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.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know in your waiting time.

1 Samuel 1

The Parable of Persistent Widow points out to always pray and not lose heart. 
To pray with persistence without stopping is the character of waiting on God.
The barrenness of Hannah praying without stopping from going to Shiloh yearly to worship and sacrifice to God was waiting before God without doubt. 
Hannah was persistent until God opened her womb. 
Waiting on God can usually entail staying for either a short or long period. God answers individuals in different ways at different times. 
God is the perfect creator.
Time belongs to God, and no one can rush Him out of His plan, His appointed time of manifestation. 
The Psalmist identified different lengths of time for waiting: 
Psalm 25:5:“…On you, I will wait all day.” 
Psalm 62:1, “Truly my soul silently waits for God…” 
Psalm 37:7, “Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him.” 
Hosea 12:6, “…wait on your God continually.” 
Philippians 3:20, “For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.” 
The key to waiting on God has to be patiently, continually, silently, and eagerly. 
Waiting on God can take longer than expected, but God will always manifest Himself when being patient in Him is demonstrated.
IN TIME OF WAITING
In your waiting, acknowledge God, remind Him of what He has done, what He is doing, and what He is undeniable. 
Always make your request known to Him.
Acknowledge God: 
He is a jealous God, and the antidote to jealousy is attention. 
God enjoys gaining attention. 
Proverbs 3:6, “In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” 
What do you know to do before God to experience activation breakthrough? 
The Psalmist’s statement acknowledges Him, “Good and upright is the Lord; therefore He teaches sinners in the way.” (Psalm 25:8) 
Waiting without acknowledging the Lord is waiting in anguish.
Reminding God: 
Reminding God is not because God has forgotten you. 
God encourages all in Isaiah 45:11, “…and concerning the works of my hands, you command me.” 
One who knows to remember the works of the hands of God will be in a position holding the to God as stated in His word. 
The Psalmist reminded Him in Psalm 25:6, “Remember, O Lord, Your tender mercies and Your loving kindnesses…” 
Remind God of His word. 
He is a good and great God. 
Request from God: 
He wants all to ask so the one that asks will receive. Jesus encourages us, “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” (Luke 11:9) Psalm 25:16 states, “Turn Yourself to me, and have mercy on me, For I am desolate and afflicted.”  
He is the God of salvation and not a slave master.
God will respond to the request of one who asks, demonstrating His caring love for all. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to persist before Him in a time of need.

FAITH CAPSULE: Waiting on God is keeping His ways

Matthew 6

King David, a man after the heart of God, shared his experience in Psalm 37:34, “Wait on the Lord and keep His way, and He shall exalt you to inherit the land…” 
Undoubtedly, waiting on God is keeping His way. 
The way of God is His word. 
Jesus, the living Word of God, stated, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6) To keep the way of God is the character of living for God by praying, fasting and spending time in His word, watching for the manifestation of expectation. 
Waiting in Prayer: Jesus taught about prayer in Matthew 6:5-8, “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words. Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.” Who can instruct or teach waiting in prayer more ideally than Jesus?
Waiting in Fasting: Just as Jesus mentioned waiting in prayer, He mentioned waiting in fasting. 
Matthew 6:16-18, “Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.”  
To wait on God by fasting will not end in wasting. 
Praying and fasting is a must be done.
Jesus did not suggest praying and fasting but specifically instructed: “When you pray and fast,” indicating fasting and praying as a must be done by His disciples.
Wait by watching: Micah testified to spending time waiting and watching. “Therefore, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; My God will hear me.” (Micah 7:7) 
Looking up to God is watching and waiting to hear from Him.
One will receive when one can see in the spoken word of God. 
Looking up to God, spend time in the living word of God.
He is a faithful God.
He will speak His word that never fails. 

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to keep His way in your waiting.