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Welcome to another inspirational
podcast at Real Life. 

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will good morning and welcome to

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Real Life Church. 
Go ahead and stand to your feet.

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Whether you're with us in 
person, here, Kentucky, Trail, 

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or you are joining us online. 
We are so pumped to see you this

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morning. 
We're so excited to worship god 

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with you. 
Just experience his presence 

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together today. 
So we're going to worship Him 

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big. 
You can go ahead and put those 

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hands together and let's worship
Him. 

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Any broken? 
I call you Faithful for 

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everything. 
You start. 

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My soul was made. 
To respond. 

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I will respond. 
I know you want calls. 

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You deserve every single. 
To be free to be. 

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Come on. 
I know you've all calls. 

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You deserve every single one. 
Why I always lose. 

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To be amazing. 
I know you've all 1,000 it 

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all the names of Jesus, we sing 
the right arm. 

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Next song, We intro last week's 
called make room as I was 

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thinking about it this week, the
perfect story happened. 

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My youngest Hattie was up in bed
and she hollered at me mama, can

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you come up to bed with me? 
Ran up the stairs said, sure 

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baby. 
But mommy's not going to fit 

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your bed with you. 
So she said, mom Aus couch so 

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she's food stove and she made 
room for me to get in. 

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I crawled riding and she laid 
her head down in the tears 

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stopped, and she took a breath. 
She had his children. 

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You just reminded me. 
Just a scooch over a little bit.

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Make some room for a we can 
experience that joy in that 

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fullness to take breath even if 
just for me. 

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So we're going to do that 
together. 

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Today, I'm going to scoot over a
little bit. 

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We're just going to make 
this is my surrender. 

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This is my surrender. 
Here is where I live. 

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This is my servant 
You surround me a song deliver. 

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From my enemies. 
I know. 

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You. 
Let's sing it out one more time.

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Come on church. 
We are no longer slaves, who is 

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thankful for that? 
Truth today that we are no 

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longer slaves. 
I believe somebody in this room 

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today needs to hear or be 
reminded that there is a God who

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loves you, a God, who was 
pursuing, you a God, who is 

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fearlessly, wanting the The best
for you this year in 2023. 

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Do you guys believe that church?
Yeah. 

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Well, if you are joining us here
today, whether you're here in 

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person, whether you were online,
we are so pumped that you 

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decided to spend your Sunday 
here with us at real life 

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church. 
And we want to say a special 

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hello to those of you guys that 
are joining us online. 

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Whether the snow kept you away, 
whether you were feeling a 

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little cozy to come here on 
Sunday morning. 

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We are just so glad that you're 
here. 

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Would you guys give them a warm?
Welcome Church online. 

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Yeah and if you are new with us 
here in person we're glad you're

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Here, thanks for coming. 
Thanks for saying, yes to 

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spending your Sunday with us 
here at real life church. 

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And there are a couple ways you 
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We just want to thank you for 
choosing to come and spend some 

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time with us. 
There's a QR code that's on the 

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fat on the back of the seat. 
That's right. 

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In front of you, can scan that 
and get connect with us. 

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You can text RL new to 97,000. 
Also we have a special gift for 

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you. 
Just to say, thanks, you can 

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stop by our. 
We have a new here, Booth out in

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the hug, you can stop by there 
and grab a gift. 

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That's just from us. 
You just to say, thanks for 

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spending your morning with us. 
If you don't know anything about

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us, we are a church that is on 
Mission. 

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And when I say on Mission, I 
mean everything that we did here

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this morning with on purpose 
with a purpose and that was to 

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reach people in our city outside
of the walls of this church for 

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Jesus, everything that we do, 
every chair that is set up 

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everything out in our Hub, 
everything in our children's 

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ministry, even Beyond at our 
Hope Center it because we have a

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mission to see people who are 
far from. 

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God, really discover that real 
life and purpose in Jesus. 

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And you may be here today, If 
your new, as a result of 

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somebody who was on Mission, 
maybe they decided to invite you

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to take a step of Faith, may be 
to create a new habit, this year

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and invite somebody new to 
church. 

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And if you guys are like me were
really working on these New 

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Year's resolutions, aren't we? 
We're trying to try and figure 

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out all these things that we can
do this year to be the best 

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version of ourselves. 
And sometimes we go way too big.

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If you want to do all of these 
things and conquer, all these 

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things in the year of Sue 2023. 
But sometimes it starts with 

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small habits and such as just 
deciding to say yes to those 

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small things. 
Like inviting someone to church 

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because those small things, the 
small choices that we make. 

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Ultimately make a big impact on 
the person that we're becoming 

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the person that God really wants
us to become. 

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And as we continue in this 
series, our breakout year, your 

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breakout year, I want to invite 
you guys to welcome Pastor 

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Shawn, putria joining us on 
stage and to continue hearing 

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about all of this, that we can 
do this year in 2023. 

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Thanks Gary. 
Appreciate you guys should be 

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seated. 
Oh man, I just gotta know who's 

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feeling the power of God in 
their life this year so far. 

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Come on, jump telling you. 
I'll know just the power guys. 

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Place. 
Just been on our church, the 

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last few weeks and it has been 
awesome. 

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And I just want to believe that 
really, the heartbeat of the 

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serious is to put the power and 
presence of God in our life this

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year. 
And I let our faith take off. 

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Amen. 
Just derive everything we do. 

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And so, the whole point of the 
series your breakout year is 

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really the center lies on Jesus 
and let him drive everything you

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do and we launched a few weeks 
ago and man, Reigniting. 

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Our faith, like our personal 
passion for Jesus and just track

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down the story of Paul. 
And just a little bit, we can 

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cover in last week, man, just 
talking about cutting out the 

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negative voices that hold us 
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They keep us grounded. 
And we just drove into just, I 

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mean, an amazing story in the 
Bible, David and Goliath, right?

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And how just one man or woman of
God can show up to the 

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battlefield and everything 
changes. 

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Amen. 
Through the power of Jesus and 

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literally that the school of, of
Goliath, Has buried and Golgotha

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and that Jesus is cross was on a
place marked at the battle 

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belongs to God already. 
Amen. 

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And so today, we get to continue
really in that same vein and 

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really kind of a little 
different angle. 

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And we talked about what is be 
marked by prayer, really 

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tapping, the fuel of the 
presence and power of God, 

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you've talked about your 
condition and finding your 

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passion, your call through Paul.
We talked about taking off and 

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really cutting out those voices 
to hold you back. 

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But, today, we're going to talk 
about sustained flight, amen. 

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There's the power and presence 
of God, the fuel of God and 

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really Person marked by prayer. 
So today's message called fuel 

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tapping into the power presence 
of God. 

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I can't think of a really a 
better Sunday to talk about the 

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power of prayer because there's 
something special today that is 

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a reminder of prayer across our 
nation 20 days ago, 13 million 

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people gathered around to watch 
what they thought would be a 

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Monday night football game. 
The epic battle, right? 

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The Buffalo Bills vs. 
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And what they didn't know is 
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there were tuning in, they would
be probably participating in one

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of the most unscripted. 
With prayer meetings in history.

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The reality is set in is on a 
few watch the game. 

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You've all heard about this 
already but Demar, Demar 

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Homeland as he is, he's 
collapsed on the field became 

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very apparent. 
Pretty quickly. 

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This was real serious. 
And something significant 

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happened as they were doing CPR 
and they were shocking, his 

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heart back into life, something 
that is rarely seen. 

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So that's hidden behind through 
the veil of policies, and 

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Regulation, and really pushed 
behind the scenes, you saw 

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coaches and owners, and multi 
millionaires, and, and players, 

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and fans, and participants and 
refs. 

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Literally get on your knees and 
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a miracle and it happened. 
Amen. 

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It happened in front of the 
whole world to watch. 

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And it's just a reminder that no
matter how much money you have 

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that, it didn't need money that 
night, they didn't need a w or 

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Super Bowl ring. 
They need a miracle of God. 

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And for some of you guys, you 
were watching that game that 

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night and I was tuned in, and I 
was watching it. 

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And I grabbed my oldest son, I 
grabbed Jack. 

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And I told my city, I come here 
and I said, watch this, I said 

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this is so impressive. 
In it. 

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But what is happening on this 
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This means battling for life and
we get the opportunity, not the 

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only thing to do. 
But the greatest thing we can do

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is we can pray for him. 
And so me and my little boy, we 

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pray for tomorrow, Hamlin, but 
we also pray for something 

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different. 
We prayed that prayer would no 

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longer be behind the curtain. 
We prayed that prayer would be 

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no longer Last Resort, but a 
first response for our nation. 

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Like, we were praying for 
something bigger like the glory 

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of God to go out across the 
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because there are so many People
watching this and are afraid and

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they'll throw their own reality.
That the death is right there 

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and that God can really come 
back to the presence of him in 

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America. 
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And so it's interesting that 
night into that next morning how

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people did pray, it didn't 
matter what the regulations were

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demerit. 
The FCC said in a fell or even 

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ESPN that they broke the rules. 
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And they're crying out to God. 
And so to me for today, it is 

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not just Just a rematch today is
a reminder of the power of God. 

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Amen, through prayer. 
That's what I'm saying to watch 

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this game and so the reality is 
this. 

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So many of us, we believe in 
prayer, we may be believed 

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deeply in prayer. 
We may even go to church, we 

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might be on a team but we might 
even serve on a regular basis. 

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We might even be on staff but 
all we marked by prayer. 

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And for so many people, their 
prayers are hidden in fear of 

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what other people think. 
And you might relate to this. 

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This has been my experience that
people especially when they when

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they get into groups. 
Maybe it's at a huddle like this

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morning or if you're on our 
teams or maybe it's around your 

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family. 
It's like, is that Thanksgiving 

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meal or whatever? 
And somebody says, who's going 

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to pray, right? 
And for most people, this is 

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reality. 
They may be like Oh, I'm love 

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with Jesus and it's like they do
this thing. 

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Don't make eye contact and they 
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don't don't let him take me. 
I don't know what I'd say it. 

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I'm just a A fool. 
It's not gonna be good. 

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Don't do it. 
Lord, I never cussed again. 

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Come on somebody, I'll never 
Speed. 

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Come on, I'll clean the dishes. 
So, I mean, I'm gonna do it. 

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I'm put the seat up and down 
every time. 

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Lord, just don't let me pray and
in start praying, right? 

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Don't pick me for love of God. 
No, pick me, right? 

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There's Lily. 
Crying out to God. 

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It's interesting because for so 
many people, they're praying not

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to pray instead of praying. 
It's true, isn't it? 

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It's so true. 
So many people are so worried 

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about the power and presence of 
God through prayer. 

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But I just want to say, how many
of us would be have the courage 

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to be marked by boldness of 
prayer, really breaking through 

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over fear and put her faith. 
We just sang a song. 

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I'm no longer a slave of fear, 
come on somebody, but I'm a 

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child of God, and what a perfect
fitting song for the message 

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today. 
I know a bakery, relate to the 

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story, being afraid to pray and 
really, not will be picked to be

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in prayer and be like, I can 
relate to that story of being 

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like, Oh man, don't pick me. 
I mean, we've all been there, 

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right? 
I mean, when you first started a

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Christian and you're like, oh 
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really going to speak to you 
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prayer is on the back seat. 
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into the front seat next to you,
I'll believe this. 

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If Satan can't defeat you, which
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If you can't defeat you, he will
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woman of prayer. 
My fact, he says thanks into 

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your life that you need be. 
Be delivered from they. 

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Do you see yourself through? 
He'll say stuff you like this? 

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Well what will the people think 
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I don't know what to say. 
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about the words and it's more 
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Amen. 
Like Lily come before God Like 

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You Are God, I'm thankful for 
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choke on the words, who cares 
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Amen. 
But the reality is so many 

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people that mean, what if I mess
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I'm not qualified to pray, but 
you're qualified of the Cross to

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pray. 
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I'm just too. 
Easy. 

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Now, you may not say it that way
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right? 
I can't, I can't find time and 

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just so unregulated. 
I can't just now my heart. 

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I just it's too busy to pray. 
I love this one. 

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You see it all the time. 
I'll pray for you brother. 

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I'll pray for you brother, 
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And he's like will you are you 
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like I'll pray for your brother 
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months later be like you found 
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sideways and you don't know D 
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about it, right? 
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I just believe that our church 
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homes should be filled with 
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Amen. 
I mean, it spontaneous prayer. 

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I mean, of all places in the 
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be praying, amen? 
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like in a Huddle's like we're 
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bowled prayer before Jesus. 
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We gotta stand into it and lean 
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There's the reality if we're not
careful we can really Drift from

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God in really Literally be 
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This will do is I'm gonna zoom 
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that I believe is going to 
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fear and really be marked by 
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through a single person whose 
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going to go for Daniel in the 
Lion's Den kill somebody is 

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gonna be good and it's one of 
those stories that we probably 

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heard of or maybe known about, 
but I think going to get a 

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perspective and God's presence 
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You just beat us here today, I 
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put your hands up, like this is 
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In prayer. 
Now, I want you to take a moment

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in silence to invite God. 
To teach you how to pray to 

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remind, you not the words, but 
of the power of Prayer in your 

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life and to invite God to Mark, 
You by prayer that the end of 

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this message. 
And in this year, you look back 

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and say it was all because of 
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all the difference. 
So, I'm gonna give you guys a 

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little time to pray as if I God 
speak to you, 

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Father. 
Teach us how to pray today. 

