God Shows Up!! Always!!
It sometimes appears that everything you have been believing for and hoping for has been firmly placed completely outside your grasp. You have prayed and sought God for answers and direction. You have told God exactly what it is that you need and want for Him to do and you wake up again and everything is still the same. You begin another day allowing yourself to wonder why nothing has changed. You, if you are like me, sometimes begin an argument with God that goes something like this- “Have you not even heard my pleas? Do You even see what I’m going through? Am I not praying loud enough? Are my cries just bouncing off the ceiling and coming back unnoticed?”
Sound familiar?
Well, Praise be to God that you and I have not been the first or the last to go through similar things. Even some of The Heroes of Faith in the Bible suffered similar circumstances. We can look to see how God worked in them and the miracles that took place and lay claim to having the same God deliver the same outcome to us.
Although there are many stories where God has come through, I want to focus on just this one situation.
Daniel 3 NKJV
This is the familiar story of three men Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego. When King Nebuchadnezzar had created a golden image that he required all throughout the land would bow and worship or they would be killed. But the three men, who were set over the affairs of the Israelites, refused to worship the idol. The King ordered them bound and thrown into the furnace which burned so hot it killed the men who threw them in. But as we most assuredly know that they were saved because they didn’t surrender to the temptations presented by the world, but continued to believe that God wouldn’t let them down.
Daniel 3:24-25 (NKJV)
“Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and 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."”
We can be certain that God is with us in the midst of our struggles and suffering. Yes, just about the time we are ready to throw in the towel, God shows up!
2 Peter 3:9 (NKJV)
“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”
“You are Loved!”- Pastor Ron ❤️
