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  1. Hi, this is Dave Olson. I'm the senior leader of

  2. Heartland Church located in Ankeny, IA.

  3. I hope the following message challenges, encourages and

  4. ultimately changes you. Thanks for joining us.

  5. Psalm 24, turn there to with me real quick.

  6. Like I said, I was going to preach on something else, but

  7. there's just some things in my heart bubbling up.

  8. So I want to share just kind of a few things, some of some

  9. things some of you have heard before, but I want to tie them

  10. together for this morning because I really felt strongly

  11. as I woke up this morning, the Lord speaking to me about this

  12. whole thing in Venezuela and how God wants to intervene in these

  13. things, but he needs the engagement of the Saints.

  14. You know what, God doesn't just do his will.

  15. He does his will through his people.

  16. He engages them. That's why the famous John

  17. Wesley, the Methodist, the founder of Methodism, it, that

  18. was the revival movement of its day.

  19. He was a powerhouse. And he's famous for saying God

  20. does everything through prayer and nothing without it.

  21. Do you believe that? I personally do that God, if

  22. God's ever going to do anything in the earth, because he's

  23. delegated the earth to man according to Psalm chapter 8, he

    Psalms 8 chapter mention

  24. will not violate the system he himself set up.

  25. So he has to engage the human heart.

  26. And so the principle of prayer is this divine intervention only

  27. by human invitation. And so God is looking for people

  28. that he's delegated the earth to, to invite his intervention.

  29. He's looking to enlist people to pray.

  30. And so we we see here in Psalm 24 years ago, I did a series on

  31. this is probably 20 years ago. It was when the drummer back

  32. here, my son was just a little guy and we were driving on the

  33. way to church and he said, Dad, what you going to preach on this

  34. morning? I said, I'm going to keep

  35. preaching on Psalm 24. He said, are you serious?

  36. He said, I could quote that whole thing.

  37. Don't you think you're done? And I thought, what a thing for

  38. a kid to say. And I said, no, you couldn't.

  39. And he quoted the whole passage. I thought, I guess I'm done.

  40. You know, if your kids can quote the whole chapter, then you're

  41. done. But but that was a long time

  42. ago, so we're going to take another run at it.

  43. Psalm 24, verse one. Listen to what it says.

  44. This is the Psalm of David and he he starts out with this.

  45. The earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof.

  46. So what God is doing is he is laying claim to planet earth.

  47. He's saying it's mine, Venezuela is mine. the United States of

  48. America is mine. God wants, but he's looking for

  49. someone to agree with him and lay claim to it.

  50. The the famous Dutch theologian, Oh man, his name escapes me, but

  51. he's famous for saying this. There is not one inch of planet

  52. earth to which Christ does not say mine.

  53. And so verse 2 for the world and those who dwell in it.

  54. Verse 2 for he has founded upon the seas and established it upon

  55. the waters. So the Lord is laying claim,

  56. said I created it, it's mine. Now here's the amazing thing.

  57. Colossians chapter 1 shows He not only created it, He died for

    Colossians 1 chapter mention

  58. it to win it back to reconcile it to himself.

  59. So it's twice his he created and he purchased it back.

  60. Verse three, who shall ascend the hill of the Lord?

  61. And it's at this point that David asks this question.

  62. And there's one flow of context here.

  63. God lays claim to the earth. And then David begins to ask who

  64. can ascend the hill of the Lord? Who can stand at its holy place?

  65. Brad and I were talking this morning and he was talking about

  66. years ago. He woke up 1 morning and had

  67. this vision and he heard, he heard himself saying, I was

  68. there when Salem was, when Salem was reset.

  69. Well, Salem, that was where Melchizedek ruled from Salem,

  70. which eventually became Jerusalem.

  71. And so it was the seat of the king, priest Melchizedek.

  72. And Melchizedek was the first one that merged those two

  73. offices in one. And David in this passage in

  74. Psalm 24 is saying, who can ascend the hill of Lord?

  75. Who can stand in his holy place? He's asking a question everybody

  76. assumed they knew the answer to, but David was hungry enough to

  77. say, I'm wondering if there's another way in.

  78. I'm wondering if there's another route.

  79. Surely the God I met on the backside of the desert wouldn't

  80. keep me out. And so we asked this question.

  81. And he breaks into Amen. He breaks into, they're getting

  82. excited back there. He's breaks into this revelation

  83. of the Melchizedek priesthood. And he gives the outline.

