{"id":23635,"date":"2022-10-17T22:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/daniel-3_16-30-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T13:44:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:44:03","slug":"daniel-4_1-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/daniel-4_1-18\/","title":{"rendered":"God\u2019s Love Is Pursuing You"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel\u00a0 4:1-18 Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Daniel 4:1-18.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Daniel 4:1-18 (NIV)<\/strong>
\n1\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0King Nebuchadnezzar, To the peoples, nations and men of every language, who live in all the world: May you prosper greatly!
\n2\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0It is my pleasure to tell you about the miraculous signs and wonders that the Most High God has performed for me.
\n3\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an eternal kingdom; his dominion endures from generation to generation.
\n4\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at home in my palace, contented and prosperous.
\n5\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0I had a dream that made me afraid. As I was lying in my bed, the images and visions that passed through my mind terrified me.
\n6\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0So I commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be brought before me to interpret the dream for me.
\n7\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0When the magicians, enchanters, astrologers and diviners came, I told them the dream, but they could not interpret it for me.
\n8\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Finally, Daniel came into my presence and I told him the dream. (He is called Belteshazzar, after the name of my god, and the spirit of the holy gods is in him.)
\n9\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0I said, “Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no mystery is too difficult for you. Here is my dream; interpret it for me.
\n10\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0These are the visions I saw while lying in my bed: I looked, and there before me stood a tree in the middle of the land. Its height was enormous.
\n11\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The tree grew large and strong and its top touched the sky; it was visible to the ends of the earth.
\n12\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Its leaves were beautiful, its fruit abundant, and on it was food for all. Under it the beasts of the field found shelter, and the birds of the air lived in its branches; from it every creature was fed.
\n13\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“In the visions I saw while lying in my bed, I looked, and there before me was a messenger, a holy one, coming down from heaven.
\n14\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0He called in a loud voice: ‘Cut down the tree and trim off its branches; strip off its leaves and scatter its fruit. Let the animals flee from under it and the birds from its branches.
\n15\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But let the stump and its roots, bound with iron and bronze, remain in the ground, in the grass of the field. “‘Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven, and let him live with the animals among the plants of the earth.
\n16\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Let his mind be changed from that of a man and let him be given the mind of an animal, till seven times pass by for him.
\n17\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘The decision is announced by messengers, the holy ones declare the verdict, so that the living may know that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and gives them to anyone he wishes and sets over them the lowliest of men.’
\n18\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“This is the dream that I, King Nebuchadnezzar, had. Now, Belteshazzar, tell me what it means, for none of the wise men in my kingdom can interpret it for me. But you can, because the spirit of the holy gods is in you.”<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 1-18:\u00a0 We\u2019ll get to the lesson behind King Nebuchadnezzar\u2019s dream when we look at verses 19-37 tomorrow.\u00a0 In the meantime, with my wild imagination I could imagine King Nebuchadnezzar sharing this testimony from the stage of Thrive Church.\u00a0\u00a0 The fact that this is the second dream that God gave Nebuchadnezzar as recorded in the book of Daniel really highlights for me how much God pursued Nebuchadnezzar.\u00a0 Similarly, when you look back, perhaps you can think of more than one moment when it seemed that God was gently but surely trying to get Your attention.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s not that we pursue God; God is pursuing us.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that we were reaching for God; God was reaching for us.\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s the incredible love of God for people.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>As David says in Psalm 23, thank God that His goodness and love follow you all the days of your life.<\/p>\n

Take a moment to thank God for the times when He pursued you, when He allowed unexpected circumstances to cause you to draw near to Himself.<\/p>\n

Father, thank You for being the God who pursues me.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t that I was reaching for You, but You were reaching for me.\u00a0 I am amazed at how humble, persistent, patient and passionate is Your love for us.\u00a0 In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs!<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Daniel 4:1-18.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Daniel 4:1-18 (NIV)
\n1\u00a0\u00a0King Nebuchadnezzar, To the peoples, nations and men of every language, who live in all the world: May you prosper greatly!
\n2\u00a0\u00a0It is my pleasure to tell you about the miraculous signs and wonders that the Most High God has performed for me.
\n3\u00a0\u00a0How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an eternal kingdom; his dominion endures from generation to generation.
\n4\u00a0\u00a0I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at home in my palace, contented and prosperous…<\/p>\n

On verses 1-18:\u00a0 We\u2019ll get to the lesson behind King Nebuchadnezzar\u2019s dream when we look at verses 19-37 tomorrow.\u00a0 In the meantime, with my wild imagination I could imagine King Nebuchadnezzar sharing this testimony from the stage of Thrive Church.\u00a0\u00a0 The fact that this is the second dream that God gave Nebuchadnezzar as recorded in the book of Daniel really highlights for me how much God pursued Nebuchadnezzar.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23639,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23635\/revisions\/23639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}