Hell-Shaking Prayer — David Wilkerson

Daniel's Prayer in the Face of Opposition

Hell-shaking prayer. That's the message. Hell shaking Prayer go to Daniel if you will please the sixth chapter. I'm so glad I'm saved. Let's start with verse 1 chapter 6. I'm gonna read About 10 verses it pleased Darius to set over the kingdom 120 princes, which should be over the whole kingdom.

And over these three presidents of whom Daniel was first. Princes might give accounts unto them and the king should have no damage. Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes because an excellent spirit was in him.

The king thought to set him above over the whole realm. Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom. But they could find no occasion or fault for as much as he was faithful.

Neither was there any error or fault found in him then said these men. We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel except we find it against him concerning the law of his God. Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king and said unto him King Darius live forever.

All the presidents of the kingdom the governors the princes the counselors the captains have Consulted together to establish a royal statute and to make it for a firm decree. That whosoever shall ask a petition of any God for man of or man for 30 days.

Save the O King he shall be cast into the den of lions. Now King O King established the decree. Signed the writing that it shall not be changed according to the law of the Medes and Persians. Which alters not wherefore King Darius signed the writing and The decree.

Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed he went into his house. And his windows were open at the chamber toward Jerusalem. He kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed gave. Thanks before his God as he did before.

Nothing changed not even a threat of the lion's den. Father I Thank you for your living word. I thank you Lord that we don't live by the bread of this world. But we live by the divine living bread that you have given to us in your word.

And I come to you father humbly and ask you to take the word that you've given to me and multiply it to this people. I pray Lord that you give us understanding hearts and ears and eyes to see and Accomplish Lord what you have what you want to accomplish in me in delivering it and those who hear it.

Lord I have no strength. I have no power of no ability. I am wholly dependent upon you. And I trust you now that you will do what you want to do through me and in me in Christ's name. I pray Amen. Hallelujah again welcome to our visitors.

We're delighted to have you here. May the Lord Challenge you through the word tonight. Now in this chapter that I've just read to you Daniel's 80 years old. He's 80 years old. He's outlived two kings Nebuchadnezzar and his son Belshazzar and you know the Medes have come now and they've overcome and defeated Babylon and Darius is now on the throne.

He'd be serving for two years before Cyrus comes to power. This is the third king over Babylon under which Daniel served. This man is both preacher and prophet a great man of God. He had started his ministry in Babylon remember as a very young man and he started in prayer.

There's not a mention in this man's life of burnout. There's not a mention of discouragement not a word about getting five acres out of town and retiring Without any responsibility. He's 80 years old and he's just beginning.

Daniel's Lifelong Priority of Prayer

That is how old Pastor Jack West is going to be this next year. 80 years old. At 80 years of age Daniel shook hell with his prayers. His prayers and raids the devil. Remember, he's been promoted now under Darius.

This is under the Medes and Persians and he is now promoted again. There are a hundred and twenty provinces a hundred and twenty princes over those and three presidents all co-equal and now King Darius because of the talents and wisdom of this man thought to set him above the whole realm.

In fact, he preferred him over the other two presidents over the hundred and twenty now. Daniel's main occupation though was prayer. He was a busy busy man. At 80 years of age. He's assigned to be president over these princes in the province.

His time alone with God took president precedence over everything that he did now. This man was over all the intellectuals. He was over the astrologers. He was made the the main Leader over the whole province.

Now, this is a busy man. Do you understand this? There's no man can be in that position without being a most busy man. But nothing Could take away his time for prayer three times a day this man Stole away from all his occupation from all of this his his burdens and his Leadership needs and he slept he slipped away and spent time with the Lord at 80 years of age.

He got his direction on his knees. This man never had to call a conference. He never had to go to a committee meeting to get answers. He never had to take a roll call. He never had to do this. He prayed and God answered his prayers.

This was a man who heard from God because he was a man of prayer. The scripture says very clearly. Nebuchadnezzar for example has a dream. None of his astrologers or sorcerers or magicians can interpret the dream and he has decreed that they all be killed and This included the wise men.

This was a death warrant not against all the astrologers and wise men and intellectuals of his time that surrounded the court. They couldn't interpret his dreams and he said since you can't dissolve my doubts you're dead.

There's no purpose for your being alive. And Daniel received this message and he calls a meeting with his three praying friends Shadrach Meshach and Abednego and They didn't try to interface they didn't try to take a survey among the Jews to find out how they could find some plan to Call survival of the Jewish nation.

