{"id":1178,"date":"2025-01-26T18:48:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T18:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2025-01-26T18:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T18:51:07","slug":"praying-for-revelation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2025\/01\/26\/praying-for-revelation\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying For Revelation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today\u2019s sermon was given by our reader Richard Palmer on the second Sunday of Epiphany \u2013 26\/01\/25. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/260125\" width=\"500\" height=\"60\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Right click&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/260125\/260125.mp3\"><strong>HERE!<\/strong><\/a> to download<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sermon starts at 2:45<\/p>\n\n\n\n<font color=\"red\">Daniel 2 v 17-23<\/font>\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>17<\/b><\/font>&nbsp;Then Daniel returned to his house and explained the matter to his friends Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah.&nbsp;\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>18<\/b><\/font>&nbsp;He urged them to plead for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that he and his friends might not be executed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.&nbsp;\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>19<\/b><\/font>&nbsp;During the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision. Then Daniel praised the God of heaven&nbsp;\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>20<\/b><\/font>&nbsp;and said:\n\u2018Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever;\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;wisdom and power are his.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>21<\/b><\/font>&nbsp;He changes times and seasons;\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;he deposes kings and raises up others.\nHe gives wisdom to the wise<br>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and knowledge to the discerning.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>22<\/b><\/font>&nbsp;He reveals deep and hidden things;<br>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;he knows what lies in darkness,<br>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;and light dwells with him.\n<br><br>\n<font color=\"blue\"><b>23<\/b><\/font>&nbsp;I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors:<br>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;you have given me wisdom and power,<br>\nyou have made known to me what we asked of you,<br>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;you have made known to us the dream of the king.\u2019<br>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s sermon was given by our reader Richard Palmer on the second Sunday of Epiphany \u2013 26\/01\/25. Right click&nbsp;HERE! to download Sermon starts at 2:45 Daniel 2 v 17-23 17&nbsp;Then Daniel returned to his house and explained the matter to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/2025\/01\/26\/praying-for-revelation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slipend.co.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}