the land but ultimately a coming Messiah in whom “all nations of the earth” will be blessed. The apostle Paul brings us full circle in Galatians 3.
Galatians 3:16-17 16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. 17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
Acts 3:25-26 25 Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. 26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.
Covenant and Mercy Indeed!