7 tips for prayer (Daniel 9:1-19)

1. Prepare your body v3
2. Start with God v4
3. Repetition can be helpful v4, 7, 9
4. Name sin and confess it
5. Say the same thing more than once v5, 8, 10
6. There is no ‘I’ in team… but there is a backwards ‘me’ v5
7. Cycle round what's on your heart

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70 sevens (Daniel 9:20-27)

Word to rebuild Jerusalem

Artaxerxes’

decree

445 BC

Anointed one comes; dies

Ruler,

abomination

7 sevens & 62 sevens

Final seven

Jesus of Nazareth dies

25-32AD

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69 x 7 years = 483 years

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How long are these years?

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Story of Noah’s ark (Genesis 7-8)

• Flood starts on 17^th of 2^nd month
• Flood ends on 17^th of 7^th month
• Flood also lasts 150 days
• 5 months = 150 days, so 1 month = 30 days

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Convert 483 of these years (12 months of 30) into modern calendar = 476 years

445 BC + 476 = 31 AD