FAITH CAPSULE: Distance from God is taking place not to meet the need. 

Psalm 150

Challenging needs is never above the power of God to meet needs.
With challenging needs, do not worry, avoid careless sleep, and keep seeking God.
Do not worry:
Jesus specifically warned against worrying in Matthew 6:25-27, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?  Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?” 
Are you with the burden of meeting challenging needs?
Are you worrying about not worshipping God?
Worrying will prompt one to question God wrongly instead of worshiping God.  
God is a good God to meet the need.
Avoid careless sleep:
One who is asleep will miscalculate the meeting of challenging needs.
Spiritually, to not sleep before God.
One that is asleep before God keeps self at a distance from God.
Psalm 13:3-4 mentions the danger of sleeping, “Consider and hear me, O LORD my God; enlighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death; lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him”; lest those who trouble me rejoice when I am moved.” 
Are you sleeping spiritually or physically? Be awake before God and not become a victim of lack.
Keep seeking God: 
Are your challenging needs keeping you far from God or close to God? 
In your time of challenges, keep close and not far from God by seeking God. Matthew 6:33-34 encourages, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” 
Are you giving up on seeking God in your challenges? 
Seek God diligently.
Deuteronomy 4:29 records, “But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”  
Seeking God with all heart and soul keeps the focus on God regardless of challenging needs.
The Lost Son was far from God but discovered the need to return to God like the prodigal Son. 
Luke 15:17 states, “When the prodigal son came to himself…” 
The Lost son recognized his distance from his father to repent and return to his father.
Why don’t you rise and begin to cry for the mercy of God to draw you to Himself and not be a victim of wandering into the far from God?
To be far from God is a position to be missing of meeting needs before God. 

Prayer for today: Give thanks for what He has done, what He is doing, and what He will do.