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Good morning. 
Grab your Bible. 

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We're going to be in Daniel 
chapter 2 in the Book of Daniel 

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chapter 2. 
We're taking a little bit of a 

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break from our series. 
We've wrapped the prayer series 

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up a few weeks back. 
You remember Adrian and 

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Antoinette Quinn Levin were here
straight after this. 

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And then we had Tony and Cath 
Rainbow last weekend and next 

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weekend we got Ray Bevan in the 
house. 

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So in this gap, I want to do 
something a little bit 

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different. 
I want to actually, I would love

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to do some housekeeping and 
here's why. 

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I don't know if it's because of 
coffee or conversations or 

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coincidences, but it just seems 
like everywhere I go, we are up 

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against it taking strain in the 
trenches. 

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It feels like whether it be the 
enemy encircling us and taking 

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shots or whether just be the 
year that's gotten long and 

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weary, it seems like we need a 
bit of a breather, need some 

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space, need to anchor ourselves 
somewhere in the middle of these

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storms of the tail end of 2024. 
And So what I want to do today 

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is I want to take this chapter 
in the book of Daniel and I want

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to present it to you, unpack a 
little bit for you to use as an 

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anchor for your soul at the 
moment. 

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Maybe a framework to fight this 
fight that you're fighting to 

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face the impossible to slay your
Goliath and trust that God would

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use this as we we see our 2024 
that we see it with hope in our 

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hearts, with faith in our step 
and and victory under our belts.

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So to set the context for you, 
let me read through the first 

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few verses of Daniel chapter 2. 
Hope you've gotten there by now,

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but it says this in verse one. 
It says in the second year of 

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his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had 
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Now Nebuchadnezzar was the king 
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The Babylonians had basically 
descended on Israel, taken them 

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into exile, and now they're in a
foreign context. 

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And this king had dreams. 
His mind was troubled and he 

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could not sleep. 
So the king summoned the 

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magicians, enchanters, 
sorcerers, and astrologers to 

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tell him what he had dreamed. 
So this is a wicked nation led 

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by a wicked king, surrounded by 
wicked counsel. 

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Some Bible translations have it 
as necromancers and those 

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dealing in the occult, 
magicians, enchanters, sorcerers

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and those who go to The Sunday 
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What is up for those who are 
Sagittarius for the weak? 

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Yeah, stop it, it's stupid. 
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before the king, he said to 
them, I've had a dream that 

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troubles me and I want to know 
what it means. 

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No problem. 
Verse 4. 

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Then the astrologers answered 
the king. 

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May the king live forever. 
Tell your servants the dream and

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we'll interpret it. 
So, the king replied to the 

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astrologers. 
This is what I firmly decided. 

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If you do not tell me what my 
dream was and interpret it, I'll

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have you cut into pieces and 
your house is turned into piles 

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of rubble. 
Not so good. 

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Yeah, but if you tell me the 
dream and explain it, you will 

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receive from me gifts and 
rewards and great honour. 

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So tell me the dream and 
interpret it for me. 

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Once more, they replied. 
Let the king tell his servants 

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the dream and we'll interpret 
it. 

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And the king answered verse 8. 
I'm certain that you're trying 

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to gain time because you realize
that this is what I firmly 

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decided. 
If you do not tell me the dream,

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there is only one penalty for 
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certain death. 
You've conspired to tell me 

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misleading and wicked things 
hoping the situation will 

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change. 
So then tell me the dream and 

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I'll know what you can interpret
that you can interpret it for 

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me. 
So that's, that's the context. 

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OK. 
That's the impossible. 

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Daniel's department has been 
asked not just to interpret the 

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dream, but to tell the dream. 
But now I want to show you the 

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crux of the crisis. 
What Daniel does here in verse 

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10 and verse 28 is he basically 
bookends the crisis on one side.

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Verse 10 says the astronomer 
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There is no one on earth that 
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That's on this side. 
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the other side. 
But Daniel said there is a God 

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in heaven who reveals mysteries.
So that's the juxtaposition. 

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That is what your crisis is 
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Where do you turn? 
There's no one on earth. 

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Or do you turn to the God of 
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And so he goes on to say, verse 
12, this made the king so angry 

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and furious that he ordered the 
execution of all the wise men of

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Babylon. 
So the decree was issued to put 

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the wise men to death. 
And I notice there says a 

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decree, A decree in the ancient 
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law, absolute in its conditions.
OK. 

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This is not what you do with 
your children. 