  84. He said he who can ascend the hill, Lord, who can stand in

  85. this holy place, He who has clean hands, a pure heart, does

  86. not lift his soul to an idol or swear by what is false.

  87. So he gives us the criteria of another priesthood, the

  88. Levitical priesthood. You had to be born into the

  89. Levitical line. The Melchizedek priesthood had

  90. to do with the heart posture. And David discovered something.

  91. And it's interesting because when David, David did priestly

  92. duties as a king and God blessed him.

  93. Saul did it, Hezekiah did it, and they got spanked.

  94. Hezekiah ended up with leprosy. Saul had the Kingdom stripped

  95. from him. But David was blessed by God

  96. when he wore a linen ephod and he, he ate the showbread and he,

  97. you know, David operated as a New Testament man under the Old

  98. Testament. There's an interesting verse in

  99. the New Testament that talks about those who reach in and

  100. taste the powers of the age to come.

  101. That's not just for you and I to reach into the powers of the

  102. David did that as an old covenant man into the new

  103. covenant and lived as a new covenant man.

  104. It was the Melchizedek priesthood.

  105. And so that's what David is talking about here.

  106. And we need to understand that we're not just the priests of

  107. God. We're not just go betweens.

  108. We're not just those that represent God to the people and

  109. then an intercession represent the people to God.

  110. That is a valid expression of what we've been called into as

  111. believers. We are a Kingdom of priests,

  112. Peter said. So you and I, we all, we're all

  113. priests. It's not like there's hired guns

  114. up here and then the rest of you are spectators.

  115. We're all participants, but we're not just participants in

  116. individual salvation. We are participants on a global

  117. scale. God is looking for those who

  118. will engage themselves on this scale.

  119. And so David asks this question and he says he was, you know,

  120. verse 4, I just quoted it, verse 5, he will receive the blessing

  121. of the Lord, and righteousness from God is salvation.

  122. So he's talking about that individual.

  123. And then he shifts gears and he begins to prophecy.

  124. So David starts out praying, he begins to teach out of the

  125. revelation he got, but then he begins to prophecy about the

  126. future. So David is man.

  127. He's he's doing it all here, praying, teaching, prophesying.

  128. And he says this in verse six. Such is the generation of those

  129. who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob.

  130. Selah. He said, think about that.

  131. He's saying that there's going to come a time where God not

  132. only has individuals, he said He will receive the blessing, but

  133. there's going to come a time where God's going to have a

  134. corporate people that enter into corporate wholeheartedness.

  135. There's going to be a generation of those who seek him and God

  136. will release something to him. It is not a coincidence that the

  137. very next verse shifts gears and talks about the king of glory

  138. entering into regions. Look at what it says verse 7

  139. lift up your heads, O gates be lifted up, O ancient doors that

  140. the king of glory may come in. Now we sang about that earlier.

  141. He and and we, we use that phrase the king of glory.

  142. That is a very specific meaning to it.

  143. It's not just a haphazard title that God slapped on himself.

  144. He defines what it is. He said, who is this King of

  145. glory? The Lord strong and mighty.

  146. The Lord mighty in battle. So when the Lord speaks of

  147. himself as the King of glory, it's all, it's another way of

  148. saying the captain of the Lord's hosts.

  149. It's the Lord entering into battle.

  150. When the Lord enters in and he begins to move in power, He

  151. comes to make war. That is the Lord of glory.

  152. And so after David begins to prophecy about a coming day

  153. where there will be a generation that enters into corporate

  154. wholeheartedness, I'm telling you, don't minimize the power of

  155. God finding a core group of people that are all in because

  156. God can. God can move shape history

  157. through a company of people like that.

  158. And so David prophecies about this and the very next thing he

  159. does, he begins to say, open up, you know, lift up your heads, O

  160. you gates be lifted up, you ancient doors.

  161. That is not mere poetry. These are entry points in the

  162. spiritual realm where God is able to enter in in an invasion

  163. and begin to operate there. It's throughout Scripture.

  164. We see there's the windows of heaven spoken about in three

  165. separate verses. There's doors in the spirit.

  166. We talked about it a few months ago where John is in an

  167. encounter and all of a sudden he said he heard a voice.

