Speaker 1: Is it possible that the pain you're going through right
Speaker 1: now is because you did not seek God, but you
Speaker 1: just went ahead and made a decision without checking in
Speaker 1: with him. Highly probable. And now God said, I could
Speaker 1: have saved you a lot of effort if you just
Speaker 1: sought me. Just have a conversation with you two or
Speaker 1: three times a day and I'll go red light danger,
Speaker 1: read Will Robinson, that's danger, don't go that direction. Is
Speaker 1: it possible, Yes, that pain is because you did not
Speaker 1: seek God in the past. You made a bunch of
Speaker 1: dumb decisions, and now you're paying the results of it.
Speaker 2: Okay, here's the third step.
Speaker 1: The third step in prayers that get answered is express
Speaker 1: my desires with emotion. Express my desires. When I want
Speaker 1: to ask God for something I'm praying about. God, I
Speaker 1: need this, whether it's a physical need, a material need,
Speaker 1: a spiritual need, and emotional need. Whatever you're asking for God,
Speaker 1: in prayer, you express my emotion my desire with emotion.
Speaker 1: So many of our prayers are just cut and dried.
Speaker 1: We just say these words. We don't even know what
Speaker 1: we're talking about. We have these little you know, things
Speaker 1: we've memorized. Now I lay me down to sleep, I
Speaker 1: pray the Lord my soul to keep you know, And
Speaker 1: if I should die before I wake, I pray the
Speaker 1: Lord my soul.
Speaker 2: To take That means nothing. It's just little thing.
Speaker 1: Or you sit down fas it bless this food to
Speaker 1: the nourishment of our bodies, the bless the gift and
Speaker 1: the giver and it and it's it's not. There's no emotion,
Speaker 1: there's no authenticity. It's just things you've learned. God doesn't
Speaker 1: care how beautiful your prayer sounds. In fact, God doesn't
Speaker 1: even care as much about the words as he cares
Speaker 1: as much about the emotions. Have you learned that you
Speaker 1: can say the right words and the wrong emotion and
Speaker 1: your spouse doesn't get it. Yes, you can say all
Speaker 1: the right things, but you didn't what do you mean
Speaker 1: by that because of the tone of your voice? And
Speaker 1: so he's saying, God is an emotional God. The only
Speaker 1: reason you have emotions, the good ones and the bad ones,
Speaker 1: is because you're made in God's image. Human beings have
Speaker 1: emotions that none of the animals have.
Speaker 2: We have a whole.
Speaker 1: Pentopy of emotions because God is an emotional god. The
Speaker 1: Bible says God gets happy the Bible says God gets sad.
Speaker 1: He's sad when he sees a rape, when he sees
Speaker 1: a molestation, when he sees a war. God is sad
Speaker 1: when he sees what people do to each other out
Speaker 1: of selfishness. And the Bible says, God gets angry. That's
Speaker 1: why you can get angry. You're made in God's image.
Speaker 1: The Bible says, God gets jealous. Why and that's why
Speaker 1: you get jealous, because when God sees you giving your
Speaker 1: love to something else instead of him that belongs to him,
Speaker 1: he gets jealous. The Bible says, God gets frustrated. He
Speaker 1: looks down and he sees all of the stuff we're doing.
Speaker 1: He goes, I told you not to do that, and
Speaker 1: you're doing it anyway. It's gonna mess you up. He
Speaker 1: gets frustrated. Now could God change it? Of course, he
Speaker 1: could turn us all into puppets. But God's going to
Speaker 1: just back out of your life.
Speaker 2: Have it your way.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to force you to love me. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to force you to do the right thing.
Speaker 1: So you and I make selfish decisions every day, and
Speaker 1: people get hurt. That's why there's sin, that's why there's
Speaker 1: evil in the world because God gives us the freedom
Speaker 1: to choose. And so God just says, okay, I'll just
Speaker 1: back off. Let let you reap the results of your
Speaker 1: own own decision. But God says, I'm an emotional God.
