Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.”
Daily Faith with Philip Cameron: Special Guest Pastor Gary Brothers
About this episode
Pastor Gary Brothers of Discovery Life Church in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, joins Daily Faith to deliver a timely, faith-building message on what to do when life catches you off guard. Drawing from the story of Daniel in the lion's den (Daniel 6:16), Gary unpacks three powerful principles for overcoming life's unexpected blows: maintaining a personal relationship with God, staying faithful to what you're called to do, and holding firm to the belief that God will deliver you. "Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you," Gary quotes — words spoken not by a prophet or priest, but by the pagan King Darius himself. Gary points out that this heathen king demonstrated more faith in that moment than many believers do today. He also draws on the story of Jesus and the woman caught in adultery to illustrate how staying calm and refusing to react in panic is itself a form of spiritual warfare. Gary Brothers pastors Discovery Life Church, which has recently launched two new campuses, and reminds viewers that faithfulness — not talent or education — is the ultimate superpower. If you're facing a sudden setback today, this episode will anchor your faith. Visit dlclife.com to connect with Discovery Life Church.
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Quotes worth sharing
“I've learned that if the devil can't defeat you, he tries to distract you. And that's why these caught-by-surprises — their primary goal is to distract us from what God has called us to do and get us off track.”
“If you're facing a surprise today, let me remind you — God has never been surprised. Never surprised. When you get that report from the doctor, God was not surprised. When you have a financial setback, God is not surprised. When you're weeping in the middle of the night, God is not surprised. He's touched with the feelings of our infirmities. He knows where you are. He knows what you're going through.”
“He says, I've learned something over the years. How I react to this cut determines how quickly it heals.”
What's Discussed
Pastor Gary Brothers of Discovery Life Church in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, teaches on how to respond when life catches you off guard. Using Daniel 6:16, he identifies three principles from King Darius's words to Daniel: (1) cultivate a personal relationship with God — 'your God'; (2) remain faithful to your calling — 'whom you serve continually'; and (3) trust God to deliver you — 'he will deliver you.' Gary argues that faithfulness is every believer's greatest superpower, and that Satan's primary tactic is distraction, not destruction. He also references Jesus's calm response when the Pharisees interrupted his teaching with the woman caught in adultery as a model for staying composed under pressure. Discovery Life Church has recently launched two new campuses.
- Church Growth and Two New Campuses
- The Principle of Being Caught by Surprise
- Daniel in the Lion's Den — Daniel 6:16
- Personal Relationship With God as Foundation
- Faithfulness as Your Superpower
- God Is Never Surprised by Your Circumstances
- Jesus and the Woman Caught in Adultery
- Refusing to Give Satan Attention or Reaction
Scripture in this episode
Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
Episode Transcript
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Intro
Philip:Hey, welcome to Daily Faith Today. My name is Philip Cameron, and I am delighted to have you with us. I've got a great guest on this program. He's one of the wisest men going around today. I tell you what, he's a pastor of a great church in Missouri, and he speaks with wisdom.
Philip:And we've just been talking before the program has started. And it's great to have someone you can talk to about different situations that you're looking at in the world and have that wisdom. In the world we're living in, let me tell you something, wisdom is something that is lacking and we need God to grant wisdom to the church.
Philip:We're delighted to have you. I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. We sure did, all our family together. And the other day it snowed here in Tennessee — for those watching in the sunnier climes of the world, boy, am I jealous of you. I've been cold for the last three days.
Philip:I can't get myself warm. We've got a great program, as I said, and you can help us by hitting the share button on your screen. That allows us — I learned that Christian shows are given a specific code by social platforms, and they can restrict
Philip:and they can expand your viewership just by the click of a computer. And the one way we can get around that is by you telling someone about it. And we are just so pleased. We started Daily Faith as a temporary thing during the COVID
Philip:situation to encourage pastors. And that's how it started. And it's kind of taken on a life of its own. And we're just amazed to see how many people come up. I was talking to my mom. My mom was 96 — she was 96 a few days ago — and I call her every day for at least an hour.
Philip:And we talk about all this stuff in our world and her grandkids and our great-grandkids and this and that. And my dad's been in heaven for 25 years, and we discuss things with him and we relive our lives together. It's tremendous. And so she was telling us that
Philip:she met someone that she hadn't seen for ages in Scotland and they said, oh, we watch Daily Faith every day. We don't miss it, we just love Daily Faith. And that's all the way in Scotland. So it's just amazing with this technology how you can go around the world.