They prayed the Bible says they went to their knees. They went to their knees to hear from God. Daniel the second chapter slip over to. Slip back just to the second chapter of Daniel if you will, please and look at verse 20 through 22.

Daniel answered and said see he's prayed and he's got the answer now. And he said blessed be the name of God forever and ever for wisdom and might are his. He changes the times and the seasons. He removes Kings and sets up Kings.

He gives wisdom to the wise knowledge to them that no understanding he revealed the deep and secret things. He knoweth what is in the darkness and the light dwelleth with him. Now, where did Daniel get that?

He got it. No other place than in the secret closet of prayer. He got it seeking the face of God. Let me show you how important it is. I bleed to have a praying preacher or praying people in the midst of Declension especially at the at the brink of judgment.

Prayer in a Time of Spiritual Declension

The Old Testament Church at this time was at its lowest point. It's in captivity. The spirit of Babylon had gotten a hold of all the people the praises of God had been silenced they had lost their song the scripture says and Satan is set on destroying Israel because out of Israel is going to come the seed out of this Nation is the seed Christ the Messiah who's going to destroy the power.

Satan the devil knows that and he's trying to destroy the royal Seed, he's trying to destroy the seed Jesus Christ. And it was Satan himself who initiated this decree, you know, these men didn't initiate it themselves.

It had to come from demonic Instruction it was initiated out of hell itself and all of Israel is watching. Israel is backslid. Nobody is praying anymore other than Daniel the Hebrew children. There's no evidence anywhere in the scripture that these in captivity prayed anymore.

They'd hung up their hearts. They weren't singing. They weren't praising God. They weren't worshiping. They'd all drifted away got involved in the prosperity of Babylon and now Israel's watching. You know, I believe this is all in my heart they they're wondering does God still speak to anybody anymore.

Is anybody hearing from God is anybody reading the times does anybody know the secret of the Lord and what's happening and what's about to happen and they are watching because they know that this decree has gone out and The future faith of Israel depends upon somebody in touch with God.

Somebody that's still on their face before God is God's theater evilling himself to humankind. And I'm sure this is this this is on the heart of every backslidden Israelite in Babylon at the time. Now Daniel could have gathered the people together, you know today what we would do.

You know, there's there are many bright young men. Bright young men who are well educated and they want to see crowds and they want to see Results and they want to be a successful they take polls. They go around the neighborhood polling the people what would you like in the way of Religious education.

What would you like? You're not going to church. What would would you go to church if just outlined to us what you prefer? Let's see if we can come to some compromise and not confront you in the house of God.

So they find out people don't like organs. They find out that people don't like Messages against sin they say and they say that you can't mix ethnic groups you can't have blacks with whites and you can have Puerto Ricans with both of them and You've got to have an all-white congregation or all-black congregation folks.

We're doing everything wrong in this church. We got a hundred and three nationalities of all colors. We're doing everything the book says you can't do. We've had young theological students come in here absolutely amazed they said they told us you don't do it this way.

You can't build a church in this. It's all white. It's all black or it's all something else. You've got it. You can't the stick with your color and your your kind. That's Tommy Rott, that's foolishness.

Absolutely, you can't do that in this city. You can't do it under the anointing of the Holy Ghost. He could have called for a march on the Capitol Demanding rights for the Jews. He could have got crowds together and demonstrated.

I'll tell you what. I believe the devil snickers at our parades and balloons. They just snickers at it. He snickers at all these polls. I went to church in Dallas when I was off a few weeks ago. And I Just got hungry.

I want to go and see what's happening. I'm so hungry to hear a good message and I went to one of the new contemporaries I didn't know this could never say Community Church and I go and Everybody they is drinking Cokes and Pepsis and coffee and doughnuts and there's doing a service everybody's nonchalant and kicking off their shoes and Kids are running around and somebody gets up starts to sing two songs.

You could have sung to your sweetheart. I mean, it's a crossover songs they call them and Now this church was started by a poll. They took a poll to find out what the neighborhood wanted and then They had a skit about how to buy a car a funny skit for 10 minutes had nothing to do with the gospel just a skit and then Somebody walks them back to the church a PhD one of the piece to PhD passes PhD walks up.

No Bible in his hand a little piece of paper and a message on how to Be at ease on your job how to find the right job and how to be at ease about a job. I'd nothing to do about the gospel at all. And I'm sitting there looking at this crowd of people.

