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We're going to preach a message right now called call a prayer meeting. Call a prayer meeting. And I want you to turn your Bible to Daniel chapter number two. Daniel chapter number two. And I just want to encourage you, the answer to your problems is Jesus. And you need prayer to be able to access the power of God. You don't need more social media. You don't need more news. You don't need more politics, though it's good to be informed. You need more of God. You need more of the Bible. You need to get insight and clarity from God. Without God, you're going to mess your life up. And there's a way which seems right to a man or a woman, but the end thereof are the ways of death. And so we've got to ask God for his help, for his guidance. There's situations that are coming our way. That if we don't learn to pray, we'll fall apart. God knows the future. And the closer we get with him, the more he can speak into our hearts and minds to where we can navigate through in a successful way. And that's what prayer does. It opens our understanding, it helps us to confess our sins, it helps us to be right with God. It opens up the eyes of our understanding. It gives us the spirit of the revelation and the knowledge of Jesus Christ so that we might know what his will and way is. Daniel chapter number two, we see that Nebuchadnezzar is the king. And in verse 1 it says, In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams. You ever dreamed a dream and wondered what it was? Well, he has a dream here. He says, Wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep broke from him. Then the king commanded to call the magicians and the astrologers and sorcerers and the Chaldeans for to show the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king. And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream. Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriac, O king, live forever. Tell, tell thy servants the dream, and we will show you the interpretation. The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, Well, here's the problem. The thing is gone from me. If ye will not make known unto me the dream with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces. Whoa, did we skip a step, buddy, or what? But this is the king, man. This is this is he's on the throne. He says, I'll cut you in pieces if you don't tell me my dream. And by the way, I forgot my dream. And your houses shall be made a dunghill. But if you will show the dream and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honor. Therefore, show me the dream and the interpretation. Listen, if you don't do it, I kill you. If you do it, I hook you up, is what he's saying. Verse 7, they answered again and said, Well, pfft let the king tell the servants the dream. Tell us, give us something. In verse 8, the king said, I know of a certainty that you would gain the time because you see the thing is gone from me. He's like, Nope, I'm not telling you anything. You gotta come up with my dream without me telling you anything about it. And he says, I'm not giving you any time. And verse 10, it says the Chaldeans answered the king and says, There is not a man upon the earth that can show the king's matter. Therefore, there is no king, lord, nor ruler that asks such a thing at any magician, astrologer, or Chaldean. It is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other than that can show it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh. And so the king gets angry and he's furious and he says, Let's kill all of them. You can't tell me my dream that I forgot. It's kind of funny, right? I kind of think about some of our human relationships when people expect us to do things they never transferred anything to us on. They're expecting with assumptions and expectations, but we're supposed to guess what's in their mind. That's kind of what happened here. Except for its death sentence, if you don't get it. And so in verse 13, the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain. And they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain as well. And so Daniel was in the captivity. He's one of the eunuchs of the Jews, if you would, that were, that were captured. He was very wise with the other uh young Jewish men that were brought into the kingdom. And Daniel hears about this. And in verse 14, Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Ariok, the captain of the king's guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon. He answered and said, Hey Ariok, what's up, man? Why is the why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Ariok made the thing known to Daniel. He's like, What's up with this? Verse 16, then Daniel went in. So Daniel hears this and he's like, okay, so let me get this straight, Ariok. If we don't tell the king his dream that he dreamed, that he's not gonna tell us anything about, he's gonna kill us all. And we're getting lumped in with the astrologers, magicians, and sorcerers. Isn't that crazy how sometimes as Christians we get lumped in with