Sunday Service - Pastor Nathaniel Haney - August 23, 2020

morning church i'm so glad that you've decided to join us in service this morning amen let me tell you we're going to have a time in the holy ghost today amen we're gonna feel the flow of the holy spirit i don't know what your week has been like whether you've done a lot or little whether you've been working or you've been at home but one thing's for sure i don't know about you but i've been waiting for this day to be gathered together with you in spirit and come together and worship the name of the lord amen we're gonna lift him up today we're gonna lift him up in praise we're gonna lift up his name in worship amen and we're not going to be ashamed about it hallelujah we're not going to be ashamed in our homes we're not going to be ashamed in our houses we're not going to be ashamed in this sanctuary we're going to praise the lord amen and how about we just give this time over to the lord how about we give it over in the holy ghost and we tell god lord we're going to do this all for you it's all about you today join me in prayer god we come before your presence today jesus up with one thing in mind god this morning and that is first and foremost to give you the glory we have come to give you the praise today we've come to lift you up god has lift you up in the holy ghost god god it will not be something that we just utter with our lips alone god but i'm determined to worship you in spirit god we are determined to worship you in spirit and in truth jesus today we will lift our voice to you today we will lift our praise to you today we're gonna let you have your way in the holy ghost god annoying father every aspect of this service every individual god who takes this pulpit lord anoint the word god to go forth because we are hoping god for whatever you want to do hallelujah hallelujah how about you give god some praise right there where you're at why don't you just lift your voice to god just lift your voice to heaven right now lift your hands to god and worship him hallelujah because he's moving in our midst god bless the praise team as they come this morning philip praise the spirit in the house this morning we're going to do something a little bit different wherever you're at this morning i would like you to stand just like you're in you know the building today where we stand and we clap our hands and we worship the lord because god is gonna bless someone today i believe that amen i really believe that this morning i woke up with a praiseful spirit i woke up with joy in my heart and i believe somebody is going to be blessed and have the joy of the lord this morning amen yes hallelujah come on somebody let's raise our hands let's worship the lord this morning he is mighty he is worthy and he is worthy of our praise we glory by you oh [Music] you this hallelujah oh i feel like praising praising him oh yeah i feel like praising praising him i'm gonna praise him in the morning praise him all day long i feel i pray praise him and sing this simple song with us this morning i feel like praising praising him i feel like [Music] to praise him don't hinder me if you don't want to praise him don't hint to me because i'm gonna praise him in the morning praise him all day long yes i am [Music] hallelujah praise him in the morning praise him all day long i feel like i feel like praising praising him oh yes i'm going to praise the lord while i have a chance [Music] let's sing that again we praise you this morning jesus this morning [Music] yes hallelujah gonna praise him in the morning praise him all day long i'm gonna praise him how did you learn praising the lord this morning hallelujah [Music] we [Music] come on somebody oh i'm gonna sing a song while i have a chance oh yes i'm gonna praise him in the morning let's sing that together [Music] [Music] while i have a chair oh i'm gonna have a chance i'm gonna pray to him [Music] hallelujah [Music] this morning hallelujah we praise you this morning lord we've come to glory praise him all day long saying of all the places that don't have the freedom to worship this morning and i was so excited because i was like you know what i do i have the freedom to worship and i have the freedom to praise his name and to get up and shout when i think of everything that god has done for me and it makes me what i'm seeing and it makes me want to worship him hallelujah come on somebody well can't nobody do me like jesus no care nobody doing like the lord can't nobody [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] he's my friend [Music] me [Music] [Music] nobody [Music] like jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] jesus i'll never forget how you brought [Music] oh [Music] what you do how can i forget how you set me free oh yes how can i forget how you brought me out how can i forget oh [Music] this morning jesus yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] is heaven and earth [Music] heaven and earth [Music] [Music] heaven and earth [Music] this morning hallelujah we love you jesus what a mighty god you are we come to glorify you this morning hallelujah jesus thank you lord hallelujah we glorify your name jesus come [Music] church on worthy come on somebody had the word this morning i feel it feel it hallelujah [Music] i searched all over couldn't find nobody looked high and cold still couldn't find nobody nobody greater nobody greater nobody greater than jesus greater nobody greater than you you worshipped our hands this morning [Music] nobody greater nobody greater than you there's nobody greater than you jesus [Music] oh [Music] i looked all around i couldn't find nobody [Music] hallelujah [Music] nobody greater than you there's nobody great [Music] nobody can save me [Music] nobody can't hold me like you jesus [Music] nobody can heal nobody [Music] nobody [Music] we worship you nobody can't save me like you jesus there's nobody nobody nobody raiders there's nobody greater than the lord nobody can hold me like you jesus nobody can hold me like you jesus there's nobody nobody nobody nobody greater [Applause] nobody can heal me like you nobody can feel there's nobody [Applause] [Music] couldn't find nobody [Music] this morning nobody greater than you [Music] jesus nobody greater nobody greater there's nobody greater nobody greater nobody [Music] nobody greater nobody [Music] [Music] nobody greater than [Music] [Music] nobody [Music] nobody greater than you let's worship hallelujah what beautiful praise and worship this morning there is no one there is no one like our god lord jesus we worship you today we give you the very best of our worship and of our love and of our praise we give it to you today god you deserve it there's none like you there's none that compares to you we worship you god we worship you lord at this time of the service we are going to go before the lord in prayer and if you have a need today you can call the number that is on the screen 209 209-476-7889 and we have pastors that are standing by ready to pray with you we know there are some families that are facing some challenges this day and this week we're going to pray with you together believing god to do what only he can do he's a miracle worker but as we pray together we're going to pray for for stockton for this city we're going to pray for our nation and then we're going to pray for this church would you join me in praying today lord jesus we pray your kingdom come your will be done in stockton as it is in heaven you have planted this church christian life center in this city with a divine purpose with a divine mission god i pray there will be such an outpouring of the holy ghost in this city like never before we stand on the promise of god that in the last days you would pour out your spirit on all flesh do it here in stockton god we pray for the prodigal sons and the prodigal daughters that you would bring them home bring them back to the house of god bring them back to the altar god we pray for all those in this city that are trapped that are bound by addictions and sins in lifestyles that they want to get out of we speak to the north and we speak to the south we speak to the east and we speak to the west and we command you to release the souls that are prepared for god's harvest god do it today god do it in this season do it in this hour we pray and we pray for this nation god that is divided we pray for a mighty work of god to take place we pray god for our government leaders for our president for all those in congress for all those at the supreme court for every level of government across this nation god do a great work god bring righteousness and morality back to this nation do the work that only you can do be exalted in this