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11/05/2026

When It Is Your Time, The Blessing Will Come Looking For You.

Here is the part I love. All the king's wise men came in and failed. The king was out of answers, his nobles were confused, and the party was falling apart. Then somebody said, "Now let Daniel be called." Daniel did not knock on the palace door that night. The palace came knocking on his.

How this applies to you:

-- The Blessing knows your address.

-- Daniel did not have to chase the blessing; the Blessing chased him. Solomon said, "A man's gift makes room for him and brings him before great men." That night was not luck. That was destiny keeping its appointment.

-- When everybody else runs out of answers, God will make sure somebody says your name.

-- Solomon said, "If you are uniquely gifted in your work, you will rise and be promoted. You won't be held back, you'll stand before kings!"

-- If you are in business, the grace of God will cause contracts and opportunities to come looking for you.

-- If you are building a career, God will make sure your name comes up in front of senior leaders. Promotion comes from God!

-- God's timing is perfect. Habakkuk said, "For it will surely come right on time."

-- Your destiny is not running from you; it is looking for you. Keep being who God made you to be, and the door He planned for you before you were born will open right on time.

11/05/2026

A Good Name Will Speak For You When You Cannot.

Daniel was not in the banquet hall, but his reputation was. The queen mother walked in and said, "There is a man in your kingdom." Then she gave the king Daniel's whole résumé: insight, understanding, wisdom, the spirit of God in him, and "an excellent spirit." Daniel never wrote a letter of recommendation for himself. He never asked anybody to put in a good word for him. He just lived his life with excellence and integrity before God, year after year, under good kings and bad kings. So when the crisis came, somebody remembered. Solomon said, "A good name is worth more than silver or gold."

How this applies to you:

-- Never allow unfavorable conditions to cause you to violate your character, because your character needs to be intact for the moment you get the call!

-- Daniel's character kept his destiny ready while he waited.

-- Your name will come up in rooms you will never walk into, and what you don't want to do is be so upset about the fact that you were never in the room that you're not ready when you get the invite.

-- Daniel did not build his reputation the night of the party. He built it over a lifetime of faithfulness. A reputation is not made in a moment.

-- The queen mother did not remember Daniel's title. She remembered his spirit. Titles change with every new king, but an excellent spirit goes with you everywhere.

-- Excellence is not perfection; it is God's grace on your work.

-- You don't have to promote yourself when you are living a life that promotes God.

-- God planned your destiny before you were born, and He will make sure the right people remember your name at the right time.

11/05/2026

Being Set Aside Does Not Mean You Are Done.

Picture this. A thousand people were invited to the king's party, and Daniel was not one of them. He had served Babylon faithfully for decades. He had interpreted dreams nobody else could interpret, and he had been the chief over every wise man in the kingdom. Now he was an old man, and the new king did not know who he was. There had to be moments when Daniel thought, "I gave this kingdom my whole life, and now nobody even calls my name." But Daniel did not go to war over his position. He did not start a campaign to get his job back. He trusted God and held his peace.

How this applies to you:

-- People can set you aside, but they cannot set aside God's plan for your life.

-- Daniel was taken to Babylon as a teenager in 605 BC, and this banquet happened in 539 BC, 66 years later. That made him about 80 years old the night the king called his name. You are never too old to manifest God’s destiny for your life.

-- New leaders bring new changes (we just had a midterm election that will most certainly bring changes to the USA). When a new leader takes over, some of those changes may be good for you, and some may not. But none of them can cancel what God destined for you.

-- When you are destined by God, you don’t need a seat at the party to show up on time. People who didn’t add you to the list will end up calling for you because of what is ON your life!

-- Being overlooked by people is not the same as being overlooked by God.

-- God said, "I have carved your name on the palms of my hands!" Your name is not on a guest list; it is in God's hands.

-- David said, "Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for him to act." Waiting on God is not wasted time. It is trusting time.

-- You may be out of sight, but you are never out of God's mind! God is thinking about you, and He is still working to make sure His destiny for your life is manifested while you're in the land of the living.

11/05/2026

Don't Let What God Did For You Stop With You.

Think about everything Nebuchadnezzar learned. God showed him a dream, rescued three men from a fire, and then humbled him in a field for seven years until he said, "His rule is everlasting, and his kingdom is eternal." That was the testimony he sent to the whole empire. But one generation later, the new king grabbed the cups from God's house and used them to toast idols. It is obvious that Nebuchadnezzar learned his lesson, and it is just as obvious that he did not pass it on. The Bible describes the same tragedy in Israel: "another generation grew up who did not acknowledge the Lord or remember the mighty things he had done." What God did in your life is part of somebody else's destiny.

How this applies to you:

-- What God taught you was never meant to stop with you. Part of your destiny is passing down the lessons you have learned to the generation coming after you, so they can discover their destiny as well.

-- Nebuchadnezzar's testimony went out to the whole empire, but it never seemed to make it to his own palace. Win the world if God gives you the world, but don't lose the people under your own roof.

-- The psalmist said, "We will not hide these truths from our children; we will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the Lord." Tell your story at home, and tell it often.
-- Belshazzar took what God called holy and treated it like a party cup. He disrespected God, and so the writing was on the wall.

-- When you forget what God did, you start to treat holy things like common things. Guard your worship, your Word, and your walk with God, because familiarity is the pathway to disrespect.

