FAITH CAPSULE: God sees all your good.

Esther 8

Doing the word of God is doing good.
Under heaven, doing good is not beyond God.
God sees all, and doing good will provoke the mercy of God.
The Bible records that the word of God is God as John 1:1 testifies, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
The Bible also records that the word is the Spirit of God. 
John 6:63 records, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit and they are life.”
The Bible also confirms, “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” (John 4:24) 
The Word of God is God, and His word is His Spirit.
Doing the word of God is doing good.
It is wise and should be a desire with one who wants to live life for God, to pray the word of Psalm 143:10, “Teach me to do Your will, For You are my God; Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.”
When God, His Spirit that is good, becomes established in the life of one, the testimony of God that is mercy and truth shall belong to such.
The mercy of God is attainable for one who is doing good before God.
Knowing to do good under heaven is not beyond the response of the mercy of God.
One, Haman devised evil against the Jews to provoke the guidance of Mordecai, which led Esther to receive privilege before the King to deny Haman with an evil device. Bible records, “Now Esther spoke again to the king, fell down at his feet, and implored him with tears to counteract the evil of Haman the Agagite, and the scheme which he had devised against the Jews.” (Esther 8:3) 
Esther devised good, and the mercy of God answered on behalf of all her people (Jews). 
The Word of God in Proverbs 14:22 confirms, “…but mercy and truth belong to those who devise good. 
One devising good will attain the mercy of God.
In life, one who sows good will reap good.
It is a wise saying that whatever a man sows is what a man will reap.
For example, as close as bananas and plantains look alike, it is impossible to sow bananas and reap plantains regardless of how look-alike they appear.
What are you sowing to reap?
Hosea 10:12 buttressed the word of God, “Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap in mercy.” 
Become one merciful to experience the mercy of God just as Matthew 5:7 speaks to all, “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” 
Be merciful to attain the mercy of God over your life.
With understanding, know God to be doing good, not just know about God. 
Seek the mercy of God so that His mercy will reign and rule in your life.

Prayer for today: Ask to be a vessel of doing good to the glory of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Do you have a prayer life?

Daniel 6

Prayer demands commitment with consistency.
One that does not give self to prayer cannot prevail.
How is your prayer life?
Prayer time is not a playing time.
Prayer time is not entertainment to impress anyone but to seek God diligently for His mercy. 
Prayer is a labor, not for one with the spirit of laziness. 
The prayer of Jesus in the garden demonstrates that God will not ignore prayer before Him.
Luke 22:44 identifies the labor prayer of Jesus, “And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.”  
Ask for engaging in laborious prayer as a way of life, not to be a victim of a wicked world.
A prayer-less is not possible to prevail in the wicked world.
Prayer should be a continual engagement.
Engaging in prayer time is not convenient but demands commitment.
Is your prayer consistent with commitment? 
Apostle Paul testifies about prayer.
Acts 6:4 states, “But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
Are you one with delayed experience or not getting an answer as expected in the hour of prayer?
Know that God answers prayer with yes, no, or wait.
Praying is waiting to hear from God.
Without a doubt, God waits to act for those who wait for Him. (Isaiah 64:4)
Prayer opens heaven.
The documented word of God is not for decoration but to be declared engaging the word, living by the word of God.
Jesus demonstrated what it means to give to prayer in every area of life.
At His baptism, he prayed. Luke 3:21-22 documents, “When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”
Prayer is the key to opening!
God is not a partial God.
Watching and praying is a prayer of expectation with manifestation.
Jesus and His disciples called all to watch and pray.
Engaging in prayer makes the difference when committed.
Daniel is one with the testimony of engaging prayer with commitment.
Daniel had a heart for God and was continual in his prayer.
Daniel was experiencing promotion as he purposed his heart for God.
The promotion of Daniel positioned him for untimely termination.
Daniel 6:3 records the reaction of King Darius to Daniel, “Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and satraps because an excellent spirit was in him, and the king gave thought to setting him over the whole realm.”
The promotion of Daniel experienced a challenge.
Daniel 6:4 records, “So the governors and satraps sought to find some charge against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find no charge or fault, because he was faithful; nor was there any error or fault found in him.”
In all challenges, Daniel resolved to pray and was prevailed.
Daniel was a prayer vessel.

Prayer for today: Ask for engaging prayer as a way of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: This month, pray to be remembered by God.

