Praise the Lord Church! Today's Church service is all about the power of God.
Today we are going to look at three stories about the power of God. The three
Hebrew boys Esther and Daniel in the lion's den. Today's main scripture says,
God has not given me a spirit of fear but a power of love and a strong mind. With
the three Hebrew boys they had a choice to either bow to Nebuchadnezzar to an
earthly king or worship the one and only true living God. They decided that even
if God does not deliver us from this fiery furnace we are going to choose to
bow to one God and that is God Almighty. And even as they were tied up and
thrown into the fiery furnace God was with them and he showed up with them in
the fire and this was a disfigurative this was literal and most importantly
when King Nebuchadnezzar saw in the fire four instead of three he said the
fourth one looks as if it's God and as they went out of the fiery furnace they
came out not tied up but walking freely and they weren't burned they were intact
they did not even smell like smoke. That is the power of God and we see most
importantly that God was with them and just as God was with them he is with us
as well. His presence is abiding with us. Also with Esther Esther had to save her
people because Haman was going to kill all the Jews and Mordecai told her to go
before the king so that she could rescue her people but Esther got afraid
because she said I have not been summoned and if I go before the king I can
get killed but Mordecai reassured her and told her this maybe you were born for
such a time as this and she prayed to God knowing that God would help her and
she went before the king and the king held out his golden staff to her and she
was able to rescue her people and that is how she activated her faith by putting
it into action. And last but not least Daniel Daniel had a choice to either to
pray to the king or pray to God Almighty and he decided that he was going to
place his faith in the one true living God and the king was torn because Daniel
was his most trusted advisor and he said I'm gonna have to put you in the lion's
den but Daniel said this my God will deliver me it shows that Daniel had a
firm foundation in God and even though that he was placed into the lion's den
he still trusted God knowing that God would deliver him and the next day the
king went out and moved the stone from the lion's den and asked Daniel Daniel
has your God delivered you and Daniel called out yes my God has delivered me
and we see with Daniel is that he placed his faith in God knowing that God would
deliver him he places firm foundation in God knowing that God is in control so
our boys today are one the presence of God God was with the three Hebrew boys
in the fiery furnace and we all go through fires in our life so today do
you need God's presence to be with you whatever you're going through whether
it's bullying family issues school God will be with you always number two
activate just like Esther she activated her face putting it into action so is
there anything you need to do today that God is telling you to activate your
faith and go knowing that he is with you and number three firm foundation
Daniel experienced the power of God in his life even in the lion's den so is
there anything today that you're going through that you need to place your firm
foundation in Christ knowing that Christ has the power so if you have a
personal relationship with Jesus Christ then this message will help you but if
you don't have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ then I invite you to
give your heart to the Lord today to receive him into your heart go to Romans
10 9 through 10 it says if you confess we are mouth the Lord Jesus and believe
in your heart that God has raised him from the dead you will be saved but with
the heart when believes onto righteousness and with the mouth confession is
made on to salvation if you said this prayer with sincerity you are saved and
now have eternal life with Jesus you are saved from all your sins past present
and future sins you may commit now this truth is not a free pass to sin anytime
instead Jesus gives you power over all wrong choices and empowers you to spread
the gospel to others you are saved forever and your name is written in the
book of life