FAITH CAPSULE: Confronting challenge is meant to distract man from maintaining focus on God.

Exodus 14

King Pharaoh, out of the abundance of his atrocious evil heart, refused to let go of the Israelites. God intervened using Moses as a vessel, but Pharaoh remained determined in pursuing the Israelites beyond his border. After the let go of Israelites from Egypt after over four hundred years of bondage, Pharaoh and his subjects could not let go but went after the Israelites. When the Israelites saw that they were being chased to where there was no way to escape, they took their eyes off their Sustainer; they resolved to negative confession and could not count on God’s leadership through Moses. It is written, “And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord. Then they said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt? Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.” (Exodus 14:10-12)
Is there any representative of Pharaoh and his cohorts that will not let you go or give up on chasing your life?
Take to Moses’ word of encouragement to the Israelites: Do not be afraid; stand still; see it (even when is not yet there) that the salvation of the Lord is in place to terminate and never to see the Pharaohs of your life no more. (Exodus 14:13) The most striking point in Moses’ word to the Israelites is, “The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.” (Exodus 14-14)
Wickedness is rooted in the lack of fear of God, the evidence of not believing God.
Do you believe God?
In Moses’ Word of God, there is a condition to have God fight for a believer against wicked ones. The condition is to hold on to peace knowing that God never lose a battle for man that is committed to Him. Every confronting challenge is always a designated wicked agenda against man. Confronting challenge is meant to distract man from maintaining focus on God and to deny the plans of God from becoming established over man’s life. God is not a man that He should lie neither shall His word go back to Him void. The key in all is to truly believe. With privileged of God to face the coming days; weeks; months; and years know that no man is immune to challenges, but man can possibly become an over-comer of confronting challenges. Kick out fear; Keep faith by meditating the testimonies of God’s awesome ways of deliverance; preservation and you shall be established. Remember, the Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace by believing (behaving) His word to be established for the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable your focusing only on Him.