• Title Page
• Introduction
• General Overview
• Daniel 1:1-6
• Daniel 1:7-21
• Daniel 2
  • The Importance of Crisis Management
  • Biblical Instruction for Handling a Crisis
  • Quoted
  • Did you Know?
  • Daily Devotions
  • Word Search Puzzle
• Daniel 3
• Daniel 4
• Daniel 5
• Daniel 6
• Daniel 7
• Daniel 8
• Daniel 9
• Daniel 10
• Daniel 11
• Daniel 12

Daniel 2

The Importance of Crisis Management

What do we tend to do whenever a crisis hits? Do we panic, become hysterical, become bitter, blame God, or run? Being a child of God, we must learn to handle disasters in our lives just as He would want us to manage them.

If anyone knew how to direct a crisis, it was Daniel. Already in the first chapter of Daniel, he conducted himself like a seasoned adult. It must have been something to be with all of his friends who were absolutely terrified, mutilated, and humiliated. Daniel kept his senses, negotiated a better diet, and won the favor of his leaders.

In this chapter, unexpectedly, the emperor declares that all the scientists and their students must be executed. Daniel and his friends were included in this decree. What did Daniel do? What can we learn from this mighty man of God?

Daniel 2:1-12 And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him. ²Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king. ³And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream. ⁴Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation. ⁵The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in