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I'm going to count to 3122 and a
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1/2. 
No, no, this is a decree. 

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OK, stop that. 
That's also stupid. 

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So the decree was issued to put 
the wise men to death. 

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And men were sent to look for 
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them to death. 
OK. 

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That's Daniel's impossible. 
You've got to tell me what I 

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dream. 
I've dreamed. 

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You also have to interpret it or
I kill you. 

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I kill you dead. 
What's? 

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Yeah. 
Stop here, Lucy. 

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What's your impossible? 
What's your impossible? 

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Because I think of the last few 
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I seriously do not want to go to
hospital again. 

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I've been there more times than 
I can count over the last two 

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weeks. 
I don't need to know what the 

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technique is to put in a stent 
and the fact that we're talking 

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about potential heart failure 
and the results of stroke. 

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What's your impossible? 
Maybe it's the doctor's report. 

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Maybe they said to you, OK, you 
need to start tending to your 

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bucket list. 
Maybe it's business. 

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Maybe your boss is impossible. 
Maybe you've also been asked to 

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interpret dreams. 
You don't know what's going on 

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in his heart, but you just 
expect it to perform. 

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Maybe it's finances. 
Maybe you issued divorce papers.

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Maybe you live with an alcoholic
and it's impossible at home. 

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Maybe you're the alcoholic and 
you don't know how to get out of

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this addiction that you carry. 
Or maybe you're the problem. 

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It's such a mess and you don't 
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It's impossible. 
Or maybe it's all of the above. 

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Maybe you've just been run 
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You're here feeling like you've 
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That's that's my 2024. 
It feels like in run ragged. 

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You know, when the the Titanic 
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on collision with an iceberg. 
They say that it was a sequence 

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of small slits that sank the 
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child's hand. 
It would have been fine if it 

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was 2-3, maybe 4 slits, but when
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the 6th slit, then it was man 
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And that's how the enemy 
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It's just a death by 1000 paper 
cuts, Just. 

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Oh, and then it's this. 
And you know, it doesn't rain. 

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It pours. 
It's just the next one and the 

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next one and the next issue. 
And you're just trying to cope 

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with this. 
And then there's another order. 

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And then your design team 
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And then your husband comes home
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something wrong and slit after 
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And you say it's impossible. 
One more and I'm done. 

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When we take a look at Daniel 
chapter 2, I think it's it's 

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descriptive, but it's also 
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You know, the Bible says in one 
Corinthians 10, it says these 

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things happen to them as 
examples for us talking about 

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what happened in the Old 
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These things happen to them as 
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written down for our 
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So I want you to take a look at 
Daniel chapter 2 as a lens to 

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process the impossible that you 
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Because what you'll find when 
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Daniel teaches us about pray, 
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Pray, presence, people and 
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Now I know we've done a lot on 
pray, but there's something that

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I want to raise here that for me
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Verse 14, pray when Arioch, a 
really cool name for your son, 

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when Arioch, the command of the 
King's God, had gone out to put 

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to death the wise men of 
Babylon, Daniel spoke to him 

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with wisdom and tact. 
Now we're looking at prayer and 

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he's saying, well, there's no 
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So let me show you what I 
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that that leads up to this 
moment where Daniel can come to 

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the guy who has come to execute 
him and deal with him with, with

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wisdom and tact. 
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chapter 1 and you find this 
pause was your writing to the 

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church in Colossae and he writes
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He says for this reason, since 
the day we heard about you, day 

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we heard that you were saved, 
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he said we have not stopped 
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We continually ask God to fill 
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will through all the wisdom and 
understanding that the Spirit 

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gives. 
It's the same phrase, just in 

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Greek, so that you may live a 
life worthy of the Lord and 

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please him in every way, bearing
fruit in every good work, 

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growing in the knowledge of Him.
So this is a prayer that Paul 

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prays when every single day we 
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you. 
Now what if I told you that ever

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since reading this during our 
prayer series, I've not stopped 

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praying for you? 
3 CR not just Lord help 3 CR 

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Lord be there when they're 
making business decisions. 

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I have been praying and 
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you with the knowledge of his 
will through all the wisdom and 

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understanding that the spirit 
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I think that's where the the 
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If anyone lacks wisdom and let 
him ask was birth because I've 

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been praying that very verse so 
that you may live a life worthy 

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of the Lord. 
I want you to live a life worthy

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of the Lord and please him in 
every way, bearing fruit in 

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every good work, growing in the 
knowledge of God. 