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Get the even, if we don't the 
words, you know, we haven't 

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prayed before our lives. 
Got to be reminded of your power

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through prayer guy. 
The means happened to the source

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that the battle belongs to you, 
and that I can only make a 

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difference worth making through 
your power and strength. 

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And for those of us who are 
tired today or weary of going 

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through the battles of Life 
today. 

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I pray a special blessing on 
them the life, we founded and 

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really truly marked by your 
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Day. 
And I pray this in the church 

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said, amen. 
Amen. 

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We're going to jump into the 
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I'm going to do my best and it's
going to be it's there's a lot 

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in this story and I'm going to 
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Daniel and man, I, you cannot 
give this story enough. 

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There's just so much that goes 
into it. 

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I'm gonna, I'm gonna skip a rock
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get there. 
And then be in, Daniel chapter 6

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for pretty much the rest of the 
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We're gonna pick up Daniel 
chapter 1 says this the king, 

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These guys start what we talkin 
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This is Nebuchadnezzar the king 
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He says, he talked with him and 
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hananiah, mishael and Azariah. 
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service and every manner of 
wisdom, understanding about 

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which the king had questioned 
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greater than all the magicians 
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Kingdom. 
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What is going on here? 
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Three years earlier, this 
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invaded into Jerusalem, it had 
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it hit it. 
Tore down the temple. 

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It had gone in and taken, 
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He was serving the really the 
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Israel. 
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they took these Jewish people 
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into in the nation or the really
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the servanthood into bondage and
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of the king's Palace. 
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hey, train some of these men 
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Kingdom and really in their 
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I want you to train them up and 
in three years, we'll see. 

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Some of those as advisors and 
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we've indoctrinate him and 
cultured them into the things of

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our kingdom. 
Now, that was a really fast skip

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over a lot of things right 
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So I would encourage you to read
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the story, but here's the 
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Here's the tension for Daniel, 
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We just mentioned the minute 
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Traditions into regulations into
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really removing their allegiance
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they want to do. 
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actually they gave them new 
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They merely took them captive, 
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chief official give them new 
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through identity. 
They're trying to remove their 

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allegiance, to God. 
They're trying to put fear into 

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them and to make them men and 
women not marked by prayer. 

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And so Daniel the game, the name
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What a downgrade. 
Come on somebody, right your 

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enemy belches are that's great 
and to hand now, you might His 

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name's they gave Shadrach the 
Michelle. 

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They gave me shocked into as a 
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you might be today's years old 
and you start to realize that 

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all those years been talking 
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Shadrach Meshach, and Abednego, 
they actually call them by the 

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names of their enemy. 
Gave them to remove the mark of 

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God on their life in that crazy 
to think about like these are 

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new names given to them as their
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Guys. 
Tell you today that they could 

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change their names, they could 
change your address and location

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their job description. 
They can kill. 

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He'll family members and their 
nation and destroy their Temple,

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and their course, but they could
not destroy, or take away their 

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allegiance and their faith, and 
their prayer life. 

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Amen. 
This is the story that they're 

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walking through that, they can 
hope through endurance and all 

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things. 
It's amazing. 

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They first thing they do is they
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food and drink the Kings Wine. 
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are like hey no thanks. 
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ourselves by having this food 
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became vegetarians and so 
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you can be strong enough and 
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Just watch and Dana and his 
buddies man, they grew strong 

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after the vegetables. 
Come on somebody, right and God 

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washed over them, became strong 
in the king, selected them, and 

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promoted them, and put them in 
prominent seats. 

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And then three, and then Daniel 
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Nebuchadnezzar's got an ego 
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right? 
And he builds its own statue of 

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himself and they said bow before
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Otherwise you get thrown in the 
fiery furnace, great story 

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right? 
It's amazing and so Shadrach 

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Meshach Abednego like man, we're
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was putting the fire and so he 
got thrown into the fire and 

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there was nothing to fire. 
Amen. 

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You guys know. 
The song, right? 

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They then were consumed in the 
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Like this is it bro? 
And then there's there's Jesus 

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like appears like a 
pre-incarnate Christ, they 

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called a christophany like Jesus
always been there, right? 

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But he came down is just in the 
fire with these other three. 

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And they're not being consumed 
by the Flames. 

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Then you move on to Daniel 
chapter 16 and jump into into 

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another dire situation. 
But every time Daniel, his 

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friends were always marked by 
prayer. 

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There was a Divine flow in 
Daniels life, their spiritual 

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protection. 
There's Power of God, there's 

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the fuel from the fuel source. 
God himself. 

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Amen. 
And so they may be thinking, 

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man, what am I lacking this 
year? 

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It's like, how was your prayer 
life? 

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Like do you have a prayer life? 
Are you marked by prayer? 

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It's like trying to vacuum your 
house up, plugging it in. 

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That's what it's like not to 
have the power of Prayer in your

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life. 
You just going to drop, you can 

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drive in circles and just, you 
know, just push around the dirt.

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Come on somebody right. 
Just make the Messier, just keep

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it on going, right? 
And here, we pick it up in 

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Daniel, chapter 6, and all of a 
sudden, there's a new kingdom 

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that comes in. 
It's no longer Nebuchadnezzar in

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Babylon. 
Now it is the Persian Empire and

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seriously great is taken down. 
The Babylonian Kingdom had 

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partnered up with all the other 
kings around him and took down 

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Nebuchadnezzar. 
And there is so much prophecy 

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about this. 
I mean, if you really struggle 

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with faith, you're skeptic I 
would encourage you to look at 

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this story, I mean hundreds of 
years in advance from Isaiah to 

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First Chronicles to Daniel. 
You have the story of this giant

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king and we're talk about 
Babylon. 

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I mean you're talking about what
would be the greatest King. 

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On Earth, the time like the 
Roman Empire, the Greek Empire 

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you back up and you get to the 
Persian Empire. 

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You go back to Babylon. 
You're talking like the Great's 

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of the great when I love about 
this is that all the history of 

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the world, it just lays right 
with the Bible, doesn't it? 

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It's so amazing. 
You can line up the Kings and 

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the Pharaohs and you put it 
right next to the Bible stories 

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and they line up absolutely 
perfectly and so often you 

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actually learn way more from the
bible stories than you do from 

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history and it's accurate. 
Amen. 

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And it's amazing to watch 
Bucyrus the great defeats Ilan. 

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And to even as a prophecy of how
King Nebuchadnezzar he is, he is

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feared. 
He is feared greatly, especially

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by his, by sons, he dies, they 
actually dig them up. 

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They stabbed him to kill him 
again. 

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They dragged him through the 
cities of Babylon to make sure 

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he's dead, because he was such a
violent tyrannical, leader, as 

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prophesied in the Bible. 
Absolutely crazy. 

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Well, you know, Daniel chapter 6
that I told her, there's so much

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that goes in this, but Daniel 
chapter 6. 

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We read the text verse 1. 
It says this, it, please, 

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Darius. 
Now, you got really serious. 

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Is this? 
This The Persian king of the 

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Chaldeans and so what you have 
is, you have Cyrus the Great who

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is the king of all Persia and 
then he is given Darius a 

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section of his kingdom. 
So he's a kind of a subordinate 

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King and he says this ad, please
diri, standpoint 120 say traps. 

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These are Governors are rulers 
to rule throughout the kingdom. 

449
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,100
It was three administrators over
them. 

450
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:44,500
One of whom was Daniel Janos 
promote up pollution pipeline. 

451
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,200
So the say traps are made 
accountable to them, so the king

452
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,300
may not suffer loss, so get the 
pictures, an org chart. 

453
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:54,100
Are you got Cyrus the Great? 
You've Got King Darius, you've 

454
00:37:54,100 --> 00:37:56,800
got Daniel and two other 
administrators and they probably

455
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,700
have somewhere around 40 say 
traps under each of them. 

456
00:37:59,700 --> 00:38:01,800
And this is how they establish 
it. 

457
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:05,700
And I love this verse verse 3, 
it says this now, Daniel, so 

458
00:38:05,700 --> 00:38:10,500
distinguished himself among the 
administrators and the say, 

459
00:38:10,500 --> 00:38:15,500
traps by his. 
Help me out by his, what, that 

460
00:38:15,500 --> 00:38:17,800
was a good one, right? 
It was a hard words that 

461
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:22,000
exceptional qualities. 
That the king plan to set him 

462
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,700
over the whole Kingdom man. 
I love this that he stood Out 

463
00:38:25,700 --> 00:38:28,800
Among the rest like he 
distinction self because he had 

464
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,800
strong character forged in the 
things of God. 

465
00:38:31,900 --> 00:38:34,800
You know, he was he was 
trustworthy from the Kings 

466
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:36,100
perspective. 
He's like, man, if I'm going to 

467
00:38:36,107 --> 00:38:39,300
hand this off to more somebody 
else, man this guy Daniel, he's 

468
00:38:39,300 --> 00:38:41,300
getting it done. 
And I think about us as 

469
00:38:41,300 --> 00:38:43,200
Christians. 
This is what every one of our 

470
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,400
bosses should say about us. 
Amen. 

471
00:38:46,300 --> 00:38:49,900
They should mean that guy's does
exceptional work. 

472
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,300
That guy goes above and beyond 
and here's the reality. 

473
00:38:53,300 --> 00:38:55,700
When you're working on a home 
you got to work on as if it's 

474
00:38:55,700 --> 00:38:56,900
Jesus as home. 
Amen. 

475
00:38:57,500 --> 00:38:59,700
And if you're working on 
finances you get to work on it 

476
00:38:59,700 --> 00:39:02,600
as if it's Jesus as finances. 
If you're mowing the grass, 

477
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:04,700
who's already Ramon, you're 
moaning. 

478
00:39:04,700 --> 00:39:08,600
Jesus is yard amen. 
We work on to God, not unto men 

479
00:39:08,900 --> 00:39:10,800
and so we just stand out above 
the crowd. 

480
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:14,900
It's ultimately, this character 
of Daniel, that really gets the 

481
00:39:14,900 --> 00:39:17,500
attention of the world and God 
will use to share his glory and 

482
00:39:17,500 --> 00:39:19,400
show his glory, not just to a 
nation. 

483
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:22,500
But to the IT world all because 
of the daily things. 

484
00:39:22,500 --> 00:39:24,500
He did every single day in his 
life. 

485
00:39:25,100 --> 00:39:27,700
Matter of fact, don't be 
surprised in the stories, you'll

486
00:39:27,700 --> 00:39:29,600
find an often in life. 
That is God. 

487
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,900
Promote you new enemies. 
Start to arise. 

488
00:39:33,300 --> 00:39:36,500
People get jealous because God's
hand is on you and there's favor

489
00:39:36,500 --> 00:39:38,500
on you and you kind of stood up 
the bones arrest. 

490
00:39:38,500 --> 00:39:40,000
And well, what is this guy doing
here? 

491
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:41,700
He's not really from Babylon. 
I can't believe in. 

492
00:39:41,700 --> 00:39:43,100
You can hear all these things, 
right? 

493
00:39:43,100 --> 00:39:45,200
And so when you're growing and 
you're exceptional, you get 

494
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:47,300
promoted. 
Just expect the fact, there's 

495
00:39:47,300 --> 00:39:49,200
some enemies. 
They're going to rise around 

496
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:49,800
you. 
Amen. 

497
00:39:50,900 --> 00:39:53,600
Y'all been there, right? 
Unless you have been promoted. 

498
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:55,200
Come on somebody, right. 
Just kidding. 

499
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:56,900
Daniel chapter 6 verse 4 says 
this. 

500
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,100
And at this, the administrators 
and the state traps, try to find

501
00:40:00,100 --> 00:40:03,400
grounds to charges against 
Daniel and his conduct of 

502
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:05,700
governmental Affairs. 
I mean, they're looking for a 

503
00:40:05,700 --> 00:40:08,200
reason, like, they don't like 
him personally, they're jealous 

504
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:11,000
or upset, is like, there's gotta
be a reason that we can get rid 

505
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:12,200
of Daniel. 
We're going to look through his 

506
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:13,300
books. 
We're going to check out his 

507
00:40:13,300 --> 00:40:15,200
life. 
We're going to put him out of 

508
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:16,300
the race. 
We're going to find something 

509
00:40:16,300 --> 00:40:19,400
against them and says this, they
could not find or they could not

510
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:22,900
find no. 
Eruption in him, this man was a 

511
00:40:22,900 --> 00:40:25,400
man of character, man. 
He crossed the t's, he died. 

512
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:29,200
The eyes, he looked, he was 
trustworthy and either corrupt 

513
00:40:29,700 --> 00:40:32,500
or negligent, may God help us to
be those kind of people. 

514
00:40:32,500 --> 00:40:34,600
Amen. 
I'm you sift through the stuff 

515
00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:36,000
and it's like, man. 
I'm trying to shoot some arrows,

516
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,000
and then I can't find a weak 
point in his armor. 

517
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,800
This guy is just got it figured 
out how he is, just subject to 

518
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:43,600
the things of God. 
And finally has been said, we 

519
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:47,700
will never find any basis for 
charges against this man. 

