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GOD ALONE

FAITH CAPSULE: God alone is God that is Good. God alone is mercifully merciful. 

Psalm 34

With understanding, know that God alone is the only unchanging changer and able to reverse the irreversible to touch the lives of all.
God, in His mercy, has brought you this far.
Listen, it is not about how long your challenges persistently resist not to end despite your calling on God, but God alone will not ignore you, He will deliver you out in all. Understand and know to be thanking God for how far His mercy has brought you this far.
Affliction can be a challenge to discourage in waiting on God for deliverance. Psalm 34:19 encourages, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.” (Psalm 34:19) Despite your challenges, do right before God, His mercy will deliver you.
What a Good God!
Good God that is consistent in His mercy will not fail in His goodness that is merciful towards those that will consistently seek for His deliverance.
Are you calling on Him?
Who do you remember to call on besides the merciful God?
Psalm 20:7 records, “Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the Lord our God.”
Prayerfully, give self to calling on God by His exalted name alone (Psalm 148:13), remind Him by His magnified word that is above all His name (Psalm 138:2) 
With understanding, know that the word of God does not return to Him void (Isiah 55:11). Remind God, contend with Him faithfully as Isaiah 43:6 declares, “Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted.”  
Know God to call Him with the understanding gained in His word.
It is not too much but possible and worthy to call Him at every breath as a prescription to have life. Psalm 150:6 prescribes, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!”
With the desire to experience the presence of the mercy of God, it is never too much or not impossible to praise God at every breath. The word of God encourages everything with breath to praise the Lord.   
Praising God is worshipping God, worshiping God can be thanking, praying, singing, living life by the word of God.
Live life for God at every breath He is mercifully merciful.
Are you calling on Him with doubt, not knowing if He answers you?
Have faith, know that God hears you.
The word of Psalm 94:9 encourages, “He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? He who formed the eye, shall He not see?” 
Prayerfully, call on God without a doubt.
God is a good God, and He is merciful to call when no one calls.
God will speak when no one is hearing from Him.
God knows best and does have the reason to do as it pleases over all of His creation. God is a merciful God!
If you have been calling on God and yet no answer, keep faith to keep on calling and waiting to hear for His calling.

Prayer for today: Ask from God to enable you in looking for His mercy.

AUGUST 2020 FAITH MAIL

CONTINUALLY PRAY FOR DELIVERANCE

Romans 15:4 admonishes all saying, “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 spoken and is still speaking through His written word to all.
All that God has said for your learning but not able to see in His word to receive, to become of you, is the evidence of lack of understanding.
The word warned that the reason for the lack of understanding is rooted in not being able to LISTEN (John 8:43)
What you hear and not listening will not gain entrance into your heart. When you can give yourself to hear repeatedly, as word of God demands (So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God Roman 10:17)  evidently, your heart has received word, to live life before God. Psalm 119:130 mentions it, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.”
Many are claiming to be a believer but not true until one begins to live life, by the word of God.
Does the word of God have a place in your heart?
If you are a believer, meaning to be-living life by the word of God, then you are a believer that Jesus calls out as light. Matthew 5:14 records, “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.” 
Are you the light of the world or the darkness of the world?
Are you an unbelieving believer that is claiming or answering as a believer, as the light of the world, but not living life by the word of God? 
If you are the light, you are one that is not in the dark, not living in sin, a life of wickedness.
Claiming the word of God in the mouth but far from the heart is identified in Jeremiah 12:1-2 as wicked. Jeremiah spoke before God, “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.” (Jeremiah 12:1-2)
Who are you before God?
Listen, the world is not worth living if one does not have Christ, knowing about God but not to know God. It is time to search for yourself, prayerfully come out of sin, seek God, to live life for the glory of God. 
IN THIS CHALLENGING TIME, COME OUT OF SIN, NOT TO MISS HEAVEN. 
A decorated name for sin is PRIDE. 
Living a life of sin is not seeking God diligently to separate one from God because it is rooted in pride.
Pride is a personal ride to self-destruction.
Romans 3:23 points out that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Give attention to going against sin and know that there should be no encouragement for delaying your coming out of sin to live life for God.
The desire to live life for the glory of God should be of seeking God diligently. 
With sin, man is not seeking God and will not see God. 
It is not possible to be seeking God diligently and be telling lies as a way of life, deceiving and manipulating others, expecting to see God. 
Does that speak to you?
In this challenging time, continually pray for the hand of God over your life.
Acts 6:4 admonish us, “but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” (Act 6:4)
Praying for the hand of God is a non-stop prayer point to experience the deliverance of God. 
God delivered the Israelites out of Egypt with His RIGHTEOUS HAND, by His STRETCH OUT hand, and by His STRONG HAND, from Pharaoh yet, they did not stop from calling on God for deliverance because the enemy continues to go after them.
We do not stop praying for deliverance.
The enemy approached the Israelites the Red Sea, but Moses directed them to the prayer of deliverance saying to the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.” (Exodus 14:13)
Ask from God to enable you not to be afraid, to be able to stand still (not looking for help from no man, the evidence of having faith in God), and to see to receive and become victorious over the challenging of today.

KNOW NOT TO BE DERAILED!

FAITH CAPSULE: Distraction will derail or deny arrival to the calling of God.

