FAITH CAPSULE: In life, there is no minute or massive sin; sin is sin with no excuse for living in sin.

2 Samuel 12

The mercy of God is attainable when one asks for forgiveness.
Having sin against the word of God will set sinner far from God.
No sin is hidden from God.
One who abides in sin will be exposed to the consequences of sin and iniquity.
Can you think of any way of sinning in your life while expecting God to visit your life?
With sin, no one can reach unto God.
Anyone who desires to reach God must be far from living a life of sin.
Evidently, one with a heart of repentance will not fail to reach God.
Sin sets one apart from God, but mercy belongs to God; He reverses the irreversible to give mercy.
With repentance, one who asks God for forgiveness will receive the mercy of God.
One with the experience of the mercy of God is the candidate for the glory of God and is bound not to be a victim of destruction.
Understand and know to repent for sin before God to gain His mercy.
With repentance, the mercy of God is available.
David sinned by having Uriah killed after he violated the wife of Uriah.
God sent Prophet Nathan to David for his sin.
Prophet Nathan asked David, why have you despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him.
In 2 Samuel 12:12, David was told, “For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, before the sun.’ ”
In 2 Samuel 12:13, David responded with repentance: “So David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.”
It was the mercy of God in response to the repentance of David, not to die a sudden death.
In every repentance before God, there is the mercy of God that delivers.
Deliverance for David was the mercy of God.
Are you with understanding of God to know how to gain His mercy?
The Bible records, “For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You” (Psalm 86:5).
God is good and merciful; no iota of evil can deny the mercy of God that is in place for one with the understanding of repentance that calls for the forgiveness of God.
For one with repentance and confession, forgiveness is a sure way to experience the mercy of God, as it is glaring in the pages of the Bible. 
The Bible encourages, “He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy” (Proverbs 28:13). 
God is merciful, and God will respond with mercy for one who trusts and knows how to ask for forgiveness.
What is denying the mercy of God in your life?

Prayer for today: Pray that the spirit of sin shall not have place in you.

FAITH CAPSULE: God is true to His word, live by His word.

Psalm 103

Two things that is certain to do and attain the mercy of God are:
1.The mercy of God is obtainable according to what one sows
An adage states it is how one lays a bed that one will lie on it.
As in an adage, so it is a wise saying that states, “Whatever a man sows is what a man will reap.”
For example, although bananas and plantains look alike, replacing a banana with a plantain will not happen, regardless of how similar they appear.
Without doubt, what one prepares for will be the result of what becomes for one prepared for.
What are you sowing?
Understand and know that one will reap what is sown.
Hosea 10:12 buttresses the word of God, “Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap in mercy.” 
In your ways of life, be merciful to experience the mercy of God. 
Matthew 5:7 records, “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” 
Is God not a good God?
Without a doubt, God made a way for one to reap what is sown.
Evidently, one who knows that the mercy of God matters will know not to live a life of waste and will understand to strive for the mercy of God.
2. The mercy of God is obtainable when one fears God. 
Let the fear of God be your way of life.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 informs all, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all.”
The fear of God in the life of one is set to gain the attention of God for the attainment of the mercy of God.
Psalm 33:18 mentions, “Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, on those who hope in His mercy.”
Fear God and have for the mercy of God.
God alone sees the heart of all.
Do you fear God by mouth or by your heart?
A heart that is not mindful of God cannot have fear of God.
Psalm 103:17 records for learning,“But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him…”
Luke 1:50, “And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.” 
To fear God will undoubtedly gain the mercy of God.
One with the fear of God loves God, living by His word. 
The word of God is proven, is truth, and does not return to Him void. 
Psalm 103:11 encourages, “Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, on those who hope in His mercy.”
Psalm 147:11 “The Lord takes pleasure in those who fear Him, in those who hope in His mercy.”
With understanding, know to fear God so His mercy will reign and rule your life.
Do you fear God?
Give yourself to the word of God, live life with the fear of God, and experience His mercy.

Prayer for today: Pray for the fear of God to become established in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: The mercy of God is attainable when one trusts God and asks for forgiveness. 

2 Samuel 12

There is assurance for one who trusts to receive from God.
2 Samuel 22:31 records: “As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the Lord is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him.”
Trust God in God to gain the mercy of God.
Always, God is a good God.
With understanding, it is to trust God to attain mercy from God.
The Psalmist declared, “But I have trusted in Your mercy; My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation” (Psalm 13:5).
Trusting in hope positions one to gain the mercy of God.
With understanding, trusting God is an avenue to receive from God.
Trusting God is looking up to God with no doubt.Trusting God is having hope to gain from Him.
Jeremiah 17:7 records, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord.”
One who looks to God with trust and hope is set to gain the mercy of God.
Looking up to God with an open heart, one will locate God for His mercy. 
Luke 17:13 records,“And they lifted up their voices and said, ‘Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!” 
God is merciful. He does not run out of mercy for one who knows how to trust and lift their voice to Him.
With sin, no one can reach unto God.
Sin sets one apart from God, but mercy belongs to God; He reverses the irreversible to give mercy.
With repentance, one who asks God for forgiveness will receive the mercy of God.
Understand and know to repent for sin before God to gain His mercy.
With repentance, God’s mercy is available.
David sinned by having Uriah killed after he violated the wife of Uriah.
God sent Prophet Nathan to David for his sin.
Prophet Nathan asked David, why have you despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in His sight? You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him.
In 2 Samuel 12:12, David was told, “For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, before the sun.’ ”
In 2 Samuel 12:13, David responded with repentance: “So David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.”
And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.”
It was the mercy of God in response to the repentance of David, not to die a sudden death.
In every repentance before God, there is the mercy of God that delivers.
Deliverance for David was the mercy of God.
Are you with understanding of God to know how to gain His mercy?
The Bible records, “For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all those who call upon You” (Psalm 86:5).
God is good and merciful; no iota of evil can deny the mercy of God that is in place for one with the understanding of repentance that calls for the forgiveness of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that the understanding and knowledge to gain the mercy of God be your portion.

