VOP 2022: May 6, 2022- Challenges as Channels to make you a Champion of Faith. CH-factor

VOP 2022: May 6, 2022 Challenges as Channels to make you a Champion of Faith. CH-factor- CHRIST Centred There is a bigger picture or reason behind every wilderness or fiery furnace experience. One thing is certain, and that is the fact that we have all it takes to face the challenges God permits to come our way, which is often a temporary set back preparing us for a victorious and glorious comeback or bounce back. Challenges serve as channels or means of God’s power being made manifest or revealed in and through us. Daniel and the three Hebrew boys demonstrated this type of faith whereby they openly declared their faith and trust in the God of Heaven. They allowed God to use their challenge or trial as a channel to show case or show forth His power and praise and ultimately we can call them Champions of faith. A Champion of faith is not only one who travails to prevail, but beyond that, one who is ready to travail faithfully even when they are not sure they will physically prevail. You may not physically appear to be a winner, but your victory was settled before any battle and it is eternal. Though it may not appear to all at the moment, it will ultimately count because it proves the genuineness of your faith. As God’s Children we do not lose any battle in the sight of God, though to man you may not appear to be a winner. The Word of God is our guarantor, which assures us that we are “More than conquerors” Some people that understood this revelation and emerged victorious Champions or heroes of faith were: David, Daniel and the three Hebrew boys: Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego; Esther and Mordecai, Paul and Silas, Peter, John and so many more. You too can choose to be a hero of faith. “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not