In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after the one that had appeared to me at first. In the vision I was looking and saw myself in Susa the capital, in the province of Elam, and I was by the river Ulai. I looked up and […]
URC Daily Devotion 6th August 2019
As for me, Daniel, my spirit was troubled within me, and the visions of my head terrified me. I approached one of the attendants to ask him the truth concerning all this. So he said that he would disclose to me the interpretation of the matter: ‘As for these four great beasts, four kings shall […]
URC Daily Devotion 5th August 2019
In the first year of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head as he lay in bed. Then he wrote down the dream: I, Daniel, saw in my vision by night the four winds of heaven stirring up the great sea, and four great beasts came up out of […]
URC Daily Devotion 4th August 2019
1 O Lord God, my heart is steadfast,and with all my soul I’ll sing.2 Harp and lyre I will awaken,and my song the dawn will bring. 3 LORD my God, among the nations,I will ever give you praise;In the midst of all the peoplesI will sing of you always. 4 For your steadfast love is […]
URC Daily Devotion 3rd August 2019
Then, at break of day, the king got up and hurried to the den of lions. When he came near the den where Daniel was, he cried out anxiously to Daniel, ‘O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God whom you faithfully serve been able to deliver you from the lions?’ Daniel then […]
URC Daily Devotion 2nd August 2019
Although Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he continued to go to his house, which had windows in its upper room open towards Jerusalem, and to get down on his knees three times a day to pray to his God and praise him, just as he had done previously. The conspirators came and […]
URC Daily Devotion 1st August 2019
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred and twenty satraps, stationed throughout the whole kingdom, and over them three presidents, including Daniel; to these the satraps gave account, so that the king might suffer no loss. Soon Daniel distinguished himself above all the other presidents and satraps because an excellent spirit was […]
URC Daily Devotion 31st July 2019
King Belshazzar made a great festival for a thousand of his lords, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand. Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar commanded that they bring in the vessels of gold and silver that his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem, so that […]
URC Daily Devotion 30th July 2019
So we begin this passage with Nebuchadnezzar coming to his senses and recognising that God is everlasting and all enduring. God is constant in a world that is always changing. I think Nebuchadnezzar, having been on a journey where he realises that the God of Daniel and the Israelites is “the God of power and […]
URC Daily Devotion 29th July 2019
All this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon, and the king said, ‘Is this not magnificent Babylon, which I have built as a royal capital by my mighty power and for my glorious majesty?’ While the words were still […]