Psalm 106

Psalmist prayed in Psalm 106:4-5, “Remember me, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people. Oh, visit me with Your salvation, That I may see the benefit of Your chosen ones, That I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, That I may glory with Your inheritance.
Pray like the psalmist.
PRAYER TIME IS NOT A PLAYING TIME.
PRAYER GROUND IS NOT A GAMING GROUND.
Prayer time is with expectation for manifestation.
Prayer time is with the character of watching.
Jesus and the disciples repeatedly ask to watch and pray.
Mathew 26:41, Jesus said, “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation.”
Mark 13:33, “Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.”
Luke 21:36, “Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
In Ephesians 6:18, the disciple states, “praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints.”
1 Peter 4:7, “But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers.”
Jesus or His disciple asks to pray without watching.
The majority pray without watching.
Watching is an open end.
Watching can be to hide when challenges call for.
Jesus attempted to be stoned or pushed from the mountain, but the Bible states He hid Himself.
Are you a believer who prays and does not watch?
I heard about a prayer team assembling to pray for rainfall when there was no rain.
In one of the prayer meetings, not watching was demonstrated.
When the prayer was over, the rain started, and no one watched (prepared) for rain.
The youngest one brought an umbrella to move forward under the rain.
Rain prayed for was not to stagnate but to gain motion.
Are you praying and not watching?
Are you an unbelieving believer not doing as the word of God requests?
Do you lack understanding and do not know?
Hosea 4:6, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge…”
Ask to be enabled to pray with understanding praying before God.
Ask against the spirit that marks one as an unbelieving believer.
God answers prayer. God answers with yes, no, or wait.
Know God and your character should be looking up to God.
Do not look up to God with one eye while the other is on the world.
Look up to God to gain the hand of God, which is deliverance and preservation.
Looking up to God is also the character of waiting on Him without a doubt.
God cares not to ignore waiting on Him. 
Isaiah 64:4 testifies God “…acts for the one who waits for Him.” 
Look up to God continually, acknowledge Him for all He has done, all He is doing, and all He will do.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to look up to Him for His hand to rest on you.

FAITH CAPSULE: The hand of God is deliverance.

Nehemiah 2

Pray that from this moment, you live by the established hand of God over your life.
In the last days of Jacob speaking into the life of his sons, he identified the greatness of the hand of God over Joseph.
Jacob said, “The archers have bitterly grieved him, Shot at him, and hated him. But his bow remained in strength, And the arms of his hands were made strong By the hands of the Mighty God of Jacob…” (Genesis 49:23-24)
The hand of God is great to deliver and preserve.
The hands of Joseph were made strong by the hands of the Mighty God.
Ask that your hand be strong by the hand of God that you become an overcomer in all you lay hands on from this hour.
ESTABLISHED HAND OF GOD OVER YOUR LIFE
When it was time for God to bring the Israelites out of the bondage of over four hundred years into His promise, “Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh. For with a strong hand, he will let them go, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”
The HAND OF GOD is deliverance.
Pray from the depth of your heart that this new month, the hand of God shall locate you.
The same hand that delivered the Israelites from the bondage of over 400 years shall locate you to bring you out of every force holding you down consciously or unconsciously.
Ask that God, who is not partial, should extend His strong hand to locate you and bring you out of the bondage of stagnation over your life.
Ask that whatever holds you down not to live, for God shall lose its grip over your life.
Ask that any hand not of God stretched in your direction shall be withered permanently.
PRAY TO BEHOLD THE HAND OF GOD
The hand of God is to behold for deliverance unfailingly.
Joshua 4:24 records, “that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty, that you may fear the Lord your God forever.”
Ask that from this moment, your life shall be evident to your world that the hand of God is mighty over you in all endeavors, in all your going and coming in the name of Jesus.
Ask that the fear of God that provokes carrying the hand of God shall become your portion.
Ask God to give you one heart and one soul to fear Him
THE HAND OF GOD IS ENCOURAGING
The hand of God is encouraging for one that receives His hand.
Ezra 7:28 testifies, “So I was encouraged, as the hand of the Lord my God was upon me.”
Nehemiah constantly testifies that the hand of God is upon him.
Nehemiah 2:18 records, “And I told them of the hand of my God which had been good upon me.”
Ask that hand of God settle upon you as was established in the life of Ezra and Nehemiah.

Prayer for today: Ask that the settled hand of God upon you shall be encouraging you in the face of discouragement.