Keep Praying

Daniel 10:12-14 is an amazing passage of Scripture concerning the importance of prevailing prayer. Daniel is seeking God for answers. For three weeks it felt like the heavens were shut up. On the 21st day after the initial prayer, Daniel gets his answer. He is actually visited by an angel. The angel says to Daniel, “Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard and I have come in response to them. But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me.”

It is important to note that Daniel's prayer was heard the moment it was prayed. But due to spiritual opposition (which ought to show us that if the enemy opposes our prayers, our prayers are important), the answer did not come for 21 days. Do you think Daniel was tempted to give up on the answer to his prayer? Do you think he became discouraged waiting for the answer? We don't know, but the angel says to him in verse 14 says, “Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the future, for the vision concerns a time yet to come.” The vision concerns a time yet to come. A time yet to come...faith looks forward to the time yet to come.

It took twenty-one days for Daniel to get clarity. We want clarity now. But sometimes we have to wait for the vision to make sense. Sometimes we have to wait for the promise to be fulfilled. Sometimes we have to wait for the miracle to happen. And let me close these posts concerning Waiting 101 by encouraging you to keep praying until it happens.