  168. He looked up, there's an open door and it said come up here.

  169. He went through it and now he's in heaven.

  170. He's in this heavenly encounter. That wasn't just John's

  171. imagination. There was a literal entry point

  172. that John moved through. And then there are gates in the

  173. spiritual realm. Jesus said the gates of hell

  174. shall not prevail against the church.

  175. Does he mean that we're going to literally storm hell and go into

  176. the go into Hades and start moving things around?

  177. No, he's not talking about hell as a location.

  178. He's talking about Hell's occupation of the entry points

  179. of our regions, and God is looking for those who come into

  180. corporate wholeheartedness, understand not only their

  181. priestly role, but their kingly role.

  182. Not only that we are intercessors, but we're

  183. intercessors with authority. We can press the crown rights of

  184. King Jesus. And when God finds a people like

  185. that, they can enter in and they begin to command the gates and

  186. doors in the spiritual realm to begin to give way.

  187. The hinges are greased by their proclamations and God begins to

  188. invade and come in. And that's what he's talking

  189. about. And we need to understand the

  190. authority that we have as believers.

  191. Again, we are not mere spectators of what is happening

  192. on the global landscape. We are participants.

  193. And God wants to enlist us. He wants us to have a part to

  194. play in this thing and to dig in and begin to pray.

  195. I told the first service that it's, you know, we talk a lot

  196. about identity around here. It's important that you know who

  197. you are as an individual. You can't walk in your calling

  198. unless you own what God says about you.

  199. To the degree that you are in agreement with what God says is

  200. the degree you can fulfill your assignment.

  201. And to the degree that you're in disagreement with your

  202. assignment is to the degree that you will not fulfill your

  203. assignment. You've got to own that thing.

  204. But the, the, the, the, that truth is also a reality

  205. corporately, that we need to know who we are corporately.

  206. And I believe there are different callings on different

  207. churches. You've heard me say it before.

  208. There's no such thing as a one stop Jesus shop.

  209. No one church can do it all. And that's why we bless the

  210. churches in this region. I'm grateful for the other

  211. houses that God has raised up that preach the word of God and

  212. worship King Jesus. And they have their assignment.

  213. We have ours. But we need to be crystal clear

  214. about the assignment of this house.

  215. I remember when we first moved into this property, we'd have

  216. people wander in, people visiting from other churches.

  217. I remember that. I'll never forget this Lutheran

  218. guy came in, wandered in, sat down in the back.

  219. He goes to a Lutheran Church here in the region.

  220. And I walked in. He said, you know, this is a

  221. governmental House of prayer, don't you?

  222. You know, this is governmental. And people told me that.

  223. And I'd say, oh, yeah, I knew that.

  224. I mean, after I heard it umpteenth time, we need to own

  225. that, that there is a governmental assignment on this

  226. house to engage in prayer. So turn with me to one other

  227. passage, Daniel chapter 2. Let's look at this passage.

    Daniel 2 chapter mention

  228. I want to just go back through an experience I had because I

  229. believe it is relevant to the hour in which we live.

  230. What is going on in Venezuela? What is going on in Ukraine?

  231. How many Ukrainians we got? Raise your hand.

  232. Yeah, look. Look at that.

  233. Bless them, man. I don't think it's a coincidence

  234. that you're in this church. It's it's not just it's not

  235. because you like the music. This is God has drawn you to

  236. this house because there is a partnership in the spirit with

  237. the land of your birth. God is called and and that we

  238. they they just keep finding us. Hallelujah.

  239. Bring them more. We start a Ukrainian service.

  240. We need that there's this partnership in the spirit

  241. because there are what happens is there are the, the, the

  242. spiritual realm, there are principalities and powers that

  243. enter into agreements with corrupt world leaders and great

  244. evil can begin to take root in those societies.

  245. And it unleashes great harm on the human race and it fuels

  246. greater evil. And we've seen this rise in

  247. different places in the earth. And you and I are called to

  248. intercede on those things. It's not a coincidence.

  249. We're sending up team back down to Panama.

  250. You know, one of the primary things they do when they go down

  251. there, they do prayer watch, they do 24 hour prayer burns

  252. because we understand that that is a crucial place in the earth.

  253. The nation's come through that little inlet.

  254. It's it is. And whoever controls Panama

  255. controls the world. We want Jesus to control Panama.

  256. We want the the king of kings, communist China, the CCP began

  257. to encroach into Panama and try to take it over.

