FAITH CAPSULE: The wilderness journey is inevitable for all that is with the calling of God. 

Exodus 13:17-22, Matthew 4:1-17

Navigating the wilderness journey of life is with challenges.
The time of the wilderness journey of life comes with the spiritual, emotional, or physical challenge that is never beyond the intervention of God.
Jesus experienced the challenge of temptation in His journey of life.
The Bible records, “Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.” (Matthew 4:1) 
Jesus, Lord, and savior passed through the wilderness before getting to the center of His divine assignment.
If Jesus could not escape the experience of the wilderness journey of life to arrive at the center of the divine assignment, no one shall escape the challenges of the wilderness journey of life.
In life, it is how wild a wilderness journey is that will determine how challenging one will engage for the glory of God. 
The deliverance of the Israelites out of the bondage of over four hundred years to the Promised Land could not be through a back road but the wilderness journey. 
Exodus 13:17-18 records, “Then it came to pass when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt.” So God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt.” The wilderness journey of life is with no avoidance of challenges.
Navigating the wilderness journey goes through the process and becomes positioned in the promise of God.
The wilderness journey is not a journey that one plans for but is a journey that puts one in the plan of God.
The wilderness journey is not a journey of the comfort of choice or interest. 
The wilderness journey is a journey for everyone in the hand of God to pass through to learn obedience. 
The wilderness journey is inevitable for all that is with the calling of God. 
In your answering to the calling of God, are you seeking a back road or shortcut to avoid the wilderness journey?
The wilderness journey is a journey of trial and temptation that can be an unencouraging route with pain.
Obedience to the direction of God is the only available avenue that leads through the promise of God into claiming the promises of God without failure. 
Any attempt to avoid the wilderness journey will make a believer become a wanderer not to arrive at the promised plan of God.
Engage your wilderness journey by knowing that God shall see you through.
The wilderness journey is a wild journey where nothing works but faith. 

Prayer for today: Ask from God that you shall not become a victim of termination navigating the wilderness journey of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Watching and praying is asking, seeking, and knocking to call on God.

Psalm 141

Prayer is not a parade to impress man but to provoke the hand of God for His favor of goodness. 
Prayer is a labor that is not for one with the spirit of laziness. 
The prayer of Jesus in the garden demonstrates that prayer is labor that God cannot ignore. Luke 22:44 identifies the labor prayer of Jesus, “And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.” 
Engage prayer with labor as a way of life in this wicked world to be saved. 
Give yourself to prayer.
Prayer is the master key to assessing and receiving from God. 
With understanding, prayer is not assuming to receive from God but to ask, seek or knock just as Matthew 7:7 records, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”
To ask or think is praying to receive as Ephesians 3:20 records, “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.”
Before God, ask with action rooted in faith for God to see and not deny an answer.
To seek is in watching not to miss when God answers.
Knocking persistently for an open door will not deny the prayer as the master key to open or lock.
Watching and praying is asking, seeking, and knocking to call on God.
Pray with understanding for knowing to gain an edge in challenges.
The word of God points to all the importance of seeking God with understanding as Psalm 47:7 denotes, “For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.” 
As the word of God demands to sing praises with understanding, praying before God and other ways of seeking God is not with the exemption from praying with understanding.
With a prayer of understanding, God does not ignore.
With prayer, one cannot be quiet to become victorious.
Prayer is action. The evidence of having understanding and knowledge of God will always gain the attention of God. 
1 Samuel 2:3 admonishes, “For the Lord is the God of knowledge; And by Him, actions are weighed.” 
Let your prayer be an action that carries weights before God that will provoke God to incline His ear to your prayer.
A prayer that carries weight before God cannot be blown as with no weight away from the presence of God by any force of wicked.
How is your prayer life?
Are you praying to God from the head or heart?
Is your prayer rooted in the word of God or the word of your head?
Is your prayer at your convenience and without commitment before God?
Apostle Paul identifies the importance of how prayer should be to gain the attention of God, as he states in Acts 6:4, “but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
Let praying before God become your priority as your way of life.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to always watch in your prayer.

FAITH CAPSULE: In challenge time, do not worry but give yourself to worshipping God.

