This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope. We're so glad you're here, whether you're in your car or at home or sitting on a park bench. We're glad you're listening to Daily Hope.

Pastor Rick has been taking us through the Book of Daniel, and today he brings our series called Unshakeable to a close.

Pastor Rick has chosen the Book of Daniel to help

equip us to handle whatever life throws at us, even the most difficult trials. Let's see what Rick

has to say with the final part of a message called the kind of prayer God answers. Let me ask you

question. You see everything that I see.

You read the newspapers. You watch TV.

You see what's going on in our nation.

You see what's going on in our world?

Does anything break your heart?

The stuff that's going on around, does it break your heart what you see happening in our society,

in our system, in our politics? Does anything break your heart?

You see all the stuff going on all around the world? Is there anything ever bring tears to your eyes? If that means you've really pulled away from the heart of God. It's not something

we just gossip about and tweet about. It's not something we just gossip about

and tweet about. It's something that breaks a heart and in tears. We said, God, we need help in this area.

All right. Here's the fourth key. There's six keys. Number four, I need to demonstrate my seriousness.

When you're praying about something, you need to signal to God that you mean business about this.

That it's not just a little whim, it's not just a casual thought, but you're really serious about this.

You want to let God see how important whatever you're praying about is to you.

Now, Daniel, in the next part of this verse, mentions three ways he

shows, he signals this seriousness to God. Two of them were cultural customs, which we don't

do in America or anywhere, I think, today. But one of them is a spiritual discipline that had been

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