1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,560 Hi, this is Dave Olson. I'm the senior leader of 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:04,600 Heartland Church located in Ankeny, IA. 3 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:08,039 I hope the following message challenges, encourages and 4 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:11,160 ultimately changes you. Thanks for joining us. 5 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:14,440 Psalm 24, turn there to with me real quick. 6 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:17,200 Like I said, I was going to preach on something else, but 7 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:19,320 there's just some things in my heart bubbling up. 8 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,880 So I want to share just kind of a few things, some of some 9 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:25,480 things some of you have heard before, but I want to tie them 10 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:30,080 together for this morning because I really felt strongly 11 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:34,080 as I woke up this morning, the Lord speaking to me about this 12 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:38,440 whole thing in Venezuela and how God wants to intervene in these 13 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:42,680 things, but he needs the engagement of the Saints. 14 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:46,400 You know what, God doesn't just do his will. 15 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:48,640 He does his will through his people. 16 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,760 He engages them. That's why the famous John 17 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:55,360 Wesley, the Methodist, the founder of Methodism, it, that 18 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:57,480 was the revival movement of its day. 19 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:01,120 He was a powerhouse. And he's famous for saying God 20 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:04,760 does everything through prayer and nothing without it. 21 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:10,000 Do you believe that? I personally do that God, if 22 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,400 God's ever going to do anything in the earth, because he's 23 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,400 delegated the earth to man according to Psalm chapter 8, he 24 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,320 will not violate the system he himself set up. 25 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:20,760 So he has to engage the human heart. 26 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:25,760 And so the principle of prayer is this divine intervention only 27 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:30,160 by human invitation. And so God is looking for people 28 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:33,600 that he's delegated the earth to, to invite his intervention. 29 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,640 He's looking to enlist people to pray. 30 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:41,880 And so we we see here in Psalm 24 years ago, I did a series on 31 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:45,200 this is probably 20 years ago. It was when the drummer back 32 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,160 here, my son was just a little guy and we were driving on the 33 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:52,400 way to church and he said, Dad, what you going to preach on this 34 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:53,560 morning? I said, I'm going to keep 35 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:56,680 preaching on Psalm 24. He said, are you serious? 36 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:58,400 He said, I could quote that whole thing. 37 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,360 Don't you think you're done? And I thought, what a thing for 38 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:03,680 a kid to say. And I said, no, you couldn't. 39 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:06,960 And he quoted the whole passage. I thought, I guess I'm done. 40 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:10,440 You know, if your kids can quote the whole chapter, then you're 41 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,160 done. But but that was a long time 42 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:14,760 ago, so we're going to take another run at it. 43 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,280 Psalm 24, verse one. Listen to what it says. 44 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,480 This is the Psalm of David and he he starts out with this. 45 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:23,320 The earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof. 46 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:26,880 So what God is doing is he is laying claim to planet earth. 47 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:30,640 He's saying it's mine, Venezuela is mine. the United States of 48 00:02:30,640 --> 00:02:34,360 America is mine. God wants, but he's looking for 49 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,280 someone to agree with him and lay claim to it. 50 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:43,560 The the famous Dutch theologian, Oh man, his name escapes me, but 51 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:47,600 he's famous for saying this. There is not one inch of planet 52 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:51,240 earth to which Christ does not say mine. 53 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:56,120 And so verse 2 for the world and those who dwell in it. 54 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:59,200 Verse 2 for he has founded upon the seas and established it upon 55 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,320 the waters. So the Lord is laying claim, 56 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,440 said I created it, it's mine. Now here's the amazing thing. 57 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:08,600 Colossians chapter 1 shows He not only created it, He died for 58 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:10,920 it to win it back to reconcile it to himself. 59 00:03:10,920 --> 00:03:13,920 So it's twice his he created and he purchased it back. 60 00:03:13,920 --> 00:03:16,440 Verse three, who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? 61 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:20,480 And it's at this point that David asks this question. 62 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:22,800 And there's one flow of context here. 63 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,800 God lays claim to the earth. And then David begins to ask who 64 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:31,480 can ascend the hill of the Lord? Who can stand at its holy place? 65 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:34,520 Brad and I were talking this morning and he was talking about 66 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:37,280 years ago. He woke up 1 morning and had 67 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:41,240 this vision and he heard, he heard himself saying, I was 68 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:46,320 there when Salem was, when Salem was reset. 69 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:50,040 Well, Salem, that was where Melchizedek ruled from Salem, 70 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:53,000 which eventually became Jerusalem. 71 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:58,560 And so it was the seat of the king, priest Melchizedek. 72 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:02,240 And Melchizedek was the first one that merged those two 73 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:07,160 offices in one. And David in this passage in 74 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:09,640 Psalm 24 is saying, who can ascend the hill of Lord? 75 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:14,440 Who can stand in his holy place? He's asking a question everybody 76 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:18,399 assumed they knew the answer to, but David was hungry enough to 77 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:21,079 say, I'm wondering if there's another way in. 78 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:23,520 I'm wondering if there's another route. 