Psalm 3

When trouble increase, it becomes challenging trouble. 
Challenging trouble is a growing trouble that persists but with no sign for it to cease. 
Challenging trouble often graduates to permanent when it does not cease.
Challenging trouble is intending to terminate the troubled ones. 
Are you worrying instead of worshipping God?
David had increasing trouble when he said, “Lord, how they have increased who trouble me! Many are they who rise up against me. Many are they who say of me, “There is no help for him in God.” (Psalm 3:1-2)
TWO WAYS AMONG WAYS DAVID APPROACHED HIS TROUBLE.
One of the testimonies of how David dealt with increasing trouble in his life records, “But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, My glory and the One who lifts up my head.” (Psalm 3:3)  
David acknowledged the awesomeness of God instead of allowing his trouble to overtake his life. He refused to be reduced or excused himself from worshiping God. 
Acknowledging God in a time of increasing trouble is a way of thanking God; it is a way to provoke the hand of God for His intervention.
Acknowledging God in a time of troubling challenge is expressing what the Lord God can do, as David states, “One who lifts up my head…”
Acknowledging God in a time of troubling challenge is an action that God cannot ignore. 2 Samuel 2:3 testifies, “For the Lord is the God of knowledge, and by Him, actions are weighed.” 
Acknowledge God in time of trouble, and God shall acknowledge you.
Second testimony of how David dealt with his troubling challenge records, “I cried to the Lord with my voice, and He heard me from His holy hill.” (Psalm 3:4) 
Crying is not a sign of weakness. 
The challenge of David was not a silent cry. 
David cried out with his voice; it was not just a cry in his heart but a cry that went out loud to God at His holy hill. 
It is worthy to cry out loud to God, unlike being quiet not to become victorious. 
The word of God requests that we open our mouths wide. (Psalm 81:10) Open your mouth wide, and God will fill your open mouth. 
David testifies that the Lord heard him from His holy hill. 
God is not a partial God. Romans 2:11 points out, “For there is no partiality with God.” 
In your challenging trouble, do not count on crying out to any man, but cry out to God, and He will hear your cry as He heard to attend David. 
Regardless of how long your challenge persists, you make it a point to resist and insist on worshipping God for His divine intervention.
Be encouraged, know that God shall deliver.

Prayer for today: Ask that God shall lead and keep you not to become a victim of troubling challenges.

FAITH CAPSULE: Give yourself to God to walk with God.

Jude

Walking with God demands seeking God diligently to gain and retain the presence of God.
Walking with God will know God continually keeping track in the line of the word of God, not compromising the word of God.
Walking with God is not knowing about God, the evidence of not being mindful of God.
Walking with God demonstrates love for God by way of living life.
How can a man know God, to love God?
To know God starts by listening to the word of God.
With listening to the word of God comes understanding God.
The word of Jesus testifies to the importance of listening to understand God. 
John 8:43, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.” 
To know God is listening to His word, to gain an understanding of God.
There is no one born with an understanding and knowledge of God, it is after encountering the word of God. 
The Bible 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.” (Romans 15:4)  
The Bible points out that walking with God is giving self to God stating:
“But we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” (Acts 6:4)
Walking with God shall be committed to God to be built for God. Acts 20:32 records, “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.”
Jude 20-21, “But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.”
Giving yourself to the word of God is to become built to retain walking with God.
With no exception, all should continually but not casually give themselves to the word of God.
Walk with God by praying the word of God that is the power of God for direction not to fall.
Are you walking with God?
Proverbs 6:22 records the experience for one that walks with God, “When you roam, they will lead you; When you sleep, they will keep you; And when you awake, they will speak with you.”
Are you an acclaimed believer of God?
Search yourself to identify your walk with God to maintain self with God.
God is a good God that waits to act for those that wait on Him.
Give self to God continually.
One that gives self to the word of God is walking with God.

Prayer for today: Ask that you become one that walks with God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Serving God continually sets one for deliverance and preservation by God.

Daniel 6

Walking with God, walking before God, or walking in Him demands to have faith in the word of God to remain continual to do according to the command of God.
With continuity, Joseph served God with faith.
Joseph walked away from the sin that no one sees but, God sees all sin.
Joseph walked with God and could not become a victim of the evil, the wickedness of the world. 
At the time of his life journey, he could not yield to the pressure of the wife of his master that wanted to lay with him. Genesis 39:8-9 records, “But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Look, my master does not know what is with me in the house, and he has committed all that he has to my hand. There is no one greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”  
Joseph consciously engaged not sin before God to walk with God.
Walk with God walking away from sin.
Joseph testified his stand before God, “How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God.” 
Continuity should be constant with a consistent walk with God.
Daniel continually served God as his character when an unbeliever king recognized Daniel as serving the living God.
At the time of King Darius sentencing of Daniel to an untimely death in the den of lions, the king states: “Your God, whom you serve continually, He will deliver you.” (Daniel 6:16) 
The Bible documented the loss of the sleep of King Darius, waiting for the morning hour to check the demonstration of the faith of Daniel. 
Daniel 6:19-20 records, “Then the king arose very early in the morning and went in haste to the den of lions. And when he came to the den, he cried out with a lamenting voice to Daniel. The king spoke, saying to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?” 
King Darius, an unbeliever of God, recognized from Daniel living life for God consistently will not become a victim of the wicked world.
Daniel continually gives attention to God to gain deliverance and preservation attention of God.
After all night for Daniel among hungry lions, he responded to the king Darius: “Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever! My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths so that they have not hurt me because I was found innocent before Him; and also, O king, I have done no wrong before you.” (Daniel 6:21-22) 
The continuity of Daniel in serving God provoked heaven to give him unfailing attention of deliverance and preservation over his life.
Learn from the word of God to gain understanding and knowledge to serve God continually.

Prayer for today: Ask that you shall become enabled, to serve God continually.