FAITH CAPSULE: Living by the word of God will not give way for ditracton.

Jonah 1,2

Any spirit identified as not of God is the business of the devil to derail and destroy one not to live for God.
Are you paying attention to what is not of God?
Attention will lead one to attend to the vices to destroy.
What is it holding you, giving attention to distract you?
Distraction is not God but the weapon of the devil.
Is your title the reliance that you count on not to become a victim of distraction?
Distraction will come from every angle to destroy the victim.
The word of God that is direction came for Jonah, “Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, ‘Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.” But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.” (Jonah 1:1-3)
God spoke to Jonah, but he disobeyed.
Jonah was angry, not wanting salvation for the wicked of Nineveh, and became distracted, seeking judgment of God because he failed to see the salvation of God for the people of Nineveh. (Jonah 4)
Distraction is a silent destroyer of disobedience.
Whatever one withholds against the direction of God is evidence of distraction or disobedience to God.
With direction, God called Jonah and his family from destruction to deliverance.
God directed Lot and his wife not to look back on the trail of deliverance, but the wife of Lot looked back.
Distraction can be in the past to disallow arrival at the promised future by God.
Lot was focused, but his wife could not focus and kept looking back.
Looking back will not gain from looking forward, the evidence of distraction.
Abraham was a testimony who did not become a victim of distraction.
Genesis 22:2 records the direction of God for 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.”
Abraham obeys the direction of God.
Abraham obeyed with his heart to engage the burnt offering when the angel showed up to him and 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.”
Abraham did not withhold against the direction to become a victim of distraction.
Abraham lived for God.
To live for God is to live for the Glory, honour, and power of God, the reason existing for the will of God. (Revelation 4:11)
In life, do not live as a victim of distraction from the promise of God.
Live life for God in all your endeavours, God is a merciful God that wait to act for those wait.

Prayer for today: Ask God that His mercy will deliver you not to become a victim of distraction.

FAITH CAPSULE: The agenda of distraction is to destroy.

Numbers 14

The spirit of distraction is not of God.
Strive to be awake, not to be a victim of distraction.
Give to the word of God to gain from the warning against distraction.
Colossians 1:28 records, “Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.”
Distraction is a destroyer with no respect for whom it attacks.
Distraction will not warn the victim of devices.
A victim of distraction does not arrive at the expected destination.
Distraction does not send a warning when it sets out to visit the victim.
Answering titles, religion, or ages will not be exempt from the spirit of distraction from visiting to delay or deny one.
Distraction attempted to tempt Jesus to deny Him in His journey of life.
When Jesus came out of fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry when the tempter came to Him, saying, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” Jesus responded, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” (Matthew 4:4)
Jesus avoided distraction, not looking away from the expectation of His purpose, waiting for forty days and forty nights.
Repeatedly, the spirit of distraction tempted Jesus to gain entrance, but it failed.
With the word of God, Jesus overcame the spirit of distraction.
Distraction did not exempt Jesus from its visitation.
Identify the distraction, and avoid being a victim of distraction.Distraction will derail the journey to the desired destination.
The children of Israel were out of the bondage of over four hundred years when distraction denied them from arriving at the Promised Land.
Distraction denied them the ability to live obediently to the word of God.
Confessing negligently before God prompts the repose of God.
Numbers 14:28-30 records the response of God to the complaint of Israel, stating, “Say to them, ‘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 Israelites could not hold to the word of God but to their world, which is not able to deliver what God promised them.
When the word of God sounds with a promise, seeing in the word of God will be received; distraction will fail.
The Israelites did not see the promise of God in His word that promised the Promised Land.
Distraction derailed the Israelites, and they did not arrive at the promise of God.
Distraction is bound to blur the vision of one who does not see clearly in the spoken word of direction.

Prayer for today: Ask that you live for God and not be distracted from God.

FAITH CAPSULE: When the direction is seen in the word, the glaring direction shall be established.

Luke 4

See in the word, know not to become a victim of the enticement of the devil. 
Becoming a victim of sin is rooted in being distracted from the word of God.
When one is not able to see the word for deliverance, one becomes a victim of sin.
Without seeing in the word of God, enticement will lead to sin.
The enemy of all is the master of deception that has been around long enough to draw one into the sin of destruction.
The devil’s enticement to distract Jesus failed.
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.”  
Today, be warned and wise to know that if Jesus experienced enticement of the enemy, no man is above a cunning devil with enticement activity to lure man into sin.
King David, a man after the heart of God, could not escape but fell for sin.
Samson was blessed with strength by God, but could not avoid the enticement.
Samson was a miracle child born with special instructions from God, but this was 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 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, not to become a victim of the enticement of the devil.

