FAITH CAPSULE: Afflictions are imminent, but live by His word and be delivered.

2 Kings 6:1-23

Under heaven, no man is immune from experiencing affliction. To know God is taking a position to experience deliverance. Psalm 34:19 is encouraging for all that knows God, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out them all.” 
Get to know God, and when affliction strikes, you shall not fail to experience the deliverance of God.
The word of God is an assurance for deliverance in all afflictions. 
In the world, there is none with a title or not that is with an exemption for encountering affliction, but the hand of God is not short to deliver all that live life by the word of God.
The children of Israel were not an exemption from affliction, but God’s outstretched hand of God delivered the Israelites. 
Just as challenges exists and persists in the life of unbelievers, so it is in the life of believers. Believers are not immune to experiencing challenges, but they can be un-moveable in the face of challenges.
Are you quoting the word of God as a believer, not living life by what you are quoting of God?
Knowing to be quoting the word of God is not enough to bring deliverance in the face of affliction. However, understanding the word of God is enough to deliver. Proverbs 11:9 admonishes, “…but through knowledge, the righteous will be delivered.” 
If you are one that with the knowledge of the word of God, affliction will not keep you down but be delivered. God will not fail to perform and perfect. 
As a believer, are you spending time to engage the word of God that is knowledge to deliver? 
Are you thinking of what you should do in response to all the confrontations that are before you? 
There is always an answer to address what is in place of challenges. As a believer, it is not wrong to ask, “What should I do?” However, it is worthy of caution in your asking because there is no room for complaint against God. It does not matter how many believers or giants in the Lord are surrounding you, asking from God, “What should I do?” is exercising faith in God. 
The servant of Elisha had seen miracles done by the hand of his master, a giant in the Lord. Despite all testimonies through Elisha, when confronting challenge came, the servant asked, “What shall we do” 
The book of 2 Kings 6:15 recorded, “And when the servant of the man of God arose early and went out, there was an army, surrounding the city with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, ‘Alas, my master! What shall we do?’” In the word of God, there is always an answer in times of confronting the challenge. Elisha answered his servant, “…Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” (2 Kings 6:16) 
If you are living by the word of God, there will be afflictions, but the Lord will deliver you out of them all.

Prayer for today: Ask that your eyes see the deliverance of God in place for you.