FAITH CAPSULE: Without understanding, a knowing edge (knowledge) over confronting situations will not be in place.

1Samuel 3:1-11

In the journey of life, nothing matters like having knowledge. With knowledge perishing in the journey of life becomes impossible. It is written, “My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge…” (Hosea 4:6)The book of Isaiah 5:13 buttress Hosea 4:6 when it states, “Therefore my people have gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge; their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.” (Isaiah 5:13) Truly, there is no way getting to expected end as expected, without knowledge. The challenges in life journey are numerable and it demands constant walk in knowledge.  It is the knowing that you have in the Lord that will determine the edge you will have over every confronting situations in the journey of life. It does not matter who you are or what you do in the house of the Lord; if the required knowledge is not in place in your life, it is possible for you to miss His direction or His call of assignment. I Samuel 3:1, “Now the boy Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no widespread revelation.” Age or number has never been a limitation in regard to whom God wants to use in furthering His purpose on the face of the earth. Man, however, can be limited if there is a lack of understanding in activating knowledge of Him. As young as Samuel was, he was the one to hear from God in the days when revelation was rare. Samuel was in the right location at the right time of his life. God located him for an assignment because age and number is not a determinant for God to move whenever or wherever He chooses to move. The point is Samuel was a minister and did not have the knowing that it takes to hear from God. Are you a minister that is not hearing from Him? Is knowledge a factor that denies inability to be hearing from Him? 1Samuel 3:7, “Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD. Nor was the word of the LORD yet revealed to Him.” It was not that Samuel was too young; it was that despite his ministering to the Lord, despite being in the right location to be connected to heaven, he did not yet know the Lord.

Prayer for today: Ask God for an understanding to know how to hear Him in every calling that is placed in your life. Without understanding, a knowing edge (knowledge) over confronting situations will not be in place. He is a merciful God.