FAITH CAPSULE: Commit your request into His hand and he will exclude the options that are not for you.

Daniel 3

The word of God is consistently true and it cannot be broken. Jesus meant what He said and He will do what He says when He said, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receive, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?”(Matthew 7:7-9) Do not stop asking He will answer your prayer. When He answers yes it good and when He answers no it is also good because He sees the end from the beginning. Is it deliverance you want? He alone will deliver it to you. God alone is God and He alone knows the best response to your request. It does not matter how long you have been praying or what you are asking for, the will of God is always the answer, not how you think or feel the answer should be. An order was put in place for whoever fails to fall down and worship Nebuchadnezzar’s gold image, “And whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning furnace.”( Daniel 3:6) Daniel’s friends (Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego) refused to fall down before the image in worship. Despite being in captivity, their hearts did not depart from their God. There was no bitterness against God who was able to have denied captivity before they were taken captive. The love that they had for God was so intact that they could not fall for any god. They were ready for the death penalty by the fiery furnace. They were serving God, and in that situation they needed to trust God. It is one thing to serve God; it is another to stand in trust for what He can do. They would not bow so they 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. 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 3:17-18) They knew that only God could deliver, yet they acknowledged the fact that even if they did not get what they hoped for from God, He could not be diminished in their lives. He knows the best for you and He has the best answer. Let the will of God be done. Commit your request into His hand and he will exclude the options that are not for you.

Prayer for today: Ask Him to deliver you from the hand of the wicked and the grip of the terrible.