FAITH CAPSULE: To be asking for the mercy of God should be as in thanking God 

Romans 9

To be asking for the mercy of God should be as in thanking God to provoke the mercy of God.
Psalm 150:6 states,Let everything that has breath praise the Lord; it is also worthy, pleading for the mercy of God at every breath.
Just as power belongs unto God, mercy also belongs to God.
The mercy of God means God is compassion or kind forbearance that never runs out.
The mercy of God is His loyal love.
Only God is in a position to render mercy unto all, unfailingly.
The mercy of God, not any man’s merit, is the reason God answers.
God cannot be intimidated or manipulated by any of His creation for the release of His mercy.
God declared and was testified of in Romans 9:14-16, “…I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion. So, then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.”
The mercy of God cannot be questioned for having mercy for whom He has mercy for.
With understanding of how God gives mercy prompts to provoke His mercy on self.
It was with mercy that God led the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years. The Bible records, “You in Your mercy have led forth the people whom You have redeemed…” (Exodus 15:13)
One led by the mercy of God shall excel to the glory of God.
Understand and know to remind God that He does not forget.
What God has done for one will do for one who reminds Him of what He is doing.
Reminding God is not evidence that God forgets.
Isaiah 43:26 records the word of God that encourages all to remind Him, to provoke His doing in one with understanding of Him.
God speaks to all, “Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted.” (Isaiah 43:26)
Understand how to ask and know how to provoke God.
Remind God of His mercy to Joseph.
Joseph avoided sin; he did not sleep with the wife of His master.
Genesis 39:21 records the consequence of Joseph not sinning against God, “But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him MERCY, and He gave him favor…”
God is not a partial God to look away from one who understands and knows to ask Him.

Prayer for today:
Ask God that it be your way of life to be asking Him for His mercy. (In the mercy of God is deliverance and preservation of God.)
Ask God to enable you not to run out of the mercy of God that does not expire.
Ask that God enable you to live a life that counts before Him to gain His mercy. (Romans 9:14-16 records that God will have mercy on whom He chooses to.)

FAITH CAPSULE: It is worth answering the calling of God.

1 Samuel 3

Answering God’s calling, prayerfully engage it.
The calling of God is massive for one who is called.
The challenges of life are not enough to stop the called from God’s assignment.
However, there are forces in place that attempt to delay or deny the called one from hearing and answering God.
The Challenge of Samuel delayed him in answering God.
SAMUEL AT HIS CALLING
Samuel was ministering in the house of God when he was called.
At his calling, the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no widespread revelation.
At the first calling, Samuel answered wrongly, thinking Eli called him, and he said to Eli, “Here I am, for you called me. And he said, “I did not call; lie down again.” And he went and lay down.” (1 Samuel 3:4-5)
Samuel could hear but could not answer.
Answering wrong will reposition one wrongly.
He hears but yet runs wrong.
Have you answered wrongly?
Are you in the right position to answer your calling?
God reverses the irreversible; ask for His mercy not to answer wrongly.
At the second calling, Samuel could not answer appropriately; he went back and lay down to sleep.
Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, nor was the word of the Lord yet revealed to him. 
1 Samuel 3:7 records, “Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, nor was the word of the Lord yet revealed to him.”
Know God, not just know about God, to receive the revelation of God. 
Ask that God will enable you to know Him and to receive His revelation over your life, to position you in the center of his divine assignment. 
Ask that the Lord God shall deliver you from the forces that send you back, sleeping in the place to be awake, moving forward to His calling, to be active for His glory.
At the third time of calling, Samuel ran to Eli and was redirected by Eli saying, “Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down; and it shall be, if He calls you, that you must say, ‘Speak, Lord, for Your servant hears.’” So, Samuel went and lay down in his place.” (1 Samuel 3:9)
Eli directed Samuel right, saying: YOU MUST SAY, SPEAK LORD.
Samuel now knows what he must do for him to hear from God.
Ask God to enable you to know what you must do, to hear and answer the calling of God over your life.
At the fourth time of the calling of God, Samuel knew to do the right instead of running wrong.
Samuel responded to the fourth calling as directed by Eli, his overseer; the servant of God spoke to him.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will have mercy to speak again in every juncture you have missed His callings over your life.