FAITH CAPSULE: Believing God is to be able to see it that God is always there on your side.

Daniel 3

An acclaim 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 situation is only making a false statement or self-mockery in the face of the devil. With mounting challenges and with one being surrounded by impossible situations, giving to fear is highly a possibility for man. However, an acclaim believer who is able to restrain oneself from fear is one who actually knows that the Lord is on his/her side. Also, it is one who has stepped out of religion and into Christ reality.
Believing God is also seeing that God is always there at one’s side to deliver, regardless of confronting challenges. Any believer that operates at the level of knowing that God is always on his/her side shall truly not entertain fear of what man can do.
The three friends of Daniel (Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego) could not entertain fear when they were sentenced to death through a burning fiery furnace. The three friends responded to their persecutor’s sentencing, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.  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: 16-18)
The evidence of seeing God and knowing that the Lord is with one is to be bold in the face of any kind of confronting challenge rather than one being built up in fear. The three friends of Daniel ended up in the fiery burning furnace as commanded by the king that did not know about the God of the three friends. While in the burning fiery furnace, the king saw the unusual and he reacted when, “…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 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 will come out of religion and begin to live Christ reality, the world of challenges shall become one’s own world to live and to have dominion.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to come out of religion and live Jesus reality.