FAITH CAPSULE: Do you know His name or do you know about His name?
1 Samuel 13
It is written, “The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe. (Proverbs 18:10) Do you know His name or do you know about His name? There is a different about knowing His name and knowing about His name. The name of the Lord is Mighty God; the all sufficient, and that settles it. Those who know His name (not those who know about His name) will put their trust and Hope in Him. With lack of knowledge, many do not trust and hope in Him.
Saul is an example of one that trusted God but not able to hope in God. At a time of war against Philistines, he could not wait for Samuel as instructed before offering a burnt offering disobediently. Bible recorded Saul’s trust but not holding hope in God. 1 Samuel 13:7-12, “…As for Saul, he was still in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling. 8 Then he waited seven days, according to the time set by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him. 9 So Saul said, “Bring a burnt offering and peace offerings here to me.” And he offered the burnt offering. 10 Now it happened, as soon as he had finished presenting the burnt offering, that Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might greet him. And Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered together at Michmash, 12 then I said, ‘The Philistines will now come down on me at Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the Lord.’ Therefore I felt compelled, and offered a burnt offering.” Without doubt, Saul trusted but could not hold in hope.
Are you a modern Saul? Are you one in the church with trust to pray for positive over issue but stepped out after church with negative confession concerning issue that was prayed for?
Trusting and hoping in the name of God which you know will work for you. Trust and hope to call on Him for healing and He will answer to heal you.
You call Him with understanding and knowledge not because you hear about Him from man. Know it that God is the healing healer; the only God that reverses the irreversible and the God that makes a way where there is no way. Trust and hope in Him to be seeking. The Psalmist stated “For you, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You”. (Psalm 9:10) David recognized God as God that does not forsake those who seek Him.
Which God are you calling concerning your challenge? Jeremiah 17:7 buttressed the evidence to trust and hope stating, “Blessed is the man who trust in e Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.” Trust and hope in Him?
Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to trust and hope in Him.