Daniel, Week Six

Session Six: In the Lions' Den

• We can react in three ways in an emergency: panic (the wrong thing), be paralyzed (do nothing), or pray (the power thing).
• "You do not have the situation that God cannot change" (Beth's example was a 35-year marriage that has been 35-years miserable).
• "All Scripture is for us, but refreshingly, all Scripture is not about us."
• "...we can have confidence that God does what He says. Every single time."
• I found it interesting as she had us reflect on all of the presidents during our lifetime, that the culture of America has been on a steady moral decline no matter who has been in office. "Cultures are stronger than individual human leaders because they are dictated by masses and cultivated by time."
• "Never think for a moment that Satan is anti-religious. Spiritual beings are driven to seek spiritual things, and we are spiritual beings. Satan's aim is to provide and effective counterfeit or diversion."
• "From Satan's first entrance on the stage of earth in Genesis 3, he's tried to convince believers that God is holding out on them. Cheating them. Satan tries to suggest that this life is all we can be sure of: live it sacrificially and we've lost it all."
• "Satan uses Babylon, the symbolic persona of all that seems beautiful, enticing, and instantly gratifying in the world, as a puppet to corrupt people."
• "Daniel is proof that corruption in Babylon isn't compulsory... We really can live out life with integrity. But we will never do it by accident. In fact, perhaps nothing in our lives will have to be more deliberate."
• "I believe with all my heart that God wants His representatives to be Daniels in our worlds: distinguishing ourselves with exceptional God-given qualities and performing our tasks as if God Himself were our boss." (See Colossians 3:23)
• Those of us who have received Christ as our Savior are inhabited by the empowering, consecrating Spirit of the living God... We are extraordinary because He's extraordinary. Let's start living like it."
• "When you obey God in the small things, it becomes a lot easier to obey Him in the big things."
• "We must not forsake meeting together and jealously holding one another accountable to walk in truth and remain fortified."