 Good morning. I'm happy to be here in this first day of the morning devotion and to welcome each one of us that we may have a blessed day and a blessed come meeting. I would like to inform you that we will be doing the devotion throughout the week together with my wife, Fasta Edna Amayo and we have adim this week for our devotion saying that let God be God. Let God be God. Several situations will be in your life. You will pass through challenges in life. We will go through troubles in life. But God, if you allow him to be God in your life, you will see the hand of the Lord. Our God, when you understand him, you know his position that he is a great God. He is a super being. He is a mighty God, one who is able to do all. You have nothing to fear. Just stand, wait and see how God will shape things in your life. That is why we are saying let God be God. Let us have a word of prayer. Precious Lord, we are humbly coming before you this morning. How I pray Lord that you may give me the power of the Holy Spirit, that I may be able to speak your word. How I pray Lord that you may touch the hearts of your children, that they may understand that Lord you are a powerful human, you are a powerful being. Lord bless us and speak to us in Jesus' name we pray. I request us to go to the book of Daniel 6. The book of Daniel 6, King Darius, chose 120 satraps in charge of 120 provinces and put on top of them three governors who reports directly to him. Then out of them all Daniel stands out because he was faithful to God and because of sin the others are jealous of him and wants to find fault with him and they say we cannot get any fault with him in any side apart from a relationship with this God. Then they decide to tell the king we want to make you divine for 30 days. No one is supposed to worship any other God apart from you the king. So all the divine allegiance we will give to you and everyone will give to you then the king feels very proud. Meaning that these people love me he accepted very fast and after accepting he put his seal that no one will worship any God for 30 days. Let's see verse 11. Daniel 6 verse 11 the Bible says sorry verse 10. Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed he went home and in his upper room with his windows open towards Jerusalem he knelt down on his knees three times that day and gave thanks before his God as was his custom since early days. Something that has caught my attention in that verse is that immediately Daniel knew that a command has been given to worship no any other God. Daniel decides that the best option is to go to my house and kneel down and pray and thank the Lord. You know in normal situations he could have rushed to the king and told the king that do you know they are looking for me. I am the subject they want you to kill me and you know I am your friend but he did not do that he knew that there is a powerful power that can be able to help him apart from going to plead with the king so he decided that let God be God there are situations that cannot be solved by human beings only God can solve situations in life then he says immediately he knew that decree was signed he went to his house knelt down and prayed three times a day he did not fear he even opened the window because when Solomon's temple was built and was being dedicated one of the prayers in Fast Kings 8 which we are not reading one of the prayers was that when your children may sin and they are taken captive to a foreign land and they kneel down facing Jerusalem hear their prayer and forgive them this is why Daniel wants to face Jerusalem telling God, God of Jerusalem God who loves his children of Israel you will not leave me to die so immediately he knew that Daniel went to his knees to pray to God do you know something tells me that he also knew that even the king could not change what he assigned because it was Medopasya so no need of going to the king the only help is from the Lord so immediately he knew that he went and prayed after praying then the accusers come and go to accuse him before the king then the king did it Alice thinking of how to help Daniel you can see it from verse 14 Daniel 614 Daniel 614 and the king when he heard these words was greatly displeased with himself and he set his heart on Daniel to deliver him and he levered till the going down of the sun to deliver him then those men approached the king and said to the king you know o king that it is the law of the mids and the passions that no decree or statute which the king establishes may be changed they are telling him we have told you what Daniel did but you are wasting your time nothing you can change now you need to be fast in letting Daniel down to the lion's den he struggled but he could not then the next verse verse 16 says so the king gave the command and they brought Daniel and cast him into the den of lion's but the king spoke saying to Daniel you are God whom you serve continually he will deliver you this is the message that I want to give you this morning that situations will come that no hand of a human being can be able to help you but you are God whom you serve continually he will deliver you in your place of work there are stripes that will come no hand of your boss can be able to deliver you however loving the boss is to you but you are God whom you serve continually he will deliver you in your family problem it might be so tough so challenging it might be that no counselor can be able to solve it but you are God whom you serve continually he will deliver you that is why I like what Daniel did immediately when he heard that the decree has been signed he