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TRUE IS TRUTH

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: The way is the truth, not to compromise.

John 14

How you live life by the word of God will determine when and where you exit. 
There is no reasonable excuse to journey outside of the way.
The way, the truth, and the life cannot fail when engaged in life. 
In John 14:6, the Word of God admonishes all, “…I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”  
Christ is the only way to the truth of God. 
In the journey of life, many ways seem right, but not exit to the presence of God. 
Proverbs 14:12, 16:25 warns, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” (Proverbs 14:12).
Today, are you on the right way or journeying where it seems right? 
It is not about what you think or what seems right, but knowing the truth is always right. 
The Challenges will emerge on the journey of life, but standing on the right way shall be your way to overcome as Psalm 34:19 records, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.”  
The awesome God is more than able to see you through, and He has put in place deliverance plans for all that engage the right way.
God is never in a rush but is a perfect timekeeper. 
Ecclesiastes testifies, “To everything, there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven…” (Ecclesiastes 3:1).
Today, avoid distractions and focus on the truth of God, not to fail.
Remain steadfast on the way to the truth, but distractions shall not overtake your journey. 
Remain steadfast on the way to the truth, but distractions shall not overtake your journey.
Giving self-outside of the way of God can lead to the wrong destination.
Do not compromise the word of God with the signs of the world that is outside of God.
For instruction to arrive in His presence, allow the word of Psalm 32:8 to have a place in your heart as it states: “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.”
In the journey of life, there is an exit time.
On your life journey, do not allow your existence to become corrupted. 
It is of little or no importance how long it takes to journey in life if you do not get fuel by the living word of God.
Get on the journey, keep on the right path, and have God as the pilot. 
He that goes in the way of God always gets to the presence of God.
In the life journey, make the right choice today by engaging the way of God. 
Jesus is the Word of God, the truth, and the Way of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you in the journey of life not to miss His place after your exit from this world. 

SEE IN GOD

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: Always remember that the Word of God is God. 

Joshua 6

The Word of God is God.
The Bible speaks that, in the beginning, was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1)
The Word of God is sent for man to behold God in His Word, to see God.
The ability to listen to God in His word will make man behold (see) God for direction, live life for God, and not become wasted in the face of this wicked world.
Always remember that the Word of God is God. 
Without a doubt, when one listens to the Word of God, one must behold (see) the word of God and be built up with boldness and character.
The combination of boldness and character is a winning combination.
Boldness and character are rooted in listening to see and be living life by the Word of God will make one a winner, a winner to the glory of God.
In the Word of God, there is a direction that never fails. 
For example, Joshua needed to behold (see) the word of God to gain boldness and character for winning over Jericho. 
Jericho posed as an enemy attempting to stop the advance of the Israelites to the Promised Land. 
Joshua 6:1-2 records the calling of Joshua to see (to behold) in the Word of God, “Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel; none went out, and none came in. And the Lord said to Joshua: “See! I have given Jericho into your hand, its king, and the mighty men of valor.”  
See in what the Word of God speaks to you to receive what you see, to become of you.
Joshua moved by what he saw in the word of God as direction to go against the enemy (the challenge of the Jericho wall). For Joshua, the Bible record the result of seeing and action according to the Word of God: “The wall fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. And they utterly destroyed all.” (Joshua 6:20-21)  
With listening, gain understanding to see in the Word of God, to address your challenge victoriously. 
Joshua listened; he was able to behold (to see) direction in the word of God as he gained character and boldness to become the winner over Jericho. 
At all times, God wants all to see in Him (His word) to engage in a direction not to be a failure. 

Payer for today:

Ask that you begin to hear, see and receive in the Living word of God for victory, not to be a victim of fear of the enemy with its attempt to deny you from moving forward in the plans of God for your life.

Ask that the Living word of God for direction to victory become activated in your life, to bring down flat every work of the enemy to fail in your life just as the WALL of Jericho of the enemy fell flat in the name of Jesus.

KNOW AND UNDERSTAND

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: Know and understand that God does not fail in His plans and promises.

Numbers 13
During the wilderness journey, the children of Israel could not trust and have hope to see in the word of God to take them to the Promised Land. 
They trusted God to bring them out of the bondage of over four hundred years but had no hope for their arrival at the plans and promise of God.
While the Israelites were at the Wilderness of Paran, waiting to move into the Canaan, God spoke to Moses to send men to spy out to the land of Canaan. (Numbers 13)
Moses sent out spies to the land of Canaan. 
The spies returned with a report and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. Nevertheless, the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there. The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.” (Numbers 13:27-29)
The spies reported with trust, mentioning the goodness of the land.
However, the report was without hope because of the fear of the people of the land. Numbers 13:31-33 states, “But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants), and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.” 
The spy lacked trust and hope in the deliverance of God.
The lack of trust and hope prompted fear before God. 
Except for Joshua and Caleb, the Israelites complained and confessed negatively before God.
God responds to the negative confession of the Israelites: Numbers 14:28-30, “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.”
Know and understand that God does not fail in His plans and promises, but it is the man that voids the condition to claim the promise of God.
Give full attention to the word of God that says blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is in the Lord. (Jeremiah 17:7)

Prayer for today: Ask God to locate you with trust and hope at all times.

ACKNOWLEDGE GOD

Devotions

FAITH CAPSULE: God brought you this far, and His hand will keep you through.

