FAITH CAPSULE: In times of challenging situation, direction from God never displaces the steps of man.

1 Kings 19

Regardless of man’s title or position inside in the church or outside of the church, waiting on God is the key of overcomer. Elijah was a prophet in the hand of God but could not wait on God when challenging situation became his portion. With the execution of the prophets of Baal by Elijah at Brook Kishon, Jezebel the wife of Ahab the king of Israel wanted to execute Elijah. Elijah a prophet of God could not wait on God for direction to approach challenging situation of Jezebel. Elijah went further to respond to the threatening of his life, “But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, LORD, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!” (1 Kings 19:4) Elijah desired to die when he failed to wait and seek God for direction. Elijah had no peace but was in fear by asking for death. Elijah could not wait on God but resolved run away from his challenging situation.
Are you allowing challenging situation to take over your direction?
Waiting on God for direction should always be a priority for children of God. In times of challenging situation, direction from God never displaces the steps of man. Isaiah 40:31 buttressed, “But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.” (Isaiah 40:31)
Is your challenging situation causing you to run in the place of walking? Are you responding to your challenging situation by walking in the place to run? Weariness or fainting as a result of challenging situation is not the evidence of waiting on God. David’s testimony is the evidence of one that waits on God in the face of challenging situation. In the testimony of David, it is clear that waiting on God made David to walk and not run in the valley; David did not ask for death but went further regardless of his challenging situation. Elijah, a prophet could not walk but ran with prayer for death.
Without doubt, trusting on God is waiting on God. In your challenging situation, God cannot be rushed out of His salvation plan. God is not a sleeping God that will not attend to His children’s waiting on Him. Man’s title or position in the church or outside of the church demands waiting on God as a priority. Understand and know waiting on God otherwise failure shall become inevitable in the life of not waiting on God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of waiting on God in all direction and not become a vessel of failure.