Driven to Prayer (Lessons from Daniel)

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So much rain fell in about an hour and she said, we needed it. So, thank you, God. So, students arrived safely wear in the, please be part of what he's doing. He's not just, she's touching the whole story. She's responsible for the whole story and bits of London as well. And other things that will open up and she caught him to that price. During press dream has just been launched and I got a caravan to go to be taking two every university around the country over the next three years it was literally launch that wildfires. I'm just a few weeks ago so he's a coward. I'm going around and I Know Travis, he's going to leave one or two of the team's when they go to certain universities in the months ahead. So exciting stuff, but she's not just asking for my money, so feel for partnership. A partnership stops in Pryor. If you Pawn a Wii that for a pound, should be great. But cuz she's more hungry after your prayers and then I need to be honest. So please be part about you even if you cannot to give a pound, if I get money for the children's releasing online, if you can just give a pound out, your pocket, money would be great to have two generations praying for Teri's so they died today. And this month we've been looking at lessons from The Book of Daniel anybody Twilight. The Book of Daniel cuz it's very relevant to today. We look at the mess of our politics and the massive, our government is a lot of in Daniel. I'm sorry. I'm trying to leave some space for Lexi to close this out of the end of the month. The next week. I'm sorry, I didn't go right to the unless he's so I really want to kind of shower. It's like we'll head it says, driven to prayer. Has anybody ever been off to do something bigger than you can ever do? I'd like you to think about. For example, I remember distinctly the first time I gave a double-double finger offering, now you got to remember, I'm 65 years old. So, when I was a student, a double-figure offering was a large amounts of money to me, I could go out for lunch. In fact, let me tell you a little story. I used to be because of my son. I am food. They said, save you be great for the student use pipe. Is it going to review some of the local restaurants thinking? I'd have to pay for it. Myself and what I learned was as soon as I walked in the place if I if I go to the university Market Avenue free dishes and so what I'd have, you know I just like to try some different things so I'll have to start, listen to Desert. She's okay for free and want to take you to Portuguese restaurant around my wine cellar and let me try two or three different polls. Had a great time. But you know what? The first thing was the reason why I told you what it was. Because when I went out for me I was spending 3 4 5 lb such a give, ten pounds was the first time I had to do that was the first time you get off to give a three-figure sum or a full figure something out. Give a car away the money. For the I want to believe that you and I have faith to believe that God can do immeasurably more than we ask. Or imagine immeasurably more than we also have a lady in this church and I love you might still remember she was brought up in a Christian Home in Wales and in the second world war her father was a preacher in the second world war. They felt like they should go to take me to the church and there was petrol Russians as petrol Russian. So this is a long way away. Unsolved. I didn't have a lot of money, they didn't have had some petrol, vouchers? They went and got some petrol and they drove believing that God has got to provide the rest of the petrol. I bet like the the story tonight shed. And they go about the priest, the word came out. Look to the petrol gauge, nothing to go home. No, petrol station anywhere in there. Slay laid hands on the car. I'm prayed and prayed and prayed until patch holes. He coming out of the petrol petrol gauge on the car. I remember my sight sharing this with my pistol in the rice. So she said you know God is able to do immeasurably more than we ask or imagine. So I'm starting off with a Pisces sign. What is it? Like when God asks you to do something, you feel you cannot do.

This is ready. The story of Daniel chapter 18, chapter 9. I'm not going to read all the stories here but I already want to set up the saying that basically that you reading. Daniel 83, read that I see Persia and Greece. Not only did they rise but they fell even before they were on the map. Go to waste books. In his way, he's able to set up Nations, he's able to pull them down and then you'll still was going to be faithful. So I'm going to give you a challenge this morning. I'm going to ask Jonathan Daniel 9:23 ask you to read it. 9 + 23 and soon as you thought it would, you stand up? Since you brought it with you, just stand up cuz I'm just doing a bit of a reading test.

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It's okay breathing test, you can sit down again. Now here's the challenge. I'm going to bring up in the moment a picture when she's not what you're going to expect. I'd like you to read it and as soon as you finish. I need some of you may not finish. So I don't think that's not a problem, but some of you might not finish. So if you'd like to bring that up,

When he finished his, please stand.