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I've prayed this day after day 
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I've prayed for you 3 CR by 
name, being strengthened with 

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all power according to his 
glorious might so that you may 

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have great endurance and 
patience. 

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And I've been in ICU praying 
that you would have endurance 

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and patience. 
And I've raised that because in 

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exactly the same way that this 
verse has captured my prayer 

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list and my prayers for you. 
When you look at the book of 

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Daniel, you see he did exactly 
the same. 

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Not in Colossians because it 
hadn't been written yet, but the

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Bible scholars say when you look
at the 1st 6 chapters of Daniel,

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you see the fingerprints of his 
prayer life, not just praise, 

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but praying scripture. 
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in that 2nd chapter of Daniel, 
we see him praying Jeremiah 33, 

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verse three that says the 
following call to me and I will 

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answer you and tell you great 
and unsearchable things. 

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You do not know. 
I do not know what he dreamt. 

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I do not know what to counsel a 
king in a foreign land as an 

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exile. 
And he has been praying this 

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verse. 
He's also been praying Genesis 

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40 verse 8, which is where 
Joseph stands before Pharaoh and

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says do not interpretations 
belong to God. 

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And I highlight that because 
what Daniel has done when you 

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start digging in there is 
actually nothing new. 

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What I've done in looking at 
Colossians 19 is nothing new. 

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Actually, from the very first 
pages of Scripture, we find the 

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bedrock of praying Scripture. 
And here's why. 

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You know, in the beginning God 
says let there be light and 

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there was light. 
Well then cloth, if you look at 

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the original Hebrew, it doesn't 
say and God said let there be 

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light and an Angel quickly 
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God spoke and there was light. 
OK, why is that? 

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Why did God not do anything? 
Get together a whole bunch of 

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materials. 
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God never creates apart from 
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creates through speaking. 
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through His word, which is why 
from the days of old the Saints 

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would take God's word because 
they saw God's word as an agent,

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a creating agent, an agent of 
His power. 

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And so by praying Scripture, 
essentially what they would do 

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is they would take the presence,
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God and bring it into their 
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And that is what we see Daniel 
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That is what I have seen when it
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praying Scripture because 
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The Word is God. 
In the beginning was the Word 

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and the Word was God. 
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we see and what Daniel saw is 
that you allow this power, the 

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power of his word and his 
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most importantly his presence. 
You bring that to bear on your 

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impossible. 
So a few weeks ago I got a phone

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call from a friend of mine. 
He said, listen, we got to do 

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coffee. 
I want to chat to you about my 

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impossible. 
So we did that and he told me a 

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story. 
He said a few years back when he

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was first in three CR when we 
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sort of facing that direction. 
He said the sermon had ended. 

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He's busy gathering up his 
stuff. 

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And the guy next to him made a 
very random comment. 

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He said, listen, but I really 
think you need to study nuclear 

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physics. 
And he was like, he was doing 

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his B commerce, something like a
nuclear physics. 

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And he turned to the guy next to
him, and there was no one there.

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And he sort of got a little 
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Is that clear as day? 
Then he started doubting it. 

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And anyway, one thing led to 
another. 

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Eventually he did do that. 
He followed up and started 

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studying nuclear physics. 
And in 2020, when he was doing 

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his doctorates and going on to 
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And in his words, the dream 
answered a 100 year question. 

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It has to do with particle 
acceleration, I'll tell you. 

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But you wouldn't understand it 
anyway because I didn't 

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understand it either. 
I kept saying, OK, just just one

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a little. 
OK, So if I understand, he said,

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listen, bud, it takes me about 
an hour to get people in the 

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industry up to speed. 
So he said, don't worry, if 

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you're from the bluff, you don't
stand a chance. 

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So he was drawing me pictures. 
True story anyway. 

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But here's the thing. 
This is what I learned using 

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this particle accelerator, the 
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the dream. 
He's now able to produce energy,

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net positive, clean nuclear 
power and a couple things there.

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I was reading his white paper. 
It requires no enriched fuel. 

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It doesn't create any bomb fuel 
as a side thing. 

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So it's, it's lovely, it's safe,
it's clean. 

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Not only is it safe, but it's 
small. 

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So what God showed him, I don't 
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the Hadron Collider in Geneva 
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It's this 27 kilometer loop to 
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Because basically how it works, 
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take a ball bearing and a rock, 
you've got to throw that ball 

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bearing really, really hard to 
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and the protons off when it 
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And so they take 27 kilometers 
to do this. 

