Quite often evil times will knock on our doors and God is always on standby to help his children. We however have a responsibility and a role to play. Do not sit back in the face of danger. If you can run, run and if you can hide, hide. Moses parents are commended as examples of faith because they hid baby Moses in the face of danger. Do not be presumptuous in times of evil, do your part and God will help you.

God knows how vulnerable mankind is when it comes to temptations. That is why Jesus taught believers to pray God not to lead them into temptations. It's true we get tempted, but God is faithful and would not allow us to be tempted beyond what we can bear. The scenario however changes when we get ourselves into temptations. We test God when we deliberately and consciously get ourselves into avenues where we are likely to be tempted. We shall fail and this is because we have tested the Lord our God.

God has no problem revealing himself to us and using us for his glory. The tragedy is when we get used to God and start taking him for granted. Those are the times we cross his boundaries through sin and are insensitive to the leading of his Holy Spirit. When we expect God to use us in our rebellion and outside his permissive will, that is testing him. Let us walk humbly with God and honorary him in all our ways

One way that we fall into the temptation of testing God is when we fail to believe him in our difficult moments. The Israelites complained every time they encountered hardships on their journey to the promised land and this God called testing him. They had seen God's intervention in the past and they had no reason not to trust him when facing future challenges. Do you test God as well unable to believe that if He did it for you then, He can do it again today?

God created us original with a specific mission to accomplish within a given time. We test God when we take his gifting for granted and start comparing ourselves with others. God will always provide grace for the mission or burden He has given us in life but when we copy that which belongs to another, we invite disaster upon ourselves.

We have a tendency to run to God when things get elephant. Only when we are making what we consider big decisions do we pray or ask others to pray with us. God is challenging us to involve him in all facets of our lives. He must be God of the small and the big and we put God to the test when we only run to him with what we consider big problems. We must ensure that God is the Lord of all whether small or great!

How often do we start projects that God is not involved. We start businesses or relationships that we have not prayed over and only call on Go to help us when problems knock on our doors. God has no problem guiding those who are walking in his will but when we get into things outside God's will for us, that is akin to testing God.

The scriptures admonish believers never to test God. Testing God means doing something outside of his expressed will and then expecting him to sign on our dotted line. God is supposed to be the Alpha and Omega of all that we do and if we cannot have him in the roots, we should never expect to see his signature in the fruits. God is not a means to an end but rather the end himself. Where are you tempted to test God today?

Satan's strategy is to make sure we doubt God word concerning us. If he can make us to doubt God's promises, then He knows we are defeated. No matter how long it takes, hold on to God's promise concerning you.

Everything we have is a gift from our Heavenly Father. We should never elevate the gift above God who has given us. When the Israelites doubted God's ability to protect their children in the promised land, they lost the opportunity even as God promised to bring their children to that land.