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Promises Fuel Prayer
Commentators overwhelmingly agree that God's promises are not meant to make prayer unnecessary, but to encourage it. Daniel learned the 70-year exile was ending, and this knowledge spurred him to pray more intensely. This shows that faith actively engages with God's plans, pleading His own promises back to Him as the basis for our requests.
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Daniel
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Albert Barnes
On Daniel 9:3
18th Century
Theologian
And I set my face to the Lord God – Probably the meaning is that he turned his face toward Jerusalem, the place where God had dwelt; the pla…
Charles Ellicott
On Daniel 9:3
19th Century
Bishop
I set my face. — Compare Daniel 6:11. Probably he prayed, as on that occasion, with his face towards Jerusalem. The praye…
Charles Spurgeon
On Daniel 9:3
19th Century
Preacher
And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes;
I set my face…
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John Calvin
On Daniel 9:1–3
16th Century
Theologian
In this chapter, Daniel will explain to us two things. First, how very ardently he was accustomed to pray when the time of redemption, specified by…
John Gill
On Daniel 9:3
17th Century
Pastor
And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and
supplications
He set apart…
Matthew Henry
On Daniel 9:1–3
17th Century
Minister
Daniel learned from the books of the prophets, especially from Jeremiah, that the desolation of Jerusalem would continue seventy years, which were …