The Beauty of a Life of Resolve
Daniel 1:8-21

1. Resolved to depend upon God Who is Faithful

Build things into your daily life that remind you of God’s faithfulness.

Prayer that recognizes dependence on God
Journals that record God’s acts of faithfulness and answers to prayer.
Be aware of how you react to financial news in these days.
Pay attention to your reaction when things precious to you are threatened.
Pay attention to important things and guard yourself against sin.
Prepare to be sinned against. (Not pessimism!)

2. Resolved to trust in God’s favor (mercy).

They received favor from God through their captors.

They received favor from God (diet results).

They received favor from God to contribute to the culture without compromise.

3. Resolved to trust in Christ alone for your transformation.

Fix your eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith.

Ask him to grant you the power and presence of the Holy Spirit, and to produce in you the fruits of the Spirit.

Look to him to make you faithful, not your fleshly efforts to copy the faithfulness of Daniel.

Ask him to make you a breath of heavenly wisdom and beauty wherever you go this week.

Ask him to enable you to speak of his saving mercy.

Ask him to grant you endurance for your days of trial and difficulty, to run the race with endurance.

Ask him to help you long to see his face and with the appearance of his face to be satisfied.