all the other spiritual weird people? I want to tell you, we're different. Christians are different, amen. We're born again, children of God. We don't get into sorcery, we don't get into seances and witchcraft and necromancing, we don't get into the Ouija board, we don't go visit the palm readers, none of that junk. That's all satanic stuff. But sometimes they lump us all in because of the spiritual kind of realm. And so Daniel hears this, so we're all gonna die, and Daniel's like, okay, check this out. I'm gonna do something about this. And so the Bible says in verse 16 that Daniel went in and desired to the king that he would give him time and that he would show the king the interpretation. I love the difference between Daniel, he's like, okay, just give me a little time, I will tell you what your dream was. I will tell you what it is. The other guys will just give us some time. Daniel says, No, no, give me some time and then I'll tell you what it is. The only way Daniel could have that confidence is if he walked with God. And by the way, he did walk with God. And by the way, you and I should be walking with God. We should be having a prayer life, a walk with God, where morning, noon, and night we're talking with God, we're abiding with God, we're in the secret place of the Most High, we're we're constantly communing with him. Listen, this no thing, it's nothing for me to get up to pray before you. Why? Because I'm always with God private. It's only those who don't spend a lot of time with God in private that they get worried about praying in public. Listen, I talk to God all the time. I don't care if you're here or not here. I have a walk with God. And Daniel had a walk with God. You say, How do you know it? Well, hold your hand right here. We'll come back to this. I want you to see another passage, Daniel chapter number six. Daniel chapter six. Look what it says here about Daniel. It says this in verse number three then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes. Well, why was he so blessed? Why was he so anointed? Why was he so holy? Because an excellent spirit was in him. And the king thought to set him over the whole room. Hey, you know when you're when you're with a game changer, you know when you're with an anointed one, you know when somebody has the Holy Ghost of God on them. There's just a difference to that person, a conviction, a confidence, a commitment inside of them. And Daniel had that. That came from being with God. The promotion that you and I seek is nothing without God. We need God first and foremost. He had a sweet spirit, an excellent spirit, was a holy spirit. Look what it says in verse number 10. Now, when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into the house, and the windows being opened in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled down upon his knees. What's that word say? Three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God as he did aforetime. Hey, listen, as he did aforetime, which means this that was his habit, that was his custom, that was his pattern. Hey, what's your habit? What's your pattern? What's your custom of prayer life? Don't be griping and complaining all day long when you haven't been talking with God. He had a walk with God. He said, Time out, it's breakfast time, time out, it's lunchtime, time out, it's dinner time. I gotta go be with God right now. See, you're not gonna grow a relationship unless you're intentional with it and responsible with it and consistent with it. And Daniel understood, what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? I don't need the world, I need Jesus. I need God. And Daniel would find himself in various kingdoms where his faith was being tested. And if your faith cannot be tested, it's a faith that cannot be trusted. And so we should all be saying, Okay, God, go ahead. Bring on the fiery trials, which is a trius. Come on, Lord, I'm gonna walk with you through it. I'm not serving you for money, for mammon, for material things. I'm in it to be with you, God. He is the reward, he is the shield, he is the buckler, he is what this is all about. Amen. And so Daniel had a walk with God where habitually he did it. And so go back on over to Daniel chapter number two. He was always praying and talking with God. And by the way, if you want to lead others, you must first learn to follow. And if you learn to follow Jesus, you can call others into followship with Jesus. And if you want to lead others into prayer, you yourself must pray first. Don't try to teach and preach what you're not preaching and teaching and walk it out, friend. You gotta walk it out, you've got to live it. People want to see the sermon, they wanna see your gospel, they wanna see your power, and then they'll follow you because you have credibility, you have authority, they'll know that, hey, this guy's legit, this lady's legit. They're not just putting on a presentation, they're not just putting on entertainment. No, privately they walk with God. Well, when Daniel hears from Nebuchadnezzar that everybody's gonna be