FAITH CAPSULE: Increasing trouble will result in troubling challenges.  

Psalm 3

When trouble increase it becomes challenging trouble. 
Challenging trouble is a growing trouble that persists but with no sign for it to cease. 
Challenging trouble often graduates to permanent trouble.
Challenging trouble is intending to terminate the troubled ones. 
In a time of challenging trouble, faith will be constantly questioned, wanting to know the existence of your God. 
Are you worrying instead of worshipping God?
David had increasing trouble when he said, “Lord, how they have increased who trouble me! Many are they who rise up against me. Many are they who say of me, “There is no help for him in God.” (Psalm 3:1-2)
TWO WAYS AMONG WAYS DAVID APPROACHED HIS TROUBLE.
One of the testimonies of how David dealt with increasing trouble in his life records, “But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, My glory and the One who lifts up my head.” (Psalm 3:3)  
David acknowledged the awesomeness of God instead of allowing his trouble to overtake his life. He refused to be reduced or excused himself from worshiping God. 
Acknowledging God in a time of increasing trouble is a way of thanking God; it is a way to provoke the hand of God for His intervention.
Acknowledging God in a time of troubling challenge is expressing what the Lord God can do, as David states, “One who lifts up my head…”
Acknowledging God in a time of troubling challenge is an action that God cannot ignore. 2 Samuel 2:3 testifies, “For the Lord is the God of knowledge, and by Him, actions are weighed.” Acknowledge God in your troubling challenge and God will look unto you to acknowledge you.
Second testimony of how David dealt with his troubling challenge records, “I cried to the Lord with my voice, and He heard me from His holy hill.” (Psalm 3:4) 
Crying is not a sign of weakness. 
The crying of David in the time of his increasing trouble was not hidden before God, it was not a silent cry. David cried out with his voice; it was not just a cry in his heart but a cry that went out loud to God at His holy hill. 
It is worthy to cry out loud to God and not be quiet to become victorious. 
The word of God requests that we open our mouth wide. (Psalm 81:10) Open your mouth wide and God will fill your open mouth. David testifies that the Lord heard him from His holy hill. God is not a partial God, Romans 2:11 points it out, “For there is no partiality with God.” 
In your challenging trouble, do not count on crying out to any man, but cry out to God and He will hear your cry as He heard to attend David. 
Regardless of how long your challenge persists, you make it a point to resist and insist on worshipping God for His divine intervention. Be encouraged He is faithful to perfect that which He performs on your behalf.

Prayer for today: Ask for the wisdom of God in approaching a troubling challenge.