Jeremiah 29:1-14, Daniel 9:1-19
We can learn much on how to pray by reading in the scriptures, the prayers of the Lord’s faithful servants .
Jeremiah wrote a letter from Jerusalem to the exiles living in Babylon, exhorting them to build and plant and marry and multiply and seek after the welfare of their enemies, the captors of Israel and destroyers of Jerusalem and to pray on behalf of Babylon where they were to dwell for seventy years.
Daniel, meditating on the writings of Jeremiah towards the end of the exile, realised that the prophesied seventy year exile in Babylon was nearing its completion and he prayed to the Lord, humbling himself and confessing the sins of Israel, and asking that the Lord God would remember His covenant promises and keep His commitment to restore Israel’s fortunes and return the exiles to Jerusalem for the sake and honour of his own name.
How should we pray in accordance with the will of the Lord in the times in which we live?
We must consider the name of God’s Son first and foremost; that honour and glory would be given to the Lord Jesus Christ and that his name would be restored and greatly esteemed in our culture and that His Kingdom would come, and that the earth would be filled with His glory.