Be Encouraged In Your Faith
Beloveth be ecncouraged in your faith walk, whatever may be the challenge, trial, and tribulation you are going through, with a situation or circumstance that appears impossible which you think you CANNOT CHANGE!, turn it over to God like the three Hebrew brothers/servants of the Most High God, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Maybe you have been waiting for a long time for an answer to your prayers : For your residence permit, a job, mariage partner, or a breakthrough in your finances, your business, your academic pursuit, or a turnaround in your turbulent mariage relationship, or even the healing of your body that you have been praying, and fasting believing God for a positive change, yet there is no solution to your problem. Be encouraged right there where you are! Refuse to bow down to the situation or circumstance! Hold on to God Almighty, the God that turns around impossible situations! Hold on to His Word like the three Hebrew brothers, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, and the Lord God, the Fourth Man in the midst of the burning fiery furnace will intervane in your situation, with the solution to your problem. (Daniel 3: 16-30).
And His name will be glorified as you trust Him without wavering! It's REAL from the point of view of the writer's personal experience, BE ENCOURAGED in your faith walk!
Daniel 3: 16-30
16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar , we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
20 And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
21 Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
22 Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.
25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire.
27 And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.
28 Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
29 Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.
30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the province of Babylon
Beloveth Be Encouraged in your faith :
The scripture tells us how the Amalekites invaded South of Ziklag, burnt it with fire and took captive women and children, including David's wives, sons and daughters, as well as those of David's men. As a result, David and his men wept, being in great distress! Then King David encouraged himself in the LORD his God, as he enquired of the Lord, if he should pursue after his enemies the Amalekites, and the Lord God encouraged David, assured him of victory over the Amalekites. David and his men (400 men) pursued after the Amalekites, overtook them, slaughtered them š„and recovered all that were stollen from David and his men.
*** Beloveth maybe the enemy the Amalekites have come and invaded your home, your territory and stollen your belongings... Whatever maybe the situation, whatever the enemy, the Amalekites have stolen from you can be recovered with the help of the Holy Spirit! 1Samuel 30:8 says : And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all. Beloveth just bring the problem before the Lord God like David did! As David encouraged himself in the Lord, he enquired of the Lord God, and the Lord assured David of His divine interventionš„to help David and his men to pursue, overtake, and recover all. Alleluia!. Beloveth, the same God that David trusted is your God, He has not changed! If He did it for David and his men, He Will do it for you ! Don't give up, thinking it is impossible to recover whatever you lost to the enemy which is your legal right in Christ Jesus! Be Encouraged in your faith! Beloveth, notice how a simple act of compassion which David and his men showed to the Egyptian that revived the spirit of the young man that was fainting, (1Samuel 30:11-12). Therefore, in the midst of your challenges, remember those around you that need help and don't be withdrawn to your problems, saying let me get my problems sorted first! As you reach out to other people in need the Lord God will send you helpers. (1Samuel 30:1-19).
*** From personal experience of the writer, your FAITH in God/God's Word Will see you through, therefore don't be discouraged. Remember God honours our Acts of Faith like he did with King David who trusted and encouraged himself in the Lord, as he enquired of God to know if he should pursure after his enemies the Amalekites. Be Encouraged!
1Samuel 30: 1-19
1 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;
2 And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way.
3 So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives.
4 Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
5 And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.
8 And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.
9 So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.
10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.
11 And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;
12 And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.
13 And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.
14 We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.
15 And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company.
16 And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
17 And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.
19 And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor any thing that they had taken to them: David recovered all.