  258. And that what they've done is they've bought their way in

  259. through corruption into a lot of nations.

  260. And that demonic communist ideology is flexing its muscles

  261. trying to encroach. And God's answer is a praying

  262. church to rise and to pray and to call that thing down.

  263. I have nothing against Chinese people, Ukrainian people,

  264. Venezuelan people, or American people, but I do have something

  265. against the demonic spirits that operate through corrupt

  266. governments. Human corruption at a

  267. governmental level is the exact way that principalities exercise

  268. their rule. And when when kings are removed,

  269. those ties are severed and it's like the puppet strings are cut

  270. and the puppeteer no longer has any influence over the puppet.

  271. Which leads us to this passage. Daniel chapter 2.

    Daniel 2 chapter mention

  272. So we were praying. It was probably 6-7 years ago.

  273. Now, some of you have heard this, but it's relevant to what

  274. we're talking about. I want to go over this ground.

  275. We were praying and, and it was, it would have been about six

  276. years ago. And as we were praying one

  277. morning, I was laying here and all of a sudden I went into a

  278. vision. It might have been a dream.

  279. I might have been asleep, I'm not sure.

  280. But I went into this vision and I saw this leadership stain.

  281. I knew it was a stain in the soil of Iowa.

  282. I looked at it was this blot. It looked like an ink blot about

  283. this big. And I knew it was a leadership

  284. stain. And I knew immediately three

  285. things. It was financial impropriety,

  286. sexual immorality, and men and women prematurely leaving their

  287. post out of discouragement. And I knew it was a strategy of

  288. the enemy to remove people from their assignment, either through

  289. disqualification or through discouragement.

  290. So they would let go of the assignment.

  291. They wouldn't fulfill what God had for them, and it would

  292. frustrate the purposes of God. As I looked at that, I was

  293. hovering over the ground of Iowa.

  294. All of a sudden the Lord took me under Iowa, under the ground.

  295. And I looked at this massive, this, this massive compass, but

  296. it was tilted, it wasn't pointing north.

  297. And as I was looking at that, all of a sudden, boom, I came

  298. out of it and I thought, was that the Lord?

  299. I called everybody forward and I told them what I saw.

  300. And when I said that, someone said, oh, and they said, I can't

  301. believe you're saying. And I said, what?

  302. What's that? And they said, I woke up from a

  303. dream this morning and we were in this prayer meeting in the

  304. dream, praying over a map of Iowa.

  305. And suddenly the map morphed into a compass, but the needle

  306. couldn't find true north. So I'm not the brightest bulb in

  307. the room, but I thought we might be on to something.

  308. So we prayed and I asked Mike Scheer, one of our elders, I

  309. said, Mike, would you close us in prayer today?

  310. And I, I just explained it as a compass.

  311. Mike begins to pray. And he said, and Lord, that gyro

  312. compass, and I thought, how did he know?

  313. Because that he, he was putting words to what I saw, but I

  314. couldn't figure out what to call it.

  315. But when he said it, I thought, you're right.

  316. I thought, how did you know? And he's, you know, same way I

  317. knew God showed him. But a gyrocompass is not,

  318. doesn't operate by gravitational pull.

  319. It operates by the rotation of the earth.

  320. And I knew there was a timepiece component to this thing.

  321. It it would, it was how we measure time is through the

  322. rotation of the earth, but it was also going to measure true

  323. north. And so the next day we're

  324. praying into this and we're we're walk.

  325. I'm walking down the aisle and as I'm walking, I'm I'm crying

  326. out to God and I just out of my spirit came this phrase.

  327. I know this is discouraging, but I couldn't have told you where

  328. this verse was in the Bible. I don't know that's discouraging

  329. to hear from your pastor, but I'm just being honest.

  330. But I said, Lord, you changed the times and seasons.

  331. It just came up out of my spirit and I was walking right there

  332. and Joyce reached up, grabbed my sleeve and said, Pastor, look at

  333. what the Lord just told me to turn to.

  334. And it was this passage and listen to what it says.

  335. Blessed is the name of God forever.

  336. This is verse 20. Daniel answered and said,

  337. blessed is the name of God forever and ever to whom belong

  338. wisdom and might. He changes times and seasons.

