FAITH CAPSULE: This month does not mean that it is late to prevail  but keep on waiting on God.

Luke 15:11-32

Prayer is waiting to prevail in this month and not be a victim of wicked world. Psalm 27:14 declared, “Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!” In time of challenging need, how do you wait? The psalmist is saying, in our waiting on the Lord we must be of good courage. It is possible to claim waiting on God and not be of good courage but living as a worry-full believer. Any time worrying is in place, worship is out of place. Are you one that cannot wait without worrying? Do not be a worry-full but be a worship-full before God.
Man’s failure to wait on God is possible to reposition man from arrival at God’s divine assignment.
It was a time of war against the Philistines when King Saul failed to wait as commanded by Samuel. Saul assumed priestly entitlements by offering a burnt offering. In his act, he violated the command of God. Saul’s excuse for failing to wait was recorded, “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, 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.” (1 Samuel 13:11-12) Saul could not exercise good courage as a result; his heart was not strengthened but weakened. He was worried, and he violated worshiping God correctly.
Inability to wait for God’s appointed time is to experience interruption to claim inheritance in place for man.  The prodigal son could not wait when he requested his portion of the inheritance from his father and took a journey to a far country where he wasted his inheritance. It was wrong for the prodigal son to move when it was not time or not called to go ahead of his timing in the journey of life. Interruption intercepted to waste prodigal’s son inheritance from his father. Luke 15:13-14 recorded, “And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land and he began to be in want.”  Every failure to wait on God’s timing is an avenue to be distanced from God’s planning for a life of abundance.
Praying is waiting before God. Praying is prevailing in this wicked world.
Truly, there is nothing like giving self to prayer by waiting on God’s appointed time. It is not too late to give up on waiting for God’s divine visitation. In this month, continual wait by knowing that praying the word of God is prevailing in this wicked world.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace of enablement to be living as a worship-full believer and not be a worry-full believer.