FAITH CAPSULE: With God, no impossibility will stand against the possibility of God. 

Jeremiah 52

The hand of God is never short to lift.
One living for God cannot be held down and not be lifted by the hand of God.
To live for God is bound to be near to the hand of God for deliverance and preservation.
Jehoiachin was in captivity for thirty-seven years when the hand of God, which is not short, raised his head and brought him out of captivity. 
Jeremiah 52:31 records, “Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, that Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.” 
God used Evil-Merodach of Babylon, the son of Nebuchadnezzar, to lift the head of Jehoiachin.
God alone will change the position of the persecuted to presiding as persecutors. 
God alone rescues.
Believe in Him that your position of pain will change to receiving gain from God.
Evil-Merodach was in the hand of God to lift the head of Jehoiachin. 
By the hand of God, through Evil-Merodach, Jehoiachin was rescued.
Jehoiachin had a chance as a prisoner to become one eating before the King of Babylon, all the days of his life. 
God will use an evil king to turn pain to gain.
Proverbs 21:1 records,“The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes.”
Believe that God is true to perform and to perfect His word.
God changes impossibility to possibility; He makes a way where there is no way.
God is the same God yesterday, today, and tomorrow. 
Believe God, do not believe man for your deliverance and preservation.
God alone sought out Daniel in the den of hungry lions. 
With God, the hungry lions could not feast on fresh meat in Daniel.
Prayerfully, are you waiting on God concerning your challenge that seems unmovable? 
Concerning your challenge, persist, insist, and resist in your prayer. 
Your challenge today is not the time to stop waiting on God in prayer. Daniel slept overnight in the den of lions with no scratch.
Daniel 6:19-22 records, “Then the king arose very early in the morning and went in haste to the den of lions. And when he came to the den, he cried out with a lamenting voice to Daniel. The king spoke, saying to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?” Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever! My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths so that they have not hurt me…”  
God is still in the business of possibility regardless of impossibility.
The thirty-seven years of the captivity of Jehoiachin of Judah could not deny the hand of God; Lions in the den could not terminate the life of Daniel.
Trust and hope in the God of possibility.

Prayer for today: Ask for the hand of God to turn all your impossibilities into possibilities.

FAITH CAPSULE: The way for all is to live for God in His way.

Job 1, 2:1-10

Is your life of integrity before God?  
Does your way of life or your actions count before God?
1 Samuel 2:3 states, “For the Lord is the God of knowledge; And by Him actions are weighed.”
The walk of all before God testifies about one before God.
One who answers with integrity before God must be with action that is rooted in the word of God.
Also, a walk that does not count before God is with no integrity. 
God identified Job as one full of the word of God by his walk, before God as a believer. 
Satan attempted Job, and his assault on Job was not enough to derail Job from walking in the Lord. 
Is your life of integrity before God? 
What is it that is against your walk before God?
From the first assault to the second, and throughout the whole life of Job, it was clear that Job was a man who did not deter from his stand in the Lord. 
In all challenges for the life of Job, the consistency with no compromising was consistent, serving God.
Serving God consistently is the evidence of integrity before God. 
The Bible describes Job as no other character, stating: “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil.” (Job 1:1) 
At a time of bad news, Job did not complain to God.  
Job 1:20 records the response of Job, “Then Job arose, tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he fell to the ground and worshiped.” 
As if the first assault was not enough, Satan attacked the second time with boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
After the first assault, God had testified about Job as a man who holds fast to his integrity (Job1:3). 
The wife of Job knew that he was a man of integrity as she attempted to destabilize Job, stating,“…Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” (Job 1:9)
Job refused his wife in an attempt to discourage him from his integrity before God.
Living life before God with integrity is the way to continually gain and maintain the presence of God, regardless of the world’s wickedness.
The documentation of Job was recorded in Job 42:12-17: “Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning…In all the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job… After this, Job lived one hundred and forty years and saw his children and grandchildren for four generations. So Job died, old and full of days.”
God is faithful to one who is faithful to His name.
Are you living for God?
To live for God is the will of God for all creation.
God creates all and wants all to live for Him.

Prayer for God: With desire, ask to live the life of integrity before God.