I'm looking at couples that I'm sure are having problems in their life. I'm looking at this crowd of young people who are sitting there bored. I'm looking at this whole thing and this is all a result of a Paul.

The world is not impacted by super churches. The world is not impacted by massive buildings or massive memberships. It's impacted only by Holy Ghosts in exposing truth that gets into the heart and changes it.

That is the only thing that impacts the world. The world is not Impressed about a church in the theater on Broadway. If people came in here and did not hear something that struck their heart if that did not expose the deep sin.

That's hidden in their heart. If the Holy Ghost wasn't here. It's just another show. In fact, mr. Niederlander who has so many theaters here after cats shut down last week I saw him a few days before it shut down.

He said reverend. You've got the longest-running show on Broadway now. Nebuchadnezzar had a dream and He couldn't interpret in his he's a troubled man. He's a troubled man. He couldn't remember what the dream was and nobody none of the astrologers none of the sources knew what the man needed.

They didn't have any concept. They were out of the loop. They had no way of knowing how to get to that man's heart and he he. He represents the modern mindset. Who could say look I have all the material possessions a man could want.

I have power. I have influence. I have unlimited chariots. I have access to every pleasure known to mankind, but I have no peace. I'm a troubled man. I can't sleep. I have a question in my heart. I have no answers.

And if you intellectuals of you astrologers and you cultists. Yes, and even you Daniel and all your holy men with you if you can't dissolve my doubts you have no reason to exist. You're all dead. You have no right to exist.

He's saying as a church you have no resort. You have no right to be called a man of the cloth if you can't dissolve my doubts. If you can't touch my heart you have no reason to be alive when the nation Begins to see the handwriting on the wall.

When judgment becomes so evident in this nation, they're not going to be turning to prosperity preachers. They're not going to be talking to those who said all is well when the finger appears. And it handwriting is on the wall.

And I see that finger appearing right now. The finger is already here and when that finger begins to write judgment and everybody knows it's beginning to happen. There had better be some Daniels around who can read the times.

There should be there had better be some praying people not only in a pulpit but in the pew. Who know what God is doing who are not afraid who have the answer? Because everybody's going to be like Nebuchadnezzar.

They're going to have doubts. They're going to have fears. There will be churches all over the United States and around the world. When people get upright in the middle of the servant, I'll tell you how many skits do you think they're going to be when the handwriting? comes.

How many jokesters in the pulpit how much straw is going to be preached? And given and fed to the people. When the people are losing everything that have many are going to be losing their houses and their lands and their possessions.

And they're going to get up right in the middle of the message and say pastor what's happening. What's going on? You didn't tell us you didn't warn us. I Get tired of warning. Yes, I get tired of the word doomsday preacher.

I get weary of us. Yes in my flesh, but there's something in my heart. I know that when the handwriting comes on the wall. It's going to be just like Nebuchadnezzar who has the answer who understands the times who can dissolve my doubts.

We had better be there. We had better be men and women of God on our knees. He turned to his he turned to his a straw. He said you're stalling. You don't have the answer and I see that stalling in the pulpit today because men have lost touch with God.

Very I thank God for the praying preachers, but there are so few so few. Like the man I told you about pastor 1 ,200 people asked me and my wife out for dinner. And his wife said we asked yeah, because my husband has a confession she said.

You better tell him or I'll tell him. I thought it was going to be adultery. And he blurted. I says he's a pastor Dave. He said that I don't think he said I have to acknowledge you're preaching got ahold of me.

So I have not prayed in one year. I've not prayed in one year. Successful pastor people church growing and. Because there were certain people coming who wanted to hear what he had to say because there was no power in it to convict them.

The Handwriting on the Wall and Coming Judgment

Go to Daniel fifth chapter. Now. This is Belshazzar. This is Nebuchadnezzar's son the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand and rode over against the Candlestick against the plaster of the wall of the king's palace and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

Then the king's countenance was changed and his thoughts troubled him so that the joints of his loins were loosed and his knees Smote one against another. The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers the Chaldeans and the soothsayers.

The king spake and said to the wise men of Babylon Whosoever shall read this writing and show me the interpretation thereof shall be clothed with scarlet. They have a chain of gold about his neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.

Then came in all the king's wise men. But they could not read the writing nor make known to the king the inter interpretation thereof. Then was King Belshazzar greatly troubled was countenance was changed in him and his Lords were astonished they were absolutely astonished.

