Speaker 1: Leave that we are all done with the giving.
Speaker 1: Of course, for those who may have come after that moment, we have the offering boxes and the exits, so later on, as you exit, feel free to give your offering.
Speaker 1: Let's pray together.
Speaker 1: Father in Jesus' name, indeed, we thank you for your faithfulness, Thank you for bringing us this far, thank you for your presence.
Speaker 1: Every time we have gathered, you have been present, and even tonight you're present.
Speaker 1: And so, lord, as we, you open your word to us today by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: I am Bata Veso and I pray that you will delight in using me to speak to me and to speak to each one of us.
Speaker 1: For those who are following this service online, lord, I pray that you may minister to them as well.
Speaker 1: There are others who will catch up with this service later, and we want to pray that the same power and presence that has ministered and continues to minister to us tonight will minister to them as they engage this message and this time of prayer.
Speaker 1: Thank you again for answering our prayer.
Speaker 1: O Lord, your word says call unto me and I will answer.
Speaker 1: That is your promise, that is your assurance, and so, as we leave your house today, we know that you have heard us and your Father promised to show us even greater things than we have prayed for, and I pray tonight that somebody's prayer life will be encouraged.
Speaker 1: Somebody will be encouraged tonight because they came and because they have prayed.
Speaker 1: So we thank you for this moment.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, we pray and God's people say, god's people say hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Thank you, let's appreciate the worship team one more time for just leading us very well.
Speaker 1: We are really blessed.
Speaker 1: Thank you, pastor Edith and my brother Harman again also for leading us very well tonight and we want to thank each one of you for coming.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: There is a song we used to sing and it said you are blessed because you came Just by showing up in the house of the Lord.
Speaker 1: You are already blessed in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: But Father, again, our God says that call unto me and I will answer.
Speaker 1: That is the promise of God as far as your prayer and my prayer is concerned.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: He is a God who answers prayer.
Speaker 1: Let me repeat that.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 1: Maybe you are saying but, pastor, he has not yet answered mine.
Speaker 1: It doesn't change who he is.
Speaker 1: It doesn't change His character.
Speaker 1: He is a God who is faithful to His word and one of the promises he makes is that he has answered.
Speaker 1: What a privilege that we can come before a God who answers prayer and what a privilege that we can make our requests and petitions known to Him.
Speaker 1: So I want to encourage someone and tonight I'm talking about prayer, by the way so I want to encourage somebody tonight that you are in the right place.
Speaker 1: You are in the right place doing the right thing, and that is prayer.
Speaker 1: Amen, please walk with me, because I believe the Lord has something for us.
Speaker 1: We are reading the word of God from the book of Daniel.
Speaker 1: The book of Daniel.
Speaker 1: As you are aware, especially those who have been consistent with Baklan's Baptist Church, you know that our theme this year is the year of the Lord's empowered world changes and, particularly in this month of October, we have been focusing on the sub-theme empowered strategies, spirit-led excellence and our character of the month.
Speaker 1: Who is our Bible character of the month?
Speaker 1: Let me see whether we have some people who have been following.
Speaker 1: Who is the Bible character of the month?
Speaker 1: Ok, with confidence now it's Daniel.
Speaker 1: So who is the Bible character of the month?
Speaker 1: Good, good.
Speaker 1: And so we are reading from the book of Daniel, chapter 6.
Speaker 1: It's a familiar passage, and let me read.
Speaker 1: The Bible says it pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to rule throughout the kingdom, with three administrators over them, one of whom was Daniel.
Speaker 1: The satraps were made accountable to them so that the king might not suffer loss.
Speaker 1: Now Daniel so distinguished himself among the administrators and the satraps by his exceptional qualities that the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom.
Speaker 1: At this, the administrators and the satraps tried to find grounds for charges against Daniel in his conduct of government affairs, but they were unable to do so.
Speaker 1: They could find no corruption in him because he was trustworthy and neither corrupt nor negligent.
Speaker 1: Finally, this man said we will never find any basis for charges against this man, daniel, unless it has something to do with the law of his God.
Speaker 1: So these administrators and satraps went as a group to the king and said may the king Darius live forever.