79 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,920 Surely the God I met on the backside of the desert wouldn't 80 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:29,640 keep me out. And so we asked this question. 81 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:33,560 And he breaks into Amen. He breaks into, they're getting 82 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:37,400 excited back there. He's breaks into this revelation 83 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,280 of the Melchizedek priesthood. And he gives the outline. 84 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:43,160 He said he who can ascend the hill, Lord, who can stand in 85 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:46,560 this holy place, He who has clean hands, a pure heart, does 86 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:50,160 not lift his soul to an idol or swear by what is false. 87 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:55,160 So he gives us the criteria of another priesthood, the 88 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,640 Levitical priesthood. You had to be born into the 89 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:01,800 Levitical line. The Melchizedek priesthood had 90 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:05,280 to do with the heart posture. And David discovered something. 91 00:05:05,280 --> 00:05:10,000 And it's interesting because when David, David did priestly 92 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,240 duties as a king and God blessed him. 93 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:14,920 Saul did it, Hezekiah did it, and they got spanked. 94 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:20,880 Hezekiah ended up with leprosy. Saul had the Kingdom stripped 95 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:23,800 from him. But David was blessed by God 96 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,840 when he wore a linen ephod and he, he ate the showbread and he, 97 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:32,760 you know, David operated as a New Testament man under the Old 98 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:35,040 Testament. There's an interesting verse in 99 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:38,080 the New Testament that talks about those who reach in and 100 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:40,080 taste the powers of the age to come. 101 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:45,200 That's not just for you and I to reach into the powers of the 102 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,160 David did that as an old covenant man into the new 103 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:50,320 covenant and lived as a new covenant man. 104 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:51,680 It was the Melchizedek priesthood. 105 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,080 And so that's what David is talking about here. 106 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:59,360 And we need to understand that we're not just the priests of 107 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:00,960 God. We're not just go betweens. 108 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:04,400 We're not just those that represent God to the people and 109 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:07,000 then an intercession represent the people to God. 110 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:10,800 That is a valid expression of what we've been called into as 111 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:13,440 believers. We are a Kingdom of priests, 112 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:16,440 Peter said. So you and I, we all, we're all 113 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:19,480 priests. It's not like there's hired guns 114 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:21,360 up here and then the rest of you are spectators. 115 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:26,600 We're all participants, but we're not just participants in 116 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:29,880 individual salvation. We are participants on a global 117 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:32,880 scale. God is looking for those who 118 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:35,000 will engage themselves on this scale. 119 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:39,720 And so David asks this question and he says he was, you know, 120 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:43,680 verse 4, I just quoted it, verse 5, he will receive the blessing 121 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:46,200 of the Lord, and righteousness from God is salvation. 122 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:48,160 So he's talking about that individual. 123 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:52,120 And then he shifts gears and he begins to prophecy. 124 00:06:52,280 --> 00:06:57,120 So David starts out praying, he begins to teach out of the 125 00:06:57,120 --> 00:07:01,240 revelation he got, but then he begins to prophecy about the 126 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,120 future. So David is man. 127 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:07,760 He's he's doing it all here, praying, teaching, prophesying. 128 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:12,920 And he says this in verse six. Such is the generation of those 129 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:16,480 who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob. 130 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:19,040 Selah. He said, think about that. 131 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:23,240 He's saying that there's going to come a time where God not 132 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:27,200 only has individuals, he said He will receive the blessing, but 133 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:29,120 there's going to come a time where God's going to have a 134 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:32,440 corporate people that enter into corporate wholeheartedness. 135 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:37,480 There's going to be a generation of those who seek him and God 136 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,720 will release something to him. It is not a coincidence that the 137 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:45,240 very next verse shifts gears and talks about the king of glory 138 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:48,840 entering into regions. Look at what it says verse 7 139 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:54,800 lift up your heads, O gates be lifted up, O ancient doors that 140 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:58,600 the king of glory may come in. Now we sang about that earlier. 141 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,920 He and and we, we use that phrase the king of glory. 142 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:04,800 That is a very specific meaning to it. 143 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:09,240 It's not just a haphazard title that God slapped on himself. 144 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:11,960 He defines what it is. He said, who is this King of 145 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:14,400 glory? The Lord strong and mighty. 146 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,840 The Lord mighty in battle. So when the Lord speaks of 147 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:21,240 himself as the King of glory, it's all, it's another way of 148 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:23,480 saying the captain of the Lord's hosts. 149 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:25,840 It's the Lord entering into battle. 150 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:29,800 When the Lord enters in and he begins to move in power, He 151 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:33,000 comes to make war. That is the Lord of glory. 