Prayer Tested By The Lions Den — Keith Malcomson

Praise God. Let's turn to chapter six of the book of Daniel for our sixth message in this series on the Heavens Do Rule. We're dealing with something vital here and already we've seen in the previous five messages that when you get to the end of this chapter, what you find is the Heavens Do Rule.

That is not accidental that we have six chapters at the beginning of Daniel and then another six, but these six, they end each time with a testimony that the Heavens Do Rule. Let's read together from Daniel chapter six and in Daniel chapter six, I'm going to jump to the most important portion of it or the most well-known portion, but then I'm going to come back and preach what is in around it.

Daniel’s Prayer Tested in the Lions’ Den

Reading from Daniel chapter six, starting with verse 16 and saints here tonight and I believe it's vital for the hour that we live in. I believe tonight's message is vital for what we are just about to face and embark on.

I believe this is what the church worldwide is about to face. My message tonight is prayer tested by the day, by the lion's den, prayer tested by the lion's den and if you miss issue of prayer in this chapter, then you've missed the entire chapter.

Reading from Daniel chapter six and verse 16, it says there, then the king commanded and they brought Daniel and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, thy God whom thou service continually, he will deliver thee.

And a stone was brought and laid upon the mouth of the den and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords and that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel. Then the king went to his place and passed the night fasting.

Neither were instruments of music brought unto him and his sleep went from him. Then the king arose very early in the morning and went in haste unto the den of lions. And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God whom thou service continually able to deliver thee from the lions?

Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live forever. My God has sent his angel and has shut the lions' mouth that they have not hurt me for as much as before him, innocency was found in me. And also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.

Then was the king exceeding glad for him and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den and no manner of hurt was found on him because he believed in God.

Let's pray here together. As we come to Daniel chapter six here and we've been following through the book of Daniel chapter by chapter, I am fully persuaded. I was in the first message, but I am fully convinced that these messages are so likely for this hour and for this time and what is happening in our world.

And I believe tonight's message is just the same. When we looked at chapter three, we seen that worship was tested by the fiery furnace, but here in Daniel chapter six, we're going to see the prayer is tested by the den of lions, two different things, worship and prayer and worship always gets tested by fire, but prayer gets tested by the lion.

If we only learn these two principles, we are going to gain great victories in our own Christian life. I can assure you the lion comes roaring to attack your prayer life, but when you're faced with the fiery furnace, it's to test your act of worship before the Lord.

In this message here tonight, prayer tested by the lion's den, we're going to see throughout this chapter that prayer is tested by the lion's den, a den filled with lions being put into the den of lions, isolated and surrounded, not just by one lion, but many lions.

Do you know what's being tested? Do you know what's under attack? Do you know what's being proved by God? It's your prayer life. When the lion roars against you, it's your prayer life that's being attacked and we're going to find out, will the Lord deliver you in the midst of the trial?

Here tonight in this message on Daniel chapter six, we are actually preaching on prayer tested by the lion's den. All I've just done is give you a bit of the background, but I want you to note that the great ruler over the city of Babylon while Cyrus was away was called Darius the Mede.

Daniel’s Position Supported by Prayer

I've got several points here for you tonight. Now my first point, a position supported by prayer, a position supported by prayer. Read them from verse one and it says there, it pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty princes which should be over the whole kingdom and over these three presidents of whom Daniel was first.

Now notice here that Darius the Great, the king of Babylon, was going to order and reconstruct the entire kingdom. There was a need for efficient organization, for structure and to stop corruption. So he raises up 120 princes over the kingdom and over these 120 princes, he places three presidents and one of those three presidents was actually Daniel, the man of God.

Daniel at this time is at least 86 years old. As we said last week, we read that chapter nine and chapter 11 of Daniel actually happened to Daniel during this first year of the reign of Darius. Daniel was an old man, 86 years old.

The world around him was changing. Kings are being removed and new kings are rising to power. New regime, new laws, new structures of authority are coming in, but you know what? This man, Daniel was a man of prayer and this is what I want you to see in this first point, that you've got a man put in a political position, put in a position of influence in this new hour, in this new era and this man, his position in politics, in secular society was supported by prayer.

Daniel was chosen by Darius the Maid to be put in a position of great authority. He was chosen for his integrity. Look at Daniel at 86 years old. He is still going. He's still got his integrity. He has still got a testimony in the world.

