Threaded – Week 8
Daniel 3:1-29
Threads to the story:
- The Pressure of culture
- The Power of community
- The Peace that comes from confidence in God
- The Promise of suffering
Promises about suffering:
- It’s invertible
People are born for trouble as readily as sparks fly up from a fire.Job 5:7
12 Dear friends, don’t be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you.1 Peter 4:12
- Suffering will refine you.
7 These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.1 Peter 1:7
- If you trust in me, I will be walking with you in the furnace.
When you go through deep waters,I will be with you.When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown.When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you.Isaiah 43:2
Next Steps
- Choose to grow through what you are going through.
- Find friends to suffer with.
- Trust that God is with you.