Motivation for Commitment - Part 2
Daily Radio Program with Charles Stanley - In Touch Ministries
Dr. Charles Stanley
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🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Motivation is the driving force within us. It’s the difference between simply living and living an abundant life. But what is it that motivates the people of God? Dr. Stanley prompts our thinking about what drives us to fulfill the commitments we made to God by sharing the story of Daniel.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Monday, January 12th. |
| 0:06.0 | Do you truly believe that God's way is the best way? |
| 0:10.0 | Today's podcast challenges you to examine your motivation for commitment through the inspiring example of Daniel's life. |
| 0:19.0 | If you'll turn to Daniel chapter 6 for a moment, and you recall that in this particular chapter, |
| 0:25.4 | that the Bible says, Darius, now let me tell you what's happened. |
| 0:29.1 | First of all, you had King Nebuchadnezz, then you have Belshazzar, then you have Belyas. |
| 0:34.5 | So the Medes and the Persians have already come in now and taken over Babylon. |
| 0:40.7 | Not on Nebuchadnezzar, but his son also. They've lost the kingdom. And so Darius appoints |
| 0:45.9 | 120 satraps or servants who will answer to him. And he appoints three commissioners over all these 120. |
| 0:55.8 | And Daniel is one of those commissioners. |
| 0:58.5 | And so the scripture says in verse 3 of Daniel 6, |
| 1:01.0 | then this Daniel began distinguishing himself among the commissioners in Satraps |
| 1:05.0 | because he possessed an extraordinary spirit. |
| 1:08.1 | And the king planned to appoint him over the entire kingdom. That is, |
| 1:12.0 | Daniel had excelled himself to the degree that he was going to be appointed the prime minister |
| 1:16.4 | over all of Babylon. So what happens? What normally happens? The other commissioners and |
| 1:22.3 | centraps began to be very jealous and sought the Bible says in verse four a ground of accusation against Daniel. |
| 1:30.8 | So they found one. They found out that three times a day he opened his wonder up in his home |
| 1:35.4 | and he prayed toward Jerusalem to Jehovah God. They found out about it. They went to the king. |
| 1:40.1 | They said, O king live forever. Real pious. Hypocrits., king live forever. We think it'd be a wonderful idea if you would establish a decree that says, for 30 days, anyone who bows down to anyone else but you and your gods and worships them, they should be thrown in the lions den. He said, I think that's a wonderful idea. So he signed the edict, and he wrote it |
| 2:01.8 | according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which meant there was absolutely no way to |
| 2:06.3 | revoke that law for 30 days. There were to be absolutely no exceptions to the law. Well, what did they do? |
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