Oh, it looked like at times God had set him aside, but here he is. He has seen kings come and he has seen kings go, but he is qualified for the position. His body is in good tact. His mind is in good tact.

His emotions are ready to serve. Kings and kingdoms come and go, but there are men of prayer who remain in positions of influence. You see, Daniel was in this position and he was supported by prayer. He didn't manipulate his way in.

He didn't connive. He didn't buy his way in. He is a man of utter integrity and do you know what it says about Darius? As he looked at this man, Daniel, that he actually preferred him. His eyes fell upon him and the word preferred there means that Daniel shone or stood out.

He was imminent. Why was he imminent? The Bible says here, because he had an excellent spirit within him. Darius, in looking at this prophet Daniel, this man of prayer could see that he had an excellent spirit.

Since I'm talking about a man who lived through the entire Babylonian kingdom for a period of 70 years, then he moves into another secular ungodly kingdom, but you know what he's doing? He is shining.

I challenge you here tonight. Will you shine for God? I know our world is changing. I know politics is changing. I know the workplace is changing. I know the economy is going to change in 2021. Everything is in the process of change, but like Daniel, if you're a man or a woman of prayer, if you get on your knees and pray three times a day, shut yourself in with God, seek God, turn your heart towards God.

I assure you, you are going to shine. I'm not telling you that you won't be thrown in a den of lands. I'm not telling you that you won't be lied about. I'm not telling you that you're not going to suffer in this hour or suffer losing a great position because of your convictions.

I'm not telling you any of that. What am I telling you? It is time to shine. This is a year for real Christians to shine, but you know what? You're not going to shine unless your position is supported in prayer.

As a father, as a mother, as a husband, as a wife, in the workplace, in your family, in secular society, that position that God has given us, I'm asking you tonight, you can support your position in this hour, in this year, since you need to be praying now.

You can't imagine what's coming down the road that's going to hit us like a tornado. I assure you there's a regime change that we're going to have to live through. I believe we're living in an hour of one of the greatest political coups in world history.

And I'm telling you, God is not taken by surprise. This is the first point, a position supported by prayer. Daniel was in a position supported by prayer, 120 princes, but there were three presidents and he was one of those three presidents.

Why did Darius set all this system up? So that he wouldn't suffer loss. He didn't want corruption in the kingdom. He wanted integrity. He wanted honesty. And he put Daniel as one of the three presidents in a prime position.

He can see a man of truth and integrity. This Daniel shone as a man of 86. Daniel wasn't worn out. He was youthful in spirit and in his walk with God. And in fact, it said, Darius preferred him above all of the presidents and the princes.

And in fact, the king began to consider, the thought was in Darius's mind to set him over the entire thing, over the other two presidents and over all 120 princes. He was thinking, considering, he was thinking these thoughts of raising up and giving Daniel even greater power.

I want to tell you, this is an hour for us to shine as the body of Christ. Why should we shine? We're men and women of honesty, of integrity, but you know what? You're not going to have integrity in this hour.

You're not going to shine in this hour unless you pray. If you lose your prayer life, you're going to lose your integrity. You're going to lose your morality. You're going to lose your convictions. You're going to lose your stickability.

You're going to lose the ability to stand when everyone else is bending with the system. I want you to note that Daniel was a man of prayer. He is one of the great men of prayer in the Bible. And in fact, the book of Daniel, if you miss prayer in the book of Daniel, then you don't understand the book of Daniel.

The prayer life of Daniel is as important as the prophecies of God in the book of Daniel. Prayer brings God's will upon the earth. Why do you think the heavens rule? Do you realize the heavens only rule through a praying remnant, or a praying man and woman?

If God gets a man or an individual or a church that prays, oh church, hear me tonight. If we as a church pray, if we humble ourselves and pray, if we daily pray, I assure you this church is going to be caught up in the heavens ruling in the kingdoms of God.

I don't know how that happens. I don't know what is going to happen, but I assure you if we pray like we have prayed in the past seven years, then the heavens are going to rule. We're going to experience it.

We're going to see it. We're going to enjoy a manifestation of heaven on the earth. Daniel was a man of prayer. In Daniel chapter two, he prayed in a life-threatening situation for God to speak to him.

