FAITH CAPSULE: Allow fear of God and make satisfaction your abiding position.
Ezra 7
The Psalmist testified “You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.” (Psalm 145:16)
Is the satisfaction in His hand your abiding place?
If the fear of God is man’s portion evidently, satisfaction becomes a man’s abiding place. Proverbs 19:23 stated, “The fear of the Lord leads to life, and he who has it will abide in satisfaction; He will not be visited with evil.” The right hand of God is all that we need to ask to for. In the hand of God there is deliverance, preservation and all that it takes to be satisfied. It was with His mighty and outstretched hand that brought the children of Israel from slavery of over four hundred years.
God spoke when the Israelites were in the hand of Pharaoh of Egypt, “So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in its midst; and after that he will let you go.” (Exodus 3:20)
“And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out My hand on Egypt and bring out the children of Israel from among them.” (Exodus 7:5)
The hand of God is power and no force under heaven is able to deny God’s hand. Indeed, through Moses as a vessel, the hand of God delivered mighty deliverance for the Israelites.
Ezra testified the hand of God as the agent of being granted every request during their quest of rebuilding Jerusalem (Ezra 7:6) Ezra also testified to the hand of God as gracious (good) when they were able to get to Jerusalem. (Ezra 7:9) In Ezra 7:28 the word recorded, “…So I was encouraged, as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me…” Ezra could not stop but testified again, “And the hand of our God was upon us, and He delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambush along the road.”(Ezra 8:31)
What would one do without the hand of God in life?
Allow fear of God and make satisfaction your abiding position.
The book of Ecclesiastes also testified, “Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God.” This testimony of Ecclesiastes 2:24 add to the truth that everything that has to do with living life abundantly is in the hand of God.
Jesus’ position must be the right hand of God. It is written, “So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.” (Mark 16:19) Let the right hand of God be your portion.
Prayer for today: Ask for the hand of God to reign and rule in your living life.