Make it a competition hip thing. Some of your looking at it still looking is he still folded in front of us. But as soon as you get to the phrase that says the research says that if the first letter in the last letter in the right position suddenly you have a framework to be able to read it. And it just hit the fascinating thing that it was up on the web. And I just saw your face into my 7. Thank you. Okay, I'm not testing. No reading skill. I'm just saying something difficult. What's your response? Some of you read the first line so I called. So I gave up anybody want to admit to that. The first time I had a guy we need to, we need to persevere, we need to persevere and pricing and so when go to cost us to do something impossible, then we doing it like 5. Here's the thing tonight, nicely set me up. If you have the money in your pocket to pay for the Rio Fair,

I gave an example of my, we had another couple of my checks, give me now that used to be feeling pastas and they lived in the spring Spring Avenue. And when they were younger, I had children and I sit down at the dining room table and sometimes they didn't have enough food to survive. So they delay the table. They literally lay the table. Put down the plates, the lights in the pool. With the children, sitting at the table together and I pray, The number of times somebody turned on and said, I took too much, I bought it's round. It's still hot, is it okay. Can you use it? Literally, sometime sometime in the summer. He talked about how somebody turned up on the doorstep, and I had a whole box full of food. I do it because it was hot that could make a solid body quickly and God provides. God is able to do immeasurably more than we asked for Imagine. And, here's the thing, sometimes, our response to an overwhelming request from God as we read in Daniel, 9:23. For you are great. People out there for consider the matter and understand the vision that God gives you everything for something. I do not set necessarily talking about a vision for life. You might have a vision for life, but you might just have a vision for today. One of my buddies. God want me to do to that girl wants me to rest today? Is anybody have a hat that patient? It's a great thing to have to rest today, please, I want to give you a moment and the permission to realize that having rest is not doing nothing.

You might say that's a like having a rest is not doing nothing. I've had a few days when I'm actually literally had to rest and try not to do much busy, you to something that you got to eat. I'm unless you're fasting, I guess but you get to the end of the day in somebody, the following dices, what did you do yesterday? And what's my own sir? Nothing. I see my own so should have been arrested. Wrestling's. Okay, we live in such a busy world. We feel guilty. When we don't do things, and sometimes God says, I just want you to rest could just spend some time with me. I think it's Pottery. I think one of the reasons we struggling prayer is because we struggle to rest. Now, and if we count rest, then. Buddy's out, so I can go look at 3:30 something and some people at some of you would like this. If you want you pry, you get up when you walk around, that's okay. I know that I talk with my hands. And I thought I bought them straight is today, but if I was teaching a room for the students, I would cite okay. Let me illustrate. Let's literally sit on my hands to my hands and saying with my head because I was sitting on my hands. I'm sorry to be still. It's a challenge for me. Do junior will sit and watch the television with me. And she'll have a pillow between her eyes and my feet. Because my feet are always moving. Even when I'm sitting watching the television, You probably don't believe me but that you got it's true and he's true. I have two little better possibly but who knows? Incredible things. And the first thing you did was what me? And then the next thing he fell sick. He was sick for a few days. We read that in time. You late, fussy, 17 and 18. Daniel felt drained. He felt completely washed out. Here's the thing. You don't scold you to do something. You're his plan. I you're he's playing at you.

Still got plans. And sometimes you'll have to revert to use Plan B, using a different person. But the plan will still be out. What's this plan will still be out? Booked in habakkuk Chapter 2 verses 23. It says this. Then the Lord answered me and said, write the vision and make it plain on tablets that that he who runs that? He may run who reads it. Well, the reason is yet for an appointed time, Set down things, right as God says something. If you write it down, if you got a prophetic word that you're walking through, write it down, 1 Timothy 1-17 says, why do good Warfare with the prophetic word spoken over here? Now, let me just explore that just a few months. He's not in the slides. But do you know what? Do we need to remind God what he said?

I don't think we need to remind God for God's sake. We need to remind us when we need to fight you in mind. We know what he said and we call out different things. I've got said something to you at some point in your life, when you still working that through, keep on reading out, show it with a few people share it with a few fights with people. I'm still working through this but this loose and is still to be completed.

