“I saw in the night visions, and behold with the clouds of heaven. There came one like a son of man and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him, and to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom, one that shall not be destroyed.”
– Daniel 7:13–14
Does that sound familiar? Here’s Daniel in the Old Testament talking about, “One like a son of man to whom the Ancient of Days gives dominion and glory and a kingdom that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will never pass away. His kingdom will never be destroyed.” This is a beautiful, powerful, clear, captivating picture of Jesus in the Book of Daniel.
I almost feel like a broken record when I think about how we’ve been praying through the Book of Daniel, but we see it over and over and over again, don’t we? God’s kingdom encompasses all people’s nations and languages. We see those words over and over and over again, and God wants his glory, specifically the glory of Jesus, the son of man, to be made known among all peoples, nations, and languages.
This is why we’re here. We live today for this purpose, to pray according to this purpose. When we pray like this for peoples and nations and languages around the world to believe that God is hearing our prayers and God’s answering our prayers, when we pray like this, that we’re participating with him in the accomplishment of his purpose in the world.
Then as we pray like this, then to live for this. Today, think it would make no sense to pray for the spread of Jesus’ glory among the Western Menaka people of Senegal like we’re about to do, and then not live for Jesus glory right around us in our schools, in workplaces, and neighborhoods and cities. In our own country, among the nations where we live, the ethnic groups surrounding us to live for the glory of Jesus. More and more people and people groups around us, to give our lives towards this in all the different places where we’re going to school and we’re working. That’s the beauty of God’s design. His Holy Spirit in every single one of us today, for the spread of his glory, his kingdom through us.
So we say, Oh, God, yes. Use our lives today to point people to Jesus, the son of man, to whom all dominion and glory and the kingdom has been given, that all people’s nations and languages should serve him. God, use our lives to lead somebody else to serve you today, to trust in you as the savior of their sin, and the lord of their lives. God, help us to boldly, compassionately. Wisely, gently, lovingly share the Gospel of the King Jesus, the son of man, with somebody today.
God, we pray for the spread of this Gospel, the good news of the Son of man, to all the peoples, nations, and languages on the earth, to the western Menaka people of Senegal, this Muslim people group of 1.5 million people. God, we pray right now here our prayer for the Menaka, cause the glory of Jesus to spread among the Menaka we pray. Open their eyes. Cause people to go proclaim the Gospel to them. Bless our Christian brothers and sisters in Senegal. Send more to Senegal. We pray for the spread of the Gospel among the western Menaka.
I think of people I know living in Senegal. God, bless them for the spread of the Gospel. In your glory, the glory of Jesus there, we pray this right around us today and to the ends of the earth, knowing that your kingdom, Jesus, will not pass away and will never ever, ever be destroyed. In your name we pray, amen.
