FAITH CAPSULE: Allow fear of God and make satisfaction your abiding position.
Ezra 7
The Psalmist testifies to God, “You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.” (Psalm 145:16)
Is the satisfaction in His hand your abiding place?
If the fear of God is your portion evidently, satisfaction becomes your abiding place.
Proverbs 19:23 states, “The fear of the Lord leads to life, and he who has it will abide in satisfaction; He will not be visited with evil.”
The right hand of God is all that everyone needs to ask.
Also, in the hand of God, there is deliverance and preservation that settles for having satisfaction in life.
It was with His mighty and outstretched hand that brought the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years.
God spoke when the Israelites were in the hand of Pharaoh of Egypt, “So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in its midst, and after that, he will let you go.” (Exodus 3:20)
“And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord when I stretch out My hand on Egypt and bring out the children of Israel from among them.” (Exodus 7:5)
The hand of God is power, and no force under heaven can deny the hand of God.
Indeed, through Moses as a vessel, the hand of God delivered mighty deliverance for the Israelites.
Ezra testified the hand of God as the agent of being granted every request during their quest to rebuild Jerusalem (Ezra 7:6)
Ezra testifies to the hand of God as gracious (good) when they were able to get to Jerusalem. (Ezra 7:9)
Ezra 7:28 records, “…So I was encouraged, as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me…”
Ezra could not stop but testifies again, “And the hand of our God was upon us, and He delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambush along the road.”(Ezra 8:31)
What would one do without the hand of God in life?
Allow fear of God and make satisfaction your abiding position.
The book of Ecclesiastes states, “Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God.”
This testimony of Ecclesiastes 2:24 adds to the truth that everything that has to do with living life abundantly is in the hand of God.
Jesus was received by the right hand of God after He left for heaven.
Mark 16:19It states, “So then after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.”
Let the right hand of God be your portion.
The hand of God is to desire in facing the challenges in the life journey.
Prayer for today: Ask for the hand of God to reign and rule over your life.