FAITH CAPSULE: Embark on prayer to engage confronting challenge.

Joshua 7

Despising the word of God is among the avenues for the enemy’s accessibility to gaining entrance and sowing in man’s life. The word of God warned, “He who despises the word will be destroyed…” (Proverbs 13:13) Destroying man’s life is enemy’s main agenda. Man often despises the word and there is no excuse that is enough to deliver when man despises the word of God. God commanded, “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.” (Exodus 20:7) Achan despised God’s command when he coveted and he caused a shameful defeat for the Israelites in a battle against Ai. Joshua approached him and he confessed stating, “I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and this is what I have done: When I saw among the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them…” (Joshua 7:20-21) Achan action allowed the enemy to sow that which caused his sons and daughter to die untimely death as they were stoned to death.

A believer that takes prayer more serious than sleeping will pave the way for his or her heaven right here on earth. Daniel is one of the few examples. Prayer was made a captain over captivity. While in captivity, when he could have been dead, he outlived four different rulers that did not know God: Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, Darius, and Cyrus. He was able to prevail because prayer was his major weapon.
When they tried to destroy him, he depended on the power of prayer instead of sleeping a sorrow sleep. When they tried to persecute him, he was persistent in prayer. When there was an attempt to put him down, he was lifted up by prayer. When it was time for him to breakthrough, he was able to break down the meaning of a dream by praying with his friend. This was a dream that took away many magicians and sorcerers’ lives due to their inability to interpret it. Daniel did not sleep but embarked on prayer to engage confronting temptation. Captivity was not enough to hold Daniel from living a purposeful and fulfilled in life. He purposed not to defile God and prayer was the propeller of his purpose. Prayer and not sleeping is a serious matter to be considered in your journey of life. To lack in prayer is sleeping and waiting for the evil one to sow where he is not permitted.
When the enemy is privilege to sow as man sleeps, his sowing will yield to pain, sudden or untimely death. Be awake, watch and pray to deny the enemy from sowing evil into your life.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace not to be despising the word of God.