Day 56 5-17

For some reason, after I opened my quiet time in prayer today, a thought crossed my heart about prayer I say and hear sometimes. We pray for God to be here in this room or situation, etc. and I'm wondering if that isn't necessarily the right thing to pray. I know I'm getting into logistics, but I always want to be careful in what I am saying to my Lord, my Creator, my King. I'm not saying anyone is wrong, I just had a little revelation about it I guess. Isn't He always here? For me to say He isn't is to discredit His power in a way. He is omnipresent. He is always with me as He promised. So really I should pray for me to open my human eyes, heart, mind, etc to recognize His presence, receive Him, and respond appropriately. Just had to get that off my chest:) Thanks Lord for helping me to understand your character better.

My main prayer today is a selfish one for me... I need prompting to be quick to listen, slow to speak and quick to apologize.

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For my "In the Word" time I decided to just read through Daniel 1 and see what thoughts arise...

Well I didn't get too far as I got caught up in 2:1 "the Lord gave" Jehoiakim king of Judah in the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. What does this phrase mean? I kind of skimmed over it the first time, but it caught my attention so I went back. Allowed?? Why did He allow this? For punishment? I am going to spend some time thinking about this and talk with Mark about it.

I wanted to make a list of what I learned about Daniel today...

- his hometown was taken over by an enemy

- young, probably a teenager

- no defects

- handsome

- intelligent (in every branch of wisdom)- What does this mean?

I'm really looking forward to this study of getting to know Daniel and the Lord's character better and how I can apply this example of walking the talk into my unique life situation.