I'm loving this Bible Study I'm taking. (Daniel by Beth Moore) It's rocking my world. It's also a good follow up to Believing God (also by Beth Moore).

I'm having way too much fun with the Hyperlink button.

The main point of the first six weeks of this study has been that we are Daniels in a modern day Babylon. The Babylon mentality is "I am and there is no other" NOT "God is - and there is No Other." It's an all about me, me, me world. So this study has been about getting us to think about that - and how we can effect the world with out it effecting us.

The video session for Session Six starts us reading Daniel 6:10-16

and Beth has us look at 3 ways we can react in an emergency.

We can Panic.

We can become Paralyzed.

We can Pray (compare Ps. 55:15-18)

When we panic - we do the wrong thing.

When we become paralyzed - we do nothing - which is also the wrong thing.

When we pray - we can do the powerful thing!

"Like Daniel, we want to practice a holy habit long enough that it becomes the old pattern." see also Philippians 4:6-7. "Giving Thanks" ---> Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Beth pointed out that we all have defaults that we do when crises arise. Some of us get mad, some of us sink into depression, some of us stress, etc. Sometimes we have old habits that we run to. And that's where she got me. I've been set free from a food addiction. Honestly - it was a true deliverance -but I still have those old habits that arise. And I've been thinking about them lately..thinking why, if I've been set free, do I still do this. And it's because it's a pattern.

It's a default in my system. Kind of like a computer that has a default screen or program that defaults to the opening splash screen. My default  is snack foods - preferrably chocolate. While chocolate is not a bad thing, the reason I want it is a fall back during a stressful or rough time. That's not good on my relationship with God.

Beth said something like "Wouldn't it be great if we changed our old habits - that our actions and urges defaulted to the spirit instead of to the flesh!"

God is all about relationship and, through prayer, He forces that relationship.

Do not be anxious for anything but in everything give thanks! We tend to compartmentalize the things that happen to us...but EVERYTHING can be effected through prayer. We tend to think that only certain things can be changed through prayer - EVERYTHING...

A lot of energy is wasted through anxiety.

There is power in the Spoken Word!! That's why we need to know the word! Know our sword in order to wound the enemy through the proper use of our weapon!

I'm a firm believer in speaking the truth out of our mouths - though every so often I forget and get to feeling odd about it - what will others think? But it doesn't matter! I've got the truth to speak out!!

We want to default into the spirit - not the flesh!

So that's a bit of what I learned last night. I'm still digesting it all...and every amazed at the choices we make. We can choose to panic, to be paralyzed or to be powerful.