Our God Reigns (Part 2 of 3)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 1 August 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Daniel’s jealous colleagues plotted against him by establishing a temporary edict banning prayer. So why didn’t Daniel avoid praying openly and just pray silently or in a hidden room? Explore the answer along with Alistair Begg on Truth For Life.
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| 0:00.0 | In the book of Daniel, we read about some of Daniel's rivals who plotted against him by establishing a temporary edict banning prayer, but Daniel continued to pray openly rather than praying in silence or in a place where he couldn't be observed. |
| 0:40.5 | Why? |
| 0:41.9 | Well, Alisturbegg explores the answer today on Truth for Life. |
| 0:51.6 | Well, let's turn to Daniel chapter 6 and we'll just read the briefest of sections. It's a long chapter, |
| 0:58.1 | and we read it through in its entirety this morning. Let's just read from verse 19. Then at break of day, |
| 1:08.3 | the king arose and went in haste to the den of lions. As he came near to the den |
| 1:12.9 | where Daniel was, he cried out in a tone of anguish. The king declared to Daniel, O Daniel, |
| 1:18.5 | servant of the living God, has your God whom you serve continually been able to deliver you from the lions? |
| 1:25.1 | Then Daniel said to the king, O king, live forever. My God sent his angel and |
| 1:29.9 | shut the lion's mouths and they've not harmed me because I was found blameless before him and |
| 1:35.5 | also before you, O king, I have done no harm. Then the king was exceedingly glad and commanded that |
| 1:42.4 | Daniel be taken up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up |
| 1:46.4 | out of the den and no kind of harm was found on him because he had trusted in his God. And the king |
| 1:53.4 | commanded and those men who had maliciously accused Daniel were brought and cast into the den of lions, |
| 1:59.3 | they, their children and their wives. And before they reached the bottom of the den of lions, they, their children, and their wives. |
| 2:02.0 | And before they reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and broke all their |
| 2:06.4 | bones and pieces. Then King Darius wrote to all the people's nations and languages that dwell |
| 2:12.0 | in all the earth, peace be multiplied to you. I make a decree that in all my royal dominion people are to tremble and |
| 2:19.3 | fear before the God of Daniel. For he is the living God, enduring forever. His kingdom shall never |
| 2:25.5 | be destroyed, and his dominion shall be to the end. He delivers and rescues. He works signs and wonders |
| 2:32.4 | in heaven and on earth. He who has saved Daniel from the power of the |
| 2:36.7 | lions. So this Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus, the Persian. Amen. |
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