152 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:37,440 And so after David begins to prophecy about a coming day 153 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:41,200 where there will be a generation that enters into corporate 154 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:47,240 wholeheartedness, I'm telling you, don't minimize the power of 155 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:51,080 God finding a core group of people that are all in because 156 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:54,760 God can. God can move shape history 157 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:56,400 through a company of people like that. 158 00:08:56,800 --> 00:09:00,120 And so David prophecies about this and the very next thing he 159 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:04,880 does, he begins to say, open up, you know, lift up your heads, O 160 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:08,480 you gates be lifted up, you ancient doors. 161 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:13,280 That is not mere poetry. These are entry points in the 162 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:17,480 spiritual realm where God is able to enter in in an invasion 163 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:20,560 and begin to operate there. It's throughout Scripture. 164 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:23,800 We see there's the windows of heaven spoken about in three 165 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,480 separate verses. There's doors in the spirit. 166 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:29,760 We talked about it a few months ago where John is in an 167 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:31,680 encounter and all of a sudden he said he heard a voice. 168 00:09:31,680 --> 00:09:34,520 He looked up, there's an open door and it said come up here. 169 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:36,200 He went through it and now he's in heaven. 170 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:40,680 He's in this heavenly encounter. That wasn't just John's 171 00:09:40,680 --> 00:09:43,960 imagination. There was a literal entry point 172 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:47,320 that John moved through. And then there are gates in the 173 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:51,880 spiritual realm. Jesus said the gates of hell 174 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:53,720 shall not prevail against the church. 175 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,600 Does he mean that we're going to literally storm hell and go into 176 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:00,000 the go into Hades and start moving things around? 177 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,560 No, he's not talking about hell as a location. 178 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:07,920 He's talking about Hell's occupation of the entry points 179 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:14,160 of our regions, and God is looking for those who come into 180 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:17,320 corporate wholeheartedness, understand not only their 181 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:19,240 priestly role, but their kingly role. 182 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:21,560 Not only that we are intercessors, but we're 183 00:10:21,560 --> 00:10:25,360 intercessors with authority. We can press the crown rights of 184 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:28,720 King Jesus. And when God finds a people like 185 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:32,600 that, they can enter in and they begin to command the gates and 186 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:35,560 doors in the spiritual realm to begin to give way. 187 00:10:35,560 --> 00:10:39,320 The hinges are greased by their proclamations and God begins to 188 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:42,640 invade and come in. And that's what he's talking 189 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:47,400 about. And we need to understand the 190 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:49,520 authority that we have as believers. 191 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:56,200 Again, we are not mere spectators of what is happening 192 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:59,240 on the global landscape. We are participants. 193 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:03,040 And God wants to enlist us. He wants us to have a part to 194 00:11:03,040 --> 00:11:06,680 play in this thing and to dig in and begin to pray. 195 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:10,120 I told the first service that it's, you know, we talk a lot 196 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:12,800 about identity around here. It's important that you know who 197 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:16,560 you are as an individual. You can't walk in your calling 198 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:19,240 unless you own what God says about you. 199 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:22,960 To the degree that you are in agreement with what God says is 200 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:25,040 the degree you can fulfill your assignment. 201 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:27,880 And to the degree that you're in disagreement with your 202 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:31,560 assignment is to the degree that you will not fulfill your 203 00:11:31,560 --> 00:11:34,400 assignment. You've got to own that thing. 204 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:41,400 But the, the, the, the, that truth is also a reality 205 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:45,280 corporately, that we need to know who we are corporately. 206 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:48,560 And I believe there are different callings on different 207 00:11:48,560 --> 00:11:50,360 churches. You've heard me say it before. 208 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:52,800 There's no such thing as a one stop Jesus shop. 209 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,000 No one church can do it all. And that's why we bless the 210 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,200 churches in this region. I'm grateful for the other 211 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:03,080 houses that God has raised up that preach the word of God and 212 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:06,000 worship King Jesus. And they have their assignment. 213 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,960 We have ours. But we need to be crystal clear 214 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:10,520 about the assignment of this house. 215 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:15,080 I remember when we first moved into this property, we'd have 216 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:18,560 people wander in, people visiting from other churches. 217 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,160 I remember that. I'll never forget this Lutheran 218 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:23,880 guy came in, wandered in, sat down in the back. 219 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:25,840 He goes to a Lutheran Church here in the region. 220 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:27,920 And I walked in. He said, you know, this is a 221 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:29,480 governmental House of prayer, don't you? 222 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:33,960 You know, this is governmental. And people told me that. 223 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:35,960 And I'd say, oh, yeah, I knew that. 224 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:40,960 I mean, after I heard it umpteenth time, we need to own 225 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:43,680 that, that there is a governmental assignment on this 226 00:12:43,680 --> 00:12:46,800 house to engage in prayer. So turn with me to one other 227 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:51,280 passage, Daniel chapter 2. Let's look at this passage. 