Folks just wait look at me now. Just wait. The day is not far off when those who are chasing silver and gold are going into shock. And just as these men their knees are going to tremble. Absolutely Tremble.

You remember the story in the fifth chapter. Nebuchadnezzar sent Belshazzar Being on the throne. He has a great feast to a thousand of his lords and princes and in a drunken stupor he calls for his servants to bring in the golden chalice and the vessels the drinking vessels that they had that Nebuchadnezzar's father had Taken from the temple in Jerusalem and they began to drink wine out of the consecrated vessels.

And that's when the finger of judgment appeared. The finger of God always appears suddenly it always appears suddenly and so it will once again. Once again, our world leaders our national leaders are going to tremble their knees are going to smite one against the other.

Their countenance is going to change. They're going to be astounded. Greatly troubled that's happening right now all over Europe. Euro dollar is Collapsing and unless they moved in two days ago, it would have collapsed.

It may collapse next week. They're trying to bring it back. But even after billions of dollars infused in the euro dollar. It's shaking Strikes right now because of high oil prices all over Europe and folks there everywhere you look there's handwriting on the wall.

God is warning. Do it just before the last depression God tried to warn America with incredible storms and then came a famine there came a drought in the Midwest from Texas through, Oklahoma and The great dust storms and folks we see their handwriting on the wall.

It's happening right now. Well, I'm right now 75 days without rain. The ground is cracking opening up and there are dust storms. They've got the red the red storm now the red a sky over Houston. They call it the same red sky that came just before the Depression in 1929.

Folks the very same thing is hope happening over and over again. And somebody's in here here he goes again trying to scare the daylights out of me. No. We are blind to these things. The handwriting is on the wall now.

And I'm going to be turning to these prosperity preachers. They will not turn to those who said all is well. That is being preached from our Pentecostal pulpits Baptist pulpits evangelical pulpits. That God will never bring down America because we send missionaries.

God will never judge us. Forget this talk about an economic collapse forget it chapter 6 Verse 11 this now is I'm skipping now. I'm leaving. I'm gonna leave. No, Shazer for just a moment. I want to go back now.

Daniel's Integrity and the Perils of Busyness

To Darius this this is another time and I wouldn't because I've got to move very quickly now. Daniel's been appointed over these three Presidents and over 120 princes or over 120 provinces and They see in this man's life something that made them very jealous.

They see the wisdom that they don't have. They see the blessing of God the favor on this man. They see the respect that he has and they attribute it. There's no question they attribute it to those prayers that he'd been praying three times a day out his window toward Jerusalem.

They they tie it to that and in their jealousy they They initiate this decree. To try to stop Daniel no folks when I talk about hell-shaking prayer. How incensed the devil must have been that he organizes the entire government structure of an empire.

Against one man. All the princes 120 princes gathered together said we have got to stop this man these prayers of this man. He's the only Jew. The others are Medes and Persians. He's one Jew. He's one praying man.

Now folks nobody else needs to be praying except the Hebrew children told that Daniel. But God always has a man. He's always searching for man and God always finds a man. When I talk about a man I'm talking about a kind of a man or a kind of a woman.

They make this decree that no one is to pray to any God. Now there were many gods. There were many religions in Babylon because they brought captives from all of their Conquered nations and they brought them in allowed them to worship their gods.

They feared offending any of their gods. And so they make a decree that no one can worship anybody. But Darius himself and they make this decree. But I want you to know something folks. Scripture says that in so many words Darius says to Daniel.

All these who told me all this whale have nothing to say to me. They cannot interpret the time. They can't interpret the handwriting on the wall. Listen to scriptures, but I have heard of you Daniel that you can dissolve doubts.

It's in verse 16. You can dissolve doubts and read the times you can resolve dots. Folks, I want you to know that when hard times come when people are in trouble when they're sick and afflicted. They're having family problems and things go wrong.

They're not wanting empty foolish candy-cotton preaching. They don't want something that tells them they're all right. They want to hear the truth. They want it unadulterated. They want it even piercing if it necessary.

They want the truth. He said I need my doubts. Dissolved. You're a pastor here the church. I'm telling you you had better be a man of prayer in the days of head ahead because your people are going to want their Adults their doubts resolved.

They're going to want a man in the pulpit that can stand there reassure them. What is happening and what is coming in the near future? I'm amazed at the terrible misconception in the church world today about what the world wants.

