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Have Thank you Carrius, think you worship team. So today

we'll be talking about a different theme, isn't it. We're

now learning from the Book of Daniel. Allelujah. Thank your

pastor Dave for putting me in the first because I

want to enact that best lesson. Whoa hallelujah. Anyway, we

start with our word, how many of you are in

a waiting season this time? Raise your hand. Don't be embarrassed.

You will get your answer if you raise your hand. Allelujah,

Raise Jesus. We are all in a waiting season of

some sort. And isn't it the hardest part is to wait?

How many of us are just impatient or just I'm

so tired? Lord? What are you putting me through? All right?

The Book of Daniel is very famous for a lot

of lessons, but one of it is about waiting. And

I wanted that lesson because it's such a powerful it's

such a powerful message. Daniel ten speaks about Daniel's final vision.

You know, this prophet is always hearing getting visions from

the Lord, and this one, the last one that he has,

is particularly difficult because it speaks of the difficulty that

is coming ahead of Israel. And he was so tormented

by the vision, and he wanted to know what it's about.

And he's been waiting and waiting to hear from the Lord.

What is this about? Amen, So just setting you the

context of this message. And so he was waiting for

the message to come, but hasn't arrived. And so he

prays and he fasted, and he murned and he fasted,

and he prayed constantly for twenty one days, that famous

twenty one days of fasting that we all know. Now

it's not really the same calendar days though we have

right now, but it could be. It could be. Heavenly

time is a different timetable, isn't it. At the end

of the twenty one days, finally the message came and

this is what it's all about, Daniel. Ten twelve, He said,

do not fear, Daniel. For the first day that you

set your heart to understand and to humble yourself before

your God, your words were heard, and I have come

because of your words. I have come because of your words.

We must know that the word of God has a

very powerful effect. They don't respond unless you have the word.

And he has come watched this church since the first day,

since the first day. The Lord has heard their prayer.

Are man from the first day. So this is what

happens when we pray, right, we think that when we're waiting,

we're just our prayers are not going anywhere. They're not

being heard at all. And what happens is fear set sin.

And when fear sets in, it tells us no, God

has not heard you. Nope. The answer is no, No,

it's not going to happen. But you need to understand

today that God is not ignoring you. There is no

lag time, there is no delay. There is no buffering symbol.

You know that buffering symbol that you get from your phone, buffering, buffering, buffering,

When is it going to end? He heard the very

first day you cried to him. He heard that very

first sigh you gave to him. He didn't need to

listen to your prayers one hundred times for him to care.

He didn't. Psalm thirty four, verse fifteen says the eyes

of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears

are attentive to their cry. They're attentive to our Christ.

His eyes. When you pray according to his will, his

answer is dispatched immediately. But if you haven't seen the

fulfillment or the manifestation in the physical reality. Yet it

is not because God did not hear you. It is

because there is a delivery process that is happening in

the realm we cannot see. There's a traffic jam. There's

a delivery jem in the heavenly realms. And this is

what it's all about. The battle in the unseen realm.

There is a battle going on, So the Angel told Gabriel.

Gabriel the Angel told told David Daniel Hello that he

had to pass to fight the spirit of the Prince

of Persia. There is a demonic power that is trying

to block what he is waiting for. While he was fasting, worrying,

and wonder if God even cared, a massive war was

raging in the heavens. A demonic principality, the spirit Prince

of Persia. He was actively trying to block the angel

delivering Daniel's answer. The warfare was so intense that Michael

the Warrior Exchanged had to be deployed. This is the

top angel in the heavens, and he had to be

deployed because that battle is raging. There is an extreme

importance in the message in the vision that the demons

were trying to prevent it very much so that it

doesn't get delivered. Church, we must stop evaluating God's faithfulness

in what we can only see with our human eyes.

Ephesian six twelve says, for our struggles, it's not against

flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities,

against the spiritual hosts of wickedness. In the heavenly places,

there is someone. There are a lot of principalities that

are trying to block what God has for you. Because

what God has for you carries destiny. It carries a

powerful weight. Your breakthrough is currently being heavily contested by

the enemy because the enemy knows exactly how powerful it

will be when it arrives. Satan doesn't fight dead things.

