FAITH CAPSULE: Waiting on God for direction should always be a priority. 

1 Kings 19

In times of challenging situations, direction from God will deliver one in a challenge.
Regardless of title or position before God, waiting on God is the key to an overcomer. 
Elijah was a prophet in the hand of God, but could not wait on God when the challenging situation became his portion. 
With the execution of the prophets of Baal by Elijah at Brook Kishon, Jezebel, the wife of Ahab, the king of Israel, wanted to kill Elijah. 
Elijah, a prophet of God, could not wait on God for direction to approach the challenge by Jezebel. 
Elijah reacted to the threat against his life: “But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, LORD, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!” (1 Kings 19:4) Elijah desired to die when he failed to wait and seek God for direction. Elijah had no peace but was in fear of asking for his death before God. Elijah resolved to run away from his challenging situation. 
Are you allowing the challenging situation to take over your direction? 
Waiting on God for direction should always be a priority for children of God. 
In times of challenging situations, the direction of God for deliverance does not fail. Isaiah 40:31 buttresses, “But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.” 
Is your challenging situation causing you to run in the place of walking? Are you responding by walking but not running? 
One with weariness or fainting in a challenging situation is not evidence of waiting on God. 
The testimony of David is evidence of one who waits on God in the face of a challenging situation. 
In the testimony of David, it is clear that waiting on God made David walk and not run in the valley; David did not ask for death, but went further regardless of his challenging situation. 
Elijah, a prophet, could not walk but ran and asked for his death before God.
Without a doubt, trusting God is waiting on God.
Fear is a weapon of the devil to destabilize one to arrive on the journey of life. 
In a challenging situation, God is not a God who will rush out of His salvation plan. 
God is not a sleeping God who will not attend to His children who wait on Him. 
The title or position inside or outside of the church demands waiting on God as a priority. 
Understand and know that waiting on God cannot fail. 
Failure is inevitable in the life of not waiting on God.

Prayer for today: Ask for enablement to wait on God for direction, not to become a vessel of failure.