Speaker 1: The royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisors and governors have all agreed that the king should issue an edict and enforce the decree that anyone who prays to any god or human being during the next 30 days, except to you, your majesty, shall be thrown into the lion's den.
Speaker 1: Now, your majesty, issue the decree and put it in writing so that it cannot be altered, in accordance with the law of the mids and the passions which cannot be repealed.
Speaker 1: So king Darius put the decree in writing.
Speaker 1: Now, when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room, where the windows opened towards Jerusalem three times a day.
Speaker 1: He got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before.
Speaker 1: Then this man went as a group and found Daniel praying and asking God for help.
Speaker 1: Verse five tells us that then this man said we shall not find any charge against this Daniel unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.
Speaker 1: I don't know whether, wherever you are tonight, if people are to look for charges against you, I pray that one of the places at least they would look for is that which concerns your faith, hello, that people can conspire against you not simply on the basis of your tribe or where you come from, not on the basis of your agenda, but on the basis of your faith, and not just any other faith, but your faith in the Lord.
Speaker 1: But Verstein also tells us that now, when Daniel knew that the writing was signed.
Speaker 1: He went home and in his upper room, with his windows open towards Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees Three times as he did, he prayed to the Lord, giving thanks, talking about empowered world changers and specifically talking about strategies.
Speaker 1: Our senior pastor has put some very profound strategy statements in the theme vision.
Speaker 1: If you look at page 210 and 211, you will come across these statements, some calling strategy statements.
Speaker 1: He says our impact in the kingdom is engineered through empowered strategies Impact engineered.
Speaker 1: He also further says that our productivity in the world is facilitated through empowered strategies Productivity and facilitation.
Speaker 1: He's also saying our wisdom in the marketplace is unlocked through empowered strategies.
Speaker 1: In short, we need wisdom, but this wisdom in the marketplace is unlocked through empowered strategies.
Speaker 1: He also says our effectiveness in our spheres of influence is guided.
Speaker 1: Our effectiveness is a guided effectiveness and this is done through empowered strategies.
Speaker 1: And then finally says our strength in dealing with emerging trends is enhanced.
Speaker 1: That capacity is enhanced through empowered strategies.
Speaker 1: So we need impact, we need to be productive, we need wisdom, we also need effectiveness and we need strength if we are going to be world changers that are going to cause transformation and impact in our world.
Speaker 1: And when I look at Daniel.
Speaker 1: Daniel demonstrates a marketplace minister is an example of a marketplace minister a man with a mission in the marketplace, who is very impactful, he is very productive, he is a man full of wisdom, he is a man full of strength.
Speaker 1: And all this he demonstrates through his public service career in Babylon, and I know I'm speaking to people.
Speaker 1: There are people we've already mentioned, madame Sophia in the marketplace and, even more specifically, in the public sector.
Speaker 1: Daniel has a career that spans through a number of years in Babylon and you can see these strategies, you can see impact, you can see productivity, you can see wisdom, you can see effectiveness, you can see strength in the way he administers and in the way he engages and that's a topic that's a topic for another day.
Speaker 1: But there are things we can see in the life of Daniel that I pray that you can receive them, because they are spiritually imparted, and the first one is that Daniel is favored.
Speaker 1: He is a favored man.
Speaker 1: Daniel.
Speaker 1: Chapter one, verse nine this is what the Bible tells us about Daniel when they just entered Babylon and the king chooses men that he would like to use, and Daniel has resolved in verse eight that he's not going to defile himself with the king's goodies and the things that the king had offered.
Speaker 1: The Bible tells us in verse nine, in verse eight.
Speaker 1: But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine and he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself in this way.
Speaker 1: Then verse nine tells us now God had caused the official to show favor and compassion to this Daniel.
Speaker 1: Daniel is a favored man.
Speaker 1: May the favor of the Lord be upon you in the marketplace, in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: But secondly, daniel is a promoted man.
Speaker 1: Daniel, chapter two, verse 48 and 49, again, daniel has just interpreted a dream for the king and the king is in awe of what Daniel has done.
