The Daniel Prayer: Prayer That Moves Heaven and Changes Nations by Anne Graham Lotz

Author:Anne Graham Lotz [Lotz, Anne Graham]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Christian Life, Spiritual Growth, Religion; Politics & State, Political Science, Civics & Citizenship, Prayer
ISBN: 9780310344858
Google: SUcVCgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2016-05-09T16:00:00+00:00

Judah had once been steeped in the truth. She had been founded on faith in God and was birthed as a result of His promises. She had God’s law, summarized by the Ten Commandments, that taught her God’s standards. She had the written revelation of God, going all the way back to the beginning of time, teaching her about God’s character—His faithfulness, righteousness, kindness, goodness, forgiveness—His power, purpose, patience, promises.

Judah had a written record of her own history traced through Abraham’s journey, beginning when he left Ur of the Chaldeans to follow God in a life of obedient faith, entering into a covenant relationship with Him that would affect every generation thereafter, winding through the life stories of Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and the sojourn in Egypt. She knew of God’s deliverance from Egyptian bondage and oppression under the leadership of the great liberator, Moses. She knew of His miraculous care for her in the wilderness for forty years, feeding her with manna from Heaven and water from a rock, leading her with a cloudy pillar to keep her cool by day and a fiery pillar to keep her warm at night. She knew of His power to overcome her enemies, beginning with the enemy stronghold of Jericho, so that she could possess the land He had promised. She knew of His faithfulness to raise up judges and priests and prophets and kings who had led her and ruled her and taught her and protected her and provided for her.

God Himself likened Judah to a prize vineyard. He described digging up the earth, clearing it of stones, then planting it with the choicest of vines. But when He “looked for a crop of good grapes, . . . it yielded only bad fruit.”

I can hear the tears choking His voice as He said, “What more could have been done for my vineyard than I have done for it?”17 He had done everything for her, only to be rejected.

In the bright light of truth and all that Judah had known and been taught, she had thrown away God’s moral standard, substituted her own, and defiantly insisted on her “right” to do as she pleased. But God’s love is so great, He does not give up easily. So He had sent Isaiah to speak to her with moving eloquence. He had sent Jeremiah to warn her with passionate tears. He had sent Amos to preach with practical logic. He had sent Ezekiel who had revealed signs and wonders. But Judah did not listen. Judah would not listen and that was shameful because she knew better: “We have not listened to your servants the prophets . . . this day we are covered with shame . . . O LORD, we and our kings, our princes and our fathers are covered with shame because we have sinned against you” (9:6, 7, 8).

Even when warned by powerful prophetic voices such as that of Jeremiah and Isaiah who had turned on the light of God’s truth, she had stubbornly persisted in her sin.

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