FAITH CAPSULE: Trusting is not just word of mouth, but word from the heart, the character of trust and hope. 

Joshua 14, Psalm 23

Trusting God is to rest on the promises of God that never fail.
Trusting God is confidence in the certainty of His deliverance and preservation power.
Are you doubting and not trusting in God?
Trusting God is to rest on the promises of God that never fail.
King David was so sure to trust in God when he said, “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.” (Psalm 23:1)
What is better than to know that with God is deliverance and preservation? 
God is a shield where there is no reason for fear in all areas of life.
King David was so sure to trust in God and not entertain fear. 
David walked and did not run through the valley of the shadow of death. He testifies, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.” (Psalm 23:4) 
Knowing to trust God is not the same as knowing about trusting God. 
One that knows about trusting God does not have hope to trust God in the heart. 
Have faith to trust in God and be filled by God. 
In the valley of the shadow of death, walk confidently in the certainty of the deliverance of God.  
In life, through the wilderness, the only way out to the expected end is to trust God with hope. 
God is always at every juncture to make a way where there is no way and no sign of survival. 
Caleb and Joshua survived among thousands of the children of Israel that left Egypt for the Promised Land.
Caleb and Joshua survived because they saw hope where there was no hope. 
Caleb and Joshua trusted God enough and took an odd stand among their brethren that failed to trust in the promise of God. 
Caleb trusted God and testified, “I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart.” (Joshua 14:7)  Trusting is not just word of mouth, but word from the heart the character of trust and hope. 
Unlike Caleb and Joshua, the people who went to spy on the land failed to trust in the heart. 
Caleb testified, “Nevertheless my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I wholly followed the LORD my God.” (Joshua 14:8) 
Caleb trusted in God to prompt the keeping of God to testify, “And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the LORD spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old.” (Joshua 14:10) 
God is trustworthy!

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled by trusting God.

Faith Capsule: By the word of God, obey, dwell and wait before God.

Hebrews 11:8-19

The word of God is a command that requires obedience without compromise. 
When the word of God sounds in your direction, it is worthy to obey and dwell by waiting on the word of God. 
Abraham is the testimony to obey, dwell and wait on the word of God.
The Bible records Abraham, “By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” (Hebrews 11:8-10)
Obedience of Abraham: 
When God called Abraham out from his country, his father, and his family to an unknown land, he obeyed fully by launching out as commanded by God. 
Although there was no idea of where he was going, it was ideal for him not to question God. 
Abraham had no reasonable excuse to decline the calling upon his life but obeyed God by moving from certainty to uncertainty. 
Are you obeying to obtain good testimonies?
The dwelling of Abraham: 
Abraham dwelt on the word of God. 
Abraham lives by the word of God, and that is dwelling in the secret place of God.
Psalm 91:1 buttresses, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” 
Are you a truthful believer that knows to dwell in the word of God? Abraham did not look back to where he was coming from but went forward to the calling of God. 
He dwelt under the shadow of the word of God to move him forward. 
With faith in the word of God, he moved to a foreign country, and his faith caused him to obtain good testimonies.
The word of God is a story that is not a secret for one that is limited in understanding.
Like Abraham, engage the word of God, the secret to obey for the glory of God.
The word of God is a secret to dwell in and be delivered, not to become a victim of a wicked world.
Abraham dwelt in the word of God. 
Waiting of Abraham: 
Abraham obeyed God; he dwelt and waited on God for the deliverance and preservation of the word of God. 
Those who know to dwell in God know to wait patiently on God. 
Hebrews 11:10 records the waiting of Abraham on God, “For he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” Indeed, Abraham lived by waiting for the future that was not yet in sight. 
Waiting on the word of God can be painful but is gainful for obedient ones.
The understanding of Abraham, his knowledge of the word of God, prompted him to obey and obtain the testimony of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you with open ears and eyes of the heart to live for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: The message from God is for all to live by the word of God. 

1 Corinthians 13

If the acclaimed believers know God, not limited by knowing about God, darkness should not prevail over the world today.
Many gather as a believer of God but far from God, with no room for the word of God to take over the way of life. 
As a believer, in your place of assumed worshiping ground, are you expecting the move of the power of God? 
Expecting the power of God where there is no love for God and not keeping to the word of God is self-deception. 
1 John 4:8 admonishes, “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.” 
The message from God is for all to live by the word of God.
Today, seek and give self to the message of God for all His creation.
1 John 1:5 records the message of God, “This is the message which we have heard from Him and declares to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.”  
God is light, and one that knows Him, not about knowing about will reflect Him. 
Without a doubt, if acclaimed believers thronging ground of worship in the name of God knows God, indeed, and in truth, darkness would probably have disappeared on the face of the earth. 
Today, the darkness of wickedness is hoovering the whole world.
With self-sincerity, today, search yourself as David did in Psalm 139:23-24 stating, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.” 
Search to know God by His word rather than to know about God.
Know God by keeping His commandment. 1 John 2:3-5 testifies, “Now by this, we know that we know Him if we keep His commandments. He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this, we know that we are in Him.”  
Get to know God to live by His command.
To know about God does not know God to love as His word commands.
Love for God should not be limited to the mouth or head but be demonstrated by walking in the word of God. 
1Corinthians 13:4-8 records the love of God, “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.”  
The desire that God will take charge of your life.

Prayer for today: Ask for the word of God to be established over your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: A failure not to ignore delay can turn one out of the way of God. 

Exodus 32:1-14

Delays can be discouraging as the process of a hindrance. 
In life, a delay in the process can terminate a positive expectation.
As a believer, there should be an understanding that delay is not a denial. 
Are you experiencing a delay in any area of life? 
It is important to note that whenever there is a failure to ignore any delay, there will be doubt in place. 
With doubt comes every reason to despise the faithfulness of God that is rooted in the word of God.
Exodus 32:1 records, “Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”
The delay of Moses on the mountain prompted the doubt of the Israelites. 
The Israelites should have known quite well that God could not have abandoned them, yet they gave themselves unnecessary worry. 
The Israelites demonstrated unfaithfulness because of the delay of Moses on the mountain.
The Israelites could not wait on God when they looked for another god. 
The truth is that waiting on God can never become waste. 
In life, some delays are what measure faithfulness before God. 
When the delay of Moses became glaring in the sight of the children of Israel, they began to seek a god to take over from God.
Put in mind that God is not substitutable.
One that substitutes God in times of waiting on Him is snubbing God, which never fails to answer to believing believers.
A failure not to ignore delay will derail one on the track to experience the visitation of God.
Are you experiencing a delay? 
Your delay will turn into deliverance if you trust and wait in the name of Jesus. 
The Bible declares in Philippians 4:6-7, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” 
Unexpected delays will generate concern, and there will be every reason to be anxious. 
The word encourages by stating the antidote for anxiousness: Take all to God in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, and the peace of God will take over you. 
Instead of seeing a delay, be encouraged by seeing in the word of God. God alone is the One that delivers, and He controls all. 
Deny delay; declare all His goodness and His mercy that never expire. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to wait patiently on his hand.

FAITH IS WAITING 

FAITH CAPSULE: Have faith to wait by asking without a doubt to gain from God.

Psalm 91

Asking, seeking, and knocking for the intervention of God is waiting to get an open-door answer. 
God is a good God that cares for His creation. 
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 is asking, seeking, and knocking the evidence of having understanding and knowledge of God.
Are you one that assumes or with assurance for getting an answer in times of challenges? 
God is a caring God who acts for the one 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 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 that is 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 with understands to wait and not go to war without looking up to seek the face of God. Twice in 1 Samuel 23, verses 2 and 4, he 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.