FAITH CAPSULE: Desire to live according to the word of God.

Daniel 6

Obedience without failure is evidence to live according to the word of God.
One that lives for God does not withhold against the word of God.
Abraham demonstrated the confirmation of his faith that he did not withhold against the command of God for the burnt offering of his only son, Isaac.
Genesis 22:2 records the word of God to Abraham, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
Abraham responded to the command of God but did not withhold himself.
Without questioning God, he went further with an attempt to carry out the burnt offering.
The Angel of the Lord called out on Abraham, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now, I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” (Genesis 22:12)
Abraham had faith that was rooted in his fear of God, not to withhold against God.
Abraham lived according to the word of God.
Daniel was a young slave of Judah captured by Nebuchadnezzar.
As a young slave, his name changed to Belteshazzar, but his heart stood for God.
Daniel proposed his heart not to defile himself, the character of living for God.
Daniel 1:8 records, “But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.”
God was the first for Daniel, not his life.
Daniel lived a life of prayer.
When he was to die in the den of lions, his life for God stood for him.
Daniel 6:10 records of Daniel, “Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days.”
Daniel lived life for God as he excelled to the glory of God.
Be a believer in the word of God.
Know that the word of God is God. (John 1:1)
A choice to lie according to the word of God is the choice of living for God.
As a believer of God who does not owe no one but has given all for all, why not choose to live according to the word of God?
Pray for knowledge and the strength of God to live according to the word of God for His glory.

Prayer for today: Ask that you be enabled to live life for God.