Wrap Your Head

If you want to find trouble and be considered a trouble maker, all you have to do is pray. This is what Daniel found in his time when it was made clear that if you prayed you would become prey:

All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree. — Daniel 6:7-9

“Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.” Daniel discounted the law of the Medes which a “altereth not” for the higher law of God that eternally changeth not. A trillion years before God ever created the Medes and Persians he was himself the Law of Truth that can not be altered. However,the law of the Medes was eventually altered: They have been in hell thousands’ of years—their law has no jurisdiction there.

Daniel prayed. The word for prayer here means “to bow” which comes from another word that means “a one sided limp. God’s strength is made perfect in weakness. As Daniel prayed to God he was humbling himself in the art of waiting on God: “They that wait on the Lord shall renew (exchange) their strength. To wait means to “be gathered together, to twist together like a thread around a logging chain.

Daniel “linked” up his weakness in prayer to God’s Omnipotent strength. Daniel walked with a limp with a Holy God who could walk on water or choose to dry up the sea so as to walk on dry ground. This God walked to Golgotha with the weight of the world on his shoulders and redeemed all of mankind. He consequently walked into hell and took the keys of hell and death, making an open mockery out of the devil. This mighty Savior then walked out of the grave, once and for all raising up a fallen race, who through repentance and faith in his name, was subsequently seated with him in heavenly places. This was all made possible because Jesus walked into the Holy of Holies in heaven and obtained for us eternal redemption with his own Blood. He is now seated while he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool.

But, he is arising even now as he walks toward a white horse upon which he is coming back to earth as a conquering King to lay down all rule and authority! Here is the amazing thing: He is going to defeat the modern arsenal of super tanks and nuclear weapons and all their devastating potential with a sword and a horse!! And it is not like he is going to work up a sweat at that. Look closely and you will see some common threads wrapped around this uncommon King: “And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean” (Revelation 19:14). Wrap your head around this and you will be alright!