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Prayer is an important aspect of religion. Many religions incorporate prayer as a form of worship. Many people around the world worship by praying daily. People feel the need to worship through their religion by the use of prayer every day. Prayer in public places such as schools should be allowed for a variety of reasons.

Prayer is an essential to any kind of religious faith. Over the years and years of believing in a higher power,

Later Daniel impresses King Darius and receives a promotion, which causes jealousy in the other wise men. They then talk the King into making a new rule where they had to worship Darius every day. Daniel had to then again go against

God provided Daniel with intelligence, wisdom and a special gift: “the understanding of all kinds of visions and dreams and as a result of that, Daniel was the one God chose to interpret the dreams of, the king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar. The Bible says the king was distressed and wanted to kill every wise men of Babylon, therefore Daniel was one of the wise men. Daniel knew God was merciful and could reveal to him the meaning of the dream in order to spare Daniel’s and his friend’s

The nation of Israel had asked God for a king. God had allowed this and Saul was

​Prayer presupposes a belief in the personality of God and His power to control all things. Prayer is not a means of informing an omniscient God. Prayer involves the bowing of heads and acknowledging our need for God in our lives.

So they attempted to utilize Daniel's confidence in God against him. They deceived King Darius into

Daniel trusted God with his life, and the Lord saved him from the lions. Persecution still happened throughout the new testament when missionaries were trying to spread the good news of Jesus’ story to the world. An interesting example of this is Saul the persecutor turned to Paul the missionary. Saul is known as one of the worst persecutors to christians at his time. But the Lord had a plan for him and turned Saul's life around and made his Paul who is known as one of the greatest and most famous missionaries in the bible. I’ve always been taught that God has a plan and that is something I try to live by reminding myself of Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.” The middle east once the main region of the christian religion in the bible is now a place that christians

Daniel comes to realize that the period of time – seventy years- is about to come to a close. They were to “serve the king of Babylon seventy years,” at which time the Jews could return home to their land of Israel. (Jer. 29:10) Some scholars would have one to believe that this was the time of Babylon’s reign and at the end of her reign (539 B.C.), was the seventy year period of captivity. Therefor Daniel was consulting the books of Jeremiah after the fall of Babylon to Cyrus. Historically and in most cases is not what is believed by Christians today. Believing, that his people are not ready to be released from captivity yet; Daniel begins to pray and fast, (9:15-19). He prays for his own sins, and those of his people of Judah, for their sins and transgressions, when the angel Gabriel came and touched him, (9:20-21). Gabriel proceeds to tell Daniel his prayers and supplications were heard and that an answer was at

The writings in Daniel record his experiences as well as the records and events during the Babylonian captivity from 560 to 535 B.C. The purpose of Daniel can be seen as two-fold with a focus on the sovereignty of God and faithfulness of the people and also the prophetic information that is relayed through Daniel’s visons in the later chapters. The major events of Daniel begin with Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah being taken into Babylonian captivity. Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah were given the Babylonian names of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and survived the fiery furnace to demonstrate their faithfulness to God by refusing to bow to the statute of the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel becomes well known for his wisdom and interprets Nebuchadnezzar’s dream regarding the giant statue (Daniel 2) that represents gold in the Babylonian empire, silver in the Medo-Persian empire, bronze in the Greek empire, Iron in the Roman empire, and the significance of iron and clay at the feet and the rock that represents the Kingdom of God.

In this Short essay I will be discussing the Book of Daniel. This book records prophecies, visions, and public ministry of Daniel who was carried from Jerusalem to Babylon, eventually to rise and serve as the official political leader for his fellow Jewish captives, serving both faithfully and fearlessly under two Babylonian monarchs and one Persian king. The Book of Daniel was authored by the prophet Daniel and written by Cyrus around 530 B.C. This narrative history genre is filled with great prophetic apocalyptic writing styles as well. The Position of the Book of Daniel is the 27th Book in the Bible and the 28th Book in the Old Testament. With a total of 12 chapter 357 verses and 11606 words. It’s difficult to discuss a Book without

Through careful planning, Daniel was given permission to not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with his wine. Daniel, a man of the Lord, had purposed in his heart to obey the Lord. He knew that if he ate of the king's meat, and drank of the king's wine that the Lord would not be pleased. Daniel made a request to the prince of the eunuchs to be excused from eating the king's meat. Daniel 1:8 says, "But Daniel purposed

•Daniel was another person in the Bible who was a good man, a man of

Daniel knew that he was put here to serve a higher power and purpose. His captors tried to bribe Daniel and his friends with food, but they declined, because it went against their dietary beliefs. Also, Daniel and his friends did not want to show any signs of weakness. Daniel stated, “There are two levels of confidence for people of faith: Self-confidence and God-confidence. Self- confidence comes from knowing and trusting yourself. God-confidence comes from knowing and trusting God. Self-confidence plays God- confidence equals Daniel-Confidence” (Maxwell, 2014). When Daniel stood his grounds against the king, he was giving honor and showing faith in God. Daniel insisted that he was put on Earth to serve a higher force and not bow down to a fictitious God. Therefore, he continued to stand for everything he believed in and continued to turn down the king’s food. In the conclusion it all paid off and Daniel and his friends walked away three healthy men, because they never lost their trust in God.

“…It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has done for me…” Daniel 4:2