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And here's my question for you.Is there anything in the state ofthe Church, the state of your lifethat makes you mourn. Anythingthat makes you morn?I would love to see a generation ofyoung men mourn. Who called it quitson getting angry at how dumb things wereand how much the kingdom was advanced,and got on their knees and fasted andprayed for three weeks, eating nodelacicies, passying by the ice creamafter lunch. Praying to God andasking God to do amazing kingdomadvancing things.Some of you are in places in yourmarriage where it feels like itwill never get better, it just feelsinsurmountable. And you just sortafill your life with multiple littlepleasures that sorta it bearable, whenreally the lack of intimacy and thelack of kingdom growth in your marriageis driving you crazy, but you can kindaLetras de cancionesmake it bearable. What I think the Lordwould want you to do to be like Daniel,and not to numb the morning but tointensify it for a season. With fastingand with prayer, maybe passing by thedelacacies.Daniel actually was eating food just notdelacicies. He was going through a time ofseverity, to increase the mourning. And hewas Pleading with God, probably for theadvance of his kingdom. If we know Daniel.Sometimes we have men fighting lust andwe say well, "Get an accountability partner,and get Covenant Eyes." Chris Shippley washere, one of our former pasters recently,and he says now when he counsels men tofight lust, he says, "Lets fast togethernext week." I just want to make myselfavailable to any man battling with sin,I will fast with you, any time you want.We have ignored prayer and fasting, and wehave 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 fromGod 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 Godthrough the spirit, we have been madechildren of God by the cross. We have hadour sins paid for, there's no guilt in life,there's no fear in death. Now we can approachGod.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 seea neighborhood full of wickedness, you marriagesthat don't grow, you see people that arealways depressed. We would be better off tolet ourselves mourn rather than talk aboutwhat a healthy church we are. And deny thedelacicies for a season, and to seek our Godfor a greater display of the Lord Jesus Christ.And I've got news for you, he loves to answerPrayer! From Letras Mania