FAITH CAPSULE: Keep focus and meditate on the goodness of God.

1Kings 19

Loneliness is what will cause man to misplace focus and be lead into discouragement. With discouragement comes the willingness to give up where and when there is a need to stand against confronting challenge. Are you facing any challenge that is re-directing you focus? Elijah, as great as he was used by God, at a certain stage of challenges in his life, he experienced loneliness. Focusing on what God has done and what He is doing will encourage man to hold onto God as a Deliverer, Preserver, and God who cannot fail. Are you one that is experiencing loneliness for any reason whatsoever? Is there any overwhelming challenge in your life? As a child of God, you are not alone. It is time to take your stand and regain your focus on Him. He alone is abundantly able to see all through in any confronting challenge.

Elijah called for rain to stop for three and half years and it was so. He called for the rain to come back and it was so. Elijah alone called fire from heaven during a sacrifice on Mount Carmel and fire fell without delay. Elijah alone executed four hundred and fifty-five Baal prophets. All during this period, he repeatedly confessed that he alone was the only prophet of the Lord who was left behind. Elijah was focused on God to have been able to execute all the exploits as mentioned above. Despite his great exploit in the name of God, he fled because of Jezebel’s threat to kill him for executing the prophets of Baal. Elijah ran from wilderness to mountain. Twice in the course of his running, he responded to God’s calling, “…I alone am left; and they seek to take my life.” (1 Kings 19:10) Loneliness sounded clearly in Elijah’s excuse for running where he was not called by God to run.

Are you walking on a ground that demands running? Are you the one that is running for a challenge that only calls for walking? Loneliness was the evidence of lost focus when a man like Elijah could request from God during his running away from Jezebel, “It is enough! Now, LORD, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!” (1 Kings 19:4) Elijah’s request was to the extreme.  It does not matter if you have given your life to Christ or not, but it is certain that the One who created Heaven and earth loves you and all of His creation more than you can imagine. Under heaven, no one with focus on God is alone. Keep focus and meditate on the goodness of God. God is a good God and He will always show up for our deliverance.

Prayer for today: Ask God to help you, ask for His deliverance from the spirit of loneliness.