Speaker 1: And the Bible says in verse 48 of Daniel, chapter two then the king placed Daniel.
Speaker 1: I think it's the new King James Vashon.
Speaker 1: He says now the king promoted him.
Speaker 1: Yes, then the king promoted Daniel, or placed him, and he gave him many great gifts and he made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon and chief administrator over all the wise men of Babylon.
Speaker 1: All right, also, daniel petitioned.
Speaker 1: You know now that he was already in a place of authority.
Speaker 1: He was also able to petition for his brothers, as verse 49 tells us.
Speaker 1: But Daniel was a promoted man.
Speaker 1: May you be promoted in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: May promotion follow you in the name of Jesus, because promotion does not come from the east, it does not come from the west, it comes from the king of kings in Jesus mighty name.
Speaker 1: And maybe somebody has been stagnant in their position for way too long.
Speaker 1: May favor unlock promotion in that position in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 1: But thirdly, daniel is a man who is sought after.
Speaker 1: He's favored, he's promoted, but he's also a man who is sought after In Daniel, chapter five, verse 10,.
Speaker 1: Let's see what the Bible says 10, 11 and 12.
Speaker 1: This is after the king has seen a writing on the wall and he's trembling.
Speaker 1: Nobody is able to interpret this writing and the king's face has grown pale.
Speaker 1: Nobody is able to tell what is written on the wall.
Speaker 1: And we thank God for wives.
Speaker 1: They store historical memory and so his wife.
Speaker 1: The Bible says the queen, on hearing the voices of the king and his nobles, came into the banquet hall.
Speaker 1: May the king live forever.
Speaker 1: She said don't be alarmed, don't look so pale.
Speaker 1: Thank God for a wife who can encourage you.
Speaker 1: There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods in him In the time of your father.
Speaker 1: He was found to have insight and intelligence and wisdom like that of the gods.
Speaker 1: Your father, king Nebuchadnezzar, appointed him chief of the magicians.
Speaker 1: You remember the promotion he was now?
Speaker 1: Now this is unpacking.
Speaker 1: He was the chief of the magicians, the enchanters, the astrologers and the diviners Waganga wakohapo, wachawi wakohapo.
Speaker 1: And this man was the man in charge of all this.
Speaker 1: He had the power and authority over all these strongholds.
Speaker 1: Before they could do something, they had to come and seek permission from him.
Speaker 1: Say, you know, to not talk to you.
Speaker 1: You call a kid.
Speaker 1: You call a kid, can we go ahead?
Speaker 1: And he says because he had the power and authority over them, may you be in charge in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: Take charge as a child of God in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: He did this because Daniel, whom the king called Beth Shaza, was found to have a keen mind and knowledge and understanding and also the ability to interpret dreams, explain riddles and solve difficult problems.
Speaker 1: Then the Bible says call for Daniel.
Speaker 1: Another version says let this man be found, let him be sought, and he will tell you what the writing on the wall means.
Speaker 1: He was a man who was sought, like our sister Sophia.
Speaker 1: May you be sought in Jesus' name, that when we are looking for the chairman of minerals rights board, that you can be found.
Speaker 1: Currently that one is occupied, but may there be one for you, as in Jesus' name, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Daniel was sought.
Speaker 1: He was sought after.
Speaker 1: I don't know whether you are aware that I haven't yet started the message for today, just in case you're not aware, but finally, this Daniel was also trusted.
Speaker 1: Look at these characteristics.
Speaker 1: These are characteristics that should define a world chizer.
Speaker 1: These are characteristics that should define you, if you are going to make a impact for the kingdom, that you are a man and woman who is sought after.
Speaker 1: That you are a man and woman who is favored, that you are a man and woman who can be promoted, but that you are a man and woman who can be trusted.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in chapter, in verse three of the passage that we read today, chapter six, verse three, that, first of all, if you look at verse one, it says it pleased Darius, chapter six of Daniel, it pleased Darius to set over the kingdom 120 satraps to be over the whole kingdom and over these three governors, of whom Daniel was one.
Speaker 1: And why did the king do this?
Speaker 1: He did this so that he might not suffer loss.