  339. He removes kings and sets up kings.

  340. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have

  341. understanding. He reveals deep and hidden

  342. things. He knows what is in darkness,

  343. and the light dwells with him. To you, O God, my God of my

  344. Father's, I give thanks and praise for you.

  345. I've given me wisdom and might, and we have now made, and you

  346. have now made known to me what you have asked of me.

  347. For you made known to us the King's matter.

  348. So this is Daniel's prayer. He quotes that exact line that

  349. came out of my spirit. It was Daniel's prayer about

  350. Nebuchadnezzar's dream because Nebuchadnezzar had a dream.

  351. He wasn't going to tell anybody. He said, either tell me what the

  352. dream meant and what it was, or you're a dead man.

  353. And Daniel goes to the Lord and the Lord gives it to him.

  354. And so Daniel's ministry is now off and running.

  355. And Daniel lived his life as a geopolitical prophet.

  356. You know that he was a man who spoke into kingdoms.

  357. He spoke into geopolitical affairs as a prophetic voice.

  358. He shepherded Nebuchadnezzar, the most powerful man on earth,

  359. and two other regimes. And not only that, he also

  360. prophesied about the rising and falling of nations in the

  361. future. Don't ever let anybody tell you

  362. that God is not interested in geopolitical affairs.

  363. Don't ever let someone tell you that God is not interested in

  364. political issues or governmental affairs.

  365. I'll hear people quote this all the time, men that I deeply

  366. respect. What if I said his name?

  367. You would meant most of you would know him.

  368. He's been in our pulpit and I still can't believe he says

  369. this. I've heard him say that God

  370. doesn't. God doesn't care who's in in the

  371. White House or who's who's a king or who's.

  372. What does he do with this verse? God sets up kings and removes

  373. him. And the verse he always quotes

  374. is where Jesus stood before Pilate.

  375. And he said my Kingdom is not of this world.

  376. Jesus was not saying that his Kingdom didn't have anything to

  377. do with this world. The meaning of Kingdom Basilia

  378. means the right to rule. And he said I'm not deriving my

  379. right to rule from earth. I received it from heaven and

  380. I've come to impose it on earth. And the fact is, the reason you

  381. and I are here is because we're here to impose the crown rights

  382. of King Jesus on human history. And that and the often the way

  383. that that manifests itself is through political affairs.

  384. So you and I need to understand how this thing works.

  385. And we need to engage yourself and we need to be in the place

  386. of prayer and we need to be praying God's will.

  387. And God wants to speak to us just like he did Daniel.

  388. He said he gave me wisdom and might.

  389. That wisdom was insight to discern the will of the Lord and

  390. begin to to release those things to kings.

  391. But that word might is also an interesting word.

  392. That word might means you've get, you've been given

  393. influence. It's it's influence to power.

  394. And Daniel understood that God gave him influence with

  395. political figures, these geopolitical rulers.

  396. And that was that was Daniel's ministry.

  397. He was speaking to these political powers.

  398. Now, why do I bring that up this morning?

  399. Because I woke up this morning intending to preach on something

  400. entirely different and the Lord began to speak to me about

  401. Venezuela. And I'm telling you, there is a

  402. governmental assignment on this house to pray God's will into

  403. those matters. Let me tell you about one more

  404. thing. And, and some of you have heard

  405. this, but again, all of this is related.

  406. It was probably 9-10 years ago now.

  407. I don't know. I should have wrote it down, but

  408. we were. It was when we were having our

  409. prayer meetings upstairs and prayer had gotten real thin.

  410. We weren't praying Tuesday through Friday.

  411. It was Tuesday and Thursday and we might have only been down to

  412. Thursday. And it was Quimby and I.

  413. Many of you remember Pastor Quimby and a few ladies, and I

  414. used to tease the ladies. Thanks for letting me come to

  415. the women's prayer meeting. It wasn't intended to be a

  416. women's prayer meeting. It was just the only one showing

  417. up. Thank God we got men coming to

  418. the prayer meetings now and as we're praying, it was one of

  419. those especially dry prayer meetings.

  420. You ever been to a dry prayer meeting?

  421. I've LED a bunch. Here's the good news.

  422. God answers dry, unannointed prayer.

  423. You know that it doesn't matter what you feel.

  424. God honors faithfulness. And we were there every week

  425. praying and we got done. And I was, I, for one, the one

  426. leading the prayer meeting was really, really glad it was over.

  427. I didn't tell people that I'm telling you years later, but I

  428. was like, OK, everybody come forward.