killed, Dionyda says, you know what? I'm gonna tell you, Nebuchadnezzar, what the dream is. Hang on a minute. Hang on a second. I gotta call a prayer meeting. I gotta get with God. Hey, you ever been in a bind before, a pickle before? You ever been in a situation between a rock and a hard place? You ever have a have a financial hardship or a or a health hardship? And you're like, man, this is a bad situation. This is a nightmare situation. Can I just tell you, that's a perfect situation for God. That's a perfect situation for God to do a miraculous blessing in your life. And so look what Daniel does, and this is what we should be doing when we're in these hard situations. In Daniel chapter number two, the Bible says in verse 16, then Daniel went in and desired to the king that he would grant him time. Verse 17, then Daniel went to his house and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions. You know what he did? He said, Hey, hey, uh, Mishael, Azariah, and Hanai, hey guys, come on, come on over to my house. We've got to have a prayer meeting. What's up, man? What's up? You know we're all gonna be killed. The king is gone cray, cray. And we're getting lumped in with the other crazies, too. But guess what? Guess what? God put us here for such a time as this. We can't hold our peace. We gotta do something right now. It's game time. And the way we're gonna access the power and the wisdom and the dream is going directly to the source. And how many are thankful you can go directly to the source? I'm glad I don't have to go to confess my sins into some Catholic booth or some Greco-Roman booth or some other uh booth somewhere. I'm glad I got a God that says, Come on in, son, come on in boldly to the throne of grace. I'm glad I'm not trusting in the physical finite church, but I'm trusting in Jesus Christ who purchased the church. I'm glad I'm not trusting in the Eucharist to save me or good works to save me. I'm glad I'm trusting in Jesus Christ. I'm glad I'm saved and born again. I'm glad God says, Come boldly to the throne of grace that ye may find mercy and grace to help in a time of need. I'm glad I don't gotta go to some other mortal sinner and say, Hey, I'm sorry. Uh please ask God to forgive me. I'm glad I don't gotta go to Mary to pray for her, to pray for me, to pray for Jesus, so I get something. I'm glad I get to go right to God Almighty. And so Daniel tells his friends, hey boys, we're gonna die. We gotta do something about it. Let's call a prayer meeting. Hey, listen, when's the last time you called a prayer meeting? When's the last time you were in a bind, a pickle, a hard situation, and you said, you know what? I know someone that could do something about this. I'm not gonna stay stuck any longer. We're gonna go to God. We're gonna go to God. Hey, come on over to the house, it's prayer meeting time. You look at the local church nowadays, and everybody wants a rock concert, everybody wants a show, but nobody wants to pray, nobody wants to fast, nobody wants to consecrate and sacrifice themselves. But the power is in the connection with God, and so he didn't need a fanfare, he didn't need a crowd, he had his friends, his spiritual friends. Hey, do you have any spiritual friends out there? Do you have any spiritual friends that you could say, hey, I need some prayer, I got a situation in my life. Can you come over and pray with me? Hey, I want to share a burden, I want to cast a care, I can't carry it myself. I need an Aaron and a her, like Moses did in days of old. I need somebody to lift my arms. You got any spiritual friends out there? Hey, listen, the drunkards are a dime a dozen, the fornicators are a dime a dozen, the perverters are a dime a dozen. What you need is some godly people in your life. And listen, if you walk away from a church with a pastor and godly people and you go out there and live with the pigs so you can drink and get drunk and get into all the wickedness, then listen, it's on you. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. We will be holy, we will be pure, we will confess our sins, we will cast out the demons if you would. We will cast out the bond woman and her son, and we will live for the glory of her God. I'm asking, do you have any friends out there? Real friends, spiritual friends. I'm not talking about the people you play video games with, though you need that. I'm not talking about the people that you play sports with, though you need that. I'm talking about spiritual friends, somebody that can get a hold of God, somebody that will pray with you and lift your burden with you. Hey, listen, I'm glad I got a lot of people in my life that pray for me. I'm glad I got a godly wife, I'm glad I got godly children, godly staff, a godly church that I can put out some things and I got some burdens, I got some situations, and they'll pray. And they'll fast and they'll seek God's face. And if you don't have anybody like that in your life, then you gotta show yourself friendly. They ain't gonna just come to you. You gotta go and build those friendships. You gotta go