Posts with the tag “god”

Powerful Words from the ProphetsVery early the next morning, the king got up and hurried out to the lions’ den. When he got there, he called out in anguish, “Daniel, servant of the living God! Was you...  Read More

Powerful Words from the ProphetsThen they told the king, “That man Daniel, one of the captives from Judah, is ignoring you and your law. He still prays to his God three times a day.” Hearing this, the...  Read More

Powerful Words from the ProphetsBut when Daniel learned that the law had been signed, he went home and knelt down as usual in his upstairs room, with its windows open toward Jerusalem. He prayed three...  Read More

Powerful Words from the ProphetsDarius the Mede decided to divide the kingdom into 120 provinces, and he appointed a high officer to rule over each province. The king also chose Daniel and two others ...  Read More

Powerful Words from the Prophets“This is the message that was written: Mene, mene, tekel, and Parsin. This is what these words mean:…Parsin means ‘divided’—your kingdom has been divided and given to t...  Read More

Powerful Words from the Prophets“This is the message that was written: Mene, mene, tekel, and Parsin. This is what these words mean:…Tekel means ‘weighed’—you have been weighed on the balances and hav...  Read More

Powerful Words from the Prophets“This is the message that was written: Mene, mene, tekel, and Parsin. This is what these words mean: Mene means ‘numbered’—God has numbered the days of your reign and h...  Read More

Powerful Words from the Prophets“You are his successor, O Belshazzar, and you knew all this, yet you have not humbled yourself. For you have proudly defied the Lord of heaven and have had these cups f...  Read More

Powerful Words from the ProphetsBut when the queen mother heard what was happening, she hurried to the banquet hall. She said to Belshazzar, “Long live the king! Don’t be so pale and frightened. There...  Read More

Powerful Words from the ProphetsSuddenly, they saw the fingers of a human hand writing on the plaster wall of the king’s palace, near the lampstand. The king himself saw the hand as it wrote, and his ...  Read More

Powerful Words from the ProphetsWhile Belshazzar was drinking the wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver cups that his predecessor, Nebuchadnezzar, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem...  Read More

Powerful Words from the Prophets“When my sanity returned to me, so did my honor and glory and kingdom. My advisers and nobles sought me out, and I was restored as head of my kingdom, with even greater...  Read More

Powerful Words from the Prophets“That same hour the judgment was fulfilled, and Nebuchadnezzar was driven from human society. He ate grass like a cow, and he was drenched with the dew of heaven. He li...  Read More

Powerful Words from the Prophets“King Nebuchadnezzar, please accept my advice. Stop sinning and do what is right. Break from your wicked past and be merciful to the poor. Perhaps then you will continu...  Read More

Powerful Words from the ProphetsSo Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego stepped out of the fire. Then the high officers, officials, governors, and advisers crowded around them and saw that the fire had not...  Read More

Powerful Words from the ProphetsBut suddenly, Nebuchadnezzar jumped up in amazement and exclaimed to his advisers, “Didn’t we tie up three men and throw them into the furnace?” “Yes, Your Majesty, we ...  Read More

Powerful Words from the Prophets“Nebuchadnezzar was so furious with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego that his face became distorted with rage. He commanded that the furnace be heated seven times hotter...  Read More

Powerful Words from the ProphetsShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God whom we se...  Read More

Powerful Words from the ProphetsThen Nebuchadnezzar flew into a rage and ordered that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought before him. When they were brought in, Nebuchadnezzar said to them, “Is...  Read More

Powerful Words from the ProphetsKing Nebuchadnezzar made a gold statue ninety feet tall and nine feet wide and set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. Then he sent messages to the h...  Read More

Powerful Words from the Prophets“Then the king appointed Daniel to a high position and gave him many valuable gifts. He made Daniel ruler over the whole province of Babylon, as well as chief over all ...  Read More

Powerful Words from the ProphetsThen King Nebuchadnezzar threw himself down before Daniel and worshiped him, and he commanded his people to offer sacrifices and burn sweet incense before him. The king...  Read More

Powerful Words from the Prophets“During the reigns of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed or conquered. It will crush all these kingdoms into nothingness,...  Read More

Powerful Words from the ProphetsArioch quickly took Daniel to the king and said, “I have found one of the captives from Judah who will tell the king the meaning of his dream!” The king said to Daniel ...  Read More

Powerful Words from the ProphetsThat night the secret was revealed to Daniel in a vision. Then Daniel praised the God of heaven. He said, “Praise the name of God forever and ever, for he has all wisdo...  Read More

Powerful Words from the Prophets“Then Daniel went home and told his friends Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah what had happened. He urged them to ask the God of heaven to show them his mercy by telling t...  Read More

Powerful Words from the ProphetsThe astrologers replied to the king, “No one on earth can tell the king his dream! And no king, however great and powerful, has ever asked such a thing of any magician,...  Read More

Powerful Words from the Prophets“At the end of the ten days, Daniel and his three friends looked healthier and better nourished than the young men who had been eating the food assigned by the king. So...  Read More

Powerful Words from the Prophets“And this is the basic law of the Temple: absolute holiness! The entire top of the mountain where the Temple is built is holy. Yes, this is the basic law of the Temple....  Read More

Powerful Words from the ProphetsThen he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ Therefore, prophesy and...  Read More

Powerful Words from the ProphetsThen he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Sovereign LORD says to these bones: I will make br...  Read More

Powerful Words from the ProphetsThe hand of the LORD was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth amo...  Read More

Powerful Words from the Prophets“For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I myself will search and find my sheep. I will be like a shepherd looking for his scattered flock. I will find my sheep and r...  Read More

Powerful Words from the Prophets“As they watch, lift your pack to your shoulders and walk away into the night. Cover your face so you cannot see the land you are leaving. For I have made you a sign fo...  Read More

Powerful Words from the ProphetsAgain a message came to me from the LORD: “Son of man, you live among rebels who have eyes but refuse to see. They have ears but refuse to hear. For they are a rebellio...  Read More

Powerful Words from the Prophets“Then the cherubim lifted their wings and rose into the air with their wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them. Then the glory of the ...  Read More

Powerful Words from the Prophets“And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them. I will take away their stony, stubborn heart and give them a tender, responsive heart.” – Ez...  Read More

Powerful Words from the ProphetsThen he added, “Son of man, let all my words sink deep into your own heart first. Listen to them carefully for yourself.” – Ezekiel 3:10 (NLT)“The Hardest Person to Lea...  Read More

Powerful Words from the ProphetsThen he said, “Son of man, go to the people of Israel and give them my messages. I am not sending you to a foreign people whose language you cannot understand. No, I am...  Read More

Powerful Words from the Prophets“Son of man, do not fear them or their words. Don’t be afraid even though their threats surround you like nettles and briers and stinging scorpions. Do not be dismayed ...  Read More