IT IS NOT LATE
With God, it is never too late.
In life, it is not about how long it is taking you to receive from God the manifestation of your expectation but to give thanks to God for how far He has brought you.
Everybody gets from God, but no one gets everything.
The hand of God is able for all. 
Acknowledge God for His hand that is not short in keeping you.
Isaiah 59:1 records: “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear.”
Ask God to give you what you can handle, and appreciate Him with no complaint.
Listen, it is not late to wait on God.
Know to continue waiting on God.
Knowing to wait on God will not live a life of waste but live life for the glory of God.
This season, in all your going and coming, in all your endeavors, keep waiting on God continually.
Waiting on God is asking from God. 
Waiting on God will always lead to an unfailing direction of God.
The way to have the rest of God is in waiting on Him, and not waiting on Him is the way to go astray. 
God is a God of time and process. 
The time of God is not the same as the time of man, and the process of God is not like the process of man. 
The timing of God is perfect, and His process is a preparation for where He has time for everyone to be. 
Waiting on God can be defined as remaining unmoving until expected manifests. 
Waiting on God is also putting off further activity until later. 
Waiting on God usually entails staying for a short or long time and a definite purpose.
Without absolute trust in waiting on God, there will be no result for waiting on God. 
The Psalmist testifies, “O my God, I trust in You; let me not be ashamed; let not my enemies triumph over me. Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed; Let those be ashamed who deal treacherously without cause.” (Psalm 25:2-3) 
Trusting in God is what energizes waiting on Him. 
There is a consequence when waiting on God to know in the way of God.
Waiting on God will reveal where one is doing wrong in the right place.
Wait on God to know and correct what you are doing wrong in the place of doing right.
DO NOT FORGET
Forgetting what God has done? 
Do not be discouraged by the reason for the delay in your expectation from God. 
Importantly, know that delay is not a denial, but give yourself to Psalm 103:2, “Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits.” 
Blessing the name of God all the time and in all things is the evidence that one remembers Him. 

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you to disregard His timing over your life.

MAY 2022 FAITH MAIL

Monthly Newsletter

HE REMEMBERS 

This new month of the year, are you complaining before God, asking how long you wait with no manifestation of your expectation?
Be thankful to God, and appreciate how far God has brought you in life, not how long your expectation is yet to manifest.
Complaining is the expression of dissatisfaction that can position one for a painful journey in life.
The Israelites complained, and God responded, “The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness…” (Numbers 14:29)
Pray not to be a victim of the spirit of complaint but pray that God shall remember you with favor and visit you with salvation. 
God does not forget but remembers.
Psalm 106:4 states, “Remember me, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people. Oh, visit me with Your salvation.”
What one asks is desires, and God deposits to gain desires.
The word of God encourages asking to receive. (Matthew 7:7)
This day, ask that God remember you with favor and visit you with salvation.
God does not forget but remembers to reverse irreversible challenges and visits with salvation.
WHEN GOD REMEMBERS TO DELIVER, HE WILL VISIT TO BRING ONE OUT OF BONDAGE.
The Israelites were in bondage for over four hundred years, and God remembers with a favor that gave freedom from the hand of Pharaoh.
With visitation was the stretch out-hand for deliverance. 
All should know to call on God to become remembered for deliverance.
When the Israelites cried out in bondage, God remembered them for deliverance from the bondage of Egypt.
Exodus 2:24 records, “So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.”
God does not forget but remembers.
Are you looking up to God to remember you with favor?
With the remembrance with favor, God visited with salvation when He committed His stretch-out hand to bring the Israelites out of the evil of Pharao of Egypt.
Exodus 3:20 records the visitation of God by His hand, “So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in its midst, and after that, he will let you go.”
The hand of God brought the Israelites out of the evil bondage of Egypt with His mighty hand and an outstretched arm.
Are you looking outside of the remembrance and visitation of God over your life for deliverance and preservation?
Keep eyes on God, and have the expectation to be remembered and visited with salvation.
JESUS REMEMBERS HIS DISCIPLES THE SELF-LOCKED FROM FEAR.
When God remembers to open one up, He will visit to unlock such from self-locked because of fear.
The disciples of Jesus walked with Him, dined with Him, sat around Him, and listened to His word to know and understand what was to happen but not understand His word. 
After His crucifixion, they locked themselves in fear of the wicked ones despite His spoken word for them before His crucifixion.
Jesus remembered them to visit them. 
As they assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst and spoke peace to them. (John 20:19)
Jesus repeatedly remembered His disciples and visited them with salvation while they self-locked up because of fear.
Thomas, a disciple, asked for the signs of proof of the crucifixion to believe Jesus.
Jesus responded to Thomas, “Jesus said to him, “Thomas because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” (John 20:29) 
The response of Jesus to Thomas speaks to all acclaimed believers.
The disciples, acclaimed believers, lack the understanding to be free, the evidence of a lack of faith and not knowing the truth of God.
The grace and mercy God remembers with favor and visit with salvation for one not to become a victim of fear that terminates calling over the life of called ones.
Are you one that is self-locked up by the fear of the wicked, militating force against your life consciously or unconsciously?
Turn to God, calling for Him to remember you with favor and visit you with salvation, not become a victim of fear of the wicked world. 
Do you believe in Jesus?
Will you believe in Him with a desire for Him to remember you with favor and visit you for salvation?  
The word of God encourages, “but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.” (John 20:31)
The word of God is to be engaged for declaration, not for decoration. 
Romans 15:4 buttresses, “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.”
The word of God does not return to Him void.
With understanding, give yourself to the word of God continually, expecting Him to remember you with favor and visit you with salvation.
This month, continually ask that you will live life for God to experience His presence by Him remembering you.