228 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:57,280 I want to just go back through an experience I had because I 229 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:00,840 believe it is relevant to the hour in which we live. 230 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:10,640 What is going on in Venezuela? What is going on in Ukraine? 231 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:12,480 How many Ukrainians we got? Raise your hand. 232 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:14,400 Yeah, look. Look at that. 233 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:18,360 Bless them, man. I don't think it's a coincidence 234 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:22,040 that you're in this church. It's it's not just it's not 235 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:25,360 because you like the music. This is God has drawn you to 236 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:29,640 this house because there is a partnership in the spirit with 237 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:33,640 the land of your birth. God is called and and that we 238 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:36,320 they they just keep finding us. Hallelujah. 239 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:38,800 Bring them more. We start a Ukrainian service. 240 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:42,880 We need that there's this partnership in the spirit 241 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:47,240 because there are what happens is there are the, the, the 242 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:52,240 spiritual realm, there are principalities and powers that 243 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:57,440 enter into agreements with corrupt world leaders and great 244 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:00,320 evil can begin to take root in those societies. 245 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:05,600 And it unleashes great harm on the human race and it fuels 246 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:09,040 greater evil. And we've seen this rise in 247 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:12,320 different places in the earth. And you and I are called to 248 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:14,720 intercede on those things. It's not a coincidence. 249 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:16,920 We're sending up team back down to Panama. 250 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:19,080 You know, one of the primary things they do when they go down 251 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,760 there, they do prayer watch, they do 24 hour prayer burns 252 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:26,960 because we understand that that is a crucial place in the earth. 253 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:29,360 The nation's come through that little inlet. 254 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:32,600 It's it is. And whoever controls Panama 255 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,960 controls the world. We want Jesus to control Panama. 256 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:42,160 We want the the king of kings, communist China, the CCP began 257 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:44,640 to encroach into Panama and try to take it over. 258 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:46,800 And that what they've done is they've bought their way in 259 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:49,320 through corruption into a lot of nations. 260 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:55,000 And that demonic communist ideology is flexing its muscles 261 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:58,640 trying to encroach. And God's answer is a praying 262 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:01,840 church to rise and to pray and to call that thing down. 263 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:05,160 I have nothing against Chinese people, Ukrainian people, 264 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:10,400 Venezuelan people, or American people, but I do have something 265 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:13,800 against the demonic spirits that operate through corrupt 266 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:17,200 governments. Human corruption at a 267 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:21,400 governmental level is the exact way that principalities exercise 268 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:24,920 their rule. And when when kings are removed, 269 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:28,560 those ties are severed and it's like the puppet strings are cut 270 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:31,720 and the puppeteer no longer has any influence over the puppet. 271 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:35,880 Which leads us to this passage. Daniel chapter 2. 272 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:39,720 So we were praying. It was probably 6-7 years ago. 273 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:42,000 Now, some of you have heard this, but it's relevant to what 274 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,080 we're talking about. I want to go over this ground. 275 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:48,440 We were praying and, and it was, it would have been about six 276 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:51,120 years ago. And as we were praying one 277 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:53,440 morning, I was laying here and all of a sudden I went into a 278 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:54,760 vision. It might have been a dream. 279 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:55,960 I might have been asleep, I'm not sure. 280 00:15:56,560 --> 00:16:03,040 But I went into this vision and I saw this leadership stain. 281 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:05,240 I knew it was a stain in the soil of Iowa. 282 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,440 I looked at it was this blot. It looked like an ink blot about 283 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:10,760 this big. And I knew it was a leadership 284 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:12,480 stain. And I knew immediately three 285 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:15,440 things. It was financial impropriety, 286 00:16:15,520 --> 00:16:19,200 sexual immorality, and men and women prematurely leaving their 287 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:22,840 post out of discouragement. And I knew it was a strategy of 288 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:27,040 the enemy to remove people from their assignment, either through 289 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:29,560 disqualification or through discouragement. 290 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:31,680 So they would let go of the assignment. 291 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:34,360 They wouldn't fulfill what God had for them, and it would 292 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:37,560 frustrate the purposes of God. As I looked at that, I was 293 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:39,040 hovering over the ground of Iowa. 294 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:42,000 All of a sudden the Lord took me under Iowa, under the ground. 295 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:46,720 And I looked at this massive, this, this massive compass, but 296 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:49,120 it was tilted, it wasn't pointing north. 