FAITH CAPSULE:God’s calling and backing in your life will not excuse you from grave challenges but it will rescue you from every force of hindrances.

Jeremiah 38

When God place His call on anyone no one replaces the one He calls. When God called Jeremiah, He backed him up with His promise and He equipped Him with power of His hand. Jeremiah 1:8-10, “Do not be afraid of their faces, for I am with you to deliver you,” says the LORD. Then the LORD put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me: “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth. See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant.” (Jeremiah 1:8-10) God’s calling and backing in your life will not excuse you from grave challenges but it will rescue you from every force of hindrances. Despite the promise and backing of God, Jeremiah was imprisoned in the basement cistern of Malchiah King Zedekiah for delivering true message. The cistern had no water only mire. The only way out of the cistern was by means of rope. It is a place where Jeremiah could die a slow and quiet death. Ebed-Melech an Ethiopian was one of the eunuchs in King Zedekiah’s house. He heard about Jeremiah in the dungeon and went and spoke to the king, “My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon, and he is likely to die from hunger in the place where he is…” (Jeremiah 38:9) Do not allow challenges that you are facing today cause you a doubt in your calling by the Lord. The account of Jeremiah is enough to encourage you. Jeremiah was a prophet called by God and was imprisoned in a cistern; he was in a position that could have taken away his life, a position of no way out before Ebed-Melech an agent of salvation for Jeremiah through God showed up. Today, someone will hear about your own situation and that one will move on your behalf to find a way out for your salvation. The King responded to Ebed-Melech’s request and commanded Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, saying, “Take from here thirty men with you, and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon before he dies.” (Jeremiah38: 10)

Prayer for today: The one that God will send in your direction for your salvation will receive the commanding power to lift you above and beyond every representative of a dungeon in your life. As you come out of your dungeon, Kings and honorable men and women in place of power will ask for your help in solving problems. As you come out, you will not go down into any representative of dungeon all the days of your life again in the name of Jesus.