Speaker 1: Jesus dying on the cross was an emotional scene, highly emotional.
Speaker 1: Jesus dying the cross was emotionally agonizing to him.
Speaker 2: It was agonizing to.
Speaker 1: God the father watching his son die that way, but
Speaker 1: doing it for your benefit. It was agonizing with the
Speaker 1: people who are watching. It's an emotional thing, and God
Speaker 1: is very emotional about you. Do you realize this? God,
Speaker 1: just go I love you now. God loves you passionately, emotionally.
Speaker 1: God has deep, deep, deep feelings for you. How much
Speaker 1: he loves you. If you don't know how much you
Speaker 1: llwed you look at the cross. I'm willing to die.
Speaker 1: I'm willing to die for you. That's how much God
Speaker 1: has emotion for you. And so God says, I want
Speaker 1: you when I have such emotion for you, I want
Speaker 1: you to talk to me emotionally. Don't just do these
Speaker 1: little prayer things where you read a prayer and there's
Speaker 1: no emotion in it. Let me ask you, does tone
Speaker 1: make a difference when you make a request. Of course
Speaker 1: it does, you know. I mean, how about guys, if
Speaker 1: you had said to your future spouse on a date,
Speaker 1: you go, EX like you to marry me. Please, I
Speaker 1: want you to marry me. She go, buddy. If you
Speaker 1: can't say it with a little bit more passion than that,
Speaker 1: forget it.
Speaker 2: That ain't going to happen.
Speaker 1: Do any of you remember when you were little and
Speaker 1: somebody was tickling you, and it was fun at the start,
Speaker 1: and then it got too much, okay, And.
Speaker 2: When you wanted to stop taking you go please stop, no,
Speaker 2: please stop tiggling me. I can't handle it anymore.
Speaker 1: And you are passionate of passion intensity shows house up
Speaker 1: much something matters to you now If you ask God
Speaker 1: about something, God, I really like this, but you're not
Speaker 1: passionate about it.
Speaker 2: God goes, w how.
Speaker 1: Do I know it's just a if you only pray
Speaker 1: about it once, you're not willing to pray about it
Speaker 1: more than once, and you never talk to God about God, I.
Speaker 2: Really need this.
Speaker 1: I gotta have this. You know I've got to have it.
Speaker 1: Then God goes, what is this a wish or a whim?
Speaker 1: Or is it really a true? Desire, and so the
Speaker 1: Bible says this. Here's the third thing Daniel did.
Speaker 2: Verse three.
Speaker 1: Second part of it, he says, I began pleading with
Speaker 1: God earnestly in prayer circle. The word pleading, God listens
Speaker 1: to pleading. Makes me think about a story I heard
Speaker 1: a while back, where as a kid, a young kid
Speaker 1: who at Christmas time he wanted a Star Wars watch
Speaker 1: and it was really cool watch. I had Yoda on it,
Speaker 1: and he just and so he was bugging his parents, Mom,
Speaker 1: I want this Star Wars watch for Christmas, Dad, I
Speaker 1: want this Star Wars watch for Christmas.
Speaker 2: He just keeps on and on.
Speaker 1: And on, every conversation, every meal he's mentioning the Star
Speaker 1: Wars watch, and finally his dad goes, Johnny, we got it.
Speaker 1: If you mentioned this one more time, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: get the watch.
Speaker 2: Smart kid backs off, doesn't doesn't do anything.
Speaker 1: About a week later, they're having the whole family sitting
Speaker 1: at dinner and the dad says, hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: it's good for us to talk about the Bible. So
Speaker 1: everybody just share your your favorite Bible verse, anything or
Speaker 1: Bible verse that you know you could say. And so
Speaker 1: one of the kids goes John three sixteen, because everybody
Speaker 1: knows that one for God still love the world. And
Speaker 1: the teenager goes John eleven thirty five. Jesus wept, shortest
Speaker 1: verse in the Bible. Anybody can memorize that two words,
Speaker 1: Jesus wept. So okay, John John love their right.
