FAITH CAPSULE: In this wicked world, keep focus on God by leaning on the hand of God

Daniel 1

In this wicked world, do not allow the challenges before you to become your focus, to deny your focus on God for His hand of deliverance.
Know to remain focused on God as a way of life in the wicked world.
As a result of the fact that your expectation of the past did not manifest, know that it is never too late for the manifestation in the coming days.
In this wicked world, keep focus on God by leaning on the hand of God, which is not short for intervention.
God is a merciful God who does not sleep or slumber.
God does not overlook His children but shall respond at His appointed time.
Time is in the hands of God, but only the clock can be turned back and forward by man.
Keep eyes on God for His hand that is not short.
Isaiah 50:2 records the question of God stating,“Is My hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver?”
Isaiah 59:1 also records the testimony of the hand of God, stating, “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save…”
The hand of God is worth keeping eyes on God without ceasing.
The wickedness of the world cannot stop the deliverance in the hand of God.
Through the pages of the Bible, there are deliverances of God that are not beyond His hand.
At a young age, Daniel, the wicked of the world, placed him in the hand of Nebuchadnezzar for destruction, but the hand of God intervened for his deliverance.
Daniel refused to deny his focus on God while in captivity.
At one point, “Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.” (Daniel 1:8)
As a captive, challenges before Danial could not set him up against his God but positioned him for promotion from level to level.
What is your stubborn challenge in the past month?
This day, be encouraged, be assured in the hand of God that is not short. It is the same hand of God that delivered Daniel that will also deliver and preserve those who keep their eyes on Him, in the coming days, weeks, months, and years.
Daniel faced challenges, but the hand of God was not short for Daniel.
Daniel gained promotion, but the challenges could not overtake his life.
Daniel ended up in the den of lions.
The lion received a promotion to receive fresh meat (life of Daniel), but had no appetite to feast on Daniel as the fresh meat.
The life of Daniel was in the hands of God for his deliverance from untimely death.

Prayer for today: Ask for the agents of evil in your life to become food for lions.

FAITH CAPSULE: Be humble in your ways of life to live obediently to God.

Philippians 2

Giving regard to God as a way of life is not to live a life of waste.
Live a humble life.
Understand God to live life for His glory.
One who understands God knows God.
Give regard to God and be humbled in His presence.
To be humble will enable one to run the race of life without becoming a vessel of faith failure.
A humble person is often one with a low estimate of their own importance.
God pays attention to how all conduct themselves in the journey of life. 
James 4:10 testifies that God pays attention to humble ones, “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.” 
One who is humble is meek.
The Bible identifies the meek ones:
Psalm 37:11, “But the meek shall inherit the earth, And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.”
Matthew 5:5, “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. “
God is consistent and committed to His promise as 2 Chronicles 7:14 records the promise of God for humble ones, “…if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
Are you humble and glaring by your way of life?
With the desire, will you give yourself to become humble, to claim the promises of God over the life of one who is humble?
Are you considering how to remain humble in this challenging time and not become a vessel of faith failure? 
Philippians 2:3-8 identifies several ways to be humble, “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. 4 Let each of you look out not only for his own interests but also for the interests of others. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.” 
Be humble in your ways of life to gain the attention of God.
Jesus humbled Himself and was obedient to the point of death on the cross.
Moses was humbled, Numbers 12:3 testifies, “Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.” 
Make it your way of life to be humbled, keep your eyes on God, and not become a victim of faith failure in this challenging trouble of today.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to become humble before Him.

FAITH CAPSULE:  Are you one about God for His favor, His visitation for His salvation?

Genesis 39, Esther 2:1-18

Giving regard to God in every possible way is the effort of seeking Him diligently, to find Him.
One who understands God knows Him.
One with no understanding of God certainly does not know God.
To understand Him is to listen to God.
Give regard to God, and He will remember you.
God remembers with favor.
Psalmist prayed, “Remember me, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people. Oh, visit me with Your salvation.” (Psalm 106:4)
Favor is what makes the difference in every journey of life. 
When God pours out His Favor, one shall live life for the glory of God.
The favor of God is with the grace which God freely grants. 
God for yesterday is still the God of today and tomorrow, having mercy on whom He chose to have mercy on.
Are you one about God for His favor, His visitation for His salvation?
By your way of life, do you rightly deserve the favor of God?
God is merciful, and if you sincerely desire His favor, He will deposit His favor over your life.
Esther experienced the visitation of God not because she was perfect in her way of life.
Esther was an orphan raised by her uncle after her father and mother had passed away.
While at the palace of King Ahasuerus, Esther experienced God.
The failure of Queen Vashti was the gain for Esther.
Queen Vashti lost it when she dishonored King Ahasuerus, the door to favor for Esther to become the queen.
Today, pray that a door of favor will open for you.
Esther experienced favor to be chosen among many women to become the queen in place of Queen Vashti. 
Esther 2:9 documents the channel of the favor Esther, “Now the young woman pleased him, and she obtained his favor; so he readily gave beauty preparations to her, besides her allowance. Then seven choice maidservants were provided for her from the king’s palace, and he moved her and her maidservants to the best place in the house of the women.”
In your challenge, are you seeking the favor of any man or woman?
Esther did not need additional help because God was operating on her behalf. 
When the favor of God is in place, all that it takes to meet every need will be in place. What you thought was a need shall become available for you. 
Favor is not your merit; it is God working on your behalf. 
Favor has no age barrier or any form of discrimination.
Only God alone has the power to grant what He desires in the life of any as He desires.
It is never too late for you to be blessed and highly favored because He is a faithful God.
Are you with the expectation of the favor of God?

