FAITH CAPSULE: Increasing trouble is a troubling challenge.

Psalm 3

Increasing trouble is a troubling challenge which refuses to go. Increasing trouble is a trouble which seems to be growing instead of it going away. Increasing trouble is trouble that supposed to be for a moment but appears or seems to be permanent when it is not. In your time of troubling challenge, is your faith being questioned by your world? Is your world saying there is no help for you?
David, a man after God’s own heart had increasing trouble when he stated in Psalm 3:1-2, “Lord, how they have increased who trouble me! Many are they who rise up against me. Many are they who say of me, “There is no help for him in God.”” David testified how he dealt with his own increasing trouble and his testimony is enough evidence for us that the Lord helps troubled people. How David dealt with his trouble is written for our learning. Romans 15:4 testified, “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.” How he dealt with his trouble is a prescribed way to deal with troubling challenge that seems not to be going away; a troubling challenge that is questioning if God is still attending to troubling challenge.
First, David acknowledged God for His awesomeness by stating, “But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, My glory and the One who lifts up my head.” (Psalm 3:3) David did not allow his challenge to cloud is worship. David acknowledged God for what He has done and what He was doing in his life. Acknowledging God in a time of troubling challenge is a way of thanking God; it is a way to provoke God’s hand of intervention on one’s behalf; it is giving self to worship instead of worrying. Acknowledging God in a time of troubling challenge is an action which God cannot ignore because 2 Samuel 2:3 testified, “For the Lord is the God of knowledge; and by Him actions are weighed.”
Secondly David testified, “I cried to the Lord with my voice, and He heard me from His holy hill.” (Proverbs 3:4) Crying is not a sign of weakness. David’s crying was not a cry in the heart; evidently it was not a silent cry. It was a cry with his voice not in his heart; it was a cry that went out loud to His holy hill. Why not look for a locked up room and delivered a cry which would be heard at His holy hill? The word requested from us that we open our mouth wide. (Psalm 81:10) God will fill open mouth not closed mouth. David testified that the Lord heard him from His holy hill. God is not a partial God, Romans 2:11 and many other scriptural verses testified, “For there is no partiality with God.” Cry out to Him and He will hear your cry.

Prayer for today: In the name and the blood of Jesus, open your mouth wide and rebuke your troubling challenge.