Faith Capsule: Live life in the consciousness of His presence.
Psalm 8
It is important to understand and know that God’s care for His children is so much and His children fall short to comprehend enough the magnitude of His care. Do you really have the understanding about how much He cares for you as His child? David questioned in Psalm 8:4-6, “What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels,and You have crowned him with glory and honor. You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet…” Have you thought about the truth that God indeed is mindful of us and He is a God of visitation? He has positioned us in a place where He can deliver us when we are able to acknowledge His care for us and live in the consciousness of His presence with us by constantly and consistently obeying His command.
God so much care for Elisha and the Elisha’s servant that He surrounded them with horses and chariots of fire all around against forces of enemy. (2Kings 6:17) Imagine if Elisha does not have the understanding and knowledge of who he was in the hand of God he would not have been able to see the care of God surrounding him and his servant. Elisha knew himself in the hand of God and was able to see and commanded (with prayer) the forces of God on his behalf. The bible recorded, “So when the Syrians came down to him, Elisha prayed to the Lord, and said, “Strike this people, I pray, with blindness.” And He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.” (2 Kings 6:18) It is important for every believer (those that truly live by God’s word) to live life in the consciousness of God’s care for His children. Living in the consciousness of God’s care is the evidence of faith; the expression of expectation for God’s divine protection at all time. The Psalmist stated, “A man who is in honor, yet does not understand, is like the beasts that perish.” (Psalm 49:20) Are you living life as a child of God by shutting yourself in His command? God does not withdraw His protection it is man that draw away from His protection.
Security forces from heaven are only waiting for your direction to operate as you command just like Elisha did. As a child of God, Elisha could see it that the forces are waiting for his command before they could act. Without seeing what was in place for Elisha’s protection, Elisha would have made himself a victim of the wicked ones. As a child of God, you are in position to take charge of your world by His word in you.
Prayer for today: Ask God to help you live in the consciousness of His care for your life; ask for the grace to be continually awake to see and receive His power for your deliverance in every moment of your life.