Christian Devotional – July 12, 2026

Leading Through Challenging Circumstances, Day 49

Did it work? Read Daniel 6:17-20.

The first time we ever tried something, there’s always that moment of doubt. Did it really work? Did things do what we thought they were going to do? The king had prayed to God probably for the first time, asking that God would spare Daniel. Now, the moment of truth has come. The king isn’t sure what happened, but needs to know how God answered his prayer.

The Bible explains that we come to God by faith, but that faith is never completely developed instantaneously. Faith is developed in stages. We start with relatively small faith wondering if and how God is going to move in a situation. We come to him with a request. We come to him with a concern. We desperately want God to move but we have no idea how he’s going to do that.

God is always faithful. Sometimes God moves in ways we expect him to, and sometimes he doesn’t, but he’s always faithful to us. As we start to recognize and see God’s faithfulness to us in our lives, our faith in him grows. We begin to bring more things to him, bigger things to him, knowing that he can handle them.

God has proven himself faithful to me countless times over the years, and because of that, I know I can bring the smallest, minuscule concern, or the biggest most life-altering decision to him. He is more than capable of handling that. The king has brought a concern to God about Daniel, and now he’s coming to see how God has handled that concern. Are we willing to have faith in God and to bring our concerns to him? Have we seen God’s faithfulness over time? God is capable. We can have faith in him.

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