Remember, all of them are going to die. And Daniel says, give me a night. And he stayed up and prayed. Oh, what a man of prayer. It was a life-threatening situation. That night he either had to touch God in prayer or he was a dead man.

Or what about later in Daniel chapter nine, we read about those three weeks of fervent prayer where the angel of the Lord is sent to him. And he's given the message about how Israel or how the Jews are going back to their homeland again.

Over in the book of Ezekiel, Daniel is mentioned alongside Noah and Job as a righteous man, as a man who God was going to listen to. If he's going to listen to three men in the Old Testament, he'll listen to Noah, he'll listen to Job, or he'll listen to Daniel.

I assure you this is fundamental to Daniel chapter six here tonight. A position supported by prayer, a position undergirded by prayer. I don't care whether you're a pauper on the streets or a prince in a palace, is your position and place supported by prayer?

Is it your prayer life that is making you the person who you ought to be and who you are? Second of all in this chapter, a conspiracy against prayer. I told you it's going to be applicable to this year, to the year that we have ahead of us, and to the decade of the 2020s if the Lord should tarry.

The Conspiracy Against Daniel’s Prayer

Number two, a conspiracy against prayer. In verse four here we read, the end of presidents and the princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom. You see they're looking at him and they're getting jealous of him and they're getting envious of him.

You see he's an old man of at least 86 years old, and we read first here that they were seeking to catch something against him. They were envious of him. They saw him rising up with power. You see there's certain reasons why I think they were looking to catch him out.

Look at his age. He's a man of 86. Many of them are in their 40s. They've got their entire future ahead of them. They think he should be retired, put on the shelf, move out of the way. They're a young generation, a new breed of politician coming up through.

They would rather he move aside. Also he is a foreigner. He is a Jew. He is from that city of Jerusalem. He was a captive. That's another reason why they wanted him moved out of the way. But listen, this is the real reason why they began to plan and strategize the downfall of this man of prayer.

Do you know why this conspiracy against prayer was actually birthed? It's because of Daniel's honesty. He is in a political position. He is in there in the palace with Darius the Maid. He was a hindrance to corruption.

He could not lie. He would not lie. He wouldn't do it in the workplace. You couldn't buy him. You couldn't intimidate him. You couldn't bribe him. You couldn't buy things through your power or anything that you could give to him.

You couldn't charm him. You couldn't praise him to a point where he would get lifted up with pride. You see, Daniel was a great hindrance to corruption in that hour, in that generation. He had a character of honesty, of uprightness, of integrity.

But you know what? That character, that man, the secret of his life was his prayer life, his daily prayer life. Since if we're going to survive this hour, if we're going to walk through this hour, we need to secure ourselves in a life of prayer.

You're only going to face this hour on your knees. You're only going to overcome on your knees. You're only going to face the trials of this hour if you remain on your knees. You see, these other princes and presidents began to plan his downfall.

They began to seek or to look after or to search after some occasion against this man Daniel. They looked and they but they could find none occasion of fault in him. Can you imagine this? Two presidents and 120 princes and I'm sure they bribed many people and they're looking for just one thing, something in his past, something in how he handles money or how he's dealt with people.

They began to look at his morality and all the positions that for 70 years he'd fulfilled within the city of Babylon. They began to look for someone who'd seen something or some bit of evidence and they couldn't find one single thing.

They searched, they looked, they turned everything over in order to find something and yet there wasn't one act of error with Daniel. There wasn't one thing of integrity that they could point to. They actually had no further way of finding anything but listen, they went further.

I'm talking about a conspiracy against prayer. You say, do you believe in conspiracies? Oh I do. Oh I do. You see, I believe this last year and this year a conspiracy is being put into place. Don't think a conspiracy is a made-up thing or a story.

It's not. The word conspiracy merely means a well-organized plan or an agenda. That's what they're actually doing here. So finally these princes and presidents, you know what they came to? The conclusion that they were going to have to find something against Daniel that involved the law of his God, the written scriptures.

He was a man of integrity and honest and maybe they sent someone to bribe him, waiting for him to take it and he refused it. Maybe they set up different traps and he walked through it as a holy man of God.

Do you know why? He's a man of prayer. He's a man of prayer and God is protecting him but he is under attack. You see, they knew that it had to be an issue with his Christianity, sorry with his religion, with his belief in God and if they're going to catch him out, it has to do with the Bible, the Old Testament, with his belief in the commands of God.

