Daniel’s New Book: Capturing The Promise With Joshua Daily DevotionalDaniel’s New Book:

In Capturing The Promise With Joshua: Daily Devotional and Spiritual Guide into the Promised Land you will journey with me through the book of Joshua, as God brings the children of Israel out of the wilderness and into the Promised Land, and apply the 3 “R”s of Lectio Divina.

Reading Scripture is a gateway to experiencing God and spending time with Scripture opens the door to an intimate relationship with the Author Himself. It does not matter where you start, whether it’s in Joshua or John, or anywhere else – God has deposited something for you where ever you find yourself seeking Him today. You might even read the same passage over and over each day for a season and still find new revelation in there each time. That’s how awesome God is!

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It is my hope that as you pick up this book and take the time to find the treasures that God has hidden for you in Joshua, that your life is enriched and your relationship with your Daddy in heaven is strengthened, and that it even takes you to a new level of intimacy that you never imagined.

Edit (6/05/2024):

Paperback and Hardcover versions have just been approved and are now live and available for purchase on amazon.com.

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Daniel’s First Book: 21 Days with John Daily Devotional

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This daily devotional book introduces the reader to a way of scriptural reading, meditation and prayer that is intended to promote communion with God and to increase the knowledge of God’s Word. It does not treat Scripture as texts to be studied, but rather as the living “rhema” (now) word of God.

As you take time for the daily Scripture reading, 21 Days with John Daily Devotional and Fasting Companion encourages you to ask yourself, is God speaking a personal word to me today? What is God saying to me today, right now, in this exact moment?

Edit (3/19/2024):

Paperback and Hardcover versions have just been approved and are now live and available for purchase on amazon.com.

Find 21 Days with John Daily Devotional and Fasting Companion in all formats here

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Pray for our Leaders and Those in Authority and Forgive and Bless Them

We are reminded to pray for our leaders and those in authority in 1 Timothy 2:

Instructions concerning Prayer

2 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone, 2 for kings and all who are in high positions, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity. 3 This is right and acceptable before God our Savior, 4 who desires everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For

there is one God;
    there is also one mediator between God and humankind,
Christ Jesus, himself human,
6     who gave himself a ransom for all

—this was attested at the right time. 7 For this I was appointed a herald and an apostle (I am telling the truth; I am not lying), a teacher of the gentiles in faith and truth.

8 I desire, then, that in every place the men should pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or argument, 9 also that the women should dress themselves in moderate clothing with reverence and self-control, not with their hair braided or with gold, pearls, or expensive clothes, 10 but with good works, as is proper for women who profess reverence for God. 11 Let a woman learn in silence with full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she is to keep silent. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve, 14 and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. 15 Yet she will be saved through childbearing, provided they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

1 Timothy 2, NRSVUE

It is God’s will that all people would be saved. So when we pray for our leaders to be saved, we pray God’s will.

And it says to pray for them to come to the knowledge of the truth. And we can pray for those things for ourselves too.

We also need to forgive our leaders for anything we are holding against them. Remember, forgiveness is not (just) for them, it’s for us.

We need to forgive those whose actions and policies have negatively affected us and we need to bless them in the same way that we forgive and bless our enemies.

We can choose to forgive them without letting them off the hook and they still need to be held legally accountable for what they did.

We don’t do this because we like them or because we agree with them but because it is the will of God.

Instead of making fun of them and gossiping about them we need to see the as individual people with real names and real families and real problems, and real people who need salvation and need to encounter and experience God and His peace in their lives, the same way we do.

Daniel’s Consulting Gig with Hopps

Daniel started a new consulting gig with a platform called Hopps. This is where small businesses who need help with their website, online shop, online presence, or social media etc. can have a consulting session with an expert in the field that they need help in and don’t have to hire an employee or freelancer for more than just the task at hand.

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Sessions can run anywhere from a few minutes to several hours, depending on the client’s needs… sometimes there’s a whole list of things!

Hopps describe themselves as the world’s first on-screen help platform. To get help with website troubleshooting, anything WordPress, anything Shopify, or if you need to translate something from or to German, GO TO DANIEL’s PROFILE to get started!

Swimming Every Day

Today, Daniel decided to go swimming every day (or at least as many days in a row as possible) to start losing weight through High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). What’s nice is that it’s gentle on the joints. This is what some people do in Switzerland – you don’t notice the cold or “bad” weather as much if you stick to swimming every day because the temperature of the water doesn’t change that much from one day to the next, even if you’re swimming in a river or a lake.

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The nice thing is that our apartment complex has a community pool and jacuzzi so the current idea is to warm up doing stretches and sit in the jacuzzi for about 5 minutes. Then jump in the pool (like ripping a band aid off!) and swim laps for 1-2 minutes. Repeat jacuzzi and laps every 1-2 minutes to get 5 repetitions then relax in the jacuzzi for another 10-15 minutes before taking a cold show to rinse off the chlorine.

You can find updates on his Daniel’s YouTube Channel and Daniel’s Weight Loss Journey page. This is the first post so we don’t know yet whether we’ll be posting more updates here or on YouTube… Just keep checking both 😀

Evidence of Excellence

While I can build a Content Management System (CMS) from scratch I choose not to because there are so many out there already. There are usually multiple solutions to a problem and it’s the same way with CMSs; there are usually several good options to choose from. I’m not a big fan of reinventing the wheel. If something is not working the way it was intended, let’s find the solutions to the problems at hand. That’s also how I see open source – someone has a great idea and the community can help turn it into something, even make it better, and collaborate on a problem to come up with the best solution. You can’t know all the answers but you can work on knowing where to find them, which people to talk to, and be humble enough to ask for help.

Excellence is the journey of striving to be the best version of myself. It’s not about finding a way to do the bare minimum by comparing to what others are doing but rather looking inward and finding the potential that’s there and working toward reaching it to its fullest. Amazingly, when everyone excels, everyone wins. There are no losers when everyone gives it their all.

To the best of my ability, I live with an attitude of gratitude for the things I have, and without complaining about the things I don’t. The same goes with circumstances; I may not be able to control them, but I control how I respond. I control whether I see myself as a victim or as an overcomer. I control whether a situation pulls me down or becomes a stepping stone in my life, whether to give up or to live a life of excellence. And excellence is not a thing I can do one time and then I have it. No. Excellence is a way of life, something to continually be with my whole being.

The Tesla company, for example, has this way of excellence that I’ve observed from the outside. Starting with the design, everything is well thought out, every detail looks like someone went out of their way to put it in the exact right spot. And even with the release of new models, from what I’ve read, releases are sometimes delayed because of an update being added to them. Delaying the release of a product so that a better version of it will go to the customer, if this is really true, is evidence of excellence. I want to be seen by those around me that way too… that I would go out of my way to make something better, better than the minimum, better than my initial goal, so that those on the receiving end have a better version. Excellence means that those around me experience the best version of myself.

~ Daniel Gurtner