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12-30-2008, 04:30 AM
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Are You in the Fire?
Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. (Daniel 3:30)
The story of these three Hebrew children, Shadfrach, Meshach and Abednego, in the fiery furnace makes us realise four things: (1) Obeying God doesn't exempt you from trouble. Don't expect the world to always understand or appreciate you. Look at Christ: "In Him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it" (John 1:4-5 NIV). (2) You're not alone, God is with you in your trouble. When King Nebuchadnezzar looked into the fiery furnace he said, "I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods" (Daniel 3:25 NIV). Instead of destroying them, the fire burned the ropes that bound them and set them free. So be encouraged. It may feel like you're 'bound by circumstances', limited and locked in, but God is with you; He's going to vindicate you and bring you out of this victorious. (3) Your trouble will become your testimony. Others are watching. What they're trusting in doesn't work, and they're wondering if what you're trusting in does. Your faithfulness to God and His intervention on your behalf will touch their lives in ways your theology never will. Everybody in Babylon knew what the three Hebrew children believed, but they wanted to know, "Does it work when you're in the fire?" It does! (4) On the other side of your trouble, there's great blessing. "Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the province of Babylon." It's a Scriptural principle: when you are faithful in a hard place, God can trust you in a high place. .............................................. 
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12-30-2008, 08:12 AM
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DJ; What a blessing this message was to me this morning.. Thank you for this!!
Love Bon
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LOVE & HUGS Admin Bonnie   LET US ALL COME TOGETHER AND GROW IN THE LORD! 1 Corinthians 9:19 - 23 (NIV) Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law. To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some. I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.  If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. ( 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 
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