297 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:53,640 And as I was looking at that, all of a sudden, boom, I came 298 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:55,120 out of it and I thought, was that the Lord? 299 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:58,000 I called everybody forward and I told them what I saw. 300 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:03,920 And when I said that, someone said, oh, and they said, I can't 301 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:05,160 believe you're saying. And I said, what? 302 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:07,040 What's that? And they said, I woke up from a 303 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:10,680 dream this morning and we were in this prayer meeting in the 304 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:13,160 dream, praying over a map of Iowa. 305 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:17,440 And suddenly the map morphed into a compass, but the needle 306 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:21,640 couldn't find true north. So I'm not the brightest bulb in 307 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:23,480 the room, but I thought we might be on to something. 308 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:27,920 So we prayed and I asked Mike Scheer, one of our elders, I 309 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:29,880 said, Mike, would you close us in prayer today? 310 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:33,320 And I, I just explained it as a compass. 311 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:36,640 Mike begins to pray. And he said, and Lord, that gyro 312 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:40,280 compass, and I thought, how did he know? 313 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:43,120 Because that he, he was putting words to what I saw, but I 314 00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:44,680 couldn't figure out what to call it. 315 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:46,480 But when he said it, I thought, you're right. 316 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:49,520 I thought, how did you know? And he's, you know, same way I 317 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:53,000 knew God showed him. But a gyrocompass is not, 318 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,840 doesn't operate by gravitational pull. 319 00:17:56,120 --> 00:17:58,360 It operates by the rotation of the earth. 320 00:17:58,360 --> 00:18:01,680 And I knew there was a timepiece component to this thing. 321 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:06,360 It it would, it was how we measure time is through the 322 00:18:06,360 --> 00:18:09,040 rotation of the earth, but it was also going to measure true 323 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:12,640 north. And so the next day we're 324 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:14,760 praying into this and we're we're walk. 325 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:19,080 I'm walking down the aisle and as I'm walking, I'm I'm crying 326 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:22,440 out to God and I just out of my spirit came this phrase. 327 00:18:23,360 --> 00:18:25,640 I know this is discouraging, but I couldn't have told you where 328 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:28,400 this verse was in the Bible. I don't know that's discouraging 329 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:30,240 to hear from your pastor, but I'm just being honest. 330 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:34,520 But I said, Lord, you changed the times and seasons. 331 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:37,640 It just came up out of my spirit and I was walking right there 332 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:41,080 and Joyce reached up, grabbed my sleeve and said, Pastor, look at 333 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:42,920 what the Lord just told me to turn to. 334 00:18:43,120 --> 00:18:45,800 And it was this passage and listen to what it says. 335 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:48,400 Blessed is the name of God forever. 336 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:50,240 This is verse 20. Daniel answered and said, 337 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:52,840 blessed is the name of God forever and ever to whom belong 338 00:18:52,840 --> 00:18:56,200 wisdom and might. He changes times and seasons. 339 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:00,320 He removes kings and sets up kings. 340 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:03,600 He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have 341 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:06,040 understanding. He reveals deep and hidden 342 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:07,720 things. He knows what is in darkness, 343 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:11,880 and the light dwells with him. To you, O God, my God of my 344 00:19:11,880 --> 00:19:13,760 Father's, I give thanks and praise for you. 345 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:17,160 I've given me wisdom and might, and we have now made, and you 346 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:19,720 have now made known to me what you have asked of me. 347 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,040 For you made known to us the King's matter. 348 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:29,520 So this is Daniel's prayer. He quotes that exact line that 349 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:34,400 came out of my spirit. It was Daniel's prayer about 350 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:37,600 Nebuchadnezzar's dream because Nebuchadnezzar had a dream. 351 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:40,040 He wasn't going to tell anybody. He said, either tell me what the 352 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:42,440 dream meant and what it was, or you're a dead man. 353 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:45,120 And Daniel goes to the Lord and the Lord gives it to him. 354 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:49,360 And so Daniel's ministry is now off and running. 355 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:55,400 And Daniel lived his life as a geopolitical prophet. 356 00:19:56,760 --> 00:20:00,720 You know that he was a man who spoke into kingdoms. 357 00:20:01,320 --> 00:20:06,160 He spoke into geopolitical affairs as a prophetic voice. 358 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,680 He shepherded Nebuchadnezzar, the most powerful man on earth, 359 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:16,160 and two other regimes. And not only that, he also 360 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:20,200 prophesied about the rising and falling of nations in the 361 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,800 future. Don't ever let anybody tell you 362 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:26,800 that God is not interested in geopolitical affairs. 363 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:31,200 Don't ever let someone tell you that God is not interested in 364 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:34,720 political issues or governmental affairs. 365 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:38,360 I'll hear people quote this all the time, men that I deeply 366 00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:41,560 respect. What if I said his name? 367 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:43,520 You would meant most of you would know him. 368 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:46,400 He's been in our pulpit and I still can't believe he says 369 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:50,840 this. I've heard him say that God 370 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:53,320 doesn't. God doesn't care who's in in the 371 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:55,640 White House or who's who's a king or who's. 372 00:20:56,160 --> 00:21:01,480 What does he do with this verse? God sets up kings and removes 373 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:02,960 him. And the verse he always quotes 374 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:05,480 is where Jesus stood before Pilate. 375 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:07,800 And he said my Kingdom is not of this world. 