FAITH CAPSULE:  The solution to challenges demands focusing on God

John 10:10

Are you looking up to God or looking up to one created by God?
To become worried and troubled in the face of challenge is evidence of not looking up to God, that is abundantly able to do and undo.
Any time the eyes are on confronting challenges, such is to misplace focus on God. 
Are you beholding your challenge?
Exodus 14:10-12 documents the issue of fear by the Israelites, “And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord. Then they said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt? Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.” 
Does that sound like you? 
The Israelites know that God shall deliver, but yet they gave into fear. 
The Israelites were worried and troubled instead of worshipping God to have the peace of God. 
To be worrying in the place of worshipping is always the root of negative confession.
The solution to challenges demands focusing on God and the word of His promise. 
Despite all the powerful teachings of Jesus against fear and worrying, the disciples locked themselves up in fear of the Jews. “Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.” (John 20:19) 
While the disciples locked up for fear, Jesus showed up and declared peace. 
Jesus, the Word of God, is the Prince of peace. 
One looking up to Jesus as Lord and Savior shall experience the power of God.   
Faith in Jesus will cause peace to reign. 
After Jesus had spoken peace into the life of His disciples, their eyes of the mind opened to see the mark of crucifixion that He carries. 
John 20:20 records, “When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.”  
The disciples looked up to Jesus when they heard His word to become open to coming out of fear. 
Do you know that Jesus carries a mark on your behalf?
The devil is the author of fear. John 10:10 records the encouraging word of Jesus, for all not to worry, not to give to fear, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly. “
It is a choice not to give to worry rooted in fear.

Prayer for today: Ask not to live a life of having fear in the place of focusing on God.