Faithfulness:
Is choosing daily to follow God,
regardless of our circumstances.
Today, I spent ALOT of time at church between two services and biblestudy...
so I have alot to think about for the upcoming week but I wanted to share something that really popped out to me today....It was a simple story about
"Daniel and the Lions Den".
The childhood story is told over and over again in christianity and I think we overlook the
"kid stories" and don't pay attention to the message that is being said;
since we have heard them countless times.
(so here is tiny tidbits of the story.....If you want you can go here and read the whole story)
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10.Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before.
This passage really stuck out to me because Daniel didn't do anything out of the ordinary.
In this time it was custom to have your windows open toward Jerusalem, He was doing exactly what he had always done, 3 times a day down on his knees in prayer. Daniel didn't close his windows in fear, he didn't pray 3 times a day because he wanted to prove he was holier than the rest....he simply did what God asks of us and that is to steadily follow him regardless of what the circumstances around us. Daniel prayed in pure faith....If he wouldn't have prayed he wouldn't have needed to ask God for help because he wouldn't have been thrown into the den.
Are we faithful with our prayers to God even when the consequences
seam hopeless?
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25.Then King Darius wrote to all the nations and peoples of every language in all the earth:
"May you prosper greatly!
26.I issue a decree that in every part of my kingdom people must fear and reverence the God of Daniel.
"For he is the living God and he endures forever;
his kingdom will not be destroyed, his dominion will never end.
27.He rescues and he saves; he performs signs and wonders
in the heavens and on the earth.
He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions."
If you've read the story you know about Daniel getting thrown into the lions den and God saving him from the mouths of the lions. Sometimes God works in ways we don't understand at first....we think we KNOW the plan and we think that we can outsmart him. God didn't save daniel from the lions den, he helped daniel through it so that through Daniel all nations and people would learn to know that "Daniels God" is the one and true God. Sometimes we have to go through ruff patches in our life, and God WILL be there to help us and provide us the safety that we need....and through our struggles may our faith be apparent so that Gods compassion and love will shine through us.
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If you have any questions or thoughts feel free to message me
have a great monday morning!!!!! :)
#42-going to the movies
#43-new pillow shams made
#44-the quiet, still....silence
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