Philip:We get contacts continually from India and Pakistan and Nigeria and all over Europe, and we're just glad and honored that God uses us. The reason why Daily Faith is here is we want to be a part of your walk with Jesus on a daily basis,
Philip:that something we say will encourage you. I'm here to tell you, we are living in a world when folks need encouragement. And I want you to know this, that you are the apple of God's eye. He never slumbers, never sleeps, and you are on his mind constantly.
Philip:And so we're just glad you're here. You can also go and watch us on YouTube. Our numbers are growing there. We haven't spent enough time and attention on that. But if you go to YouTube there's a whole bunch of reels and stuff there. I do reels constantly at like 45-second thoughts.
Philip:And some weeks will have over a million hits on these things. So it's just amazing. And you can go there — youtube.com/dailyfaith, youtube.com/dailyfaith — and you can reach us there.
Philip:And of course, Daily Faith TV is our home base, and all the programs we've done are held there and cataloged there. Whatever you're going through, I'm pretty sure we've talked about it someplace in Daily Faith. We're just so glad you're here.
Philip:You're going to love Gary Brothers. He is going to speak a word into your heart today that I think will close some doors and open some doors in your life, because God has a plan for you. And I'm just delighted to have you with us. I'm glad you're here. Welcome to Daily Faith.
Philip:Hello, my friends. Welcome to Daily Faith. I am so glad you are here with us today. We have got a great program, a great guest. As you do these shows — and we've done hundreds and hundreds of them — just once in a while someone sticks out that you think, wow, that was viable, that was something special.
Philip:And my guest today is Gary Brothers. He is a great man. He pastors — he's a senior pastor. I don't know how to describe him anymore because the church is going and he's gotta be pushed up all the time because of the growth of the church and the transitions that are taking place.
Philip:He pastors Discovery Life Church in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. And just a great friend, a great man of God. And we are excited to hear from him today because I believe that God is going to use him to speak a word into your heart.
Philip:And wherever you're watching, we are now on different channels across the country. Down in Florida we've been opening up there in Tampa — WCLF — every Thursday evening at 6:30. There'll be FGC at West Palm Beach.
Philip:And if President Trump is watching me right now, I am praying for you. I voted for you. I even sent you some money. And when a Scotsman sends you money, that's a big deal, I'm telling you now. And in fact, the funny thing is he's got a great new golf course in a town just up
Philip:just north of Aberdeen, which is 20 miles away from where I was born. So I've driven past the Trump course in Aberdeen a lot of times. And we're in Fort Myers and also in Tulsa. And we just hope and welcome you all to be watching Daily Faith. We're glad you're with us.
Philip:I really believe you should watch the program today because God is going to really bless you. We have a mission work in Moldova and Ukraine. 35 years ago, I adopted a wee baby in Romania, and that set me down a course that I had no idea that I'd be going in.
Philip:And when I adopted Andrew, who's now a 37-year-old man with a wife and a brand new grandchild — my grandbaby Annabel, which is the delight of my life — it's amazing how one step in your life, one wee step you think is a wee step,
Philip:suddenly it opens up a whole new vista. My dad was watching the fall of the Iron Curtain and all of those crazy things that happened. And he called me one day and he says, those babies are dying. I says, where? What are you talking about? In Romania?
Philip:And he literally forced me to go with him. He was recovering from cancer surgery, a melanoma — his scar burst open, it was terrible. And I walked into this orphanage in Romania and saw this wee boy standing in a crib rocking.
Philip:And the Lord says, that's your son. And I picked that baby up, and by doing so, picked up hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of babies over the years because of that one step. So where you are right now, you may be going through a circumstance and you're thinking, how is this gonna happen?
Philip:God's maneuvering you into position to launch you into a whole new thing. And in the last 25 years, we've been in a country called Moldova, where kids when they turned 16 were put on the street and thrown out and traffickers got them. And we built an amazing village called Vatra Village.
Philip:It's on the biggest lake in the whole country. And this village of homes — the young folk come to us and we put them back in school, tell them if you're born, God has a plan. And the crazy thing about these kids — every girl you see in this video coming up, every girl is worth $300,000 a year
Philip:if a trafficker gets her. And we put them in church, we put them in school, and the gospel works in their lives. And these kids — orphan kids, kids from horrendous poor backgrounds — they are turning into sons and daughters, and then from sons
Philip:and daughters into missionaries. It's the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life. Every wintertime in Moldova the winters are brutal. And widows and broken families and villages that have no street lamps and no sidewalks
Philip:and no indoor plumbing live at the brink of dying with cold. And every year, our kids — each one of our homes adopts a village and they go to get to know the village. They find out every widow in the village, every family that's broken, alcoholic fathers who've left, kids getting beaten. They absorb all this information.
