THEY TURNED UP THE HEATBUT GOD SHOWED UP IN THE FLAMESU WERE NEVER ALONE!

This text talks about enduring hardships and attacks, both physical and spiritual, and how these trials can lead to transformation and revelation. It uses stories from the Bible, specifically Daniel 3 and 6, to illustrate how God walks with his people through their struggles, protecting them and using their endurance to expose those against them. The text emphasizes that even in the face of adversity, one can stand firm and survive, which can lead to a change of heart in those who were once enemies. Ultimately, the hardships are not just about the individual, but also about revealing God’s power and mercy, and turning hearts towards Him.

This word is specific, but it may resonate with more than just one person. Recently, God gave me a vision, vivid, intense. I saw hot flames, and within those flames, a lion was roaring. Then I saw the Lord himself walking through the fire in his robe, completely unshaken. Immediately, God confirmed this vision connects to Daniel 3 and Daniel 6. With elements of Daniel 4 still carrying weight. These chapters reveal something powerful. God’s ability to walk with his people through fire, through lion’s dens, through complete transformation. Let’s go deeper. In Daniel 3, God saved his faithful ones from the blazing furnace.

That’s your story. You were in the fire, some of you still feel the heat. And like Daniel in the lion’s den in chapter 6, you’ve been surrounded by attacks, closed in with no way out. And you’ve lost your mind, the light of the world is lasting longer than it should. Here’s what heaven showed me. This wasn’t just about you. It wasn’t just about endurance. It was about intercession. You endured that turmoil longer than necessary, because God was using your endurance as a divine delay to expose alliances formed against you. This is about black magic, spiritual warfare, unseen enemies.

There were old enemies, the ones who refused to stop, refused to repent, and God already gave them warnings. But new ones were joining them, new spirits, new people, new alignments. And God, in his mercy, allowed the fire to burn a little longer. So the new enemies, those who were stepping into agreement without full knowledge, would be given a chance to repent. See, some of the people who came into alliance with your enemies didn’t know the depth of what they were walking into. They didn’t understand the weight of the curses being spoken, the spells being cast, the evil being done.

So God let the situation linger. Not to punish you, but to protect them, to give them a window to turn around. Because even in judgment, God is merciful. There’s something powerful you need to understand about why you’re still standing. The very people who were recruited to come against you, those new faces aligned with old enemies. Some of them were never truly against you. Yes, they were pulled in. Yes, they played a role. But their hearts were different. While your original enemies moved with a hardened pharaoh-like spirit, relentless, prideful, unwilling to surrender, these new ones, they watched.

They saw everything that was done to you, and they expected you to fall. They thought what they helped set in motion would destroy you, just like it destroyed others before you. Whether it was through physical harm, poison, spiritual attack, or manipulation, those tactics had succeeded in the past. They had taken lives. They had broken people. But when it came to you, nothing worked. You didn’t just survive, you stood up. You came through, and they couldn’t understand it. That’s what shook them. Because when they saw you survive, what should have killed you, they realized, this one is covered by God.

And that realization began to soften their hearts. Some of them started to question everything. Who is this God that kept you alive? Who is this King that made their weapons fail? These new recruits, some of them are now being drawn to repentance, not because of fear, but because they’ve witnessed the undeniable power of God over your life. And don’t forget, the ones who originally came for you couldn’t do it alone. They had to gather others. It was always a collective effort. A spirit of Pharaoh doesn’t move in isolation. It manipulates, it gossips, it rallies, it poisons minds.

But even through all that, God made sure the right people would see the truth. They thought your pain would bury you. They thought what worked on others would finish you, but it didn’t. It only revealed your divine covering. And now, some of those who once stood against you are stepping back in awe, recognizing that the same fire meant to destroy you exposed God’s glory instead. You weren’t just protected, you were positioned to be a living testimony. And now your survival is turning hearts to Him. What they planned against you, it didn’t work.

And not only did it fail, it terrified them. The very ones who conspired against you, expecting to watch your downfall, were shocked when their efforts had no power. God didn’t just shield you, He used your endurance as a divine confrontation. The fact that you’re still standing, after all that was done in secret and in plain sight, shook them to the core. They now understand something deeply spiritual. If they don’t repent, what they meant for harm will return to them. And many of them have repented. Yes, you endured far longer than you were supposed to.

Yes, the affliction dragged on. But it wasn’t for nothing. God allowed the extension not to punish you, but to rescue others. Those new enemies, the ones who were recruited into the attack against you, they weren’t hardened like the rest. They were influenced, yes. But their hearts were still reachable. When they saw that what had destroyed others couldn’t touch you, it became a testimony. When they witnessed your covering, your survival, your peace, it led them to God. Your pain became the bridge to someone else’s deliverance. Daniel 3 gives us a prophetic mirror of what you’ve endured.

The king’s decree demanded worship of a false image. Anyone who refused would be thrown into the furnace. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to bow. They were confronted and threatened. But their refusal to bend to a platform for God’s glory to be revealed. And just like them, you didn’t bow. You didn’t conform, even when it would have been easier to go silent, go along, or shrink down. You stood firm. What the enemy thought would be your destruction became the very thing God used to expose His presence in your life. Your fire moment opened someone else’s eyes.

The same ones who once mocked you are now marveling at the power of your God. Some even gave their lives to him because of what they witnessed through you. You didn’t just survive the attack. You turned it into a revival. Your name was on their lips in hatred, but now it’s being whispered in reverence, not for your sake, but because you reflected the King of Kings through the flames. The attacks weren’t just about hurting you. They were about making you conform. Your enemies didn’t just want you out of the way.

They wanted your surrender. Some of them even resorted to black magic, curses, and manipulation with one goal in mind, to make you give up your destiny. They wanted you to curse God, to walk away from your calling, to let go of everything He’s placed in your spirit. Just like Satan tested Job, they hoped the pressure would break you. But you didn’t fold. You didn’t curse God. You didn’t give up. Like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you stood your ground in the face of a furnace, and that refusal to conform, to bow to anything outside of God, infuriated your enemies, especially those with that Pharaoh-like spirit.

And when their first attempts failed, they came harder. They turned the heat up. They doubled down on their warfare. They recruited stronger practitioners, tried darker rituals, whispered heavier lies. Just like the King in Daniel 3, who ordered the furnace to be heated seven times hotter and called on his stronger soldiers, your enemies did the same. But still, it didn’t work. Because while they thought the fire would consume you, God was using it to refine you. You were walking through a storm surrounded by flames, and instead of being destroyed, you were purified.

The heat didn’t break you. It burned away everything that wasn’t meant to go with you into your next season. God was forming you in the middle of the fire. And just like in the story, what they meant to be your ending became a testimony. When the King looked into the furnace, expecting ashes, he saw four men, not three. And the fourth, he said, looked like a son of the gods. That was Jesus. That’s what I saw in the vision. The flames were real. The attacks were real. But so was the presence of God.

He walked with you. He stood beside you. He made sure not a hair on your head was singed. So no matter how hard they came, no matter how much they plotted, they didn’t realize they weren’t just fighting you. They were fighting the one in the fire with you. And he never left your side. [tr:trw].