How are you coping with the situation you are in now? Are you excited about it? Well, no one can be excited about being in a problem, situation, event or something detrimental to their health. No one can be happy in a trial. “Yes, Lord give me more!” No one can be like that. The disposition we go through now is how we handle it in our mindset towards God. “God why are You doing this?” we ask. Sometimes we get into the groves of life (every life is not a straight line) not knowing how far one point is from another. We get upset and ask God “why am I going through this,” or “why did this person get blessed even though they did wrong, yet I do good and nothing works out?”
We have to ask God to help us to discipline ourselves enough not to look at the outcome of other peoples situations or goals, but focus on our own. Our outcomes are totally different from those of others.What they are headed for is something else. What you’re heading for, God has already designed. In order to get to that, you have to go through this, that and this again. You can’t come out of anywhere and be a saved, strong child of God or even a pastor, without having experienced anything. We’ve not gone through testing on love, hatred, being faithful to the people and men of God, caring for the things of God, yet we want to counsel or help someone to go through something that we have never experienced or something simular. It won’t be effective. So we have to evaluate in our own minds when we see people with new cars and nice thing, who seem to have a wonderful family life, etc, even though we know they aren’t living a life in Christ, or don’t even believe in God, yet they are blessed.
In this world today, we’re standing in the midst of the way to go. We don’t know where to go. The kings and rulers of this world are making laws and statutes that are against every law of God to the point that our very fibers of existence are shaken. We have our President declaring that the United States is not a Christian nation, when historically, it was founded in Christianity. In this day, laws are being made to suit the flesh. It will come upon the children of God to make a decision. Will that effect your life? Yes, as a Child of God, it will effect your life. Look at your mindset in that decision state. How are you coping in your mindset with what decision is being made? Will you give over just because of the President? God says, Let God be true, and every man a liar. If God says its wrong, then whom are you going to listen to?
Joshua 24:15
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve theLord.
This should be the banner and cry for every Child of God, regardless of what any President or ruler says.
How long shall we have this thought of indecision in our walk with God, how long shall we stay in the midst of our decision, being upset with God, how long shall we go through hurt and pain, saying to ourselves “I’m tired of going through,” how long shall we be what we are when God wants us to be better than where we are at? We need to understand that only His mercy and grace is keeping us where we’re at.
Let’s take a look at the story of Daniel:
Daniel 6:1-7
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage.Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm. Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him. Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God. Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever. All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
Daniel prayed 3 times a day, what was going on here was a set- up. If the King declared something, it was carried out regardless of family members or beloved ones.
Daniel 6:8-10
Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree. Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
Daniel knew whom He served. Not Darius or other princes, he served God.
Daniel 6:11-28
Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God. Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king’s decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day. Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him. Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed. Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee. And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel. Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him. Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions. And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions? Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever. My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt. Then was the king exceedingly glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God. And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den. Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you. I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end. He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions. So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
In Daniel’s decision about what he was going through, what he should think and how he should do, before he went into the den he made a declaration that God would protect him. This is the way we’re supposed to take it. “I’m going through, I’m going through.” This is how you, we, me, every Child of God should be. They’re taking all the Children of God and putting them in camps. Should we go in saying, no I’m going to fight against it, or should we go in saying ok, my God will deliver me? We will all come to a point when we will be in the lion’s den.
How you operate in what you’re going through, and your disposition, in your situation; how you handle it will determine how God will deliver you. When you going through, go through with the outcome of a victorious spirit, not a spirit of defeat.