God Answered Daniel's Prayer Right Away (TMF:1208)

Wednesday, September 04, 2019
Peace to Live By: God Answered Daniel's Prayer Right Away (TMF:1208) - Daniel Litton
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       Continuing in verse 11, we read, “And when he had spoken this word to me, I stood up trembling. Then he said to me, “Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words” (ESV). It would only be natural for a person to be afraid when seeing an angel, a supernatural being to us, since this is something of an extraordinary occurrence. And the angel tries to comfort him again by telling him not to be afraid of him. And then comes the message from the angel, his primary purpose in coming to see Daniel. He tells him that from the very first day that Daniel started to pray that God had answered his prayer. Now, Daniel had been praying for some three weeks by the time this angel had come to him, but God had answered his prayer on day one. That’s pretty encouraging. It wasn’t that Daniel had to talk God into doing for him what he wanted him to do. God wanted to help him. And notice how the angel said, “I have come because of your words.”