hour that eyes be turned to you that hearts be turned to you again o god and lord we pray for this church this day the members of this congregation that you would continue to bless and you would continue to provide you would continue to heal that you would continue to do the great works that only you can do in jesus name in jesus name in jesus name we pray these prayers and we pray in faith today in jesus name in jesus name god bless you today it is now time for our sunday morning tithe and offering greetings christian life center what a wonderful day what a great service we've been having and we're going to take time right now for tithe and offering our offering is something that we give from our heart it's not something that's required but when we're grateful we love and we have thanksgiving to the lord we want to give god an offering but our tithe that's something belongs to god and what a god he gives you 90 you take 10. that means out of every dollar all he asks for is 10 what does he do for you he gives you life he gives you the ability to do what you do and all they ask is a small return we serve a great god and so at this time i would invite you to worship god in your tithe and offering god bless you [Music] the power in the blood of jesus has always determined the victory over the child of god in the world that we live and i'm so thankful that his blood is available to whosoever will by faith accept the work of the cross and the words of jesus amen this morning i want to read from the book of daniel chapter 10 and i'm going to read a few verses of scripture but we're going to look at the world that we live in and we're also going to look at the world that daniel lived in and i believe there are some similarities that will help us to understand what is going on in the united states of america 2020 and for that matter in the world the planet that we live on in 2020 if you have your bibles we will look at verse one it says in the third year of cyrus king of persia a thing was revealed unto daniel whose name was called belteshazzar and the thing was true but the time appointed was long and understood the thing and had understanding of the vision so this is about the year of 537 536 bc daniel is having a message from god that's going to be delivered he's going to have a vision that is going to help him understand that it's about three four years after the uh exile of the babylonian captivity and the assyrian captivity and cyrus the great has allowed jews in fact not just jews but different peoples from different countries that had been brought into captivity to be brought to his capital cities and now he has made an edict or he has issued a proclamation that they can return home for the jews they are being allowed to return home and with that is a great promise that they can rebuild their temple that had been destroyed so they can worship their god so there's should be an excitement that has taken place here um verse 2 says in those days i daniel was mourning three full weeks uh very specifically in the hebrew it tells us that it's weeks of days and not weeks of years most commentaries would agree with that but there are some that try to make it 21 years rather than 21 days it doesn't fit the context and but it's a three full weeks of days uh three units of seven days 21 days here he says and for these this time i was mourning the morning speaks of the type prayer speaks of the weight of what he was going through and it speaks of the spiritual conditions that he personally is forging through verse 3 says i ate no pleasant bread neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth neither did i anoint myself at all till three whole weeks were fulfilled that means to give you an ideal he didn't take a bath he didn't change his clothes he did nothing that would make people around him think that things were fine but he allowed himself physically to look and to become like what he was dealing with spiritually and so he just began to smell he didn't try and remove the smell he uh didn't bathe which would have refreshed him relaxed him cleansed him he didn't change his clothes but he stayed steadfast and as the fight and the spirituality around him was in this kind of torn condition so it was that he allowed himself to and jewish tradition whenever one is going to be moving into the realm of the spirit going to be seeing visions working with angels a tradition teaches that fasting is a prerequisite to that i don't know that that's really a tradition i think there's that's actually true most people that i know and most situations that i've been connected with uh indirectly or directly where there has been great spiritual movement and momentum and visitation and warfare and and revelation has come when people are praying and fasting and so um but anyway the jews have this tradition verse 4 says and in the four and 20 day of the first month that's a 24th day of the first month as i was by the side of the great river which is head to kell and that is the tigris river today we call that the tigers river that river is about 1150 feet long it's about 500 feet shorter than the euphrates river they kind of run parallel to each other through the crescent of mesopotamia starting up toward turkey and then down into the gulf there but one is of course longer in the other however the tigris river actually produces more water has a swifter current than the euphrates river which is a slower river and while it is longer it doesn't have as much water in it well daniel is by the tigris river as we would say today so that kind of gives you a geographical area where this has taken place when he's there the bible says then i lifted up mine eyes and looked and behold a certain man clothed in linen the hebrew tells us it's white linen it's referring to a clean garment of righteousness it uh has sainthood to it it has um god's uh emissary connected to this linen uh whose loins were girded with fine gold of uh you has which is a uh cause scholars to debate exactly what that particular type of gold and look would be but we do know that whatever it was it was magnificent by the effect that it had on daniel and uh and and so verse six says his body also uh was like a burl and we know what that uh the stone burl is and so his face has the appearance of lightning and his eyes as lamps of fire and his arms and his feet like in color to polish brass and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude and so when he spoke it wasn't a quiet but it was loud it was powerful and he had this face that was lit up as if lightning itself had was coming from it his uh his is the body that he was in this we call it skin but if this being a spiritual being it would have been some kind of a spiritual body would have looked like the brass that was in a firmness that had that special glow to it and so he was quite a character and i daniel alone verse 7 saw the vision for the man for the men that were with me saw not the vision but a great quaking fell upon them so that they fled to hide themselves and i find this interesting same thing with paul when paul had his vision from heaven the men with him they heard a voice some of them did some of them felt the presence but they did not see in this vision daniel is the only one that is actually seeing what has taken place the men that are with him they sense that there is a presence that their eyes cannot see there is paranal activity taking place but it's not evil it's good it's not human it's of god and they sense that this is there and something in them says uh this is in a realm that's beyond where we live and the fear was so great and there was a quaking possibly when the two dimensions came together of this natural dimension and that dimension of the spirit there was a a a settling that took place so they could be fused together and when this happened there was a quaking those men that were with daniel they fled or they ran they took off the fear drove them and this is a common thing when people are scared they usually bowl to run daniel on the other hand he falls on his face and he is waiting there knowing that something very very powerful in the spirit is taking place one of the reasons daniel knows is is that he has been in prayer and he has been fasting he has been mourning he has been seeking god for some answers about certain feigns so why he's not exactly uh um you know jubilant and and and unafraid like the others were afraid and he himself is sharing that the difference is is that this is connected to his prayers so he expects some kind of movement in the spirit realm to visit him at this time and so this verse kind of gives us that setting where there is a separation as we would say between the