If You’ve got the Word You’ve got The guts Part II

 Daniel 3:1-28, John 1:1-14

God needs your guts! This isn’t your best shot! You can do better than this! Jesus rebuilt the temple in three days! Excellent and outstanding architects cannot even do a design in three days! TALKLESS OF A BUILDING! Designing a massive place takes at least six months – a “WOW” mega structure. Building it takes more time. I don’t know what Jesus was thinking when He said THREE DAYS! The efficacy, integrity and power of God’s words can do what you cannot do in THREE DAYS! Nobody can come back and claim that there is a defect in the building because whatever the Lord does is done perfectly!

That’s why I KNOW THAT I KNOW THAT I KNOW that God is speaking a new word to somebody reading this blog RIGHT NOW! And in three days, you’re going to testify about what you didn’t have! Hey! That’s why your neighbour is busy slam docking and shouting – because he knows it only takes God three days!

If you, reader, have a word, then you got to have some guts! Guts to step on the word, guts to do what you couldn’t do… you know, I realise that God can speak and speak and speak! But all you need is some GUTS and GUTS and GUTS! The “Word” doesn’t do things the way you do things naturally; what you couldn’t build in two and a half years, it builds in three days! Until you come to the unity of faith and your spirit is one with Him, you will not get the best from God. You don’t even need to know so much in the word of God; all you need is to BELIEVE!

Each time you come across a prophecy in the word of God, you see, “...that it might be fulfilled.” That’s why I know that God is not going to bless you more than what he has written to you. ONCE has He spoken; TWICE have I heard. MMmmm… you can as well shout “YEEES” reader!!! Go get yourself some guts!

I borrowed from Hananiah, Mishel and Azariah (whom you may call Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego though these were not their original names, so sorry to burst your bubble) and some of us may see a religion in their story. But it was actually a challenge against the word of God. Their law forbade them to bow to ANY graven image but now they were under the servitude of Nebuchadnezzar who was a despotic monarch with the power of life and death. You couldn’t just say you were not going to bow to whatever image he set up. Remember that the bible says in the words of a king lies power. Watch Nebuchadnezzar’s words go out in that scripture. And any disobedience attracts a certain penalty.

I’m actually glad that the graven image/goddess wasn’t named – it could have been named unemployment, singleness, same salary scale – and that’s exactly what happened. These guys were asked to bow once they heard the “choir’s instrumentals”. Nebuchadnezzar did this so that he could elevate himself above the word of God; remember what Paul told us about ANYTHING that tries to elevate itself more than the word of God. God’s word is YES and AMEN and so, he brings them to nothing! His word is too living and too active not to believe in! It literally pierces too fast for you not to feel it! What was facing these men was an imagination that was placing itself above the word of God.

Hananiah, Mishel and Azariah looked at themselves because they were told by the “king” in their lives to bow in order to get to their next level. Daniel was busy administrating over the affairs of Babylon because he had a gift which made a way for him. In other words, their mentor wasn’t around. So they decided to have some guts to do what the word of God said. With guts you would have bought the car, started the ministry, written the book, bought that land, and married that girl!

Neb invited everybody around – the princes, princesses, administrators, chief of army staff and everybody to the plain of Durah. He told them to bow once they heard the sounds of music which was exactly what happened. Everybody there, including the Israelites in captivity bowed to the image of Nebuchadnezzar. ANYONE who failed to bow was going to be thrown into the fiery furnace. I wish these guys didn’t know the consequences, but yet they knew and still didn’t bow.

There are certain consequences some of you readers may face if you do not do it the way “they” want you to do it. If you don’t have a first class or a 2(1), you don’t get some jobs. But how many people have guts even when they know that thing isn’t right? As far as there is a word, then there are some guts! Shadrach knew that if death did not hold Jesus down, nobody can hold him down! Meshach knew that he was already crucified with Christ but nevertheless he lives!

You should speak the things that are not as though they were! You should be a talking spirit, a talkative god! Faith is coming out of somebody’s mouth like a double-edged sword. On the island of Patmos, John didn’t see any word come out of Jesus’ mouth; he saw a sword! Somebody reading this: I prophesy that in three days, you’re going to speak like you’ve never spoken before! You have the guts to speak! To start the business! To go to nations for Him!

People wondered how I did it back on campus. They didn’t know that what you see is not what you get! What you see and what you get are two different things! Man looks at the outward, but God looks at the heart. If you got the heart of a champion then I DOUBLE DARE you to do stuff with the word! Don’t just hear and believe; DO IT!

The three boys entered that furnace of fire with the Son of God! When it was time to penalize them, they were brought out of hundreds and millions of people and condemned them to death for their failure to bow. But they looked at the king and said, “We are not careful of what we are about to tell you!” Some of you readers are still on the same level because you are anxious for something:

“How am I going to get married at 29?”

“How will I get a job when I passed out 10 years ago?”

You calculate too much for God! But God wants us to believe anything like children! I don’t know about you but I got some guts about what God has told me, and I am going to do stuff! It’s a lot to roll with someone like me, and that’s because when I do the word and you don’t, then I become a threat to you and you may not like me anymore. The truth is I AM NOT CALCULATING AND YOU ARE!

The furnace was boiling hot! Women were already in tears! Their fellow Israelites came to them and said, “All you have to do is bow!” But they had some guts from their faith! People marvelled at the things I could do especially when I was on campus and they checked my faith. But guts is nothing when you don’t know the consequences of the fire in front of you. These three guys were bound in a manner that they couldn’t escape the seven-times-hotter fire and they were cast right in!

READER!!! The hotness is a symptom that somebody is challenging your dream. YES! That dream is the devil’s reason for harassing you with a furnace, BUT THE WORD IS GONNA SHOW UP IN THE FURNACE OF YOUR LIFE! You have this TREASURE in earthen vessel – not the talent, not the gift, but the WORD of God!

Nobody can call you sick because by His stripes you are healed. Nobody can call you broke! You’re made rich through His poverty!

These guys were thrown in bound and while the Babylonians expected the smell of ashes, the king himself came to the furnace, not knowing that he was about to see the King of Glory! And from where he stood, he saw Hananiah, Mishel and Azariah but there was an appearance of one more Person – the Word of God! The fourth man! The Son of God! Nebuchadnezzar said, “Come and see what I see!” It’s okay for some people to look down on you as far as there is a fourth man. People are so used to three dimensions of things but hey! Here comes the fourth!

They were struck down but not destroyed! And that’s because they were with the fourth man. The fourth man is a High priest who is toughed wit the feeling of our infirmity. As the Monogenes, He will go down and bring us up together with Him! even if it is seven times hotter, He is life!

Nebuchadnezzar asked how many men were cast into the furnace. How many of them did we give a job? How many of them have a disease? How many of them ……! They told him three men were cast into the furnace but he said he saw a fourth man! Sometimes, we need to allow the word of God give us some crazy confidence. These guys were walking in the furnace! We need to learn how to walk in our fire because we have a WORD that will take us out! Nebuchadnezzar didn’t see Jesus but he saw something he couldn’t deny! God wants not just believers but UNBELIEVERS to testify about us.

The fires we go through don’t matter! What matters is the flow that comes out of our belly. God will not give us a word and leave us there! That word is enough for us. So come out WITHOUT THE SMELL OF FIRE! The only thing the fire did for them was to remove their shackles…!!! So when you come out of this fire, the shackles would have gone and the jobs would have come, the marriage would have happened.

STOP READING AND SHOUT – “I GOT GUTS! IN THE NAME OF JESUS!!!”

Just look to the hills from whence cometh your GUTS!