Speaker 1: Our president in this country has been talking about fighting corruption.
Speaker 1: He cannot fight corruption by being in every office, but he can fight corruption by having sorry, you've somehow become part of my salmon today, so so please forgive me and you're talking about rights.
Speaker 1: I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't ask you for consent, but one of the areas that he should not worry about corruption is on the issues of Mineros.
Speaker 1: Because he has Sophia, sophia, sophie.
Speaker 1: Because he has Sophie there, your Excellency the president, you can sleep well in that department, because there is a woman who can be trusted.
Speaker 1: She is in our midst.
Speaker 1: This is what we are talking about when we talk about world changes.
Speaker 1: And so, when you look at this passage, the reason why the king has appointed Daniel and two other guys and 120 guys is so that there is no corruption in the kingdom.
Speaker 1: So he saw that he does not suffer loss.
Speaker 1: But then what does the Bible say?
Speaker 1: The Bible says, out of the three in verse four, daniel started distinguishing himself.
Speaker 1: In short, his level of trustworthiness became higher and was noticeable before the king, so that, for the king to sleep well, he started thinking about putting him above the governor's.
Speaker 1: May you be found trustworthy.
Speaker 1: May the king delights in appointing you because you are trustworthy.
Speaker 1: But then, talking about prayer, we find that the success of Daniel in his long career was anchored in his prayer life, and so tonight I want to encourage someone, and my subjects tonight is very simple Pray nevertheless.
Speaker 1: That's the title of my sermon tonight Pray nevertheless.
Speaker 1: And that word nevertheless, then it means it contradicts what might be happening before that word.
Speaker 1: I'm not an English teacher, but it contradicts.
Speaker 1: So he says you know, when you hear somebody say John is a very hardworking young man, nevertheless, whatever is coming.
Speaker 1: I am here to encourage someone that whatever is before prayer, pray nevertheless.
Speaker 1: Whatever is in your life before prayer, pray nevertheless.
Speaker 1: I have received that report but I will pray nevertheless.
Speaker 1: I have received that bill, but I will pray nevertheless.
Speaker 1: I have received that appointment but I will pray nevertheless.
Speaker 1: The way things are looking, elijah was praying and there was no sign of any rain, but he kept sending his servant Go and check once again and the servant will come back with a battery in pot and say there is nothing.
Speaker 1: You know, I've had people counting the meteorological department that they promised as El Nino and it has not showed up.
Speaker 1: I pray it doesn't show up.
Speaker 1: Let us receive good rains from our father in heaven.
Speaker 1: It's a rain we want.
Speaker 1: It is not El Nino, we want, it is rain.
Speaker 1: Seven times his servant went and he came back with the same report there is nothing.
Speaker 1: But even with that report, elijah did not leave his position of prayer.
Speaker 1: He continued to pray.
Speaker 1: I am here to encourage somebody.
Speaker 1: Pray nevertheless.
Speaker 1: Do not have another alternative.
Speaker 1: Keep praying, keep praying, keep praying.
Speaker 1: Pray in the morning, Pray in the noon time, pray in the evening.
Speaker 1: Pray when you are alone.
Speaker 1: Pray when you have support.
Speaker 1: Pray when you don't have support.
Speaker 1: Pray when you have money.
Speaker 1: Pray when you don't have money.
Speaker 1: Pray nevertheless, because prayer is a strategy for your breakthrough.
Speaker 1: Prayer is attached to a promise.
Speaker 1: Say call unto me and I will answer.
Speaker 1: Call unto me and I will answer, and God is faithful to his word.
Speaker 1: Three characteristics, quickly, that define Daniel's prayer life.
Speaker 1: Number one is consistency, and I'm calling it the spiritual habit.
Speaker 1: Consistency is a spiritual habit.
Speaker 1: It comes with discipline.
Speaker 1: In verse 10, in this particular passage that we just read, of course we've already said that in verse 3, the king is already considering.
Speaker 1: Verse 3 says then this Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and the satraps because an excellent spirit was in him and the king gave thought.
Speaker 1: And for this to be known, then the king must have said some things.
Speaker 1: He must have demonstrated some favor, some likeness.
