Careful for nothing, prayerful for everything, thankful for anything. Dwight Lyman Moody

Daniel 9:3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Careful for nothing, prayerful for everything, thankful for anything. Dwight Lyman Moody

A Christian who attended prayer meeting faithfully always confessed the same things during testimony time. His prayer was seldom varied: “O Lord, since we last gathered together, the cobwebs have come between us and Thee. Clear away the cobwebs, that we may again see Thy face.” One day a brother called out, “O Lord God, kill the spider!”

In Daniel 9, we read an example of how we prayed. Daniel had been reading in his scrool of Jeremiah that the captivity of his people would last 70 years, and the people were 67 years into the exile (jeremiah 25:8-11). He was eager for it to end.
God had called His people to live righteously, but they weren’t doing that. Daniel decided to live righteously, but they weren’t doing that. Daniel decided to live righteously despite their lack of faith. He began to pray that God would not delay the end of the captivity.
As he prayed, Daniel focused on worship and confession. His pattern of prayer gives us an important insight into talking to God. We are to recognize that God is “great and awesome” (v.4) and that “we have sinned” (v.15). In prayer, we praise and confess
Dear brother and sister. Don’t expect a thousand-dollar answer to a ten-cent prayer. Let’s follow Daniel’s lead. To him, prayer was as vital as life itself.
I like what Sir William Temple said “God is perfect love and perfect wisdom. We do not pray in order to change his will, but to bring our wills into harmony with his” Sir William Temple (1628–1699)