1 - Introduction - Living like a real Christian Daniels prayer | Page 8

Daniel’s philosophy, however, was the opposite. Daniel kept asking himself, “What
more can I do to glorify God? How much more can I pray? How much more
intensely can I obey the commands of God?” This presents to us such an
interesting challenge.
I guess the answer to these questions is found in answering another question: How
much do you love God? When we love Him with our whole heart, as Daniel did,
no sacrifice will be big enough to make for the Lord.
A great New Testament example of this would be seen in the life of the apostle
Paul, who, at the end of his life, whilst lying in a prison waiting to die, declared of
himself that he was “all poured out” for the cause of the Kingdom of God. There
was not a drop left in the bucket of his life that he had not expended as a result of
his love for God.
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