"In the first year of Darius' reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years. Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes."
Although God's promises will remain. But because of Daniel's pleas for mercy, it went to God. And so He sent Gabriel to bring an answer to Daniel with an insight and an understanding. God gave him a Seventy Week vision that include some specific times appointed to be done such as seven weeks, sixty-two weeks, and one week plan within seventy weeks vision.
God invited Daniel to play a role in His vision because he humbled before God! Daniel didn't rejoice when he has a role to play in God's vision, but he became mute as he turned his face toward the ground! He was mute because he had no strength left in him when he received the vision from God because it had to come with violence as promised. But with only one sentence from God, Daniel was strengthened!
"'O man greatly loved, fear not, peace be with you; be strong and of good courage' And as he spoke to me, I was strengthened..."
Now Daniel is able to get up and perform what God had assigned him to do with a vision. Because Daniel remained in God, the Lord renew his strength by a God-sentence as He promised in Isaiah, "but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint." If you try to do things for Him with your strengths, then you will be weary or faint. But when you are willingly to wait upon Him when you had no strength, He will lift you up as promised!
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