FAITH CAPSULE: In the hand of God there is deliverance.

Ezra 7

A song goes, “Lord I lift your name on high…You came from heaven to earth to show the way, from the earth to the cross…from the cross to the grave from the grave to the sky…” 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) It is said of Stephen at the time he was being martyred for his faith, “But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, and said, “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!” (Acts 7:55-56) In reference to Jesus, 1 Peter 3:22 documented, “who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.” Jesus, the living word of God has His position at the right hand of God.
It was with the word that God created all that was created. John 1:1-3 recorded, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.” All that gives life are in the right hand of God. Jesus came from His right hand to give life. The Psalmist knew exactly better by stating, “You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.” (Psalm 145:16) Evidently, the right hand of God is all that we need to ask to for.
In the hand of God there is deliverance. It was with His mighty and outstretched hand that brought the children of Israel from slavery of over four hundred years (Deuteronomy 5:15). The hand of God, when it comes upon one it will help just as it helped in the days of the Old Testament. Ezra testified the hand of God as the agent of granting every request during their time 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) Ezra 7:28 also stated, “…So I was encouraged, as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me…” Ezra repeatedly testified the hand of God as stated, “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?
As a believer, look up for His hand for direction, deliverance and preservation.

Prayer for today: Ask help from the hand of God for direction, deliverance and preservation.