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"Now, I...praise and extol and honour the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those that walk in pride he is able to abase." Daniel 4:34  At the end of last year, Lech L'cha (a Hebrew language, residential, discipleship program) experimented with running a shorter program in order to make their discipleship training more accessible to people who are unable to set aside 3-months of full-time study. It was a huge success and young people who wanted to deepen their walk with Yeshua (Jesus) came for the full three weeks, some for a week and some just for a few days, as they were able.

Every morning, for a few hours the participants studied the book Daniel looking at both the individual chapters and the book as a whole. They were encouraged by the story of Nebuchadnezzar, a foreign king who formerly raised himself up against God but was confronted by the God of Heaven and came to a point of humility where he confessed the words above from D…