men and the boys the man stays and the boys run in fear and that leaves an open playing field or that leaves an open stage for the angel not only to stay in a vision but to move outside the vision and to physically appear to daniel now many times in the scripture these men of god had visions or they had dreams but in this case this was more than a vision more than a dream it had all these elements to it but when it finally came to full for fruition with daniel it was in totality and in the natural world and so he sees this with his body he fills this with his flesh he understands this with his mind and he can touch this with his hand and this thing if someone was standing there would see that being because it had crossed through the veil that is between the natural world and the spirit world and this vision manifests and this angel becomes a visible a partation of the spirit realm to the natural realm okay verse 9 says yet heard i the voice of his words and when i heard the voice of his words then was i in deep sleep on my face and my face toward the ground or i was i couldn't bear to look at this verse 10 says and behold and hand touched me which set me up on my knees and upon the palms of my hands and he said unto me o daniel a man greatly beloved understand the words that i speak unto thee and stand upright so let's talk about that now god loves everybody bible says in the new testament in the book of first john it says god is love it's a simple statement he is the definition of love the bible says for god so loved the world that he gave loving people often times has the action of giving to people something that they need or something that you deem valuable you hand to them god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believed in him should not perish but have everlasting life so god is love his love moves to bring his son or messiah and his love allows us to believe in him so that we don't have to perish and go to hell and be lost that is love so we understand that god is love however there are relationships that god has with certain people that he allows them to build and in the new testament it would be somewhat different but in the old testament abraham is called the friend of god three different times he's called the friend of god there were other men that knew god maybe even had great experiences but they did not have that intimacy or that friendship and that friendship of course is telling us that there's a there's this fondness for each other there's this love between them there's these emotional uh uh uh uh transmissions that are taking place between the two of them they had a real closeness and so the bible tells us that abraham was the friend of god david he was a man after god's own heart there was something in david that made him different than others and and and he courted god's heart he had this relation and and god reciprocated to david and they had this well in this case the bible tells daniel that he is a man that is greatly beloved in the new testament we find john mentioned five separate times as the disciple whom jesus loved now what are you saying pastor i'm saying that you can build a relationship beyond the general love that god releases upon humanity and have intimacy with god if you want to or you can be satisfied with just being on this plane that knowing i know god loves me i love him and leave it at that or you can say you know what god will allow me to build a relationship and be closer to him and i will experience greater depths of love than just the salvik love and just the general a sovereign love of god but they'll be that relationship love and and you can build that well daniel had built that he he was a passionate man and the angel said daniel thou art greatly beloved not just a little loved not just a little bit more god likes you but i want you to understand you are greatly loved it's big love actually is what the hebrew says there it's it's it's it's a great love it it's not just you know god kind of likes you a little bit more no no no no god has this great big love in his heart for you daniel and so he tells him that and then after he tells him that he's loved he makes another statement to him he says now stand upright for unto thee i am now sent and when he had spoken this word unto me i stood trembling so daniel's down on his face and the angel comes through the veil or the uh dimension where he can be seen in the natural and he says daniel you don't need to be afraid you're greatly beloved of god that's why i'm here i've come with a purpose i come with mission i come with what god wanted me to do i want you to stand up on your feet and daniel stands up he's still a little bit shaky from this experience of this physical body coming in contact with spiritual heavenly bodies and and the realm of the spirit in verse 12 this uh being which is an angel says to him then said he unto me fear not let me tell you something god does not intend for you to be afraid when he shows up and answers to your prayer you can have confidence that he's not going to give you something that will hurt you he's not going to do something to you that would be bad and he's not going to put you in a position that is going to compromise you in fact speaking in the book of luke to the disciples he said shall a son ask his father for a loaf of bread and the father give him a stone or shall he ask his father for a fish in other words the child's hungry and says dad can i have some bread can i have some fish that was kind of a common little lunch of that day remember the little boy with the lunch of the loaves and fishes and he says will he then turn around and give that child a serpent or a scorpion that would hurt that child and it's a rhetorical question means that you don't need to answer it we all know the answer a a father would never give his child a serpent or scorpion where he opens up the lunch and out jumps a snake and bites him or a scorpion that stings him or he opens up a a lunch for reaches in for his little loaf of bread and there's a big rock there that his father sent to school with him to eat on that no no no and jesus said you being natural fathers know how to do good things to your children how much more will the heavenly father do good things to you that ask him the point i want to tell you is that god loves you and he's not trying to find a way to hurt you and when he shows up he doesn't want you to be afraid because he is going to make sure that everything that you've been praying about and seeking is going to work out for the good of his kingdom and the good of the love and relationship that you and him have together so i'm just kind of laying the foundation where we're going today but i really feel that god has a word of the lord in this service so he said unto me said stand up and and don't be afraid now notice this from the first day that you did set thine heart to understand and to chasten or to mourn or to cause an affliction upon your soul this fasting this refusing to bathe or to wash because of the turmoil year when you just set yourself aside and said i'm going to get in my prayer clause and i'm going to lock in with god and i'm not going to pay attention to what's happening to the natural world around me i'm curious it's it's a mess but i gotta get into the realm of the spirit daniel the first day you did that and you did this before god you didn't do this so everyone could see you didn't get on the street corner and say hey i'm going on a 21-day fast you all pray for me that god will give me strength to make it now i've seen people do that in fact i remember one time there was a uh our family was having a gathering years ago and instagram and twitter and all that kind of stuff and somebody put on their instagram uh it was at the thanksgiving time of the year after thanksgiving god's calling me on a fast i want all of you to pray for me that i can do this 21-day fast blah blah blah blah and one of the family members and that said oh that we need to really pray for them that's commendable i said that's not commendable i said there's nothing there but a big old brag they want everyone to know they're probably going to eat every night and and have a great time at life and it just kind of gagged me to be honest with you daniel wasn't like that he wasn't trying to get attention like the pharisees on the street corner that fast twice a week and pray big long prayers he was trying to get a hold of god and there is a huge difference between getting the attention and the eye in the ear of people and getting the attention of god and daniel could care less what the people around him he could care less if they thought he was he's 85 he's 83 84 85 years old at this stage of life