15 I’ll give you one more chance. When the music plays, if you fall down and worship the statue, all will be well. But if you refuse, you will be thrown into a flaming furnace within the hour. And what god can deliver you out of my hands then?”
16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not worried about what will happen to us. 17 If we are thrown into the flaming furnace, our God is able to deliver us; and he will deliver us out of your hand, Your Majesty. Daniel 3:15-17 TLB
I love all scripture that is declarative, boasting about our God and His abilities.
The moment where you boast about how big your God is and how small your situation has now become. Sometimes we minimize our God when raving about our circumstances. But how about we minimize our circumstances and rave about our God?
Pastor Tim Delina says it this way, "To have faith in God is to believe He is and who He said He is. Faith honors God and God honors faith. Faith cashes God’s checks(prayer). Faith in God will not get you everything you want, but it will get you everything God wants for you.” -
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were saved from that fiery furnace indeed. God showed up and walked them out. Their faith and declaration became the declaration of the entire nation. In Daniel 1 when they chose not to eat from the king’s table they saw God for themselves, not the God they simply read about but the God they had experienced with their own eyes. They knew God’s power, His ability to sustain and His consistency to deliver. That is how they knew that God was able.
Takeaway Statement: Numbers 23:16 “God is not a man, one given to lies and not a son of man changing his mind. Does he speak and not do what he says? Does he promise and not come through?” His faithfulness in the past is His resume’ for your future.