Great Opportunity Granted by God Daniel 3: 12, 24-30

Read the passage Daniel 3

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1)  God allows His servants to enter into great witnessing fields through unusual and extreme life circumstances.                                            

12 There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.

2)  God is writing His story in His servant’s lives and reproofing lost men.            

24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, 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.

3)  God’s servants trust God, walking by faith, and God takes care of all the details.                                                                                                            

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.

4) God’s power protects and preserves His will, His servants, His way.      

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.

5)  Wise servants wait for and anticipate God to reveal Himself in His unmistakable way. V 27

6) Conformity to God’s will and way follows.                                         

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.

7)  Earthly blessings as well as the greater heavenly blessings accrue to God’s servants in faith and obedience to God.                                  

30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the province of Babylon.