Philip:And then all through the wintertime, we bring wood and we bring clothes and food to these widows. Our kids in the spring will dig their garden up and plant vegetables for them to have food through the summertime.
Philip:And right now we are in a real situation because winter's coming on and we need to get wood into these families. The other day our team leader in Moldova — her name is Nadia, a girl that we found in an orphanage
Philip:16, 17 years ago now — she found a place where we could buy great big bags, I mean industrial-sized bags of chopped wood. And we want to go and literally give a month of heat to these tragic families.
Philip:And between now and the end of the year, this is our wood outreach. And I want you to watch this video as our kids are already doing it. Watch this.
Philip:At the very end of the video, you saw those bricks. We went to a family and brought them wood to discover that their stove was broken, the chimney was broken, and we went and we got some bricks and commissioned a bricklayer.
Philip:And he's building a brand new fireplace. When you see a fireplace, Americans think of a cozy fire. This is just a brick oven basically that gets hot itself, which heats the whole house. And we need you to help us. This is poverty that you can't even imagine.
Philip:These people are living at the point of freezing. And every crack in the door, every crack in a window is a horrendous thing. And the other side of this is that our kids who are orphans get the opportunity to go out
Philip:and be God's hand extended, and it heals their hearts. These are kids who've been living in horrendous circumstances in orphanages, and they come to us as an orphan. And the best way we've found to break the orphan spirit in them is
Philip:to let them give things away. And they go out and they give clothes and they give food and these great big bags of wood. And we are looking for people. We've ordered a hundred of these bags — it's not costing us $35, I'm telling you, it's costing $65. It's costing the ministry $65 for a bag of wood, which will keep a family alive for a month.
Philip:And if you'd like to be God's hand extended, if you'd like to be a part of the answer to a desperate family,
Philip:a desperate widow — the kids have gone to the west and forgotten about their moms. Sometimes the moms are left with the children who have gone. And they live at the knife edge of being lost. And we just want to help, be God's hand extended.
Philip:And if you could help by giving a gift of $65, you are literally heating one of their homes for a whole month. And you imagine the gift of rest that would give them, to know that at least for this month — the month of December into January — we're okay.
Philip:Please feel free to help us. We really need you to be a part of that. And I know that someone's watching today, God's blessed you and you're thinking, wow, I could really make a difference. This isn't a fancy gift. This is a life gift. Our address is PO Box 25, Clinton, Tennessee,
Philip:37716. You can go and dial 833 and then just dial Daily Faith into your keypad, and a real live person will pick up the phone. And you can also go to dailyfaith.tv, dailyfaith.tv,
Philip:and there's a giving page there. Just make sure you earmark it for coal. And a gift of $65 takes a family whose only thought right now is, how do we keep ourselves from freezing to death? You can make the difference.
Philip:And as you care for others, whenever you make something happen for someone else, God's gonna bring the worth of heaven into your family. I believe that with all my heart. And we are involved in this as a family and we just challenge you to be a part with us. I am delighted to have with me a great man of God,
Philip:Gary Brothers, who pastors Discovery Life Church in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. And he's just got it going on, let me tell you something. Pastor Gary, I'm delighted to have you with us today on Daily Faith. How are you, my brother?
Church Growth and Two New Campuses
Gary Brothers:Fantastic. Thank you, Philip, for having me on again. It's great to be with you.
Philip:It's great to be here. Tell us how things are at the church. I know you started a new campus.
Gary Brothers:Yeah, in the last 18 months we've started two new campuses, one here and one in Morningview, Kentucky. And they're both doing extremely, extremely well. And actually every campus is growing. So thank you, Jesus, for helping us do that.
Philip:What amazes me is, in the same world, I talk to pastors and some are going through great struggles and they're thinking this is the worst of times. And then you talk to someone like yourself and you're saying, well, we've just opened two new campuses and we're going further and we're doing more. It really depends on where your spirit is and where the vision of your eyes is, to see what God's called us to do.
Gary Brothers:Yeah. I don't know that I can explain it all after about 50 years of doing this, but we just wake up every morning trying to do something for Jesus. That's the truth.