Speaker 2: Jesus wept. That's his verse.
Speaker 1: So they go around the room and they come to Johnny,
Speaker 1: and Johnny goes So they said, Johnny, what's your favorite verse?
Speaker 1: He said, well, my favorite verse would be Mark thirteen
Speaker 1: thirty seven, where Jesus said, I told you once and
Speaker 1: I sand you again. Watch look at this verse in
Speaker 1: the message paraphrase, Daniels nine three says, I poured out
Speaker 1: my heart to God, bearing my soul to God.
Speaker 2: Have you ever done that?
Speaker 1: Have you ever poured out your heart to God? Have
Speaker 1: you ever bared your soul to God? This is not
Speaker 1: wimpy week praying. This is got cease praying. This is
Speaker 1: gut wrenching praying. I'm pouring out my soul to God.
Speaker 2: God.
Speaker 1: I gotta have your help in this business. I gotta
Speaker 1: have your help in this marriage. I've got to God.
Speaker 1: I am telling you, I'm pouring out my heart I am.
Speaker 1: I am being authentic. I'm baring my soul. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like Jacob wrestling with the Angel. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: let go until you bless me God. Now, when was
Speaker 1: the last time you ever prayed like that, pouring out
Speaker 1: your soul to God emotionally?
Speaker 2: I can tell you.
Speaker 1: You may have forgotten, but I can tell you the
Speaker 1: last time you prayed like that, As your pastor friend,
Speaker 1: spiritual coach, the last time you prayed like that.
Speaker 2: Is when you were in deep, deep pain.
Speaker 1: Because we don't pour out our hearts to God like
Speaker 1: that when we're things are going great and we're skipping.
Speaker 2: The hills of Jerusalem picking flowers and.
Speaker 1: Talking about peace, love and Bobby Sherman, you know, just
Speaker 1: to have a happy day, smiling faith. No, you pour
Speaker 1: out your God when you are in deep pain? Is
Speaker 1: that the only time you pour out your heart to
Speaker 1: God when you're in deep pain?
Speaker 2: Can you do it any other time?
Speaker 1: This is called praying with emotion, called quote crying out
Speaker 1: to God. Someday you may want to do a study
Speaker 1: of this in the Bible, about all the times God
Speaker 1: talks about quote crying out to God. There are many
Speaker 1: many Euss samples of people of all sorts who cried
Speaker 1: out to God and God heard their prayer. There are
Speaker 1: many many promises in the Bible about crying out. God
Speaker 1: does not listen to just complaints. He listens to crying
Speaker 1: out in emotion to God, saying God, I really need
Speaker 1: your help. Now, it says Daniel, he said he was pleading.
Speaker 1: He's crying out. What is he pleading? What is Daniel
Speaker 1: pleading with God about? He's going God, I want to
Speaker 1: go back home. I'm an old man. I'm eighty five
Speaker 1: years old. I spent my entire life serving pagan kings.
Speaker 1: I've done good. I stayed true, kept my integrity in
Speaker 1: a pagan world. I didn't deny my faith, and I
Speaker 1: kept getting promoted. I'm pretty influential guy in the whole
Speaker 1: kingdom here. But God, I want to go back home.
Speaker 1: I really I'm going to go. I'm going to die
Speaker 1: in my home country now. Jeremiah, the other guy at
Speaker 1: the same time, had predicted that after seventy years, Babylon
Speaker 1: would fall, and that then the people of God in
Speaker 1: Babylon would start praying and pleading God let us go
Speaker 1: back home. Here's what it says, Jeremiah chapter fifty. This
Speaker 1: was his prediction. He says, then my people will join
Speaker 1: together in tears. That's emotional praying. They'll join together in
Speaker 1: tears to seek the Lord. And they will ask the
Speaker 1: way to Jerusalem. What because it had been seventy years,
Speaker 1: they didn't even know how to get back home. They
Speaker 1: will ask the way to Jerusalem, and then we'll start
Speaker 1: back home again. That is one of the most beautiful
Speaker 1: phrases of hope in the Bible. They will start back
Speaker 1: home again. America needs to do that and needs to
Speaker 1: start back home again, and other nations need to do that.