You see all these polls and everything else. They've come up with these ideas. That that work only in a time of prosperity. When all things are well. But none of these things work when the handwriting appears none of it works when the difficult times are coming and people's families are breaking up and their children are going on to going to drugs and.

And and their their bank accounts begin to diminish. The finger of God is on the wall. Now we have a bill shaz and a thousand Lords trembling. A thousand Lords who don't need a skit. A thousand Lords who are shaking.

A thousand politicians who don't know what's happening. A thousand politicians that are astonished. What is happening? Nobody has an answer. They're in fear and trembling and. And Daniel comes on the scene and they tell us that people don't want to hear preaching about sin anymore.

They tell us that you have to be non-confrontational. There's a church in San Diego. Charismatic church that advertises. I told you this this ain't your mama's church. 10 minutes of singing. 15 minutes of lecture.

And football scores during the service. Wait to the wall. Your finger appears. Daniel comes on the scene not to flatter. He doesn't come to give them what they think they want. He knows because he's been on the knees what they need.

Listen to what he said thou Belshazzar. You have not humbled your heart. You have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. Your days are numbered. Your kingdom is finished. You're weighed in God's balance.

You're found wanting now. No, sir. It's all over. He told it like it was. He told it unadulterated untainted and they loved it. They wanted it. They put a gold neck on his chains a satin robe on him and make him the third ruler the whole kingdom.

It's what they wanted to hear. They wanted truth that would set them free folks. We came to New York City to start a church. When we first saw a whole row of transvestites. When I looked down one day and saw all these men dressed.

Looked like very pretty women. Some very pretty blondes. I'm not making fun, but I'm. I stood there and said Oh God. What kind of preaching is going to take? Drug addicts. Alcoholics. People that were raising hands praise of the Lord and still performing in these shows that were vile and filthy.

What kind of preaching? Non-confrontational. Am I gonna? Come down with a pad and pencil and line them up and say now what would you like me to preach? So that I could keep you coming back. Do you want the organ out?

You don't like the songs up here. Tell me what you want. We'll give it to you. Never. This church would be empty. This church would have been closed in six months. They would have left us out of town.

Because every one of those down there were hungry they had doubts that needed to be resolved. They wanted the truth and it came forth with power and unction and love and grace and it saves their lives and many of them.

Are here. Some of them are in the house tonight. Let me talk to you about the perils of a praying man. The praying man is a scourge of hell and Satan will do everything in his power to shut him down. In Daniel's case this Initiation of a conspiracy.

President sought to find occasion against Daniel and they couldn't. They couldn't find adultery. They couldn't find covetousness. They couldn't find pride. They couldn't find ambition. They couldn't find anything now.

I believe that one of those occasions was this and it came right out of the pits of hell and it's one of the prime Occasions the devil seeks against every Christian every one of you listening and I want you to hear me.

Well now I Believe that they tried to involve Daniel in so much state business that he'd have no time to pray. Make him the busiest man. Because he was sneaking off. Let's just pile it on him. Let's give him so much to do.

Let's make him so busy. He'll have no time to pray. This is one of the occasion. I called a conspiracy of interruptions. I'm certain the devil conspired with these co-presidents to involve Daniel in Job related busyness that would take him away from the secret closet.

Ask preachers today why they don't pray. One after another it's I have no time by the time I have. I fulfill all the demands made on my time. I can't do it. All I have time to do is to go and many go to the Bible just to find a text and preach on it.

They go to the Bible just to get a sermon and and you ask any businessman. That's that's not praying anymore. Why I. I I just don't have the time. It's a conspiracy of interruptions right out of hell.

It is one of the most dangerous things that can happen to a preacher or to any any of us that are here tonight businessmen businesswomen and career people and Even the housewife. I don't have time by the time I get my children dressed and off for school and get my house clean.

I don't have time. The philosopher Coren Sorin Kierkegaard Referred to business of Christians as a narcotic. I don't agree with everything Kierkegaard writes. But he has some powerful warnings to busy Christians.

He said it leads to double-mindedness. He spoke of men falling deeper and deeper into business while their love for the truth slipped more and more into oblivion. He said it's a mass of connections. The stimuli of activity.

Ever-increasing calls upon one's time. The more impossible for any to understand the danger he's in. The mirror of God's Word is there. But you have to stand still to see a reflection. But he said the busy man is now moving so fast.

