FAITH CAPSULE: The evidence of having faith is to trust and hope not just trust.

Numbers 13

The journey of the Israelites from bondage to the Promised Land started with trust but lacked hope to arrive at the Promised Land.
The Israelites were at the Wilderness of Paran, waiting to move into the Canaan when God spoke to Moses to send men to spy out the land of Canaan. (Numbers 13)
Moses sent the spies as commanded by God.
The spies returned with a report: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. Nevertheless, the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there. The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.” (Numbers 13:27-29)
The spies reported with trust, mentioning the goodness of the land.
However, their report was with no hope because of the fear for the people of the land by testifying, “…We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants), and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.” (Numbers 13:31-33)
The report testifies to trust but lacks hope in God.
The plans, the promises of God, will answer to one with faith.
The fear of the Israelites prompted fear to complain and confess negatively before God. 
Joshua and Caleb confess positively before God.
God responds to the negative confession of the Israelites: Numbers 14:28-30, “As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.”
The plans and promises of God are His words that do not return void to Him.
Know and understand that God is not careless to deliver in His plans and promises.
Give full attention to the word of God. 
Jeremiah 17:7 admonishes, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is in the Lord.” 
Deny fear, know to trust and hope in the word of God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to fear in God alone, not fear the wicked world.

FAITH CAPSULE: Do you have faith not to be doubtful?

Mathew 11

To be doubtful is rooted in faithlessness.
Without a doubt, a faithful one cannot be a victim of doubt.
What is causing you to have doubt instead of having faith in the Lord that will do the un-doable?
With doubt, fear will settle to make one unsettled. 
When fear rises, faith will sink. 
Live life by giving yourself to the word of God to have faith that does not sink. 
With more earnestness, give heed to the things heard in the word of God. Romans 10:17 identifies the source of faith: “…faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” 
Any doubting in any area of your life?
Imagine John the Baptist with doubt of who Jesus is when he was in the prison of life.
The Bible records: “And when John had heard in prison about the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples and said to Him, “Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?” (Matthew 11:2-3) 
The questioning of John the Baptist about Jesus testifies to his doubt.
Title or position in any area of life is not evidence not to be full of doubt.
Matthew 3:13 records that John baptized Jesus, “Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him” 
The record of Matthew 3:13 is enough for John the Baptist not to doubt who Jesus is.
John 1:29-30 records, “…Behold The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! This is He of whom I said, ‘After me comes a Man who is preferred before me, for He was before me.”’ 
The recording of John 1:29-30 is more than enough as a testimony that John the Baptist should not doubt about Jesus.
Just like John the Baptist, do you doubt who Jesus is?
Give earnest heed to what you have heard about Jesus, and there should be no doubt in your life.
Imagine, John also exalted Jesus, but his doubt denied him to remember what he said to Jesus as stated: “He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.” (John 3:31) 
The challenge of John the Baptist demonstrates that he knew about Jesus but did not know Jesus because of his doubt.
Get to know Jesus and not be a vessel of doubt.
The response of Jesus to the doubt of John the Baptist speaks to all with doubts: “…Go and tell John the things which you hear and see: The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them. And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me.” (Mathew 11:4-6) 
One with faith cannot be doubtful.

Prayer for today: Ask not to be a vessel of doubt.

FAITH CAPSULE: To live for God is to give to the word of God.

1 Thessalonians 5

Faith comes when engaged in the word of God actively.
To effectively apply faith is a demonstration of what the word says.
Romans 10:17 states the source of faith: “…faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.” 
Engage the word of God to allow faith to become your way of life.
Know that faith that comes by hearing and hearing the word of God will also depart when one does not continuously give to hearing the word of God.
The word of God is the answer to every pressing need in life. 
Do not consider this for a later adoption to your pending situation or pressing need. 
Now and not later, engage the word, gain, and live by faith, knowing God is still honoring His word. 
PRAYER
Ask to be enabled to give yourself to the word of God.
Ask that from this moment, the grace to live life by the word of God shall become your way of life.
Acts 20:32, Apostle Paul said, “I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” 
One to be built by the word of God will live for God, taking a position to claim the promise of God.
PRAYER
Ask that the spirit of God that enables one to be built by the word of God become established in your life. 
Are you living life for God?
With desire, God will deposit enablement in you to live life for His glory.
To live life for God is the character of one answering to the calling of God.
Have the desire to live for God. 
The challenges of being held down not to live for God will strive but the hand of God will answer for deliverance to live for God. 
Physically, Spiritually, or emotionally, what is holding you down?
Which hand is holding you down, not allowing you to go forward in the area of life that leads you to the center of the calling of God over your life?
What is holding you down that you know and the one that you do not know?
Whatever it is holding you down is an attempt to deny you.
However, one can delay, but such will not be able to deny if one cries out prayerfully before God for His calling over your life. 
1 Thessalonians 5:24, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”
PRAYER
Ask that any hand, with an attempt to deny or derail you from answering fully to the calling of God, become withered permanently.
Ask that, where hands are joined together, against your moving forward, be disagreed and be scattered, without reconciliation.
As 1 Thessalonians 5:24 states, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.” 
Ask that the calling of God become established in your life for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: What is your action concerning your pending situation?