He fights against things that car that carries destiny for

each one of us. If your waiting season feels like

a brutal battle, it is proof that what God has

dispatched for you is worth fighting for. It's worth fighting

for because it's something amazing that's waiting for you, and

the devil knows what it is and he's trying to

block it as much as he can. The delay is

heavenly time. It takes as long as it takes to

completely defeat the enemy. The next point is God's promise.

All of God's promises carry a guarantee. When we're stuck

with the not yet, when we haven't received the answers

to our prayers, it's not a no. It's never a no.

It's just not yet. Fear tells us that when it

doesn't come, then, you know, God might say no, But no,

it's not. It is never a no. Why because God's

word says so tewod Corinthians, Chapter one, verse twenty. For

no matter how many promises God has made, they are

yes in Christ. Yes in Christ. Every promise is a

yes in Christ. And so through Him the amen. We

are the ones who say amen. Grand says yes, we

say amen. There's always a co laboring, a partnership that

comes between us and God. He says, yes, what do

we say amen? Amen? When God speaks a promise over

your life, He's part of the contract, is already signed.

It's a done deal. It's already guaranteed. His answer is

a definitive, unshakable yes, no matter how long it takes

the answer is yes, no matter how impossible it is.

The answer is yes, No matter how big it is,

the answer is yes. Why because God says so and

it God says so. It is so. Our only job

during the not yet season is to stand our ground

and declare Amen. Amen, that's all we have to do.

Amen doesn't mean I hope. So you know what the

amen means. It's a Hebrew word that means it is certain,

or so be it God. I don't see the healing yet,

but Amen God. I don't have the job yet that

I really need. But Amen, God, this is too much

for me to bear. But Amen, Cad, I don't see

that restoration yet. But amen, Amen, you are agreeing with

what God said, not with what you currently feel. The

timeline belongs to Heaven, but the final victory has already

been guaranteed to you, So don't focus on the ordeal,

focus on the outcome. Look at what's waiting for you.

It's a yes, it's a yes. So how do we wait?

Like Daniel? We can learn from Daniel on how he

waited because waiting is such a horrible process. We're all

so impatient and we all need to learn how to wait.

But how do how do we do it? So we

don't lose our mind and our faith. Daniel gives us

a blueprint of what we can do. Number One, don't complain.

In all this time that Daniel was waiting, he never complained.

What did he do? He prayed, he prayed, he fasted,

and he prayed again, and he prayed again. But never

ever complain about the faithfulness of God, because He is faithful.

Number two, you renew your strength daily. When he heard

from the Angel, he said, I have been strengthened by you.

The Angel told him, don't be afraid. Peace be with you,

Be strong, be courageous. Waiting drains you physically and emotionally.

But when Daniel was completely wiped out by the spiritual weight,

the Angel touched you. In your prayer. You will meet

with God and he will send the spirits, the Holy

Spirit to comfort you. And when you feel like quitting,

the Holy Spirit will renew your strength. He will renew

your strength. So lean on him, Lean on him. I

love this. This has been a word given to me

last year by the Lord. Consecrate yourself to God. Joshua

three point five says, consecrate yourself for tomorrow. The Lord

is going to do great wonders on you. Isn't that

a beautiful promise? Again, we have our part, and God

does his part. We are to consecrate, separate, dedicate ourselves

to him, spend time in his presence. Daniel prayed and fasted,

and as such he bet with God. God is going

to do great wonders? What do waiters do in the restaurant? Anybody,

when you come to a restaurant and you see the waiters,

what do they do? Serve while you're waiting? Serve, Serve

your church, Serve your brothers and sisters, Serve everyone who

is in need, find something you can help with. Serve

Because what you do for others, you do unto the Lord.

Ay Man, trust heavenly time. Recognize that the Lord is

actively fighting your battles. It's not sleeping, is not dozing

off extra Thus, fourteen fourteen says, the Lord will fight

for you. You need only to be still. We have

to be still and let him fight our battles. Don't

fight it on your own strength, and remain unshakably loyal.

