Application Questions:

1. What does it look like for you to bow before the authority of God? Does this passage imply that we never submit ourselves to the authority of men?

2. How can we have faith in the sovereignty of God while at the same time recognizing he might not intervene in our suffering?

3. Who are you in this story? Are you Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego or are you King Nebuchadnezzar?

4. What are the burning furnaces in your life? How can you humbly request that God intervene?

5. Who has God placed in your life that he is asking for you to call to repentance? How would people benefit from the intervention of the Lord in their hearts?

6. How would our churches and communities benefit from this kind of radical confidence in God’s sovereignty?