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But what God showed him takes a 
couple meters, which means you 

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don't have to buy three CIS 
property and all the land around

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it to make energy. 
You can convert 1 of your 

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garages into one of these units 
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So I'm like, you know, South 
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Surely maybe is this is this 
impossible that you just can't 

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get their attention said no, no,
no, I've presented it to them. 

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He doesn't know if it's 
corruption or coal, but they're 

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just sort of like very hands or 
fish. 

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And I said to him, but this 
should be able to solve a 

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crisis. 
He said, you, you want to know 

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how long it would take to solve 
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You don't want to hazard a 
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I'm like 10 years, 22 months, 22
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But South Africa doesn't really 
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So I said, what's the 
impossible? 

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What is it that you're facing? 
Why are you here? 

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Said well, because he's been 
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do with deep pockets said, but 
they are notoriously malevolent.

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And he said, I don't know. 
Can I give this gift that God 

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gave me into those hands? 
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Hey puppy, now you outside of my
authority. 

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And I know there are churches 
and there are pastors and there 

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are elders. 
So come kiss the ring and I'll 

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tell you what God says, but that
is not our authority. 

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My authority, as his friend and 
as his elder said to him, bring 

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those well worn portions of 
scripture where God has shown 

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you something of the footprints 
of your future. 

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My responsibility is to teach 
you how to discern the voice of 

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God and discern how He is 
leading you. 

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And once you know, then let me 
teach you how to take that in 

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prayer and unlock the presence 
and the power and the purpose of

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God in your impossible. 
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Saints of old show us this. 
And I really pray that you would

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see this for yourself. 
Because when we're at that 

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space, then God can entrust a 
particle accelerator into our 

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hands, knowing that all we're 
going to do is put it back in 

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his hands and say, Father, would
you show us how to navigate 

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through enemy lines? 
So pray presence people, praise.

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What about presence? 
Verse 16 At this Daniel went 

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into the king and asked for time
so that he might interpret the 

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dream for him. 
In my Bible, I've underlined 

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Daniel went into the king. 
If it was at this time Stephen, 

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it would be at this time. 
Stephen grabbed WhatsApp and 

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started whinging to all his 
friends. 

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Steven opened TikTok or created 
an app called Toy Toy. 

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But Daniel went to the king. 
Tell you that could be a word 

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from God for you today because 
speak to your boss. 

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Take your husband out on a date.
Daniel went to the king. 

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The Collegian Employment 
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a study on Gen. 
Z or Gen. 

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Z. 
Gen. 

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Z sounds cooler. 
Gen. 

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Z is the age group between about
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And so they did a study 
recently, the Collegian 

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Employment Research Institute. 
Because some of the older Gen. 

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Z's are now starting to work and
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they interacting with a modern 
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Here's some of the things they 
discovered. 40% of Gen. 

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Z's parents obtained the job 
info for their kids. 31% of the 

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same parents submitted. 
CVS for their kids. 26% of Gen. 

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Z's parents advocated on behalf 
of their kids to get the job, 

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15% complained if said child did
not get the job, and a shocking 

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4% attended the interview with 
their child. 

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This too is stupid. 
Stop it. 

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Daniel went into the king. 
Mommy, if you go into the king 

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you are robbing this next 
generation of generals of the 

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faith. 
The church will be worse off for

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it, but not only when it comes 
to kings. 

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Small K kicking car, but capital
K the King of Kings. 

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If you are robbing your children
from approaching an earthly 

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king, you're also going to rob 
your children from approaching 

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the King of kings. 
Who says come boldly to the 

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throne of grace, just like David
did with the earthly king. 

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We are invited to the King of 
Kings. 

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We. 
I was at a 50th last night and 

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my mate's wife got up to his 
speech. 

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And the first point was, thank 
you that every single morning of

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our married life, you've gotten 
up early to pray. 

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Daniel went into the king, pray,
protecting our family, ringing 

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us before the throne. 
Daniel went to the king of kings

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and then he went to the small 
king. 

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And that's what we are 
encouraged to do. 

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I don't know if you've read the 
book, it's called The Great 

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Divorce. 
I think it's CS Lewis. 

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I read it many, many years ago. 
I don't even know if I'd 

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actually recommend it. 
I was thinking this morning, 

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it's a very weird book. 
It's allegorical. 

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It's all about people who've 
been sent to hell going on a 

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field trip to heaven. 
So I don't know if I'd highly 

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recommend it, but there's one 
portion that I want to raise in 

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all it's weirdness. 
So they go on this field trip. 

