FAITH CAPSULE: With desire, ask, and God will deposit for you.

Ezra 9

ASK FROM GOD TO REVIVE YOU, TO REPAIR YOU: 
The Israelites were slaves when the mercy of God located them for deliverance. It was the mercy of God that revives them to become repaired. 
Ezra 9:9 records, “For we were slaves. Yet our God did not forsake us in our bondage; but He extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to revive us, to repair the house of our God, to rebuild its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.”
Desire to become repaired, answering as a temple of God, occupied by the presence of God. All are to be the temple of God and to be right before God, that God will occupy all.
One that is not right before God should expect not to be occupied by the presence of God. 
One revived will experience to become repaired and become occupied by the presence of God, the evidence one that becomes build for God as His temple. 
Pray that God will revive you to become repaired in every area of life, as His temple. 
ASK FROM GOD TO REVIVE YOU, TO HAVE THE JOY OF THE LORD CONTINUALLY:
To have the joy will gain the presence of God and will know the path of life.  Psalm 16:11 testifies, “You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” 
Good that you desire God will deposit in you.
Psalmist desires to be revived by God for His joy to gain and retain His presence. Psalm 85:6 records, “Will You not revive us again, That Your people may rejoice in You?”
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. It is the faith prescription for the challenges of today that will work against sorrow. Nehemiah 8:10 admonishes, “Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
The desire to have the joy of God will have the strength of God, not to be a vessel of the wicked world.
Pray that God will revive you to live life with the joy of God as your strength.
ASK FROM GOD TO REVIVE YOU TO REGAIN:
To be revived will give life both physically and spiritually. 
God sent Elijah to the widow of Zarephath to take care of the needs of Elijah.
After the woman of Zarephath met the need of Elijah, her son was sick with no breath left in him.
The woman returned to seek Elijah for his intervention concerning her son. Elijah cried out to God to revive the life of the son of Zarephath woman. The Bible records, “Then the Lord heard the voice of Elijah, and the soul of the child came back to him, and he revived.” (1 King 17:22)
The Voice of calling to God is the same as crying out to God to be revived in response to a challenging situation.
Pray that God will give heed to your calling on Him at all times.
God is kind.

FAITH CAPSULE: What is holding you down from answering to the calling of God upon your life?

Acts 9, Mark 11:1-11
Jesus commanded His disciples in Mark 11:2-3, “Go into the village opposite you; and as soon as you have entered it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has sat. Loose it and bring it. And if anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of it,’ and immediately he will send it here.” (Mark 11:2-3) 
Jesus saw a colt in a position to be used for His glory. However, the colt was tied not to be available for the use of Jesus.
Just as the colt was tied down, not be ride by the glory of God, are you being tied down not to be answered and be used by God?
Jesus needed a colt that was not tied down, a colt that is loose.
What must be in place for you to enter into your divine assignment? 
Many are consciously or unconsciously tied down and not available to serve God.
Some are tied down and do not know that they are tied down while engaging in the celebration of Jesus, evidence of not being connected to Jesus. Celebration without connection to Jesus is evidence of a lack of not answering the calling of God and not committed.
Going and coming to fellowships on Sundays is not enough evidence of connection with Jesus. Answering the calling of God, not being tied down, makes the difference between all the acclaimed believers of Jesus as Lord and savior.
What is holding you down from answering to the calling of God upon your life?
Saul of Tarsus was on his way to wreak havoc on the disciples of the Lord in Damascus when he encountered the calling of God. 
It was the light that shone on Saul that brought him down to the ground when he asked who the Lord is and Jesus responded by introducing Himself. Saul gained the understanding of Jesus, “So he, trembling and astonished, said, “Lord, what do You want me to do?” Then the Lord said to him, “Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” (Acts 9:6) At the point of the encounter of Jesus with Saul that changed the name Saul to Paul.
Paul received the instruction for his direction from Jesus.
Determination is not enough to help in answering the calling of God, but the grace of God is what will get you into your divine assignment. The word of God promises that “He will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go and He will guide you with His eye” (Psalm 32:8). 
What is holding your life down from answering to the calling of God?
Determination is not enough to answer the calling of God, but desire to walk with God plus the mercy of God will deposit all that it takes to answer the calling of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you to live life for God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Pray the word of God continually.