FAITH CAPSULE:

Matthew 4

What do you want to become before God?
Make it your desire, what you seek to become. 
One who desires to seek God diligently will live to find God.
Jesus declares it,“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33)
One who seeks God first has to be driven by the fear of God.
The whole matter that counts and works perfectly in life is to fear God by keeping His commandments. God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil. (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14)
To fear God and to keep His commandments is with the desire to seek God. 
Listen to the word of God; let it settle in your heart to fear God. 
1 Samuel 12:24 buttresses, “Only fear the Lord, and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.” 
Does your heart sincerely desire to seek God?
God has done, He is doing, and will do greater things.
There is reason to have a desire for Him.
God only sees and moves by the action rooted in the heart of all. God saw Samuel with his attempt to make the brother of David the king and spoke to him: “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7) 
What do you desire? 
Jesus made fishermen follow Him. 
Matthew 4:19 records, “Then He said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” 
Serving God is following Him. 
Following Him is a sacrifice to give up all for Him. 
To follow Him is not to be a spectator but to learn, to become a fisher of men. 
The request of Jesus to man to follow Him does not identify Him as a slave master but as a saving master. 
Matthew 19:28 states the reward for all that follows Him, “…Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”  
With fear for God, serve Him fully to experience the fullness of the reward for following God.
Your work before God is rooted in your fear of God. 
Ecclesiastes 12:14 warns, “For God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.” 
The works of God call us to live by the word of God, to fear Him.
Jesus was questioned about the work for God in John 6:28-29, “Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?” Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.”
Desire to live life before God, seek, serve unswervingly with fear for Him, He treasures.

Prayer for today: Tell God your desire to live life before Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: What is it that you hold against God?

GENESIS 22

A reasonable sacrifice before God will gain the blessing of God.
The obedience of Abraham to the word of God made him gain from God.
Genesis 22:2  records the word of God to Abraham: “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” 
The word of God for Abraham is a costly command, a sacrifice, and very challenging to engage.
God demands a sacrifice that can be emotional.
Obedience sacrifice is to honor God to become elevated for good. 
Are you obeying God as the Lord leads?
God asked for Isaac as an offering, but Abraham could not question or disobey.
Abraham rose early in the morning to obey God without consulting anyone.
When God calls for you, count out the whole world.
At the ground of the burnt offering of his only son Isaac, the obedience of Abraham, God calls as stated in Genesis 22:11-13, “But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” So he said, “Here I am.” And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.” Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son.”
What are you withholding from God to disobey His command?
What is it you cannot give to God that is in a position to give back to you beyond expectation?
With understanding, know that all you have, all that you are, and all that you can be is in the hands of God.
The Bible records that every reasonable obedience sacrifice will provoke the blessing of God.
Will you consider the kind of sacrifice that you are rendering unto God?
If your sacrifice is reasonable, God will give unexpected reasonable visitation.
Obedience of Abraham gained the blessing of God.
Genesis 22:16-18 record the blessing of God over Abraham, “…By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son— blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed because you have obeyed My voice.”  
Obeying the word of God is a sacrifice that will provoke the unexpected blessing of God.
In obedience to God, gain and retain the uncommon blessing of God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the heart of obedience to God in all your ways of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Avoid the enticement of the devil so as not to become a victim of the devil. 

Luke 4

See in the Word of God to gain the presence of God.
A failure not to be occupied by the presence of God will have room to be occupied by the enticement of evil.
The weapon of evil is enticement to deceive for deception.
The master of deception that has been around long enough to draw one into the sin of destruction.
Jesus experienced the enticement of the devil, but could not become of the devil.
Luke 4:1-4 documents the failure of the devil in his enticement of Jesus: “Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward when they had ended, He was hungry. And the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” But Jesus answered him, saying, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.”  
Enticement to sway Jesus failed.
One filled by the Word of God will avoid sin.
Today, be warned and wise to know that if Jesus experienced enticement of the enemy, no man is above the cunning devil with enticement activity to lure man into sin.
King David, a man after the heart of God, could not escape but fell into sin.
Samson was blessed with strength by God, but could not avoid the enticement to become a victim of the devil.
Samson was a miracle child with special instructions from God, but not an excuse to escape the device of enticement. 
The Bible documents in Judges 13:5, “For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. And no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.” 
Samson ended his life blinded because he could not see the instruction of God to deliver him. 
As strong as Samson was, he became a victim of the enticement of the enemy when he failed to obey according to the Word of God. 
The enticement of the enemy brought down Samson from where God had placed him. The Book of Judges 16:5 records, “And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, ‘Entice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.’”  
Samson could not avoid the cunning of the enticement of the enemy of man. 
God answers prayer today, pray and ask for the deliverance hand of God in every area of your life, so as not to become a victim of the enticement of the devil.

Prayer for today: Pray that you will not be a victim of evil devices.