FAITH CAPSULE: Know and understand to deny distraction. 

Job 2

Distraction can lead to a misplacement not to arrive at the divine assignment.
Distraction can be a denial agent against anyone from walking in the word of God not to answer fully to the calling of God.
Distraction can also be a force to deny a man from having faith to see God.
The source of distraction for one not to live life for the glory of God can be from the closest one as an agent of evil.
For example, during the challenges of Job, it was his wife with an attempt to distract Job but, she failed. Bible records distraction of the wife of Job, “Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” (Job 2:9) 
Job resisted the device of distraction from his wife when he responded: “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” (Job 2:10) 
Are you avoiding the patterns of distraction in your way of life?
Know and understand to deny distraction from close ones and ones of the distance.
Deny distraction, remain focus on your way of life, not become a victim of the evil of this world.
Claiming to have accepted Christ as your Lord and Savior does not exempt you from encountering distraction, but watch and pray not to become a victim of distraction.
Many have received Jesus as Lord and Savior, but the agents of distraction are in place to deny the attention of focusing on God to live life for God. 
Does that sound like you?
If you have received Jesus into your life, stand still by looking up to God to avoid distraction, not to become derailed from dwelling and abiding in the presence of God.
Martha was a victim of distraction. 
When Martha welcomed Jesus into her house, she could not avoid distraction from denying her to gain a position in the presence of Jesus. Luke 10:38-40 records, “Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house. But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, ‘Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore, tell her to help me.’” 
Just like Martha, have you welcomed Jesus into your house and become distracted? 
Martha welcomed Jesus into her house, but distraction denied her from the presence of Jesus.  
Who or what is your distraction? 
In the challenging time of today, deny distraction, focus on God alone. 
Do not become a victim of distraction to experience evil occurrences over your life.
For all, with no exception, distraction is the device of the enemy to derail victims from arrival at the assignment of God.
There is no one with exception from distraction.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to watch and pray against distraction in your way of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you answering to any title that is in line with the assignment of God?

Acts 19:1-20

What is your title before God?
Answering titles in the place of engaging tasks is a responsibility that counts before God.
Answering titles, in the business of God, demands giving yourself to God, not impressing the world because God is watching all with no exception.
Answering the title of your choice but not of God is self-deception. 
One with self-deception will be conversant to telling lies, to deceive and manipulate the world.
Are you answering to title for what God did not call you to be?
The Bible records the story of Apostle Paul answering the calling of God, with the title as Apostle of God.
The documentation of Paul compares his calling by God to the Jewish exorcists that call themselves and not by God. Acts 19:11-17 records, “Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them. Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.” Also, there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so. And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?” Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them and prevailed against them so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. This became known both to all Jews and Greeks dwelling in Ephesus, and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.” 
Are you assuming a title to take up an assignment before God but not living life with a task, pleasing God?
The written word of God is for learning to understand and know to navigate this wicked world, to live life for the glory of God. 
Learn to know the documentation of itinerant Jewish exorcists that gave themselves to answer the title that is not of God.
Are you seeking God or seeking a man with the title?
What is your title? 
Are you self-appointed one with titles such as Apostle, Prophet, or Pastor, parading as one that is answering to the calling of God?
You need no man to help you for deceiving yourself with a title.
Do not live life like the itinerant Jewish with the experience of mockery that exposed them as a deceiver of their world.
Give yourself to the given task of God in your life, not just answering to your choice of the title.
Come out of religion and give yourself to the reality of Christ. 
The judgment of God is not asleep but will come at His appointed time.
Live right, engage the task of God that is more important than the assigned title you answer.
Your engaged task counts more than title before God!

Prayer for today:  Ask that God fill you with the knowledge, wisdom, and understanding to live life for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: The deliverance of David from challenging trouble is an experience to learn.

Psalm 3

FIRSTLY, DAVID ACKNOWLEDGED GOD
Despite increasing challenges, David acknowledged the awesomeness of God, saying: “But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, my glory and the One who lifts up my head.” (Psalm 3:3) 
David, in times of his challenging trouble, his worshiping of God was not distracted.
David gave himself to worshiping God instead of worrying over his challenging trouble. He acknowledged God for what God has done and what God could do at the time of challenge.
Acknowledging God in a troubling challenge is the way of thanking God to provoke the intervention of the deliverance hand of God.
Let worshipping God take the center of your life, not the challenging worries.
SECONDLY, DAVID CRIED TO GOD
Who do you cry out to in the time of your challenges?
David cried out to God alone but did not cry out to any man.
Crying out to God will not elude you from God, but you will receive the attention of God for self-deliverance in times of Challenging trouble.
David testifies, “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 but a way of getting the attention of God.
Often, pride will deny one from crying out before God, but David cried out to God with no spirit of pride.
The evidence of crying out before God with a voice is a cry from the depth of heart as David testifies that he cried to the Lord God. 
Crying out before God with a wide-open mouth should be with the expectation to be filled with manifestation. 
David testifies that the Lord heard him from His holy hill.
Jonah testifies that when he cried out to God because of his affliction, God answered him. (Jonah 2:2)
Are you shy not to cry out to God?
Crying to God is not a sign of weakness. 
THIRDLY, THE TESTIMONY OF TRUST AND HOPE OF DAVID 
The Bible records testimonies of David, “I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the Lord sustained me.” (Psalm 3:5) 
In a time of challenging trouble, the trust of David in God made him lay with the hope not to lose his sleep in the challenging of his life.
Trusting God at the onset of challenging trouble but not having hope in God can deny the testimony of deliverance. With understanding, David was with trust, hope to provoke the intervention of God.
Jeremiah 17:7 testifies of trust and hope, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.”
David laid and went to sleep in a challenging time just as Jesus lay and slept in His time of challenging trouble of the storm at His cross-over journey. (Mark 4:35-41) 
To gain victory in a time of challenge, have trust and hope in God.
Learn in the word of God to know to lean on God in all ways of life. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to let you learn in His word and know to lean on Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Return to give thanks to God always.

