FAITH CAPSULE:Crossing over is not without challenges but it requires pressing on.

Exodus 14, Matthew 8:23-27

Crossing over is the evidence that one is advancing and moving forward, instead of going backwards. Crossing over is not a stagnation it is gaining motion. However, in crossing over, one should always expect challenges and roadblocks that will try to hinder you from crossing over. Jesus, during one of His crossing over with the disciples, encountered surmounting challenges that were strong enough to terminate the move of crossing over. The Bible recorded, “Now when He got into a boat, His disciples followed Him. And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves Now when He got into a boat, His disciples followed Him. And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves.” (Matthew 8:23-24) Winds and waves were the challenges that Jesus and his disciples faced when crossing over. The challenges wanted to destroy them and deny them access to the other side. The wind came to blow them off in their course, while the wave came to sink them and permanently terminate them from crossing over. Are you experiencing challenges of this magnitude in your crossing over? If Jesus could experience challenges, then expect that your challenges will come. But take confidence that God, in His goodness and mercy will see you through. The children of Israel, in their attempt to cross over from bondage to freedom; encountered a surmounting challenge. Pharaoh could not let them go permanently, and tried to seize them. With Pharaoh and his army behind them, they were bewildered by the land; the wilderness closed them in. (Exodus 14:3) Crossing over is not without challenges but it requires pressing on. Pressing on and not giving up to fear is not convenient, and often many lose when they quit too soon. The children of Israel demonstrated fear and made negative confessions to Moses such as recorded in Exodus 14:11-12, ““Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt? Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.” The disciples did not confess negative when the wind and wave attempted their crossing over. The disciples called on Jesus, “Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!” (Matthew 8:25) In your crossing over, know that challenges will come but also know to confess a positive word and not a negative word. Press on and you will not perish in Jesus name.

Prayer for today: Ask God to preserve you from trouble and surround you with songs of deliverance.