you think an 85 year old man really cares what the community thinks about him who's walked with god since he was a child i mean face it he's been through the time when he was taken from his country as a young boy forced to learn the evils of the babylonian wizardry and become a quarter and a wise man in the courts he's he's new nebuchadnezzar probably one of the greatest kings that ever lived on the planet he's been through kings that pushed him aside and yet he stood he prayed he's been put in the lion's den because he wouldn't stop praying you think at that stage of life he could care less what anybody thinks if you do you really don't understand spiritual people he did not care he had one thing in mind and that was i have got to hear what god says to me i've got a prayer i need an answer and i want to know what god thinks about the matter and what's going on and daniel got to that place hallelujah the bible says that the angel spoke to him and said now listen here you set thine heart to understand and you caused your soul be brought under before god your god not just god but your god thy words were heard and i am come for thy words in other words daniel the very first time you prayed your prayer 21 days ago you got on your knees you opened your window and you cried out to god or 21 days ago you laid on your face in the little room where you live and you begin to call out to god you didn't feel one thing you didn't feel the heaven shake you didn't have a lightning bolt that kind of went across the sky and you didn't feel the rumble and hear the thunder as it rolled saying daniel's back on his knees it was all calm it was all steel in fact it was as if the heavens were brass and the floor was iron and your prayers were trapped in this place and there was no way they could get to god from the first day that you set your face to do this god heard your word now it's important that we understand that because that when we pray just because god doesn't answer and respond immediately to us that has no bearing whatsoever on the fact if god is listening and if god has plans to answer and be involved with us now i know some people if they can't get a little feeling going if they can't get a little tear cranked up or they can't get a little motion flowing if they can't get a little feeling taking place then then god ain't in it well i've got news for you god's in a lot of things that you don't feel nothing or don't know anything about and if you are going to be a spiritual woman of god or you are going to be a spiritual man of god you are going to have to learn to walk by faith when there is no feeling and believe when you pray according to the will and the word of god that in heaven there is a god that sits on a throne and he is concerned about what you are saying and he is listening to the words that you have spoken and when in faith it moves god to respond even if you don't feel one little thing going on verse 13 but the prince of the kingdom of persia withstood me 21 days let's talk about that what is a prince a prince is a ruler in a kingdom and the bible says that there was a prince of persia context tells us that this is not speaking of cyrus the great or his son that is ruling over the natural kingdom but this is a spiritual prince of persia you see the way that it works is in the natural world every nation has a governmental force of fallen angels that are interacting and ruling over that government now i know some of you you think we just got into star wars or fairy tales but this is what the bible teaches and that's where them people get all it and twist it around but the way that it works is that when satan in the early days and angels back then fell out of the grace of god in rebellion against god there was a formation that took place that created a government that simulated the government of god and in simulating that government they took over and became the prince of this world the god of this world the god of the air the king of tyra the falling star of isaiah and satan and the devil and all of the principalities the powers thrones and dominions visible and invisible that were ruling over the affairs and the system of this world and god allowed them to set that up and so even today over the nations of the world there are powerful angels that are in charge under those angels there are other fallen angels that work with them and then under them there are other angels that are of lesser power and there are demons that work by the hordes that we probably don't even know the numbers of demons that are out there and they form a kingdom of darkness that creates almost like an iron dome over the nations of the world in which they are in charge of they have one little problem once in a while unfortunately they don't have it enough but they do have it once in a while once in a while somebody gets to pray once in a while somebody gets to call it on the name of the lord once in a while somebody understands who they are and who they have been called to be and what god has designed them to do and when they get the recognition of exactly what they are in god's kingdom then this impregnable dome that surrounds and covers the kingdoms of the world is not as impregnable as they want people to believe because when people begin to pray there's a kingdom that is above their kingdom there is a god that is above them there is a power that is greater than them and the prayers of the saints cannot be stopped from moving from this planet into the kingdom of heaven and anything in between doesn't have the power to stop that prayer from going through and god hearing that prayer now some people they they they have trouble with that because they prayed about something and it just didn't happen i don't even begin to try to explain why sometimes things have went the other way when we prayed but i do believe that this book gives us the general plan of how it works and if a man or a woman is going to walk by the spirit you cannot dwell on a failure or a prayer or a request that seemingly did not happen the way you thought it should happen but you got to dwell on what the word of god says i read in the book of john chapter 15 verse 7 it said if your words abide in me and my word abide in you you shall ask what you will and it shall be done unto you and so you've got to understand when you get god's word in you and you begin to pray about things there's going to be some movement in the realm of the spirit and daniel is there praying for 21 days about the same issue daniel prayed his entire life so this isn't like he just decided to go 21 days and start a little prayer life daniel's had a prayer of life for 60 70 years and he's been calling on the name of the lord but this time he focuses for 21 days and he prays about the same thing and he keeps calling on the name of god and seeking the face of god and for 21 days what daniel did not know is that on earth god was listening to his prayer and what daniel did not know is that from the very first day daniel prayed god reached over and said to an angel he said hey come here and it might have been gabriel he said gabriel come over here i got something i want you to do yes lord what do you want me to do i just heard daniel ask me a question i want you to go down and give him some revelation sure god i'll do that and and and and gabriel takes off for whoever the angel was and he gets down and flies all through there and right when he shows up on the border he's met by a prince by the by the name of persia and and and the persian prince is backed by thousands of other foreign uh demon powers that are saying there said you are not coming through our territories i know daniel is a child of god and i know that god's over all but he give us authority in this age he has not yet bound us he has not yet sent us to uh the lake of fire he has not yet uh caused our authority to be that's been delegated to be retract and so we stand here to defy you you're not going to tell daniel now daniel doesn't know any of this is going on all daniel knows is that he's trying to get some information from god all daniel knows is that he's praying about something and it seems like his prayers aren't even getting past the roof of his mouth and and it just seems that nothing's taken place the bible says but the prince of the kingdom of persia withstood me that means he started fighting the kingdom of darkness started coming after him and and and the lord said uh or the angel said to him said but lo michael one of the chief prince in other words one of these angels that god created to be very powerful he uh he came to help me and so i remained there with the kings of persia now let's put that in perspective for a moment we don't know