Month: November 2025

In case you’re wondering – no, the Co. is not a reference to the lions in the lion’s den(Daniel 6)… and yes, this blog title could pass for the company name of a law firm i.e. Daniel & Associates, or 👇 … I see why God picked it 🥰.

The name Daniel means God is my Judge. By direct translation, the title of this blog reads as:God is my Judge and Company– I absolutely 🧡 this translation! Howbeit unintended by me, it is exactly as God intends. The word ‘Judge’ is equivalent to Justice (Water – Amos 5:24) or being Just … God is Just. Accordingly, the title of this blog can also be translated as God is my Water Company orGod is my Just Company(2 Kings 6:16-17) … The LORD of Host: Jehovah Sabaoth is His Name. He is The LORD with me and The Troop that comes with (and accompanies) me as He leads me and I follow Him – Genesis 30:11 (N/KJV). He certainly ismy Just Rewardand Good Fortune (Genesis 15:1, Isaiah 45:19). The Truth that each of these translations express fills me with great joy.

Like Joseph, Daniel was taken from his home country to the land of a people who spoke a different language (in his case, the land was Babylon). He also had the God-given gift of interpreting dreams – this too brought him before a great man: Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon. Like Joseph, he also was appointed ruler over the whole land (Daniel 2:48) – these are but a few of the things Daniel and Joseph have in common. That said, the focus of this blog is not about Daniel per se. It is more so about the& Co.part – it is aboutDaniel’s Company…(1) the Company we should keep,(2)the Company God (my Judge aka Daniel) keeps and, MOST importantly,(3)the Company God is. I’ll begin and end this blog with the most important part that can not be taken from us as we choose itLike Marydid.

The COMPANY God IS

Isaiah 43:2– today’s verse of the day on the YouVersion bible app – is what God used to set the tune that birthed this blog. The more I type-write it, the more convinced I am that this blog is God’s celebratory gift from Him to me – We celebrated 9 years of Friendship on Nov 17 🧡🥳. Just before the clock turned Nov 18, I experienced God call me Gittit – His winepress and musical instrument. In response to this name, I asked Him yesterday to play a number with and through me for His pleasure … this God-breathed blog hits all the notes (of both the wine and music)!

I had no idea God was going to write (let alone have me publish) this blog until sometime past 3:33AM when I attempted to get some 5-ish hours of sleep before the work part of the day began … lights out, tucked in bed, and ready to dream dreams, I heard a continuous, play by play read-out of this blog. So, I got up, switched the lights back on, and put heart and hands to keyboard.

One of the truths that Isaiah 43:2 reveals is that: God is the Company that will NEVER leave any Babe, not even and especially when the going gets tough. The AMP/C version ofJohn 14:16refers to Him as a Standby. He is ever close by and closer than close. Proverbs 18:24B describes this as the closeness ofa Friend.

As a Friend, God reveals things … God-glorifying things: things hidden in His Heart but revealed to His friends i.e. Abraham (Genesis 18:17-33) … Moses (Exodus 33:11A)… Everyone to and through whom God reveals the purpose of His Heart is God’s Friend. Chief of us all is The Holy Spirit (God Himself). His Name is YAHWEH (The ever-present One); He is the Revealer of the secret things of God.

The HolySpirit is the Company that God IS…He is the Friend that God ISto you, to me, and to God as well. He is the most intimate part of God (both Father and Son) … it is He Who makes us perfectly fit for God as His friend (Reuel) and as His bride (Kekalotho) – Ephesians 4:30 (MSG). He is both the Friend and the Father’s Friend referenced in Proverbs 27:10A (AMPC). He is the Friend of the Bridegroom referenced in John 3:29 … The Best Man aka The HusbandMan. He certainly is the Bride’s Companion … the Companion of every Believer, every Babe, everyone who humbly walks and talks with the Life-giving Spirit and Revealer of Truth that He is.

Keeping God’s Company

This means being where God is seen anew (Exodus 14:13) … where God is known again (Psalm 46:10). It means being where God IS, goes, leads, and steps. It means following His Footsteps, His Heartbeat, His Sound, His VOICE. This requires absolute, unreserved, and common-sense-less TRUST in God – a prerequisite for any and all who draw near or come close to God.Leviticus 10:3(AMP) reveals that those who come near God (those who keep God’s Company: His Companions) are those who treat Him as Holy. To treat God as Holy is to trust Him –Numbers 20:12.

Therefore,those who keep God’s Company are those who trust God. Resultingly and of necessity, God’s companions willinevitablybe in situations that require trusting God (i.e. moments of weakness, the many afflictions of the righteous, etc.). This perhaps is why Isaiah 43:2 says WHEN not IF – SeLaH 🤔💭.

