FAITH CAPSULE: Trusting God will result to promotion in the presence of our enemy.

Daniel 3

There is a song that goes, “Everywhere He went He was doing good.” He was, and is the Almighty deliverer. If you will let Him go through you today, you will not be left the same way. Will you let Him go through you? His going through will never leave you empty, but it will endue you with what it takes to be connected to heaven. Allowing Jesus to go through us is rooted in trusting Him. Trust in God will frustrate every move of the enemy in our life. Trusting God will result to promotion in the presence of our enemy. When Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego refused to serve or worship king Nebuchadnezzar’s gold image, they were sentenced to harsh penalty which was death by furnace fire. They were determined to stand their ground for God because they trust in God’s deliverance and preservation. King Nebuchadnezzar went further to question them about who would deliver them. They were so sure of their trust in God when they responded, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, ‘O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.’” (Daniel 3:16) Is there any matter that is demanding you to compromise your faith? Is the matter threatening to you? You can be rest assured that you have no need to answer the matter’s question, just like those men of faith. Trust in God and serve Him. They trusted God and responded, “If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king.” (Daniel 3:17) The three friends of Daniel were bounded and delivered into the burning fiery furnace. While in the furnace, “Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and 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 in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.” (Daniel 3:24-25) The One that goes everywhere, the One that you need to trust will join you in time of burning fiery furnace. He joined the three friends to keep their company in the burning furnace. Having been delivered from the furnace of fire, king Nebuchadnezzar spoke in Daniel 3:28, “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, yielded their bodies, that they should not serve nor worship any god except their own God!”

Prayer for today: Ask God to endue you with the grace that causes man to stand in trust regardless of confronting matter.