Flame - Daniel 10 lyrics

And here's my question for you. Is there anything in the state of the Church, the state of your life that makes you mourn. Anything that makes you morn? I would love to see a generation of young men mourn. Who called it quits on getting angry at how dumb things were and how much the kingdom was advanced, and got on their knees and fasted and prayed for three weeks, eating no delacicies, pa**ying by the ice cream after lunch. Praying to God and asking God to do amazing kingdom advancing things. Some of you are in places in your marriage where it feels like it will never get better, it just feels insurmountable. And you just sorta fill your life with multiple little pleasures that sorta it bearable, when really the lack of intimacy and the lack of kingdom growth in your marriage is driving you crazy, but you can kinda make it bearable. What I think the Lord would want you to do to be like Daniel, and not to numb the morning but to intensify it for a season. With fasting and with prayer, maybe pa**ing by the delacacies. Daniel actually was eating food just not delacicies. He was going through a time of severity, to increase the mourning. And he was Pleading with God, probably for the advance of his kingdom. If we know Daniel. Sometimes we have men fighting lust and we say well, "Get an accountability partner, and get Covenant Eyes." Chris Shippley was here, one of our former pasters recently, and he says now when he counsels men to fight lust, he says, "Lets fast together next week." I just want to make myself available to any man battling with sin, I will fast with you, any time you want. We have ignored prayer and fasting, and we have wondered why we know so little of Christ, and why the Kingdom does not advance with power. And I'm here to tell you, the response from God will come in response to our prayers, to our mourning, to our fasting. As a work by which we earn his favor? NO! Because we have been given access to God through the spirit, we have been made children of God by the cross. We have had our sins paid for, there's no guilt in life, there's no fear in d**h. Now we can approach God. But when you look at this miserable world, and you see prostitution in Bangkok, and you see child trafficking all over the world, you see a crack house on this corner, you see a neighborhood full of wickedness, you marriages that don't grow, you see people that are always depressed. We would be better off to let ourselves mourn rather than talk about what a healthy church we are. And deny the delacicies for a season, and to seek our God for a greater display of the Lord Jesus Christ. And I've got news for you, he loves to answer Prayer!