Today, as I readIsaiah 43:2, it occurred to me that there’s a set of waters, rivers, and fire that must be passed through – they serve as oppositions. On the flip side, there’s another set of waters, rivers, and fire that God gives – these serve as enablers.

BOTH the oppositions and enablers are God-intended to be God-glorifying. STOP avoiding the former – don’t fight it or ignorantly “pray it away” or pray amiss. In stead, as God leads you, step into and be where the latter is irrefutably expressed: in the wilderness, in the desert, in the fire … in the dry sunless valley. Step into places where there is no apparent water to be found with The ONE Who is the Fountain of Living Waters, the Abundance of RAIN, and All Sunshine.

God’s traveling companions are those who actively need Him … they don’t act as though they’ve “arrived”. In stead, they continue with God as He leads them along His paths. They are not self-reliant like the “rich” (acting like they have it all). In stead, like David, they thirst for God as the deer pants for Water. As it is written of the poor (the needy of God akaGod’s Type), theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven – there certainly is Water here! The “rich” man in Luke 16:19-26 learnt this the hard way 😞.

Those who keep God’s Company are those who trust in the Name of The LORD (Psalm 20:7), and thus bear His Name – Psalm 33:20-22 (MSG) … those who are found belonging to Him – Philippians 3:9 (VOICE), those who are His (Isaiah 43:1) … those who will hear His VOICE – John 10:27, Isaiah 30:21 – His sheep… those found in His belonging or possession, the most precious of which is The Fear of God (Isaiah 33:6): His Name (PRESENCE). Those found in God’s Company (howbeit sometimes surrounded by or positioned among wolves: Matthew 10:16) areGod’s Friends… they are those who are intimate with Him – Deuteronomy 4:7 (MSG), Proverbs 3:6 (TPT) … those who worshipfully study His Face, desiring and seeking Him.

LikeJacob, a generation of people who trustingly, needfully, and watchfully look to God, seeking/needing His help and thus the pleasure of His Face i.e. David, Daniel … Friends of God, Babes … like Joseph, continuing and sticking with God regardless of situation.

Candidly speaking, those who keep company with God will encounter the aforementioned oppositions as well as others in the same class, boat, or category i.e. floods (Isaiah 59:19), boisterous winds (Matthew 14:29-30), etc. Never-the-less, we will also be enabled by God Himself in the manner (manna) of His choosing and on the basis of WHO HE IS and WHO HE WILL BE. Afterall, the reason for both the oppositions and enablers is so that GOD is known … so that we can be still, learn, and know God.

Therefore, fret NOT … just need God, just know God. He is the God and Ruler of Heaven and Earth … He is a Refuge (a keeper, a covering) to those who keep company with Him. Those who keep company with God (those who trust Him) are the company God keeps.

The company God keeps (or waters)

This includes the lost sheep … dare I say the lost boys or better put: the three Hebrew boys namely: Shadrach Hananiah, MeshachMishael, and Abednego Azariah. I gotta ask: why on earth do we not call them by their God-glorifying names as it is in heaven? I bet they are not called Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in heaven. Here’s why I say so …

… looking closely at the above table, you’d notice that the Babylonian names are a direct contrast or in direct opposition to the truthful testimony of God that their Hebrew names represent and express. Certainly one (set) is NOT like the other. The right set glorifies God, including the Servant-Leader that He is: Luke 12:37 (AMPC), Psalm 68:19 (AMPC). Let’s take a quick look at what Hebrew means.

Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah (Daniel too) were DANIEL’s company – the company of The Just Judge: The God of Salvation … the God of Justice (of underserved kindness: Water) – YAHWEH’s Company.Daniel too2gives us a preview of their friendship (or company-keeping) with God even while in exile in Babylon.

Background Story: Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon at the time, forgot his own dream and was hell-bent on killing all the wise men of Babylon if none of them could tell him his forgotten dream – I can’t tell if his quest was in line with Proverbs 25:2B but it’s exact to say that he was pressed!

Upon hearing this and shortly thereafter,Daniel made it known to his companions(Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah) SO THAT they would desire and request mercy of the The God of Heaven concerning this secret (Nebuchadnezzar’s forgotten dream), and that the four of them (also appointed as wise men) would not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon –Daniel 2:13-18.