The headline of what we doing the season that we find ourselves in the provision, that God brings Daniel does not pretend that he has it all figured out He just starts one of my favorite books, The Hobbit. Starts off with saying, and it's sort of a Chinese proverb that says, every Journey starts with the first step. It's no, it's much easier to stay or something when you're pushing it. If you ever want to text when you are actually moving, you ever want to text this going to get a trolley from outside text goes or Iceland or whatever. You'll prefer Supermarket, case I'm trying to steer it without moving It's hard work, but you know what? If you stop moving then you can stop staring same. If some of you remember before, power steering was around. If you had to turn the car, it was it was like hard work, too. Got to turn that. Well, now, we have power steering. You can just put your finger in that one, almost threw that in euros. so, if God asked you to do something for the first time, it cuts off to you to do something that requires Fife, right?

Sometimes cut off sister do things the way beyond our imagination. I just like to eat you to imagine on. I know, a couple of people are putting in these kind of situations when go to said, I want you to give us a million pounds away.

You think I don't have never run a million pounds, let alone seen a million times. What is a million pounds look like I thought we had a pilot for the five pound notes. How many? How big would it be? Anybody got an idea? What do you see in those those gangster movies? When people come up with us a suitcase full of money. How much money would your suitcase carries? Anybody? Got any ideas? Is it a thousand pounds is 10000 lb? Could you get a million pounds in a briefcase? I have no idea what a million pounds looks like all I can said he was, he's got six zeros after it. But that's as far as I can go.

So when God asks us to do something this way beyond that, which we Oscar imagine. The first thing we've got to do is acknowledge what it is. What is good asking us to do what you're saying. Cuz sometimes I don't know what you would like as a child but sometimes when you didn't want to hear something, you put your fingers in the air is again, I'm sure nobody in this room ever does that anymore today but you know sometimes, I'm sure we did it. We got I almost want to stick my fingers in her eyes, as I come through, they suck, I want to hear, I don't want to hear you're asking cuz so the first thing And here's the thing. As if you ever spoke to someone and they don't seem to be listening. You probably you probably done it. I know I've done it from time to time you. What did I just say, thinking about something else? You probably done it. Repeat back to me what I just said, okay. That's what we need to do. We got sometimes, God, I think you're saying this. And I see if you ever want a time to hit, let me give you a bit of a lesson here. If you ever want to talk to you, when you don't know how to answer a question. give you a brain sometime and repeat the question back to the person who's asking you In those ten seconds, right? After you say, I think you're asking me. This is that correct in that three, four, five seconds, you give me O'Brien enough. Time to start to formulate the answer to do the same thing. We thought it was. She got to call. I think you're asking me to do. Is that right? Yes, that's right. Okay. Now we now we've heard and God knows we cut. Now we're going to practice, we talkin to go, that's what we talkin to God, we talking and listening. Please remind me to remind you to prayer is not just Talkin at, God is talking to God and listening. So the first thing we say, yes, we hear you got the next thing besides, I don't have what I need. That's the book knowledge that we're in. A moment of Feist, we're not doing it in orange drinks. We're not doing an hour to pay. Let's say it's like this is all I have. What did the disciples do? When Jesus sat down with the 5000 plus people?

And then he said to the disciples go and find out what people look up. I'm going to fish with his. What we have. You're going to have to do the rest.

When the last money, whether that skill, whether that's filling out a form, anybody had to fill out a complicated form in the last six months through this, I give up. Now, we face for a dog purpose persevere. Please do not think that God can't help you in a fan. An application process. What can drop into your head? Something that is exactly the right thing to answer. That kind of question. Like the ask me how I know it's going to be a couple of times when I've said I've gone up in the morning too many things to do in the day, eat seem possible to do it. I remember particularly getting at one time and I had three presentations to write in One Day presentation, but probably normally take about 3 oz, plus a whole bunch of other stuff.

I felt him side. It's okay. If it's all right, to leave it in your hands. 1101 Preston run out and cancel the need for the presentation. One off somebody else's sent me. So I was thinking about you, his something that might interest you off my presentation already. Given tonight is for us to do that. So here's his a thing. Whatever you'll die contains. Just look at your diamonds. I know what, you know where the gaps are. You know what I have? You know what, I don't have his my Five Loaves and two fish. You'll going to have to do the rest.

