Well i was thinking of daniel in the lion's den oh that's my favorite go on with it
holy daniel was a good humble and a hard-working man from israel and he was a strong believer of
god god knew that daniel had a lot of faith in him and that he would do anything to glorify him
even if it was with his own life however daniel was captured when jerusalem was defeated by the
babylonians in the great battle when babylonia fell into the hands of the medes and the persians
as days went by the king of persia king darius made daniel an important leader in his own kingdom
for his intelligence and courage king darius started growing fond of daniel more and more
but the other leaders in king darius's court were not happy about it they did not like
that the king had placed daniel above them after all he was a captive and not a true persian
so all the leaders came together and decided to get rid of daniel they started making plans of
how they could make daniel fall in trouble so that the king himself would throw him out of his court
but getting rid of daniel was quite difficult for the leaders
because he always obeyed all the laws of the court the only way they could make this happen was by
tricking the king into passing a new law which stated that everyone had to pray to king darius
and no other god those who disobeyed this law would be thrown into the lion's den
even after this law was passed daniel continued to pray to god every day from his window
when the leaders found him out they were very angry and decided to punish daniel
for breaking the king's law so he threw daniel into the den of hungry lions
even though king darius did not want this to happen
in the den daniel prayed to god for saving him so god sent one of his angels to protect him
from the lions the next day the leaders came back to the den only to find daniel without a scratch
he was alive king darius was so happy that he not only restored daniel's position in the court
but also passed a new law that the people of his kingdom should pray to god only
oh how i love this story every time i hear it daniel was so so brave yes he had
all the faith in god and so he was saved from the ferocious hungry lions
the story of the three wise men long long time ago far away in the east three wise kings saw a beautiful star
shining brightly in the sky over bethlehem the three wise kings were king gasper king melchior
and king balthazar and they knew that the bright star in the sky was a sign from god
so they decided to follow the star and to travel to jerusalem and look for the
child who was going to be the king of all the jews all they wanted was to honor him
the three wise kings traveled on their camels for many days they traveled over high mountains huge
deserts over vast open plains but all they did was to follow the bright shining star in the sky
when the king of jerusalem king herod heard about this child being born he was afraid
that he would lose his kingdom so he carved out a plan to kill him
he told the wise men tell me when you find this child i want to honor him too
the three wise men traveled for days on end and finally reached their destination
in bethlehem they were overjoyed the three wise men entered the house and saw the child with mary
they knew that this child was jesus the son of god they all knelt down before him offering him
valuable gifts which they got with them they offered him precious gold frankincense
and myrrh what frankincense holy frankincense is used in churches to worship
god the wise man gifted frankincense to jesus to show that he will be worshipped
that night when the three wise men left from jesus's house
they decided not to go back to king herod and inform him anything about the son of god
they were warned by an angel in their dream about king herod's vicious plan so the three
wise men traveled back home taking a different route one night joseph had a dream in his sleep
an angel came to his dream and warned him about the child's safety
hurry up and go to egypt you have to save the child king herod wants to kill him
that night mary and joseph left for egypt along with baby jesus it was after king herod's death
that joseph had another dream the angel appeared in his dream once again and said it is now safe to
go back to bethlehem with jesus after this dream joseph went back to bethlehem with mary and jesus
when lord jesus grew up whoa that was such a wonderful story
the wise men were indeed very wise to keep baby jesus away from king herod
yes that was a fantastic story holy
then let's begin with the story i hope you kids are going to love it king david was
a ruler of israel and he was a great believer in god during his rule as the king israel grew
ten times larger than what it was under king saul's rule but now king david was old and sick
he was tired of ruling such a large kingdom david had many sons and one of them
was adonijah even though his name meant my lord is god adonijah was not a good man
he claimed to the people of israel that one day he would rule the kingdom he even
tried to steal his father's throne knowing that king david was too weak to resist him
but that was not god's plan for israel and its people david's wife bathsheba knew that her son
solomon should become the king of israel she informed david about adonijah's plan
and immediately david gathered all his leaders and declared solomon as the new king of israel
soon david fell very ill before his death he said to his people believe in solomon he is
the one chosen by god to be your king the people of israel believed what david said
after his father's death king solomon sat on the throne and firmly established the israel kingdom
once again during his rule king solomon remembered the one advice that his dead father gave to him
he had said always follow god's path and you shall prosper in everything that you do
one night god appeared in solomon's dream he asked him if i grant you one wish what would you ask for
you may ask for anything that you want oh lord give me wisdom to be a good king that's all i ask
for solomon's request pleased god and he granted his wish along with great honor and riches one day
two mothers came to king solomon for justice one of them fell to his feet and cried this woman's
son died in the night and she switched her dead baby with me she took away my living baby
no i did not switch the babies the dead baby is yours and the one that is alive is mine
it was difficult for solomon or anyone to tell which of them was speaking the truth
however he soon had a plan he called out for a sword bring me a sword
one of his soldiers followed his orders and immediately brought him a sword solomon said
now divide the baby into half give one half to each of them the entire court was silent
the real mother of the living baby cried out oh my lord please do not kill my baby give her my child
let him be divided he shall be neither yours nor mine king solomon immediately knew who the real
mother was he ordered his soldier give the baby to the first woman i know she is the real mother
the people of israel were very happy with solomon's judgment
they understood that god's wisdom was in him the people of israel had no temple to worship
god when david decided to build a temple for his people god had appeared to him and said
it is your son who will build the house in my name so when solomon became the king he
started building a wonderful temple for god it took seven long years to complete the temple
but the day had arrived when solomon gathered all his people and dedicated the temple to the
lord the people and the king offered their prayers and thousands of sacrifices to god in the temple
they even held a great feast which lasted for two weeks
one day after this god appeared to solomon once again he promised to bless solomon and his people
if they continued to obey god sadly neither the king nor his people obeyed god all the time
while solomon wasted his time disobeying god one of his officers jeroboam had a strange experience
one day jeroboam met a prophet who said god will soon be dividing solomon's kingdom for
disobeying him and you will rule over 10 of the 12 tribes hearing this from the prophet jeroboam
quickly escaped to egypt knowing that solomon would kill him if he stayed
years past and solomon grew old finally he died
his son rehoboam sat on the throne after his father's death
and he taxed the people even worse than what his father did
this angered the tribes and ten of them rebelled against him solomon's kingdom got divided
into two and the ten tribes chose jeroboam as their king just as the prophet had said
holy that was indeed a wonderful story told you you're going to love it