The 10-Day Challenge | Pastor Don Johnson
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
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Summary
When God tells you something, it’s already done. The manifestation is just waiting for you to catch up.
In “The 10-Day Challenge,” Pastor Don Johnson examines Daniel 1:8-17, where Daniel and his friends refuse to defile themselves with the king’s meat — food sacrificed to idols. After being taken captive to Babylon, these chosen young men faced indoctrination into a pagan system designed to change their thinking and behavior. Yet Daniel stood firm, requesting vegetables and water instead.
Pastor Don reveals that sometimes attacks come because you’ve been chosen. The enemy tries to neutralize your fighting ability by getting you comfortable with compromise. Daniel’s refusal wasn’t about superiority. It was about integrity and alignment with God’s word. After 10 days, Daniel and his friends looked better and more nourished than those who ate the king’s food, proving God’s faithfulness.
This Wednesday Night Bible Study challenges us to get comfortable being uncomfortable and to keep fighting even when we don’t feel like it, recognizing that this is spiritual warfare between Yahweh and false gods.
Your spiritual responsibility matters as much as God’s divinity.
Message: “The 10-Day Challenge”
Speaker: Pastor Don Johnson
Scripture: Daniel 1:8-17
Date: Jan. 21, 2026
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| 0:00.0 | You're tuned into the Potter's House podcast where we are encouraged by powerful testimonies and life-changing truth. |
| 0:09.7 | Let's go. |
| 0:12.1 | So let's go to Daniel chapter number one. |
| 0:16.1 | Daniel chapter number one. |
| 0:30.0 | Okay. chapter number one. Daniel chapter number one. I'm going to read it from the NIV. |
| 0:38.8 | Daniel chapter number one, when you have it jump up on your feet. I want to start at verse number, yeah, I think I want to start at verse number eight. |
| 0:43.0 | Yeah, I think I want to start at verse number eight. |
| 0:51.3 | But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine. |
| 1:02.5 | And he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way. |
| 1:09.1 | Now, God had caused the official to show favor and compassion to Daniel. But the official |
| 1:17.1 | told Daniel, I am afraid of my Lord the king who has assigned your food and drink. Why should he see you looking worse than the other young men your |
| 1:32.0 | age? The king would then have my head because of you. Daniel said unto the guard whom the chief |
| 1:40.5 | official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Michelle, and Azariah, |
| 1:46.0 | please test your servants for 10 days. |
| 1:52.0 | Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. |
| 1:58.0 | Then come and compare, then compare our parents with the other young men who ate the |
| 2:04.8 | royal food and treat your servants according with what you see. So he agreed to do this and |
| 2:12.3 | tested them for 10 days. At the end of the 10 days, they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young |
| 2:21.1 | men who ate the royal food. |
| 2:22.7 | So the guard took away their choice foods and wine, and they were to drink and give them |
| 2:30.4 | vegetables instead. |
| 2:33.1 | To these four young men of God was given knowledge and understanding |
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