out and humble yourself and say, I don't know how to pray, I don't know how to fast, I don't know what I'm doing, I don't know the Bible. Can you teach me? That's called humility. Humility is the first step to teachability. You've got to be humble, you gotta open up your heart and say, God, please feed me, fill me, train me. But if you're expecting the people, godly people, spiritual people, to run over and follow you everywhere, that's getting it backwards. That's getting it backwards, and you're not gonna grow that way. You've got to get under the spot where the glory falls out. You've got to get and sit at the feet of Jesus, if you would, and make sure that you're learning and growing. It's up to you if you want to grow. And if you want those godly friendships, how about this? You be a friend. You go around and say, How can I pray for you? How can I care for you? What can I do to be a blessing to you? And you show up for them. And then when it's your turn and you're in a bind, they'll show up for you. The godly ones will. And so Daniel calls his friends in, and they seek the Lord. Verse 18 that they would desire mercies of God, the God of heaven, concerning this secret. Can you imagine them praying? God, he's gonna kill us. We're gonna get wiped out, oh God. Oh, please help us, God, please, please, God. I don't know the dream. I know he's crazy, but God, we're praying for him. We don't want to die, God. I think they were crying out. Hey, question When's the last time you cried out to God? Seriously. I mean, you freak out and go crazy over the over your sports teams, like when our Padres hit that walk-off last night. Woo yeah, right? But what about when you're in a bind and a pickle in a situation you need God? When's the last time you cried out to God? I'm talking about with power and unction and fervor, knowing that God hears you, knowing that God wants to answer you. The Bible says right here, the desired mercies of the God of heaven. Hey, you don't understand something? God doesn't owe you anything. You're a speck of dust. Your little heart can stop beating just like this. Just like that. You're not all that you think you are. I'm not all that I think I am. Humble yourself, big boy. You're one accident away from being gone. And so when you go to God, don't you be like, God, you gotta do this for me now. No, he doesn't. No, he doesn't. He's God. So that's why it says, come in, asking for some mercy. God, I need some mercy. I'm I've got judgment on my life. I need some mercy, God, please. Sovereign God of galaxies, the one that spoke all the earth and the galaxies into existence, the ruler of angel armies. God, please, please give us some mercy. Please help us, God. Do you have any situations in your life where you got to that place? I can tell you many times, many times, where if God did not answer, everything shall fall apart. There would be death, there would be famine, there would be brokenness, all of it would fall apart. Have you been there yet? See, some of you you're not even there yet. You just think you're there, you just kind of want it. But when you finally get to that desperation spot where you realize I'm at the end of my rope, and if God doesn't do something, it's not gonna happen. That's what they're doing. They're begging God for mercy. The Bible says this in verse 18, then they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning the secret, and that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. Verse 19, then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Did you see that? Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Hey, have you ever had God just plant something inside of you? Like, oh, I get it. Almost like Neo in the Matrix, I know kung fu. Just planted in. Where all of a sudden I didn't preach before, but now I'm preaching, now I'm singing, now I'm playing, now I'm what in the world? God can plant that stuff inside of you. God can change your life. God can empower you. God can give you insight into somebody else's life. But he won't do it if you don't seek him. He won't do it if you don't, if you don't knock on the door, if you're not interceding and begging and pleading. Why? Because it takes faith. It takes faith to say, God, I know you know the thoughts and intents of everybody else's minds and hearts. I know you see around the corner, God. I know you know what's happening up there. God, I don't. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm like a little child. I have no awareness. Please show me, God. How many of y'all believe God can show you? He can plant insights and clarities and visual understandings, not just for your life, but about other people. He can do it. And the Bible says Daniel, Hananiah, Misha, and Azariah were there, they're praying, and the secret was revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are his. He changeth the times and the seasons. He removeth kings and setteth up kings. He giveth wisdom unto the wise and knowledge to them that know understanding. He revealeth the deep things and re and the secret things.

