Through The Fire

Don’t let distractions keep you from reading and confessing God’s Word. Know for certain that God will honor your faith at the point where it is developed. Since faith can grow, continue to build on the faith you now have so that your next walk through the fire won’t take so long and the victory will be greater. Believe Phil. 4:13 which says, “I can do all things through Christ Who strengthens me.”

Say, “Yet in all these things I am more than a conqueror through Him Who loved us” Rom. 8:37.

Be convinced in your heart that God is on your side and He is bigger than any problem you have. Let the peace of God rule in your inner man during your times of struggle.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the presence of God.

The Amplified© version of Is. 59:19b says,“When the enemy came in, like a flood the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him and put him to flight - for He will come like a rushing stream which the breath of the Lord drives.”

In Paul’s final letter before his death, he tells Timothy, “Yes, and all who desire to live Godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution” 2 Tim. 3:12.

When tests and trials come Jesus tells us to, “Rejoice in that day and leap for joy! For indeed your reward is great in heaven…”Luke 6:23a.

Satan cannot stand the sound of praise, and giving glory to God in the midst of the fire is the quickest way to make the devil shut up. 

Giving praise to God during a test or trial will be the last thing many of us will want to do, but we must do it anyway. This is what is called a “sacrifice of praise” Heb. 13:15.

Give praise to God when something goes wrong, even if you don’t feel like it. Continually making a “sacrifice of praise” will touch the heart of God more than anything we know. This is faith in action.

When you do this you are not focusing on the circumstances around you, but rather on your Heavenly Father and the Lord Jesus

Christ.

From a dungeon cell Paul wrote, “Rejoice in the Lord always - delight, gladden yourselves in Him; again I say, Rejoice!” Phil. 4:4.

The Greek word for “rejoice” means to ‘brighten up, leap, and spin around.’ When trials come don’t look sad and gloomy. Put a smile on your face and brighten up! Stand in your living room and begin to jump up and down. Leap for joy! Spin around as you’re leaping and make a joyful noise unto the Lord. “This is not normal,” you might say. Of course it’s not. That’s way we’re called a “peculiar

people” 1 Peter 2:9.

The bottom line is that it works. As you praise God in this fashion and continue to confess what the Word says about your situation, all of a sudden God will get bigger and bigger in your heart, and the obstacle will get smaller and smaller. And before you know it, you will exit from the other end of the furnace of affliction having successfully passed through the fire.Rejoice during the times of

your struggle because, “The joy of the Lord is your strength” Neh. 8:10.

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