FAITH CAPSULE: Do not to stifle your cry unto God when you find the agent of bondage right behind you.

Exodus 14, Luke 4:1-13

Satan tempted Jesus at a time when He was filled with the Holy Spirit; at a time He waited in fasting. Satan is brutal in his attempt to bring man down. He tempted Jesus with every temptation. The Bible recorded, “Now when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from Him until an opportune time.” (Luke 4:13) The point here is that Satan is persistently stubborn in his attempt to bring man down. Satan will always return or wait for chance to present itself in his attempt to strike.
Pharaoh operated as a vessel, an agent of Satan in his attempt to deny God’s timing of freedom for the children of Israel from the bondage of over four hundred years.
Despite all the miracles and the demonstration of God’s hand before the eyes of Pharaoh and his people, he would not release the children of Israel to a permanent freedom. Pharaoh let the children of Israel go because of the heaviness of God’s hand upon their lives and their land. After releasing the Israelites, the Egyptians turned around and began to pursue them.
After all the years that God had brought you out of all that represented Egypt, Egypt has not taken a step back behind you; Egypt is still pursuing you just as it pursued the children of Israel. The agent of Egypt (house of bondage) is closely behind you in an attempt to terminate the calling and divine schedule of God in your life. For the children of Israel, Pharaoh pursued them. He would not let go; he wanted to take them back as slaves. Are you in that situation? Do not to stifle your cry unto God when you find the agent of bondage right behind you. The children of Israel cried, and God heard. Joshua 24:6-7, “So they cried out to the Lord; and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, brought the sea upon them, and covered them. And your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. Then you dwelt in the wilderness a long time.” All year long, the agenda of the wicked remains persistent attempting to bring you down just like Pharaoh did against the children of Israel.
If you will remain persistent in lifting your voice in your cry to God, God will act on your behalf. God will put darkness between you and all that Egypt represents; the bondage of spiritual stagnation, sickness, financial hardship, and marriage problems, which are keeping you from total freedom. The sea will come upon them not only to get them wet, but to cover them so that Egypt will not rise again concerning all that touches you. It is not the time to give up but a time to remain persistently focus on God for total deliverance.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to remain persistent focusing on God.