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"Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, Thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever." (Psalms 12:7) How serious do you think God is about us trusting Him? Three hundred and sixty five times God says in His word "fear not" or "do not fear"; that's a "have no fear" for every day of the year! He delights in us trusting Him! If you just stop and think about all the different mighty works and wonders that God has done; those listed from the beginning of the Bible, and all the way through; God's desire for us to trust Him speaks loud and clear! Not only does God desire us to trust Him, but He wants us to see the result of trusting Him; a result that can only happen through Him, and by the mighty working of His hand. Looking again a Daniel, we see a man who thoroughly trusted God, and believed that God was more than able to deliver him. There was no fear in Daniel of what would happen if they caught him praying; as a matter of fact, he deliberately wanted them to see him pray; knowing full well that they had made the king sign this law into effect so that they could get him. In the opening of Daniel Chapter Six, we see that King Darius set one hundred and twenty men to be princes over the kingdom; and over them, he set three presidents, of whom Daniel was the first. In Daniel 6:3-5, we can see the reason for their plot and the reason the plot was set against those who pray. In verse three, Daniel is made to be head over all the others that the king had set over the land; in fact, the king thought to set him over the whole realm; which means that Daniel would rule that region for the king. In verse four, we see the presidents and the princes wanting to find a way to show Daniel doing something against the king, but they could not, and it says, "but they could not find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him". So, they decided to get him doing something that concerned his God; which was to concern his daily practice of praying three times towards Jerusalem every day; and verse five says, "Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God". Do you see would Daniel was up against? These other two presidents that served with Daniel, and were actually set below him, went behind his back, along with all the princes, and asked the king to sign a law against him; however, in Daniel's mind, this law was not against him, but against his God. As long as we are serving God, trusting in Him, and seeking to do His will, anything that comes against us, is not set against us, but is set against God! Therefore, Daniel's only concern was to trust God; the only thing which Daniel was really up against, or that stood in his way, was fear. Did God want to do something through this situation that Daniel was in? Oh, I believe that He did!!! "And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den." (Daniel 6:24)