Specifically in this situation, the king had a dream and he asked for interpretation. Everyone who the king expected to be able to translate his dream was unable to and therefore in anger sentenced everyone to death.
Daniel on facing the death sentence requested to speak with the King, he spoke to the King with wisdom and discretion whereby the King granted him the opportunity to save himself from the death sentence. After he successfully got his request for more time from the King he went ahead to pray to God for mercy to reveal to him what he needed to secure his life.
This can be applied to many things in your life, is there something that you are facing condemnation for? A problem to which you are seeking a solution?
The lessons learned from Daniel –
1) When faced with difficult situations react with discernment and wisdom. Ideally you should have cultivated this continuously by praying to God for these qualities so that when you are faced with tough or challenging situations you are able to react with the fruits of the gift of discernment and wisdom like Daniel. “…Daniel handled the situation with wisdom and discretion” (Daniel 2:14).
2) Pray to God for his mercy and for him to reveal the answer on how you should handle the particular situation. If you ask the Lord for his guidance he does answer. But you must have trained and prepared yourself by having a relationship with God and an ability to hear from God. Like Daniel did when “He urged them to ask the God of heaven to show them his mercy by telling them the secret (v.18) and God did answer as seen “That night the secret was revealed to Daniel in a vision” (v. 19).
3) Thank and praise God for answering your prayers and providing solution and clarity. Give God the glory when you do find you are able to answer or solve an issue. As Daniel did he gave God the glory when he got the answer to the problem as God revealed the answer to him via a dream. Daniel did not claim to have done it on his own but he gave God all the glory “there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets” (v.28)
Though the other men were unable to call on their gods, Daniel was able to call on his God of Heaven who gave him the solution to the Kings “secret”. The King also gave praises to Daniels’ God only saying “Truly, your God is the greatest of gods, the Lord over kings, a revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this secret”. (v. 47)