Speaker 1: He probably gave him more assignments.
Speaker 1: He probably consulted him more.
Speaker 1: You know, some of us, whatever we work, when we are given more assignments, we complain.
Speaker 1: We don't interpret it as favor.
Speaker 1: There was no additional salary, there were no additional benefits, there were just more assignments.
Speaker 1: Daniel, please take care of that.
Speaker 1: Please take it to Daniel.
Speaker 1: Ask Daniel what he thinks we should do, and some of us, when that is happening in our lives, what do we do?
Speaker 1: We complain.
Speaker 1: We say they are overburdening me, they are overloading me.
Speaker 1: I want to give you a secret See it as favor, start interpreting it as favor and start claiming what comes with favor.
Speaker 1: Promotion is what comes with favor.
Speaker 1: It's a strategy.
Speaker 1: When they favor you, they promote you.
Speaker 1: When they promote you, they seek after you, and that's why you are ever in that committee.
Speaker 1: You are ever in that committee.
Speaker 1: I don't know whether I'm speaking to someone.
Speaker 1: You are ever in that team when there is need.
Speaker 1: Now, if you are never in that team, then you need to be working out something.
Speaker 1: You need to start doing something about yourself.
Speaker 1: But that's what you feel.
Speaker 1: And so when you are sought after, when you are favored, when you are a candidate for promotion, when you are trusted, the other thing you attract is enemies.
Speaker 1: Those are good enemies, because the more they plot and work against you, the more they uplift you and elevate you to the limelight, the more they take you to your knees.
Speaker 1: The Bible says that.
Speaker 1: When he learned that these guys are planning something in verse 10, the Bible says he went back to his room and he prayed and there is a key word there as he had always done.
Speaker 1: That was his custom, that was his lifestyle.
Speaker 1: He was a man of prayer.
Speaker 1: He had disciplined himself to be a man of prayer.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, my brother, my sister if you learn to pray when things are good and you make it a habit and you make it a discipline, when things are rough, you will not struggle to pray.
Speaker 1: But if you wait to pray when the storm comes, many times you will only call on your mother.
Speaker 1: You've got those people.
Speaker 1: When things are very thick, even a grown man with the beards like myself, we will still call our mother.
Speaker 1: When you hear a grown man call his mother, then please understand, things are at their thickest.
Speaker 1: But you can avoid that by developing a lifestyle of prayer.
Speaker 1: There are a number of things in this consistency of this prayer.
Speaker 1: It tells us in verse 10,.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in verse 10, now, when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home and in his upper room, with his windows opened towards Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom.
Speaker 1: It was his custom to do these things, or these are things that were a package as part of his consistency in prayer, his spiritual habit.
Speaker 1: Number one he had a place.
Speaker 1: He had designated a place for prayer.
Speaker 1: Do you have a place where you say this is the place where I meet with the Lord?
Speaker 1: I take time to pray?
Speaker 1: He had a place.
Speaker 1: Of course, that doesn't mean he never prayed anywhere else, but this place seems to be a very special place for his time of prayer.
Speaker 1: But secondly, he had a form.
Speaker 1: You know the Bible says that he knelt.
Speaker 1: So he used to pray while walking.
Speaker 1: He used to pray while sleeping, maybe, but at this particular place he prays while kneeling.
Speaker 1: It's very specific because the custom encompasses all these things.
Speaker 1: But suddenly he had a plan.
Speaker 1: He did this three times a day.
Speaker 1: It was not a hazard.
Speaker 1: Three times a day he was committed to prayer.
Speaker 1: But number four, his strategy was continuous prayer.
Speaker 1: In fact, the Bible doesn't seem to suggest he went to pray for this matter.
Speaker 1: The Bible seems to suggest that he prayed as he usually prayed.
Speaker 1: He doesn't say and he prayed over this matter.
Speaker 1: When you learn to have a consistent walk of prayer with God, you enter into a relationship of conversation such that there are things that you already have an agenda.
Speaker 1: And maybe towards the end of his prayer, that moment, that day, that's when he may have introduced this agenda.
Speaker 1: By the way, god, have you seen that thing?