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He knoweth what is in the darkness. He sees, hey guys, he sees us in the darkness. He sees our thoughts.

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He sees our hearts. That's why we gotta live clean and holy and pure when nobody's around. That's why you get rid of the alcohol and the drugs and the pornography. That's why you don't gossip and complain. Why? Because God is watching, and you can sabotage your power and your success if you feed the flesh and you give place to the devil. Don't give any place to the devil, make no provision for the flesh, and privately live with God. Privately develop that prayer life. Privately do it. Because he sees the secret things and the dark things. And the Bible says this he revealeth the deep and secret things, he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him. I thank thee and praise thee, O thou God of my Father, who has given me wisdom and might and hast made known unto me what is the desire, what what we desired of thee, for thou hast now made known unto us the king's matter. Hey, you know what he just did? I just I will call it this way. He just had a Baptecostal fit right there. Who just sang some praises, glory, hallelujah, hallelujah, thank you, God. Hey, when's the last time you cut loose? When's the last time you just cut loose and thank God and praise God and had a hallelujah fit, friend? I'm telling you, what'll help with that is when God actually answers you. When you've prayed and you've fasted and you sought God's face and you were in abide in a situation you couldn't do, and then God says, I got you, son, boom, I got you, daughter, boom. Now you're not, it's not a show in the flesh. Now it's what do I say? Listen, I don't have to think about what I'm gonna say. God is stirring around on the inside. It's a testimony, it's an anointing, it's a filling, it's a connection, it's something that he's doing in my life, and I see him doing it, and that's what actually gives me the power to preach and to teach and to Testify and to give him glory because it's real. He's real. Hey, listen, look up here. He's real. God is real. I'm not up here preaching fairy tales. I'm telling you, God loves you. He's real. He wants you, friend. And he'll bless you. Here, Daniel, the king's decree was still there. He was still about to be wiped out. But what's he doing? He's praising and thanking God before he ever saw the victory. Who? Have you ever known that you were gonna win before you were gonna win? Come on. Have you ever known that the message is gonna go great before you preach the message? A song is gonna be a wonderful song before you sing the song. It's gonna be a massive knockout before you ever get into that ring. Oh yeah. Have you ever just known that this thing is gonna go good because God gave me something on the inside, and no mortal man can take it away from me, no devil can take it away from me. Listen, I'm praising God and thanking God on the inside before it happens on the outside. That's faith. That's faith, guys. And here's the secret: if you get into the invisible with God and let him grow you and guide you and habitually have those prayer times and those fasting times, maybe you need a job, maybe you need a relationship, maybe you need guidance. I don't know what it is for you, but if you spend the time with him and get close to him and touch the hem of his garment, then when virtue flows into you, dunamas power comes inside of you. Listen, you can praise the Lord and thank God before everything else you've seen happen yet. You can have the victory before you got the victory physically. How many of y'all believe you're saved? Listen, I haven't seen heaven, I've never seen God, but I know I'm saved, I know I'm I'm destined for glory, land. How do I have that? The Holy Spirit. I already got the victory, I've already won, I've already hit the jackpot. Listen, I've already seated with him in heavenly places, I've already got the inheritance, I'm already blessed, and so are you if you've been born again. Now, if you're in here today and you've never been born again, today could be the greatest day of your life. Today could be the greatest day of your life. You say, How, preacher, how? You must repent of your sins, recognize you are a sinner and you are hellbound, you will split hell wide open. There is none righteous, no, not one. You deserve hell for your sins. But God, who's rich in his mercy, says, I love you. I will do for you what you can never do for yourself. You can't save yourself, just like Daniel couldn't save himself. You go to God and you say, God, please give me salvation. I repent of my sins. I believe in you, Jesus. I believe you died for me and you rose again. And God, I'm placing my trust in you. God save me. How many of y'all prayed that prayer before? How many of y'all had that transformation take place on your heart before? Isn't it