FAITH CAPSULE: In the manual of life are all manner of prescription that works against your enemy.

2 Chronicles 20:1-21

What is staging battle against your existence in any area of life? You can be rest assured that you have a hiding place and a shield for your deliverance. If you hope in the word of God, deliverance and preservation will unfailingly answer for you against all that is battling against your existence in any area of life. Psalmist testified, “You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in Your word”. (Psalm 119:114) “Uphold me according to Your word, that I may live; and do not let me be ashamed of my hope.” (Psalm 119:116) The psalmist would not have testified if it was not true. The word of God is power to deliver and to preserve if man will work the works of the word (which is to be living the word).
In the manual of life (the living word of God; the bible) are all manner of prescription that works against any force that has come to battle against your existence. However, if you will search and work it out, the word of God which does not discriminate will answer for you.
Once, Jehoshaphat and his people’s existence were set for disruption but Jehoshaphat prevailed. It is written, “It happened after this that the people of Moab with the people of Ammon, and others with them besides the Ammonites, came to battle against Jehoshaphat. Then some came and told Jehoshaphat, saying, “A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea, from Syria; and they are in Hazazon Tamar” (which is En Gedi). And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.” (2 Chronicles 20:1-3) In the verses above, it is clear that Jehoshaphat’s victory was rooted in setting himself apart by seeking God in praying and fasting.
Engaging praying and fasting is waiting on God. It is not possible to wait on God and waste. God is faithful to honor His word and the word testified, “For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him.” (Isaiah 64:4) Clearly, going by the verse above, God is a God that acts for those who wait on Him. Jehoshaphat prayed and fasted with understanding as a result, he did not wait to waste. In Jehoshaphat’s prayer, he made his request known by reminding God (putting God to remember). He stated, “O Lord God of our fathers, are You not God in heaven, and do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations, and in Your hand is there not power and might, so that no one is able to withstand You?” (2Chronicles20:6).

Prayer for today: Ask by letting Him know that He alone is your deliverer in the face of wicked world.