Daniel is at least 80 years old; some have listed him as being between 90-100 at the time his fourth vision takes place in Chapter 10 of his book. He spends 21 days in a fast from bread, flesh and wine while seeking understanding and a spiritual break through. After 21 days he is void of all human strength and cannot physically stand when an answer arrives.
The
Archangel Gabriel explains to him that “from the FIRST Day that you set your
heart to understand….thy words were heard.”
“….but the prince of the
Gabriel had come to respond to Daniel’s immediately upon Daniel’s heart being focused. BUT, it took Gabriel 21 days to get there because of the battle going on in the spirit realm!
21 days of prayer and fasting + 21 days of spiritual warfare = Hundreds of years of pinpoint prophecy in Daniels Fourth vision
That story may be familiar sermon material on spiritual warfare.
BUT consider what would have happened if Daniel had not pressed on for 21 days? What if he had decided after 7 days (week) that he had enough and called it quitting time?
How about after two weeks of prayer and fasting? Surely that was plenty of time. No, he kept on and on for 21 days UNTIL there was the BREAK THROUGH!
I am not going to recommend fasting for three weeks, but it sure would put a dent in the enemy’s armor. I am going to state that there are not enough sore knees in God’s army. We need to have concern about the outcome of the battles in the spirit realm if NO ONE is praying!
Today’s battle zone is World wide and fiercer than Gabriel dealt with.
IT IS TIME
TO QUIT PRAYING “Mother Goose” TYPE PRAYERS that we have learned and start
PRAYING DANIEL TYPE PRAYERS
Pray until
it hurts and then keep on praying……
