FAITH CAPSULE: Your delay will turn unto deliverance in the name of Jesus.

1 Samuel 13

Is there any area of your expectation that is experiencing delay? Is your waiting for answer seems to be taking longer than expected? Indeed it is not time to give up waiting neither is it time for over anxiousness. Always remember the word of Philippians 4:6-7 which states, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;  and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”  Whenever delay is in place one must consciously ignore it. As a believing believer, whenever there is a failure to ignore delay, doubt will take charge over one’s believe.

When the Philistines gathered to fight with Israel King Saul was not able to wait for Samuel’s appointed time (seven days) for burnt offering and peace offering. It is written, “Then he waited seven days, according to the time set by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.  So Saul said, “Bring a burnt offering and peace offerings here to me.” And he offered the burnt offering.  Now it happened, as soon as he had finished presenting the burnt offering that Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might greet him.” (1 Samuel 13:8-10) Could have been a slight delay on the seventh day when Samuel showed up. Saul failed to ignore delay but went and violated the command of God which denies him from carrying out priestly prerogatives. Saul’s inability to ignore delay set him for his destruction. One thing is certain, for any man who faithfully waits on God, delay cannot deny and it shall fail to prevail.

The Israelites, on their journey to the Promise Land allowed delay to set them against their God. At a time Moses went up to the mountain, the Israelites could not ignore delay. The Bible record, “Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”(Exodus32:1)  The children of Israel knew quite well by virtue of their exposure to different miracles through Moses that God could not have abandoned them, yet they allowed delay to pass them onto unnecessary anxiousness and worry. As a result of Moses’ delay from coming down from the mountain, an unholy gathering took over from where there was supposed to be holy gathering. Inability to ignore delay set the Israelites up to seek for another God.

Are you experiencing delay? Keep focus on God and consider your delay to be deliverance on the way.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to be focus on God in every step of my life.