Keion Henderson - The Season is Shifting

Daniel, chapter two, verse nineteen. The Bible says, «Then, in a night vision.» Everybody say, «A night vision.» I keep telling you, if you read the scripture, you will notice that every time God comes to me, He comes to them at night, in sleep. Then, in a night vision, the mystery was revealed to Daniel. So, Daniel praised the God of heaven, saying, «Let the name of God be praised forever and ever, for wisdom and power belong to Him. He changes times and seasons, deposing some kings and establishing others.» In other words, I want you to think of this in the year of elevation: demoting some kings and elevating others. He gives wisdom to the wise; He imparts knowledge to those with understanding. He reveals deep and hidden things; He knows what is in the darkness, and light resides in Him. «O God of my fathers, I acknowledge and glorify You for You have bestowed wisdom and power on me. Now You have established me.» Somebody say, «God established me.» He says, «You have established and enabled me to understand what I have requested of You, for You have enabled me to understand the king’s dilemma.» I’m telling you about being an answer. I’m telling you about being an answer. He is not elevated because he has money; he is not elevated because he has status. He is elevated simply because he understands the king’s dilemma. And as you begin to fast and pray in this new season of your life, I don’t want you asking God for money. I don’t want you asking Him for houses. I don’t want you asking Him for cars. Ask Him to be an answer. If you seek first the kingdom of God, then all these things will be added unto you. I want you to go back and look at what I was reading here in verse 22, where it says, «He reveals the deep and hidden things .» Somebody say, «God revealed the hidden things.» Verse 21 says, «He changes the times and seasons .» How many of you need a season to shift in your life? I came to preach to you today on this subject: «The season is shifting.» I want you to high-five everybody on your way down to your seat and say, «I don’t know what you’ve been dealing with, but the word of the Lord today is: The season is shifting!» Somebody ought to give God glory in this place today. Be seated. The season is shifting. As we continue this text, as an extension-if you will-this is episode 2 of the sermon we preached on New Year’s. This is about a guy known for being in the lion’s den, and we understand all of that about Daniel. But you have to understand that there was more to Daniel than what he went through. We all know his problems, but we may not know his promotion. We know he was in the lion’s den and was akin to Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. But this guy Daniel, if you’re looking for how God will take you from nowhere to somewhere, this is a story you want to read. Because as you read this text about Daniel, you must understand that he was first a captive of Nebuchadnezzar’s invasion of Judah. And now, here he is, an interpreter of the king’s dilemma. He has gone from nobody to somebody in a New York minute. He has gone from the bottom to the top. And in our text, if you look at verse 19, the Bible says, «Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision .» The secret was revealed to Daniel not in the day, but in a night vision. The Bible says, «Then.» Everybody say, «Then!» I’m going to say it like you mean it: Say «Then!» The word «then,» actually, if you want to understand what «then» means, you have to go back and read the first eighteen verses. You would recognize that Daniel has just finished praying. Daniel has prayed all the way up until the eighteenth verse, and in verse nineteen it says, «Then.» He doesn’t get to «then» until he finishes praying. He prays, and then he gets the vision. Are you with me so far? But the vision doesn’t come in the day. The vision comes, excuse me, in the night. The Bible says that he has — everybody say-"night vision.» So he prays all day long; then God gives him a vision. But He doesn’t give him the vision in the day; He gives him the vision in the night. And I thought about how God shifts seasons in your life and what it is that you need in order to acquire a shifting season in your life. I saw the two things that Daniel did for God to shift seasons in his life, and I thought that if it is no secret what God can do, what He did for Daniel, He can do for you. Then I figured that if you did what Daniel did, then God could shift a season in your life. The first two things that I see Daniel doing before the season shifts are: I see him first praying, and then I see him secondly being patient. Because the Bible says he prays, and then God sends a night vision, which means he has to wait all day to get the vision. Do I have any help here today? He doesn’t get the vision when he wakes up in the morning; he doesn’t get the vision at lunchtime; he doesn’t get it in the evening.