all of the archangels as we call them sometimes we say satan's an archangel the bible doesn't call him an archangel it calls him a cherub but obviously he is over he is a leader of other angels so the archangel term could fit him uh gabriel it never calls him an archangel but maybe he has other he's over the messenger the mel department and maybe that's his job that would make him an archangel that would make him a prince over other powers there and i'm sure there's others that we don't know about we talked on wednesday night of the seven angels of the presence that jewish talks about we know two of them in the scripture uh but but there's things we don't know exactly everything but what we do know is this that daniel had a prayer god sent an angel the prince of persia which is the representation which we'll explain here in a little bit of not just one age one bad angel fighting one good angel but he represents a horde a host an army of of of of thousands if not millions of angels to stop him and god says to to michael who is an archangel who is the angel that protects israel from their enemies he says to michael he says michael you come over here and you remember i sent gabriel down there a few days ago to give that answer yeah well they won't let him through and i want you to go down there and i want you to tell the prince of persia and all them fallen angels and all those demons that they they need to step aside and let him through because i want daniel to have this answer and so michael says sure god if that's what you want that's what you're going to get and michael moves in there and he shows up and the prince of persia says i ain't budging and michael says this is a no-brainer you god created me for this i'm the fighting angel and if that's what you want you can have it i in fact i was hoping you'd say no because it gets kind of boring just having to deliver the word of god once in a while i'd like to get his little action in on this and so he grabs that old uh evil uh demon fallen angel and he thumps one on his head and and kicks a few of them around and maybe a few hundred thousand of them around and says all right you go down there and tell them i'll stay here and keep them off your back when you get through you come back to me and we'll finish dealing with the rest of them it really was about like that i know i've embellished it and made it simple for human beings like you and i but that's about how it happened now what you got to understand that's very spiritual in this message here today is this daniel is one man without the holy ghost and without the name of jesus and without a verse of scripture or a passage of scripture or a group of scriptures that he is that he is standing on that says god promises you that i'm going to do this for you and i'm going to answer your prayer you see in the new testament we have the baptism of the holy ghost in the new testament we have the name of jesus in the new testament we have the word of god in the new testament we have things that daniel only could dream of laying his hands on to help him accomplish the will of god and yet in the old testament when the prince of persia and the kingdom of persia at its greatest strengths and its greatest powers at that particular time were not able to stop one man without the baptism of the holy ghost one man that did not have the word to say devil i'm standing on the word one man that did not have the name of jesus to say listen demon listen fallen angel i come to you in jesus name get out of the way he didn't have any of that all he had was that he was a child of god and that he had faith in god and he knew the power of prayer and he knew that his god ruled over the affairs of men as he cro as he told us early on when god answered the dream of the interpretation of the vision of the image that nebuchadnezzar had the point in this is simple that satan has never been a match for the church but the church believes often that satan is a match for them somehow they have this concept that there's the force of good and there's the force of evil they're kind of like equal powers and that's the way it's presented in books that's the way it's presented in novels that's the way it's presented in fiction that's the way it's presented in hollywood that's the way it's presented in movies and tv shows is it this big that god is is powerful and eventually wins out but there's so much evil going on out there let me set some of you straight those people that write those books and those people that make those movies and all those people that teach that nonsense out there they don't know god to begin with they've never met god they've never had an encounter with god they've never been baptized they've never been filled with this spirit they've never been adopted and they're trying to tell you how spiritual things work and then you are stupid enough and i use the word stupid very tenderly but very forcefully today you are stupid enough to watch that and let that bring together your concept of how god does things now i got some of you stirred up and i'm planning to step on your toes and crawl up on your shins and kick them if i have to but i'm gonna wake some of you up in the spirit today and i'm gonna tell you if you believe that nonsense you are dumber than you look and more stupid than you think because the devil has never been a match and all the fallen angels with him one time against the creator of heaven and earth whom the god we serve and daniel who didn't have the holy ghost who didn't have the name of jesus that lived under an old covenant that passed away that didn't have anything that could make him this great powerful individual that many of you are today that man understood one thing my god is in charge and he is the greatest thing that has ever happened to this earth and it doesn't matter if it's the prince of persia the prince of greece the prince of rome the prince of babylon or all the forces of hell if god will something to be done they're not going to have any say so in what's going to take place well i feel it coming on i feel like the lord wants to speak to someone today god has raised up a church in this end time we're going to come back and talk about this because this is one powerful passage that we got to get through but let me take you to the book of colossians quickly if you would colossians chapter one one of my favorite favorite favorite passages in the new testament colossians chapter one and we're going to start with verse uh 12. it says giving thanks unto the father which hath made us meet uh or made us uh made us worthy to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light now when you got saved god made you a partaker he made you worthy that means that before you were saved you was not worthy of the inheritance that god had created for his people you were on the outside looking in saying i'd sure like to sit at that table but when god saved you he adopted you and he pulled chair up and he said now you're worthy to sit down with my children and feed on the inherits that i ha inheritance i have for them and so you got to understand your position we still are struggling as christians at times with our position but we've got to understand that our position in god is that we are worthy of the inheritance that god has created and made for us verse 13 who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and you've heard me say this a lot but i'm going to say it again he did not just deliver me from darkness but he delivered me from the power of darkness and there is a vast difference darkness does not have anything that can hurt anybody the same thing in the darkness is the same thing in the light it's just you can't see what's in the darkness but if we turn the lights out in this building that i'm in and and and and we we've turned every light off there wouldn't be one single difference in this building except that the light would not be shining the same people in here the singers the the the worshipers and and the musicians uh the preacher the bible and all of the open space it would all still be there and so that's not what god cares about delivering you from the darkness because the darkness can't comprehend the light all we have to do to deal with the light is flip the switch and the light goes on and the darkness is gone in less than a second it cannot defy god's light it's just the way that it is so what are we talking about the power of darkness we're talking about the power of satan to keep people in bondage from truth in whom the god of this world hath blinded their eyes from the glorious image of christ so that they could not believe on him and be saved and when you believe on the son of god there's salvation