Daniel 6

Thanksgiving before God is evidence of one that is mindful of God.
Thanksgiving before God should be rooted in the mind of man but not just in the head. 
David must have been curious why God is mindful of man when he approached God to ask, “What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?” (Psalm 8:4)
Be mindful of God with the understanding that thanksgiving before God will lead one to the divine assignment. 
Giving thanks to God is a will of God that demands to be continual.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 admonishes all, “Do you know that giving thanks for everything is the will of God.”
With prayer, live a life of giving thanks before God without ceasing, the evidence of one that is mindful of God.
Giving thanks to God or praising God must be with understanding.
Psalm 47:7 admonishes all, “For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.”
Know to be giving thanks, praising God, worship God in all ways with the understanding, reasonable, and acceptable before God.
Ephesians 5:20 buttresses, “Giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 
Understand and know giving thanks always for all things to experience all things to work together for good. Give God a HEART-FULL of thanking and not just by giving MOUTH-FULL of thanks before God.
God awaits the offering of thanksgiving at all times.
A HEART-FULL thanksgiving is with the expectation to gain the attention of God.
Thanksgiving with praise worship before God is engaging a weapon to gain victory.
The Bible records how thanksgiving is the way to move forward and not become a victim of the wickedness of this world. 
Daniel, with thanksgiving before God, was delivered from sudden death in the den of Lions. Daniel 6:10 records, “Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days.”  Daniel did not hide his thanksgiving before his enemies to aggravate them as he received the grace of deliverance from God. With thanksgiving, Daniel could not die an untimely death in the den of lions. 
Thanksgiving before God gave Jonah an escape from sudden death. Jonah disobeyed God to end in the belly of fish. The Bible records the testimony of Jonah, “But I will sacrifice to You With the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.” (Jonah 2:9) The thanksgiving of Jonah before God was his deliverance from the belly of fish.
Are you giving thanks to God with understanding?
Thanksgiving before God demands consistency as a sure way of deliverance of God.
Again, understand and know that thanksgiving before God for all things will make all things work together for good, to the glory of God.
God is a jealous God and expects your thanksgiving before Him at all times.

Prayer for today: Ask that you will live the life of giving thanks to God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Live a life of responsibility before God to excel for His glory.

1 Timothy 6

Today, put aside all that is not of God, with responsibility, pursue all that draws man to God. 1 Timothy 6:11 rightly states, “But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness.”
Responsibility is to pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness. 
Righteousness: 
Pursuing righteousness is the responsible life that David lived before God. David testifies his pursuit, “The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness…” (2 Samuel 22:21) 
Like David, Job pursuit the righteousness of God, “I put on righteousness, and it clothed me…” (Job 29:14)  
Seek God diligently, be righteous to find God.
Godliness:
To be living a godly life is conforming to the laws and wishes of God.
Be responsible, live a life of pursuing godliness that will mark you as a godly one. 2Timothy 3:5 states pursuing godliness: “having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!” 
Faith: 
Faith is not born with no man but gain by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Romans 10:17 testifies, “…faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” The pursuit of faith is a responsibility to seek the Word of God by standing on the word of God. 
Without faith, God is not pleased.
Have a life of faith, be responsible for pleasing God by pursuing things of God.
Be responsible not to become a victim of evil.
Love, Patience, and Godliness: 
With responsibility is to pursue the command of God to love. The Word of God in 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 declares the importance of love, “Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.” To pursue is the responsibility of love as the command of God, which is the way to find God. 
The pursuit of love comes with patience and cannot be separated.
2 Thessalonians 3:5 states, “Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.”
Be responsible, pursue patience because “By your patience possess your souls.” (Luke 21:19)
Living a life of responsibility, to pursue gentleness, with the knowledge will identify one as a fearing vessel before God. Galatians 5:23 buttresses, “…gentleness, self-control. Against such, there is no law.”
Live a life of responsibility, pursue acceptable ways before God.
Responsibility before God is the price for greatness, doing great exploits to the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask from God that you want to live a life of responsibility by His word.