FAITH CAPSULE: See His word as being there to answer for your healing and deliverance.

1 Kings 18
 
Elijah, a man of great exploits, took a stand in the name of God and called for rain to cease and God granted his request. Just as requested by Elijah, rain indeed ceased for three and a half years. When it was God’s time to bring the rain back, Elijah was the one to be used by God. It is written, “And it came to pass after many days that the word of the LORD came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, ‘Go, present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the earth.’” (1 Kings 18:1) This same Elijah called on God to show forth in the presence of unbelievers and false prophets on Mount Carmel where he called for fire. It is written, “The fire of the LORD fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench. Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, ‘The LORD, He is God! The LORD, He is God!’” (1 Kings 18:38-39) By virtue of God’s manifestation, Elijah seized and executed all the false prophets with sword. When the news of execution came to Jezebel, the wife of King Ahab, she sent a message to Elijah stating, “…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)
Elijah, a man of great exploits, did not inquire of the Lord when he fled in response to Jezebel’s threat. He received the word of threat and he saw the word of threat as real. It is written, “…when he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.” (1 Kings 19:3) At this juncture, it shows that what we say or hear becomes manifested when we are able to see as being said. When Elijah called for rain to cease, he saw it and it was so. When Jezebel threatened him, he saw what she said as being factual and he started a race for his life.
Elijah lost his focus by seeing the word of Jezebel as being there for him instead of seeing the Word that was making provision where there was none. Whose word have you been seeing concerning all that confronts you? As a believer in the Word of God, not being able to see the same word that God spoke and saw at the time of creation as being there for you is an avenue to self-destruction.
Focus on the living Word of God. See His word as being there to answer for your healing and deliverance.
 
Prayer for today: Ask God to open your eyes of understanding.