Throwback Thursday | July 2011 | Like and subscribe and turn on notifications!

Main message: Be a person of integrity—same on the inside as the outside—and build unshakable spiritual disciplines so you can remain faithful through unfair trials and trust God to vindicate you, as He did for Daniel.

Key points:

• Integrity means being consistent inwardly and outwardly; Daniel’s unquestionable integrity provoked his enemies to target him.
• Trials and injustice are inevitable in a fallen world; you can’t always know why, but you can control how you respond.
• Establish "bulletproof" spiritual disciplines (prayer, Bible reading, fasting, faithful church life and giving) in the good times so you’re grounded in the hard times.
• Daniel continued to pray three times a day despite a law banning his worship, was thrown into the lion’s den, and God preserved him.
• Don’t take vengeance into your own hands — trust God to deal with enemies and leave judgment to Him.

Scriptures mentioned: Daniel 6, Daniel 3, Job, Acts 9, Genesis 37