FAITH CAPSULE: Who is the inquisitor of your life?

One that inquires or makes inquisition of your life can be unduly harsh, severe, or hostile about your way of life.
Who is the inquisitor of your life?
God identifies Job with integrity, blameless, and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil. (Job 2:3) The identification, description of the testimony of God about Job was not an excuse for him not to experience inquisition from his wife, family, or friend from near or distance.
For Job, the inquisition by his wife was discouraging enough, but Job could not be discouraged. His wife states, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” (Job 2:9) Job responds to his wife as one that knows God indeed.
God saw Job as a man of integrity, but his wife saw him differently.
The wife of Job saw him as a man wasting time by waiting on God. 
Are you experiencing an inquisitor in your life, or are you an inquisitor in the life of others? 
Who is the inquisitor that is discouraging your walk with God?
Can you perceive the inquisitor of your life, to know, to avoid in your life?
At the time of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot and his wife received the direction of God to escape destruction. Genesis 19:17 records, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.” (Genesis 19:17) Just as they advanced on the route of escape, the wife of Lot could not obey the direction of God but questioned God by her action of disobedience as she became terminated.
The wife of Lot acted as an inquisitor of the deliverance plan from God to escape. The Bible record that the wife of Lot looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19:26)
As a conscious or unconscious inquisitor of others or yourself, how are you responding to the challenges of life?
Often time, man allows the act of negative inquisitor to deny the blessing in place for life.
For example, Jesus did miracles on every ground but not so at His city of Nazareth. 
The people were inquisitors wanting to know the source of His wisdom and the work of His hand. In the eyes of His people, He was just the son of a carpenter, the mere son of Joseph and Mary. The Bible records the response of Jesus to the inquisition of His people: “But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house. He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them.” (Mark 6:4-5) 
Are you an inquisitor of the messenger of God or, you a messenger of God experiencing inquisitor in your life?
Will you stop being an inquisitor in the life one that is answering to the assignment of God? 

Prayer for today: Pray not to become a victim of an inquisitor or not to be a victim of the negative inquisition of this world.

FAITH CAPSULE: Listen to gain understanding to see in the word of God for your gain.

Listening to gain understanding is rooted in paying attention.
Listening to the word of God will understand the word of God to live life abundantly to the glory of God.
Keep in mind that the word of God is in the documentation for all to learn and gain understanding. 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.”
God has not changed. God will not change forever, and He is the unchanging changer. God alone reverses the irreversible. 
Give yourself to the word of God!
When God created, He speaks the word and consequently sees in His spoken word, which brings forth manifestation.
The Bible record, “Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good.” (Genesis 1:3-4)
Repeatedly, at the creation time, God spoke His word to see the manifestation of what He said. As a result, all, with no exception, should be listening with understanding to see, receive in the word of God.
When you begin to listen with understanding, you will see the manifestation. 
With listening, understanding to see by the word of God is the combination to be in place to live life victoriously, to the glory of God.
The key to it all is, if you can listen, understanding will enable you to see, to receive, and what you receive in the word of God will become of you.
When there is no listening, there will be no understanding.
The word of Jesus in John 8:43 rhetorically questioned and answered, “Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word.”
Are you listening enough with the understanding to be able to see what God says to you in His word?
All that God wants to do for you is always in His word if you will listen and gain understand to see in what He says to you.
To Ezekiel, God spoke direction: “See, I am giving you cow dung instead of human waste, and you shall prepare your bread over it.” (Ezekiel 4:15) Ezekiel also listened with understanding to see and received the direction by the word of God.
Every of your hearing and hearing (listening) in the word of God is the evidence of listening to see, which is the key to gain understanding.
Are you listening to understand the word of God?
Are you with understanding to see your victory in the word of God?
The word of God is the manual for all. 
Live a life of understanding to be seeing and receive in the word of God.
Jesus is the Word of God. (John 1:1)
In all your listening to the word of God, understand to see, to receive, and what you see will become of you.
God is good!

Prayer for today: Ask that you will be attentive to gain understanding in the word of God. 

FAITH CAPSULE: In the word of God, there is deliverance.