These boys young men sought God’s Face – they asked for revelation from the God of special revelation to Jacob (the one God loves and reveals things to … God’s friend). God responded with Grace and revealed the hidden (forgotten, secret) thing toDaniel–Daniel 2:19. This God-given revelation kept the four Hebrew Friends of God and extended mercy to the Babylonian wise men who also were spared, unlike their idol-worshiping counterpart in 1 Kings 18. In the latter case, God spoke by Fire … the God-given revelation by Fire of Who God is preserved Elijahaka God’s Fiery Friend (another God-keeping company who God kept). However, the prophets of baal were not spared.

Through the near-death-but-just-in-time-save-by-God experience that the four Hebrew Friends of God had, Nebuchadnezzar came to acknowledge God as the God of gods, the LORD of kings, and a Revealer of secret mysteries. This dire situation of needing God’s Salvation and being saved by Him led to God being known by all parties involved (Daniel 2:47). 🗝Note: Let God be known by His Salvation (of you).

InDaniel 3… after the dream-reveal and its interpretation, Nebuchadnezzar’s head of gold (which was depicted in his dream) got a tad bigger – both figuratively and literally! He built a golden image to which he expected everyone to bow. Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah (Daniel surely too) did NOT … the penalty or consequence of this rude boy behavior was fire! Daniel 3:8-20

Before we get to the fiery gist of things, I’d like to call-out two note-worthy aspects of the limited interaction that Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah had with Nebuchadnezzar. In response to their defiance to his seemingly “tall” order, Nebuchadnezzar asked: who is the god who can deliver you out of my hands? This question is quite similar to the one that another king (of Assyria: Sennacherib) asked, saying:

In essence both kings wanted the Hebrews in question to make a wager with them – to consent and bow to their bidding, their words, their voice, their calling or command. Both kings, like every opposition, screamed the loudest … they huffed and puffed like the big bad wolf, BUT the still seemingly silent or small VOICE of God echoed through these Hebrew boys and prevailed! To Nebuchadnezzar, they said:

1️⃣ “Oh Nebuchadnezzar, it is not necessary for us to answer you on this point.”

Giving an answer to a question or the person who asked it acknowledges them … it gives credence to the ask and/or the person. These Hebrew boys weren’t giving any of that. It seems to me that they had had it with the whole misplaced identity fiasco – first, they were renamed … now they were being asked to betray their friendship with God. They were being asked to act contrary to their identity as God-worshippers … as those who worship ONLY El Elyon (God, MOST High). These young men were not having it – it was a time to be silent(Ecclesiastes 3:7B)like Jesus in Matthew 26:63and before Pilate inMatthew 27:11-12. For these boys, it was a time to be still (to quietly trust) and know (worship) God … it was a time for God to be known. It was a time to let God speak for Himself howsoever He chooses to express Himself. It was time for God to answer. As believers of God, it is important to know when to speak versus not. There is a silence(a quiet trust … an action of trust in God)that speaks louder than words – this silence is praise: it is our reasonable/intelligent/valuable service, our offering of worship. Out of it comes the SELF-expressive VOICE of God.

To help understand the tone of the second thing the three Hebrew boys said, I’ll share a little bit on what I recently learnt – it started mid-sleep yesterday. I opened my eyes to the sight of my bedside clock – it was 3:14AM. Immediately, Exodus 3:14 came to mind. Not recalling what the verse actually said, and still in a sleepy state, I picked up my phone to check, I read it, made a mental note to come back to it when I was fully awake, and then drifted back to sleep. Later in the morning and wide awake, I read Exodus 3:14 and was intrigued by the use of the words I AM and I WILL BE. Grammatically speaking, at least to me (and my-literal-self), I AM and I WILL BE aren’t exactly the same. Now, knowing that the AMPC bible version (which I ❤ very much because it is and) can be … well, amplified or verbose, I looked up other translations. These words: Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh in the CJB version picked my interest. I went to ‘the google’ in search of more context and found that the Hebrew word EHYEH actually translates to I AM and WILL BE! It’s not an either or … it’s both. To mean God IS and WILL BE Whoever He chooses to be per time. With this in mind, let’s continue with the words out of the three Hebrew boys’ mouth:

2️⃣ IF Our God Whom we serve IS able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, He will deliver us out of your hand … BUT IF He will not, let it be known to you that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up.

