FAITH CAPSULE: Living by the word of God is the character of a believer.

Daniel 3

Are you living by the word of God to be in a position of knowing that God is on your side?
An acclaimed believer who often states: “The Lord is on my side” but is consistently living in fear or constantly entertaining fear in every area of confronting situations is only making a false statement or self-mockery in the face of the devil. 
With the mounting challenges of the world, are you giving to fear?
However, an acclaimed believer who can restrain oneself from fear of the world under the challenges is living with the knowledge that God is with such.
Living by the word of God is the character of a believer.
Believing God is seeing God is always at the side of such in every way of life regardless of confronting challenges.
A believer who operates at the level of knowing that God is always on the side shall truly not entertain fear of what the world can do.
The three friends of Daniel (Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego) could not entertain fear due to death judgment through a burning fiery furnace over their lives. 
The three friends responded to the death sentence over their lives, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to answer you in this matter.  If that is the case, our God whom we serve can deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.” (Daniel 3: 16-18)
The evidence of seeing God and knowing that the Lord is with one is to be bold in confronting challenges rather than sinking in fear.
The three friends of Daniel ended up in the fiery burning furnace as commanded by the king, who does not know the God of the three friends. While in the burning fiery furnace, the king saw the unusual, and he reacted, “…he rose in haste and spoke, saying to his counselors, ‘Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?’ They answered and said to the king, ‘True, O king.’ ‘Look!’ he answered, ‘I see four men loose, walking amid the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.’” (Daniel 3:24-25) 
The three friends could not be stranded in the burning fiery furnace because their God was always on their side, and the unbelieving king was privileged to see their God with them with his naked eyes. 
If one comes out of religion and begins to live by the word of God, such shall become a reality of Christ.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to live by the word of God.