Speaker 1: That has been signed?
Speaker 1: You've seen all those guys are doing.
Speaker 1: I know you will deal with them.
Speaker 1: See you later.
Speaker 1: It may not have been his key prayer item, because he prays to a God who answers and therefore he has made prayer a relationship with God and he has trusted him so much so that he knows that God knows his needs even before he speaks them.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes we can go to God as though he doesn't know.
Speaker 1: He knows your need.
Speaker 1: God is aware of what you are going through tonight.
Speaker 1: He's aware.
Speaker 1: But God is inviting you to a relationship of prayer where there can be prayer chemistry.
Speaker 1: And that's why the Bible tells us in Philippians, chapter four, verse six and seven be and she has over nothing, but through prayer.
Speaker 1: Of course.
Speaker 1: The next thing that he did, he was a man of thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
Speaker 1: And then it says and the peace of God?
Speaker 1: He doesn't say and God will sort that issue.
Speaker 1: It is in.
Speaker 1: The peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts.
Speaker 1: There is nothing as important as and as comforting and as assuring as having peace of mind and peace of heart.
Speaker 1: And that's why David says though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.
Speaker 1: My heart will not be afraid.
Speaker 1: My mind, instead, will be focused on the table.
Speaker 1: The Bible says that he lays a table for me in the presence of my enemies.
Speaker 1: So when storms are around me, when things are happening around me, my mind is focused on the meal that the Lord has presented before me, because my heart is at peace.
Speaker 1: You know, when your heart is not at peace, whatever you eat has got no taste.
Speaker 1: There are things you will eat when your heart has no peace and they are not going down the system.
Speaker 1: You know, whenever you swallow and you are normal, things are supposed to go down.
Speaker 1: One time I was invited by a friend for dinner, brother Elijah, and they served this dish from your area.
Speaker 1: I think it's moranda.
Speaker 1: Is it moranda, this thing that is slimy?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I had never eaten that thing.
Speaker 1: I was with my wife, so that day I decided this thing I have not eaten.
Speaker 1: I think it is the one I'm supposed to eat a lot more to also impress my host.
Speaker 1: So, as we are talking, I put this thing in the mouth and I try to swallow and the thing doesn't go down.
Speaker 1: I'm even trying to lift myself to swallow this thing.
Speaker 1: It doesn't go.
Speaker 1: Now, that was a moranda moment.
Speaker 1: But may your heart have peace so that whatever you swallow, even if it's moranda, it goes down and you enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Peace comes when you have peace of heart and peace of mind.
Speaker 1: That is what God promises Sometimes.
Speaker 1: God will not remove us from the valley, but he will walk with us through the valley, and that makes the difference.
Speaker 1: Daniel seems to have known this.
Speaker 1: But secondly, his commitment.
Speaker 1: I will just highlight the other two.
Speaker 1: So the first one is his consistency, and that is his spiritual habit.
Speaker 1: But secondly, commitment why is Daniel committed to prayer Now?
Speaker 1: Verse 10 tells us now, when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, now, when Daniel learned that the decree had been published.
Speaker 1: That is a very important statement.
Speaker 1: It is on.
Speaker 1: You know, he went to pray knowing what has already befallen him, and so his commitment is not based on ignorance and therefore I'm referring to this as spiritual intelligence.
Speaker 1: Daniel has not gone to pray without knowing what is happening.
Speaker 1: He has gone to pray knowing that a decree has been published, it has been signed by the king, it cannot be repealed and it has dire consequences, and that, if he continues to pray, he is a candidate for the hungry lions.
Speaker 1: There are three things that inform our spiritual intelligence.
Speaker 1: Number one he knew his assignment, and that's why, if you look at verse three to four, it tells us he knew his assignment.
Speaker 1: He understood what he had been appointed to do, and that is what he committed himself to do.
Speaker 1: He knew he was a world changer.
Speaker 1: His assignment was kingdom based.
Speaker 1: He knew that he was there for transformation.
Speaker 1: He knew he was there for a change.
Speaker 1: He was there for the will of God to reign.
