FAITH CAPSULE: Do not assume help from God but resume to asking from God.
Exodus 2, 3
When the children of Israel began to groan and to cry out for their deliverance, God responded in Exodus 3:7-9, “And the LORD said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.”
Taskmasters were the agent of pain for the Israelites. Taskmasters represented horrible pit. The Horrible pit is not a pleasant place to be but a place of pain, oppression, sorrow and agony. At a point in time, the children of Israel spent time in the horrible pit while they were in bondage in Egypt. Are you experiencing a taskmaster in your life? Whatever represents taskmaster in man’s life is not enough to deny man from crying out to God neither is it enough to deny man from God’s deliverance plan.
As the children of Israel were spending time under their taskmasters in Egypt, they lifted up their voice and cried to the Lord. Are you crying out to God against your taskmaster? Are you assuming or asking? The Bible points it out, “He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see? (Psalm 94:9) God hears when we ask do not assume help from God because God will not violate His word which states, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” (Matthew 7:7) Any time man is assuming to receive from God without opening mouth and ask is an attempt to have God violate His word. The book of Proverbs 12:6 buttress, “…But the mouth of the upright will deliver them.” Indeed and in truth, cry of the children of Israel did not find a deaf ear because the Lord responded to their cry and extended His hand of deliverance through His servant Moses. When you cry out to God, wait patiently for God to respond on your behalf. Cry out today!
Prayer for today: Ask for God’s hand of deliverance to come upon you in every challenging pain from taskmaster.