-- As much as I teach and preach about the grace of God, the goodness of God, and the love of God, we must never forget the fear of the Lord. A healthy dose of reverential fear will keep us in a posture of honor and not familiarity.

-- Your destiny was planned before you were born, and part of that plan is the generation coming after you. Make sure your children, your grandchildren, and the people you mentor know three things: 1) There is a God, 2) we are NOT Him, and 3) we NEED Him!

11/05/2026

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11/05/2026

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It Is Never Too Late To Humble YourselfKing Nebuchadnezzar had th...

11/04/2026

It Is Never Too Late To Humble Yourself

King Nebuchadnezzar had the warning and the way out. God waited twelve months. Then one day the king walked on the roof of his palace, looked out over Babylon, and said, "By my own mighty power, I have built this beautiful city." That same hour he lost his mind. He was driven from society, ate grass like a cow, and lived in the dew of heaven for seven years. But the stump and the roots stayed in the ground. After seven years he looked up to heaven, his sanity returned, and God restored him with still more greatness than before (Daniel 4:29-37).

In Part 80 of Discovering Destiny, Rick Pina teaches four truths from the king's fall and comeback. Pride will always cost you more than you want to pay. You are never too far gone to humble yourself. When you turn to God, He restores more than you lost. And when you humble yourself, God will lift you up.

God's patience is not His approval. It is your opportunity to repent. You don't have to clean yourself up first. Just look up. God does not just restore. He restores with interest. And your destiny is still waiting for you on the other side of your repentance.

Key Nuggets:

1. God's tolerance is not acceptance. The time God gives you is grace and your opportunity to repent.

2. Whatever strength and wisdom God gives you is a gift. It is not a trophy.

3. What you build up in pride, you can lose in a single hour. Keep yourself humble under the mighty hand of God.

4. It's never too late to repent. You don't have to clean yourself up first. All you have to do is look up.

5. Your destiny is still waiting for you on the other side of your mistake.

6. God doesn't just restore. He restores you with interest and takes you to another level.

7. Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It's seeing yourself the way God sees you, and God will give you a testimony bigger than your trophies.

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It Is Never Too Late To Humble YourselfKing Nebuchadnezzar had th...

11/04/2026

When You Humble Yourself, God Will Lift You Up.

The man who once said, "By my own mighty power," ended his letter with these words: "Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, Whose works are all faithful and right and Whose ways are just. And those who walk in pride He is able to abase and humble." The king who would not bow to God finally did. And when he bowed, God lifted him.

How this applies to you:

-- James said, "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble." Peter said, "Humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time he will lift you up in honor."

-- You can humble yourself, or God will humble you. Choose the first one.

-- Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking more of God.

-- The proud get resistance, but the humble get grace.

-- The king's last chapter was not about his power, it was about God's glory. Let God have the final word in your story.

-- When you bow low, God lifts you high.

-- Nebuchadnezzar's greatest testimony was not the city he built, it was the God who rebuilt him. Your testimony will always be bigger than your trophies.

11/04/2026

When You Turn To God, He Restores MORE Than You Lost.

Look at what happened next: "At the moment I began to praise him, I was restored to my right mind. The Most High gave me back the majesty and splendor of my kingdom." And then this: "still more greatness was added to me." God did not just give the king back what he lost. He gave him MORE than before. Remember the stump. God left the roots in the ground because He had already planned the restoration. God promised Israel, "I will give you back what you lost."

How this applies to you:

-- Restoration is not something you earn. It is something you receive by grace. Grace is a gift!

-- The king's advisers came looking for him. When God restores you, doors will open again.

-- God did not restore him to the old level. He restored him with even GREATER honor.

-- I have taught you this before: God does not just restore; He restores with interest!

-- Isaiah said, "Let them return to God, for he will lavish forgiveness upon them." God does not ration His mercy, He lavishes it.

-- Your mistakes are real, but so is God's grace.

-- God planned your destiny before you were born, and no mistake can cancel what He planned.

-- Job lost everything, but the Bible says, "When Job prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes. In fact, the Lord gave him twice as much as before!" Job got double.

-- Joseph lost his coat, his family, and his freedom. God did not send him back to his father's field. He made him second in command over all of Egypt.

-- God even restores lost time. He promised, "I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm." I love this about God! Every time He restores, He takes you to another level.

11/04/2026

You Are Never Too Far Gone To Humble Yourself.

The king hit bottom. He was out in the field, eating grass, soaked with dew, looking more like an animal than a man. But listen to what he wrote: "After this time had passed, I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven. My sanity returned, and I praised and worshiped the Most High." He did not climb back to the palace first. He did not fix himself first. He just looked up. Jesus told a story about a son who ended up feeding pigs, and the Bible says, "When he finally came to his senses." Every comeback starts the same way.

How this applies to you:

-- The king's comeback did not start in the palace, it started in the field.

-- You don't have to clean yourself up to come to God. Just look up.

-- The same eyes that looked down on Babylon with pride had to look up to heaven in humility.

-- The psalmist said, "My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth!"

-- The enemy wants you to keep staring at the grass. Meaning: he wants you to meditate on all the mistakes you have made. But God just wants you to humble yourself and look UP at Him. The moment you repent, you can be restored!

-- No matter how low you have fallen, you are never out of God's reach.

-- God planned your destiny before you were born. It is true that destined men/women often go astray. However, it is also true that their destiny is still waiting for them the moment they look up to God and repent.