FAITH CAPSULE: One thing God cannot do is: “God cannot fail.”

1Samuel 13:

In every issue of delay, there will be distraction.
Distraction is to disobey, to act against the word of God.
Distraction is not of God but the device of the devil.
Seven things that come with distraction are:
Distraction can terminate the calling of God in the life of one.
Distraction will not announce itself to derail one with a purposed agenda.
Distraction will derail or deny one with the loss of focus on God.
Distraction will assault to prevent one from arriving at the divine assignment of God.
Distraction can be a denial agent against one not to walk in the Lord to answer the calling of God.
Distraction can also be an indefinable force that will deny one from having faith to please God.
Distraction can build up discouragement.
King Saul was distracted to disobey the command of God to guide him and the Israelites against the enemy at war.
1 Samuel 13:5-6 records the war before the Israelites, “The Philistines gathered together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. And they came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth Aven. 6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in danger (for the people were distressed), then the people hid in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in holes, and in pits. 7 And some of the Hebrews crossed over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead.”
King Saul was to wait for seven days at the arrival of Samuel to engage the burnt offering and peace offerings.
King Saul disobeyed the command to engage the offering against the word of God.
As King Saul had finished presenting the burnt offering, Samuel arrived.
1 Samuel 13:11-12 records the response of Samuel to King Saul:
“And Samuel said, “What have you done?”
Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattered from me and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered together at Michmash, 12 then I said, ‘The Philistines will now come down on me at Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the Lord.’ Therefore I felt compelled, and offered a burnt offering.”
King Saul looked outside of God to the scattered world of his life.
King Saul became complicated to become terminated in the calling over his life.
A delay in expectation is not evidence of denial from God.
Failure to ignore delay will lead to distraction to become destroyed.
To experience a delay is not to substitute God, to seek outside of God.
Making a substitute for God is rooted in anxiousness.
Do not be anxious!
Philippians 4:6 encourages, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests made known to God.”

Prayer for today: Ask for deliverance from any distraction, not to become destroyed.

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