Daniel contains some spectacular stories and mind-bending prophecies. But before cracking into this rich book, it's important to know a bit of context. May these seven facts help set the groundwork for your study of the powerful Book of Daniel.

Around three thousand years ago, King David penned a song to worship his God. While David wrote several songs, many of which we have in the Bible, Psalm 23 has endured as one of the most popular and memorized psalms. Full of imagery and poetic language, this concise lyric holds deep and profound truths which still inspire millions today. 

Many Christians have found praying the scriptures an amazing and powerful discipline. Especially since we enter his gates with thanksgiving and courts with praise (Psalm 100:4), the psalms provide us with God-breathed truths to use as we intercede before the Lord on his throne through Christ, our High Priest. Psalm 23 gives us important themes to use in our prayers. 

Here are 7 ways to pray Psalm 23 into our lives.

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The first step for change is admitting you need help. 

Many people reject asking for help. This might happen for several different reasons—pride, a family culture, being hurt in the past, and more. But everyone needs help at some point.

However, when dealing with God, the Bible continually teaches how we have no ability to change anything that matters on our own. Only God has the power to transform a situation, a person, a life, even an eternal future. In addition, we have forces arrayed against us. Evil spirits, a corrupt world, and our own self-absorption. We require God’s constant help against these things. 

The Father has given us one powerful action and discipline to participate in his power to change: prayer. In his love, asking for God’s help shows courage, wisdom, and strength, not weakness. It reveals that we understand where our help really does come from. And he cares for us abundantly, working for our good. 

Prayer is active, not passive. We give our lives to God and receive his guidance and help through intimate conversation and revelation. When we find ourselves in difficult situations, God desires for us to come to him and ask for his help. 

Here are 7 prayers for situations where we say, “God, please help me.”

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Discover profound insights into divine compassion and forgiveness, exploring how God's boundless mercy transcends our human failings and desires for retribution. Uncover the transformative power of embracing grace over deservedness, and learn how this perspective can redefine your relationships and personal growth.

In modern Western culture, we haven’t seen many people delivered from demons. Some missionaries travel to other nations and encounter evil spirits and cast out demons, but it's rare to see this in places like America. 

Several reasons exist for this rarity, from general unbelief to over-reliance on intellectualism and academia. However, due to this rarity and the reasons for it, it’s difficult to relate to the clear expression in the Gospel about the Christian call to deliver people from demonic control. 

Instead of explaining it away, perhaps we should examine a few key scriptures dealing with the issue to renew our minds and grow in our faith. 

So, here are seven important verses about casting out demons.

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Life can feel overwhelming, noisy, and nonstop. Between work, family, responsibilities, church commitments, volunteering, giving, serving, and trying to be there for everyone else, it’s easy to feel spiritually exhausted. We want to keep pouring into others, but eventually, we realize the truth: we can’t pour from an empty cup.

Battle Burnout with the Bible: A Faith-Filled Resource for Spiritual Fatigue is designed to help you slow down, breathe, and reconnect with God when your soul feels tired. This resource reminds you that burnout is not a sign of weak faith. Even faithful people in Scripture experienced exhaustion and moments where they felt like giving up.

Inside this PDF, you’ll discover biblical encouragement for embracing God’s call when burnout hits, lessons from Bible characters who struggled with weariness, and practical ways to stay spiritually fed when you feel emotionally empty. You’ll also find a Bible reading plan for seasons of spiritual tiredness, reflection questions to help you process what’s really going on in your heart, and a simple 5-day prayer journal for the days when you feel too worn out to even know what to say to God.

This resource is here to help you rest without guilt, pray without pressure, and remember that God meets you with grace in your exhaustion. Whether you’re burned out from serving, overwhelmed by life, or simply feeling spiritually dry, these pages will guide you back to the One who restores your soul.

⬇️ Download this PDF today and bookmark it for the days when burnout hits because at some point, it happens to all of us, and we all need a faithful reminder that God’s strength is still available when ours runs out.

We find it difficult to believe miracles. First, we live in a world of brokenness and corruption. Our norm includes seeing pain, tragedy, betrayal, and more happening to us and others. Second, the modern culture has adopted a pseudo-scientific perspective, in part communicating the ignorance of believing in supernatural events. They declare everything has a scientific explanation, so the scientific community confidently teaches an absence of such miraculous events. 

So when we encounter a miracle, even in our day and age, we’ve been conditioned to dismiss or explain it away. And yet, if we explore and ask around, we find more miracles than we think. 

The New Testament clearly expects a life of faith to include the miraculous. They were taught this by Jesus himself. Christ regularly performed miracles. Why? To begin with, he continued the pattern from the Old Testament.

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What makes the story of Micaiah speaking to King Ahab may be one of the strangest stories about prophets in the Old Testament. What makes it so striking?

Time to man up. When most people hear this, they may think of traditionally masculine things. Playing football. Fixing an engine.

There is nothing wrong with these activities. However, the biblical idea of manhood gives us different insights. Simply looking at people like David and Jesus throughout Scripture reveals not only what strong men do, but how they do it. Christian men have a deep, eternal motivation for life which brings passion to a man’s activities. 

The motivation does not only change the way their individual lives work. When they lead the way in church life, men encourage others to serve with humility and worship with abandon. Strong, godly men inspire children and families.

Here are seven things strong Christian men do differently.

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Unlock profound spiritual connection and transform your evening reflections with the enduring wisdom of Psalm 100. This powerful scripture offers the essential key to God's presence, teaching you how gratitude and praise can bridge any perceived distance and fill your heart with joy.

The Father’s abundant love is the root of his salvation. God’s saving work isn’t based on our worthiness but entirely upon his love. The same love which created all things compels him to restore what was broken.

Every culture has certain phrases, repeated like foundational truths. These statements call everyone to a common morality or standard. 

But what if they’re wrong? 

For instance, a former generation used to say, “Cleanliness is next to godliness.” Usually, parents say this to get their kids to clean their rooms. And while there’s value to the discipline of keeping things orderly, this statement can’t be found in the Bible. Nowhere in the authoritative written Word of God does it equate cleanliness with being like God. To place a common or cultural phrase with biblical wisdom carries a certain amount of danger, whether an unrealistic standard or even leading people into deception. 

Western culture has a number of such phrases, said with religious fervor, and we use these statements in conversation, counsel, movies, songs, and more. Yet the Bible expresses a different, contrary truth. And since the biblical truth leads us to Christ, who is life, we should correct our thinking and speech to align with what is good. 

Here are 7 things Jesus never said that we should stop saying.

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Jesus does not call His followers to stay still. This devotional from Matthew 28 reminds you that the same risen Savior who sent His disciples also sends you—with His Spirit, His peace, and His promise to be with you always.