  429. And I was going to just close it.

  430. And as I called everybody forward, I looked over to my

  431. side and I was stunned because there were two angels standing

  432. right there. Now, I didn't see him with my

  433. physical eyes, but I saw it as clear as day with my spiritual

  434. eyes. And I can't explain that.

  435. If you've seen that, you know what I mean.

  436. If you haven't, I don't know how to explain it.

  437. I'm just telling you. I saw it as clear as day.

  438. And what what intrigued me is there was 1 standing about where

  439. that pole was. And he was standing there

  440. looking at me. And this is what he looked like.

  441. And, and you can weigh this. You may not believe me, but

  442. we'll meet him. I'll introduce you to him when

  443. we get to heaven, OK? And I'll tell you, I told you.

  444. Here he is. He had on a tweed Sport coat.

  445. He was a little guy, a tweed Sport coat.

  446. His head was bald. He had hair along the sides of

  447. his head, and he had spectacles. I mean, they weren't just

  448. glasses. They were spectacles.

  449. They were the kind that you'd refer to as spectacles.

  450. And he was standing there. He had this huge leather volume.

  451. It was about this thick, about this big.

  452. He was just standing there like this, his tweed Sport coat on.

  453. And he had a little pointer stick that they used to teach

  454. with. And he was just staring at me,

  455. just standing there like he's just waiting for me to

  456. acknowledge him. And over his left shoulder was

  457. another Angel. And to be honest, I don't, I

  458. can't explain how he was dressed because I was so intrigued by

  459. this one. And I thought, what in the

  460. world? And the Lord spoke to me and

  461. said, they are professors and I'm about to take you into

  462. semesters of learning. And I thought, uh oh, because

  463. what I felt like is man, I'm, I'm a busy dad with a bunch of

  464. kids and a, and a full time job. And now I'm going to night

  465. school. What I didn't understand it was

  466. going to be morning school, those prayer meetings.

  467. And the Lord spoke to me and this the Angel that was the most

  468. prominent 1 standing there with his little pointer stick.

  469. He was from the school of government in heaven.

  470. Now you say, do they really have one?

  471. They do, you'll see. And, and the other one was from

  472. the War College of Heaven and the Lord said, I'm going to take

  473. you into semesters of learning. And I asked the Lord, I thought,

  474. God, why, why is he bald and have glasses?

  475. You know, I have glasses. I've worn them since 5th grade.

  476. I'm, I can't see what that I thought.

  477. That's kind of, I always thought of that as kind of the result of

  478. the fall. You know, when I get to heaven,

  479. I don't need glasses. And I said, Lord, why would he

  480. need glasses? And the Lord said they allow

  481. him, they enable him to see things that others don't see.

  482. And of course I thought of that. You ever seen National Treasure

  483. where Nicolas Cage has those glasses and he sees different

  484. things in the maps? That's what they were.

  485. They they were, he could see different things with those

  486. glasses. And he was going to teach us how

  487. to govern with God. And it wasn't a coincidence that

  488. that Angel was to the forefront and not the war Angel.

  489. And what it immediately reminded me of was a number of years

  490. before that I began to hear the Lord say to me in the spring of

  491. the year, give me 3 months in July.

  492. Give me 3 months in July. I'm being very transparent

  493. because once again I thought, uh oh, because three weeks in July,

  494. not three months, three weeks in July.

  495. And I knew that meant 21 day fast.

  496. So I gathered some intercessions and said, would you do a fast

  497. with me in July? And let me tell you, it's almost

  498. better to do it in July because it's when you get fast, it's

  499. cold in January. This is brutal.

  500. But anyway, I digress. I don't remember anything about

  501. that fast except I was walking through the living room and on

  502. the TV somebody had this show on.

  503. I don't know, I'm assuming it was The History Channel.

  504. And I was walking through, I heard the narrator say Genghis

  505. Khan conquered more territory than any other man, whoever

  506. lived. And then it added, But upon his

  507. death, his empire evaporated because he was a great general

  508. but a poor governor. And when it said that, it was

  509. like an arrow came out of the TV, hit me in the heart.

  510. And I knew that's the church. And the Lord spoke to me and he

  511. said I have many wandering intercessors and homeless

  512. revivalists who have great stories of great battles won,

  513. but nothing to leave their children because we've we've

  514. learned as a church, as the people of God, how to go to war

  515. and win land, but not steward it once we have it.

