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.

FAITH CAPSULE: Is your life of integrity before God? 

Job 1, 2:1-10

To be identified by God or live life before God as integrity is not by a walk that is not right before God. 
To answer as integrity before God is an empty mouth, a mouth full of the word of God but with no action that is rooted in the word of God. Also, a walk that does not count before God is with no integrity. 
God identified Job as one full of the word of God by his walk before God as a believer. 
Satan attempted Job, and his assault on Job was not enough to derail Job from walking in the Lord. 
Is your life of integrity before God? 
What is it that is against your walk before God?
From the first assault to the second, and throughout the whole life of Job, it was clear that Job was a man that does not deter from his stand in the Lord. 
In all challenges of Job, the consistency with no compromising was consistent, serving God.
Serving God with consistency is the evidence of integrity before God. 
The Bible describes Job as none any other character stating, “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil.” (Job 1:1) 
At a time of bad news, Job did not complain to God.  Job 1:20 records the response of Job, “Then Job arose, tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he fell to the ground and worshiped.” As if the first assault was not enough, Satan attacked the second time with boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. After the first assault, God had testified about Job as a man that holds fast to his integrity (Job1:3). 
The wife of Job knew that he was a man of integrity as she attempted to unplug Job stating, “…Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” (Job 1:9) Job refused not to abide by the statement of his wife in an attempt to unplug his integrity.
Living life before God as integrity is the way to regain from all adversity of the enemy.
The documentation of Job was recorded in Job 42:12-17 “Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning…In all the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job… After this Job lived one hundred and forty years and saw his children and grandchildren for four generations. So Job died, old and full of days.”
God is faithful to one that is faithful to His name.

Prayer for God: With desire, ask to live the life of integrity before God.