FBC Morning Light (11/25/2023)

Good morning people of faith. We're gonna be reading this morning about a man of faith a man of the word and a man of prayer and This man is all one in the same man.

Let me read to you from Daniel chapter 9 starting in verse 1 in the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus of The lineage of the

Medes who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans in the first year of his reign

I Daniel understood by the books the number of the years

Specified by the Word of the Lord through Jeremiah the prophet that he would accomplish 70 years in the desolations of Jerusalem, let me say a few things here that first of all

Daniel as a man of faith believed what was prophesied by Jeremiah recognizing that Jeremiah was in fact a prophet and so in Jeremiah chapter 25 and verse 11

I believe it is and it says and this whole land shall be a

Desolation and an astonishment and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon 70 years so Daniel saw or read this and he

Believed the Word of God and so he you notice also in this passage that Daniel is a man of the word he was a very accomplished a person of high stature within the the kingdom of Babylon and then the kingdom of the

Medes and and and so He by a from a worldly standpoint.

He would have no need to some to Submit himself to the

Word of God but yet he does submit himself to the

Word of God and he Believes the Word of God Let me continue on to verse 3 of chapter 9 and we see one more aspect of Daniel here

Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications with fasting sackcloth and ashes alright

Daniel takes the the word and he takes his faith Seriously enough to pray he not only prays he fasts he he he is in sackcloth and ashes he realizes and he's gonna go on here and he's going to pray a prayer of repentance for himself and for the people because They have sinned and he has sinned and he understands that being a

Sinner that We are in need of God mercy and God's grace when

I think of Daniel and I think of the high -ranking position he had and his willingness to submit himself to the

Word of God through faith and in prayer and in Fasting and all of these things my heart cries out for our country here that could we potentially have leaders who would follow in the example of Daniel perhaps if you are

Someone who is in leadership of our country Would you take up this mantle and would you accept this challenge to be a man of faith?

a man of the word and a man of prayer if you are One who is just like me an average citizen would you commit to praying to that that the

Lord would raise up a man of faith a man of the word and a man of prayer to be a part of the leadership of our country to That because right now it is very clear that that man is absent

Generally speaking from our government and so let's take a moment and pray

Heavenly Father We come to you knowing That you are

God and that we are in need of your mercy and grace

I ask that you would raise up a man like Daniel Who would lead?

Through faith in you and faith in your word

One who is a man of prayer? Who is willing to?

Let you change his life and to lead our country In your son's name