520
00:40:47,700 --> 00:40:51,100
Daniel, like, if we're going to 
win, we got to find a Front 

521
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,700
approach said this unless he has
something to do with the law of 

522
00:40:54,700 --> 00:40:57,800
God, there's got to be some way 
we can trap Daniel, like we're 

523
00:40:57,800 --> 00:40:59,700
not going to find his character.
So we're going to go out to him 

524
00:40:59,700 --> 00:41:01,600
personally sound familiar, 
right? 

525
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,000
This happens all the time, we're
going to, we're going to take 

526
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,600
him down a different level at 
this point. 

527
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:10,100
It really becomes the beginning 
of the end for these accusers. 

528
00:41:10,300 --> 00:41:12,400
Because at this point, they 
shifted from trying to find real

529
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:16,400
things to really battling, God 
himself agreed to make this 

530
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:20,300
person about faith and it just 
began to war against God and 

531
00:41:20,300 --> 00:41:21,900
faith. 
He says this in verse 6, it says

532
00:41:21,900 --> 00:41:26,000
these administrators. 
These say traps went as a group 

533
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,500
to the king now. 
Yes, I think about this. 

534
00:41:28,700 --> 00:41:30,100
There's only three 
administrators. 

535
00:41:30,100 --> 00:41:32,100
Right? 
So the administrators. 

536
00:41:32,100 --> 00:41:34,800
So the two other administrators 
right there, the Cahoots. 

537
00:41:35,100 --> 00:41:36,700
They realize like we don't like 
this demo guy. 

538
00:41:36,700 --> 00:41:39,200
He's taking our promotion. 
This isn't fair. 

539
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:41,300
They're crying behind the scenes
are doing all the things that 

540
00:41:41,300 --> 00:41:43,800
the small people do, right? 
And they gather up the say traps

541
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:46,600
around them and they go as a 
group to the king. 

542
00:41:46,700 --> 00:41:49,400
Can I just tell you today? 
That even if the whole world is 

543
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,000
against you? 
Amen. 

544
00:41:51,700 --> 00:41:55,100
Even if even if every rallies 
against you, even if the only 

545
00:41:55,100 --> 00:41:59,700
person standing that this battle
already belongs to God. 

546
00:41:59,900 --> 00:42:03,200
Amen. 
And not to be afraid of going 

547
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:07,200
against the grain. 
Even if a nation stands against 

548
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:11,000
you, if a group of people or 
friends or your bosses, or your 

549
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:15,200
co-workers, or your Associates, 
that the battle belongs to God 

550
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:17,500
and he will win. 
Amen. 

551
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:20,900
Goes on, the save my king Darius
who lives forever. 

552
00:42:20,900 --> 00:42:22,900
This group went to them and 
they're just, you know, patting 

553
00:42:22,900 --> 00:42:24,900
his ego. 
Oh, the King live forever, you 

554
00:42:24,900 --> 00:42:27,200
can hear this like, wow, this is
gonna be great cheesy movie, 

555
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:28,800
right? 
And the role administrators 

556
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,200
these perfect, another name for 
different rulers and the 

557
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:34,300
government, they say traps 
advisors Governor's we have all 

558
00:42:34,300 --> 00:42:37,000
agreed it. 
Can I just tell you as a just 

559
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:39,400
maybe leadership principle is 
just just food for thought. 

560
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,300
But if you're in leadership and 
a group of people below, you 

561
00:42:42,300 --> 00:42:44,100
come together and they all agree
on something. 

562
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:48,500
There is 100% Personal Agenda. 
Come on somebody like Paul 

563
00:42:48,500 --> 00:42:51,100
talked about it without you 
because you're a very smart and 

564
00:42:51,107 --> 00:42:53,300
we all agreed, this should 
happen in the king. 

565
00:42:53,300 --> 00:42:55,500
He just doesn't have the 
wherewithal, or the maturity or 

566
00:42:55,500 --> 00:42:57,700
whatever to understand, like 
he's going to get set up. 

567
00:42:57,900 --> 00:43:01,100
And so the king should issued 
you create and enforce a decree 

568
00:43:01,100 --> 00:43:04,300
that anyone who prays to any God
or human being during the next 

569
00:43:04,300 --> 00:43:08,400
30 days except you your majesty.
You know just patted his ego 

570
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,600
stroking, his ego and they 
should be thrown into what 

571
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,400
helped me out into the And the 
lions den. 

572
00:43:14,700 --> 00:43:16,500
I mean, if they're going to 
worship any other God or 

573
00:43:16,500 --> 00:43:20,500
anything or any other person 
besides you, it's be executed 

574
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:23,900
just just stroke that he go. 
Now your majesty Majesty issued 

575
00:43:23,900 --> 00:43:26,800
a decree of put in writing so it
cannot be altered. 

576
00:43:26,900 --> 00:43:29,500
And of course the law of the 
medes and Persians which cannot 

577
00:43:29,500 --> 00:43:31,400
be repealed. 
And so, King Darius, put the 

578
00:43:31,408 --> 00:43:36,300
decree in writing this trap is 
now laid that King took it Hook 

579
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,000
Line & Sinker. 
This is incredible about the 

580
00:43:39,008 --> 00:43:40,500
story. 
Daniel, this is what stuck out 

581
00:43:40,500 --> 00:43:42,900
to me. 
What stuck out to me is that all

582
00:43:42,900 --> 00:43:46,200
the They could pick about Daniel
if everything in their life that

583
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:48,600
they can say, we're going to 
come after that Daniels prayer 

584
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:53,500
life was so consistent that it 
stood out so much, that Dana was

585
00:43:53,500 --> 00:43:57,900
marked by God so much. 
They picked to attack his prayer

586
00:43:57,900 --> 00:44:00,700
life. 
There was a grain in his DNA. 

587
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,100
Like Dana was the kind of guy he
got around and he just got off 

588
00:44:03,100 --> 00:44:05,700
the phone with Jesus. 
Come on somebody like he did, he

589
00:44:05,700 --> 00:44:08,800
just walked with God. 
He continually walked with God 

590
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:13,100
and it's just amazing to me that
they would pick prayer. 

591
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:15,700
Whereas a thing attacked Daniel,
that that will be the thing that

592
00:44:15,700 --> 00:44:18,000
would Mark him out there. 
What stands out about doing old 

593
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:21,500
man, is a man of prayer, we got 
to take down his prayer life 

594
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:23,400
may, God help us to be those 
kind of people. 

595
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:25,700
Amen. 
Like if our accusers were 

596
00:44:25,700 --> 00:44:28,300
looking for the obvious place to
shoot an arrow or still put a 

597
00:44:28,308 --> 00:44:31,000
knife in our back. 
It would be our prayer life that

598
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,100
that would be incredible. 
I mean how humbling. 

599
00:44:33,100 --> 00:44:34,900
Thank you. 
I mean Daniel, Pauly was tickled

600
00:44:34,900 --> 00:44:38,200
to death, you know me, God help 
us to be the kind of people that

601
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:40,800
are above board on character. 
Like, if somebody were look 

602
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:42,300
through our books, come on 
somebody. 

603
00:44:42,500 --> 00:44:44,600
If somebody was sick, You are 
finances, man. 

604
00:44:44,700 --> 00:44:47,300
Squeaky clean clean. 
If there to talk to her 

605
00:44:47,300 --> 00:44:49,800
Associates or coworkers or a 
boss, has this. 

606
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:52,200
Like I can't find anything about
him but you know what? 

607
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:57,500
Got you praise that you praise. 
We're going to trap them somehow

608
00:44:57,500 --> 00:45:00,400
in his prayer life. 
Well, this is about to get real 

609
00:45:00,500 --> 00:45:02,400
verse 10. 
Now, Daniel learned that the 

610
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:05,900
cream and published like he knew
full well like he heard through 

611
00:45:05,900 --> 00:45:08,600
the grapevine as you know, the 
find out and often leadership, 

612
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:10,000
right? 
He's one of the three. 

613
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:11,500
His two buddies didn't tell him 
I was going on. 

614
00:45:11,500 --> 00:45:13,000
He found out somewhere. 
He heard about it. 

615
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:14,200
It. 
And as soon as you heard about, 

616
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:17,200
he knew that, if he were to 
pray, he'll be executed. 

617
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,100
That's the first thing that 
stuck out to him. 

618
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:20,500
Obviously, it's like, I'm going 
to a lion's den. 

619
00:45:20,500 --> 00:45:22,900
He knew very well that was. 
And so, the first thing he does,

620
00:45:22,900 --> 00:45:26,000
I love this. 
He went home to his upstairs 

621
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:30,500
room, were the windows opened 
toward Jerusalem. 

622
00:45:30,500 --> 00:45:33,200
Come on somebody and three times
a day. 

623
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:36,400
He got down on his knees and 
what? 

624
00:45:37,500 --> 00:45:39,800
And prayed, he didn't give a 
rip. 

625
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:43,400
Come on somebody, he didn't care
that. 

626
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:46,200
This decree of been issued. 
It didn't matter. 

627
00:45:46,500 --> 00:45:48,000
Like, he literally got on his 
knees. 

628
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:49,300
It's amazing. 
Get the picture. 

629
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:50,900
Here's the window. 
You guys are like at the window 

630
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,100
and here's Danny was like, oh 
the decrees issued that I'm 

631
00:45:53,100 --> 00:45:55,200
going to be killed. 
Okay, I'll take care of this. 

632
00:45:55,500 --> 00:45:56,900
Okay. 
Well actually kill the window 

633
00:45:56,900 --> 00:45:59,300
display in the window. 
All right guys, hey, if you're 

634
00:45:59,300 --> 00:46:02,800
going to stab me through right 
here and it gets on his knees 

635
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:07,000
and he starts praying. 
As he always says to God and 

636
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:10,300
humble humility. 
Now the fact nothing changed 

637
00:46:10,300 --> 00:46:13,300
about Daniel that day except for
his prayer requests. 

638
00:46:13,300 --> 00:46:15,700
Come on somebody. 
That's the only thing that 

639
00:46:15,700 --> 00:46:17,100
changed. 
They thought they're going to 

640
00:46:17,100 --> 00:46:19,300
trap it, that know they're 
coming after a living God. 

641
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,900
I mean, Dana was really not too 
concerned about his own life or 

642
00:46:22,900 --> 00:46:25,600
what was going to happen to him.
He prayed giving thanks to God 

643
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:28,800
just as he's done before he was 
so consistent. 

644
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:30,800
He goes, well, you know where to
find me. 

645
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:34,500
I've been doing this for a long 
time, so you come about 10:00, 

646
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:37,300
Or 2:00 or six, but whatever 
times it is just look for me. 

647
00:46:37,300 --> 00:46:39,200
I'll be that guy on my knees so 
you can stab you in the back, 

648
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:40,600
I'll be ready for it. 
I'll be praying. 

649
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:42,700
I mean, that's what courage. 
Amen. 

650
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,700
I mean, what boldness of faith? 
I mean, We Gather in a circle 

651
00:46:46,700 --> 00:46:51,300
sometimes and pray and people 
like you can't pray right now. 

652
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:55,600
What are you nervous about? 
You know, there's a sphere of 

653
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:57,400
like oh we're going to people 
think of me, who cares if you 

654
00:46:57,408 --> 00:46:58,400
think of you. 
Amen. 

655
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:01,600
I mean here's the, here's the 
reality, you can either bow 

656
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:06,200
before God and stand against 
people or you can bow before 

657
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:10,100
people and stand against God, 
but make no mistake about it. 

658
00:47:10,100 --> 00:47:12,500
There was absolutely no third 
option in your life. 

659
00:47:12,900 --> 00:47:15,100
So when the words come down your
mind that a lot of want to 

660
00:47:15,100 --> 00:47:17,300
offend somebody. 
Well, I got some news for you. 

661
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:20,500
It's going to offend somebody It
is going to offend somebody, 

662
00:47:20,900 --> 00:47:22,600
he's got to pick which side of 
the fence, you're going to be on

663
00:47:22,900 --> 00:47:26,500
because as for Daniel and his 
side, he actually was promoted 

664
00:47:26,500 --> 00:47:29,000
through this whole piece. 
I'ma give you a spoiler, he 

665
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,200
didn't die. 
Come on somebody, and he was 

666
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:34,000
actually promoted in the name of
the glory Jesus went out. 

667
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:39,400
Because one man, one man had the
courage to go against the grain 

668
00:47:39,500 --> 00:47:42,100
and to stand up to people. 
That's why I saw my night 

669
00:47:42,100 --> 00:47:45,700
football, come on somebody that 
there's like this Awakening that

670
00:47:45,700 --> 00:47:47,500
could potentially happen on our 
country. 

671
00:47:47,500 --> 00:47:49,700
So for Daniel, he didn't show 
The windows. 

672
00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:51,500
Come on somebody. 
He didn't relegate to a 

673
00:47:51,500 --> 00:47:53,900
compromise. 
He didn't find a new room. 

674
00:47:53,900 --> 00:47:55,400
I'm sure it plenty of places in 
that house. 

675
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:56,900
He's a high administrator, 
right? 

676
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,200
He didn't just you pray. 
Once a day, he didn't limit his 

677
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:02,200
prayer, he didn't prayer in 
silence. 

