{"id":25244,"date":"2023-06-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/?p=25244"},"modified":"2023-06-05T14:06:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T04:06:16","slug":"prove-yourself-faithful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/twft\/prove-yourself-faithful\/","title":{"rendered":"Prove Yourself Faithful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u2018There is no other god who can deliver like this.\u2019 Daniel\u00a03:29\u00a0NKJV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The story of the three Hebrew children in the fiery furnace teaches us these four lessons:<\/p>\n<p>(1)<i> Doing God\u2019s will can land you in trouble. <\/i>Don\u2019t expect the world to appreciate you. Look at Jesus: <i>\u2018In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.\u2019<\/i> (John\u00a01:4\u20135\u00a0NKJV)<\/p>\n<p>(2)<i> God will be with you in your trouble. <\/i>When Nebuchadnezzar looked into the fire, he said, <i>\u2018I 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.\u2019<\/i> (Daniel\u00a03:25\u00a0NKJV) Instead of destroying them, the fire destroyed the ropes that bound them, setting them free. Be encouraged! It may look like circumstances have you locked in, but God is going to vindicate you. He will clear your name and bring you out victoriously.<\/p>\n<p>(3)<i> It\u2019s your trouble that produces your testimony. <\/i>People are watching you. The things they\u2019re trusting in don\u2019t work, and they\u2019re wondering if what you\u2019re trusting in does. Your faithfulness to God and His intervention on your behalf will touch their lives in ways your theology never will. Everyone in Babylon knew what the Hebrew children believed. But they wanted to know, \u2018Does it work when you\u2019re in the fire?\u2019 It does!<\/p>\n<p>(4)<i> The greater your trouble, the greater your blessing. \u2018Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego in the province of Babylon.\u2019<\/i> (Daniel\u00a03:30\u00a0NKJV) Here is a Scriptural principle you can count on: when you prove yourself faithful in times of trouble, God will promote you to higher levels of blessing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/soulfood\/todays-readings-10Jun2023\/\">SoulFood<\/a>: Rev 15-18, Matt 16:13-28, Ps 132:1-10, Pro 13:4-6<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"color: #41423d; font-family: arial, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 18px;\">The Word for Today<\/em><span style=\"color: #41423d; font-family: arial, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 18px;\"> is authored by Bob and Debby Gass and published under licence from UCB International Copyright \u00a9 2023<\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018There is no other god who can deliver like this.\u2019 Daniel\u00a03:29\u00a0NKJV The story of the three Hebrew children in the fiery furnace teaches us these four lessons: (1) Doing God\u2019s will can land you in trouble. Don\u2019t expect the world to appreciate you. Look at Jesus: \u2018In Him was life, and the life was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[200,49,201,202,47],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucbasiapacific.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}