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Embracing Change Through Faith: Lessons from Daniel and Modern Conflicts

This reflection explores the theme of change as depicted in Daniel 3:14-18, emphasizing how confession and the way we serve God—from joy and excitement to sacrificial giving—can transform our lives and communities. Additionally, it highlights a recent legal case where a Christian hotel faced consequences for refusing service to a same-sex couple, illustrating the clash between personal beliefs and evolving societal norms. It underscores the importance of standing firm in faith while navigating contemporary issues.

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Embracing Change Through Faith: Lessons from Daniel and Modern Conflicts

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  1. 2011 The Year Of Change

  2. Change through Confession

  3. Daniel 3:14-18 Text

  4. Great Service Births Great Confession

  5. How should we serve God? We Serve: • Joyfully • Excitingly • By Giving • Sacrificially • Consistently • In Soul Winning

  6. Hotel broke law in gay couple snub Bristol Christian hotel owners who refused a gay couple a double room acted unlawfully, a judge has ruled. Mr Hall and Mr Preddy

  7. In his ruling, Judge Rutherford said: "We live today in a parliamentary democracy. Our laws are made by the Queen in Parliament. It is inevitable that such laws will from time to time cut across deeply held beliefs of individuals and sections of society for they reflect the social attitudes and morals prevailing at the time that they are made.

  8. "The standards and principles governing our behaviour which were unquestioningly accepted in one generation may not be so accepted in the next. I am quite satisfied as to the genuineness of the defendants' beliefs and it is, I have no doubt, one which others also hold.

  9. "It is a very clear example of how social attitudes have changed over the years for it is not so very long ago that these beliefs of the defendants would have been those accepted as normal by society at large. Now it is the other way around."

  10. Bristol County Court as he awarded the couple (Mr. Preddy & Mr. Hall) £1,800 each in damages.

  11. Words are Containers John 6:63 Mat.12:37 Prov.18:21 1 Pet.3:10 They can Contain • Life • Fear • Hate • Love • Death

  12. Daniel 3:16-18; 6:16; 2 King 4:1-7; Acts 5:17-20 2 Corinthians 1:8-10; 2 Timothy 4:18; 2 Peter 2:9 My God will Deliver me • From Fire • From Debt • From Lions • From Prison • From Trouble • From Sickness

  13. Phil.4:19; Matt.6:25-34; 1 Kg.17:2-9; Num.21-23,31 God Will Supply My • Social needs • Family needs • Spiritual needs • Physical needs • Financial needs • Children’s needs

  14. Ps.103:4; Isaiah 43:1-7; 51:11; 63:4; Gal.3:13; 1 Pet 1:18 God has Redeemed me • From Failure • From Captivity • From Destruction • From Evil Curses • From sinful Habits • From evil Decrees

  15. 3 John 2; John 10:10; Mk.11:23; Matt.17:20; Rom.4:17-21 I am Empowered • To Prosper • To Conquer • To Succeed • To Possibilities • To Be in Health • To a winning Life

  16. Outcome of your Declaration Dan.3:26-30; 1 Sam.17:4-11; Matt.16:20; Isa.44:26 Heb.1:14 • It validates your faith • It disarms your enemy • It gives God what to confirm • It puts Angels on assignment • It makes your prayer acceptable • It makes you walk the experience

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