Remain unshakably loyal. Do not lower your standards or take

matters into your own hands just because God's answer is

taking longer than what your calendar plan. Man, Just be

still and be faithful to him. Most of all, don't

leave church. A lot of people when they don't receive

their answers, you know, they're like, I don't want to

go to church. Just what's the use. God doesn't hear

my prayers anyway. Spait so long that I pray to him,

nothing's happened. You know, if you have a bonfire and

you have woods there life that are burning, burning brightly,

burning brightly, you take away one lug, take it out

of the bonfire, put it away away from where it's burning,

and you see the fire we just slowly, slowly, slowly

die down. That's what happens when we removed from our community,

from our fellowship with the Lord, from places like this.

Don't separate yourselves from the burning fire, and the fire

burns intensely when there's a lot of lugs, a lot

of wood burning. Amen, expect divine elevation after your struggle,

after your bottle, after your long waiting. There is going

to be a divine elevation. You know. God always overcompensates

for our troubles. Always he gives us double for our trouble.

Like what happened with Joe the last part of his life,

who was more than what he had before, more than

what he had before. Isaiah sixty one says, I will

give you a double share of honor and prosperity once

I restore you. Isn't not wonderful? Lastly, Jesus is with us.

And then Jesus is with us. When God dispatched the

heavy hitters of the heavenly realms like Gabriel and Michael

to answer his prayers, we have a much better helper

now we have Jesus. We have Jesus with us to

fight our battles. He intercedes for us day and night

and night. He's there with us. You remember when he

was sleeping on the boat. Though he is sleeping, you

have nothing to fear because he is in the boat,

and he's still in the boat. He's never left. He's

still in the boat. Remember that I had a friend

in the States. By the way, I'd like to welcome

my friend from America. Whoooo Rowenna. You know we met

in a plane. She was traveling back to the US

and I was returning to the UK from one of

my travels, and we would seated next to each other

and were saying. We were talking to each other. We said, oh, yeah,

you know, praise God. I got upgraded, but I don't

know why. Oh, Jess, he said, praise God. I was

also upgraded. I don't know why. And then we found

out we're both Christians, of course, and we were giving

glory to God. We were both giving glory to God.

Since that day, we never left. We were connected with

prayers for ten long years. Hallelujah. Never stop praying. Find

a partner you could pray with one do one hundred,

doesn't matter. And we've seen so many prayers answered other uses. Anyway,

that's part of Daniel, you know. He continued to pray

until he received the answer. Pray, pray, pray. Well, that

was another story. Sorry, that's one last story. This couple

couldn't have children, and she said, I don't know what

to do. I said, no, Jesus doesn't want you not

to have children. It's just taking a while because special

orders take time. Because I learned of this story of

a man who was in a restaurant and he said,

I want to order some I want to order this dish,

but I don't want peppers. Can you make the spice

just a little bit, you know, light, and I don't

want any onions, and can you put a lot of

garlic in it? He puts so many things in his order,

and so he sat down and waited for his order.

And then he saw one couple get their order. Okay,

mine is coming soon. And then another I received their order,

and then another. Basically everybody was already eating, and he

still hasn't received his order. And finally he called the

waiter and said, what happened to my order? Where is it?

He said, special orders take time, And when it arrived,

it's so good, exactly what he ordered. Praise God. Now

they have a beautiful child that is top of her class,

and they couldn't have asked for a better child. Special

orders take time. God is in the process of special orders.

You are not mass produced. You are unique. And is

building a special character that will be sturdy, durable, will

stand any kind of storm. And he's shaping us. He

did not deliver Israel and gave Moses and micro waved

him as a leader. He had to spend eighty years

in the desert for him to be able to lead

the children of God. When he promised Abraham he had

for a son. He waited how many years? Twenty five years,

twenty five years. If you're waiting on God today, it's

not because he's forgotten you. It's because you are special.

God is taking his time to build something different, something wonderful,

something special. Do not rush the process, because the way

is always worth the workmanship. He will continue whatever he started,

He will finish to the end. It's just on hold

for now, but it will happen, and it is going

to happen. Could be tomorrow. The Lord is going to

do great wonders on you. Amen, Adelujah, Jesus may be

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