Speaker 1: They need to start back home again. You may need
Speaker 1: to do this personally. I need to start back home again.
Speaker 1: And maybe you've been so far away from God for
Speaker 1: so long you don't even know how to get back
Speaker 1: to Jerusalem.
Speaker 2: I don't even know how to get back.
Speaker 1: I've been so disconnected, disc combobulated and apart from God.
Speaker 1: I don't even know.
Speaker 2: And so what do you do?
Speaker 1: You plead, you pour out your heart. You joined together
Speaker 1: in tears. When does God answer that kind of prayer?
Speaker 1: When God's people join together in tears. I know many
Speaker 1: of you use the daily Hope devotionals as part of
Speaker 1: your regular Bible study. And so I want to share
Speaker 1: some exciting news. We've put three hundred and sixty five
Speaker 1: of the best devotionals into a brand new book that
Speaker 1: we're calling the Daily Hope Devotional Purpose, Peace and Promise
Speaker 1: for every Day. This devotional book is designed with clear,
Speaker 1: practical biblical teaching to help you make knowing God your
Speaker 1: numberumber one priority. I believe it will help you stay
Speaker 1: focused on God throughout the day as He provides you
Speaker 1: with real purpose, lasting peace, and his unfailing promises. Imagine
Speaker 1: starting every day like that. This book is a great
Speaker 1: way to share the hope you have in Jesus with
Speaker 1: your friends, coworkers, and relatives.
Speaker 2: I hope you'll get a copy for everyone you know.
Speaker 3: Be sure and request your copy when you partner with
Speaker 3: Daily Hope to take the word of God to a
Speaker 3: hurting world.
Speaker 2: Okay, here's the fourth thing. Here's the fourthie. There's six keys.
Speaker 1: Number four. I need to demonstrate my seriousness. When you're
Speaker 1: praying about something, you need to signal to God that
Speaker 1: you mean business about this, that it's not just a
Speaker 1: little whim, it's not just a casual thought. But you're
Speaker 1: really serious about this. You want to let God see
Speaker 1: how important whatever you're praying about is to you. Now. Daniel,
Speaker 1: in the next part of this verse, mentions three ways
Speaker 1: he shows he signals his seriousness to God. Two of
Speaker 1: them were cultural customs, which we don't do in America
Speaker 1: or anywhere I think today. But one of them is
Speaker 1: a spiritual discipline that had been going on for centuries
Speaker 1: and thousands of years, and people still do it today.
Speaker 1: Here's what he says in verse three, the third part
Speaker 1: of the verse. He said, I started fasting, which means
Speaker 1: he's going without food. That's a spiritual discipline. He said,
Speaker 1: I started fasting and went without food, and to show
Speaker 1: my sadness, to demonstrate my seriousness, I put on rough
Speaker 1: clothes and sat in ashes. Now nobody does this today.
Speaker 1: This is called sackcloth and ashes, and it was done
Speaker 1: for hundreds and hundreds of years in the Middle East
Speaker 1: and in the Orient. I don't know that anybody does
Speaker 1: this today. Jesus said, there are some miracles that happen
Speaker 1: only by prayer and fasting, not by prayer alone. Why,
Speaker 1: because it says God, I'm super serious about this. I'm
Speaker 1: super serious enough to go without food that's how discipline
Speaker 1: and serious I am about this prayer request. Moses fasted
Speaker 1: before he received the Ten Commandments. The Israelite fasted from
Speaker 1: before they went into many, many major battles. Daniel fasted
Speaker 1: in order to receive guidance from God. Neamiah fasted before
Speaker 1: he began a major building project. You should too, business guy.