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They all climb off the bus, they
go and they do their tour. 

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But now they're coming back to 
the bus Field trip is done. 

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Now the premise here is that 
those you go to hell go there 

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because they want to. 
They want nothing to do with 

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God. 
I don't want your forgiveness. 

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I don't want Jesus. 
I don't want the cross. 

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I don't want heaven. 
So to be dragged to heaven is a 

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bit of a punishment. 
So they're now sulking and 

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finally we can leave. 
And as they're walking, Lewis 

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describes each person sort of 
having this little creature on 

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their shoulder. 
And then he describes a cross 

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like figure who's standing by 
the bus waiting. 

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And as they come, Jesus says to 
one of the guys pointing at this

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creature, he says, I can take 
that from you. 

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The guy says, doesn't even look 
up. 

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He says, no, I'm OK, I'm OK. 
I just want to, we're leaving 

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now, don't bother me. 
And he takes a step closer. 

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He said, let me take that from 
you. 

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And this thing says, don't do 
it. 

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It's going to hurt. 
You don't want to be that guy, 

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You know, go in church. 
I mean, your life's a mess, You 

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know, what's everyone going to 
say if I'm not here the third 

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time? 
Jesus says, let me take that 

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from you. 
And the creature again says, 

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I'll be quiet, I'll be good, 
won't say another thing. 

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I want to make you do that stuff
ever again. 

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Just don't touch me. 
And then there's this moment 

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where the guy who's just been 
staring blankly at the floor 

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looks up, catches the eyes of 
Jesus, and he just makes a 

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little bit like 1/2 reach. 
And Jesus reaches and grabs and 

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there's this bowl of flame and 
fire and light and screams, and 

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he is radically set free in an 
instant. 

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And I told the crazy allegorical
story because church, we 

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underestimate the power of the 
presence of God. 

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We sit with our impossible, and 
all we can see is that there's 

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no one on earth that can help 
me, no one on earth. 

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And there's the King of kings, 
it says, come boldly to the 

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throne of grace so that you 
might receive mercy to fight 

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that fight. 
And Daniel knows this, but do 

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you know it? 
Because on this side there's no 

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one on earth are the magicians, 
the sorcerers, the astrologers, 

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the necromancers and those who 
dabble in the cult. 

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What are we doing here, Church? 
When God says bring your 

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impossible to me, I can take 
that from you. 

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A moment in the presence of God.
What are you waiting for? 

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What are you waiting for? 
Pray presence people and praise 

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people. 
This is verse 17. 

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Then Daniel returned to his 
house and explained the matter 

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to his friends Hananiah, 
Mishael, and Azaria. 

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He urged them to plead for mercy
from the God of heaven 

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concerning this mystery. 
What I noticed there in praying 

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through this chapter was that it
doesn't say he went to Shadrach,

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Meshach, and Abednego. 
Instead, he went to Hananiah, 

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Mishael, and Azaria. 
Now don't get me wrong, they're 

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one and the same, but actually 
this is the only time after the 

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king, King Nebuchadnezzar had 
renamed them. 

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It's the only time in the whole 
of Daniel that it's written. 

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Instead of Shadrach, Meshach, 
and Abednego, it's written 

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Hananiah, Mishael, and Azaria. 
So Daniel must be saying 

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something. 
The fact that he calls him by 

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those names, you see what he's 
trying to tell us is he didn't 

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run to Babylonians, he ran to 
brothers. 

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And then he names them friends. 
So he says that he returned to 

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his house. 
So his brothers in the house 

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explain the matter to his 
friends. 

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And that word that he uses there
can be translated militant 

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supporter brothers. 
But more than brothers, soldiers

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in Colossians. 
Again, right at the very end, 

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Paul is busy writing, saying, 
OK, cheers receive here. 

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There you go, this beautiful. 
He says, you know, Aristotle 

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says, how's it Justice says, 
how's it Barnabas Pephras says, 

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sends greetings and then he says
this about a Pephrat Pephras. 

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He says he's one of you. 
He's a he's a friend. 

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He sends greetings. 
And this is how Paul describes 

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and defines a friend says he is 
always wrestling in pray for 

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you, that you may stand firm in 
all the will of God, mature and 

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fully assured. 
So Daniel 2 describes friends as

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a militant supporter. 
Colossians 4 describes friends 

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as someone who is always 
wrestling and pray for you. 

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Which begs the question, do you 
have these friends? 

