Fiery furnace

Jesus in the Furnace

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Are you facing testing and trials and it feels like Jesus is nowhere to be seen? You are not alone. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were facing the threat of being thrown into a furnace so hot that it burned up their guards. When they boldly were telling the king they were willing to be thrown in rather than worship a statue they had no idea that a miracle was about to happen.

But as the furnace door opened some amazing things began to happen. First…they didn’t get burned up! Yay team! Secondly the ropes tying their hands and feet burned off and they started walking around inside the furnace…awesome! But God saved the biggest and best for last…they got to see Jesus!

Yes difficulties and trials loom on our horizon but God has wonderful news for us. When we fall down into our personal flaming furnace we get to meet Jesus there in the fire!

“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 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/dan.3.25.NKJV

Who we Worship

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Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only you shall serve.’” Matthew 4:10 NKJV

Who we worship, and not how we worship, is what determines the destiny of our lives. Who we really worship will be revealed when we are put in the fire and tested. In the book of Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego told king Nebuchadnezzar, that no matter the consequences, they would not worship His golden image. They would not obey his command because they reserved worship

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for God alone. Because they dared to refuse the king’s command God walked with them in the fiery furnace and the king became a worshiper too! In the middle of my own problems and difficulties who am I worshiping today?