Right Place, Right Time
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WE EXIST TO HELP PEOPLE KNOW JESUS AND FIND PURPOSE
RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME
STEPH CURRY — BASEBALL — I WANT TO HAVE THE RIGHT STUFF WHEN MY NUMBER GET’S CALLED
I WANT TO BE SPIRITUALLY AT THE RIGHT PLACE — FOR THAT RIGHT TIME WHEN IT COMES
I don’t want to get to the place where my kids are screaming and I have no patience — Bills come and I have no money — Mow gas and have no Gas (MIKE STORY) I DON’T WANT TO NEED SOMETHING AND NOT HAVE IT
Doesn’t life sometimes feel like trying to do what you need to do without having what you need to have to do what you need to do? — God desires for you to have what you need. — Because he has a plan and purpose for your life
DANIEL
Daniel was the man — He was in the right place when the right time came
Judah Falls
Captivity — exiled in Babylon
Kick off w/ most famous story
7 We are all in agreement—we administrators, officials, high officers, advisers, and governors—that the king should make a law that will be strictly enforced. Give orders that for the next thirty days any person who prays to anyone, divine or human—except to you, Your Majesty—will be thrown into the den of lions. 8 And now, Your Majesty, issue and sign this law so it cannot be changed, an official law of the Medes and Persians that cannot be revoked.” 9 So King Darius signed the law.
This is the moment — when you need to be in the right place spiritually at this right time — DANIEL WAS A PRAYING MAN
10 But when Daniel learned that the law had been signed, he went home and knelt down as usual in his upstairs room, with its windows open toward Jerusalem. He prayed three times a day, just as he had always done, giving thanks to his God.
16 So at last the king gave orders for Daniel to be arrested and thrown into the den of lions. The king said to him, “May your God, whom you serve so faithfully, rescue you.”
YOU KNOW HOW THE STORY GOES — DANIEL IS PROTECTED
I want that to be my story — not the tossed in the lions den part — BUT THE READY TO STAND FOR WHO I AM IN JESUS PART
THIS IS WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT YOU’RE MADE OF — I WANT TO KNOW IM MADE OF THE RIGHT STUFF BEFORE THEN
I GET TO DECIDE WHAT I’M MADE OF
WE GOTTA GO BACK IN TIME TO THE BEGINNING OF DANIEL STORY — Daniel told to eat kings food from idols —
8 But Daniel was determined not to defile himself by eating the food and wine given to them by the king. He asked the chief of staff for permission not to eat these unacceptable foods.
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THE PHRASE “YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT?”
I get to decide what i’m made of — Cheetos or spinach? — diet coke or water? — Broccoli or Moosetracks???
22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!
DAVID REFUSED BECAUSE THAT WAS THE IDOLS FOOD — WHAT IDOL DO YOU CHOOSE? — WHEN IT BECOMES YOUR PERSONALITY TYPE YOU KNOW IT’S AN IDOL
DON’T MISS YOUR SHOT
IF YOU MISS THE OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME, DO YOU EVER GET ANOTHER ONE?
I WANT TO BE IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME
15 At the end of the ten days, Daniel and his three friends looked healthier and better nourished than the young men who had been eating the food assigned by the king. 16 So after that, the attendant fed them only vegetables instead of the food and wine provided for the others. 17 God gave these four young men an unusual aptitude for understanding every aspect of literature and wisdom. And God gave Daniel the special ability to interpret the meanings of visions and dreams. 18 When the training period ordered by the king was completed, the chief of staff brought all the young men to King Nebuchadnezzar. 19 The king talked with them, and no one impressed him as much as Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. So they entered the royal service. 20 Whenever the king consulted them in any matter requiring wisdom and balanced judgment, he found them ten times more capable than any of the magicians and enchanters in his entire kingdom.
DANIEL HAD BEEN PROMOTED SO HIGH BECAUSE OF THIS ONE EVENT — THIS ONE CHOICE
We often OVERESTIMATE what we could do in one year and we UNDERESTIMATE what we could do in ten.
WHEN EVERYTHING IS ON THE LINE AND EVERYONE IS LOOKING AT ME — I WANT TO HIT THE SHOT — Right Place — Right Time
