The True Confidence From The Living Lord

A nice gentleman who runs the ranch took us on this tour

. His name is John. And John walks us down this walkway where all of these giant birds, standing seven to eight feet tall, weighing 300 to 400 pounds, were hissing at us, walking right up to us and kind of stomping their feet.

They can kill a man with one kick. The are the second fastest animal behind a cheetah, I didn't realize that. And we watched these ostrich, and they are fascinating birds. But this man who told us that an ostrich can kill you like that, I watched him jump in a pen with a male and a female ostrich, 800 pounds of ostrich, and he was confident. He kind of patted the birds, he knew exactly where to move. And then he just climbed out of the pen. I said, "John, how did you do that? You were telling me all these horror stories about how ostrich kill people left and right, how did you do it?" He said, "Ed, it's simple. I have a plan beforehand.

I have a plan before I go into the pen." Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, they were confident because they had a plan before this moment, before they hit the fiery furnace, before they faced Nebuchadnezzar. They didn't say, "Oh boy, I better plan now, let me see what will I do, it's getting difficult." They didn't. They were ready. Do you have, though, a disposition of confidence? Can you say that? Look back at your outline. They were not worried about what would happen to them. And they said, "If we are thrown into the flaming furnace, our God is able to deliver us and He will deliver us out of your hands." Confidence when you face the fire.

Don't allow your circumstances to cause you to compromise. Verse 18 tells us this. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego continue to say in unison, "But, if He doesn't, please understand, sir, that even then we will never under any circumstances serve your gods or worship the golden statue you have erected."

They were not going to do it. They were not going to let the circumstances cause them to compromise. What a word to you and me. A lot of times we get into certain circumstances and we compromise who we are. We have a vocabulary at the office and a vocabulary in Fellowship Church Grapevine , we have things we do with our college friends and things we do with our church friends.

by: Ed Young

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