FAITH CAPSULE: Do not be quiet to the doing of God.

Luke 8:26-48

One that is quiet by not testifying to the doing of God in life is as hiding the miracle of God.
In all that God has done, to be silent and not share is a hiding of the glory of God.
Testify to what God has done in your life.
Keep in mind that God creates all to live for His glory, honour, and power. (Revelation 4:11)
Allow sharing the testimony of the doing of God in your life, be of giving regard to God.
Do not be quiet when He visits your challenge.
There can never be enough tongue to proclaim what He has done or is doing in your life. 
Gain an understanding, do not be ignorant, which makes a believer destitute.
Sharing or listening to the testimony will lead to receiving a blessing from God.
Psalm 119:2 records, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart!”
The woman with the issue of blood (after twelve years of agony) quietly received her healing when she touched the edge of the garment of Jesus.
Jesus knew power left Him when she touched Him. 
Jesus asked who had touched Him, but the woman tried to hide, as stated in Luke 8:47, “Now when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling; and falling down before Him, she declared to Him in the presence of all the people the reason she had touched Him and how she was healed immediately.” 
The woman with the issue of blood touched Jesus, got healed, and wanted to hide.
Are you hiding the doing of God in your life?
Evidently, Jesus awaits the testimony of His doing to be testified, not to keep from the world.
At the Gadarenes, Jesus cast out the demons from a man who begged Him that he might go with Him. (Luke 8:26-28)
Jesus commanded him, “Return to your own house, and tell what great things God has done for you.” And he went his way and proclaimed throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.” (Luke 8:39) 
Every doing of God demands going around to testify for the glory of God.
Jesus visited a man with healing, and he became an evangelist as he went and proclaimed Jesus. 
The healed man by Jesus could not hide from what Jesus did in his life. 
The man formerly possessed by demons could not be quiet but proclaimed Jesus.
Jesus was and is the Almighty healer who deserves to be highly exalted.
What has He done for you lately that you have yet to tell others about His doing in your life?
Hiding the miracle of God is not the best way of moving forward.
He deserves proclamation for all He is doing in your life. 
Regardless of the magnitude of what he has done, let others around you know that God is still in the business of miracles. 
Someone needs to be encouraged today. 
Be blessed by proclaiming Him. 

Prayer for today: Pray that giving testimony of God be your portion.

FAITH CAPSULE: The spirit of lies and doubt follows to deny, derail or destroy.

John 20:19-30

TELLING LIES FOLLOWS TO DERAIL
Sapphira and Annanias were the victims of telling lies.
Before God, there is no major or minor matter of telling lies without consequence.
When telling lies becomes a character, there will be no escape from the consequences.
Often, telling lies can be prompted without warning or not, to engage it.
There is no excuse for telling lies before God.
Acts 5:1-3 documents the termination of the lives of Sapphira and Ananias, “But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession. And he kept back part of the proceeds, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet. But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself?”
There is nothing hidden from the sight of God.
Any violation of God prompts consequences.
Is telling lies a character following you consciously or unconsciously?
Acts 5:5 records the response to the telling of lies of Sapphira and Ananias, “Then Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and breathed his last.” (Acts 5:5)
Sapphira and Annanias lied before God and paid the consequence of telling lies.
The last lies followed them to the grave might not be the first of their telling lies.
Searching oneself to deny what follows, that is not of God, must be separated, not to become a victim.
One who sins follows shall be far from God, just as Romans 3:8 states, “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. “
What follows one, that is not of God, is an agenda of the devil to reduce or terminate arrival to the promise of God.
DOUBT FOLLOWS TO DERAIL.
Doubting is presenting oneself as faithless in the presence of God.
Demonstrating the understanding that doubting is not of God, but a spirit that reduces one from gaining the presence of God.
Among the opposites of doubt are faith, belief, and confidence.
Doubt lacks the trust or conviction to rely on God.
Thomas, a disciple of Jesus, walked with Jesus before Jesus went on the cross.
Thomas saw the miracles done by Jesus while He was with them
When Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead, he doubted the resurrection of Jesus.
When the disciples testify to Thomas about the resurrection of Jesus, Thomas responded, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.” (John 20:25)
The spirit of doubt followed Thomas.
Doubt is a killer, physically or spiritually.
One doubts follows knowingly or unknowingly, is not free, but becomes a slave to what follows.
Whatever it is that is not of God but follows, or one follows, can delay, derail, or deny arriving at the center of divine assignment for God.

Prayer for today:  Pray not to be a victim of telling lies and doubt.

FAITH CAPSULE: Whatever follows you that is not of God wants to deny you for the promise of God.