went on his knees to pray and to thank the Lord some situations are so tough but Daniel is going on his knees to thank the Lord he realizes that he is a friend to the king but the king can do nothing to save him only God can be able to save him you can see the love between Darius and Daniel by the words that Darius is saying that Daniel you are going to the den of lions but you are God whom you serve continually he will be able to deliver you I plead with you, I don't know your situation you know yourself in all the financial crisis that you are going through you are God whom you serve continually he will be able to deliver you you know some financial crisis you can't even imagine how to solve them some family crisis you can't imagine what can come out of them but you are God whom you serve continually will be able to deliver you you will just find them pass you by some health issues in life you may not understand how long they may take but you are God whom you serve continually he will be able to deliver you when you are faced with such calamities such problems please surrender to the hand of the Lord because God is powerful to deliver you this I am saying because imagine that you are seeing a lion here and somebody is telling you that I am delivering you to the lion and here the woman not even one I have been to places where I see lions very close and you can be able to see this hand the front legs very powerful you try to imagine if a lion can just step on your throat what would happen to you and just not praying for 30 days you can just avoid it for 30 days then you will continue praying but Daniel is saying I can't stop praying because there is no one like God better I die than to live my God he decides to go to the lion's den how many of you would persevere in family problems and wait for the Lord to deliver you how many of you will survive when there is a deep financial crisis you are only waiting for what you are not seeing you are only believing when he was put in the den the whole night he was there the king is really struggling and fasting in the night you know sometimes it calls for somebody who is a sinner somebody who knew no God to fast and pray and I try to imagine that this king prayed and asked that God of Daniel may you save Daniel where he is this night then he fasted the whole night then he comes in the morning in verse 26 so verse 20 verse 20 in the morning it says and when he came to the den he cried out with a lamenting voice to Daniel the king spoke saying to Daniel Daniel, servant to Daniel Daniel, servant of the living God has you a God whom you serve continually being able to deliver you from the lions I just feel that this man was having a feeling that his prayer in the night God must have answered then he is saying I just want to see the evidence that God answers prayers and you know this is a worldly king believing that there is a God who can answer such powerful prayers then Daniel answers in verse 21 then Daniel says to the king O king, live forever my God sent his angel and shut the lion's mouth so they have not hurt me we stop it there my God sent an angel and he shut the lion's mouth and they did not hurt me I love when the king was saying you are God whom you serve continually he will deliver you so Daniel is replying and saying my God came and delivered me in all those challenges that you are passing through let God be God just trust him he will deliver you give him his position of being God risk death and you will be delivered that kind of powerful deliverance was done and then the king was very rough with the accusers of Daniel and he make a command that let them all be brought with their wives, with their children then all of them were cast inside the den and the Bible is saying that they were crushed, none of them touched down their bones were crushed, all of them I think it was a feast for the lions if they ate only one they would be missing a lot of food but because God was saving one they had a feast and after that the king is saying that surely it was not because the lions were hungry were not hungry it was surely because God delivered Daniel because they ate all the many people who have been cast into the den they were hungry but God bounded them then he feels an awe and asks himself what kind of God is this then he writes a letter putting his seal on it to all the people that says in verse 26 I make a decree that in every dominion of my kingdom men must tremble and fear before the God of Daniel I plead with you when you remember our God tremble and fear before him when challenges come let God be God tremble and fear before him and then he says for he is the living God and steadfast forever his kingdom is the one we shall not be destroyed and this dominion shall endure to the end verse 27 he delivers and rescues and he works signs and wonders in heaven and on earth who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions so I just want to plead with you brethren that this is an earthen king that the earthly king is telling us that the God of Daniel is a God who delivers and rescues God this God will deliver you and he will rescue you where in your life do you feel that it is tough you can't manage it God of Daniel he delivers and he rescues let him be God in your life he will be able to bless you as choristers are coming that we sing a song and have a prayer the song will be 439 I am telling you pleading with you wait upon the Lord in this world you will go through many tribulations but be of good cheer we have overcome the world trust him believe him wait upon him because the Lord he is God may God bless you