Faith Capsule: It is time to know that praying without watching is not enough for deliverance.       

Nehemiah 4

The time these days demands is watching and praying.
Praying without watching is not enough; watching without praying will not prevail.                      
At the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus responded to His disciples who could not stay up in praying and watching, “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” (Matthew 26:41) 
In this world of wickedness, it will take watching and praying to live an overcome. 
Praying without watching is not enough; watching without praying will not prevail. 
Temptation is rampant everywhere and ready to kill, steal and destroy. Thank God for the One that came to give life abundantly. 
The word to overcome temptation for anyone who cares to assimilate it is: “WATCH and PRAY.” 
Temptation, discouragement, disruption, and confusion will have a place to terminate its victim. 
Through the pages of the Bible, there are situations where watching and praying have denied temptation from discouraging children of God and could not become destroyed. 
Nehemiah had the hand of God to go and rebuild the wall of Jerusalem. Despite God being on the move to rebuild through Nehemiah, agents of the evil one, Sanballat, Tobiah, and others, took a stand against the attempt to rebuild. 
Just as the work of rebuilding was to round up, the agents of the evil one re-intensified their effort to terminate the project. 
They came up with different conspiracies to create confusion. Notwithstanding, Nehemiah responded when he claimed, “Nevertheless we made our prayer to our God, and because of them we set a watch against them day and night.”(Nehemiah 4:9) 
Nehemiah’s approach was in line with the word that calls to “WATCH and PRAY.”
How did they watch and pray? 
Prayer is always non-stop and a continuous process. 
Watching is to carefully apply actions that were clear in the move by Nehemiah. 
Nehemiah positioned men at strategic places, set people up in order, looked into what called for attention by discouraging every reason to be afraid, remembered the great works of God, and put the trumpet in place (a resounding weapon that calls for backup). (Nehemiah 4: 13-18)  
Are you one who prays constantly without watching? 
With your prayer life, begin to watch as you maintain a position that is right before God and set your house in order. 
Be constantly encouraged in His word to deny fear. 
Always remember the Lord by considering the work of His hand. 
Above all, speak out (blow your trumpet) where you need to and do not compromise. 
Engage watching just like Nehemiah.
Allow your way of life to be prayerfully occupied.
Trust and hope in God to know that victory shall sound in your direction.
Know to set for victory just like Nehemiah was.

Prayer for today: Ask for the deliverance of God over you from the evil one that I may not be a reproach of the foolish one.