Prayer for today: Pray that you will not fall victim to evil devices.

FAITH CAPSULE: To faith in God will have hope.

Psalm 9

One that trust God is with faith in God.
The word of God promises one with trust and hope will gain the blessing of God.
Jeremiah 17:7, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord.
The mercy of God is attainable when one trusts God.” 
It is a blessing to gain the mercy of God.The Psalmist declared, “But I have trusted in Your mercy; My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation” (Psalm 13:5).
Trusting in hope positions one to gain the mercy of God.
Trusting God is an avenue to receive from God.
Trusting God is looking up to God with no doubt.
Looking up to God with an open heart, one will locate God for His mercy. 
Luke 17:13 records,“And they lifted up their voices and said, ‘Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” 
God is merciful. He does not run out of mercy for one who knows to trust and lift their voice to Him.
The mercy of God is attainable when one asks or pleads for His mercy:
God identified Job as a man with none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and shuns evil.
In life, nothing qualifies anyone not to plead for the mercy of God when challenges take place.
No one is above asking God to gain His mercy. 
Despite the stand of Job before God, he knows to plead for mercy before God: “For though I were righteous, I could not answer Him; I would beg mercy of my Judge” (Job 9:15). 
Job pleaded for mercy. He is with the integrity of the heart before God, which does not excuse him from pleading to attain the mercy of God.
Just like Job, the Psalmist had to plead for the mercy of God, “Have mercy on me, O LORD! Consider my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death.” (Psalm 9:13). 
Nothing qualifies anyone not to plead for mercy before God.
The mercy of God is attainable when one asks for forgiveness.
With repentance, one who asks before God for forgiveness will receive the mercy of God. The Bible records, “For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You” (Psalm 86:5).
God is good and merciful; no iota of evil can deny the mercy of God that is in place for one with the understanding of repentance that calls for the forgiveness of God.
One with repentance and confession, forgiveness is a sure way to gain the mercy of God, as it is glaring in the pages of the Bible. 
The Bible encourages, “He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy” (Proverbs 28:13). 
God is merciful, and God will respond with mercy for one who trusts and knows how to ask for forgiveness.
What is denying the mercy of God in your life?

Prayer for today: Ask God to have mercy on you.

FAITH CAPSULE: The mercy of God is powerful.

Genesis 39

It is powerful because it is in the position of the only God who gives mercy perfectly as He wishes to.
His mercy is rooted in His favour.
Mercy is power above all in position and rest, as the power of God to change the unchangeable situation at the time of God.
The Bible records, “You in Your mercy have led forth the people whom You have redeemed…” (Exodus 15:13) 
In the given days that you have by the breath of life, understand and know to live life to attain the mercy of God, as the Bible records His word.
God alone will have mercy on whom He chooses to, but He will also have mercy on one who lives by His command.
Understand and know to gain the mercy of God:
One living life by the word of God is in a position to receive the mercy of God. 
For example, Joseph lived according to the word of God.
He ignored the temptation to violate the word of God and not to fail before God (Genesis 39:7-15). 
In one instance, he denied the offer to sleep with the wife of his master by claiming: “…How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” (Genesis 39:9) 
Joseph reacted against the temptation of the wife of his master to experience the mercy of God as the Bible mentions, “But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and He gave him favor…” (Genesis 39:21). 
Be one that love God.
Obedience to God is evidence of love for God that will always provoke the mercy of God.
The Bible records that loving God is keeping His commandments (John 14:15).
To understand and know God is to love God and to fear God.  
The story of Joseph points out that Joseph kept the commandment of God by forbidding adultery when he fled from sleeping with the wife of his master.
Joseph obeys, loves, and fears God, and he gained the mercy of God.
One who pleads for His mercy.
God identified Job as a man with none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man who fears God and shuns evil.
In life, nothing qualifies anyone not to plead for the mercy of God when challenges take place.
No one is above asking God to gain His mercy. 
Despite the stand of Job before God, he knows to plead for mercy before God: “For though I were righteous, I could not answer Him; I would beg mercy of my Judge” (Job 9:15). 
Job pleaded for mercy. He is with the integrity of the heart before God, which does not excuse him from pleading to attain the mercy of God.
Just like Job, the Psalmist had to plead for the mercy of God, “Have mercy on me, O LORD! Consider my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death.” (Psalm 9:13). 
Nothing qualifies anyone not to plead for mercy before God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to have mercy on you.