FAITH CAPSULE: A Christian soldier by mouth or by way of living for God?

1 Kings 17: 1-10, Psalm 15

As a soldier in the hand of God, are you standing when a challenge calls for standing? 
Are you sleeping when the oppositions demand to be awake? 
A failure not to stand is a passage to fall. 
There is no way to operate in the Lord when sleeping takes the place of being awake. 
The Bible describes Elijah as a man with a nature like ours, and he earnestly prayed that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months (James 5:17). 
The testimony about Elijah is a pointer to the body of Christ to know that what Elijah did is not beyond a Christian if such have a stand in God walking in Him. 
Are you a believer who knows to walk uprightly, to work righteousness, and to speak the truth in the heart? (Psalm 15:1-2) 
A yes answer to the question asked is the identity of one who does have a stand before God, like Elijah. 
Will you be willing to take your stand in His Word? 
In 1 Kings 17:1, Elijah, the Tishbite of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew or rain these years, except at my word.” 
Elijah stood before God to provoke the hand of God to honor Elijah’s request. 
As a believer, you claim to be on the side of God.  
Can you step out and tell the rain not to fall? 
Can your mountains respond to the sound of your voice? 
There is no deception before God, if there is no standing in God, no mountain will move at the sound of voice. 
Mark 16:17-18 “And these signs shall follow those who believe: In my name, they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” 
The character of one who stands in God is those who follow Him.
It is conversant that the sick goes from the church to the hospital not from the hospital to the church. 
Nothing is wrong with the promise of God, but the ones who claim to know the word have things wrong with them. 
When there is an inability to stand in the word of God, there will be a disability to operate the word of God. 
Just like Elijah, standing in the word makes an acclaimed believer a commander in the hand of God.
As a believer engages in work to get paid, it is to work righteous and to stand his ground to provoke heaven when the challenge calls for it. 
Do you desire to be a standing army for the Lord?

Prayer for today: Ask to become enabled to work righteousness at all times.