Part 1 | The Daniel Diet
From Daniel 1
FACT: My
matters to
.
📖 Mark 12:29–30 ESV Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
📖 1 Corinthians 3:16–17 ESV Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
My Temple is the
of the enemy.
📖 John 10:10 ESV The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
📖 Daniel 1:3–4 ESV Then the king commanded Ashpenaz, his chief eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel, both of the royal family and of the nobility, 4 youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king’s palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans.
📖 Daniel 1:5 ESV The king assigned them a daily portion of the food that the king ate, and of the wine that he drank. They were to be educated for three years, and at the end of that time they were to stand before the king.
📖 Daniel 1:8 ESV But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king’s food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.
📖 Daniel 1:21 ESV And Daniel was there until the first year of King Cyrus.
What I
will
where I
.
1.
to keep
out of your
.
📖 Daniel 1:8 ESV But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king’s food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.
The world still has a
diet.
I might have to
, but
doesn’t have to
me.
2.
to
your
.
📖 Daniel 1:8b–10 ESV Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself. 9 And God gave Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the chief of the eunuchs, 10 and the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who assigned your food and your drink; for why should he see that you were in worse condition than the youths who are of your own age? So you would endanger my head with the king.”
📖 Daniel 1:11–12 ESV Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the eunuchs had assigned over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, 12 “Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.
📖 Hebrews 10:24 ESV And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works.
📖 Proverbs 27:17 ESV Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.
increases when you’re in a
, not a
.
3.
with the
–
in mind.
📖 Daniel 1:15-16 ESV At the end of ten days it was seen that they were better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youths who ate the king’s food. 16 So the steward took away their food and the wine they were to drink, and gave them vegetables.
📖 Daniel 1:17 ESV As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
📖 Daniel 1:19 ESV And the king spoke with them, and among all of them none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore they stood before the king.
1. Listen to
.
2. Listen to your
.
3. Listen to
who
you.
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