LESSON SIX

Prayer Warriors

Read for This Week?s Study: (Texts summarized below)
Dan. 2:20-23; Daniel faced execution along with the other wise men, unless he could interpreted the king's dream. In these verses Daniel praises the Almighty, all wise God, Who knows all things, yet revealed the secret things to humans, revealing the meaning of the dream to Daniel.

Dan. 6:10-11; A law decreed all who prayed to anyone but the king would be thrown to the lions. Danie. Daniel continues to pray to God three times every day.l

Acts 20:36; Paul, on his last missionary trip talks and knells and prays with believers.

Gen. 5:22-24; Enoch walked with God. Enoch must have been ?continuing steadfastly in prayer?.

Exod. 33:15-23; Moses on the Mount with God

Exod. 32:31-32 Moses interceding for Israel.
Moses, we see that he?s almost continually in God?s presence, asking for guidance and interceding for the people he is leading.

Memory Text: ?I love the LORD, because He has heard my voice and my supplications. Because He has inclined His ear to me, therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live? (Psalm 116:1-2, NKJV).

In this lesson we learn about the lives of different individuals in scripture who prayed, and how they communicated with God. It is just as essential, for us to pray three times a day as it was for Daniel. Prayer is the life of the soul, the foundation of spiritual growth.
We need to keep open the channel of communication between God and the soul.

"Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. The eye of faith will discern God very near, and the suppliant may obtain precious evidence of the divine love and care for him. " {GW92 35.1}

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DANIEL'S PRAYER FOR HIS PEOPLE
Daniel 9:3-6
Daniel set his face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: and prayed unto the Lord my God, and made confession. and said O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments.

Burdened in behalf of Israel, Daniel pleaded with the Lord, he identified himself fully with those who had fallen short of the divine purpose, confessing their sins as his own. With faith founded on the sure word of prophecy, Daniel pleaded with the Lord to fulfil His promises.

We have as great a need to call upon God as had Daniel.

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Enoch walked with God.

To walk with God is having a conscious realization of His presence; an understanding of the reality of His presence which is as real as if we could actually see Him.
Contemplate on this thought -- that you are in the presence of Jesus, walking with God, your life hid with Christ in God.

Of Enoch it is written that he lived sixty-five years, and begat a son. After that he walked with God three hundred years....

After the birth of his first son, Enoch realized more fully the love of God; he was drawn into a closer relationship with God. He realized he was a beloved child of God, and with it he realized more fully his own obligations and responsibility as a son of God.

Enoch lived in a time when there were wicked people all around him. It was an extreme time of moral darkness. This drove him to seek ever more of the purity and righteousness of His Savior.
Enoch steadfastly maintained his communion with God. Praying -- talking with God unceasingly whether working or retreating to a quite place.

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Moses

We have much more information on Moses than we have on Enoch.
Moses was chosen for a very difficult, challenging task. He was to lead a huge crowd of rather unruly people out of Egyptian Bondage and on into the promised land.

Moses was born in bondage but miraculously he was sent to the best schools in the known world. He was trained to lead, trained to command, trained to possibly be the next pharaoh. Everything the world could give in preparation, Moses received in the first 40 years of his life.

Not only was he given the top education the world could give in the arts of leadership and command positions, he was smart and a very strong man. Strong enough to single handedly kill an Egyptian guard, or drive away a whole group of shepherds harassing seven young girls. At age 40 he was wanting to get on with his task of freeing people -- but was he ready? He was young, strong, well educated for the task and eager. No, he was not ready, he was acting on impulse and his strength rather than communicating with God as to how to go about the task. His rashness in attacking the Egyptian forced him into fleeing.

Moses first had to learn, to not only believe in God, but to fully rely on God and seek God's wisdom continually if he was to be successful in this huge mission.

When we see Moses again (in the story in scripture) forty years later, he is now 80 years old, and no longer trusts self. He is now ready to listen to God, and constantly turn to God. This is something he does consistently throughout the next 40 years as he leads Israel out of Egypt and on to the borders of the promised land. Moses speaks to God in a very real way. He is almost continually in God's presence. Asking for help and direction, pleading for the people, and seeking to know God better, longing to be in His presence.