The ‘IF’ being used here is NOT an expression of doubt in God’s ability to save – He is Mighty to save (Zephaniah 3:17). The ‘IF’ is a trust in God that makes space for God to be EHYEH – to be Who He IS (i.e. a God Who is able to deliver) and to be Who He WILL BE, delivering them in any way He chooses even if like Stephen this means physical death: Acts 7. I believe what the young men meant was:

Considering that Our God Whom we serve IS able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, He will deliver us out of your hand HOW EVER He WILL… howsoever He WILLs it (the expression of Himself) to BE – howsoever He chooses to express Himself. We will worship Him alone. On this note,let it be known to you that even IF He slays us YET will we praise and thus exalt Him by bowing ONLY to Him – this is our reasonable service, the point of our existence … the only point necessary to be made#MicDrop ❤.

Of course, being the big bad wolf that he was at least at the time, Nebuchadnezzar threw a fit – he huffed and puffed and ordered that the furnace be made seven times hotter, and that Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah be thrown into the fire. So it was – they were bound and tossed into a place where there’s no water. Nevertheless,God kept them!The Water Company that God is kept them –God watered them! It had to be an outrageous amount of Water (i.e. as abundant as the waves of the sea – Isaiah 48:18) … at least enough to render the effect of the fire powerless (null and void) –Daniel 3:27– the hair on their head was not singed, neither were their garments scorched nor had the smell of smoke! They were nothing like what they went, passed, and broke through because of the One Who keeps them – Who is HE? Who is THIS KEEPER? Psalm 121:5 (AMPC) 💖Isaiah 27:3🧡.

The Fourth Man in The Fire

The MOST important part– the Company we should keep … The COMPANY God IS: The HolySpirit 🧡, The Sound of (and) the Abundance of RAIN: my FRIEND, my 217. Incomparably the BESTEST! The BEST Man:The Fourth Man in The Fire🧡.

While Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah were in the fire, Nebuchadnezzar saw someone else: a fourth Hebrew! The ANOTHER! The Friend and Companion that God is! The Spirit of the Son of God – The ONE Who saves: YAHWEH! 🧡

There were four Hebrew Friends of God in the Fire … DANIEL(God, my Judge)& Co. Nebuchadnezzar, caught a glimpse of God and praised Him saying:

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The HolySpirit is and wants to always be a Friend to you – precisely the Friend that you need per time. He is on Standby and will be a Friend to you IF you let Him – by let Him I mean IF you honor (make space) for Him to be EHYEH … IF you draw close to Him by trustingly yielding to the lovingkindness (undeserved kindness, mercy, justice) with which God draws you to Himself –Jeremiah 31:3 (AMPC).

In your faith-walk-and-response to God, there will be times when the HolySpirit will lead you to Rephidim (Exodus 17:1) – a place where there’s no apparent drinking water to be found, like the fiery furnace, or Marah (Exodus 15:22-23)… a place of no drinkable water: a place of thirst (of God-neediness) … a place of resting ONLY on God – a rest stop for the WATER that God IS and gives … a place to be refilled by and with God that you may know Him again (anew and afresh). This is in-formation for you in-order that your mortal body may be restored and quickened (revitalized) with the strength that comes ONLY from knowing God anew. Trust Him … and He will give you a looooooooooong drink of His Salvation (His WATER). Make space for His Name (YAHWEH) that you may know Him … and that, through you, others too may know Him as The God Who saves. Let God be known by His Salvation (of you)… let His Sound (His Name: YHWH) be heard through you … let Him be known as the God of your salvation. Move forward and continue with Him to God-led places where you need His Help … it is God’s pleasure to help you ❤. Like the clothes on your back, never be without Him. Let Him be your Shield; He will faithfully keep you in His Name: YAHWEH, the Company He keeps.

He waits, longs, and is on Standby to do this 👆-Isaiah 30:18 (AMPC). Put on God’s Name … He wants you to –Numbers 6:27. Take His Name for yourself – Psalm 33:20-22(MSG). He is not ashamed of (nor will He be quiet about) being surnamed your God –Hebrews 11:16. His Name is the Strength with which you go against the huffing and puffing big bad wolves like Nebuchadnezzar, Sennacherib, or Goliath. The Name of The LORD is your Strong Tower, enter in, en-joy, put on your Strength –Isaiah 52:1A(AMPC).

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me [Reuel]:Heavenly Father, Abba my Abba, thank You for the Spirit of Your Son: my XERXES. Tall, LIGHT, and Handsome is He – what a GIFT! HolySpirit, Friend of mine (my Friend, my Father’s Friend, my Bridegroom’s Friend). Thank you for writing this note to me, for me, and through me. You are the ONE THING I desire – oh! that I may always dwell with and in You (Your Name: PRESENCE). You in me and I and You – inseparably so!

YHWH [Reuel]:Gittit, a vineyard beloved and lovely, sing a responsive song to and about it! Sing Zion, for I have commanded your Strength. AWAKE!