428 Tap Into Power

God does his greatest work in the face of the impossible. Show me your impossible and I’ll show you the area of your life primed for God’s intervention. Are you ready for God to intervene? Are you ready for him to rescue you from your mess? This is what God wanted me to tell you today – IF YOU WILL BE FAITHFUL, GOD WILL RESCUE YOU. IT IS YOUR CONTINUED FAITH IN THE FACE OF DANGER, DISASTER AND DOUBTFUL THAT SUMMONS GOD’S GREATEST WORKS. But here’s what we typically do in the face of danger, disaster and doubtful, we play pitiful. We replay the story over and over again in our head of how unfair life has been. We tell our sob story to everyone who will listen. We recount the ways it has gone wrong and plan for the ways it will continue to go wrong. And we begin believing that somehow this is all our almighty, powerful, relentless God has for us. That somehow you are unworthy of the miraculous in your own life, but you’ve seen it in the lives of others. Where is there danger in your life? A serious threat to your family or your future. It’s a reality you’re too scared to even look at. Where is there disaster in your life? A real mess you can’t quite see your way out of. A mess that only seems to be getting worse. Where is it now doubtful in your life? All good reasoning and common sense says this isn’t going to end well. It’s too late. It’s too far gone. It’s just doubtful. If you will be faithful in the face of your dangerous disaster … if you will be faithful when it all looks so doubtful … God will be pulled like a magnet to do his greatest work. You remember the story of Daniel in the lion’s den, right? That was a dangerous disaster that looked mighty doubtful. This morning, let’s look closer at this story and remember God can be trusted, even when we feel everything has been lost. Even when we feel everyone is against us, God is for us. And our God is willing to pull off the impossible for us. Daniel was a good man. He worked hard, he did a good job and he was liked by the King. Seems life should go grand for good ol’ Daniel. But how many of us know that’s not the way life always goes. Our success often attracts jealousy. And when people get jealous they do stupid stuff. Well let me tell you what stupid stuff these jealous people did. The other men working for the King hated how Daniel was favored. His success was a threat to them. And the fact that Daniel was so obedient to his God angered them. They noticed that 3 times a day Daniel would bow down and worship God and they would use this against him. If you think for one minute you won’t come under attack if you’re doing everything right, think again sister. Haven’t you heard, new levels new devils? The better you get at living well, the bigger the attack to bring you down. So these jealous men convince the King that he should decree anyone who bowed down and worshiped anyone other than the King himself should be thrown in a pit of lions. The King liked the sound of this and made this a new law. Daniel continued to stop 3 times every day and worship his God. He continued to be faithful. Now you think this wasn’t hard for him? You think there wasn’t some internal conflict over the right thing and the easier thing? Of course there was. And there will be for us too. Will you keep doing the right thing when the wrong people are watching? And if you do, what will happen to you? So Daniel was caught breaking the law and thrown into the pit with lions. Understand this, the King liked Daniel, he didn’t want to do this to him, but his law was clear. In Daniel 6:16 the King said to Daniel, “May your God, whom you serve continually, rescue you!” And you likely know how the story goes. God sent his angel, and he shut the mouths of the lions.