FAITH CAPSULE: With God on your side, the enemy cannot be more powerful.

Daniel 3

When Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, the three friends of Daniel, refused to worship gold image, they were sentenced into a fiery burning furnace. The Bible recorded, “…because the king’s command was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.” (Daniel 3:22-23) The three friends were bounded when they were thrown into the burning fiery furnace. Have you been in a familiar situation where your challenges have kept you bounded? It has become aggravating, disturbing, and stressing, and it is causing displacement in every function able area of your life. You have been relegated and provokingly stagnated where you had the ability to move up. Does any of the above describe your situation like that of the three friends of Daniel? Daniel’s friends were in much deeper situation, but in that deep, God showed up on their behalf. The three friends of Daniel fell in the fire yet they were up and not consumed by the fire. Interestingly, God did not bring them out of the burning fiery furnace, but He kept their company against any form of destruction or pain. With God’s presence the burning fiery furnace became a boarding friendly furnace. King Nebuchadnezzar saw the miracle and declared,“Look!” he answered, “I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.” (Daniel 3:25) The enemy meant it for evil, but their faith prevailed when the presence of God joined them. The King was not the only witness of God parading His visiting power concerning His children in the midst of a burning fiery furnace. There were witnesses from every level of the government, “…the satraps, administrators, governors, and the king’s counselors gathered together, and they saw these men on whose bodies the fire had no power; the hair of their head was not singed nor were their garments affected, and the smell of fire was not on them.” (Daniel 3:27)They all saw the power of God in manifestation and, “Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, who sent His Angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him, and they have frustrated the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they should not serve nor worship any god except their own God!” (Daniel 3:28). The presence of God made the three friends to thrive in the face of terminating challenge. With God on your side, the enemy cannot be more powerful.

Prayer for today: The kind of testimony that answered for Daniel’s three friends will answer for you in the name of Jesus.