He has no time to reflect. He rushes by now and he sees nothing. He may even carry the mirror in his luggage. But he doesn't take it out to see and look and judge himself. Worst of all the busy man is in worse condition than a man with a life-killing disease.

Because that man though he may not be able to stop the deadly disease. He sees the symptoms growing worse, but the busy man has a condition becomes more and more agreeable more and more comfortable. The disease of busyness is easier to excuse.

He becomes less prayerful less conscious about the things of God and his convictions begin to wane and Finally his accents prove that he's lost the heat of his convictions, but Daniel was wide awake to this.

This attempt to try to get him so busy. He was no longer in the secret closet of prayer. He prayed in spite of it even knowing that he would end up in the lion's den. And you know the rest of the story the decree calling for 30-day Moratorium on prayer was signed and Daniel winds up in the lion's den.

Seeking God Through Scripture and Repentance

Now, I'm not going to get into the lion's den. I'm going to change direction here for just a minute and I'm gonna pose this question. How does a matter woman become a matter woman of prayer? What was it that motivated?

Daniel to pray so powerfully and shake hell that the devil had to organize the whole empire to try to shut him down. He was that effective one man was that effective with God? What what what is it that?

Brings about a Praying man that a man at 80 years of age is praying with more intensity than when he was a young man. Here's a young man. Here's an 80 year old man that is seeing clearer than he's ever seen.

He's hearing from God clearer than he's ever heard before. He's 80 years of age and he's lost nothing of the touch of God. What was it about him? What motivated him? Where did he get that? Desire to pray that motivation to pray.

I want to know because I'm getting up there. You see Daniel lived in the New York of his day. He lived in a time of spiritual apathy of drunkenness love of money and great Temptations and he's a busy leader and he lived in a time when when very few were praying.

But why would an 80 year old preacher? Pour his heart out to God so fervently in the face of a lion's den. You see Prayer does not come natural Flesh and the devil conspire against it and it's so easy to start praying that it's hard to continue in it.

So many have been called to prayer and started and maintained it for a while and and then began to wane over and over. But you see in time of spiritual declension and prior to judgment God has always all through the Bible.

The scripture said has gone looking he's gone searching for those That were seekers after him. Remember in Jeremiah the fifth chapter don't turn there. We hear God pleading. Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem.

See now and see if you can find a man That executed judgment that seeks the truth and I'll pardon. He said I'll pardon all the sins if I can just find one man that will seek my heart. Here were people who no longer grieved ever sinned they refused correction.

They were fully fed and blessed and prospered in a committing adultery now running with harlots. And they've broken all the bonds of morality and God says I'm just looking for a praying man. I'm looking for a seeker after my own heart.

You find it again in Ezekiel 23 when you read of the cut of the times similar to ours. Conspiracy of the prophets. Ministers ravening wolves. Raving after innocent souls stealing from the poor and the widows.

Priest who violate God's law. Pastors profaning his holy things putting no difference between the holy and the unholy hiding their eyes from sin. Prophets full of vanity preaching lies. False prophets saying thus saith the Lord when God said no such thing.

God's people were oppressed and robbed and vexed and God cries out I Seek for a man among you. That should make up their heads and stand in the gap before me that I should not destroy but I found none.

God forbid that he should be in this house tonight seeking you seeking me and find us not. God forbid it should happen in this generation especially among those who are seekers. But God found this man in Daniel.

You see the kind of man God is searching for is going to be found with the Word of God in his hand in his heart you see God Moved on Daniel. Daniel sprang down the ninth chapter of Daniel. You'll find him with his word on his lap and he searched and he'd be seeking the word and he discovers that this is the seventh Year 70th year the prophesied time that God would deliver Israel.

You see God goes through the land he searches every church in the nation. He searches every pastor study. He goes through every church looking for seekers. He's looking for those who are into the Word of God who have taken time.

Not because some preachers put him under conviction, but there's something in the heart. They see that things happening. They see the immorality. They see what's happening in the land they see the moral degeneracy and there's something stirring in their heart and they go to the Word of God and It's that person that's in the Word of God.

It's the person that's beginning to read the times through the word. You can't know the times except through being shut in with God in this word. You don't know what's coming. You don't know what's going to come to your life.

You don't know what's happening. But this is how a man of prayer a woman of prayer is made by the hand of God. Not only faith comes by reading the Word of God. But a spirit of prayer from the Holy Ghost comes through being shut in with God.