FAITH CAPSULE: Watch and pray to deny the enemy from sowing evil into your life.  

Joshua 7 

Embark on prayer to engage in confronting challenges. 
Despising the word of God is among the avenues for the enemy to gain entrance, sowing in the life of one who chose not to live by the command of God.
Despising the word of God is among the avenues for the enemy to gain entrance, sowing in the life of one who chose not to live by the command of God.
The command of God is in His word to live and not to despise it.
The word of God warns, “He who despises the word will be destroyed…” (Proverbs 13:13) 
To be destroyed is the main agenda of the enemy. 
All often despise the word of God, and there is no excuse that is enough to deliver when the word of God is despised.
Exodus 20:7 records, “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”  
Achan despised the command of God when he coveted it, and he caused a shameful defeat for the Israelites in a battle against Ai. 
Joshua approached Achan, and he confessed, “I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and this is what I have done: When I saw among the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them…” (Joshua 7:20-21) 
Achan action allowed the enemy to sow that which caused his sons and daughter to die untimely death from being stoned to death.
A believer who takes prayer more seriously than sleeping will pave the way for heaven right here on earth. 
Daniel is one of the few examples who made prayer the captain over his captivity.
While in captivity, when he could have been dead, he outlived four rulers who did not know God: Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, Darius, and Cyrus. He was able to prevail because prayer was his captain.
When they tried to destroy him, he depended on the power of prayer instead of sleeping a sorrowful sleep. 
When they tried to persecute him, he was persistent in prayer. 
When there was an attempt to put him down, prayer lifted him. 
When it was time for him to break through, with his prayer with his friends, he gave meaning to a dream that magicians and sorcerers failed to interpret. Daniel did not sleep but embarked on prayer to engage in confronting temptation. 
Captivity failed to hold Daniel from living a purposeful and fulfilled life. 
He purposed not to defile God, and prayer was the propeller of his purpose. 
Prayer and not sleeping is a serious matter to be considered not to be a victim of evil agenda.
To lack in prayer is sleeping and waiting for the evil one to sow where he is not permitted. 
When the enemy is privileged to sow as one sleeps, his sowing will yield to pain and sudden or untimely death. 
Be awake, watch, and pray to deny the enemy from sowing evil into your life. 

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled not to despise the word of God.