That's the only place. In other words, they're going to have to conspire and create a conspiracy that if he remains as a faithful follower of the written scriptures, as a man of God who obeys God and not man, if he remains as a true follower of God then he's going to get caught out.

So they began to create a conspiracy or a plan, an agenda they actually say there in verse 6, then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king. They assembled together. You know what? There was unity amongst them.

They all gathered. They had talked together. In fact, it says that they had consulted together already. In other words, they talked, they planned, they plotted, they framed Daniel, they agreed together and just watch this, they actually lie.

They assembled together. Oh what unity in this hour when men come together to make conspiracies against a man who is honest and upright. God help the legislators of this hour who are conspiring against honest Christians.

God help them. They may think that they're planning our downfall but I want to assure you they're going to destroy themselves on their own anvil. I promise you that. I don't know all that's going to happen in these days ahead but those that plan the downfall of the church of Jesus Christ in this hour, they're in great trouble, not only eternally in their soul but they'll fall upon their own sword.

I can assure you since we're told that all of these men, these presidents gathered and they spoke to the king and they said, oh king, all the presidents, that's a lie, Daniel wasn't involved. So they're lying.

They've contrived a plan and they're speaking to King Darius. All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, the princes, the councillors and the captains have consulted together to establish a royal statute.

That's a lie and if Daniel wasn't there, I'm sure others of the princes weren't there. There was a conspiracy and they're trying to tell the king everybody is on board with this. Everyone is agreeing from the lowest to the highest in authority.

We all have a plan and we've agreed and we want you, the king, to make it, establish it as a royal statute and to make a firm decree. Listen to what the conspiracy is that they suggest to Darius, that whosoever shall ask a petition, a petition or a prayer of any god or man for 30 days save thee, oh king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

This is the conspiracy that they hatch. It's a conspiracy against prayer but it's aimed at one man. It'll affect every person in the kingdom and in fact all of these leaders and rulers, they're willing to be a part of this or to suffer under it because they're after one man.

Do you know why the devil has been working last year and this year and is bringing this conspiracy across the world? Do you know why? He's not interested in governments. He's not interested in nations.

He's not interested in money. Do you know why this radical coup of the economy and of politics and of social society is happening? There is one reason and it's the church of Jesus Christ. That is the target.

It is a praying church that the devil is after. That is why COVID -19 has come. Men have their agenda but I assure you the devil has a plan. He is after that real church. He is after that man of integrity.

He is after that praying mother. That's what all of this is about and if only we began to realize what 2021 is going to be about. It is about a controversy over prayer. It's about a conspiracy against prayer.

It's about the devil challenging the life of prayer in every single individual person. Darius actually accepted this. He thought it was a vote of support for him, an act of respect, of honoring him, of loyalty unto him, a unity amongst all of these leaders and he willingly went with it.

He immediately signed the declaration that was going to affect every single person in the kingdom. It was a legal document. It was legislation and it would affect every individual from youngest to the oldest right across all of these cities and kingdoms.

Since we have come to an hour when God's laws are beginning to clash with national laws, I believe this is going to be a great trial of this year and of the 2020s. Legislation by wicked men. There is a conspiracy in the land but it's a praying remnant that the devil is aimed at.

You see when evil men use the law against the righteous, you know there's something wrong. Whenever laws are framed into legislation, when laws are being changed that are going to harm those who are prayerful, who are honest, who have integrity, who live right, who don't harm others, when we see the legal system changing, of new laws coming in, of legislation that is going to harm the righteous, you know that we're in a dark hour.

We're in an evil hour. You better be a man and a woman of prayer. Notice this legal system that here Darius is being bound by the law of the Medes and the Persians. These two presidents and the other princes knew that once Darius binds himself, makes him a law, signs on the document, he can never be free of that.

He's going to be bound by his own law. This is the difference between the gold of Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom and the silver of Cyrus and Darius's kingdom. There is a change in governmental structure. The Medo-Persian empire bound its rulers by law.

Three times the Medo-Persian law is mentioned in this chapter. We read about the same legal system in the book of Esther in chapter one and again in chapter eight. In other words, when kings like Darius and Cyrus made a law, they themselves were bound by it.

