FAITH CAPSULE: Prayer does not fail to get God.

Prayer is seeking God.
Seeking God is not seeking Him in anyhow but by His way.
Acts 6:4 records we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.
Prayer never fails to open the door.
Pray before God always with an answer, and know that prayer before God is not rooted in forcing God to answer as one pleases.
God answers with YES, WAIT, or NO.
Do you know better than your creator?
God is God the unchanging changer, and God alone reverses the irreversible.
PRAYER
Pray against the force that hinders prayer.
Daniel 10:13 records the testimony of Daniel, “But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; and behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the kings of Persia.”
Ask that every representative of the kings of Persia shall be terminated not to be a force against your prayer this hour in the name of Jesus.
LOOK UP TO GOD, NOT TO THE WORTHLESS 
In the delay of your expectation to become manifested, turning away from God shall not have a place in your life.
Why not pray that God enables you to turn to Him in all your expectations, keeping your eyes on Him?
Whatever one looks up to, turning eyes beside God, is identified as worthless.
The Psalmist prayed against looking at worthlessness. 
Psalm 119:37 records, “Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things, And revive me in Your way.”
God reverses the irreversible.
He shall revive you.
Ask that the goodness and mercy of God begin to answer over your life, not to look at worthless things, but to keep eyes on Him as a way of life.
UNDERSTAND GOD
Carrying the Bible, quoting the word of God, or making a church building a house is not evidence of understanding God in His word. 
One with no understanding of the word of God cannot see God in His word to fear God, to be obedient to God.
Understand God by seeking Him to see Him in His word.
Psalm 14:2 records, “The LORD looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God. 
PRAYER
Ask God to point you out, to fill you with understanding to seek Him diligently, to see Him in every area of life He has given you in the name of Jesus.
THE LACK OF KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
A lack of knowledge and understanding is evidence of a listening disability. 
Jesus expresses in John 8:43, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.” 
Listening disability denies understanding. 
Without understanding will not have a knowing edge in a challenging life.
Hosea 4:6 informs, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…” 
With the lack of knowledge and understanding of the word of God, failure in the walk of life becomes inevitable.
Ask that you will increase in the knowledge of God.
Ask to grow in the knowledge and understanding to live for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you experiencing stagnation in any form?

Mark 10:46-52

Stagnation is a state or condition marked by a lack of flow, movement, or development.
Is stagnation the situation that you recognized or not?
Stagnation is not of God but of the enemy of God.
In the place of stagnation, it is time to call on Jesus for His divine intervention.
Mark 10:46-47 records, as Jesus went out of Jericho, “…with His disciples and a great multitude, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the road begging. And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”  
The blindness of Bartimaeus placed him in stagnation. 
With blindness, there will be no sight for one to see when there is a need to take the right direction. 
When one does not see such will remain stagnated, limited not to make desired choices in all areas of choice.
Blind Bartimaeus stagnated and had his place on the roadside to live as a beggar.
One with blindness in the physical eyes is so in the spiritual eyes. 
Blind Bartimaeus makes the roadside his office.
He was popular enough to be identified by his father (Timaeus).
He was blind with no sign of sight.
Bartimaeus could not see. 
Roadside serving as an avenue for transformation for many is the same road where blind Bartimaeus remained stagnated with no transportation in his life to become transformed.
Are you experiencing stagnation in any form in the journey of your life? 
In any form of stagnation, it is time you call on Jesus for His divine intervention. 
Thank God for the blood of Jesus shed on the Calvary. 
The shedding of the blood of Jesus has made Jesus everywhere at every time and ready to answer every call. 
During the days of blind Bartimaeus, while Jesus was moving from one location to another location, blind Bartimaeus was in a position to encounter Jesus when he cried out loud for mercy.
It could be time you identify and accept that your condition needs a loud cry to Jesus for His visitation of your life. 
When you cry out to Jesus, ignore the multitude from keeping you quiet. When you cry, call Jesus out as One you know, not you only know about. There is a difference between knowing Jesus from knowing about Jesus. Bartimaeus demonstrated that he did not just know about Jesus when he called out Jesus with knowledge. 
Bartimaeus knew to cry out as he stated, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” 
In the calling of Bartimaeus, “…Jesus stood still and commanded Him to be called” (Mark 10:49) 
Blind Bartimaeus received his sight and followed Jesus on the road. (Mark 10:52)
Bartimaeus came out of stagnation to become a follower of Jesus. Knowing Jesus is to believe Him to break all causes of stagnation.

Prayer for today: Know God to ask for open the eyes of your heart.

FAITH CAPSULE: Insist and resist the enemy against an open door.