376 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:12,480 Jesus was not saying that his Kingdom didn't have anything to 377 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:15,880 do with this world. The meaning of Kingdom Basilia 378 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:19,880 means the right to rule. And he said I'm not deriving my 379 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:23,440 right to rule from earth. I received it from heaven and 380 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:27,360 I've come to impose it on earth. And the fact is, the reason you 381 00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:31,920 and I are here is because we're here to impose the crown rights 382 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:37,400 of King Jesus on human history. And that and the often the way 383 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:41,040 that that manifests itself is through political affairs. 384 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:44,440 So you and I need to understand how this thing works. 385 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:47,320 And we need to engage yourself and we need to be in the place 386 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:50,120 of prayer and we need to be praying God's will. 387 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:53,640 And God wants to speak to us just like he did Daniel. 388 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,520 He said he gave me wisdom and might. 389 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:01,280 That wisdom was insight to discern the will of the Lord and 390 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:03,960 begin to to release those things to kings. 391 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,680 But that word might is also an interesting word. 392 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:10,560 That word might means you've get, you've been given 393 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:14,560 influence. It's it's influence to power. 394 00:22:15,120 --> 00:22:19,640 And Daniel understood that God gave him influence with 395 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,480 political figures, these geopolitical rulers. 396 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:26,000 And that was that was Daniel's ministry. 397 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:28,920 He was speaking to these political powers. 398 00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:30,800 Now, why do I bring that up this morning? 399 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:34,520 Because I woke up this morning intending to preach on something 400 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:37,920 entirely different and the Lord began to speak to me about 401 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:40,680 Venezuela. And I'm telling you, there is a 402 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:45,960 governmental assignment on this house to pray God's will into 403 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:48,760 those matters. Let me tell you about one more 404 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:51,080 thing. And, and some of you have heard 405 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:52,880 this, but again, all of this is related. 406 00:22:53,120 --> 00:22:55,600 It was probably 9-10 years ago now. 407 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,600 I don't know. I should have wrote it down, but 408 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:00,000 we were. It was when we were having our 409 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,320 prayer meetings upstairs and prayer had gotten real thin. 410 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,400 We weren't praying Tuesday through Friday. 411 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,040 It was Tuesday and Thursday and we might have only been down to 412 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:10,160 Thursday. And it was Quimby and I. 413 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:13,640 Many of you remember Pastor Quimby and a few ladies, and I 414 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,680 used to tease the ladies. Thanks for letting me come to 415 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,960 the women's prayer meeting. It wasn't intended to be a 416 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:19,720 women's prayer meeting. It was just the only one showing 417 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:21,440 up. Thank God we got men coming to 418 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:25,360 the prayer meetings now and as we're praying, it was one of 419 00:23:25,360 --> 00:23:30,120 those especially dry prayer meetings. 420 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:31,640 You ever been to a dry prayer meeting? 421 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,720 I've LED a bunch. Here's the good news. 422 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:37,840 God answers dry, unannointed prayer. 423 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:42,120 You know that it doesn't matter what you feel. 424 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:46,880 God honors faithfulness. And we were there every week 425 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:49,960 praying and we got done. And I was, I, for one, the one 426 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,960 leading the prayer meeting was really, really glad it was over. 427 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,560 I didn't tell people that I'm telling you years later, but I 428 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,040 was like, OK, everybody come forward. 429 00:23:58,040 --> 00:23:59,360 And I was going to just close it. 430 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,560 And as I called everybody forward, I looked over to my 431 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:07,000 side and I was stunned because there were two angels standing 432 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,640 right there. Now, I didn't see him with my 433 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:12,360 physical eyes, but I saw it as clear as day with my spiritual 434 00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:13,520 eyes. And I can't explain that. 435 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:15,560 If you've seen that, you know what I mean. 436 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:17,520 If you haven't, I don't know how to explain it. 437 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:19,720 I'm just telling you. I saw it as clear as day. 438 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:22,920 And what what intrigued me is there was 1 standing about where 439 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:25,160 that pole was. And he was standing there 440 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:27,560 looking at me. And this is what he looked like. 441 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,400 And, and you can weigh this. You may not believe me, but 442 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,280 we'll meet him. I'll introduce you to him when 443 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,960 we get to heaven, OK? And I'll tell you, I told you. 444 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:38,640 Here he is. He had on a tweed Sport coat. 445 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:41,600 He was a little guy, a tweed Sport coat. 446 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,760 His head was bald. He had hair along the sides of 447 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:48,600 his head, and he had spectacles. I mean, they weren't just 448 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:50,040 glasses. They were spectacles. 449 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,200 They were the kind that you'd refer to as spectacles. 450 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,840 And he was standing there. He had this huge leather volume. 