and there's freedom that comes and so that's the power and god says not only am i going to turn the light switch on and the light's going to dispel the darkness but the power you've been holding sway over this young man or this young woman or this old man or this old woman that power is no longer going to be in effect and god said whatever power satan has when i saved you i broke it over you and he no longer can lord that power on top of you yes the sinner he can control yes the ungodly he can leash and yes those out there that do not believe in jesus and other religions he can put chains but when it comes to the child of god his power ends where your freedom begins and your freedom begins at the cross verse 14 in whom we have redemption through his blood even the forgiveness of sins who is the image of the invisible god the firstborn of every creature for by him we're talking about the image of god god's visibility that makes the invisible spirit visible to his creation for by him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth visible and invisible different worlds god created it all whether they be thrones that's the places where uh regal authority set or dominions what are we talking about we're talking about this is a special class of angelic power so god created these special classes of angelic power and then he said uh principalities what are principalities principalities are rulers over political kingdoms and political organizations and in this case it's referring to the rulers of darkness that paul talked about and could refer to the rulers of light that did not defect with them it's kind of given the overall creation and then he says uh they were created a for him and by him before he says it he says powers and powers of course are authorities and their governments such as in england they're used to say during the time of this translation the powers that be it spoke of the queen or the crown and all of the government officials and then the nations and the armies that supported the decision of that crown and so this is what this is referring to god created all of this they did not create god they were not coexistent with god but god created all of this what does this mean this means that god is in control of all of this the next verse gives a clear understanding and he is before all things means he existed before he created it and by him all things consist that means that if he decides that something no longer is necessary he removes his creative power from it and it ceases to exist it no longer is alive it no longer has substance it no longer is it goes away and so god could look at an angel if he wanted that was a bad angel and he could say i don't want you in the universe anymore he could pull his life source out of it in whatever that mass of spirit or molecules or whatever it is that makes up an angel it would just obliviate it would be gone that's how powerful god is and that's how strong and how wonderful the word and the will of god works and god says that by him he created all these things and these saints have their existence by him but it did not stop there he went on to say and he is the head of the body which is the church and says the church and it means which is the church in other words every child of cry of god that's in the body of christ that's that's part of the church christ is your head you are the members in particular of that body and he is the beginning the firstborn from the dead that in all things we might have what is it preeminence let me read that to some of you again that we might have uh that he might have preeminence in all things meaning that because he put the body together because he created because the whole things exist that he is in charge of everything he has preeminence i mean he's the boss man and when he speaks his word is going to happen exactly the way that he wants it to happen and it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks or anyone else says what matters is what thus saith the lord and so god has this let me take you again to ephesians chapter 1 and read a verse of scripture in fact i don't believe we went there yet today but let me take you to ephesians chapter one there is a verse of scripture that i would like to read in this setting and then i want to go back to daniel and ty this uh day together so ephesians chapter 1 and verse 21 it says it like this it says in fact let's let's back up just a little bit so we get it all together to start with verse 18. it says the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you may know what is the hope of his calling and what is the riches the glory of his inheritance in the saint and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to his us to us word who believe according to the working of his mighty power verse 20 which he wrought in christ that's how he brought it to fruition this is how he made it possible in jesus christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand and in the heavenly places now how did god accomplish all that we've been reading about he accomplished this by raising up christ setting in his right hand and telling the church the power that christ had on earth i invested in you you're his agent you go forth and do the works that he did and greater works than these shall you do because i go unto my father this is the message that is being preached now we want to get to 21. he said that he he put him at his own right hand and then it says in heavenly places far above all principalities and powers and might and dominion we went through some of these and every name that is above or every name that is named not only in this world but also in that which is to come you can go to chapter six and paul picks up this again he was a writer of spiritual things and he says finally my brother in verse 10 be strong in the lord and the power of his might put on the whole armor of god that you might be able to stand against the wiles of the devil for we wrestle not everybody read this right now everybody say this we wrestle not against flesh and blood let's say it again for we wrestle not against flesh and blood we got to say it again for we wrestle not against flesh and blood in other words it's not my job it's not your job to do all the nonsense going on in the world and be part of the protesters and part of the rioters and part of the criminals and part of the thugs and part of all the nasty stuff happening that we don't do that now you may feel like doing that i felt like doing it a few times but i didn't feel like doing what some of them protesters did i feel like getting rid of some of them protesters but nonetheless that's my flesh but where you and i are most effective is where we go to the prayer closet where you and i really get business done is not standing with a megaphone on the sidewalk screaming and yelling or throwing some rocks through some windows or having a fight with the opposite side of a belief system where you and i start getting things done as we crawl in the prayer clause and get on our face like daniel and say oh mighty god of heaven and earth judge of all mankind power of creation i come as your child this day with a request in the court of heaven that must take the primitives in this earthly situation oh hallelujah i feel the holy ghost coming on right now somebody needs to hear what i'm saying this is where we have got to get a hold of this we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against powers and against the rulers of darkness and against this of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places what i'm trying to tell you is that daniel was a man that didn't have the name of god in the name of jesus he had the name of yahweh the old testament name of god i don't know how much he used it because i don't hear it in there maybe he did use it he didn't have the baptism of the holy ghost he may have had the anointing i'm sure he had the anointing of god the spirit was upon him but he didn't have that a holy ghost anointing like we have in the new testament he didn't have all of the scriptures yet written that made all these promises and understanding that i just wrote to you he just had kind of a primitive knowledge but there was enough in what daniel had that made him absolutely certain that there was no force or foe or fee of uh enemy that was able to withstand him now here's the here's the irony of it all we got one man that is mortal he has to eat he has to sleep he has to drink the diseases can touch his body and he gets older and he dies and eventually they say goodbye daniel and they wrap him up and they bury him he's a frail human being he's a man that doesn't have the strength of spirit beings and then just right