Praying in a heritage of prayer (part three)

(Continued from Tuesday)

“You see how Daniel and I both refer to Moses in our prayer? We were both looking at what Moses said centuries before. We were both aware of what Solomon had prayed at the dedication of the temple.

“Both Moses and Solomon warned about what would happen when our people turned from God and both told us what God would do if we returned. When we turned, we would be scattered. Moses didn’t say ‘if’, he said ‘when’. Four hundred years apart, our people heard those war...