Psalm 22

Are you avoiding the patterns of distraction in your life?
Continually, know it to be giving attention to deny distraction that comes from closet ones or ones from distance to distract you in life.
Deny distraction in your life.
Having accepted Christ as your Lord and Savior does not exempt you from encountering distraction, but vigilant not to become a victim.
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 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.’” (Luke 10:40) 
Just like Martha, have you welcomed Jesus into your house? 
Martha welcomed Jesus into her house, but distraction denied her from the presence of Jesus.    
Who or what is your distraction? 
Without discrimination, devices of distraction will derail or deny anyone with the loss of focus on God.
Anyone that is not careful, distraction will assault to prevent from arriving at the divine assignment of God.
When distraction takes a position in the life of man, it will be almost impossible to gain or prevail in the journey of life. 
Distraction can be a disruption or disturbance.
Distraction can be a denial agent against a man not to walk in the Lord, answering to the calling of God.
Distraction can also be an indefinable force that will derail to deny a man from having faith to see God.
In the challenging time of today, deny distraction, focus on God alone. Do not become a victim of failure and evil occurrence over your life.
For all, with no exception, distraction is the device of the enemy to avoid, and not to become derailed from arrival at the assignment of God.
There is no one with exception from distraction.
The prayer is to ask God to uphold you and watch. 
The word of God repeatedly warns all to watch and pray.
The pattern of distraction to be derailed in answering the calling of God shall not be your portion.

Prayer for today: Ask from God not to become a victim of distraction from answering in His calling over you.

LIFE OF RESPONSIBILITY

FAITH CAPSULE: Living life demands from all to be responsible before God.

1Timothy 4

To live a life of responsibility before God will make for greatness in life. Among ways of living for responsibility before God are:
LIVING LIFE OF RESPONSIBILITY IS MEDITATING THE WORD OF GOD
One meditating on the word of God will know God by observing the word of God to live a life of responsibility before God.
After the death of Moses, God called Joshua to the importance of meditating His word saying, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” (Joshua 1:8) 
Meditating the word of God day and night is continual communication with God to know, to do according to the word of God.
1Timothy 4:1 records the importance of meditating the word of God, “Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all.”  
Psalm 119:15 also record, “I will meditate on Your precepts and contemplate Your ways.” Be responsible, meditate the word of God continually, to experience failure impossible in life. Get to Know God by studying the word of God, not skimming through the word of God.
LIVING LIFE OF RESPONSIBILITY IS HAVING COMMITMENT TO GOD
Responsibility is a life of commitment to the word of God.
One with a commitment to the word of God will have the word of God in the heart, not just in the mouth.
Are you a believer by mouth? 
Life of responsibility with a commitment to God will consign self to seeking God with all heart, with all soul, with all strength.  Deuteronomy 4:29 records the consequence of responsible for seeking God, “…you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” 
Responsibility of commitment to the word God will not be discouraged by the surrounding world not to seek God diligently, to find God.
LIVING LIFE OF RESPONSIBILITY IS ASKING GOD FOR DIRECTION
In the journey of life, it is a responsibility to always ask for the direction of God that never fails but leads to greatness.
In life, be responsible, seek the perfect way of God that leads to the expected journey of life.
Responsibly, the venture of David to save Keilah from the Philistines is the reason why David inquired direction from God in 1 Samuel 23:2, “Therefore David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I go and attack these Philistines?”. The Lord said to David, “…Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah.” The warrior Men with David were not encouraged to go with him against the Philistines, but his responsibility to inquire from God was the assurance for victory against Philistines.
Responsibility is asking for the direction that is certain to arrive at the expected end in the journey. 

Prayer for today: Ask from God to enable you to live a life of responsibility to the glory of His name.

ACKNOWLEDGE GOD

FAITH CAPSULE: God reverses irreversible.

Psalm 3 

Worshiping God in the place of worrying is acknowledging God that reverses the irreversible in challenging trouble of times.
When trouble increases, it will become challenging trouble. 
It is challenging trouble that will persist to become a hardly resolved or to become permanent pain with whom or where it exists.
One that tolerates challenging trouble without expectation for self-deliverance is taking a position for pain in the journey of life.
Are you experiencing challenging trouble?
Challenging trouble demands deliverance for one with attention to address the root of the challenge trouble in the life of man.
Challenging trouble in the life of one can be the decisions made on behalf of one by the parents or grandparents or loved ones, not knowing the consequence of decisions made.
Also, the root cause of challenging trouble might have been out of the good intention to help with not becoming of pain.
What is the root of your challenging trouble?
Challenging trouble can be of affliction passed down from family in the journey of life.
However, Psalm 34:19 records to encourages against challenging trouble, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.”
Be conversant with the word of God as a manual of life that is with answers to reverse challenging trouble, to cease permanently.
In life, there is no man with an exception not to experience challenging trouble.
For example, King David, identified by God as a man after the heart of God, repeatedly experience challenging trouble but overcame it all. 
Psalm 3:1-2 testifies the evidence to the challenge of David, “Lord, how they have increased who trouble me! Many are they who rise up against me. Many are they who say of me, “There is no help for him in God.”
The Bible identifies how David came out of challenging trouble for learning: 
DAVID ACKNOWLEDGES GOD
Despite increasing challenges, David acknowledged the awesomeness of God, “But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, My glory and the One who lifts up my head.” (Psalm 3:3) 
David, in time of his challenging trouble, his worshiping of God was not distracted.
David gave himself to worship God instead of worrying over his challenging trouble when he acknowledged God for what God has done, and what He was doing in his life, the evidence of what God will do in his life. Acknowledging God in a troubling challenge is the way of thanking God, provoking the intervention hand of God.
The disobedience of Jonah to the word of God positioned him in challenging trouble. 
Jonah, like David, also acknowledges God when he looked up to God to remind God about how God has brought him far in life. 
Jonah acknowledges God as he promised to sacrifice before God with the voice of thanksgiving.
Acknowledging God is a self-deliverance to overcome challenging trouble.

Prayer for today: Ask God to activate you to acknowledge Him for His hand in your challenging time.