Daniel and Conviction: Living What You Believe| 447

Dad Tired

Jerrad Lopes

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Most Christian men want to be more consistent—more prayerful, more disciplined, more engaged. But what if the struggle isn’t really about discipline at all? In this episode, Kaleb Allen looks at the life of Daniel to show that lasting spiritual habits flow from conviction, not willpower. It’s not about trying harder—it’s about believing deeper. If you’re tired of starting strong and fading out, this message will help you reframe discipline as a response to what you believe about God, not just a task to check off.

What You’ll Learn:

Why discipline without conviction eventually fails
How Daniel’s life shows the power of consistent devotion over decades
The difference between spiritual guilt and genuine desire
Why you may not have a “prayer problem”—you may have a belief problem
How to write spiritual resolutions that actually shape your life
Why the lion’s den was safer for Daniel than 30 days without prayer

📖 Scriptures References:

Daniel 6
1 Kings 18
Romans 8, Revelation, John 13–17

Episode Resources:

Jonathan Edwards’ Resolutions – 70 life commitments Edwards wrote at age 18
Challenge to List Your Own 10 Spiritual Resolutions
Robert Murray McCheyne Bible Plan
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0:39.7	Jonathan Edwards may be the greatest thinker North America has ever produced.
0:57.6	At least that's what many say.
0:59.4	I really enjoy Edwards, actually.
1:01.8	After his salvation experience, when he's just like 18, he starts to write this list of resolutions.
1:07.3	He eventually has 70 resolutions.
1:08.7	He kind of compiled it over a period of about a year. And this was common in his day to have resolutions that you were going to live by. But maybe what was uncommon is that Edwards kind of meticulously lives by these things for the rest of his life. He was a peculiar personality. He wasn't full of life and joy.
1:27.9	He was kind of dogmatic and rhythm and meticulous.
1:31.1	He's kind of quirky.
1:32.1	I really like to read him, read about his life.
1:35.0	But I wanted to read you a few of his resolutions
1:37.2	because I think that it's important to ponder some of these things
1:41.5	and to think through what resolve is.
1:45.6	But he said this. He said,
1:51.9	resolved, never to do anything, which I would be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
1:58.1	Resolved, I will live in such a way as I will wish I had done when I come to die. Resolved to strive to my utmost every week to be brought to a higher spiritual place
2:01.7	into a greater experience of grace than I was the week before. It said that he read these resolutions
2:08.3	70 of them once a month until he passed. He was so, again, methodical, kind of, there's kind of
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