Speaker 1: When you understand your assignment, then you stay focused and that's why the politics of the day did not worry him.
Speaker 1: He went to pray.
Speaker 1: And secondly, he also knew his challenge.
Speaker 1: He knew that this had nothing to do with his assignment.
Speaker 1: Remember, in verse five, the Bible tells us that they sought something concerning to accuse him, concerning his work, his assignment, and they found nothing.
Speaker 1: They did not find negligence, they did not find corruption, they did not find nepotism, they did not find any of those things.
Speaker 1: So he knew very well it has nothing to do with my assignment.
Speaker 1: He knew it had everything to do with my faith, my God.
Speaker 1: And that is where the catch is.
Speaker 1: Because then, number three, he also knew this God and that's why Daniel will say again in Daniel 11, verse 32, that by the people who know their God will display strength and they will perform exploits.
Speaker 1: This is a man who knows his God.
Speaker 1: He knows it is not about my assignment.
Speaker 1: He knows it is not about you know.
Speaker 1: He knows it is not about what I have been assigned to do and he knows his opponents.
Speaker 1: He knows it is a conspiracy, but also he knows his God.
Speaker 1: Do you know your God when somebody is charging against your God, do you know your God?
Speaker 1: That's why the Bible tells us all other gods the works of men, they are not God at all.
Speaker 1: They cannot answer when we call, they cannot walk on their feet, they cannot think, they cannot act.
Speaker 1: But those who know their God will perform exploits.
Speaker 1: That is Daniel Efficiency.
Speaker 1: Chapter six, verse 10, reminds us about our warfare and many times we forget our warfare.
Speaker 1: Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.
Speaker 1: Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes, for our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Speaker 1: When you know what you are fighting and you know who is fighting for you, you stay at the place of prayer and you are committed.
Speaker 1: You know he has never lost a battle.
Speaker 1: He has never lost a battle.
Speaker 1: He will not lose your battle.
Speaker 1: Your battle will not go into history as the first battle that God has lost.
Speaker 1: He is not about to lose your battle because he is the king of kings.
Speaker 1: If anything, that battle, you need to stand firm and see what the Lord will do.
Speaker 1: And for some of us he will just give us peace and the enemies will be wondering why is he not dying?
Speaker 1: Why is he not resigning?
Speaker 1: Why doesn't he have Alsace?
Speaker 1: Why doesn't he have headaches and she?
Speaker 1: It's because what God can do, no man can do.
Speaker 1: But finally, his confidence.
Speaker 1: This is what I'm referring to as the spiritual authority, the setrafs and the governors and these other fellows.
Speaker 1: Their authority was based on this.
Speaker 1: They told the king now king established the decree and signed the writing so that it cannot be changed according to the law of the means and the passions, which does not alter, and therefore the king signed the decree.
Speaker 1: That was their basis of authority.
Speaker 1: And if you continue reading down there, when they went and found him praying, they went to the king and said hey, king, did you not sign?
Speaker 1: Here is the letter you signed.
Speaker 1: It is signed.
Speaker 1: But Daniel's authority is the king of kings.
Speaker 1: Praise the Lord.
Speaker 1: Let me say the king of kings, as authority to change, signed things.
Speaker 1: The king of kings, as authority to change, declared things.
Speaker 1: Some of us have some cases in court and through dubious ways, declarations have been made.
Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you the king of kings is the Lord of justice.
Speaker 1: He is able to overturn, decrease, because, if you continue reading, that decree was overturned Though it was established by a statute.
Speaker 1: It was overturned.
Speaker 1: There are some statutes that will have to change in your organization because of you, and somebody will say oh, this one we overlooked.
Speaker 1: This one we overlooked Because the king of kings is able to turn.
Speaker 1: He has a prayer life that is backed by petition and supplication to God.
Speaker 1: But let me say there is an authority.
Speaker 1: There is authority that supersedes all authority.
Speaker 1: Matthew 28, verse 18, jesus says all authority, our God, our king, all authority in heaven and earth is given to him.
Speaker 1: And then the Bible tells us in John 14, verse 13 and 14, whatever you ask in my name, we have a name that we can ask through.