1 Samuel 30

Deliverance is to gain freedom from the challenges of life. 
One with an understanding and knowing God will engage the word of God for self-deliverance.
Just as engaging the word of God for self-deliverance, individuals carrying a weapon also claim self-deliverance.
What or who are you looking up to engage for self-deliverance outside of God?
Psalm 107:20 testifies, “He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions.” 
Give yourself to the word of God diligently to gain an unfailing deliverance.
God alone is the author of deliverance.
In a time of challenge, as a believer, are you seeking or looking to man for deliverance or seeking God? 
Engage self in the truth of God, be free to experience self-deliverance in times of challenge. 
Jesus declares the source of freedom, “…If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:31-32) Jesus is the word of God, the truth. (John 14:6) 
Know to abide in the word of God as a believer, the truth that makes freedom becomes a possibility for deliverance.
King David is an example with the challenge but turned to the truth of God for self-deliverance. 
The challenge of David was the attack from the Amalekites.
In the attack, the people of David were captive.
The followers of David lifted their voices and wept. The bible records the effect of the Amalekites attack, “Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.” (1 Samuel 30:6) As a result of the captivity, David became a target of rejection by his followers as he became discouraged and distressed.
The challenge of David demanded deliverance as he turned to self-deliverance through the hand of God. 
The above verse points out the deliverance of David:
First, David strengthened himself in the Lord his God. 
Second self-deliverance was the self-move to inquire of the Lord. 
David did not position himself to be self-pity before man. 1 Samuel 30:8 records self-deliverance approach, “…David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them?” God responded to David, “Pursue, for you shall overtake them and without fail recover all.”  Self-deliverance of David was in the truth (word) of God that he received from his inquiry from God. 
David, in time of challenge of distress, discouragement, lonely, he strengthened himself in the Lord.
Deliverance of David was in the assurance from the word of God to go after his enemy.
David went after his enemy to get freedom for his people, and once again, he was free before his people. 
God is true to deliver one that will abide in Him to know the truth, and the shall give deliverance (freedom) from a challenge.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the mercy of God to gain deliverance in His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: Prayerfully, meditate, call the new month your month of looking up to God.

Isaiah 64

Calling the month as your month of looking up to God is speaking expectation for manifestation in the month. Understand and know that the Bible records that you give a choice of expectation in Proverbs 18:21, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.”  
Have the desire to be looking up to God, speak life to experience the manifestation of what you call for your month to be.
Looking up to God is giving Him regard, the antidote for a jealous God, the evidence of not seeking any other God. Leviticus 19:31 records the word of God against seeking another god, “Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.” Know God and not look outside of Him at all times.
Looking up to God is the character of waiting on Him without a doubt. God is a caring God that will not ignore such that waits on Him. Isaiah 64:4 testifies that God “…acts for the one who waits for Him.” Consciously, let looking up” With understanding, looking up to God will not be wasted in ways of life.
Looking up to God is acknowledging Him for all He has done, all He is doing, and all He will do.
Looking up to God is living life with the fear of God. With understanding, look to God to find the knowledge of God. (Proverbs 2:5) 
Looking up to God is a way of action (faith) that God sees all and measures as weight.
Ask God to enable you to be living life by His word.
One that looks up to God is seeking God. Seeking God will know to call upon the Lord God consciously consistently. Psalm 18:4 encourages, “I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; So, shall I be saved from my enemies.”
One that is looking up to God will know to keep eyes on God to experience His hand.
In life, it is the daily challenges that redirect not to look up to God. 
Consciously, with commitment, looking up to God with understanding will experience the hand of God that is not short, and such will not fail to see in God.
It is not possible to be looking up to God with one eye, at the same time and looking up to a man with the other eye, desire and prayerfully focus your eyes on God alone.

Prayer for God:  Ask that God will enable you to take your eyes off the challenges of the wicked but to see where He is leading you.

FAITH CAPSULE: The hand of God is never short to lift.

Jeremiah 52

Jehoiachin was in captivity for thirty-seven years when the hand of God that is not short raised his head and brought him out of captivity. Jeremiah 52:31 records, “Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, that Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.” 
God used Evil-Merodach of Babylon, the son of Nebuchadnezzar, to lift the head of Jehoiachin. The same God yesterday, today, and tomorrow will send His hand to locate you for your lifting.
God alone will change the position of persecuted to become one presiding as persecutors. 
Also, that when God remembers, He also rescues. Believe in Him that your position of pain will change to receiving gain from God.
Evil-Merodach was in the hand of God to lift the head of Jehoiachin. 
By the hand of God, through Evil-Merodach, Jehoiachin was rescued.
Jehoiachin had a chance as a prisoner to become one eating before the King of Babylon, all the days of his life. 
Proverbs encourage all about the hand of God, “The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes.” (Proverbs 21:1)
Believe that God is true to perform and to perfect His word.
The position of God in charge of possibility is not limited.
God is the same God yesterday, today, and tomorrow. 
Believe God, do not believe man for your deliverance and preservation.
God alone sought out Daniel in the den of hungry lions. 
With God is His unmeasurable possibility, he caused the lions not to have an appetite for fresh meat but not able to feast on fresh meat in Daniel.
Prayerfully, are you waiting on God concerning your challenge that seems unmovable? 
Concerning your challenge, persist, insist, and resist in your prayer. 
Your challenge today is not the time to stop waiting on God in prayer. Daniel slept overnight in the den of lions with no scratch, “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?” 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…” (Daniel 6:19-22) 
God is still in the business of possibility regardless of impossibility.
The thirty-seven years of the captivity of Jehoiachin of Judah could not deny the hand of God, Lions in the den could not terminate the life of Daniel.
Trust and hope in God of possibility.

Prayer for today: Ask for the hand of God to turn around all your impossibility to possibility.