451 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,240 It was about this thick, about this big. 452 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:01,240 He was just standing there like this, his tweed Sport coat on. 453 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,440 And he had a little pointer stick that they used to teach 454 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:05,400 with. And he was just staring at me, 455 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:07,520 just standing there like he's just waiting for me to 456 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:11,200 acknowledge him. And over his left shoulder was 457 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,760 another Angel. And to be honest, I don't, I 458 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,840 can't explain how he was dressed because I was so intrigued by 459 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,320 this one. And I thought, what in the 460 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:22,000 world? And the Lord spoke to me and 461 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,280 said, they are professors and I'm about to take you into 462 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:33,520 semesters of learning. And I thought, uh oh, because 463 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,040 what I felt like is man, I'm, I'm a busy dad with a bunch of 464 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:38,920 kids and a, and a full time job. And now I'm going to night 465 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,240 school. What I didn't understand it was 466 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:43,560 going to be morning school, those prayer meetings. 467 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,000 And the Lord spoke to me and this the Angel that was the most 468 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,640 prominent 1 standing there with his little pointer stick. 469 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:54,080 He was from the school of government in heaven. 470 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:56,440 Now you say, do they really have one? 471 00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:01,560 They do, you'll see. And, and the other one was from 472 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:05,800 the War College of Heaven and the Lord said, I'm going to take 473 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,680 you into semesters of learning. And I asked the Lord, I thought, 474 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,360 God, why, why is he bald and have glasses? 475 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:15,200 You know, I have glasses. I've worn them since 5th grade. 476 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,000 I'm, I can't see what that I thought. 477 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,760 That's kind of, I always thought of that as kind of the result of 478 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:21,280 the fall. You know, when I get to heaven, 479 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:24,080 I don't need glasses. And I said, Lord, why would he 480 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,400 need glasses? And the Lord said they allow 481 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,400 him, they enable him to see things that others don't see. 482 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:35,200 And of course I thought of that. You ever seen National Treasure 483 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,240 where Nicolas Cage has those glasses and he sees different 484 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:39,920 things in the maps? That's what they were. 485 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:42,800 They they were, he could see different things with those 486 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,080 glasses. And he was going to teach us how 487 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,840 to govern with God. And it wasn't a coincidence that 488 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:53,600 that Angel was to the forefront and not the war Angel. 489 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:59,120 And what it immediately reminded me of was a number of years 490 00:26:59,120 --> 00:27:02,440 before that I began to hear the Lord say to me in the spring of 491 00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:05,000 the year, give me 3 months in July. 492 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,760 Give me 3 months in July. I'm being very transparent 493 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:13,120 because once again I thought, uh oh, because three weeks in July, 494 00:27:13,120 --> 00:27:14,920 not three months, three weeks in July. 495 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:16,840 And I knew that meant 21 day fast. 496 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,400 So I gathered some intercessions and said, would you do a fast 497 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,240 with me in July? And let me tell you, it's almost 498 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,640 better to do it in July because it's when you get fast, it's 499 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,480 cold in January. This is brutal. 500 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:30,480 But anyway, I digress. I don't remember anything about 501 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:34,000 that fast except I was walking through the living room and on 502 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,200 the TV somebody had this show on. 503 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,920 I don't know, I'm assuming it was The History Channel. 504 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:43,280 And I was walking through, I heard the narrator say Genghis 505 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:48,600 Khan conquered more territory than any other man, whoever 506 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:53,480 lived. And then it added, But upon his 507 00:27:53,480 --> 00:28:00,680 death, his empire evaporated because he was a great general 508 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:05,480 but a poor governor. And when it said that, it was 509 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:07,960 like an arrow came out of the TV, hit me in the heart. 510 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:13,080 And I knew that's the church. And the Lord spoke to me and he 511 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:17,600 said I have many wandering intercessors and homeless 512 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:22,240 revivalists who have great stories of great battles won, 513 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:27,320 but nothing to leave their children because we've we've 514 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:31,520 learned as a church, as the people of God, how to go to war 515 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,920 and win land, but not steward it once we have it. 516 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:39,360 And so the Lord was saying, I'm going to teach you to govern 517 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,680 with me. I believe we're still in that 518 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,800 process, but I believe we've learned a lot in these prayer 519 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:49,880 meetings on how to partner with heaven and speak in and pray 520 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,920 into these matters. There we were. 521 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:56,120 We were praying very specifically for Venezuela last 522 00:28:56,120 --> 00:29:00,200 week, crying out to God because just praying that God's will be 523 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,640 done. And you may or may not agree 524 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,040 with the measures. I'm just telling you that God 525 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:09,000 wanted that man out. And God will use the the measure 526 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:12,680 that you can argue about. You know, I'm not going to arm 527 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:14,160 wrestling. I'm just telling you God wanted 528 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:17,880 that man out because there was tremendous suffering in that 529 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,440 nation. And God wants to liberate that 530 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:24,280 nation and make it a shining example of Latin America once 531 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:28,440 again. And you and I are not simply 532 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:32,560 spectators that read the news and oh, wow, isn't that amazing? 