678
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:04,300
He prayed three times a day at 
the windows open. 

679
00:48:04,300 --> 00:48:06,500
Nothing changed for him down on 
his knees, giving. 

680
00:48:06,500 --> 00:48:09,900
Thanks to God the just as he's 
done before. 

681
00:48:10,900 --> 00:48:12,300
See if he's got any prayer 
requests. 

682
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:15,600
It's awesome. 
But don't be fooled into the 

683
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:17,200
third option. 
Here's the reality. 

684
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:20,900
Playing it safe. 
Never changed a nation. 

685
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:24,000
Playing it. 
Safe, won't change your family. 

686
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:26,300
Now, in fact, won't change your 
marriage. 

687
00:48:26,900 --> 00:48:29,300
It sure won't change this church
and it won't change this 

688
00:48:29,300 --> 00:48:31,800
community or the world playing 
it safe. 

689
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:35,100
It comes to your prayer life and
so this year, there's anything 

690
00:48:35,100 --> 00:48:37,100
that we're going to do. 
We're going to men and women 

691
00:48:37,100 --> 00:48:38,400
marked by prayer. 
Amen. 

692
00:48:39,300 --> 00:48:42,200
That's what we're going to do. 
It's kind of those things that's

693
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:45,700
like, is got in it, or is it 
built by human hands? 

694
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:48,600
If we want God in it, we're 
going to put God in it and we're

695
00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:50,900
going to say, okay Faith, we no 
longer a child to fear a men 

696
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:52,700
were a child. 
Of God. 

697
00:48:52,900 --> 00:48:55,300
And so if you don't like what 
I'm doing, that's okay because 

698
00:48:55,300 --> 00:48:57,400
God's got my back. 
You try to stab that but it's 

699
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:58,300
not going to work. 
Amen. 

700
00:48:59,500 --> 00:49:01,900
For Daniel, it didn't matter 
when Earthly King decree said 

701
00:49:01,900 --> 00:49:03,500
here's here's here's what the 
stake for Daniel because you 

702
00:49:03,500 --> 00:49:05,000
read these stories and it's 
like, oh really, what's a 

703
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:07,500
matter? 
And for Daniel, I mean it wasn't

704
00:49:07,500 --> 00:49:12,600
just as life but his career. 
I mean maybe it's a leadership 

705
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:14,900
principle, every news, getting 
promoted before he's promoted, 

706
00:49:14,900 --> 00:49:18,400
probably not a great idea. 
But the reality is, he knew he 

707
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:20,700
was going to be in charge of a 
large portion of the Kingdom, 

708
00:49:21,100 --> 00:49:23,100
but he's gonna be the CEO. 
Come on somebody. 

709
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:26,500
Well, all he had to do is just 
go to the king and apologize and

710
00:49:26,500 --> 00:49:27,700
say, all, I'm really sorry I 
did. 

711
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:29,200
I shouldn't be praying. 
You're right. 

712
00:49:29,300 --> 00:49:33,200
All relegate to the last resort 
and then I'll stop doing it. 

713
00:49:33,700 --> 00:49:37,400
But that's not what he did. 
He was bold in his faith. 

714
00:49:37,500 --> 00:49:40,200
I hope people can say about us. 
We walk so close to the god, 

715
00:49:40,300 --> 00:49:44,200
that even if an Earthly King 
you're seeing in, or the NFL, or

716
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:48,000
some policy said to stop it, 
maybe maybe it's a district, 

717
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:49,600
right? 
Or a company that we just say, 

718
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:51,100
hey, no thanks. 
I'm just going to continue what 

719
00:49:51,100 --> 00:49:52,900
I was doing before I got here. 
Amen. 

720
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:56,300
I'm just going to keep pushing 
into the things of God. 

721
00:49:56,700 --> 00:49:59,700
Verse 11 says this, these men 
went as a group Up and found 

722
00:49:59,700 --> 00:50:04,900
Daniel praying and what they 
find doing, asking God for help 

723
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:07,400
you. 
This is a secret weapon right 

724
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:09,600
here. 
Being Unleashed all about you 

725
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:11,600
but this is their sign. 
Come on somebody. 

726
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:14,500
You know they went up to that 
Tower and that room and the new 

727
00:50:14,500 --> 00:50:16,100
what time is going to pray and 
they probably saw him through 

728
00:50:16,100 --> 00:50:18,000
the window and said, yeah, go in
that have walkie-talkies. 

729
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:20,400
They're like tapping rocks or 
something, you know, Morse code 

730
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:21,700
or something. 
And you know, the dudes on the 

731
00:50:21,700 --> 00:50:26,100
door like well here in praying, 
he's praying about us. 

732
00:50:26,900 --> 00:50:32,100
Yes, he's asking God for That 
was their sign that it was time 

733
00:50:32,100 --> 00:50:36,100
to sit down and shut up. 
It really was and Daniel Neal 

734
00:50:36,100 --> 00:50:38,500
he's praying. 
And I wondered, like, I'm just 

735
00:50:38,500 --> 00:50:42,000
like thinking myself, you know, 
frame like what would I be 

736
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,900
praying, right? 
I just I got a theory on this 

737
00:50:44,900 --> 00:50:46,400
and this is something that God 
from the heart. 

738
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:48,100
I did it. 
Take your leave it, right. 

739
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:49,700
But I'm just thinking, Daniels 
like this. 

740
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:53,100
God just shut the mouths of my 
accusers that are going to come 

741
00:50:53,100 --> 00:50:55,100
through that door or shut the 
mouths. 

742
00:50:55,100 --> 00:50:57,700
Aligned Because I'm not going to
shut up. 

743
00:50:58,700 --> 00:51:02,300
Come on somebody, in the reality
is God answered both. 

744
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:07,000
He did, it's incredible. 
It didn't matter who was coming 

745
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:09,000
through the door or who's 
against him, he was going to 

746
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:14,300
pray that day. 
Daniel 6:12 says this. 

747
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:17,300
So they went to the king and 
spoke to him about the Royal 

748
00:51:17,300 --> 00:51:19,700
Decree. 
Did you not publish a decree 

749
00:51:19,700 --> 00:51:22,100
that during the next three days?
Anyone who prays to God or any 

750
00:51:22,100 --> 00:51:24,200
human beings have to you? 
Your majesty be throwing the 

751
00:51:24,207 --> 00:51:28,000
line soon. 
Mmm, well, the tree stairs and 

752
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:29,200
of course, for the wall, the 
medes and Persians. 

753
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:31,500
I cannot be replaced, I can't 
repeal it, read it down, he 

754
00:51:31,500 --> 00:51:33,600
wrote it down. 
They said the king. 

755
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:38,000
Hope for Daniel we found him 
like they cared. 

756
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:40,500
Right? 
Daniel who's the one of those 

757
00:51:40,500 --> 00:51:44,900
exiled from Judah who Who will 
those heathens to our country? 

758
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:48,100
He pays no attention to you your
majesty or the decree you put in

759
00:51:48,100 --> 00:51:49,800
the riding. 
He still praised three times a 

760
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:52,400
day. 
When the king heard this, he was

761
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:54,800
greatly distressed. 
He had known. 

762
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:57,900
He'd been trapped at that moment
came together for he'd been used

763
00:51:57,900 --> 00:52:01,200
as a tool in the box and he was 
determined to rescue Daniel make

764
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:03,500
every effort into until sundown 
to save him. 

765
00:52:03,500 --> 00:52:06,300
He loses like this is a 
trustworthy servant of mine. 

766
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:07,700
There's something I want to 
promote his and take the 

767
00:52:07,700 --> 00:52:10,500
kingdom. 
I've been trapped and he was he 

768
00:52:10,500 --> 00:52:13,800
was hurt by campaign and being 
In his life and he did 

769
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:15,500
everything he could in his own 
power. 

770
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:17,700
But like I said, he's not the 
king king, right? 

771
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:19,500
He's trapped in the law of the 
medes and Persians. 

772
00:52:19,500 --> 00:52:21,400
Put it in decree that it cannot 
be changed. 

773
00:52:21,700 --> 00:52:24,300
And so these men dark, they all 
day long. 

774
00:52:24,300 --> 00:52:27,000
They waited they came back as a 
groups that King again and said 

775
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:28,800
to him. 
He remember, Majesty, the Corn 

776
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:31,100
Law, and medes and Persians. 
No decree to the king issues can

777
00:52:31,100 --> 00:52:33,900
be changed. 
And so, the king gave the order 

778
00:52:34,100 --> 00:52:36,800
and they brought Daniel and 
threw him into a lion's den. 

779
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:40,600
And the King said to Daniel, I 
love this, may your God. 

780
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:45,000
Whom you helped me out what to 
do whom you, who you serve 

781
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:51,000
continually, don't miss that 
Daniels character of serving 

782
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:55,200
God, stood out to the king that 
that that's how that's how Faith

783
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:58,000
moves by the way because people 
are watching us not on the 

784
00:52:58,008 --> 00:52:59,500
mountain top, that's where they 
get jealous. 

785
00:52:59,500 --> 00:53:02,900
But in the valley and the hard 
things and they're gone, is it 

786
00:53:02,900 --> 00:53:04,900
really real? 
And they're watching him and 

787
00:53:04,900 --> 00:53:08,200
this king is being sturdy, seen 
David service God continually. 

788
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:11,900
It says may your God whom you 
serve continually Squ. 

789
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:15,800
So now not only Daniel is 
praying now you have a heathen 

790
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:19,100
God or Heathen King. 
I mean, praying for Daniel, come

791
00:53:19,100 --> 00:53:23,400
on somebody because of his 
character and a stone was bra 

792
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:24,900
and placed over the mouth of the
den. 

793
00:53:25,100 --> 00:53:28,700
And the King sealed it, with his
own Signet ring with the rings 

794
00:53:28,700 --> 00:53:31,600
of his Nobles. 
I love the So, Daniel situation 

795
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:34,900
might not be altered WHO news 
can take a little more than an 

796
00:53:34,900 --> 00:53:36,800
Earthly King. 
Seal not to change the 

797
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:37,800
situation. 
Amen. 

798
00:53:38,500 --> 00:53:40,700
I'm just telling you guys to 
encourage you today. 

799
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:44,900
Not let your situation, 
determine your faith, but let 

800
00:53:44,900 --> 00:53:48,700
your faith. 
Determine your situation like 

801
00:53:49,100 --> 00:53:51,700
urban place where you've been 
beat down and you feel like your

802
00:53:51,700 --> 00:53:55,200
fate is sealed and you kind of 
relegate and you kind of quit 

803
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:57,600
and you get afraid and you start
worrying. 

804
00:53:58,300 --> 00:54:00,000
You like, man, what's going to 
happen? 

805
00:54:00,300 --> 00:54:03,800
Kindness, tell you that the 
miracle is often marked and 

806
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:07,100
reserved for those who battle 
through prayer through the 

807
00:54:07,100 --> 00:54:08,400
valley. 
Amen. 

808
00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:12,100
Because you want the miracle but
But I mean, get it home myself 

809
00:54:12,100 --> 00:54:15,400
from this bumps into go here. 
The reality is this is that the 

810
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:18,700
god that rescued Daniel from The
Lions Den is the same God that 

811
00:54:18,700 --> 00:54:21,900
put Daniel in the Lion's Den 
come on somebody. 

812
00:54:22,500 --> 00:54:25,100
And so if you're walking through
a hard season and your faithful 

813
00:54:25,100 --> 00:54:29,000
to God what God is doing, he's 
preparing you in this season to 

814
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:31,300
show off the glory of God. 
Amen. 

815
00:54:31,900 --> 00:54:34,800
He's preparing you for a miracle
and it may not be something like

816
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:37,000
this, but he's gonna bring you 
through it. 

817
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,100
And you're going to go, it's 
only because of Jesus, and 

818
00:54:39,100 --> 00:54:40,700
people around, you know, I can't
believe you made it through 

819
00:54:40,700 --> 00:54:41,900
that. 
How in the world that happened? 

820
00:54:41,900 --> 00:54:44,300
He's like, is only because of 
Jesus, and people will grow in 

821
00:54:44,300 --> 00:54:45,900
their faith because they saw 
your story. 

822
00:54:45,900 --> 00:54:50,100
Amen. 
But if you quit in doing good, 

823
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:53,700
if you weary and the hard 
season, if you're only the god 

824
00:54:53,700 --> 00:54:56,800
of the mountain top and like 
have an Instagram life with God,

825
00:54:56,900 --> 00:54:59,400
but you don't have to publish 
the hard things then you're not 

826
00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:02,200
going to make it through the 
valley on the side with Jesus, 

827
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:04,200
you're going to get bitter and 
you're going to fall into all 

828
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:06,100
these things. 
You'd be delivered from and you 

829
00:55:06,100 --> 00:55:08,600
start saying, well, I'm a victim
and I can't do it all these 

830
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:11,500
things we tell ourselves, but 
for Daniel, he said, hey Hey, I 

831
00:55:11,500 --> 00:55:13,500
am bold and faith. 
I trust God. 

832
00:55:13,500 --> 00:55:15,700
And sometimes the fear, I don't 
care who's gonna split the 

833
00:55:15,700 --> 00:55:17,700
Sakura. 
I'm gonna follow Jesus. 

