FAITH CAPSULE:Fear will sink you while faith will raise you.

Matthew 14:22-33

Challenges comes, challenges goes. Most times it comes without any warning signal and it is not always welcome. Challenges in the journey of life can be likened to storm that rages on the sea. Challenges can be painful but at the end it becomes gainful by virtue of learning experience it delivers. Once, the disciples’ experience in the middle of sea brings forth lesson of how to react in the face of confronting challenge.
The Bible recorded how Jesus made His disciples to go into the middle of sea at evening hour and with Him not going with them. While in the middle of the sea, they were tossed by the waves, for the wind was contrary. (Matthew 14:24) Jesus must have known what was going to happen before sending them because He knows all things. Despite the challenge at sea, Jesus made His way to the disciples by walking on the boisterous wind. 
Fear will sink you while faith will raise you. Faith and not fear is what you need to confront every area of storm that is raging towards you. Have faith by knowing that the one that walks on storm is the one that speaks to calm storm. Peter saw Jesus walking on water in the midst of a storm that had him and the other disciples gripped in fear. Matthew 14:28, “And Peter answered Him and said, ‘Lord, if it is You, command me to You on the water.’”  Jesus responded to Peter’s request by asking him to come. Peter attempted to walk like Jesus. He had been with the Lord long enough; he saw miracles all along the way; he knew that faith, not fear, brought forth miracles. Despite all that Peter knew about Jesus, he failed to walk the walk and would have drowned if not for the outstretched hand of the Lord. Matthew 14:30, “But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink he cried out, saying, ‘Lord, save me!’ As a believer, talking the word; quoting the word; hearing and not doing as spoken is not enough to deliver. Living by the word of God is the only way to walk in every storm. Also, leaving the word out of your walk does not lead to the expected end. Get into the word of God and faith will get hold of you because the word of God is the source of faith. Romans 10:17, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” One can hear the word in your daily reading or by listening to ministers which God has placed in your life. Get into the word and out of the world.

Prayer for today: Ask God to keep you away from every agent of faith failure.