Friday, 21st November, 2025
Bible Reading: Job 23: 10-11
Memory Verse: So do not throw away your confidence; it holds a great reward. Hebrews 10:35 (BSB)
Talking about the Promise, Problem, Provision, God’s servant, Rev. Austin Ukporhe said: When God calls a man, He gives him a promise. But what follows the promise is often a problem, a contradiction to the promise. Yet in that problem is the process, and eventually, the provision will come. But here’s the secret: how quickly you transition from problem to provision depends on your attitude. If you complain, you remain. If you worship and obey, you break out. Your conviction, rooted in God’s Word and your personal walk, must sustain you through the valley.
1 John 2.28 (KJV) says: “And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming”.
It is in abiding, remaining rooted in Christ despite the storm that our confidence is established. It is in the midst of the trial that your make up is revealed – your spiritual structure, your internal convictions, and your understanding of God’s nature.
Success in the kingdom is not merely the result of strategy or intelligence, it is the result of obedience. Joshua 1:8 tells us that good success comes from observing and doing all that is written in the law of God. This demands that we observe, interpret, and apply the Word daily. “Man shall not live by beead alone, but by every word that proceedeth out af the mouth of God.” Matthew 4:4 (KJV).
Another snare that rubs believers of patience and conviction is offence. Many become offended with God, people, or even themselves. Offence kills spiritual momentum. “Blessed be he who is not offended in Me” (Matthew 11:6). Offence births bitterness, and bitterness weakens your grip on God’s promises.
Let this be firmly settled in your heart. God does not have abandoned projects. He only has men who abandon His process and the projects committed to them. If you’re going to walk with God, go and master patience. That means you must be ready to endure tribulations, delays, contradictions, and seeming silence from heaven. But know this, at the end of it all, you will come forth as gold (Job 23.10).
Walking with God is not for the faint-hearted. It is for those whose patience has been tested in the fires of affliction, and whose convictions are anchored in the eternal Word of God. Let patience have her perfect work in you. Don’t run ahead of God. Don’t lose heart in the middle of the process. And don’t cast away your confidence.
You need patience. You need conviction. Because only then will you inherit the promise. As the Lord promised, it is he who shall endure to the end, that shall be saved.
Quote: How quickly you transition from problem to provision depends on your attitude. If you complain, you remain. If you worship and obey, you break out.
Prophetic Decree: Receive grace for patience and conviction, in Jesus name.
Prayer Focus
1. I receive discernment and deep conviction to know the ways of God, in Jesus name.
2. Lord, give me the grace to understand the connection between problem, promise and provisions, in Jesus name.
3. I receive grace to abide in God, and rooted in Christ such that despite any storm, my confidence is established, in Jesus name.
4. I receive grace not to run ahead of God; not to lose heart in the middle of the process, and never to cast away my confidence.
5. As the Lord lives and His Spirit is alive, I will not faint in faith, in Jesus name.
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