Isaiah 40

The understanding of God is unsearchable.
He is the one that reverses the irreversible He is the unchangeable changer.
It is not possible to wait on God and not gain His attention. Isaiah 64:4 testifies, “For since the beginning of the world Men have 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.”
None is exempted not to experience challenges, but waiting will gain deliverance.  
Challenges will come, but the word of God promise, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous but, He will deliver in it all” (Psalm 34:19) 
Word of God is easy to quote than done, particularly among acclaimed believers.
PRAY:
TO WAIT ON GOD
Isaiah 20:29 confirms to be confident in God, “He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength.” This confirmation to ask from God comes with a condition.
The condition to experience the promise of God states, “But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.” (Isaiah 40:31)
PRAYER
Firstly, you are going to ask God to give you His power that gives to the weak. Ask for the power of God to answer for your life in every area of weakness physically, spiritually, and emotionally. Whatever is holding you down from working with Him shall be lifted. 
Secondly, ask that God add His might to you to increase you with strength in every area of life, living for His glory.
Pray for His power and might.
Ask for the conditions over your life to activate by the power and might of God.
PRAYER
Ask God to let you be waiting on Him continually that He shall renew your strength.
Ask that you shall mount up with wings like eagles. Eagles are with (powerful vision, fearless, tenacious, high flyers, nurture their young.)
Ask that God intervene in your decisions in the journey of life that you shall not run and be weary.
Ask that you shall not walk and be weary in every step of life.
Ask that you will not run where you need to be walking and not walk where you need to be running and not faint, fall, fail or falter.
In Psalm 23:4, David 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.”
PRAYER
Ask that the testimony of the prayer of David shall be your testimony all the days He has given you.

FAITH CAPSULE: What are you doing wrong before God?

Genesis 3

Do you know the word of God and not do, or you know about God and not know to do right?
Knowing about God is not knowing God to do according to the word of God.
Wickedness defines knowing the word of God and not do.
Before God, Jeremiah was curious about who the wicked are. 
Jeremiah 12:1 records, “Righteous are You, O Lord when I plead with You; Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those happy who deal so treacherously? You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; They grow, yes, they bear fruit. You are near in their mouth but far from their mind.”
Engaging in wickedness act is knowing or not knowing to do wrong before God.
Wrongdoing is a deviation from accuracy as in mistake, as inaction or speech. Wrongdoing is the condition of believing what is not in truth. Wrongdoing can be a moral offense; wrongdoing can be a sin before God. It is a wrongdoing to violate the word of God, and it can be a conscious or unconscious error before God. Another way to describe wrongdoing is despising the word of God. The word of God makes all realize that “He who despises the word will be destroyed…” (Proverbs 13:13)
Have you in any way violated or currently violating the word of God? Prayerfully ask that the mercy of God will open your eyes and ears to avoid or come out of conscious or unconscious wrongdoing.
God sees all, and there is no excuse for wrongdoing before God.
Regardless of title or how many years you have been walking before God, wrongdoing is not excusable.
Before God, Adam and Eve committed error by believing the serpent enough to eat against the commandment of God for them not to eat from a particular tree in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve violated the word of God that is wrongdoing. 
In wrongdoing, no one is in any position to hide from the eyes of God.
When God showed up on Adam and Eve, they attempted to justify their action of wrongdoing before God stating, “Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” (Genesis 3:12-13) Excuses for wrongdoing before God does not count but will provoke the judgment of God.
Wrongdoing committed by Adam and Eve exposed all in under heaven to numerous pains of today.
What is your wrongdoing before God?
Are you doing what is right wrongly before God?
One with doing right wrongly before God will always provoke the consequence for doing wrong before God.
Today, mark it that before God, there is no reasonable excuse to be delivered from destruction.

Prayer for today: Ask from God to enable you not to live a life of wrongdoing.

FAITH CAPSULE: Give yourself to prayer before God.

2 Kings 20

Praying before God for challenges that need to subsided demands trust and hope to experience deliverance. 
Prayer is to seek God diligently.
Prayer demands persistence to get a result. 
Are you experiencing a challenge that is resisting continuous prayer? 
Continue prayer without ceasing, and it is the way out of challenges.
For self-deliverance, prayer is an avenue to experience the visitation of God. 
In the pages of the bible, it is evident that prayer is key to self-deliverance. 
Hezekiah engaged in prayer to experience self-deliverance. 
2Kings 20:1 document, “In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die, and not live.’”  Hezekiah did not seek deliverance from no man but engaged in prayer before God for his self-deliverance from sudden death. 
Hezekiah reminded God about his walk and loyal heart before God; he wept before God. God responded to the prayer of Hezekiah to send Isaiah “…I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely, I will heal you. On the third day, you shall go up to the house of the Lord. And I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city for My own sake, and for the sake of My servant David.” (2Kings 20:5-6) Truly, Hezekiah prayed before God to gain self-deliverance from sudden death.
Just like Hezekiah, Hannah vigorously prayed in time of her barrenness. Hannah was praying when Eli mistook her for drunkenness.
1Samuel 1:12-14 records, “And it happened, as she continued praying before the Lord, that Eli watched her mouth. Now Hannah spoke in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore, Eli thought she was drunk. So, Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put your wine away from you!”  Hannah responded to Eli that she was not drunk but poured out her soul before God.
 Eli answered Hannah, “Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition which you have asked of Him.” (1 Samuel 1:17) 
Hannah prayed vigorously, conceived, and bore Samuel. 
Are you praying? 
Jesus demonstrated the need for prayer when He prayed for the deliverance of Peter from faith failure in Luke 22:32, “But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail…” 
Through prayer, Paul experienced self-deliverance from prison.
Paul testifies, “And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and preserve me for His heavenly kingdom. To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen!” (2 Timothy 4:18) Prayer is power for self-deliverance engaging God in the name of Jesus.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you to give yourself to prayer.