Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Daniel's prayer schedule

Psalm 55:17 (KJV) reads,

Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.

That prayer "schedule" sounds similar to what appears in chapter 6 of Daniel. When King Darius signs a law requiring everyone to pray only to him, a defiant Daniel maintains his (evidently) already-existent prayer schedule (Daniel 6:10, KJV),

He kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God.

As punishment, Daniel then gets thrown into the lion's den, where ultimately he is saved by God.

There is nothing magical about praying three times per day. There certainly is nothing in God's commandments that specifies that particular number. Yet, by establishing a prayer "schedule" like that, a person gets closer to satisfying Paul's admonition to "pray without ceasing."

So, perhaps it makes sense for us to attempt something similar. Let us find three times throughout the day to set aside for prayer.

No comments:

Post a Comment