FAITH CAPSULE: When you begin to see or hear negative in news or threat that you receive it will end up causing you to neglect faith for fear.

1 Kings 18, 19:1-3

Faith is seeing or hearing possibility when news that comes our way is impossible. Prophet Elisha prayed for a Shunammite woman to have a child and she did. The child grew, fell sick and died. Having dead, the woman returned to look for Elisha. It is written, “…When Elisha saw her afar off, he sent to his servant Gehazi, “Please run now to meet her, and say to her, ‘is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child? And she answered, “It is well.”” (2 Kings 4:26) The woman saw and knew that her son was dead, yet she saw wellness. When Elijah caused rain to cease in the land through his prayer he became a fugitive. He was sought for everywhere in the land but could not be located. At his showing, he called for a “power parade” between his God and the prophets of Baal. It was a demonstration of power on Mount Carmel. Elijah wanted to humiliate Baal worshipers, their prophets and the Baal god. He wanted the children of Israel to answer if the Lord is God. The Baal prophets failed and could not live up to the task of demonstrating the fact that their god was a living God. The name of the Lord was exalted and lifted high among the people because the God of Elijah, answered by fire. At this juncture, Elijah requested that the Baal prophets be rounded up, seized and executed. Elijah was operating without fear. At the time when Jezebel heard all that Elijah had done, “Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.”(1 Kings 19:2) Jezebel the wicked wife of King Ahab threatened Elijah. Elijah did not just receive the message but he saw it as real because the Bible declared that, “And when he saw that, he rose and ran for his life, and went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.”” (1 Kings 19:3)  Despite all that God did through Elijah, he could not wait to hear from God before running. Elijah saw the threat in the message that came from Jezebel. How are you receiving news or threat that comes your way? When you begin to see or hear negative in news or threat that you receive it will end up causing you to neglect faith for fear. Fear does not have respect of whom to approach or not to approach. How do you respond when fear comes?

Prayer for today: Ask for God’s deliverance from spirit that causes you to fear in the place of faith.