good? And once God does that on the inside, nobody can take it away. Not even yourself. Nobody. What a blessing it is to be born again. And so listen, I'm gonna wrap this up. I won't even give you the rest of the dream. You guys go home and read it and study it. But the end of this thing, Daniel goes in and he's like, guess what, king? Boom, shaka laka. What you saw, bam, bam, bam. And he tells him what it is, and the king's like, What? And he's like, I'm gonna hook you up. He hooks him up, and Daniel says this, Oh, yeah, while you're blessing me, what about my boys? We were in the prayer meeting together. Can you hook them up too? He's like, Yep, I got them too. Poof. Next level. Next level. Hey, how many of y'all want to go to the next level? Yeah, let me tell you something. The next level, if you want to go up, you gotta go down. You gotta go down, you've got to go lower, you gotta sacrifice, you gotta consecrate, you gotta pray, you gotta fast, you gotta seek God's face. And when you're lower, that humility gives you teachability and accesses you more grace so God can flow inside of you in a greater way, and that is what's gonna give you an excellent spirit so that you can answer all the matters in your life. And then when other people see that, they'll go, ooh, this is a very wise woman. This is a very wise man. I think I'd like to have you have this job for over here. I think you could do a good job here. Before you know it, the positions that you didn't used to have, they're yours already. And so today, in closing, I'll give you these points. You can write them down if you like, but I'm gonna open the altar and have the music team come here in a few minutes because I think we should have a prayer meeting. How many of y'all got some situations in your life you want to ask God for some help with? Yeah, yeah. I think we all got something like that where we need the Lord. Where we and Lord, I need to know what direction you want with my life. I need some financial healing, I need some, I need some friend, friendship, God. I need to know what to do with this business, I need to know what to do with this church, I need to know what to do with this family. Hey, you can knock on heaven's door and God will answer you. He sees around the corners, but you've got to earnestly seek him in prayer. So take these notes down and I'll be done. Number one, God allows impossible situations. God allows those impossible situations. You can trust it, bank on it. It's gonna happen. You're gonna be in some impossible situations, and God guided that situation. Right? Number two, number two, call a prayer meeting with friends. When you're in those predicaments, say, you know what? I know what to do here. In fact, turn to your neighbor and say, I know what to do now. I know what to do now. Now tell it to me, tell it to me, tell it to me. Yes, I know what to do now. I'm gonna seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and God's gonna show us the way. I like singing that song. I still do three hymns a day on my bike every morning. Get up real early, read my Bible, pray, ride the bike, and work out like a maniac at the house, but I still sing uh those three hymns. I got my hymn book there. One of my favorites is My Lord Knows the Way Through the Wilderness. I kind of sing it in a little Disneyland uh tune because I can't quite make it out right, you know? And all I have to do is follow and like tigger comes out or something. I don't know. But I know what to do as I just I just gotta call a prayer meeting right there with God. Call a prayer meeting with your friends. Number three, pray until God gives you wisdom. Pray until he gives you wisdom. Don't you get up until he answers. Amen. God, please. Now, listen, he may not answer you the way you think he's gonna answer. So you gotta empty it out and say, God, I don't know what to do. I'm a blank canvas, I'm an empty cup, God. Please, you just show me, and then you go like this. God, speak to me. Speak to me, God. I will be quiet, I will wean myself like a child, I will shut my mouth, oh God, but please speak. Thy servant is listening.

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Then here's what you're doing you're letting the Holy Spirit navigate your thinking. Just sit in stillness and let the calmness of the Holy Ghost begin to navigate your thinking. And then when he's navigating your thinking, ask him questions. What about that, Lord? Listen, listen. What about that situation? What about that, Lord? When you have that closeness with him, now it's a relational conversation. It's not a it's not a I said words out loud, but there was no listening ear. Now it's a dynamic closeness with him. And you're just listening. And as you're listening, he's gonna begin to tell you. And if he doesn't tell you on something, don't get mad or angry. He's not ready to give it to you yet. What you're supposed to do is focus on what he gives to you.