across the way you got angels that never get sick that are greater in might and power than daniel will ever be as a man you got fallen angels that are strong angels that can strike somebody dead angels that can move from one place to another place in the split second where it would take us all day to travel they just basically thank it and they're there they've got bodies that you could shoot bullets through throw spears through put arrows in and it just go right through them and yet they could reach back and hit you and take your head off we're talking about a complete a complete uneven battle we're not talking about two opponents like in a boxing ring where over here we have one that's 220 pounds and he's 62 and over here we have one that's six foot and he's two hundred and and nine pounds and the reach is only about a half a half an inch or an inch off and and and they both have good records and and there's real close we're not talking about that we're talking about somebody that's like taking a little kindergarten and putting them in the ring with a professional fighter now the the the knowledge is that that little kindergarten is going to be slaughtered if that professional fighter were to release all of it release all of his power against that little child our society wouldn't stand for that at least we don't think it would daniel is the little kindergarten and he's in the ring with a professional fighter that's been fighting for thousands of years he's been defying god for thousands of years not only is he in the ring but there's armies behind him armies that are powerful and they are controlling the kingdom of persia and one man with god is a majority because that one man got down on his knees and he started praying oh yes he started praying he started talking to god and why he was talking to god the spirit world started changing daniel couldn't see it cyrus couldn't see it the armies of cyrus couldn't see it the other believers couldn't see it there wasn't anything in the human realm that could put their finger on what was going on in that realm but daniel just kept praying now you better believe me when i tell you if the devil could have shut daniel down he would have shut him down if he could have defied him he would have defied him if he could have stopped him he would have stopped him he did everything in his power to stop what daniel was doing he used discouragement he used depression he used the the thoughts that god doesn't care about you and god's not listening to you and god's not going to answer your prayer and and god doesn't work this way and you don't have any old testament president or you don't have some prophet that had a situation like you that you can look back to and he did everything he could do to make daniel give up and you know what daniel did daniel just kept praying daniel just kept calling on the name of god and i want to tell somebody something the battle is not gonna be one in flesh and blood you go to the polls you can vote and you should it's a privilege of being an american if you don't shame on you speak up when you have a chance try and explain to people who have had years of of all the lies and all of the anti-christian uh propaganda put into their brains sometimes you can straighten people out you got to talk to people but when the day is done if you hadn't been to the prayer closet if you ain't been in the book if you ain't been holding god to his word nothing that you do in the natural is going to have any a lasting effect in your life and those that you love in the spirit realm but you can get in prayer and i promise you hell may so badly want to shut you down they may so badly want to stop you and even if they could kill you and your last prayer was a prayer about what you was seeking god's face to take place on this earth let's say god allowed them to kill you they still can't kill the prayer that you prayed we saw this in revelation the bible says that those tears and those prayers are bottled up in the book of acts and the story of cornelius cornelius is praying every single day in the bible sin says that the god sent an angel to cornelius and the angel said to corneas your prayers your personal prayers as a gentile roman soldier have come up to god as a memorial that means that god was keeping a log and a record on what cornelius was doing and i believe there's some people that are got a log in heaven with god and god's writing down every day so and so prayed and they asked me this so and so prayed and and god is moving and and doing things but we're not seeing it and so we're getting discouraged and we're getting up giving up and i'll tell you what i asked god today well i'm not going to tell you everything i ask but i'm going to tell you something that i think is pertinent and important what i as god i said god today when i preach this i don't want a big show of emotion and obviously that hasn't happened but what i want is i want this to get into the ears of a thousand people that will become intercessors and pray and i said god i don't want it to be people that do a little lay me down to sleep prayers little good night prayers but people that'll believe what this book says not what the preacher's saying you check me out in the scripture but people that'll believe what the book's saying and will get so into prayer get so into the word of god and will not let go and will not give up that they will see and the church will see i honestly believe and i'm not and and some of you think i'm just talking about politics and all of that and and i'm not talking about that right now i'm talking about spiritual matters that have direct or indirect results to the church and if it is politics it's politics but it's not about politics it's about god's will being done in the midst of his people now here's the thing god said if my people which are called by my name i will read it and quote it to you but i'm gonna we're gonna look at it here ii chronicles 7 verse 12 and the lord appeared to solomon by night and said unto him i have heard thy prayer i have chosen this place myself for a house of sacrifice if i shut up heaven that there be no rain or if i command the locusts to devour the land or i send pestilence among my people and he gives bad things that have happened he says if my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves humility is a prerequisite to answered prayer but don't confuse boldness with arrogance because boldness and arrogance are different you can be very humble and be very bold because humility is in the spirit just as arrogance is in the spirit boldness is confidence and so don't think that you come into god telling god how rotten you are and how come you don't deserve it and that's humility that can be spiritual pride in itself but come with humility and speak it in boldness because if you read through here this is what he said he said he said those people get in there and start calling and turn that's boldness they believed god was going to do what he said so he said if my people which are called by my name would humble themselves now after you get humble what do you do humility acknowledges that you cannot on your own you're not self-sufficient you're not self-reliant you're not all-powerful you're not almighty and you can't take care of your own problems that's humility you understand it here you understand it here so what do you do you look for someone bigger than yourself that's jesus and you pray so if my people which are called by my name would humble themselves and pray why do we pray humility is displayed in bold praying some of you didn't catch that i can feel you i lost you there humility is displayed released in the prayers of god's people bold praying and seek my face now i know there's a there's a real deep theological meaning in that right there but let me give you something that's so simple that's not theological that just kind of scratched the surface but will help you all how many people have prayed but they never sought god's face we're going to have prayer meet the ladies are going to have prayer meeting next week we're going to talk more about it next sunday but next week the ladies are going to have prayer those ladies are going to come in here this building and they're going to pray and seek god for about an hour and a half there's going to be a move of god but how many of them are just coming to pray and how many of them are going to come in to seek god's face and get an audience with the king i'm believing all of them are i believe a spirit of prayer is coming on them i believe they're going to come in and talk to god and god's going to talk with them but it's possible that you can pray every day and never get an audience with jesus