834
00:55:17,700 --> 00:55:20,800
I'm like, my faith in God. 
Even though my fate is sealed, 

835
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:23,600
it's not really sealed. 
So then the king returns to the 

836
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:26,000
palace and spent the night 
without eating, and without any 

837
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:29,200
entertainment being brought to 
him and he could not sleep. 

838
00:55:29,300 --> 00:55:31,400
Now, I love this. 
Now, the king is like, praying 

839
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:34,500
and fasting for Daniel. 
Come all somebody right, I'll 

840
00:55:34,500 --> 00:55:36,200
know if you did, the Daniel 
faster, probably make it in 

841
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:39,900
here, but the reality is this, 
literally this man who doesn't 

842
00:55:39,900 --> 00:55:43,400
know anything about the God. 
Of all gods is praying and not 

843
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:47,300
eating and just focusing on his 
well-being and his health and 

844
00:55:47,300 --> 00:55:49,800
asking God to save him. 
This is what / in fact this is a

845
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:52,600
great model of prayer and 
fasting in the do diamond. 

846
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:54,200
Oh God. 
It's amazing. 

847
00:55:54,700 --> 00:55:56,900
And just because your fate is 
sealed, doesn't mean that God 

848
00:55:56,900 --> 00:55:59,900
isn't working or answering your 
prayers throughout. 

849
00:55:59,900 --> 00:56:03,700
Is this this wouldn't be the 
last time that a stone was moved

850
00:56:03,700 --> 00:56:06,500
in the place to hold back the 
power and the presence of God. 

851
00:56:06,500 --> 00:56:10,100
Amen. 
It just wouldn't be a just slide

852
00:56:10,100 --> 00:56:12,300
it over there, put a seal on it.
I was going to take more than a 

853
00:56:12,308 --> 00:56:13,200
stone. 
Amen. 

854
00:56:13,700 --> 00:56:17,500
And Jesus breaks through the 
Daniel was put in that Den. 

855
00:56:18,100 --> 00:56:20,900
Math fact, you think about 
Daniel situation that God of the

856
00:56:20,900 --> 00:56:24,000
mountain, top was also the god 
of the death sentence. 

857
00:56:25,100 --> 00:56:28,000
Like, literally, you talk about 
your faith being tested. 

858
00:56:28,300 --> 00:56:30,900
Like, we gotta get bigger Faith.
Amen. 

859
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:34,100
We gotta kind of people were 
like, all odds are stacked 

860
00:56:34,100 --> 00:56:36,700
against us, we're putting in the
chair, the lines. 

861
00:56:36,700 --> 00:56:40,500
Are you in loose? 
And were like, well, God's got 

862
00:56:40,500 --> 00:56:43,300
it, something's going to happen.
I'm either going to die today 

863
00:56:43,300 --> 00:56:45,600
and God gets the glory or 
knocking the dye and this 

864
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:47,600
miracle of God is going to point
the glory to all Humanity but 

865
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:49,500
either way I'm trusting God. 
Amen. 

866
00:56:49,900 --> 00:56:51,900
And we walk through the season 
alive to get so discouraged 

867
00:56:51,900 --> 00:56:54,200
because the hard things it's 
like dude that's the best time 

868
00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:55,100
to shine the light. 
Item. 

869
00:56:55,100 --> 00:56:59,800
In the light shines. 
Brightest in the darkness, the 

870
00:56:59,800 --> 00:57:02,300
darkness and your faith can't be
tested at. 

871
00:57:02,300 --> 00:57:04,200
Can't be trusted. 
And so you're in these hard 

872
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:07,200
Seasons that this tree is go. 
Okay, God, what are you teaching

873
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:08,500
me? 
Well, maybe just want to show 

874
00:57:08,500 --> 00:57:10,100
off a little bit. 
Like I'm gonna give you 

875
00:57:10,100 --> 00:57:12,100
something. 
You can't handle today, guys, 

876
00:57:12,100 --> 00:57:14,800
tell you this. 
That God is the god of the 

877
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:18,100
layoffs. 
God's the god of cancer. 

878
00:57:19,100 --> 00:57:21,600
God is over the dark days of 
divorce. 

879
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:25,000
He's over your tragic loss, he 
was over the one percent vote. 

880
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:27,600
I didn't get in to go to be a 
passion of my home church. 

881
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:29,200
Amen. 
Praise God. 

882
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:31,400
Hallelujah. 
The I thank God for that one 

883
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:33,600
percent every day of my life 
I'll be real. 

884
00:57:33,600 --> 00:57:35,500
And so we post this, I hope 
somebody sees it, they men. 

885
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:42,400
I'll stop. 
The god of Resurrection. 

886
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:44,800
Sunday is the god of Good 
Friday. 

887
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:47,500
Come on somebody. 
I'm going to Jesus being 

888
00:57:47,500 --> 00:57:48,800
crucified and killed another 
cross. 

889
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:53,200
They had no idea that they 
planted that on the mountain 

890
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:55,700
where they buried the head of 
Goliath and being and I don't 

891
00:57:55,700 --> 00:57:58,000
know, Dave's Rocky he just gave 
me another one today man, 

892
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:01,400
Genesis 3:15, he's got something
in the protoevangelium, right? 

893
00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:04,000
Like you know saying things 
going to bite your heel, bruise 

894
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:06,700
your heel and you're gonna crush
his head, right? 

895
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:09,500
And here you have the foot of 
the cross is driven down on the 

896
00:58:09,500 --> 00:58:12,400
hill of Golgotha. 
On the skull of Goliath crushing

897
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:15,500
the skull of Goliath. 
Come on somebody that this is 

898
00:58:15,500 --> 00:58:17,600
built on the power of God. 
The Battle Belongs to him and 

899
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:19,900
we're worried about the next 
president. 

900
00:58:19,900 --> 00:58:21,500
The finances are all the stuff 
around us. 

901
00:58:21,500 --> 00:58:23,000
It's like God's got this. 
Hallelujah. 

902
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:24,200
Amen. 
Praise God. 

903
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:26,200
Like, that's where we're at 
today. 

904
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:28,200
Like I don't care what's going 
on here because I know what's 

905
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:30,400
going on there. 
And I'm right on his way they 

906
00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:33,500
men on the words, taking me, but
I'm just gonna go with that. 

907
00:58:34,500 --> 00:58:37,500
But it's always darkest before 
Dawn and it, but check this out.

908
00:58:37,500 --> 00:58:41,400
Verse 19 at the first light of 
dawn, come on somebody, the 

909
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:45,100
first moment, light strikes over
the mountain top, the king got 

910
00:58:45,100 --> 00:58:49,200
up and hurried to the Lions Den.
We were he came near the den. 

911
00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:51,100
He called out to Daniel an 
English voice. 

912
00:58:51,100 --> 00:58:54,300
Daniel serve a living. 
God has your God. 

913
00:58:54,300 --> 00:58:58,300
Whom you serve continually. 
Has he been able to rescue from 

914
00:58:58,300 --> 00:59:04,300
the Lions 21? 
Daniel answered, come. 

915
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:08,400
Somebody he answered. 
I'm here baby. 

916
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:12,600
I'm alive, unreal. 
It, this is where the chooses 

917
00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:16,500
poop their pants, you know? 
I mean like, oh dang, I wish I 

918
00:59:16,500 --> 00:59:18,000
need the fastest. 
Don't get out of town. 

919
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:22,100
You know, I really go May the 
King live forever, my God sent 

920
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:25,000
Angels, they shut the mouths of 
lions who has so much fun down 

921
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:26,300
here. 
I'm going to place all these 

922
00:59:26,300 --> 00:59:28,500
kitties all night. 
It was amazing. 

923
00:59:28,700 --> 00:59:32,000
All my gosh, it was so cool. 
Come down and check it out. 

924
00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:35,300
Didn't hurt me because I was 
found that instance In his sight

925
00:59:35,300 --> 00:59:37,400
like I was in this world God 
like I was my character killed 

926
00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:40,100
me. 
Kept me alive nor I had ever 

927
00:59:40,100 --> 00:59:42,900
done anything wrong before your 
majesty on the King was 

928
00:59:42,900 --> 00:59:45,300
overjoyed. 
When he gave the orders to lift,

929
00:59:45,300 --> 00:59:48,500
Daniel out of the den, it would 
be looked after and then do 

930
00:59:48,500 --> 00:59:51,100
wounds found on him because he 
had what he had. 

931
00:59:51,900 --> 00:59:56,400
He had trusted God, he put his 
faith in God even as a lion 

932
00:59:56,400 --> 00:59:58,500
standing across from his. 
Okay. 

933
00:59:58,500 --> 01:00:00,600
God, I've been praying about 
this moment. 

934
01:00:00,700 --> 01:00:02,700
I pray to shut these mouse. 
Let's see what's going to 

935
01:00:02,707 --> 01:00:04,200
happen. 
If not come on board, a guy. 

936
01:00:04,400 --> 01:00:07,000
But if so even bigger glory to 
God, this is gonna be amazing. 

937
01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:08,700
And at this the king, he gets 
pulled. 

938
01:00:08,700 --> 01:00:10,700
All of a sudden, he was kind of 
weak at the knees. 

939
01:00:10,700 --> 01:00:12,900
He was, he knew his trap, he 
would stand up against his own 

940
01:00:12,900 --> 01:00:14,700
trap, but now he's like, you 
know, I don't care what the law 

941
01:00:14,700 --> 01:00:16,300
says. 
I'm gonna do what I gotta do, 

942
01:00:16,500 --> 01:00:18,700
and he stands up against people 
and he battles were things of 

943
01:00:18,700 --> 01:00:20,300
God. 
He said, the men had falsely 

944
01:00:20,300 --> 01:00:22,700
accused Daniel, hey, bring him 
here and they threw in the 

945
01:00:22,700 --> 01:00:25,100
Lion's Den along their wives. 
And the children before they 

946
01:00:25,100 --> 01:00:28,700
reach the floor, the den, the 
Lions overpowered them, and 

947
01:00:28,700 --> 01:00:31,900
crushed all their bones. 
Those lines were salivating all 

948
01:00:31,900 --> 01:00:33,500
night. 
Trying to hold Daniel may they 

949
01:00:33,500 --> 01:00:36,800
were hungry. 
Re come on somebody and he said,

950
01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:38,500
just throw them in. 
Dude, these guys are come 

951
01:00:38,500 --> 01:00:40,200
against me. 
This got to try to stab me in 

952
01:00:40,207 --> 01:00:41,400
the back. 
I'm not trying to get him there,

953
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:44,700
trying to count to be as well 
and God's silence the mouth 

954
01:00:44,700 --> 01:00:46,800
literally, of their accusers. 
Amen. 

955
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:49,300
I'm just telling this is the 
power of God. 

956
01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:51,100
So here's the mistake that would
have made. 

957
01:00:51,300 --> 01:00:53,900
This has been probably a fairly 
easy mistake at the always look.

958
01:00:53,900 --> 01:00:57,400
People are trying to gain power 
in the trying to be big. 

959
01:00:57,400 --> 01:00:59,700
What's the Bible say? 
The New Testament, the first 

960
01:00:59,700 --> 01:01:03,700
shall be last and Hoover's, 
great among you shall be. 

961
01:01:04,300 --> 01:01:07,600
Servant. 
A servant if you only get 

962
01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:10,200
promoted, you serve. 
But with these guys that they 

963
01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:13,800
are self-serving, it is all 
about them and they were calm, 

964
01:01:14,900 --> 01:01:16,700
Daniel, they would have called 
him Daniel. 

965
01:01:16,900 --> 01:01:18,800
There is a dangerous called a in
the Book of Daniel because 

966
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:23,000
written by Daniel, listen else 
wrote a column Balthazar, right?

967
01:01:23,400 --> 01:01:25,900
Let's just call him, Jeremy 
Shack, in Bendigo, they're 

968
01:01:25,900 --> 01:01:28,300
called him by his Babylonian 
name. 

969
01:01:28,700 --> 01:01:29,900
And so, these are, these are 
accusers. 

970
01:01:29,900 --> 01:01:33,100
These other administrators there
was a baltazar is gotta gotta 

971
01:01:33,100 --> 01:01:37,100
gotta get this guy. 
Filters are He's a heathen, 

972
01:01:37,500 --> 01:01:39,500
builds his arm and he's praying 
to other God. 

973
01:01:39,500 --> 01:01:41,900
Those are he's a problem. 
We got your belt has are what 

974
01:01:41,900 --> 01:01:46,800
they forgotten. 
They had forgotten his Hebrew 

975
01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:48,800
name. 
They erased it. 

976
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:52,300
They canceled culture that 
sucker come on somebody that 

977
01:01:52,300 --> 01:01:54,000
they produced a regulations on 
it. 

978
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:57,400
They say, oh, you can't do that.
That they diminished it and 

979
01:01:57,400 --> 01:02:01,600
erased it, and push it down 
regulated tonight. 

980
01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:04,600
An after thought, it was against
the law to mention this name. 

981
01:02:05,100 --> 01:02:07,600
They'd forgotten Daniels name, 
simply means this and it's 

982
01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:11,700
amazing. 
God is my judge. 