Speaker 1: Jesus fasted and victory over temptation. The very first Christians
Speaker 1: fasted during decision making times in their life. We'll I'll
Speaker 1: teach a whole lot more about this, but this is
Speaker 1: the point of simply saying, I demonstrate my seriousness.
Speaker 2: Okay. Number five.
Speaker 1: The fifth thing, Thank God for his love and promises.
Speaker 1: Thank God for his love and promises. The Bible says,
Speaker 1: when you ask, ask with thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is not a holiday.
Speaker 1: If you're a believer, it's the attitude of your entire life.
Speaker 1: You are to live with the attitude of gratitude. And
Speaker 1: the fifth thing Daniel does in his prayer is he
Speaker 1: reminds himself of how good God is, how gracious God is,
Speaker 1: and how grateful he is to God. Daniel ninety four.
Speaker 1: Then I prayed to the Lord, and I said, Lord,
Speaker 1: you are great you are an awesome God. You always
Speaker 1: fulfill your promises. You keep your word, you say it,
Speaker 1: you keep your word. You always fulfill your promises of
Speaker 1: constant love. And I'm flaky, you're not. I'm unfaithful to you,
Speaker 1: but you're not unfaithful to me. You keep your promises
Speaker 1: of concile love to those who love you, and keep
Speaker 1: your commands down in Verse ninety says, and even though
Speaker 1: we have rebelled against you, you Lord are merciful and forgiving. You.
Speaker 1: Just tell God, God, I'm grateful that you're God, and
Speaker 1: I'm not God. I'm grateful that you're loving, You're forgiving
Speaker 1: your good You're merciful, and so you thank God for
Speaker 1: his love and his promises. And then number six, the
Speaker 1: sixth thing do you do? Is you humbly confess? I
Speaker 1: humbly confess my sins. Confess just means to admit, that's
Speaker 1: all it means. The word confessed in Greek is the
Speaker 1: word homo lookgeo homo meaning same homosexual, Homo sapien homogenized
Speaker 1: milk means same homo look geo means to speak the same.
Speaker 1: To confess means I just agree. You're right God. That's wrong.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. Got I was wrong, you were right.
Speaker 1: And that's what confession is. And so God responds to humility.
Speaker 1: When I'm prideful, God didn't hear my prayers. Man, God,
Speaker 1: prideful prayers. God resists the proud, the Bible says, but
Speaker 1: gives grace to the humble.
Speaker 2: But when I go God, I really blew it. In fact, I've.
Speaker 1: Been blown it for a long time. And let me
Speaker 1: tell you it's specifically how I'm blowing it. Daniel gets
Speaker 1: very very specific in confessing. I just wrote some of
Speaker 1: the verses. I'm just going to read them to you
Speaker 1: and not even comment. And I want you to circle
Speaker 1: the verbs which are the sins. Okay, He says, we've
Speaker 1: sinned none wrong. Then he says, we've rebelled against you.
Speaker 1: That's one rebelled circle that we've rebelled against you. He says,
Speaker 1: we've ignored your commands, circle ignored. He says, we've rejected
Speaker 1: your laws. We made up our own morality. We've rejected
Speaker 1: your laws. He says, we have refused to listen to
Speaker 1: your servants. The prophets refused who spoke the message to
Speaker 1: our kings and our leaders and our parents and everybody
Speaker 1: else in our nation. He says, this is very specific.
Speaker 1: We're all at faultier every generation. It's not like one
Speaker 1: generation in America. Every generation's got part of the blame.
Speaker 1: And then in verse seven and eight, he says this,
Speaker 1: we've brought disgrace and shame on ourselves as a nation
Speaker 1: because we've been unfaithful to you. You know what, God,
Speaker 1: We've committed spiritual adultery. We gave our love to somebody
Speaker 1: else when we're supposed to give our love to you.
Speaker 2: We've been unfaithful to you.
