FAITH CAPSULE: Be encouraged knowing that God does not sleep over your challenging situation.

1 Samuel 1

In the coming days, weeks, months or years of pain, you shall gain for the glory of God. Above all, frustration shall be converted to celebration; mockery shall be replaced with miracle and stagnation is set with motion in Jesus name.
Joseph the apple of his father’s (Jacob) eye, at age of seventeen was on errand by his father to go and check out the well-being of his brothers. Joseph’s errand of moment separated him from his father from his age of seventeen until he was at the age of thirty-plus years. Communication between Joseph and his loving father was ceased but consistent pain of missing each was more Jacob the father of Joseph. Is there a loving one, the apple of your eye that is missing from your sight? Waiting on God’s divine intervention for breakthrough will come to pass at God’s appointed time. God re-united Joseph and Jacob after years of painful separation. Trust and hope in God’s divine intervention to re-unite you and your missing love ones. It is possible! God is a God of possibility.
The children of Israel spent over four hundred years in the bondage of Egypt before God sent Moses as His agent to deliver them. The bible recorded, “Now it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.  So, God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them.” (Exodus 2:23-25) Deliverance from bondage of years came to end because the hand of God is not short but will be extended for man’s deliverance and preservation. Your deliverance and preservation are at the door waiting for your open door. God is not a partial God, He performs perfection in situation.
Hannah, the mother of Samuel experienced mockery at the time of her barrenness. It is written, “Because the Lord had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her. This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the Lord, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat.” (1 Samuel 1:6-7) Despite Hannah’s experience of mockery from her rival, Hannah remained focus and her continuity waiting and trusting God remained intact. Hannah did not stop praying to God and there was no record of bitterness toward her mocker. Eventually, Hannah’s prayer yielded when she gave birth to Samuel.
Be encouraged knowing that God does not sleep over your challenging situation. Hannah was encouraged in God to ignore her mockers. Bondage of over four hundred years was not a life time for the Israelites as their story was changed at God’s deliverance visitation. The same God that eventually brought re-union between Joseph and Jacob after painful of over thirteen years will acknowledge your pain to favor you in Jesus name.

Prayer for today: Ask for God’s grace to locate you in every area of pain of life for His glory.