Exodus 32

THE CASE OF MOSES: ANGER FOLLOWED MOSES
Anger followed Moses to the point that he failed to step on the promise of God.
The evidence of the anger of Moses to kill when he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren. 
Moses assumed no one was looking at him, so he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. (Exodus 2)
The spirit of anger in Moses prompted him repeatedly not to step into the Promise of God.
Exodus 32:19 records the anger of Moses, “when he came near the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing. So Moses’ anger became hot, and he cast the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.”
The anger of Moses, in reaction to the sin of the Israelites, caused him to break the tablets written by the finger of God.
The error of Moses stemmed from his anger toward the Israelites, who were crying and complaining about the lack of water.
God commanded Moses to speak:
Gather the congregation of the Israelites.
Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water.
Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together at the rock.
Moses spoke (God did not ask him to speak rudely to the people), “Hear now, you rebels! Must we bring water for you out of this rock?”
Moses struck the rock twice with his rod (instead of speaking), and water came out abundantly.
Moses engaged the direction of God halfway, not fully. Half obedience is a full disobedience to the word of God.
Numbers 20:12 records the disobedience of Moses,“Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, ‘Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”
Getting angry in any form or for any reason does not excuse sinning before God.
Moses could not arrive at the promise of God for his life.
FAILURE TO FEAR GOD IS FAILURE TO FOLLOW GOD
FEAR FOLLOWED THE DISCIPLES OF JESUS
Fear that is not of God does not respect or announce or inform before it takes over in the life of its victim.
Imagine the disciples who followed Jesus but eventually demonstrated fear in their lives when Jesus went to the cross.
For example, Peter demonstrated the spirit of fear, crowded his life.
Jesus let Peter know he would deny Him, but Peter vehemently told Jesus he would not deny Him. (Matthew 14:27-50)
Jesus prayed that faith would uphold Peter not to become a victim of fear.
Luke 22:32 records the prayer of Jesus for Peter,“But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.”
Without doubt, when faith rises, fear will sink.
The fear of this world will prevent one from fully following God and not arrive at the promise of God.

Prayer for today:  Ask for the hand of God over your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: It is the will of God for all His creation to live for His glory.

Exodus 8

It is a responsibility to gain an understanding of why living.
In life, having understanding will determine how far to walk with or before God.
It is how one understands God that determines whether to follow God, living for the glory of God.
Those who walked with God followed God rightly.
Enoch walked with God, with no wrongdoing, until God took him. (Genesis 5:26)
Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations, who walked with God. (Genesis 9:10-11)
Abraham walked before God. (Genesis 17:1)
Walking with God, walking before God, is walking in Him.
The word of God points out that walking with God, walking before God, is walking in Him. Colossians 2:6 confirms, “As you, therefore, have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him.”
How is your walk that God knows?
Walking with God, walking before God, or walking in Him is living for God.
Revelation 4:11 reveals that all His creation lives for Him, exists for Him.
Revelation 4:11 records “You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.”
Living for God, existing for God, is following Him, to follow Him, to walk worth for His glory.
Follow God as His disciple.
As His disciple is not to live a life of waste.
Not to follow God as His disciples is disobedience to His word.
Disobedience to the word of God is disregarding God.
Disregard for the word of God is bound to be destroyed and not be built up by God (word of God).
Psalm 28:5 speaks to all, “Because they do not regard the works of the Lord, Nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them And not build them up.”
Are you giving regard to God in all your ways of life?
Search yourself to know if you are following Him or not following Him.
One who follows wrongly is the same as not following Him.
One set to live for God, called by God, or with the attempt to follow God, is bound to be in a position for the devil with the attempt to deny one following God.
Evidently, where God or what God sets for good is what the devil also intervenes to derail, so as not to live for the glory of God.
What one follows or what is following one consciously or unconsciously is with an agenda to derail, not to arrive at the divine assignment of God.
What follows you, or you follow not to live for the glory of God?
What follows one against the will of one will pose a threat like a slave master.
Like a slave master, what follows will be established by taking away freedom.
One without the ability to free oneself from what is not of God is evil to deny the arrival at serving God as a way of life.

Prayer for today: Ask against forces that are not of God, that shall not have a place in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: The right place to be is in the secret place of God.

Psalm 91

Psalm 27:5 states, “For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; In the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock.”
Through the pages of the Bible, it is clear that the word of God is His secret.
For example, God created all by His word.
Amos 3:7 records, “Surely the Lord God does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.”
His word is His secret for those who do not serve Him.
Those who serve Him are in place to know the secret and live by His secret.
Fear God constantly and consistently to dwell in His secret place.
Psalm 91:1 records, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” 
Interestingly, anyone who chooses to dwell in the secret place of the Most High?
One who gains a position in the secret place is supposed to become directed and preserved by God.
The word of God is God, and His shadow is of Him.
Know how to become secure under His shadow. 
However, the secret place of the Most High is not a physical place nor as in a church building.
One who fears God has a place in the presence of God. 
Psalm 25:14 admonishes, “The secret of the LORD is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant.”
Know to fear God and gain a dwelling and abiding in the secret of God.Among the blessings of dwelling in the secret place of the Most High God is uncommon protection in the face of confronting challenges. 
To be under the watchful eye of God that is not visible to the naked eye is to be in His secret place. 
Do you fear God indeed and in truth, or do you fear Him just at your mouth? 
What does it mean to fear God? 
To fear the Lord is to love the Lord.  
God wants all to love Him because He is love. 
Deuteronomy 30:6 buttresses,“And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.” 
To fear the Lord is to love Him.
To love Him is to live for the glory of God. 
Those who dwell in the fear of God are in His secret place. 
One cannot fear God today and not fear Him tomorrow, the character of dwelling and abiding.
Fear God continually, expecting to dwell in the secret place of the Most High. 
Dwelling in a secret place demands living constantly and consistently in the fear of God. 
Without the fear of the Lord, there will be no abiding in the secret place of the Most High. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to put His fear in your heart so that you may abide under the shadow of the Most High.