As my husband and I were doing a Bible Study, he flipped open his Bible to Daniel Chapter 4 which speaks about King Nebuchadnezzar and a dream that Daniel interpreted for him. My husband and I wondered why we were reading this, but we continued. Earlier in the morning, he and I had been talking about how we could discern pride in at least two generations in our family line. Well it turns out that Daniel Chapter 4 and even Chapter 5, are about just that, pride. The story goes that although King Nebuchadnezzar originally didn't listen to the warning God was giving him through Daniel's interpretation of his dream, and even though he went through seven years of suffering, at the end of the seven years he repented and God restored his kingdom and he came to acknowledge and extol the Lord (Vs. 37). These scriptures were exactly where the Lord needed to take us. Read and examine them for yourselves if this speaks truth to you.
As we finished reading this chapter and even read Chapter 5 which speaks of King Nebuchadnezzar's son, King Belshazzar who didn't take heed to God's warning and who died because of it, the Lord took us into prayer. We repented for our own pride, broke generational curses in our family line associated with pride and received God's forgiveness. Then the Lord took my husband into intercession for our Nation as we recognized that our Nation had taken credit for its greatness, believing that we had made ourselves great. We then asked God to forgive us and restore us even as King Nebuchadnezzar had been forgiven and restored.
There are no coincidences, are there? We were meant to turn to the Book of Daniel and it could only have been the Holy Spirit's direction as He then took us into repentance and into prayer. And not only was it for us personally, but also for our beloved Nation! How awesome is our God? And how much is He attempting to speak to us? And how much are we listening? Only He knows! By His grace, may we attune our ears to His voice that is many times, that small, still voice that only those who desire it are going to hear! Be blessed in our Lord!
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