983
01:02:12,100 --> 01:02:16,200
Come on somebody. 
They I do not mean prayed to 

984
01:02:16,200 --> 01:02:19,600
Living God there was a God who 
is a God of Justice and he 

985
01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:23,100
wasn't gonna be in that Lion's 
Den for long because he wasn't 

986
01:02:23,100 --> 01:02:25,500
allowed some injustice to happen
upon Daniel. 

987
01:02:25,500 --> 01:02:28,000
The villain own that maybe the 
thought, maybe old, man, I 

988
01:02:28,008 --> 01:02:30,900
should have gone after this guy 
because God's team is all on 

989
01:02:30,900 --> 01:02:32,200
him. 
Visit me in a prayer, he 

990
01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:35,100
believes ultimate gods in 
control throughout is this? 

991
01:02:35,100 --> 01:02:37,500
They were they were trying to 
attack a man who wasn't afraid 

992
01:02:37,500 --> 01:02:39,300
to open his windows and pray. 
Amen. 

993
01:02:40,400 --> 01:02:43,700
Made all the difference for 
Daniel, there's a lot of ways. 

994
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:46,600
This could have gone down as 
thing about this direction of 

995
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:48,700
it. 
What did Daniel not do? 

996
01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:53,500
I'll tell you what they'll do 
you didn't do a lot of us have 

997
01:02:53,500 --> 01:02:58,500
done a lot of us do. 
He didn't go run to the next 

998
01:02:58,500 --> 01:03:01,400
person leadership and getting 
mad. 

999
01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:05,800
It caused an uproar drag you to 
Mutiny, he didn't tear down 

1000
01:03:05,800 --> 01:03:10,600
people's names, he didn't gather
an army, he didn't go cry to 

1001
01:03:10,600 --> 01:03:13,700
somebody. 
He didn't be a he was a victim. 

1002
01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:18,700
He didn't go out and say, poor 
me, this isn't fair, it just 

1003
01:03:18,700 --> 01:03:20,000
can't happen. 
I've worked so hard. 

1004
01:03:20,200 --> 01:03:23,300
I can't believe it. 
He didn't do all these things, 

1005
01:03:23,700 --> 01:03:27,300
there's so many of us so easily.
Do he just simply do, did what 

1006
01:03:27,300 --> 01:03:31,700
all this can do and he prayed 
amen. 

1007
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:36,000
And you think about the battles 
you're in who's the first person

1008
01:03:36,100 --> 01:03:37,500
that you pick up the phone and 
call? 

1009
01:03:38,600 --> 01:03:40,900
I'm telling you we got to put 
that speed dial on Jesus. 

1010
01:03:40,900 --> 01:03:42,900
Amen. 
Like you're walking through a 

1011
01:03:42,900 --> 01:03:44,900
battle. 
Do nobody else really needs to 

1012
01:03:44,900 --> 01:03:46,400
know? 
Now, I'm not saying you 

1013
01:03:46,400 --> 01:03:48,800
shouldn't connect him. 
Have people cheer, you on, and 

1014
01:03:48,900 --> 01:03:50,900
encourage you, but the First 
Column people. 

1015
01:03:50,900 --> 01:03:55,900
So, people feel like us so many 
times, there's not there's Lily 

1016
01:03:55,900 --> 01:03:57,300
and Leadership side. 
We can goes by that. 

1017
01:03:57,300 --> 01:04:01,500
You don't take a shot Come on 
and I just go like this. 

1018
01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:05,400
Hey guys. 
We're gonna hit me right there. 

1019
01:04:06,400 --> 01:04:07,900
It's be marked by prayer. 
Amen. 

1020
01:04:08,700 --> 01:04:09,900
Because you can cut somebody at 
the knees. 

1021
01:04:09,900 --> 01:04:12,400
You can stab in the back but the
reality is, the power of God is 

1022
01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:14,400
on you. 
There's nothing that's going to 

1023
01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:16,300
stop. 
God's will in your life, Matt 

1024
01:04:16,300 --> 01:04:18,800
Factor. 
Daniel, it was the safest place 

1025
01:04:19,100 --> 01:04:21,500
to be. 
If you think about where it 

1026
01:04:21,508 --> 01:04:23,400
could have gone. 
If he said O King. 

1027
01:04:23,400 --> 01:04:27,000
I'm so sorry. 
And he apologized and he cowered

1028
01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:29,300
out ladies. 
Do what killed him. 

1029
01:04:30,700 --> 01:04:33,700
What would have been if he 
didn't have the faith to stand 

1030
01:04:33,700 --> 01:04:36,400
against all his things? 
And the route is this, when they

1031
01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:40,100
came after Daniel and they tried
to attack his / life and his 

1032
01:04:40,100 --> 01:04:41,700
faith. 
They thought they're going to 

1033
01:04:41,700 --> 01:04:44,500
determine Daniels fate. 
But the reality is, they only 

1034
01:04:44,500 --> 01:04:48,000
determine their own and change 
their fate. 

1035
01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:50,700
In fact, I will say, though, we 
actually did kind of change 

1036
01:04:50,700 --> 01:04:55,200
Daniels Faith because Daniel 
actually got promoted, he 

1037
01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:58,400
prospered and the glory of God. 
This is so cool. 

1038
01:04:58,900 --> 01:05:03,300
It went out to all of the World 
all because this man stood his 

1039
01:05:03,300 --> 01:05:06,000
ground on his knees praying to a
living. 

1040
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:11,100
God verse 25 says this, then 
King Darius, he wrote to who 

1041
01:05:11,100 --> 01:05:15,800
helped me out all the nations. 
Do they have the ear of the guy 

1042
01:05:15,800 --> 01:05:18,800
that can put a pen to paper and 
write to every single country in

1043
01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:22,400
the world and the peoples of 
every language he put on every 

1044
01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:26,500
single language that the entire 
Earth all Earth this way. 

1045
01:05:26,500 --> 01:05:29,000
He says, I mean imagine have the
ear of somebody who could send a

1046
01:05:29,008 --> 01:05:31,600
letter to every single person. 
What in the world and this way 

1047
01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:33,800
he says, hey may you prosper 
greatly. 

1048
01:05:33,900 --> 01:05:35,900
I usually decree that every part
of my kingdom. 

1049
01:05:35,900 --> 01:05:40,000
People must fear and reverence 
the god of Daniel, because a 

1050
01:05:40,008 --> 01:05:43,700
miracle happened, a man of Faith
with bold Faith. 

1051
01:05:43,700 --> 01:05:45,600
Had courage to go through the 
hard season. 

1052
01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:48,700
I recognize, now that was only 
the Living God that protected 

1053
01:05:48,700 --> 01:05:50,600
him. 
It says this, I mean, this is my

1054
01:05:50,600 --> 01:05:52,700
Me Like Jesus wrote itself right
here. 

1055
01:05:52,900 --> 01:05:57,300
It says may be he for, he is the
Living God and he endures 

1056
01:05:57,400 --> 01:05:59,200
forever. 
His kingdom will not be 

1057
01:05:59,200 --> 01:06:01,400
destroyed his Dominion. 
I'll Never End. 

1058
01:06:01,400 --> 01:06:04,000
I'll look at this. 
He rescues and he saves he 

1059
01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:06,500
performs signs and wonders and 
Heavens on Earth. 

1060
01:06:06,500 --> 01:06:10,800
He has rescued Daniel from the 
power of the Lions. 

1061
01:06:11,100 --> 01:06:12,900
I mean what a testimony. 
Amen! 

1062
01:06:13,700 --> 01:06:15,600
This letter goes to the entire 
world. 

1063
01:06:16,500 --> 01:06:21,900
One man had the courage to stand
and so Daniel what to say, 

1064
01:06:21,900 --> 01:06:27,700
Daniel, Prospered during the 
reign of Darius and the reign of

1065
01:06:27,700 --> 01:06:34,600
Cyrus the Persian because Daniel
didn't Babble for people, he 

1066
01:06:34,600 --> 01:06:40,800
stood before God, the entire 
world heard of the glory of God 

1067
01:06:41,700 --> 01:06:44,300
guys. 
Encourage you today to be the 

1068
01:06:44,300 --> 01:06:48,200
one for your marriage. 
Amen. 

1069
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:51,000
Some of y'all like it's her 
fault. 

1070
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:55,700
It's his fault, dude. 
You follow God, Amen, take 

1071
01:06:55,700 --> 01:06:57,200
responsibility. 
Take time to follow God with 

1072
01:06:57,200 --> 01:06:59,300
this. 
I'm gonna love her because God 

1073
01:06:59,300 --> 01:07:01,900
loves me and I love him because 
God loves me. 

1074
01:07:02,500 --> 01:07:04,500
I'm not quitting on. 
This is not dead yet. 

1075
01:07:04,500 --> 01:07:06,800
Amen. 
God has his here. 

1076
01:07:07,700 --> 01:07:09,100
Can you be the one for your 
family? 

1077
01:07:09,900 --> 01:07:11,400
The one that point your family? 
Jesus. 

1078
01:07:11,700 --> 01:07:14,900
He could, you be the one for our
church? 

1079
01:07:15,900 --> 01:07:17,400
He'd be the one don't assume. 
Some of us is doing it. 

1080
01:07:17,400 --> 01:07:20,700
Come on somebody. 
Just be the one, be the one for 

1081
01:07:20,700 --> 01:07:22,800
our community, be the one for 
our nation. 

1082
01:07:22,900 --> 01:07:25,500
Be that one guy on ESPN that 
stood up and prayed on live 

1083
01:07:25,500 --> 01:07:28,400
television, come on, somebody 
boldness. 

1084
01:07:28,900 --> 01:07:35,800
All he got to remit, I'm sure 
right here at their be the ones 

1085
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:38,100
and maybe might be the one for 
the world. 

1086
01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:43,200
Be the one for the world because
you just deal the small stuff. 

1087
01:07:43,200 --> 01:07:46,300
He had no idea that a lion said 
we're leads to the whole world 

1088
01:07:46,300 --> 01:07:48,700
knowing the glory and the power 
of God. 

1089
01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:51,600
And here's how it changed 
people's hearts are so amazing. 

1090
01:07:51,800 --> 01:07:54,400
The heart of Darius was 
obviously so changed that he's 

1091
01:07:54,400 --> 01:07:57,100
put his faith in this. 
God, he's writing a letter to 

1092
01:07:57,100 --> 01:07:59,000
the whole world. 
He's coming out man. 

1093
01:07:59,100 --> 01:08:01,700
You know, he's like baptism. 
Like I I follow this. 

1094
01:08:01,700 --> 01:08:03,800
God man, we had these Gods, 
those gods are real. 

1095
01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:07,500
This is the god that letter 
officer made to his boss, the 

1096
01:08:07,500 --> 01:08:11,200
boss would have the ear of him. 
Cyrus the Great, the biggest 

1097
01:08:11,200 --> 01:08:14,300
leader of the known, time of 
Persia all the nations will be 

1098
01:08:14,300 --> 01:08:16,200
than pretty much subjected this 
man he ruled. 

1099
01:08:16,200 --> 01:08:20,100
All right, and the Cuban soften 
Ins by the story. 

1100
01:08:20,100 --> 01:08:22,600
For the things of God, is 
something very special happens. 

1101
01:08:22,600 --> 01:08:25,000
First Irish degree, he does 
something. 

1102
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:27,200
Remember, I told you these 
Jewish people in captivity, 

1103
01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:29,300
their March out of their homes 
and families were slaughtered, 

1104
01:08:29,300 --> 01:08:32,300
and he put in a judgment, you 
read all costs Old Testament and

1105
01:08:32,300 --> 01:08:35,899
they marched off to Babylon and 
Persia comes in all of a sudden,

1106
01:08:35,899 --> 01:08:39,000
God starts moving because people
like gain on Bold faith. 

1107
01:08:39,800 --> 01:08:44,000
It says, in verse 1 of it as r 
1, this is the first year of 

1108
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:47,899
Cyrus King of Persia. 
This was filled the message of 

1109
01:08:47,899 --> 01:08:52,700
God preached by Thank God, 
prodded Cyrus, King of Persia, 

1110
01:08:52,800 --> 01:08:55,700
to make an official announcement
throughout his kingdom and wrote

1111
01:08:55,700 --> 01:08:58,000
out as follows. 
And I just believe this. 

1112
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:00,899
I believe that the story of 
Daniel is a lion's den Maybin 

1113
01:09:00,899 --> 01:09:03,700
that thing that God used to 
prod, Cyrus the Great as he 

1114
01:09:03,700 --> 01:09:06,100
recognized that. 
He did the Living God with his 

1115
01:09:06,100 --> 01:09:08,800
side of. 
He won his kingdom terrain and 

1116
01:09:08,800 --> 01:09:12,399
so he issues his decree. 
He says, from Cyrus King of 

1117
01:09:12,399 --> 01:09:16,000
Persia a proclamation, God, the 
god of Heavens has given me all 

1118
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:18,399
the kingdoms of the earth. 
He has also signed me to build a

1119
01:09:18,407 --> 01:09:20,399
temple. 
Of worship that we destroyed 

1120
01:09:20,399 --> 01:09:22,399
will debit can is restored in 
Jerusalem and we're going to 

1121
01:09:22,407 --> 01:09:25,899
rebuild it in Judah who among 
you belongs to these people. 