Philip:I'm exactly the same. I just know if I'm faithful, if I keep going and just keep plowing the plow, God is the one that's responsible for the harvest. I just do my part. And if you're watching today, everything you do — whether you're a pastor of a church or whether you're the mother of a family or a dad, whatever it is — the key is to keep doing, keep going, keep believing,
Philip:because the devil doesn't know how to handle someone that just won't quit. And tell us what the Lord's been dealing with you. I know you do podcasts as well, but tell us what God's been putting on your heart for the church these days.
Gary Brothers:Well, here's just a little thought that I shared the other day that I thought would be appropriate this morning for people. And it really starts with a saying that we've probably all heard from time to time — caught by surprise. Have you ever been caught by surprise once or twice? Have you ever said that? Oh, that caught me by surprise.
The Principle of Being Caught by Surprise
Gary Brothers:It's something totally unexpected in our lives. Sometimes it can be something good. A lot of times it's something bad that catches us by surprise. And you know, there's an Old Testament prophet by the name of Daniel that he was caught by surprise one day.
Philip:Yeah, he sure was.
Gary Brothers:He was promoted to one of the three governors of the land. And then the other two guys who didn't like him got the king to sign a decree that he couldn't pray, and he prayed anyway, and he was thrown into the lion's den. So what do you do? I'm principle-oriented.
Daniel in the Lion's Den — Daniel 6:16
Gary Brothers:I look at the Bible. God always gives us principles for life. So what's the principle — what do you do when you're caught by surprise by something bad? And ironically in this story, it's found in what the heathen King Darius said
Gary Brothers:to Daniel when he threw him in the lion's den. We find it in Daniel 6:16. He says to him, your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you. Now let's look at that statement. The first thing he said is, your God — that deals with personal relationship.
Gary Brothers:If you want to overcome the bad caught-by-surprises, it starts with your relationship with God. Everything really starts there and should just be part of our lives. But really this starts right there. The king noticed that Daniel had a personal relationship.
Personal Relationship With God as Foundation
Gary Brothers:Your God, your God. And he can't just be your grandma's God or your pastor's God or your life group leader's God. He needs to be your God. So start there in your personal relationship with God. The second thing he said is, whom you serve continually.
Gary Brothers:Now that speaks to faithfulness. Philip mentioned that a minute ago about faithfulness. I did a sermon one time, Philip, entitled, what's your superpower? And my superpower is faithfulness. I'm not the sharpest pencil in the drawer. I'm not the fastest runner. I'm not the best preacher.
Gary Brothers:I'm not the best academic. I'm not the best at anything really, other than I get up every morning. I can be faithful, and everybody can be faithful. Just get up and do it.
Faithfulness as Your Superpower
Philip:Well, the thing is, Gary, when we get to heaven, the words we will hear is this — well done, good and faithful. Not smart, not educated, not able to quote scriptures like it's falling off, you know. But faithful. God honors faithfulness and the devil fears faithfulness.
Gary Brothers:Exactly. What did Daniel do when he heard the decree? He went home. He opened his window toward Jerusalem and prayed as was his custom. He was faithful. See, I've learned that if the devil can't defeat you, he tries to distract you.
Gary Brothers:And that's why these caught-by-surprises — their primary goal is to distract us from what God has called us to do and get us off track. So the second way to overcome the bad surprises is just keep doing what you're supposed to do. Get up every morning, do what you're supposed to do.
Gary Brothers:Serve God, bless your family, have some sweet tea, and move on. Here's the third thing that he said to him. He said, your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you. Now this king — isn't that crazy?
God Is Never Surprised by Your Circumstances
Gary Brothers:He was throwing him in the lion's den and he said, by the way, your God will deliver you. He had more faith than a lot of church people today. So the king was confessing what God was gonna do for Daniel. I'm throwing you in the lion's den,
Gary Brothers:but your God's gonna take care of it. He is gonna deliver you. You know, we overcome by faith, we walk by faith, we live by faith. Without faith we cannot please him. Hebrews 11:6. And so it's such an intricate element in our lives. If you're facing something today,
Gary Brothers:if you're facing a surprise today, let me remind you — God has never been surprised. Never surprised. When you get that report from the doctor, God was not surprised.
Gary Brothers:When you have a financial setback, God is not surprised. When you're weeping in the middle of the night, God is not surprised. He's touched with the feelings of our infirmities. He knows where you are. He knows what you're going through. He is not surprised. And he's our good shepherd.
