October 15, 2020 Spirit Meat Devotional : Topic – THE MARKS OF A DANIEL (3) – Daniel 1:8, 3:16-18, Genesis 39:7-13
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Another mark of the Daniels is that they have unusual strength of purpose. The strength of your purpose as a Daniel must be greater than your desire (Daniel 1:8). If your purpose is greater than your desire, you will do noble things in life, but if your desire is stronger than your purpose, you will do crazy things.
Daniels are decided men. They are men that take right and strong decisions in the direction of their purpose. Daniels are men that say, “I won’t be polluted. Everybody may be doing it, but I will not!” What is not right, is not right; you can’t make it right by dressing it up in a different colour. Why will God allow you as a medical doctor to have a girl come to your clinic to have an abortion, and you don’t see anything wrong in it? God allowed that girl to come to you so that you can save that life. You are expected to sit her down and tell her the reasons why God brought her to you.
You might have made a mistake in the past, brace up quickly, the future is still ahead of you. If you stumble and fall, only the people that saw you fall will know that you fell. If you get up on time and start running, nobody will know.
Sometimes you find yourself in very messy situations, but you must take your stand just like Joseph refused to compromise with the wife of Potiphar, and Daniel refused to compromise and stain himself with the king’s meat.
PRAYER: Lord, grant me the strength and capacity to confront every negative situation and challenge at every juncture on the journey of my destiny.
BIBLE IN A YEAR: Jeremiah 26:1-27:22, 2 Thessalonians 3:1-18, Psalms 85:1-13, Proverbs 25:16