Speaker 1: And he said, this is true of all of us,
Speaker 1: including our kings, our leaders, and our parents. He said,
Speaker 1: we next verse verse ten, we paid no attention to
Speaker 1: you when you told us how to live. You told
Speaker 1: us what's right and wrong, what's morally good, what's not.
Speaker 1: So this clear teaching came through your promise verse thirteen,
Speaker 1: but we kept on sinning. We never gave you a
Speaker 1: second thought. We were oblivious to you the clear warnings.
Speaker 1: So God, he says that you had no choice but
Speaker 1: to let disaster loose in our nation on us, since
Speaker 1: we persistently and defiantly ignored you. And then he sums
Speaker 1: it all up in verse sixteen, and he says, and
Speaker 1: now all the other nations, mock us. Does any of
Speaker 1: this sound vaguely familiar to you? I just read you
Speaker 1: a laundry list of America. I just read you the
Speaker 1: last fifty years of America right there. Now, Daniel knows
Speaker 1: we don't deserve God's blessing, but he casts himself on
Speaker 1: the grace of God. He goes, God, we could never
Speaker 1: earn this, we could never deserve this. We don't deserve
Speaker 1: to get back to home, get back to you. We
Speaker 1: don't deserve your blessing. But I'm going to cast myself
Speaker 1: on your mercy. And in the next verse he says this,
Speaker 1: Oh God, Oh God, listen to me. Hear my request.
Speaker 1: We don't ask because we deserve out We don't. We
Speaker 1: don't ask because we deserve, but because you are so merciful.
Speaker 2: You are a You're a good, good father, and you
Speaker 2: are merciful.
Speaker 1: How does God respond to this kind of prayer, the
Speaker 1: six things that we just taught you. Well, in verse twenty,
Speaker 1: here's how God responds. Daniel says, well, I kept on praying.
Speaker 1: Let me stop right there circle the phrase kept on.
Speaker 1: Daniel didn't pray this prayer one time. He's prying it
Speaker 1: over and over and over and over. God, I need
Speaker 1: your help. He's praying this over and over.
Speaker 2: He said. I kept on praying.
Speaker 1: If you don't you pray about something one time, you
Speaker 1: don't care about it, he says. While I kept on
Speaker 1: praying and confessing my sins and confessing the sins of
Speaker 1: my people and pleading with the Lord. He's emotional in this.
Speaker 1: Suddenly the angel Gabriel appeared in my vision. Now you
Speaker 1: guys know who Gabriel is. There are three arch angels.
Speaker 1: There was Lucifer, he fell, he became Satan. There's Michael,
Speaker 1: and there's Gabriel. Gabriel's the guy who shows up at Christmas.
Speaker 2: Hello.
Speaker 1: So I actually know the names of these guys. And
Speaker 1: this is so important that God sends the angel Gabriel
Speaker 1: in a vision to Daniel, and he says, suddenly, while
Speaker 1: I'm doing all this praying, the Angel Gabriel peared in
Speaker 1: my vision and said this, Daniel, I've been sent, obviously
Speaker 1: by God. I've been sent to help you understand God's plan. Now,
Speaker 1: the moment you began praying, the answer was given, and
Speaker 1: I'm here to tell it to you. For God loves
Speaker 1: you very much. Now, God doesn't have to send Gabriel
Speaker 1: to me, and he doesn't have to send Gabriel to
Speaker 1: you because we have the second half of the Bible
Speaker 1: that was written that tells us all about Jesus, and
Speaker 1: so I can tell you right now what God will.
Speaker 2: Say to you. I love you very very very very
Speaker 2: very very much. I feel very very deeply have deep
Speaker 2: feelings for you.
Speaker 1: God says, I saw you born, I saw you grow,
Speaker 1: I saw it hurts, I saw the happy times sat
Speaker 1: I've seen everything in your life. And I have a
Speaker 1: plan for your life, and I have a timetable for
Speaker 1: your life. And when you start praying, I heard that prayer,
Speaker 1: and I want to help you understand my plan for
Speaker 1: your life because I love you very very much. Now
Speaker 1: you say, well, wait a minute, Rick, this is God
Speaker 1: talking to Daniel.