2Kings 4:8-37

Engage the word of God; allow faith to become your way of life.
The word in the Bible describes faith, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.” (Hebrew 11:1-2) 
How do you describe faith? 
Faith is engaging the word of God actively.
To effectively apply faith is a demonstration of what the word says.
The Bible also describes the source of faith: “…faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.” (Romans 10:17) 
Engage the word of God to allow faith to become your way of life.
Know that faith that comes by hearing and hearing the word of God will also depart when one does not repeatedly, continuously give to hearing the word of God.
The word of God is the answer to every pressing need in life. 
Do not consider this for a later adoption to your pending situation or pressing need. 
Now and not later, engage the word, gain, and live by faith, knowing God is still honoring His word. 
To have faith is heart-activated and mouth-operated. 
Faith is a God-pleaser that will provoke God to move for a faithful one.
Faith will move the hand of God if it is activated and operated the way it should be. 
God cannot see, and he acknowledges when there is a failure to activate and operate faith. 
God knows the heart, and He knows when faith is activated more than one knows.
1 Samuel 2:3, “…For the LORD is the God of Knowledge; and by Him actions are weighed.” 
What is your action concerning your pending situation? 
How do you activate faith to bring you out of your challenge? 
The only better choice is to lay it on God and watch while you wait to see how God will move in on your behalf. 
Also, know to only confess positively to your situation. 
Begin to see victory in the place of defeat, see breakthrough in the face of hindrances, and see motion in the place of stagnation. 
Allow your faith to announce your wellness, disallowing your surroundings from what will determine the outcome of your situation. 
A Shunammite woman with faith engaged in positive confession in the face of the death of her only son. 
With her “heart-activated and mouth-operated faith,” she allowed her faith to announce her wellness when it was not well for her, and she disallowed her surroundings from determining the outcome of her situation. 
With faith, the son of a Shunamite gained life with the faith activated by the Shunamite.
The same miracles are everywhere, and activated faith is evident.
Engage the word of God to allow faith to become your way of life.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the Spirit of faith to reign in your life and for His name to become lifted.

FAITH CAPSULE: All it takes to journey is to wait on God. 

1 Samuel 13

To live for God is not of determination but of desire.
With desire, God deposits what it takes to live for God by waiting for God.
Waiting on God is submission to wait on God to gain rest in Him, and not waiting on God is to waste.
Lamentation 3:25, “The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seek Him.”
It is a blessing to wait on God.
Life is a journey.
The journey in life is incomplete until getting to the expected end, the portion of one that lives on God.
All that it takes to journey is to wait on God. 
One that lives for God knows to wait on God for strength supernaturally renewed. 
Anyone who waits on God is not careless to find God.
The goodness of God extends to the fact that He will wait for those who wait for Him. (Isaiah 64: 4) 
The word of God does not waste.
The word states, “For since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him.” (Isaiah 64:4) 
Only God acts for the ones who wait for Him. 
As one who understands that the challenges of the wicked world require effective direction in getting to the expected end in life, what will it cost one to wait on God? 
Know there is so much to gain in waiting on God.
NOT WAITING ON GOD
To wait on God is to gain rest in Him, and not waiting on God is to waste in life. 
When the children of Israel failed to wait on God, they wasted away in the wilderness. 
Psalm 106:13-14 states, “They soon forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel, but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert.” 
One who does not meditate on the word of God will forget His works and not wait on Him. 
Once, Samuel commanded King Saul to wait for burnt offerings. 
King Saul did not wait but went further to carry out the offering against the Law of Moses. 
Samuel came and responded to the inability of King Saul not to wait on God by saying to King Saul, “…but now your kingdom shall not continue…” (1 Samuel 13:14) 
King Saul could not wait and became wasted when God did not permit him to his expected end.
There is so much to gain and nothing to lose from waiting on God. Understand and know to wait on the Lord, “… those who wait on the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.” (Psalm 37:9)
Live for God by engaging Him by waiting on Him as a way of life.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace of waiting on Him.