Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were thrown into the fiery furnace because of their refusal to bow. That shows that they had a boldness about them that refused to bow to the enemy. BUT that situation was about far more than 3 men thrown into a fiery situation and coming out unharmed!! I can use my sanctified imagination to see how that would cause them to go to a whole other level of confidence and walking out their God given authority!!!
Having the boldness to not bow is important, but our lives are about so much more than merely not bowing. It takes a boldness to not bow yes, but can all those who choose not to BOW also WALK in strength??
We have to walk in our destiny! Walk in our authority! Walk in our boldness! God will often use fiery situations in our lives to refine us and mold our character!
After consulting with genius "Google" :) The tempering process is a process of heat treating, which is used to increase the toughness of iron-based alloys. Tempering is usually performed after hardening, to reduce some of the excess hardness, and is done by heating the metal to some temperature below the critical point for a certain period of time, then allowing it to cool in still air. The exact temperature determines the amount of hardness removed, and depends on both the specific composition of the alloy and on the desired properties in the finished product.
This world can make parts of us and our spirits hard, so God uses His process to soften us, but how completely amazing that His softening is also strengthening!!!
God knows which situations to allow us to walk through, how long to leave us there before reaching the critical point and how long we must remain to get the desired result. His presence was with those three men IN the furnace. He didn't let them walk through it alone. He won't let us either.
While we may not get thrown into actual fire, we STILL go through our own fiery situations TODAY! But we are never alone and my oh my the authority, tenaciousness, and boldness we will walk out with!!
Chosen ones, today instead of complaining about the fire, let's embrace what God is doing in us in this time. Let the refining process work and walk out ON FIRE for God without even smelling like smoke!! People are watching us in our fire and they're waiting to see how we'll walk out! Remember Nebuchadnezzar's response??
Taken from Daniel 3 -
"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.
29 Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.
"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.
29 Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.
30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, in the province of Babylon."
Their fiery situation made a believer out of the very authority that placed them there and caused them to be promoted!! Will we let the fire mold or break us??
Let's walk out changed! Stronger! And ready to go!!!