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to walk with Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Waiting on God is giving regard to God.

Hebrews 11

To have faith is the condition for one to get from God.
Having faith is to have a living trust and hope in God.
Hebrews 11:1 describes what faith means: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
Asking, seeking, and knocking for the intervention of God is waiting to get an open-door answer. 
God is a good God who cares for His creation and is in a position to wait for the faith that promotes His action.
Isaiah 64:4 testifies, “For since the beginning of the world men has 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.” 
To wait, God demands asking, seeking, and knocking, the evidence of having understanding and knowledge of God.
God is a caring God who acts for anyone who waits for Him. 
Jesus buttresses, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” (Matthew 7:7) 
“And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” (Matthew 21:22)
Waiting by asking, seeking, and knocking is the key to receiving from God. However, waiting for that is not rooted in understanding that God hears all and answers all at His appointed time, which will lead to frustration. 
Frustration can lead to rebellion rooted in disobedience.
Psalm 91:15 encourages, “He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.” 
Knowing to call on Him will provoke His hand for an undeniable miracle because He is God, true to His word. 
The book of Isaiah 58:9 also confirms the faithfulness of God,“Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am…’”
Understand, know to wait as David testifies, 1 Samuel 22:4, “I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies.” 
It is the heart that trusts to remember calling amid troubling challenges. 
King David was an example of one who understood how to wait on God.
David demonstrates that waiting is a must.
David waited and did not go to war without seeking God.
Twice in 1 Samuel 23, verses 2 and 4, David repeatedly inquired from God before going to war against the Philistines. 
The Israelites cried in the bondage of over four hundred years, “And the LORD said: ‘I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians…” (Exodus 3:7-8) 
God is consistent, and He will not fail in honoring His word; do not fail to wait in asking, seeking, and knocking. 
Look up and ask Him.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you with the strength to focus on waiting to receive from Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Knowing that God knows all and He deserves to be called on Him in all.

Genesis 11:1-9

God alone knows more about all because He alone created all. 
For God, no qualified doctor received a contract to help God in creating anyone. 
God alone is the perfect God of creation. 
God knows all about all.
The word of God to Jeremiah testifies to the truth that God knows all about all.
Jeremiah 1:5 records, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; before you were born, I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”  
The word of God to Jeremiah speaks to all without exception. 
God alone knows the beginning to the end of everyone.
Whatever God proposes, no one can dispose of it. 
What God disposes of, no man can propose it.
What are you proposing without asking God? 
Knowing that He knows all, it is good to call on Him for all. 
Think and know that it does not matter what you are, who you are, or where you are. 
However, remember that all are under heaven and not beyond the reach of the One and only eternal creator. 
In the Bible days, people failed to propose before God, having intention when they said,“Come let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” (Genesis 11:4) 
The proposed building was not the problem, but the motive behind the proposal conflicted with the Almighty God of creation. 
Having been blessed with a plain land, with no obstruction, for construction, the people wanted to construct and grow beyond their boundaries. 
Are you proposing on your own to misposition the blessing of God by attempting to make yourself a name, not having God to be glorified?
Do you want to stand tall above and know better than your creator? 
Consciously or unconsciously, are you considering or attempting to raise your shoulder above your head? 
Have you taken all proposed to God? 
Nothing is wrong when proposing to grow in the blessings of God.
A proposal that does not center on God is an indirect withdrawal from the only One who can make or unmake the fulfillment of the proposal. 
It does not matter how huge or small you propose, prayer before God. 
Let it be that you are letting Him know what He knows before you know. 
He has seen the future from the past. 
He is a jealous God, and He deserves all your attention so He can attend to you even more than you expect. 
Take all your proposals, desires, hopes, and dreams to the Lord with a humble heart, and He will increase you as He pleases.

Prayer for today: Ask to be praising God continually with all your heart.