DANIEL 1:14-15: So he consented with them in this matter, and tested them ten days. And at the end of ten days their countenance appeared better and fatter in flesh than all the young men who ate the portion of the king’s delicacies. Eric Liddell, a young Scottish ministerial student,...
DANIEL 1:8: But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. Some hunters are totally sold out to...
DANIEL 1: 6-7 : Now from among those of the sons of Judah were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael,and Azariah. To them the chief of the eunuchs gave names: he gave Daniel the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael Meshach; and to Azariah, Abed-Nego. Some people assume new names to disguise...
DANIEL 1:3-4 : Then the king instructed Ashpenaz, the master of his eunuchs, to bring some of the children of Israel and some of the king descendants and some of the nobles, young men in whom there was no blemish, but good-looking, gifted in all wisdom, possessing knowledge and quick...
DANIEL 1: 1-2 : In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babyloncame to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some ofthe articles of the house of God, which he carried into the...
ISAIAH 66:13: As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. A mother said that her little girl, who was terrified of the dark, slept at night in a crib beside her bed. Often the mother had been wakened during the...
ISAIAH 65:24: It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear. Dr. Helen Roseveare, a missionary to Africa, told about a mother who died at the mission station after giving birth to a premature baby. An incubator was...
ISAIAH 59:2: But your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear. Great Britain’s King George V was to give the opening address at a special disarmament conference with the speech relayed by radio to the...
ISAIAH 55:8-9: “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” A young boy at the dinner table asked, “Dad,...
ISAIAH 55:1-2: Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money; come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen...