The key to Daniel's decision to pray to God when it was forbidden, knowing that he would be thrown into the lions den, is his great love for God.  Daniel knew that it is more important to love God than it is to love ourselves.  In Daniel 6:1-15 we find three keys to helping us live out our lives in Christ from this text: 1. Love for God sanctifies   2. Love for God is compromising    3. Love for God is stoked in prayer.