never really seek his face you know how to do all of this it's part of your tradition part of your culture part of your your rituals part of the way you live life but you never actually make the full connection and god says i don't want that kind of prayer if i wanted bulls and i wanted sacrifices i wouldn't ask you i own a cattle on a thousand heels i do my own sacrifice but i want someone that will seek my face and then he goes on and he says and turn from their wicked ways oh he can't be talking about us we don't have no wicked ways well one wicked way is the sin of prayerlessness samuel said god forgive me for the sin of prayerlessness or that i commit the sin of prayerlessness it's possible to only pray when you have a need and that's a sin god expects you to walk as a child with him all day long effective prayers are prayers of people that have searched their soul and made right with god and so yes there's a place for repentance there's a place for cleansing when we're going to really get serious with god he said now if you'll do all that this is what i'll do i'll hear from heaven i'll forgive the sin and i will heal the land god give me a thousand intercessors the next 12 months i'm asking today people that are listening if you would become an intercessor for the next 12 months not the next 30 years of your life but the next 12 months how many of you would say pastor haney i will commit to being a woman or a man of intercessor prayer not just my own little prayer life but i'm talking about prayer that makes and reaches beyond my own needs it will invite the spirit of intercessor into my life every day so that i make a difference that's what i'm asking today because i believe that the world its condition started a long time ago when the church stopped praying and righteousness was pulled down and the church was a silent majority instead of a vocal majority and then we just let it all go now you got to be a vocal because the silent didn't work and if we're going to have a revival and a spiritual awakening and we're going to fill our churches with hungry souls we have got to understand that we are fighting principalities that are working 24 7 and they have an agenda for the antichrist see the the kingdom of babylon came along the kingdom of persia came along the kingdom of greece the green kingdom of rome came along and then in the prophetic sense the last kingdom is the kingdom of the antichrist and it's coming up but the bible says that that spirit of law breaking and rebellion which is prevalent in the younger generation can be suppressed and held back if men and women will do what god called them do and that stand and the power of his might be strong in the lord praying always with all prayer and supplication and persuades unto the saints church let's pray let's pray this week and let's ask god to pray through us the final admonishment is trust the holy ghost some of you you your mind is so inundated and filled and twisted with things the world has put in you but your spirit's pure before god and you haven't been able to correlate and bring your you haven't been able to get your mind where world god see god saves you and you're born again and your spirit prays and gets pure just like that but your minds maybe you've been to university and you're warped and maybe you've been on the job and this and you've had these friends and you've watched these it takes a while to get the the natural man in line with the spirit man you hear what i'm saying and there's people out there you're good people you've been born again you're right inside but it's going to take a process to make a saint and to correct your thinking and so when you pray you find yourself sometimes not praying what you should now you think you're praying what you should but you're not praying according to the word of god or the will of god because your human mind is speaking with its powerful voice and satan's adding its voice to that and and people like yourselves and all these voices from the past that have been put in you they speak like the roar of many waters and they drowned out the voice of god and so when i say trust the holy ghost what i mean is that some of you and you get a little inclinations that you you're struggling with certain things maybe you're a woman you're struggling with feminism maybe you're struggling with authority maybe you're you're struggling with this gender situation maybe you're struggling with this morality or the absolutes and and there are no absolutes and and and you're a christian and you know it's all right but yet there's this this you haven't really settled it in and that bleeds through or it leaves the passion it leads the depth it leaves the conviction out of your prayers to make them effective you've got to learn to trust the holy ghost and you need to say god the outside man needs a lot of work but i know the inner man that has been born again is where it needs to be and i am praying in the holy ghost and let the holy ghost pray through you let the holy spirit begin to pray to you pray in other tongues by the hours and tell god god i trust you whatever you pray through me thy will be done you will pray the perfect prayer and we need to pray in other tongues and let god begin to pray for this world through us by yielding ourselves to him and praying for us and for those things around us and i promise you if i don't get a thousand today but i only get one if you have the faith of daniel the persistency of daniel and the desires of daniel to get through whatever blanket and iron dome of demonic power rules above this united states of america right now and whatever is manifest itself along the political lines in our world in our nation it ain't enough no matter how much of satan's in it no matter how much evil's behind it no matter how many demons are working for it it just ain't enough if one child of god will make up their mind that they're going to get ahold of god i'm asking some people to make some commitments with nathaniel kenneth haney pastor of christian life center and you don't have to be a member of this church but around this globe they told me this last week we had over 550 some cities that were we had people listening to us i never imagined the day would be here quite like that there's got to be people that are hearing me this morning that are saying pastor haney i'm going to join you we are going to pray this thing through and have a spiritual awakening and the church is going to be stronger than it's ever been and i want you to join with me i'm asking the music to come as we close this morning god today open our understanding open our eyes help us to know help us to acknowledge give us the faith that we're more than conquerors through christ jesus who loved us and saved us and that it is your will why the church is still here for us to be victorious and that it's not your will that evil should triumph and that any should perish but that all should come to everlasting life and so god i'm asking you that you would begin a work in the realm of the spirit this week help us jesus help us jesus give us revelation god for i preached i don't know how many grasp everything but god i'm asking you that you will help them to understand and to grasp what's going on let this be like a time release capsule in their spirit in their mind where it just keeps releasing revelation revelation till they understand what they're up against but they also understand how powerful you are in them and through them you're the almighty god you're the most powerful force and really the only force i'm asking you god to do a great work this day in jesus name take some time and contemplate and pray and commit to god we're god's body we're god's hands and we're marching forward the church shall triumph in jesus name god bless you the more i seek you more i find you the more i find you the more i love you i wanna sit at your feet drink from the cup in your head back against you breathe feel your heartbeat [Music] this love is so deep it's more than i can say about in your peace it's overwhelming the more i seek you the more i find you the more i find you the more i love [Music] again you [Music] this love is so deep it's more than us [Music] it's overwhelming the more i see you oh the more i find you [Music] jesus the more i find you the more i love you i wanna sit at your feet drink [Music] this love is [Music] it's overwhelming this is my desire [Music] to and lord with all my heart i worship you within me i give you is oh lord i give you my heart give you my soul [Music] every moment i'm away [Applause] [Music] lord i give you my heart i give you my [Music] every moment [Music]

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