Day 58 5-19

Focused my QT today on our Life Group study of Daniel, specifically the book Job-Shadowing Daniel by Larry Peabody. I highly recommend reading it.

Here are my notes from it, basically what stuck out to me...

p. 52 Daniels new name did nothing to change the way he saw himself

p. 53 Daniel speaks boldly - not with a fleshly boldness, but with confidence in God and God's acceptance of him as a messenger

p. 55-58 on using the term "layperson" and "laity"  - a demeaning lie that there is a two level hierarchy among those that follow Jesus. It limits one's view of their usefulness in the cause of Christ - the devil does some of his best work when he gets Christians to think of themselves as Christian laypersons (Peterson)

-saying you are "just" anything conveys insignificance, unimportance, not serious, minimizing.  I had a revelation from a speaker at MOPS this year to never say I am "just" a mom. Scripture never distinguishes or classifies Christians in this way

I should never say, I'm just a layperson so I wouldn't know.

- I am salt. As one of God's salty people, I should permeate wherever I am to create thirst for God by the way I live my life in the people I come in contact with. Bring out the real flavor of life, the real purpose for us all.