1122
01:09:25,899 --> 01:09:30,100
These are all the Jewish people 
go God be with you and go to 

1123
01:09:30,100 --> 01:09:34,000
Jerusalem, which is your Judea 
or Judah and build the temple of

1124
01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:36,500
God. 
The god of Israel Jerusalem's. 

1125
01:09:36,500 --> 01:09:39,000
God, he releases the people of 
God. 

1126
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:42,399
Amen. 
He lets the captives free one 

1127
01:09:42,399 --> 01:09:43,100
man's. 
Bold Faith. 

1128
01:09:43,100 --> 01:09:46,200
Played a part. 
Just a small part of this story 

1129
01:09:46,399 --> 01:09:48,700
and those who stayed behind 
whoever they happen to live. 

1130
01:09:48,700 --> 01:09:51,000
Where Live who will hear a 
support them? 

1131
01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:53,600
A silver gold and tools of pack 
animals along with fool 

1132
01:09:53,600 --> 01:09:55,300
offerings for the temple of God.
In Jerusalem. 

1133
01:09:55,400 --> 01:09:58,200
We're not going to let you go. 
We're going to fund this baby. 

1134
01:09:58,200 --> 01:10:00,300
Come on somebody. 
We're going to bring back the 

1135
01:10:00,300 --> 01:10:02,300
glory of God in Jerusalem. 
Build that Temple. 

1136
01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:10,800
All because a few men stood up 
to people they prayed and about 

1137
01:10:10,800 --> 01:10:11,900
you really Church marked by 
prayer. 

1138
01:10:11,900 --> 01:10:14,000
Amen. 
Are you willing to be the one 

1139
01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:16,700
today that goes against the 
grain of everybody else in your 

1140
01:10:16,700 --> 01:10:18,200
life? 
Because that's what's going to 

1141
01:10:18,200 --> 01:10:20,100
change? 
And it's a, I'm gonna get my 

1142
01:10:20,100 --> 01:10:23,000
knees and pray and it's just not
going to change because this is 

1143
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:26,100
the fuel that moves me forward 
in 2023. 

1144
01:10:26,100 --> 01:10:28,500
This is the mark of my life if 
you can take me down. 

1145
01:10:28,500 --> 01:10:30,900
But here's the obvious, I'm a 
man or woman of prayer. 

1146
01:10:30,900 --> 01:10:32,800
Amen. 
Father. 

1147
01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:37,100
Come before you I spray our 
church will be marked by prayer.

1148
01:10:37,300 --> 01:10:39,100
Maybe somebody's here today and 
say you know, others have 

1149
01:10:39,100 --> 01:10:42,100
drifted from prayer prayer is 
kind of Relic has been Renegade 

1150
01:10:42,100 --> 01:10:44,700
her relegated to the past or 
it's just the last resort. 

1151
01:10:44,700 --> 01:10:46,200
I mean I just screwed by 
different prayers. 

1152
01:10:46,200 --> 01:10:49,800
Got to be in my heart, I've been
afraid of praying, the prayer to

1153
01:10:49,800 --> 01:10:52,900
pray out loud of afraid, leading
a prayer, but nobody knows I 

1154
01:10:52,900 --> 01:10:56,100
pray, but today, recognizing 
God's call me to be the one 

1155
01:10:56,500 --> 01:10:58,300
that's you today. 
We just lift your hands high to 

1156
01:10:58,300 --> 01:11:00,000
God and say that's me. 
I'm the one today. 

1157
01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:02,300
Come on somebody, but those 
hands up high crosses room. 

1158
01:11:02,300 --> 01:11:04,600
God has called me out. 
He wants me to live that. 

1159
01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:08,000
Bold prayer has two hands across
the space all across the space. 

1160
01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:10,700
God, you see the hand, you know,
the hearts, gotta pray that our 

1161
01:11:10,700 --> 01:11:13,800
prayers would shape a nation got
to give us our city. 

1162
01:11:13,800 --> 01:11:17,000
Got change our families that we 
can't change circumstances but 

1163
01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:20,000
God you change situations. 
You changed circumstances, got 

1164
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:23,300
your the miracle and God has we 
get promoted and people come 

1165
01:11:23,300 --> 01:11:25,000
behind us. 
God, I pray that we'd fall more 

1166
01:11:25,000 --> 01:11:28,400
in love with you and God, we 
push further into your will and 

1167
01:11:28,400 --> 01:11:31,200
through our valleys God, we 
trust you to the Lions Den. 

1168
01:11:31,200 --> 01:11:34,500
We trust you even if Our Fate is
sealed, we trust you. 

1169
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:37,200
He got, we pray for you to do, 
only, you can do we just give 

1170
01:11:37,200 --> 01:11:39,700
the glory trust in the fact that
you're going to use our heart 

1171
01:11:39,700 --> 01:11:42,200
situations. 
And what looks like a defeat For

1172
01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:44,400
Your Glory today to see lives 
changed. 

1173
01:11:44,500 --> 01:11:48,100
So God, we are the one for Our 
Generation where I can go quiet.

1174
01:11:48,200 --> 01:11:50,600
We're not gonna sit down and I 
can be regulated knocking, 

1175
01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:52,600
putting the corner. 
God really bold with our faith 

1176
01:11:52,600 --> 01:11:54,400
today. 
I'll pray for one more group of 

1177
01:11:54,400 --> 01:11:56,400
people in the house and that's 
those, you say, you know what, 

1178
01:11:57,100 --> 01:12:00,300
I'm like, Daniel, I'm the guy 
that day that he's a cry out to 

1179
01:12:00,300 --> 01:12:04,600
God because I need help on the 
guys would do my own power. 

1180
01:12:04,800 --> 01:12:07,800
No strength at the Battle of 
things against gotta realize. 

1181
01:12:07,800 --> 01:12:09,500
I don't have a relationship with
God. 

1182
01:12:10,800 --> 01:12:12,400
Who is Jesus, Jesus in the Son 
of God. 

1183
01:12:12,400 --> 01:12:15,600
He came to die on the cross for 
you two thousand years ago, the 

1184
01:12:15,608 --> 01:12:19,100
award on Good Friday. 
What looked like was defeat was 

1185
01:12:19,100 --> 01:12:22,900
actually a set up, the biggest 
set up in history and God won 

1186
01:12:23,100 --> 01:12:25,700
the Battle of your sin. 
He paid for your death on the 

1187
01:12:25,700 --> 01:12:27,300
cross. 
He paid for all of your 

1188
01:12:27,300 --> 01:12:30,500
punishment for your sin and he 
rose Victorious, to give you 

1189
01:12:30,500 --> 01:12:32,400
freedom in the stone was rolled 
away. 

1190
01:12:32,700 --> 01:12:35,500
And so today, if you need 
freedom in Jesus, you need the 

1191
01:12:35,500 --> 01:12:39,000
power source you to get plugged 
in the things of God, there's 

1192
01:12:39,000 --> 01:12:42,000
nothing for me to do the call 
the name of Jesus, it's a day 

1193
01:12:42,000 --> 01:12:46,600
for be forgiving Maiden new set,
free today that she was let your

1194
01:12:46,600 --> 01:12:47,800
hand as place I'm looking 
around. 

1195
01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:49,500
So I need Jesus. 
Come on. 

1196
01:12:50,300 --> 01:12:52,700
This is your moment. 
I see your hand because I need 

1197
01:12:52,700 --> 01:12:56,200
Jesus today, maybe online. 
This is for you, I'll invite you

1198
01:12:56,200 --> 01:12:57,500
to pray. 
This prayer is not the Princess 

1199
01:12:57,500 --> 01:12:59,100
Saves you, but it's your heart 
towards God. 

1200
01:13:00,100 --> 01:13:03,200
Say, God, thank you so much for 
giving me an example, like, 

1201
01:13:03,200 --> 01:13:06,100
Daniel to be bold, my faith got 
in recognize. 

1202
01:13:06,100 --> 01:13:07,900
I've been going the wrong way, 
but the day I'm like that. 

1203
01:13:07,900 --> 01:13:10,100
King Darius. 
I see the power and the 

1204
01:13:10,100 --> 01:13:12,500
presence. 
Eric of God and today I'm 

1205
01:13:12,500 --> 01:13:15,300
turning to you goddamn declared 
to the world. 

1206
01:13:15,300 --> 01:13:17,300
Not to buy a letter to everybody
and tell them that your power 

1207
01:13:17,300 --> 01:13:20,800
and your presence today. 
So guys saving for my sin, got 

1208
01:13:20,800 --> 01:13:22,200
to use me. 
God. 

1209
01:13:22,200 --> 01:13:26,200
I'm a servant of you got make me
a vessel that praise in Jesus 

1210
01:13:26,200 --> 01:13:28,800
name and everybody said. 
Amen. 

1211
01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:30,300
Come on, give us the power of 
God today. 

1212
01:13:30,300 --> 01:13:32,200
Come on. 
Amen. 

1213
01:13:32,200 --> 01:13:36,500
If you prayed that prayer today,
we are just so excited for you. 

1214
01:13:36,500 --> 01:13:39,700
And I just want you to know that
that's not like the end of your 

1215
01:13:39,700 --> 01:13:43,000
journey. 
The exciting New Beginning, that

1216
01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:45,900
new chapter for your life and we
are just so pumped for you. 

1217
01:13:45,900 --> 01:13:48,000
And hey, if that's you, I'm 
talking to you today. 

1218
01:13:48,300 --> 01:13:50,700
I have some action steps. 
I want you to take them the very

1219
01:13:50,700 --> 01:13:55,100
first one is, don't leave here 
without telling somebody. 

1220
01:13:55,300 --> 01:13:59,800
Don't log off, without telling 
somebody about this, exciting 

1221
01:13:59,900 --> 01:14:03,100
decision. 
You've made to just lay your 

1222
01:14:03,100 --> 01:14:07,400
life of sin down and just start 
a new life with Jesus and some 

1223
01:14:07,400 --> 01:14:10,200
other steps you could take. 
As I just encourage you to get 

1224
01:14:10,200 --> 01:14:14,600
your Out and text our own next 
to 97,000. 

1225
01:14:14,700 --> 01:14:17,100
And when you do that, some of 
our team lose reach out to you 

1226
01:14:17,100 --> 01:14:20,400
this week, completely digitally 
just to check in on you and just

1227
01:14:20,400 --> 01:14:23,100
see you know, what are some 
questions you have about? 

1228
01:14:23,100 --> 01:14:27,200
Some next steps you can take now
that you've made this awesome 

1229
01:14:27,400 --> 01:14:29,300
awesome decision. 
We also just want to hook you up

1230
01:14:29,300 --> 01:14:33,000
with some resources to that way.
And another thing you could do, 

1231
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:35,100
if you're here, live is on the 
table. 

1232
01:14:35,100 --> 01:14:38,100
In the back of the room, we have
some red bags and those bags are

1233
01:14:38,100 --> 01:14:40,400
Bibles and we just encourage you
just take one of those. 

1234
01:14:40,600 --> 01:14:44,300
Home with you today, start 
diving in the word and just 

1235
01:14:44,300 --> 01:14:49,200
learning about all God has for 
you and your life after you just

1236
01:14:49,200 --> 01:14:51,800
made this awesome decision. 
And again there's there's more 

1237
01:14:51,800 --> 01:14:55,300
links to more resources and 
we're just we're just pumped for

1238
01:14:55,300 --> 01:14:57,100
you. 
If that's you today. 

1239
01:14:57,700 --> 01:15:01,400
You know, Sean has talked to us 
today kind of the big theme is 

1240
01:15:01,400 --> 01:15:05,400
about being marked by God 
through prayer. 

1241
01:15:05,400 --> 01:15:09,200
And one of the best ways we can 
just kick off this new gear at 

1242
01:15:09,200 --> 01:15:12,100
this new year is Kicking it into
high gear. 

1243
01:15:12,300 --> 01:15:16,200
And by telling people about 
Jesus, giving people some Jesus 

1244
01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:19,700
and all of you on your, on your 
chairs on your seats, you got 

1245
01:15:19,800 --> 01:15:22,400
these cards and we just humor me
for a while. 

1246
01:15:22,400 --> 01:15:24,300
You just pick those up. 
I'm not going to make you like 

1247
01:15:24,300 --> 01:15:26,700
hold them up high and they are 
anything but just get him in 

1248
01:15:26,700 --> 01:15:27,900
your hand. 
Go ahead, wave them. 

1249
01:15:27,900 --> 01:15:30,900
Like you just don't care. 
I see you know but just just 

1250
01:15:30,900 --> 01:15:35,000
hold them just get him in your 
hand and Something cool about 

1251
01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:39,700
these cards, you may not know 
every week, Pastor Sean prays 

1252
01:15:39,700 --> 01:15:45,000
over these cards and Just Praise
about really their ultimate 

1253
01:15:45,000 --> 01:15:49,200
destination where they end up 
after we take him out of the 

1254
01:15:49,208 --> 01:15:54,700
worship center and out into the 
community, and these cards are a

1255
01:15:54,708 --> 01:15:57,300
tool for you. 
There are tool for us there a 

1256
01:15:57,300 --> 01:16:02,800
way that we can just be equipped
to, to share Jesus with the 

1257
01:16:02,800 --> 01:16:05,900
people in our lives with If 
people that are close to us with

1258
01:16:05,900 --> 01:16:08,600
strangers leaving and places, 
really. 

