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today's devotional. Hey, welcome to the Daily Drive, where we spend just a few minutes each weekday

walking through God's word together. My name is Bro, and it is officially

fall. I'm sitting here right now with this steaming cup of coffee, that's some kind of cinnamon

pumpkin thing, and it smells so good. And maybe you're doing the same type of thing, or maybe

you're working out, or you're on your way to school or on the way to work. Thanks for joining us

on the Daily Drive. Last week, we looked at a simple farmer turned ninja warrior named Gideon,

who against all odds was used in a powerful way by God. It's an incredible story. It's found

in the Old Testament book of Judges. And this week we're going to hang in the first few chapters

of the Old Testament book of Daniel. And we're going to hang in the first few chapters of the Old Testament

book of Daniel. And we're going to see the story of some guys who made it through when things

got super intense and the heat literally got turned up. Let me just give you some historical

background before we jump into the story. In 605 BC, the year I graduated from high school, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon

overwhelms Jerusalem and takes a bunch of their very best teenage guys captive and enrolls them

along with the young promising Babylonian guys in the King's Leadership Academy. These Jewish guys

were given new names, new identities, and forced to learn a new culture,

a new language, introduced to a whole bunch of new, so-called little G.

Gods.

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