FAITH CAPSULE: If you will let the enemy have its way in your life, he will go beyond making you miserable and attempt to kill you.

Exodus 1

In life situations changes from time to time and challenges present it without warning. Regardless of who you are, where you are or what you do life challenges can be very unpredictable and exceedingly painful. Are you facing any challenge which you have not called for? The children of Israel moved to Egypt when Joseph was in position to accommodate them in Egypt. The Bible recorded after the death of Joseph, “Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. And he said to his people, “Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we; come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and it happen, in the event of war, that they also join our enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land.” (Exodus 1:8-10) Suddenly, the children of Israel became a threat to the new King. God’s blessing of the children of Israel was the cause of fear for the Egyptian king. God’s blessing was increasing the children of Israel while the enemy attempted to reduce them. Does this sound like your situation? God’s increase in your life is building up the enemy’s attempt to reduce you. As a result of the growth of the children of Israel, “the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with rigor. And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage—in mortar, in brick, and in all manner of service in the field. All their service in which they made them serve was with rigor. (Exodus 1:13-14) God is not asleep nor is he too tired to help in your deliverance. He moved concerning the children of Israel when He heard their cry. The new king did not stop at making life miserable for the children of Israel but went further and gave command to kill every newborn son of the children of Israel. If you will let the enemy have its way in your life, he will go beyond making you miserable and attempt to kill you. Pharaoh meant business in his attempt to terminate the children of Israel because of their growth but God has the power to help and overthrow. Have you specifically asked God concerning all that is causing you pain? It is never too much or too late to ask. “With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible.” (Mark 10:27)  Are you willing to see God terminate every Pharaoh that is hunting you life?

Prayer for today: Cry unto God that every man or woman, every agent of the wicked that are causing pain and rigor in your life, in your emotions, in your finances, in your home and in your work to face God’s termination.