Speaker 2: I'm not Daniel. No, You're not neither am I. But
Speaker 2: I know this prayer will work for you.
Speaker 1: And the reason I know it will work for you
Speaker 1: is because the exact same formula is given in another
Speaker 1: part of the Bible to anybody.
Speaker 2: It's to all of God's people.
Speaker 1: It's called Second Chronicle seven fourteen, one of the most
Speaker 1: famous promises in the entire Bible. Now, before I read
Speaker 1: this promise, I want you to understand it's one of
Speaker 1: the most misused, misquoted versus in the Bible. I've actually
Speaker 1: heard politicians quote this verse as a promise to America.
Speaker 1: It is not a promise to America. It is not
Speaker 1: a promise to any nation. It is a promise to
Speaker 1: God's people. And God's people are in every nation. So
Speaker 1: this is not a promise for America. This is a
Speaker 1: promise for you and me and believers anywhere else in
Speaker 1: any other nation of the world. And it is for us,
Speaker 1: it's not for everybody. Second Chronicle seven fourteen, God says,
Speaker 1: I got four conditions. If you'll do these four things,
Speaker 1: I'll do three things. If my people, if my people
Speaker 1: who are called by my name, are you called my name?
Speaker 1: Are you called a Christian? That's being called by the
Speaker 1: name of Christ. So if you're a Christian, you call
Speaker 1: yourself a Christian. If my people who are called by
Speaker 1: my name, and here are the four things, will humble
Speaker 1: themselves that's confession, and pray that's pleading, and seek my
Speaker 1: face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will
Speaker 1: hear from heaven, I will forgive their sin and I
Speaker 1: will heal their land. All of the elements of Daniel's
Speaker 1: prayer are in that promise. We're gonna claim that promise.
Speaker 1: Anybody with me, anybody with me? Okay, okay. God says
Speaker 1: that I don't know what you need. Healing and healing
Speaker 1: in your mind, healing in your heart, healing in your body,
Speaker 1: healing in your business, healing in your finances, healing in
Speaker 1: your relationships, healing of your fears. Your business needs healing,
Speaker 1: your family needs healing, your marriage needs healing, your nation
Speaker 1: needs healing.
Speaker 2: If my people.
Speaker 1: Who are called by my name, God says, will humble themselves,
Speaker 1: I blew it, Lord, I just blew it and pray.
Speaker 1: I'm pleading God. I did not seek you, and I
Speaker 1: made a bunch of dumb decisions, and now I'm paying
Speaker 1: for it. We'll humble themselves and pray and seek my face.
Speaker 1: You got my attention. God, I'm looking at you, and
Speaker 1: turn from their ways, They're wicked ways. Then I will
Speaker 1: hear from heaven. I will forgive their sins, and I
Speaker 1: will heal their land.
Speaker 2: Period done. That's it.
Speaker 1: I know many of you use the Daily Hope devotionals
Speaker 1: as part of your regular Bible study, and so I
Speaker 1: want to share some exciting news. We've put three hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty five of the best devotionals into a brand
Speaker 1: new book that we're calling the Daily Hope Devotional Purpose, Peace,
Speaker 1: and Promise for every Day. This devotional book is designed
Speaker 1: with clear, practical biblical teaching to help you make knowing
Speaker 1: God your number one priority. I believe it will help
Speaker 1: you stay focused on God throughout the day as He
Speaker 1: provides you with real purpose, lasting peace, and his unfailing promises.
Speaker 1: Imagine starting every day like that. This book is a
Speaker 1: great way to share the hope you have in Jesus
Speaker 1: with your friends, coworkers, and relatives. I hope you'll get
Speaker 1: a copy for everyone you know.
Speaker 3: Be sure and request your copy when you partner with
Speaker 3: Daily Hope to take the word of God to a
Speaker 3: hurting world.