A Perfect Prayer
The Book of Daniel (in the Old Testament) has some profound prayers.
I am thinking especially of His prayer in chapter 2.
Daniel had been given the king's malicious command to not only interpret the king's dream but also to remind the king what the dream was about! A humanly- impossible task!
If Daniel failed then he and the others would be killed.
So Daniel prays for God to reveal the dream and its meaning to him.
He begins his prayer of thanks for God's answer with grand proclamations of worship and praise: "Praise be to the Name of God forever and ever, wisdom and power are His..." he starts.
It is a short prayer.
As he ends he thanks God for answering: "You have made known to me what we asked of You. You have made known to us the dream of the king."
We learn from this that we should be specific in our requests, and then specific in what we are thanking Him for!
Asking Him to bless generally ('bless everybody in the world' we might say) is sometimes appropriate but maybe just a lazy approach when communicating with our loving Father!
Let's be like Daniel and tell our Father exactly what we want from Him and what we are thanking Him for!
Wouldn't our earthly father prefer that?
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