Speaker 1: He says in Acts, chapter four, verse 12, there is no other name for salvation.
Speaker 1: It is only the name of Jesus that can save a man.
Speaker 1: But then Peter tells us in Acts, chapter three, verse six he tells this man silver and gold, I have none, but in the name of Jesus, rise up and walk.
Speaker 1: Therefore, rise up, be on your feet in the name of Jesus, and I want you to take a moment and stand on that issue that is bothering you now by faith, and say now I am taking it from my head, I am taking it from my heart and I am bringing it under my feet in the name of Jesus, because there is power in this name.
Speaker 1: There is power mighty in this name.
Speaker 1: In Jesus name, I pray that somebody's life will become consistent in prayer.
Speaker 1: I pray that somebody's life will become committed, that you will have some spiritual intelligence, that you will have some spiritual authority, that you will walk a life that is governed by a spiritual habit of prayer.
Speaker 1: If you're going to be a world changer, prayer, prayer must be the anchor of your profession.
Speaker 1: It must be the anchor of your skills.
Speaker 1: It must be the anchor of your relationships.
Speaker 1: It must be the anchor of all the strategies.
Speaker 1: You must do what you must do, but nevertheless you must pray.
Speaker 1: You must pray.
Speaker 1: You must lead your family, you must take care of your children, you must guard your marriage, but nevertheless you must pray.
Speaker 1: You must meet your needs and obligations, but nevertheless you must pray, because there is something that happens when we pray and Daniel prayed.
Speaker 1: And when this man prayed, when he anchored his public service career on prayer, this man was favored, this man was trusted, this man was promoted, this man was sought after.
Speaker 1: May that be your portion, in the name of Jesus, as you engage as a world changer.
Speaker 1: Father, we pray tonight.
Speaker 1: May our lives never be the same again as we come to the end of the month of October.
Speaker 1: Yes, we are pressed for time.
Speaker 1: There are only two months to the end of this year.
Speaker 1: There are things that we have not accomplished.
Speaker 1: Nevertheless, we shall pray.
Speaker 1: There are things that we probably expected you to answer in January.
Speaker 1: We are in October, but nevertheless we shall pray.
Speaker 1: There are things that, when we look all around us, they have been sealed by statutes, they have been sealed by decrees, they have been sealed by pronouncements, but nevertheless we shall pray, because we know that in prayer things turn around, because prayer is attached to a promise.
Speaker 1: Call unto me and I will answer.
Speaker 1: So I pray for somebody tonight who is almost losing hope and I'm saying, in Jesus' name, pray nevertheless, pray nevertheless.
Speaker 1: Trust the Lord one more time and go to your place of prayer, because there is power and anointing in prayer.
Speaker 1: Now, lord, I pray in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: I want to release upon your people the grace and favor that brings about breakthrough.
Speaker 1: In prayer, in Jesus' name, lord, I lift up my hands like Moses lifted up his hands, and when he lifted up his hands, the Israelites who are winning against their Malikites.
Speaker 1: I raise my hands tonight before you by faith.
Speaker 1: I pray.
Speaker 1: Let there be victory upon your people.
Speaker 1: Let there be victory and breakthroughs upon your people.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, turn their trials into praises, o God, into testimonies.
Speaker 1: In the mighty name of Jesus, we receive this by faith, because we have prayed in the name that is above every other name, the name that has every authority in heaven and other name by which all must be saved, the name by which we ask.
Speaker 1: And we receive the name of our Lord and Savior, jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: And God's people say amen.
Speaker 1: If you believe it, give the Lord a mighty hand, clap Hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Somebody celebrate Jesus, somebody celebrate your victory tonight.
Speaker 1: Somebody celebrate your answered prayer tonight in Jesus' mighty name.
Speaker 1: May the Lord bless you.
Speaker 1: May that word follow you and overtake you.
Speaker 1: May that word turn for you a testimony to bring into the house of the Lord.
Speaker 1: In Jesus' mighty name and now.
Speaker 1: May the grace of our Lord, jesus Christ, and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you, now and forevermore.
Speaker 1: Amen, amen.
Speaker 1: God bless you, amen.