Gary Brothers:And the shepherd goes before us and prepares a table before us in the presence of our enemies. So where you're going, God has already been. He goes before you. He's already been there. And he's already provided everything you need. You need peace? It's there. You need hope? It's there.
Gary Brothers:You need healing? It's there. You need direction, you need wisdom, you need guidance, you need a friend? God's already put somebody in your path ready, because he's already been where you're going. So if you're dealing with a bad caught-by-surprise today, let me encourage you to just cling to these words
Gary Brothers:of the Lord — your God whom you serve continually. Be faithful in what he's called you to do. Just be faithful. Do what you know to do. You can't do what you don't know. Just do what you do know. Be faithful and believe him that he will deliver you.
Gary Brothers:Don't focus on the surprise. I can't overemphasize that enough. Don't focus on the surprise, but on your response to the surprise. See, Satan wants you — and our own emotions will lead us — to focus on the surprise.
Gary Brothers:Why did this happen? Why did it happen to me? Why did they do that? How come? What for? When? You'll waste your emotional energy and open the door for doubt to come in. Shut the door to that. Realize the reality of where you are.
Gary Brothers:This is my situation and I'm gonna trust God. I'm gonna get a word from him. I'm gonna be faithful and he is going to deliver me. Philip, I know you've gone through many things like this in your life as well, and you just have to believe God through it.
Philip:I've learned in my life how you react to the surprise, the first hit. If you overreact to the first hit — there's a guy came to our Bible school in Scotland years ago when we were working, building something.
Philip:And I was helping him, I was his kind of assistant getting the wood for him. And his name is Bob Owen. And he's cutting this piece of wood with his hand saw. And the saw jumped out of the cut and caught him right across his finger, I mean right to the bone.
Philip:And I said, oh my goodness. And he — I'll never forget it — he put it against his jeans, he pushed his finger against the leg of his jeans, and he says, be quiet. Because I was commiserating with him in this wound.
Philip:He says, I've learned something over the years. He says, how I react to this cut determines how quickly it heals.
Gary Brothers:Great word.
Philip:Isn't that amazing? He says, get me some tape. And I went and got — it wasn't even a bandaid, it was just tape.
Philip:And he taped it round this thing over and over and over again and he tore it off. He says, now let's get back to work. And I thought, wow, if the devil surprised you with something, if life has surprised you with something, your response and reaction to the blow determines
Philip:how deep the blow gets into your spirit. If you can say, whoa, and then say, Jesus, I give this over to you. I'm not gonna — this is not my burden, it's your burden. Your yoke is easy, your burden is light. And how you react to the initial shock determines
Philip:how quickly you get out of the storm and out of the valley. There's another story that reveals that throughout the Bible. This is not the only one. Jesus was caught by surprise one day when he was teaching.
Gary Brothers:Yeah.
Philip:And the Pharisees threw a woman who they caught in adultery at his feet, interrupted the service. The law of Moses said, stone her. What do you say? Of course it was a trick to try to get him to come against the law of Moses and have him stone her.
Jesus and the Woman Caught in Adultery
Gary Brothers:He's caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place. What do you do? The first thing Jesus did was nothing. He stayed calm. The first thing we do — as you said a moment ago, Satan tries to get us to react. If Daniel had run around that lion's den,
Gary Brothers:if he'd run around and run from the lions, he'd have become bait for the lion. But he stood still in the middle of that lion's den. He didn't attract the attention of the devil. He just stood there and spoke to God.
Philip:One of the things you just said — you said something key there, Philip — attention. I've learned that Satan likes attention. He likes for people to brag on him. He lives on attention. He likes for people to complain about how tough he is and how mean he is.
Gary Brothers:And I just refuse to do that. I don't give him any attention for anything. And if something bad happens, oh, it's the devil that caused it. Well, I don't care if he's behind it or not. God is my source. The God I serve, the God I'm faithful to — hallelujah — he will deliver me. Hallelujah.
Gary Brothers:And if you're watching today, you can take that for yourself. This is not just theological stuff. This is practical. Daniel was delivered from the lion's den because the God that he'd served faithfully — his God — delivered him. And I believe he'll do the same for you no matter
Refusing to Give Satan Attention or Reaction
Gary Brothers:what you're facing today. I didn't say it would be painless. I didn't say it wouldn't stink sometimes. I'm sure a night in the lion's den wasn't a pleasant experience. It doesn't mean we won't go through some tough times and have to deal with some very uncomfortable things. We may do that. But through that process,
Gary Brothers:God will — hallelujah — deliver us. He will deliver you. Hallelujah. If you trust in him.
