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SPINELESS!
Daniel 6:10, KJV
"Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime."
How spineless you are will be notably seen in how often you come to God, commune with Him and notify Him of all things concerning you. That's a mark of how dependent you are on God. If you're dependent on someone, it means you can't do without them or can rarely do without them. It has been over-flogged that Christianity is not a religion but a relationship with a living being who desires a relationship and also wants to speak back to us. He's not some dead idol. He has ears that hears and eyes that see. He is God Almighty. He is alive and active and if we'll carry Him along on a daily basis in our affairs, He'll sure guide us.
Check all religions in this world, none has a living founder. Except Jesus, they all died and remained dead and cemented.
Daniel comes to prayer and kneels before God three times a day. Daniel is a great politician and a very busy man if you don't know. Yet, despite how demands are on his time, the Bible says, "...he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed and gave thanks before God, as he did afore time."
Why the frequent kneeling? Why the frequent prayer? Daniel knows the role of God in his life. The higher you go, the stronger you should be in God. You're familiar with the dream of the king Daniel was able to search out in prayer after petitioning the king for some time. If Daniel had no smooth relationship with God, do you think his answer would come within that short time? That's why some of you can't speak to God and receive from Him as soon as possible. You have refused to walk with Him on a daily basis and take Him for your number one companion. However, when there's an emergency of who to marry, which choice should I make or of certain problems at your backyard, you like raising an alarm in prayer with expectations that God will hear. God can save you from difficulties or give you solutions but one thing you'll seriously lack is to know His mind or unravel secrets. Why? You're not trustworthy enough for them. Only those who walk with Him know His mind. That's why the Bible says in Deuteronomy 29:29 that, "The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law."
How spineless and needy you are is revealed in how often you come to God in prayer, even if it's just often talks and short interactions as you go about your daily life. It doesn't necessarily mean staying long every time but carrying Him along on every matter and considering Him like you'll put your partner in consideration before acting is what we're talking about. Daniel does it at least three times a day. That's even under the Old Covenant. You could see that the belief of facing Jerusalem while praying was even prevalent though we know he's in Babylon at this time. How much more when God can be accessed any time by you? His network is strong anywhere. You can connect at any point in time.
Daniel knows that companionship with God is life. A dissociation from Him in the occultic circle of Babylon may be detrimental. Why won't he? He has found that, "in God he lives, moves and have his being" (Acts 17:28) not only for answers and responses but for pleasure. He won't be able to catch up with many life's demands as regarding his assignment as a wise man and a God seeker if he was never close to God.
When a man has stopped asking for the help of God or praying, it may mean pride and graduation from ever needing God has set in. Let me ask you, are you spineless and this reliant on God or you don't even have concerns, needs and heart to come to Him at all? Then, you miss and need a quick surge towards God. May it not be late for you to take your relationship with God seriously. May you discover that as you walk with Him, the many things you need answers to will just fall for you like a friend discloses to his confidant his secrets without the other asking.
PRAYER: Lord, let this heart of daily, often, ongoing communion, relationship, transaction and companionship be within me. Help me to practice.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR
II Cor. 9; Psalms 116-119
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