Mobile Daily Devotional With Pst. Fakunle Emmanuel
Week 22, Day 6
Friday, 4 June, 2021.
TOPIC: SHOWING FORTH GOD’S PRAISE
Memory Verse: 1 Peter 2:9 (NIV)
“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”
Bible Reading: Daniel 3:16-18
“16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. 17 If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. 18 But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.”
OUR WALK OF FAITH
Our faith in God is a vital way of showing the praise of God. Faith in the ability of God. Faith in what God can change. Faith in His words towards you. Faith that still speak even in midst of challenges and difficulties. Faith is the ability to believe in what God said about you even when all situations are against it. With complete faith in God praise belongs to God.
The three Hebrews walked in faith against the king and his image. They stood their ground even when the fiery furnace was to be increased again them. They were slaves in a foreign land but they held unto their faith and in the God they served. They told the king, our faith doesn’t permit us to bow to your golden image, it’s an abomination to our God to bow before any other god. At the end of it all, God was praised. The king saw the son of God in the fiery furnace and made a decree as follow,
“28 Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, who sent His Angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him, and they have frustrated the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they should not serve nor worship any god except their own God! 29 Therefore I make a decree that any people, nation, or language which speaks anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made an ash heap; because there is no other God who can deliver like this.”
Can your faith announce God to others? Can your faith bring God Praise? Your faith should be able to lift the down casted not to depress them the more. Others should notice your faith in God and follow suit.
Father in Heaven, help my faith grow in you in order to show forth your praise daily, so help me lord Jesus, Amen.
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