God's story Daniel so part of God's
story is about a guy named Daniel and it
goes like this Daniel was a Jew which
means he was part of God's special
family but when he was a young man a
king called Nebuchadnezzar let's call
him Nezzer came in from the city of
Babylon and took over he chose the
smartest strongest most handsome Jewish
men to leave their home and come work
for him in his palace one of those young
men was Daniel even though most people
in Babylon didn't follow God Daniel and
his friends did so they had to figure
out how to obey God and serve the king
for starters they had to go through a
training program where they were fed
royal food the problem was King Nezzer
had also offered that food to idols or
false gods and since they followed God
they wanted nothing to do with idols so
Daniel had an idea he asked the chief of
the King's staff if he and his friends
could eat vegetables and water for ten
days instead if they got too weak or
skinny great eat something else well
guess what God made them even stronger
than the men who ate royal food God gave
Daniel extra understanding too in fact a
few years later the king had a nightmare
nobody knew what it meant
Daniel told King Nezzer that he would
ask God to show him God did after that
King Nezzer adored Daniel he even said
God was pretty great which was a big
deal because the King didn't even think
about God before that but soon he made
it hard for Daniel to follow God again
that's because the King built a huge
gold statue of himself 90 feet tall
anybody who didn't bow down to it would
be thrown into a furnace this time
Daniel's friends were the ones in
trouble their nails were Shadrach
Meshach and Abednego they told the King
the God whom we serve is able to save us
but even if he doesn't we will never
worship the gold statue you've set up so
they got sent into the fire well pretty
soon the King looked into the furnace
and noticed that there were four men
and they were walking around an angel of
the Lord was protecting Daniels friends
I got out alive
and didn't even smell like smoke God
didn't stop them from getting punished
but he did go through it with them
the King had never seen a God who would
rescue like that afterwards King Nezzer
didn't mind if Daniel and his friends
worshiped God but the King still
worshipped idols too so God sent him
another dream and Daniel told him what
it meant king Nezzer would live in a
field and eat grass like a cow for seven
years
in other words he'd go crazy until he
realized that God is the only one we
should worship kids God doesn't want
everybody to worship whoever they want
he wants everybody to worship Him anyway
Daniel kept working for other kings of
Babylon
even after King Nezzer God continued to
help him understand dreams and visions
and even though he had to give a lot of
bad news Daniel did excellent work and
he was really well liked by the Kings in
fact one king named Darius liked Daniel
so much that others got jealous they
tried to get Daniel in trouble but they
knew the only way to do that was to make
a law against God they suggested that
everybody pray only to King Darius that
made the King feel important so he made
it a law anybody who disobeyed would
spend the night in a den of lions Daniel
kept right on praying though and when
King Darius found out he was sad he
didn't want to punish Daniel but now it
was the law he said may your God whom
you served faithfully rescue you guess
what God did he sent an angel to shut
the Lions mouths
Daniel served four important kings and
he followed God but whenever it came
down to obeying God or the king Daniel
chose God every time no matter what
and even though Daniel had to do some
really hard things God was always with
him and
that's the story of Daniel so in case
you missed it here's the quick version
Daniel was taken to Babylon he asked for
vegetables
God made him strong God gave Daniel
understanding Daniel's friends obeyed
God instead of the king they got
punished God rescued them Daniel
understood more dreams he was the King's
favorite others got jealous
Daniel obeyed God instead of the King he
got punished God rescued him
Daniel served God no matter what and
that's a part of God's story