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Do you have these friends? 
When you're facing your 

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impossible, who do you run to? 
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego 

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or a brother? 
Which begs the question, are you

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that friend? 
Is there anyone on your prayer 

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list? 
Do you know of anyone else's 

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impossible that you're wrestling
and pray with? 

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This is the biblical calling on 
our lives as part of this 

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community that we gather around 
us and we gather around brothers

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and sisters. 
Now, I know you. 

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I know all your excuses. 
Yeah. 

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I had had a conversation with a 
friend the other day. 

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I'd heard via Via that the 
wheels had come off and taken a 

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lot of strain. 
And I'm like, why didn't you 

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tell me? 
And the answer was, oh, no, I 

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didn't want to burden you. 
And in a moment I suddenly 

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realized, oh, you see me as a 
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. 

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I thought we had a Hananiah, 
Mishael and Azaria. 

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I thought brothers, but do you 
think Babylonians? 

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So there's some work to do, but 
I know all the excuses. 

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You know how many times I get 
asked to do a wedding and say, 

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OK, just fill out this form. 
You know, what life group are 

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you in? 
How long have you been in three 

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CR? 
I would say 9.999% of the time 

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that. 
What life group are you in? 

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We've been wanting to, but we 
haven't just yet. 

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Oh, some are Babylonian pastor 
for hire or are you part of the 

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family? 
Yeah. 

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But you know, I work every 3rd 
Tuesday. 

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So I just don't want to break 
that cycle, you know. 

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And it looks like it might rain 
next week, so I'm not going to 

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come to church this Sunday. 
So let me let me put the bar 

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really, really low. 
They did a study on church 

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attendance, specifically around 
new people and this is what they

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found. 
Unless you form 7 personal 

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relationships in three CR within
the first year of popping in, 

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you will not be here for the 
second year. 

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You know why? 
Because somewhere along the line

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during your year, you're going 
to face an impossible and there 

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ain't going to be no brothers 
around you to wrestle and pray 

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on your behalf. 
And you know what you're going 

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to do? 
You're going to leave and say, 

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yeah, you know, I've tried to 
get 16 counselling sessions with

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them and they didn't even go to 
one of them. 3 CR, 3 CR, 3 CR, 

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while you have been taken out 
slits after slits after slits, 

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and your impossible gets too big
for you to carry. 

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So I've tried that. 
No, you haven't. 

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You've come to Babylon and you 
haven't found brothers. 

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You haven't found brothers 
because this is Unless you form 

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7 personal relationships in 
three CR within the first year, 

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you are unlikely to be here or 
the rest of us will be. 

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Thanks for coming to church. 
Prayer, presence, people, 

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praise. 
My time is up praise. 

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This is what I pray for you. 
Through CR verse 19 during the 

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night the mystery was revealed 
to Daniel in a vision. 

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Then Daniel praised the God of 
heaven and said praise be to the

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name of God forever and ever. 
Wisdom and power is his. 

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Now pray, Father, you said, 
Lord, you said if anyone lacks 

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wisdom and there are two and a 
half 3000 people here today who 

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might lack wisdom, you said that
wisdom and power are yours, 

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yours to give. 
So asked that you'd give it to 

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three CR, you'd give it to that 
impossible situation. 

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He changes times and seasons. 
There are many in three CR who 

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have been in such a long, dry, 
barren wilderness season. 

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Father, you change times, you 
change seasons. 

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I pray today that it will be a 
season change for many. 

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In three CR. 
He deposes kings and raises up 

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others. 
I bring our government before 

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you. 
Father, if there's corruption, 

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would you depose those kings and
raise others? 

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Pray for our city, for the 
municipality, for teachers, for 

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lecturers, for medical staff. 
Depose wicked kings. 

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I pray He gives wisdom to the 
wise, knowledge to the 

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discerning. 
He reveals deep and hidden 

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things. 
Lord, if you can give a 27 year 

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old idea around particle 
acceleration and surely you can 

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help me with a friendship, with 
my business, with a patent. 

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Reveal deep and hidden things. 
He knows what lies in the dark. 

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Protect his Father from darkness
and light dwells with him. 

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00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:35,920
Bring light into dark places. 
I thank and praise you, God of 

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my Father's. 
You've given me wisdom and 

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power. 
You've made known to me what we 

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asked of you, and you've made 
known to us the dream of the 

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King. 
It's because through prayer, 

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presence, people and praise, it 
makes the impossible possible. 

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So go and do like us.