Yeah, I feel for him. Then he has to do the rest cuz he's he's what he's he's he's he's what he's calling you to. You know, I saw a 65 bus 24 because I want to say when we pray the answer is already on its way. Is he exactly what God says before? I will. It will come to pass that before they call. I will answer and wealth they are still speaking. I will hear

the Happy Times the moments in my life when some funding is required of some things required and I pray And then the following died at times. Had similar situations, a letter has arrived, or something has arrived. And if you work it out, logically. First class does not mean next day anymore, does it? But there are times when I've prayed and I've realized the post was sent before I prayed. This is exactly the scripture before I even prayed I will answer. She understands what we're doing is aligning ourselves with his purposes and then he sang, see I'm ahead of you. I'm gone before you come before you Until I don't know how many people have met Angels or since they met Angels. But, you know, I think angels are a powerful prophetic expression of God wanting to be at work on Earth in Daniel chapter 9, verses 24 through 27. Just let me read this to you 17 weeks which determined for your people and for your Holy City to finish the transgression to make an end of sins to make reconciliation for iniquity to bring an everlasting righteousness. To see a lot vision and prophecy and to anoint the most, holy know that for and understand that from the coming-forth of the command to restore and built Jerusalem until Messiah, the prince that will be seven weeks and 62 weeks. The street will be built again and the world even in the Troublesome times. And off to 62 weeks, Messiah will be cut off, but not for himself. And the people of the princess who is to come shall destroy the city and the same. Beyond the end of it shall be with a flat. Until the end of the war tessellations will be determined. Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week. When the middle of the week he shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering and on the wing of Abominations shall be one. Who makes desolate even until the consummation when she's determined is pulled out on the test. Now this is a picture that I could spend the whole morning just unpacking. Hear all I want to say is God spoke go provided build one before and he sent an angel to bring this. This story on Angel to bring this is now. So Gabriel is something important being said, we know that in that the Gospel of Luke, the angel Gabriel came to Zechariah and then to marry Gabriel announces flesh-and-blood activity. Everything. Daniel was straining to see coming to pass is also reflected in the fullness of the Cross and the empty to in Galatians. 4:4 it says this. But when the fullness of time has come. Send for his son, born of a woman born under the Lord, God sent his son for you, and for me to pay the price for us. So here's the thing, when God speaks to us does it drive us to our knees because we don't have what we need cuz that's what happened for Daniel. The word division What God Says to us, drives us to anything. That's what we pray.

I'll begin by prying Lord. Thank you for asking me to do this. I am weak but you are strong. You're able to do in measurably more than we ask or imagine.

like I said I'm going to close out that I hope you will find useful is in Matthew 11 verse 30 And he says, his yoke is easy and his burden is light.

and when we, when we have to pull on something, when we have to do something in our own strength, sometimes we You heard me tell the story before, but he's good to repeat some stories. Again, when the relevant friend of mine, who's a pasta in North America, just across the American Canadian border in North America, he was out working on his car. How do you like he's a mechanic? If he look like in his car was under his car when he cut his car up on jacks. What is a matching? The typical kind of American Senior big Garden. The neighbors of the habitat quite a distance away cuz they will go big gallons of big loans and he's out there working or at least try pulling on the stopping balls under the car. And he's pulling it with a leave. Its penalties pulling out and putting it in the car starts to Wobble. The cough holes off the Jackson is on his chest is lying underneath the car, screaming out to his wife and screaming out to anybody, that would let him help help help his wife. Lisa, she's just over 5 ft and she came out. Of course, she's no chance of moving anyting. But he said she's even that she just kind of does what she can do a little easy to God. Help me. I said, I do not know whether God gave me Supernatural power or whether an angel came along and helped lift the car. But the car moved enough that my husband was able to roll out from underneath the car and the car fell to the ground. Got a bruise on his chest. He had a bruise on his back. No, broken rib satchel.

When we cry out to God in moments like that called meat Sustanon 8. Meat such as we cry out.