Mark 5

Seeking the face of God for a breakthrough over concerning challenge demands to insist and resist to gain the presence of God, denying the enemy the agent of a hindrance.
The enemy is stubborn to deny breakthroughs. 
God is a good God that opens the door for one with need while the enemy takes a position to shut down the open door. 
The testimony of Apostle Paul is evidence that the enemy does not have respect for no one in his business to deny open doors of breakthrough. Apostle Paul states, “For a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.” (1 Corinthians 16:9) 
Do you know if your open door of breakthrough is the target of the enemy with an attempt to deny you? 
As a believer, insist on and resist the enemy against the open door before God.
Jairus insisted and resisted the enemy for the open door of healing for his daughter, not to become a victim of untimely death, when he came to Jesus. 
The Bible records, “…And when he saw Him, he fell at His feet and begged Him earnestly, saying, ‘My daughter lies at the point of death. Come and lay Your hands on her, that she may be healed and she will live.’” (Mark 5:22-23)
The demonstration of Jairus testifies to his insistence and resistance to get the attention of Jesus for the healing of his daughter. 
Jairus, one of the rulers of the synagogue, pride could have denied him from persisting and resisting to gain an open door of deliverance for his daughter in the hand of sudden death. 
Jairus put aside his religious title not to become a victim of gaining an open door of healing for delivering his daughter. 
Jairus did three things to have the open-door answer for the deliverance healing for his daughter.
First, he met Jesus at the right location as the crossing point. 
Your crossing point could be at the ground of fellowshipping. 
In time to gain opened door, many have missed their crossing point because of their title (pride). 
Jairus consciously disallowed his title, not to deny his miracle healing for his daughter. 
In life, insist on and resist the manifestation of expectation to experience the visitation of God.
Secondly, Jairus saw Jesus, and he took a step of faith. 
Stepping out of the multitude caused Jairus to have direct contact with Jesus. 
Jesus knows all things, and the need of Jairus was not strange to Jesus. His stepping out and seeing Jesus was a renunciation of being a part of the multitude with pride. 
Just like Jairus, allow Jesus to see you in your need.
Thirdly, Jairus fell at His feet. 
He laid it all unto Jesus. 
Jairus did not allow his title to prompt pride in him when he fell before Jesus to make his request.
Pride could not shut open the door for the healing of the daughter of Jairus.

Prayer for today:  Ask for the answering hand of God against the agent that shuts the open door.

FAITH CAPSULE: The enemy is in the business of disrupting the flow of any good doing.

Joshua 1

The process of the journey demands the preparation to excel for the glory of God.
In the life journey, the enemy is always on track to deny one, not to arrive at an expected end.
The enemy is stubborn not to give up wicked agenda. 
Devil is the master of wickedness and was stubbornly wicked in his attempt at Jesus. 
Jesus, the time of coming out of His forty days of fast, the devil repeatedly tempted Him but failed.
The book of Luke 4:13 records, “Now when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from Him until an opportune time.”
The devil promised not to give up but will always seek another time to activate its wickedness.
Have you accepted Jesus? 
Accepting Christ is not an indication that one is free from experiencing temptation. 
Under Heaven, temptation or sin will not go away as long as the devil is around.
The Israelites had the word of God to bring them to the promised land that flows with milk and honey land.
Despite the promise of God in place for the Israelites, there was a warning not to fail.}
Leviticus 18:1-5 records, “Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘I am the LORD your God. According to the doings of the land of Egypt, where you dwelt, you shall not do; and according to the doings of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you, you shall not do; nor shall you walk in their ordinances. You shall observe My judgments and keep My ordinances, to walk in them: I am the LORD your God. You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man does, he shall live by them: I am the LORD.”
God sees the future. 
God pointed out He was bringing the children of Israel out of bondage (Egypt), a land of sin, and taking them to Canaan land of opportunity. 
One coming out of the land of sin and going into the promise of God is a great grace.
For the Israelites, coming out of the bondage of Egypt to Canaan is the process and preparation for provision.
The process of the journey is what will prepare everyone for the provision of God. 
All should know that the enemy is in the business with disruption of preparation to possess the promise of God.
Adapting to meditating on the word of God, as stated in the book of Joshua chapter eight, is the way of observing the word of God.
Meditate on the word of God day and night to be observing the word of God day and night.

Prayer for today: Ask that the word of God become established in your life for His deliverance and preservation over your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Look up to God by obtaining the mercy of God.

Psalm 34

Maintain looking up to God instead of looking up to the world.
God is a merciful God. 
Who do you remember to look up to? 
Psalm 20:7 states, “Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.”
Lifting eyes to God is evidence of having the confidence to trust in Him. 
All should have confidence in God. 
To fear God and have faith is what pleases God. 
Lifting eyes to God is giving a jealous God attention, the antidote for a jealous God.
The Psalmist stated, “Unto You, I lift up my eyes, O You who dwell in the heavens. Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, As the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, So our eyes look to the LORD our God Until He has mercy on us.” (Psalm 123:1-2) Emphasis on the request for mercy by the Psalmist, the evidence of being dependent on God. 
Without a doubt, constant consistency in studying the word of God, 
will live loving God.
Exodus 20:6, “…but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.” 
Obtaining His mercy is in obeying His command. 
Every time one sees the face of God, such is waiting on God with the expectation that there is none to depend on but Him.
Isaiah 64:4 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.” 
God will act for one that seeks Him. 
Have you been looking for a man to act on your behalf? 
God clothed with majesty is the only worthy God.
Look up to God. 
Put confidence in God that embraces one in His palm. 
The Psalmist must have been looking up to Him with the understanding that God will look upon him when he states, “Look upon me and be merciful to me, as Your custom is toward those who love Your name.” (Psalm 119:132) 
Do you love the name of God?
Is your love set for the world?
All should set love for God to gain and retain the presence of God.
Set love for God to gain and retain His presence.
Look up to God by obtaining the mercy of God. 
Looking up to God is maintaining hope in God to gain deliverance from every form of shame. Psalm 34:5 records, “They looked to Him and were radiant, and their faces were not ashamed.”
It is never too late to turn around by looking up to God instead of looking to the world.

Prayer for today: Ask not to look away from God, and He shall not hide His face from your going and coming.