Last evening being Wednesday evening I went to church for our Women of the Word gathering. The Lord is so richly blessing what was a smaller group. We ran out of chairs last evening! WOW! That is just such a wonderful blessing and I am sure that this is touching the blessed heart of Virginia our teacher and guide.
When I started this Daniel fast I was praying for discernment and for restoration. Now if I was to put this into simpler terms I would say I want to be more aware and be more able to see what is going on around me and to be able to help with whatever the situation may be. I am also asking the Lord for restoration, now this one is a little trickier. The word restore means to give back or to put back into service. And restoration means the act of restoring. Now to put this into my terms....there are many things in my life that could use some restoration....my goats have really messed up the gate to their pen by constantly rubbing up against it. In fact Tim believes he is going to have to make a new door...my father needs to be restored to the Lord. I can't help but feel that my dad at 85, who was reared by a Godly mother and father. They didn't necessarily go to church, but a lot of the old timers didn't go to church. But what do you say about someone who prays the Lord's prayer and repeats the 23 Psalm every night in German, this was my grandmother's first language, even though she rarely spoke German when my sister and I came to be around and in fact Nanny didn't have any accent. But long story short my Dad does know who the Lord is....even if he doesn't acknowledge Him at this point in his life, he can be restored to the Lord. As we discussed last evening, the key to all of this is the power of prayer!
Okay now we need to get to Daniel Chapter 8, verse 15. and Daniel is trying to understand the vision that he is in the midst of...and Daniel was kind of muttering to himself that he wanted to understand his vision... and a person"having the appearance of a man" came near to Daniel. And Daniel head someone say "Gabriel make this man to understand this vision." Daniel was a little surprised and perhaps freaked out (today's terms), and he fell on his face...Gabriel said to Daniel..."understand oh son of man, that the vision is for the time of the end."
Well Daniel was still on the ground and in a deep sleep, however Gabriel touched him and stood him up and told him that he is witnessing the end times, not our end times but what was fulfilled before Christ.
The ram that we spoke of yesterday represents the kings of the Media and Persia and the billy goat represents the king of Greece, this was Alexander the Great. And this can all be read in the history books, how Alex's kingdom was then divided up by four of his generals.
After these four have reached their fullness, however without the great power that Alex had...a king shall come about. And this king turned out to have caused the destruction of the Greeks and the Romans. This king was Antiochus, and he was known for his brutality. This vision was very difficult for Daniel to comprehend and he lay sick for a few days and I think he was finally able to put this all into perspective and go about the kings business.
So tomorrow we shall jump into Chapter 9, and we will continue with these small bites!
So go and be a blessing! Yay God, you are so good to me!
When I started this Daniel fast I was praying for discernment and for restoration. Now if I was to put this into simpler terms I would say I want to be more aware and be more able to see what is going on around me and to be able to help with whatever the situation may be. I am also asking the Lord for restoration, now this one is a little trickier. The word restore means to give back or to put back into service. And restoration means the act of restoring. Now to put this into my terms....there are many things in my life that could use some restoration....my goats have really messed up the gate to their pen by constantly rubbing up against it. In fact Tim believes he is going to have to make a new door...my father needs to be restored to the Lord. I can't help but feel that my dad at 85, who was reared by a Godly mother and father. They didn't necessarily go to church, but a lot of the old timers didn't go to church. But what do you say about someone who prays the Lord's prayer and repeats the 23 Psalm every night in German, this was my grandmother's first language, even though she rarely spoke German when my sister and I came to be around and in fact Nanny didn't have any accent. But long story short my Dad does know who the Lord is....even if he doesn't acknowledge Him at this point in his life, he can be restored to the Lord. As we discussed last evening, the key to all of this is the power of prayer!
Okay now we need to get to Daniel Chapter 8, verse 15. and Daniel is trying to understand the vision that he is in the midst of...and Daniel was kind of muttering to himself that he wanted to understand his vision... and a person"having the appearance of a man" came near to Daniel. And Daniel head someone say "Gabriel make this man to understand this vision." Daniel was a little surprised and perhaps freaked out (today's terms), and he fell on his face...Gabriel said to Daniel..."understand oh son of man, that the vision is for the time of the end."
Well Daniel was still on the ground and in a deep sleep, however Gabriel touched him and stood him up and told him that he is witnessing the end times, not our end times but what was fulfilled before Christ.
The ram that we spoke of yesterday represents the kings of the Media and Persia and the billy goat represents the king of Greece, this was Alexander the Great. And this can all be read in the history books, how Alex's kingdom was then divided up by four of his generals.
After these four have reached their fullness, however without the great power that Alex had...a king shall come about. And this king turned out to have caused the destruction of the Greeks and the Romans. This king was Antiochus, and he was known for his brutality. This vision was very difficult for Daniel to comprehend and he lay sick for a few days and I think he was finally able to put this all into perspective and go about the kings business.
So tomorrow we shall jump into Chapter 9, and we will continue with these small bites!
So go and be a blessing! Yay God, you are so good to me!
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