  516. And so the Lord was saying, I'm going to teach you to govern

  517. with me. I believe we're still in that

  518. process, but I believe we've learned a lot in these prayer

  519. meetings on how to partner with heaven and speak in and pray

  520. into these matters. There we were.

  521. We were praying very specifically for Venezuela last

  522. week, crying out to God because just praying that God's will be

  523. done. And you may or may not agree

  524. with the measures. I'm just telling you that God

  525. wanted that man out. And God will use the the measure

  526. that you can argue about. You know, I'm not going to arm

  527. wrestling. I'm just telling you God wanted

  528. that man out because there was tremendous suffering in that

  529. nation. And God wants to liberate that

  530. nation and make it a shining example of Latin America once

  531. again. And you and I are not simply

  532. spectators that read the news and oh, wow, isn't that amazing?

  533. Look what? Look, What's that?

  534. Oh, that's tragic. Oh, that's good.

  535. No, you and I are participants. We are the ones that are to

  536. shape history through declarations.

  537. We're to catch the word of the Lord and enforce the word of the

  538. Lord on these matters. And that's part of the calling

  539. on this house. That's part of the worship

  540. dynamic of this house. That's why we have so many

  541. prayer meetings and that's why we fast.

  542. I want to encourage you this starting tomorrow morning, we're

  543. going to enter into the fast. Do something.

  544. Let's engage ourselves. Let's be those people that we

  545. say, Lord, you have found a corporate, a people of corporate

  546. wholeheartedness that you can leverage us.

  547. Lord, you can use us to pray your purposes in the earth.

  548. God wants to shape history from the height of a bended knee.

  549. He wants to begin to push his crown rights and shape things.

  550. And what the Lord wants to do is just what he did with Daniel.

  551. Daniel is assigned to us. Daniel would catch the word of

  552. the Lord and release the word of the Lord.

  553. And through that he would raise up kings and he would remove

  554. them. And God is still doing the same

  555. thing. Now let me just say this and go

  556. ahead and stance you and I'm going to quit.

  557. In chapter 2 it says that God changes the times and the

  558. seasons. In Chapter 7 it says the enemy

  559. manipulates the the times. The enemy has his plan and the

  560. way the enemy does it is through.

  561. Just what I saw in that vision. It's either men seizing Thrones

  562. and staying too long, or being brought to a throne outside of

  563. God's will, or people abandoning their assignment.

  564. And prayer is part of God's dynamic to keep the right people

  565. in power. Again, principalities and powers

  566. operate through corrupt human authority.

  567. And if we want to see history changed, those powers must be

  568. severed from those alliances with corrupt leaders in the

  569. earth. And God has called us as a

  570. house, as a people called Heartland Church to engage in

  571. that and pray God's will to hear the word of the Lord and pray

  572. it. So I want to ask you to just

  573. raise your hands. I want to pray over you right

  574. now. Father, Lord, I thank you for

  575. each and every one of these. Lord, I thank you for those

  576. you've already stirred, Lord, those that have already been

  577. stirred by your heart to pray. Lord, we ask, just as you gave

  578. Daniel wisdom, and might we ask you first give us wisdom, Lord,

  579. Give us greater understandings of the spiritual dynamics,

  580. Lords, that we can cooperate with you.

  581. Lord, we're asking that you would use us, teach us about

  582. these matters. Lord, there's a in that passage,

  583. Daniel says he gives understand knowledge to those who have

  584. understanding what it means that understand that word in the

  585. Hebrew means that they've they've gathered, they've

  586. gathered principles, they they've learned to understand

  587. these things. And then God will add knowledge

  588. to that. If you apply yourself to what

  589. he's already given you. I'll give you more is what it's

  590. saying. And then, Lord, we ask for

  591. might, Lord, that you would give us influence in the spirit and

  592. in the natural, God that we could speak truth to power.

  593. Lord, I ask that out of this very room that you would raise

  594. up voices that would have the ear of powerful men and women.

  595. Lord, that you would shape history through our words.

  596. Lord, teach us to rule and reign with you.

  597. Lord, deliver us from the fallacy, the lie that we have to

  598. wait for eternity to rule and reign with you and help us to

  599. understand. That's our assignment now in

  600. intercession in Jesus name, Amen.

  601. Amen. All right, God bless you.

  602. I love you. Thanks for listening to our

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