ThAt GuY dAnIeL - CAPTIVITY Reloaded🔫

👀The Playmaker Writes Season 2 Episode 4

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ThAt GuY dAnIeL - CAPTIVITY Reloaded🔫

Miss me? I'm back😆. Hope you have done last week's assignment on assessing yourself with Daniel's Criteria for a Top Notch Position in Nebuchadnezzar’s government. You may be lacking a few😅, or may be all🙈. But no need to cry😭 because GRACE is available.  Stick in wholeheartedly to the ThAt GuY dAnIeL series and you'll have direction in Jesus name 🙏🏿.

Let's box on👊🏿. It will interest you to note that Daniel and his 3 Jewish friends passed the first test😎. But there was a second test that came up immediately. (GOD WILL SURELY HAVE SOME TESTS FOR YOU IN LIFE). King Nebuchadnezzar was quite smart😌. He renamed Daniel and his 3 friends. Daniel was now called Belteshazzar meaning "Bel, protect his life". Bel also called Marduk, was the chief Babylonian god. He did same for Daniel's comrades. This was one of the King's attempt to change the religious loyalty of these young men from Judah's God to Babylon's gods.

So the second test involved eating the King's Delicacies.😋 the King wanted them to forget Judah-their home😔, their culture and finally their God😨, and he wanted them to rather focus on his new gods and the Babylonian life. (I'm sure the Babylonian life can be likened to the worldly life😎).  So King Nebuchadnezzar decided to influence them through change of names and also FOOD & WINE🍷🤔 too. I'm sure the wine was Coca-Cola😬.

I'm quite sure the King's delicacies which included a daily ration of food and wine from his own kitchens was highly-rated🙌🏿. I doubt the King ate breadcrumbs and water for breakfast. I'm sure he had some "Golden fried shrimps with some non-alcoholic grape juice with a touch of fruits. 🍌.😂 Stop getting hungry already. 😂

This was to be done for 3 years alongside training them before they would be interviewed for Royal Service in the Palace.

Daniel and "co" stood out and resolved not to eat this food, either because it was forbidden by his Jewish law such as pork as we see in Leviticus 11 or because he "thought far" to see that eating these exorbitant delicacies will build a dependency barrier around him and his friends on Nebuchadnezzar and his gods.😈

Even though Daniel was in a culture that didn't honour God he still REMEMBERED his God. Daniel 1:8 says that Daniel PURPOSED in his heart that he will not DEFILE himself with the King's Delicacies.

Wow😨. If it was you, can you uphold your God and resist the forces of the opposition that are hitting strongly on your principles and values😅?

You might be going through the same situation as Daniel. I'm quite sure you see similarities of Daniel's test in your "Life Test" in maybe your teen/ young-adult life, marriage, school (*cheating in exams) your workplaces etc.

BUT BE LIKE DANIEL WHO DETERMINED TO DEVOTE HIMSELF TO GOD'S PRINCIPLES IN THE WORST OF SITUATIONS.

Daniel:

1) Made up his mind

2) Took initiative

3) Prevailed

We too are often assaulted by pressures to compromise our standards and live more like the world around us. But stand like Daniel we shall prevail.

We'll go deeper in the next episode.

You can do it. You can make it. Is it difficult-"YES". Has it been done before-"YES". Can you also prevail-"YES". Be the salt and light of the world seeya.😎🙌🏿👊🏿🙏🏿

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