November 25 Daniel 10-12 (ESV) Daniel’s Terrifying Vision of a Man 10:1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a word was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar. And the word was true, and it was a great conflict. [1] And he understood the word and had understanding of the vision. 2 In those days [...]
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November 25 Daniel 10-12
Posted: November 25, 2011 by Pam Larson in Bible Passages, Daniel, November Bible ReadingsTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, Daniel, November 25 Daniel 10-12, November Bible Readings, Scripture
What is our deepest confidence in prayer?
Posted: November 24, 2011 by Pam Larson in Daniel, Devotionals/Commentaries, NovemberTags: Appeal to God's Zeal for the Glory of His Own Name, Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Daniel, Dr. John Piper, for His name's sake, Jesus' prayer, Scripture, What is our deepest confidence in prayer?
John Piper, on the prayer of Daniel in Daniel chapter 9: Look how the prayer comes to its climax in verses 18b–19: “We do not present our supplications before thee on the ground of our righteousness but on the ground of thy great mercy. O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, give heed and act; delay [...]
What do the horns in Daniel 8 have to do with Hanukkah?
Posted: November 23, 2011 by Pam Larson in Daniel, Devotionals/Commentaries, NovemberTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Daniel, Horns and Hanukkah, Scripture, What do the horns in Daniel 8 have to do with Hanukkah?
Do your eyes glaze over and lose interest when you come to passages in the Bible that just make no sense to you? Today, we come to a confusing section of Daniel, who has a vision about a ram and a goat with horns. This little horn in chapter 8 is not the same little [...]
Six Daring Things About Daniel’s Prayer
Posted: November 22, 2011 by Pam Larson in Daniel, Devotionals/Commentaries, NovemberTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, courage, daily Bible, Daniel, Dr. John Piper, prayer, Scripture, Six Daring Things About Daniel's Prayer
John Piper, in a sermon, “Daniel’s Defiance of Darius in Prayer” (Daniel 6) Verse 10 just takes your breath away. Here is where I get the insight that Daniel’s prayer was daring and defiant and disciplined. When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in [...]
November 22 Daniel 5-6
Posted: November 22, 2011 by Pam Larson in Bible Passages, Daniel, November Bible ReadingsTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, November 22 Daniel 5-6, November Bible Readings, Scripture
November 22 Daniel 5-6 (ESV) The Handwriting on the Wall 5:1 King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in front of the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father [1] had taken out of the temple [...]
The Path from Pride to Praise
Posted: November 21, 2011 by Pam Larson in Daniel, Devotionals/Commentaries, NovemberTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Daniel, Dr. John Piper, Nebuchadnezzar, pride, Scripture, The Path from Pride to Praise
John Piper comments on Daniel 4:28-3 What Daniel describes in this story is the pathway of a man from the pride of self to the praise of God through the valley of humiliation. And that’s a pathway that every person in the world must walk if he wants to get to heaven and have eternal [...]
November 21 Daniel 3-4
Posted: November 21, 2011 by Pam Larson in Bible Passages, Daniel, Devotionals/Commentaries, NovemberTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Daniel, November 21 Daniel 3-4, November Bible Readings, Scripture
November 21 Daniel 3-4 (ESV) Nebuchadnezzar’s Golden Image 3:1 King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits [1] and its breadth six cubits. He set it up on the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. 2 Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent to gather the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, [...]
Daniel: keep your eyes and heart open to see more of God’s wise, loving sovereignty
Posted: November 20, 2011 by Pam Larson in Daniel, Devotionals/Commentaries, NovemberTags: Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Daniel, Daniel: keep your eyes and heart open to see more of God's wise loving sovereignty, God is sovereign, God's sovereignty, Scripture
Even when times were tough, God had not given up on His people. The book of Daniel is an encouragement that God has a future and a plan for His people, all His people. There are at least three statements in Daniel 1 which reveal the sovereignty of God (His control over men and creation). God [...]
November 20 Daniel 1-2
Posted: November 20, 2011 by Pam Larson in Bible Passages, Daniel, November Bible ReadingsTags: Bible, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Daniel, November 20 Daniel 1-2, November Bible Readings, Scripture
November 20 Daniel 1-2 (ESV) Daniel Taken to Babylon 1:1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. 2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them [...]
Piper: The essence of the matter is not knowing the spirits but knowing God
Posted: November 25, 2011 by Pam Larson in Daniel, Devotionals/Commentaries, NovemberTags: Angels and Prayer, Bible, Bible daily, Bible reading, Bible study, daily Bible, Daniel, Piper: The essence of the matter is not knowing the spirits but knowing God, prayer
John Piper comments on Daniel 10-12, in a sermon, “Angels and Prayer”: But the point is this: Daniel’s praying was not about angels. And probably ours shouldn’t be either. We should wrestle in prayer and fasting for the things that we know are God’s will in our lives and our families and our church and [...]