1259
01:16:08,600 --> 01:16:12,700
It's it kind of just takes a 
barrier away from from sharing 

1260
01:16:12,700 --> 01:16:14,500
Jesus, with people in a real 
practical way. 

1261
01:16:14,500 --> 01:16:18,500
So I want you to hold these in 
your hand and I just, you know, 

1262
01:16:18,500 --> 01:16:21,300
Sean talked about earlier about 
how it's so easy like, oh yeah, 

1263
01:16:21,300 --> 01:16:24,100
I'll pray for you brother. 
I'll pray for you but really 

1264
01:16:24,100 --> 01:16:25,400
this is a place that we could 
praise. 

1265
01:16:25,400 --> 01:16:26,700
We're going to do that. 
We're gonna do that right now 

1266
01:16:26,700 --> 01:16:28,500
actually. 
So you just bow your heads and 

1267
01:16:28,500 --> 01:16:31,400
join me in a quick prayer, as we
pray over these cards. 

1268
01:16:31,700 --> 01:16:35,800
And we just say, father, we just
come You prayer and we just pray

1269
01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:41,800
father over these cards and we 
pray over the destination where 

1270
01:16:41,800 --> 01:16:45,200
these cards end up. 
We pray over the souls that come

1271
01:16:45,200 --> 01:16:49,000
in contact with with these cards
and God I just pray for 

1272
01:16:49,000 --> 01:16:52,600
everybody in this room today and
everybody that can hear my voice

1273
01:16:52,600 --> 01:16:56,500
God that you will give us 
boldness that you won't let us 

1274
01:16:56,500 --> 01:17:01,500
be scared that you won't let us 
feel shame that you won't let us

1275
01:17:01,500 --> 01:17:03,900
just be comfortable sitting on 
the sidelines. 

1276
01:17:04,300 --> 01:17:07,500
We pray father that we can just 
go out into our world this week 

1277
01:17:07,800 --> 01:17:13,400
and share you unashamedly and 
invite people to Real Life 

1278
01:17:13,400 --> 01:17:16,300
Church that we can. 
In let them know that we have a 

1279
01:17:16,300 --> 01:17:20,100
seat with their name on it that 
we have people that will love on

1280
01:17:20,100 --> 01:17:22,700
them and be here just to walk 
with them. 

1281
01:17:22,800 --> 01:17:27,600
No matter the season that their 
income as they are. 

1282
01:17:28,100 --> 01:17:32,300
God just use us as we got not 
for our Glory but for yours help

1283
01:17:32,300 --> 01:17:37,300
us to be bold and brave and 
Jesus name, we all say amen. 

1284
01:17:37,700 --> 01:17:41,700
And I just encourage you to 
really just take these and run 

1285
01:17:42,000 --> 01:17:46,400
this week and guys, I'm just 
super pumped for another 

1286
01:17:46,400 --> 01:17:49,100
exciting opportunity. 
We have coming up this 

1287
01:17:49,100 --> 01:17:53,000
afternoon, we have a big mission
in 2023. 

1288
01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:57,800
We are just excited to see the 
teams that we currently have 

1289
01:17:57,800 --> 01:18:00,300
grow. 
And we're excited to bring back 

1290
01:18:00,300 --> 01:18:04,200
the refreshments team and just 
really just overhaul the kids. 

1291
01:18:04,300 --> 01:18:07,700
Ministry and just keep that 
movement along, because, man, I 

1292
01:18:07,700 --> 01:18:10,700
love how sean always says is. 
There's no Junior, Holy Spirit, 

1293
01:18:10,700 --> 01:18:12,700
right? 
The same God, the same Holy 

1294
01:18:12,700 --> 01:18:16,700
Spirit in US is working through 
our kids back there and just We 

1295
01:18:16,700 --> 01:18:19,900
Believe big things for them as 
we lift them up in a courage and

1296
01:18:19,900 --> 01:18:22,800
we have an awesome team back 
there that just pours into our 

1297
01:18:22,800 --> 01:18:25,600
kids each week and we just want 
to capitalize on that and 

1298
01:18:25,608 --> 01:18:32,100
there's so many other teams and 
just people that keep Real Life 

1299
01:18:32,100 --> 01:18:36,800
Church going and keep We can so 
we just want to invite you. 

1300
01:18:36,800 --> 01:18:39,600
If you don't feel like you're 
currently planted anywhere or if

1301
01:18:39,600 --> 01:18:43,200
you're not currently serving man
today you have an awesome 

1302
01:18:43,200 --> 01:18:47,100
opportunity this afternoon at 2 
p.m. is crash course. 

1303
01:18:47,100 --> 01:18:49,800
It's going to be a pastor, 
Shawna Diane's house and you're 

1304
01:18:49,808 --> 01:18:52,600
going to get to meet with m.e. 
Gonna get to connect with them 

1305
01:18:52,600 --> 01:18:55,400
really in a in a way that's hard
to do on a Sunday morning. 

1306
01:18:55,400 --> 01:18:58,500
Really good to hear their heart 
and mission for what's going 

1307
01:18:58,500 --> 01:19:00,800
forward. 
And also what's really cool 

1308
01:19:00,800 --> 01:19:04,200
about Crash courses, you get to 
really take a moment and discuss

1309
01:19:04,300 --> 01:19:08,800
Discover how God has gifted and 
talented you, what's your 

1310
01:19:08,800 --> 01:19:10,500
purpose? 
What are you good at? 

1311
01:19:10,500 --> 01:19:13,000
And then just really find a way 
that we can align what you're 

1312
01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:17,300
already good at and just find a 
team, find a way that you can 

1313
01:19:17,300 --> 01:19:20,700
serve here at real life church 
and just really drive the 

1314
01:19:20,700 --> 01:19:24,600
mission forward and 2023 couple 
cool things. 

1315
01:19:24,600 --> 01:19:27,200
If you show up today, you won't 
be alone, it won't be awkward. 

1316
01:19:27,200 --> 01:19:29,900
We already got a good group of 
people and really, the only 

1317
01:19:29,900 --> 01:19:33,800
thing missing is you if you just
are feeling that tug right now. 

1318
01:19:33,800 --> 01:19:37,300
So we would Love to have you 
come out hang out with us 2 p.m.

1319
01:19:37,700 --> 01:19:40,500
this afternoon all the 
informations at real life church

1320
01:19:40,500 --> 01:19:44,100
kc.com. 
And another thing I wanted to 

1321
01:19:44,100 --> 01:19:46,600
share with you guys is just 
really Hammer this point home. 

1322
01:19:46,600 --> 01:19:51,100
Your generosity makes a huge 
difference, a huge difference 

1323
01:19:51,100 --> 01:19:54,400
here, at real life church and 
your generosity plays a part in 

1324
01:19:54,400 --> 01:19:58,100
stories, just last week. 
And this first Gathering five, 

1325
01:19:58,100 --> 01:20:01,800
people raise their hand and made
that decision for Jesus. 

1326
01:20:01,800 --> 01:20:03,900
Can you give up for that really 
quick, man? 

1327
01:20:03,900 --> 01:20:08,200
God God is moving at real life 
church and, and it just doesn't 

1328
01:20:08,200 --> 01:20:11,700
happen without generosity. 
And, you know, one of the things

1329
01:20:11,700 --> 01:20:14,800
on our heart is to start a 
course in these next, coming 

1330
01:20:14,800 --> 01:20:18,800
months for people that are 
raising their hands or anybody 

1331
01:20:18,800 --> 01:20:21,100
that just needs a good 
foundation, the faith. 

1332
01:20:21,100 --> 01:20:25,600
That course is called, no God 
knnow, no God. 

1333
01:20:25,700 --> 01:20:28,700
And just really, we can't do 
things like that. 

1334
01:20:28,700 --> 01:20:33,300
We can't offer programming like 
that without resources and 

1335
01:20:33,300 --> 01:20:36,500
without your generosity. 
See, your generosity drives the 

1336
01:20:36,500 --> 01:20:41,600
mission for your generosity is 
directly connected to souls here

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in our community. 
I just want to encourage you to 

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keep that going in 2023. 
Now, I will step back step off 

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the gas here for a second. 
And say this, if you are 

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brand-new with us, I'm not 
talking to you in this moment. 

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Okay? 
I'm not expecting anything from 

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you. 
In fact, the opposite of that 

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this gift is our, this Gathering
is our gift for you. 

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We're not going to ask anything 
from you. 

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Today, we're just pumped, you're
here. 

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And encourage you to come back 
and hang out with us again next 

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week. 
But if you do call real life 

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home, here's some ways that you 
can be a part of generosity. 

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You go to Real Life Church 
kc.com. 

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01:21:15,100 --> 01:21:19,500
You can text any amount to 8, 4 
3, 2 1, there's a giving box in 

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the back. 
You could drop cash or envelopes

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and of course our Usher's are 
going to be handing buckets down

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the aisles here in just a 
moment. 

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You could utilize those as well.
Finally, if you are finding 

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yourself this week in immediate 
need of food, clothing or 

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shelter. 
Alter, we just invite you to 

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01:21:35,500 --> 01:21:38,500
reach into those buckets, as 
they pass by grab any loose 

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cash. 
You see and take that to meet 

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01:21:41,100 --> 01:21:45,900
those immediate needs guys. 
One more final thing I'm super 

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pumped about is this today and 
this week starts, life groups 

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and with more info on that. 
I want you to check out this 

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video We clinking, are we 
clinking? 

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01:22:04,200 --> 01:22:06,200
You want us to clink? 
And then I just start talking 

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01:22:08,100 --> 01:22:10,700
searching. 
Are you sure? 

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Hey, guys, life groups start 
meeting this week. 

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We are so excited and just 
expect it of all that God is 

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going to do through this 
semester. 

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But groups, I just know, we are 
super pumped for another season 

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of Life groups. 
I just know how much life groups

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mean to Holly, and I to our 
whole family. 

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01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:35,500
Really, one thing that's always 
kind of fun is when the last 

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season of Life groups ends our 
kids are, like, what do you 

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01:22:39,200 --> 01:22:40,600
mean? 
There's no life group this week 

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because they make connections 
with other real-life kids each 

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week, just hanging out playing 
kind of doing their own thing 

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01:22:47,100 --> 01:22:48,500
while we're doing our thing 
upstairs. 

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01:22:48,500 --> 01:22:52,800
So it's really just an exciting 
season just to get the ball 

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01:22:52,800 --> 01:22:55,800
rolling again, on life groups. 
They mean so much for our 

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family. 
Yeah, I mean, like you said, 

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we've just had such Good 
experiences and made such deep 

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rich connections with people. 
Each life group that we've let 

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01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:09,200
over these last five years and 
we want you to experience that 

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01:23:09,200 --> 01:23:12,500
and to feel what we feel every 
semester as we walk through life

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together, with other people. 
And so, yeah, here's our 

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01:23:15,500 --> 01:23:17,800
Shameless plug, not even 
Shameless honestly. 

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01:23:17,800 --> 01:23:20,100
Hey, no, shame. 
Today is a day to sign up for a 

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life group, you know, whatever. 
You've been waiting for, like a 

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01:23:22,100 --> 01:23:24,800
Sean has encouraged us even over
these last few weeks to make 

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2023 a breakout year and to make
gathering together with the 

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people of God, such a big 
priority. 

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01:23:30,200 --> 01:23:33,200
Artie, this is the best way to 
do that, what an awesome easy 

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01:23:33,200 --> 01:23:37,500
opportunity for you to make 2023
your breakout year by doing 

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this. 
So if you're with us in person, 

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you can head out to the life 
groups. 

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01:23:40,600 --> 01:23:43,400
Well, out in the hub and scan, 
the QR code to sign up, or you 

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can go to Real Life Church 
kc.com and find all of our 

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01:23:46,300 --> 01:23:49,400
groups there. 
And we're just so excited for 

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you guys to take part in life 
groups, a semester. 

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01:23:51,500 --> 01:23:54,400
Hope to see you in a life group.
This week. 

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Have a good one, that was 
awkward. 

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01:24:04,500 --> 01:24:08,100
For Life groups. 
Awesome. 

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01:24:08,100 --> 01:24:11,000
Hey, let's fuel up on some 
prayer this week and remember 

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01:24:11,000 --> 01:24:15,100
the simple recipe to do. 
So invite God in talk to him, 

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01:24:15,100 --> 01:24:18,200
listen to him, through prayer, 
and say, yes to what he has for 

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01:24:18,200 --> 01:24:19,900
you. 
So, we'll see you back here next

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01:24:19,900 --> 01:24:22,400
week. 9:30, to 11:00 at 
Kentucky, Trail Elementary, or 

1407
01:24:22,400 --> 01:24:25,500
we live Church online, if you 
need prayer, that's the theme 

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01:24:25,500 --> 01:24:28,200
for today for any reason. 
Well, the team member here up 

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01:24:28,300 --> 01:24:30,800
immediately after the Gathering.
And remember, Who fight over 

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find Jesus. 
Discovers real life and purpose.

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01:24:34,100 --> 01:24:34,900
See you next week.