I can't imagine Nebuchadnezzar being bound by any law of the land. You see, he was the head of gold. He was that old Babylonian system, all made of gold, a form of government. You know what Nebuchadnezzar done?

He said, my word is law. If he wanted to change the law, he would change the law. He wasn't going to be bound by Babylonian law. He made it. He changed it. He could revoke it. He could do whatever with it.

But here's Darius making a law as the greatest leader in the city of Babylon. Yet he's going to be bound by his own law. Do you know the UN talks much about Cyrus the Great? And they talk about international law and human rights.

And they look back to Cyrus. They want to bring in legislation in our world that's going to bind, and this is what they've done for many years. They want to bind every individual, every woman, every child of every nation under a legal system.

In other words, they're not copying Nebuchadnezzar's system. They're copying Cyrus's legal system. It's the change from gold to silver, where the legislation, everybody is bound by the law. Do you realize that's going to bring a snare upon this generation?

You see, when law and legislation, international law, is actually framed in a way that it can make a Daniel suffer, you know there's a terrible hour coming. You know we're on the verge of having an international law, a legal system brought in, like the Medo-Persians, where everybody is going to be bound.

It doesn't matter whether you're innocent, or you're honest, or you're moral. If you have broken that law, you're going to suffer in this hour. This brings me to my third point, the consequence of continued prayer.

The consequence of continued prayer. Notice with me, first of all, how did Daniel respond to this new legislation, and how ought we to walk through the hour that we're living in? The consequence of continued prayer.

First of all, Daniel in verse 10, it says, now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house. I'm talking about a man, what's the first thing he does? He goes to prayer. Do you hear me tonight?

When the laws of the land change, when the laws go against us, when you see a legal system coming in, that's going to make this righteous suffer, that's going to affect our life, that could lead us to imprisonment.

Do you know where you need to go? You need to go back to your house. You need to go into that house and find a place of prayer. It says that as soon as Daniel knew this, he went into his house. You know what Jesus said?

Jesus said, go into your closet, close the door behind you. Daniel was not doing this publicly, he'd done it privately, in his own private home, in his own personal closet. He went home, as soon as he heard that law, he didn't fight, he didn't go to the courts, he didn't begin to demonstrate, he went home to find a place of prayer in the presence of God.

Listen to what it actually says here about the prayer life of Daniel. You see, I'm talking about the consequence of continued prayer. If you continue praying through these 30 days, if you keep doing what you've always done before, you're going to suffer.

You're going to be faced with the threat of the den of lions. Since this is what Daniel was facing, he knew if he went back to prayer like he'd always prayed, if he continued being the man he was, if he lived right before God, if he obeyed the word of God, he was going to suffer.

You know what he'd done? He went home and he began to pray. He didn't start praying, he'd just done what he'd done every other single day. Listen, it says he went into his house. In other words, he continued to do what he'd always done.

It was private, it was personal. He wasn't trying to make a public spectacle. He wasn't trying to make some sort of point. He just carried on being the man of God he'd always been. Second of all, it says that his windows were opened towards Jerusalem.

Do you know why he perpetually had his windows open? In that upper floor of his house, the windows were always open towards Jerusalem. That's where he prayed. It was Solomon who wrote in 2 Chronicles 6 that if you are ever carried into captivity, away from Jerusalem and your own promised land, and in a foreign land, he actually gave the instruction to open your windows towards this city and this land and begin to pray and God is going to hear you.

You know what Daniel was doing? For 70 years he prayed like this. For 70 years he opened his windows. His windows were always open towards Jerusalem. Do you know what? All through this time, Jerusalem, the walls had been burnt out.

The temple was destroyed. The city was in ruins. The people were scattered. They were all in Babylon. They were all in captivity. But do you know what? There's a man of prayer who's keeping perspective.

This is his normal prayer life. He has that window perpetually open towards Jerusalem. You know what? There's hope in his prayer. He's remembering there's going to be a time of restoration. We're going back.

Those walls are going to be built. There's coming a revival. There's coming a great work of evangelism in this hour since it's not over. It's not over. The legislation is changing. Your life is under threat and yet here's a man of God in the place of prayer who's praying, Lord restore again your city Jerusalem.