That's all I want to give you full steps to think, about four things to think about these. Just before that, slide things done for things to think about when we're overwhelmed by what he's asking us to do. And I want you to think about this very specifically. Now I'd like you to think about where here in the middle of August heading to watch the Alton, just think about the rest of this year. They might be something for you to do tomorrow. It might be something that God's got to you for between now and the end of the end it might be something that God wants you to get ready for next year. I don't know what that is but you just sent going to be in whispering in your ear and you just like oh that's too big for me. Some of you almost put it on the Shelf. Inside to Big I'll come back to that later. I sense the 102, but I want to remind you now, I'm so his before. Think the first thing is to acknowledge the burden, he's brought to you. Just like that. Lady tried to pick up that car. Okay, it's impossible that you can carry it. But with God's help you will acknowledge, there is a button is something that his burden is easy. His load is like I've been off for a touch from him. I thought from him in that might be logical, that might be creative that might be physical, that might be Financial. That might be lining you up with the right people but God lines you up with those things, then pray that you receive his peace cuz you know what we can waste. So much energy, so much time. So much. Mine spice worrying about. I got a student right now, and I want to give you too much, Pizza Hut, but this is a student who has procrastinating for months and months, and months, and months. And every time I address, you need to move forward. One Step she goes. Yes, but yes. Yes, but will this list of other things? I said, just take one step. Just take one step and you would have moved. And then, you know, if you take one step everyday, Captain D's light. So you'll seven steps by the four words. Who was the famous person who said, if you want to, if you want to empathize with people, walk a mile in their shoes. It's the thing. If you want to watch it, if you will come on in this year's. At the end of the way, you'll send Mi away from where I used to be, Got three packs of the way you are standing there thinking about doing something, receive his pay Spirit piece. We will go talk to you today and then accept whatever he needs to give you, whether it's fine arts, whether its strength, whether its resources, ask receive an except That's my challenge to you today. So I'm going to ask you. I'm going to close my eyes and put those people are listening online. They ask what he's asking you to do. I'm not going to ask about. That's between you and God, but I want you just this morning, maybe just to acknowledge this something that's asking you to do this anymore than you can even believe 4. But, you know, he's asking your father, I hear you. I lost you to stand right now. Don't understand why not put yourself in my be tomorrow maybe next week, might be next month. Might be next year. But his thoughts without First Step Lord, I hear you. Lodi. Hey.

He's a feist moment. the fights about what you said, that possible, nothing's really changed, but I'm telling you, I'm hearing you on this thing and I'm understanding and then listening and understanding of acknowledging, the what I have is hit, all I have is this

so father, give a few of my was anybody else wants to stand? And then I'm going to pray for all those who astounding

father, we stand before you right now, I'm standing too and we acknowledge Lord, So what you're asking, just seems impossible. Below. We start by saying we hate you. Lord. We could hear what you're saying.

I know some of you might need to repeat that to go, but you think he said, leave that between you and God, but just tell him, give yourself time to work it out with him. I took it out with a wife, a husband, someone you trust to side with the heels of the journey album is he's back. Going to have to fill the Gap to see if he's going to have to fill up. My tank is where he's going to fill my head with creativity in with his resources.

But we stand in your presence, we say yes. Lord, we hurt you. We've known each other. All need help. We need fuel provision note. This is a measurement of 5. So father, would you give us right now? You'll peace. Would you give us the peace that we're on the right track? Would you give us the paste piece that we touch you? Would you give us the piece to know into understands? But you love us. You're with us in your for us. That's why you've asked us. We all decide to pair of hands for this activity, for this choice for this moment.

We're your plan for this time for this conversation, for this person, coming to Christ for this project, to be launched, for this child, to be birthed. For this life, to be released for this company, to be launched for this idea to be manifest.

We say yes. Lord. And I am, and let it play. Let It Play, Let It Play, Let It Be. Collected. I pray. And that's we receive your pace. We will rest in knowing But it's your cooling, so it's your bill.

No, we're not going to strive. Over worrying about it. We're going to rest in peace and continue to live in the fullness of who we are in you as you cooled us to be in to do what you called us to be in to do in Jesus name. I'm at.