The Purpose of Your Opposition

Daniel 3:24-25

But suddenly Nebuchadnezzar jumped up in amazement and exclaimed to his advisers.

”Did not we tie up three men, and throw them into the furnace? Yes, your majesty, we certainly did, “they replied. Look, Nebuchadnezzar shouted, I see four men, unbound, walking around in the fire unharmed and the fourth looks like a god?

My dear friends indeed and in fact, its here and now that I would like you to carefully consider that the fundamental reason as to why everything seems to be going against you in this circumference of time is based on the nugget truth for the life of you in regards to the power of the Almighty God that is enshrouded, enshrined, and enveloped around you, in you, and on you.

There is no power without opposition.

 Every body that has power / is in power must have opposition.

Opposition is evidence of power.

Show me a place and a person interfaced with tremendous intense opposition and I will show you a person that walks, thinks, and operates in the power of the Almighty God.

Every manner of opposition against one’s life is a witness whose purpose is to testify to the impact, efficiency, influence, superiority, prominence, importance and significance of the power of God rested upon whom he has called, chosen anointed, appointed , and assigned.

My dear friends you will know that you have been chosen and anointed of God, and that the power of God is rested upon you when you make up your mind despite your opposition that come what may you are going to obey, worship and trust God all the way.

You know that the power of God is intensely upon your life when you can argue in the face of your opposition saying, ‘if I have to go through the fires of hell let me go through worshipping, praising, trusting God and standing on the word of his promise.

And if God save me so let it be but even if he does not save me, I will yet trust him.”

The power of God never takes control of your life until opposition comes against you and instead of running for cover, instead of walking away from the place God  called you to stand, instead of giving up on the assignment of God.

 You decide to stand on his promise and on his word.

On the promise and on the word that he gave to you before the opposition come against you, Every now and then the power of God on your life becomes a visible reality then the opposition comes against you.

As long as the power of God is far from a visible and tangible reality in your life you will never be opposed by anything significant to the point of contemplating walking away from the vision of God and even to the extent of trying to abort the promise and the destiny of God for your life.

The reason why you want to quit on everything that you have believed God for in many years is simply because the opposition against what you believing God for has become intense and if you can only care to understand you will with no doubt discover that the opposition is only but a testimony that the power of God is working with intensity to bring your promise to pass, your dream to pass and your vision into a reality.

Every now and then you begin to feel opposition coming mightily and powerfully against what you believe and trust God to deliver not because you asked him to deliver it unto you but because he promised to deliver a blessing of no small measure if you can only trust him.

When the opposition mounts its pressure mercilessly against you that is not the time throw in the towel but that is the time to stand with confidence and boldness, and while you still standing you will see the deliverance of God and the power of God fighting for you.

There some of you that are under tremendous pressure from your opposition but the power of God is fighting for you and your opposition is suffering causalities right now you may not see it but it’s the truth and you can evidence it by the fact that despite the pressure and the opposition your still standing.

 The opposition against your life is frustrated and disappointed because it thought it would be easy to overcome you and to conquer you but its becoming way impossible despite the high investment your opposition has spent on taking you out and convincing you that the promise of God for your life will not come to pass.

In the book of Daniel via the 3^rd chapter verse 24-25, we come across three young men, whose obedience and fear of God is so radical to be true.

They stand up against Nebuchadnezzar by refusing to worship/ bow down to any other god except the Lord God Almighty.

And upon their defiance, they are thrown into the blazing furnace and while in the furnace a fourth man joins then and automatically the three that were bound and thrown in the furnace become unbound and begin to walk around in the fire unharmed.

God is a God that works his plan and purpose often times than not by way of numbers.

Number four means divine mystery. Henceforth the power of God operates mysteriously yet giving birth to tangible and radical results.

In the story of the blazing furnace, the fourth man who joins the three men, represents the power of God , which many times than not is inform of a mysteriously figure.

The point here is found in the fact that every now and then you stand upon the promise / the word of God in the face of intense of opposition the power of God comes quickly and joins you to stand against your opposition.

And when the power of God comes to join you in standing against your opposition it comes as a fourth man, he is called the fourth man because a human being is made up of three beings or three lives, the physical life, the mental life, and the spiritual life.

 Every now you come under the pressure of your opposition in line with what you believe and trust God for.

Your physicality will be told it’s impossible, your mentality will not make sense of what is happening and you spirituality will eliminate the idea of God.

So its necessary for the fourth man / the mysterious power of God to come and aid , and enshroud your physicality, mentality, and spirituality so that you stand on the promises of God without letting go.

And when the power of God covers you in the face of your opposition you begin to realize that your opposition is registering causalities while you registering understanding, wisdom, knowledge, revelation, and power.

That’s why before the opposition you will find out you were of less understanding in regards to the promise of God but now you have increased in understanding and in the knowledge God regarding your destiny, purpose, and assignment.

The opposition is registering causalities as you stand on the promises of God. While you register power, in any given war the more causality you register the weaker you become.

 The weaker you become the more you defeated you become.

So your opposition has lost the fight and out of the fear of God now they are testifying to the power of God on your life.

And that’s the purpose of your opposition: to testify that the power of God is upon you.