Lord I'm praying towards Jerusalem since you need to have your focus right. Not only the privacy of prayer but have the focus right. Be praying with hope. It also says he kneeled upon his knees. Since that's not a religious act, that is an act of submission to kneel on your knees before the Lord.

You'll remember just a year ago we got a phone call from our good friend Sister Una. She was 98 years old and she phoned me with a prayer request. She said, Brother Keith, would you and Candice pray for me?

I said, sure Sister. What do you want prayer for? She said, well it's always been my custom to get on my knees and pray and I'm struggling in recent weeks and months. I'm finding it hard to get down on my knees and then to get back up from my knees when I pray.

98 years old. There's lots of young people who don't have that problem because they neither pray nor bend their knee in prayer. There's an old saint who all through the years she bent her knee to pray.

When she gets to 98 and her knees are sore she can't help but get down on those old knees again. It's the habit of a lifetime. Oh that we had a habit of a lifetime. It also says he prayed three times a day.

I believe he took this from Psalm 55 from King David about praying in the evening, the morning and the noon. Notice in Israeli teaching or the Old Testament the day always begins in the evening. How you end the day you begin the day.

It's the evening, the morning and then the noontime. Three times a day. Notice how Daniel's prayer life is saturated by the Word of God. It's molded by the Word of God. It's instructed by the Word of God.

He has a disciplined prayer life. He has a custom. He has normal habits. This isn't religion. This isn't religion. This is a man of God. We're talking about the consequences of continued prayer. A man who's just going to keep praying.

He's going to keep praying. He's going to keep praying. Do you know what he prays when he got down on his knees? Do you know the first thing that it says here in these verses? He didn't say, oh God help me.

That wasn't his prayer. Do you know what it actually says? And he gave thanks to God. He's just heard the decree. The legislation has changed. His life is under threat. There is a law in the land that he says he must not pray for 30 days or he'll be thrown in a den of land.

You know what he does? He goes home, prays. He lifts his hands to heaven. He says, thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Can you thank God? Can you praise him in the crisis hour? That's what Daniel done. What did the conspirators do?

In verse 11 it said, these men assembled and they found Daniel praying and making supplication for his God. These men assembled. It was a prearranged plan. You see, I believe these men knew he was going to pray.

They had confidence he would break the law. They had confidence he would go straight home and pray. So they made a prearranged plan. They assembled together. Can you imagine them? Daniel's there doing what he's always done.

And you've got these group of conspirators. They want evidence. They want to see it for themselves. They want to hear those prayers and they maybe rent a house opposite or next door or they bribe one of the neighbours and they're up there on the roof and they're peering over into Daniel's prayer room and they're there saying, I told you, I knew he's a man of prayer.

I knew he would rather pray than obey the law of the land. He's a man of integrity. Since those conspirators knew who they were dealing with and I believe the conspirators of this are, they know who the real church is.

They know who the real Christians are and they know the laws coming in. They know a real Christian will never bow to it. A real Christian will never bow the knee. That's why there's a collision coming.

That's why we're in this crisis. Don't think that it's some secular thing out there. They're after one group of people. There's only one group of people in this world that is stopping the agendas of this hour and they must extinguish the fire of a Daniel generation.

These men assembled to gaze upon and look at him and as they expected, he was praying. Then it says immediately they went to the king to gossip. In verse 12 they said to the king, did you not sign? In verse 13 they said, you have signed.

In verse 15 they said, the king has established a royal decree. Notice before they set up and betrayed Daniel, they're making sure they're confirming, they're reminding Darius about the legislation and the law and they're saying the Medo-Persian law can never be broken.

It can never be changed. Not even the king can change it since we're at an hour where there's a legal system coming in that's going to make the righteous suffer and we're going to find out if you're a praying saint, if you have integrity, if you really believe the word of God, if you love God more than government or your freedom or your rights or your liberties or all of your blessings, we are going to find it in this hour.

They then hatched their plan to say King Daniel, that man Daniel who was a captive of Judah does not regard you. What a lie, what a lie. Here they're lying, trying to destroy a man's character. Daniel was a man of integrity but they're saying he doesn't regard you because he doesn't regard your decree and he's praying three times a day.

I wonder if they hung around, I wonder if they went back those three times, they knew what time he would be praying, they knew where he would be praying, they knew how he'd be praying. Three times they said he's breaking the law of the land.