📕5️⃣ God Has Heard Your Prayer (Luke 1:11-22a)

[Verse] Now it happened that as he performed his priestly service Before God in the appointed order of his division According to the custom of the priestly office He was chosen by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense And the whole multitude of the people were in prayer outside At the hour of the incense offering [Pre-Chorus] And an angel of the Lord appeared to him Standing to the right of the altar of incense Zechariah was troubled when he saw the angel And fear gripped him [Chorus] But the angel said to him "Do not be afraid Zechariah For your petition has been heard And your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son And you will give him the name John You will have joy and gladness And many will rejoice at his birth For he will be great in the sight of the Lord And he will drink no wine or liquor And he will be filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in his mother's womb And he will turn many of the sons of Israel back to the Lord their God It is he who will go as a forerunner before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah To turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children And the disobedient to the attitude of the righteous So as to make ready a people prepared for the Lord" [Verse 2] Zechariah said to the angel "How will I know this for certain? For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in years" [Pre-Chorus] The angel answered and said to him "I am Gabriel Who stands in the presence of God And I have been sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news [Chorus] And behold You shall be silent and unable to speak until the day when these things take place Because you did not believe my words Which will be fulfilled in their proper time" The people were waiting for Zechariah And were wondering at his delay in the temple But when he came out He was unable to speak to them And they realized that he had seen a vision in the temple