Philip:As you're talking, I can feel faith. Someone watching us today is going through hell at the moment. It's not your fault. It's something that someone's dragged you into. It's a circumstance outside of your control.
Philip:And the devil wants you to respond and react in shock. He wants to get you running around the lion's den. But as Pastor Gary said today, it's your God — your relationship with God determines the fact that the devil can't touch you.
Philip:Second, if you serve him continuously. And what was the third point again?
Gary Brothers:He will deliver you. That's faith. He'll deliver.
Philip:So there's faith in the circumstance. And I just feel this so strongly
Philip:that God is speaking to you. Don't react and respond to the attack of the enemy. He's waiting for you. Bird dogs — I don't even know the hunting dogs — bird dogs are trained. If a bird that is shot is lying still and dead, the bird dog goes
Philip:after the one that's still flapping. And the devil knows, if you are flapping around, you are attracting attention. Be still and know that I am God. Know that he's gonna see you through the circumstance. Know that he brought you thus far. The motto of my life —
Philip:here's the motto of my life, Gary. This is the stanza of my life. He would not have taught me to trust in his name and thus far have brought me to put me to shame.
Gary Brothers:That's a great saying.
Philip:He would not have taught me to trust in his name. I gave my heart to Jesus when I was four. I was baptized in the Holy Ghost when I was six. And he would've taught me to trust in his name and then brought me to being 70 years of age almost and put me to shame today? No sir.
Philip:He's gonna see me all the way through and he is gonna see you all the way through as well. What a wonderful word, Gary. We've a minute and a half left. Can you say a short prayer and just seal this in someone's heart?
Gary Brothers:Absolutely. Father, I just thank you, Lord, for every individual that's watching. I believe this is a word from you, not from me. And I pray, Holy Spirit, that you would open their heart and their mind to receive. It may be clouded right now by all of the circumstances and the pain and the hurt — the emotions that the sudden caught-by-surprise has done to them.
Gary Brothers:But I ask right now that a calm and a peace will rest upon them like a blanket around them. Holy Spirit, wrap your arms around them. Lift them, strengthen them. Ignite their faith now to move forward, to walk in victory,
Gary Brothers:because you will deliver them. Hallelujah.
Philip:Wow. I can feel faith in this thing. Don't you quit today. The devil wants you to be afraid. He wants you to fear your circumstance, but God is on your side.
Gary Brothers:Thank you so much for joining with us. We always appreciate being on Daily Faith. And we just appreciate God's faithfulness in your life. He pastors a church — if you're anywhere near Cape Girardeau, it's Discovery Life Church.
Gary Brothers:And their website is on the screen right now — www.dlclife. And you can get ahold of them. Thank you for being with us today. We love you. Don't you quit. God's on the throne. Bye-bye.
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Common questions
What does Pastor Gary Brothers say you should do when something bad catches you off guard?
Gary draws three principles from King Darius's words to Daniel in Daniel 6:16: first, lean on your personal relationship with God ('your God'); second, stay faithful and keep doing what you're supposed to do, just like Daniel kept praying even after the decree; and third, trust that God will deliver you. He emphasizes not focusing on the surprise itself, but on your response to it.
Why does Pastor Gary say faithfulness is his 'superpower'?
Gary says he's not the sharpest, fastest, or most gifted person in any category — but faithfulness is something everyone can do. He points out that the reward God promises is 'well done, good and faithful,' not 'well done, good and talented,' and that simply getting up every morning and doing what you're called to do is enough.
How does Pastor Gary say we should handle the devil when bad things happen?
Gary says Satan feeds on attention — he thrives when people brag on how tough or mean he is. Gary's approach is to refuse to give the devil any attention at all. Instead of fixating on whether the devil caused a problem, he redirects his focus entirely to God as his source and deliverer.
What's the point of the lion's den story when it comes to staying calm under pressure?
Gary uses Daniel in the lion's den to illustrate that panicking makes things worse — if Daniel had run around the den, he would have become bait for the lions. Standing still and trusting God, rather than reacting out of fear or emotion, is what kept Daniel safe. The principle is: don't let the surprise pull you into frantic behavior that opens the door to doubt.
Does Pastor Gary promise that trusting God means life won't be painful?
No — Gary is direct that trusting God doesn't guarantee a painless experience. He says a night in the lion's den was probably not pleasant, and that believers may still go through tough, uncomfortable situations. His point is that God will deliver you through the process, not necessarily around it.
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