Isaiah 43:2 ‘When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned or scorched, nor will the flame kindle upon you’

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Job 29-31, Psalm 142
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Richard Wurmbrand was a Romanian pastor who experienced imprisonment and torture by the Communist regime of Romania. While in prison, they broke four vertebrae in his back, and many other bones. They carved him in a dozen places and cut eighteen holes in his body.

After his release in 1965, the next year in 1966, Pastor Richard Wurmbrand was invited to testify before the U.S Senate subcommittee about the evils of communism. As he stood before them, he shocked everyone when he removed his shirt to show his scars from years of torture. He pointed to 18 deep scars in his neck and the numerous cuttings and carvings all over his back and body.

These were the marks he had received as punishment for preaching the Gospel. While in the prison, sometimes, Pastor Wurmbrand would be beaten till he lost consciousness. Many died in these prisons, but somehow God gave Wurmbrand the grace to always persevere. Amazingly, in the midst of these suffering, Pastor Wurmbrand and the other Christian prisoners, would still sing praises to God.
They turned the chains that bound their hands and feet into musical instruments, banging it on the floor joyfully as they sang songs of praise. Finally in 1965, Christians paid a $10,000 ransom to the Romanian government to purchase the freedom of Wurmbrand and his family. When they were flown out of Romania and brought to Norway, doctors seeing all his wounds and the scars in his lungs from tuberculosis, declared that his being alive was a miracle, he should have been dead years ago, yet God kept him. He lived to be 91 years and died on Feb. 17, 2000.

In Daniel 3, the three Hebrew boys refused to bow down to the gods of Babylon, and as a result of their defiance of the king’s order, they were thrown into the fiery furnace. However, right there in the fire, the fourth man, the Son of God, showed up and delivered them from the furnace. The faith of every true believer will be tested, one way or the other.

Though we may not pass through torture or imprisonment, situations will often come to test the strength of our belief and convictions. Non conformity to the world’s ways, and continuing to stand for righteousness will attract persecutions. The decision to be honest in business, in your office and other dealings may not go down well with everyone. The choice to live holy and righteous in a crooked and perverse generation will attract mockery and oppositions.

However, no matter what you may face, always be assured that God is able to pull you out of any fiery furnace. In Isaiah 43:2 God says, ‘When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned or scorched, nor will the flame kindle upon you’. No matter what is trying to force you to bow today, refuse to conform.

Rather continue to obey God and follow His Word. Even when you face trials, always know you are never alone. God is there with you and He will never allow you to burn. Strengthen your heart through in-depth study of God’s Word, stand strong in faith and continue to praise God in every situation. As you do, the fourth man will certainly show up to rescue you from every fire of affliction.

PRAYER: Lord, please strengthen me through Your Word and grant me the grace not to bow or conform to the ways of the world. Through faith, I shall continue to stand strong and obey Your Word at all times in Jesus Name.

QUOTE: “True success is not verifiable in the fact that a man has never fallen before, but rather in the fact that he did not only fall but also got up” – WORDBITE 222.

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