533 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:33,560 Look what? Look, What's that? 534 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,520 Oh, that's tragic. Oh, that's good. 535 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:40,440 No, you and I are participants. We are the ones that are to 536 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:42,960 shape history through declarations. 537 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:47,440 We're to catch the word of the Lord and enforce the word of the 538 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:52,800 Lord on these matters. And that's part of the calling 539 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:57,360 on this house. That's part of the worship 540 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:01,000 dynamic of this house. That's why we have so many 541 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,000 prayer meetings and that's why we fast. 542 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:09,160 I want to encourage you this starting tomorrow morning, we're 543 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,800 going to enter into the fast. Do something. 544 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,760 Let's engage ourselves. Let's be those people that we 545 00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:20,880 say, Lord, you have found a corporate, a people of corporate 546 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,960 wholeheartedness that you can leverage us. 547 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:27,600 Lord, you can use us to pray your purposes in the earth. 548 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:33,160 God wants to shape history from the height of a bended knee. 549 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:37,000 He wants to begin to push his crown rights and shape things. 550 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:40,760 And what the Lord wants to do is just what he did with Daniel. 551 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:45,280 Daniel is assigned to us. Daniel would catch the word of 552 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:47,480 the Lord and release the word of the Lord. 553 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:50,680 And through that he would raise up kings and he would remove 554 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,560 them. And God is still doing the same 555 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,480 thing. Now let me just say this and go 556 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:56,720 ahead and stance you and I'm going to quit. 557 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:03,440 In chapter 2 it says that God changes the times and the 558 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:07,400 seasons. In Chapter 7 it says the enemy 559 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:12,760 manipulates the the times. The enemy has his plan and the 560 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,800 way the enemy does it is through. 561 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:20,040 Just what I saw in that vision. It's either men seizing Thrones 562 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:25,000 and staying too long, or being brought to a throne outside of 563 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,680 God's will, or people abandoning their assignment. 564 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:33,440 And prayer is part of God's dynamic to keep the right people 565 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:39,160 in power. Again, principalities and powers 566 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,440 operate through corrupt human authority. 567 00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:47,440 And if we want to see history changed, those powers must be 568 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:51,000 severed from those alliances with corrupt leaders in the 569 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,920 earth. And God has called us as a 570 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:59,000 house, as a people called Heartland Church to engage in 571 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,800 that and pray God's will to hear the word of the Lord and pray 572 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,680 it. So I want to ask you to just 573 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:07,560 raise your hands. I want to pray over you right 574 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,040 now. Father, Lord, I thank you for 575 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:15,120 each and every one of these. Lord, I thank you for those 576 00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:20,240 you've already stirred, Lord, those that have already been 577 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:26,160 stirred by your heart to pray. Lord, we ask, just as you gave 578 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:33,600 Daniel wisdom, and might we ask you first give us wisdom, Lord, 579 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:38,520 Give us greater understandings of the spiritual dynamics, 580 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:40,640 Lords, that we can cooperate with you. 581 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:46,400 Lord, we're asking that you would use us, teach us about 582 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:50,680 these matters. Lord, there's a in that passage, 583 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:55,040 Daniel says he gives understand knowledge to those who have 584 00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,680 understanding what it means that understand that word in the 585 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,160 Hebrew means that they've they've gathered, they've 586 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:03,920 gathered principles, they they've learned to understand 587 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:05,840 these things. And then God will add knowledge 588 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,360 to that. If you apply yourself to what 589 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:10,720 he's already given you. I'll give you more is what it's 590 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,640 saying. And then, Lord, we ask for 591 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:17,960 might, Lord, that you would give us influence in the spirit and 592 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,720 in the natural, God that we could speak truth to power. 593 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,880 Lord, I ask that out of this very room that you would raise 594 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:29,000 up voices that would have the ear of powerful men and women. 595 00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,240 Lord, that you would shape history through our words. 596 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,480 Lord, teach us to rule and reign with you. 597 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,920 Lord, deliver us from the fallacy, the lie that we have to 598 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:43,960 wait for eternity to rule and reign with you and help us to 599 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,920 understand. That's our assignment now in 600 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:51,160 intercession in Jesus name, Amen. 601 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,320 Amen. All right, God bless you. 602 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,320 I love you. Thanks for listening to our 603 00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:58,040 podcast. If you'd like to help more 604 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:00,640 people hear this message, you can get the word out by 605 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:02,960 subscribing and sharing it on social media. 606 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:05,800 If you'd like to support the ministries of Heartland Church, 607 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:09,560 you can do so at Heartland Church online.com/give.