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And then more light will be given when you follow through with obedience on what he says. So that's why I always have a journal, something to write with.

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God, speak. Okay, okay, all right. Got it. I write it down. Anything else, Lord? Oh, I got it. Anything else? Oh, what about that? And then I'll have thoughts and I'll ask him. I write it down. Okay? Then I get down. Lord, thank you for speaking to me. Thank you for guiding me. Thank you, God. Thank you for the victories in advance. Thank you for the wisdom. Now, God, I don't quite know which order to do these in yet.

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See, when he tells you something, you don't know exactly which one's first, second, or third. So you have to let him tell you what's number one, what's number two, what's number three. You don't automatically know the order of priority because you're human. I'm human. But he does. And so what you do is you let him show you I actually want number three to be number one on your list. But Lord, that doesn't make any sense. Don't worry, my thoughts are bigger than your thoughts. My ways are higher than your ways. You don't quite get it all. But listen, I see all the little pieces. And so all you're doing now is you're letting him guide you with wisdom. Watch this. Now your Christianity isn't just, I went to church checking off the box. Now it's now when you're going to work, when you're going to play softball, come on, Lord. You told me I was gonna hit that home run. Yeah, I got the power. Watch out, boys, right? Now it's it's it's always been you and him. It's always been you and him. No matter whether you're washing the dishes or going to play a sport or you're doing a roof or a pool, right? Whatever it is, it's always you and him. Now, Lord, what what do I do here? What do I do here? And there's this divine connection where you're staying in prayer. Even though I'm physically talking with you, spiritually, I'm speaking in my heart to my Lord.

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Oh Lord, give me wisdom. What do I do here with him? What do I say here with her? I don't say it out loud. It's on the inside. Because where's the Holy Spirit? It's on the inside.

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So you have an internal source on the inside of wisdom that will navigate you. Now, when God answers you, number four, give God the glory. Give him the glory, give him the glory, give him the glory. Daniel says this when he tells the king Nebuchadnezzar, I got you, I got you, King. Check this out. I saw your dream, head of gold, brass, silver, I saw it all. I know what it I know it's up. I know, I know what's happening in the future. I got this. But guess what, King? It's not because I'm so good. He does not come forward with arrogance and pride. He basically says, It's not because of anything good I've done. Hey, listen, next time you hit a bomb, next time you finish a project, next time you get a victory, next time you you sing a great song, and whatever, whatever it is, you get a contract, something great happens in your life, make sure you go, you know what? I only have this because God gave this to me. I only have this because God last night I was watching UFC a little bit. Don't judge me, okay? I like watching fighting. If I wasn't a preacher, I'd be a fighter, okay? I just love it. But one of the guys afterwards, he got up and he says, First off, I want to thank my Lord Jesus Christ. And he just started praising the Lord and thanking the Lord. Now, he dropped a few bombs after that with some other words. But he's a fighter, not a preacher, okay? Not that that's uh any any uh uh permission, but I will tell you this. I love the fact that when people, when they get a win, they give God the glory. They're pointing to the source. God did this for me. Let me give you number five, and I want to have the music team make their way up. We're gonna have a little prayer meeting. Whatever's on your heart and life. Let's go to the Lord. Let's let's come to Him. And then number five, watch God turn the problem into promotion. Watch God turn your problem into a promotion. How many of y'all want to be promoted? Yeah, sign me up, man. Anybody want a promotion? Anybody want a bonus? Anybody want to get hooked up? Anybody want to come up the ladder a little higher? Anybody want to see some success, some s some increase, some blessings? Come on. I'm telling you right now, if if if if God was asking me, I'd be like, God, put me. I want it right now, God. All we've got to do is come to Him, He has it all.