FAITH CAPSULE: The Lord God delivers in all challenges.

Psalm 34

With Jesus, one shall overcome.
Rest your case in Jesus!
The challenge of Job testifies for all to know the reason to seek to rest in Jesus.
The book of Job 1:3 records possessions of Job, “…seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.”  
Job was blessed physically, materially, and spiritually.
The word of God described Job as a blameless, upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil. (Job1:1)
God blessed Job with seven sons and three daughters. In one day, without warning, Job lost his blessings despite his standing in the Lord.
Job lurched from the pinnacle of prosperity to the pit of poverty.
Disasters became visitation to Job from earth and heaven.
From earth, his livestock and servants were raided and killed by the Sabeans.
From heaven, fire fell and burned up the sheep and servants, and wind destroyed his house and killed his children.
As if the loss of property and children was not enough, his health became a victim of an unexpected attack.
He was struck “…with painful boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. And he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself while he sat in the midst of the ashes.” (Job 2:7-8)
Amid all this, Job did not despise his God.
Job, a blameless and upright man with the fear of God, could not be excused from the challenges of this world.
The three friends of Job represented the world complicating challenges of Job by questioning his sin before God.
The affliction was the request of Satan over Job when Satan went before God stating, “But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!” (Job 1:11) God did not deny the request of Satan but responded, “…Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand on his person.” So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.” (Job 1:12)
True indeed, the devil is an adversary of man before God. Satan has been moving around for whom to devour.
Psalm 34:19 encourages, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.”
As if the Psalmist is not enough encouragement, John 10:10 records all assurance to deliver, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”  
Satan is a liar, a blatant thief.
With Jesus is the rest to overcome.
Rest your case in Jesus!

Prayer for today: Ask that the hand of the wicked shall be denied over your life and all your endeavors.