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Is God Real?Is God Real? Proof of this through prayer
Acts 17:22-32
- 22Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and
said: "Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very
religious. 23For as I walked around and looked carefully
at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this
inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something
unknown I am going to proclaim to you. 24"The God
who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and
earth and does not live in temples built by hands. 25And
he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because
he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. 26From
one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the
whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact
places where they should live. 27God did this so that men
would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he
is not far from each one of us. 28`For in him we live and
move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, `We
are his offspring.' 29"Therefore since we are God's
offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or
silver or stone--an image made by man's design and skill. 30In
the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all
people everywhere to repent. 31For he has set a day when
he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He
has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the
dead." 32When they heard about the resurrection of
the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, "We want to
hear you again on this subject."
Daniel 6:7-11
- 7The royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers
and governors have all agreed that the king should issue an edict
and enforce the decree that anyone who prays to any god or man
during the next thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be thrown
into the lions' den. 8Now, O king, issue the decree and
put it in writing so that it cannot be altered--in accordance with
the laws of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be repealed." 9So
King Darius put the decree in writing. 10Now when Daniel
learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his
upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times
a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God,
just as he had done before. 11Then these men went as a
group and found Daniel praying and asking God for help.
Daniel 6:16-22
- 16So the king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and
threw him into the lions' den. The king said to Daniel, "May
your God, whom you serve continually, rescue you!" 17A
stone was brought and placed over the mouth of the den, and the king
sealed it with his own signet ring and with the rings of his nobles,
so that Daniel's situation might not be changed. 18Then
the king returned to his palace and spent the night without eating
and without any entertainment being brought to him. And he could not
sleep.
- 19At the first light of dawn, the king got up and hurried
to the lions' den. 20When he came near the den, he called
to Daniel in an anguished voice, "Daniel, servant of the living
God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to rescue
you from the lions?" 21Daniel answered, "O
king, live forever! 22My God sent his angel, and he shut
the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, because I was found
innocent in his sight. Nor have I ever done any wrong before you, O
king."
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