Friends, please allow me to present to you a prayer
by Daniel to Almighty God for all of the people of his nation and not simply
for himself. Perhaps this prayer model may serve as a template for us in our
prayer to Almighty God for our nations and for all of those who belong to Jesus
the Christ. Confession, prayer for forgiveness for our people and mercy from
Almighty God.
Daniel
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4 And I prayed to the Lord my God, and I made my confession, and
said: I beseech You, O Lord God, great and terrible, who keeps the covenant,
and mercy to them that love You, and keep Your commandments. 5 We have sinned, we have committed iniquity, we have done
wickedly, and have revolted: and we have gone aside from Your commandments, and
Your judgments. 6 We have not hearkened to Your servants the prophets, that have
spoken in Your name to our kings, to our princes, to our fathers, and to all
the people of the land.
7 To You,
O Lord, justice: but to us confusion of face, as at this day to the men of
Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are
near, and to them that are far off in all the countries where You have driven
them, for their iniquities by which they have sinned against You. 8 O Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our princes, and to
our fathers that have sinned. 9 But to
You, the Lord our God, mercy and forgiveness, for we have departed from You: 10 And we have not hearkened to the voice of the Lord our God, to
walk in his law, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. 11 And all Israel have transgressed Your law, and have turned away
from hearing Your voice, and the malediction, and the curse, which is written
in the book of Moses the servant of God, is fallen upon us, because we have
sinned against him. 12 And he has confirmed his words which he spoke against us, and
against our princes that judged us, that he would bring in upon us a great
evil, such as never was under all the heaven, according to that which has been
done in Jerusalem.
13 As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this evil is come upon
us: and we entreated not Your face, O Lord our God, that we might turn from our
iniquities, and think on Your truth. 14 And the
Lord has watched upon the evil, and has brought it upon us: the Lord our God is
just in all his works which he has done: for we have not hearkened to his
voice. 15 And now, O Lord our God, who have brought forth Your people out
of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and have made You a name as at this
day: we have sinned, we have committed iniquity, 16 O Lord, against all Your justice: let Your wrath and Your
indignation be turned away, I beseech You, from Your city Jerusalem, and from
Your holy mountain. For by reason of our sins, and the iniquities of our
fathers, Jerusalem, and Your people are a reproach to all that are round about
us.
17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the supplication of Your servant,
and his prayers: and show Your face upon Your sanctuary which is desolate, for
Your own sake. 18 Incline, O my God, Your ear, and hear: open Your eyes, and see
our desolation, and the city upon which Your name is called: for it is not for
our justifications that we present our prayers before Your face, but for the
multitude of Your tender mercies. 19 O Lord,
hear: O Lord, be appeased: hearken and do: delay not for Your own sake, O my
God: because Your name is invocated upon Your city, and upon Your people.
In Christ,
+William
Monk Michael
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