FAITH CAPSULE: Regardless of your challenge, approach God with thanks and joy.

Job 1 

Giving thanks to God should be rooted in the heart, not just in the tongue.
One that knows to give thanks to God should approach God with joy. Ephesians 5:20 states, “Giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 
Do you know to give thanks to access to the presence of God?
Be thankful and be joyful before God.
The Bible records, “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I will say, rejoice!” (Philippians 4:4)  
Psalm 9:2, “I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to your name, O most High.” Psalm 16:11, “In Your presence is fullness of joy…” Proverbs 8:30, “…I was daily His delight, rejoicing, always before Him.” The scriptural verses testify that without joy, God is not accessible. Apostle Paul stated well, “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I will say, rejoice!” (Philippians 4:4) The calling for joy by the Apostle Paul was expressed with simplicity, emphasis, and with a shout!
In every meeting with God, all His children must go before Him with joy. To come before God is celebrating with joy, the evidence of a thankful heart.
Let it be clear to you that the evil one never shies away from where there is a joy, but with his plan to convert one with joy to sadness. 
Also, let it be aware to you that your calling is to maintain your joy regardless of challenges. 
In the life of Job, Satan was at work to turn around joy to sad of Job.
The book of Job 1:6-7records, “Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them And the LORD said to Satan, “From where do you come?” So, Satan answered the LORD and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it.” (Job 1:6-7) 
Every interruption of Satan is always with bad intentions. 
The Satan is empowered to go to and fro looking for one to devour. 
It was the Satan that initiates pain for Job while he was where the sons of God are gathering in His presence. Bible documents, “But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!” And the LORD said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand on his person.” So, Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.” (Job 1:11-12) 
Can you imagine how the wicked one delivered every form of affliction over the life of Job? 
In between and through it all, Job did not complain before God and did not condemn God. Job cried to God, and he eventually received more blessings after his time of testing times, than when he first started to enjoy all that God bestowed upon him.

Prayer for today: Ask with joy, give a heartful thanks to God, for all things.

FAITH MAIL: Give self to continual complementing before God that has never fail.

Exodus 16

Have you been complaining more or complementing God for He has done or all His doing in your life?
Acts of the complaint do not have a place before God.
Complaining can be a quick turnaround from complementing for victory in place of set back.
Does that speak to you?
Regardless of an unexpected challenge, always remember that there is nothing impossible for God to turnaround for good. 
Give self to continual complementing before God that has never fail.
God destroyed the Egyptians on behalf of the Israelites at the entrance of the Red Sea. Moses and the children of Israel declared a new song to praise God. The Israelites stated in their praise, “Your right hand, O LORD, has become glorious in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has dashed the enemy in pieces.” (Exodus 15:6) 
Indeed, the right hand of God is still with power, as it was then.
The right hand of God has not changed to lift His children. However, after crossing the Red Sea, the hand of God that saw them through the Red Sea was more than enough not to encourage complaint, but rather the Israelite had a quick turnaround from victory, deliverance to complaining, and looking back. 
Have you been complaining more or complementing God for His mercy? 
Complaining became a pattern of engaging challenges by the Israelites. At the place called Marah, the Israelites could not turn to God with compliments, but the complaint became their ways before God. Exodus 15:23-24 records, “Now when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore, the name of it was called Marah. And the people complained against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”  The complaint of the Israelites against Moses was an indirect complaint before God.
The Israelites could not count on the blessing of God that brought them out of the bondage of over four hundred years.
If you can count the blessings of God over your life, there should be no place for complaining at where you are in your journey. 
Despite the complaint, God gave them water through Moses. 
After the Marah Episode was the drama of crying for what they have left behind in Egypt. There was no realization to them that getting to the Promised Land involves leaving behind the past in an attempt to claim the Promised Land. 
The Israelites complained about meat when God showed up to meet their need for meat. God attending to the Israelites should have been enough not to generate any more complaints about the lack of their journey, yet again they complained about water. Exodus 17:3 record, “And the people thirsted there for water, and the people complained against Moses, and said, “Why is it you have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”  Complaining was the confession of death when they died, with none of them saw the Promised Land.
Give yourself to complimenting God for all He has done; all He is doing and all He will do in your life.

Prayer for today: Ask by giving a compliment to God in all things.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you experiencing a silent pain from the issue of life?

Mark 5

The Bible records, “Now a certain woman had a flow of blood for twelve years, and had suffered many things from many physicians. She had spent all that she had and was no better but rather grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment.” (Mark 5:25-27)
For twelve years, a certain woman experienced un-wanting pain. Whenever concern remains persistent, it becomes a burden, and the carrier labors silently or loudly in pain. 
A certain woman could not receive healing in the hand of any physician. On top of her pain, she spent all that she had, and yet no heal answered for her. 
Are you experiencing a silent pain from the issue of life?
Pain can be a combination of labor and discouragement in the journey of life.
The healing Healer did not discourage all but only encourages if one with pain will give self to the word of healing truth.
Matthew 11:28 record healing encourages word of God, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden and you will find rest for your souls.” The healing Healer is the same yesterday, today, and forever, give self to the word of God for your healing like the woman with the issue of blood. 
If she had not come to Jesus, her burden labor would have remained over her life. Jesus was not telling jokes, neither was He sharing fables when He declared in Matthew 11:28, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden and you will find rest for your souls.”
What is stopping you from taking your concern to Him today?
Is your past discouragement in the place to discourage you from getting your healing?
A certain woman of the blood of twelve years did not resist herself from going for her healing. 
Leviticus 15:19 stated, “If a woman has a discharge, and the discharge from her body is blood, she shall be set apart seven days; and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening.” The law in Leviticus 15:19 could not resist her from going after Jesus, but she went further to receive her healing.
At the approach of Jesus by the woman of the issue of blood, every available route in the front to reach Jesus was crowded but not enough to discourage the woman yet, she came behind Jesus in the crowd and was able to touch His garment.
Location or your distance to the Healer is not enough to be a hindrance to your healing. With the extent of your pain, Jesus can heal and give you rest.
The woman with the issue of blood sought the Healer diligently, and she received her healing.
Today, seek God the Healer diligently, and you shall receive your healing.

Prayer for today: Ask God to give heed to your prayer to heal you. 

FAITH CAPSULE: The challenge of today should not be your confession.

Numbers 14

The challenges of today should not be your reason to be confessing negative.
The challenge of everybody should not be your challenge because you are not everybody.
God is near to everybody, but is everybody knows to be NEAR to God?
Listen, live life in a position that is near to God which is a place of standing on His word, to experience the promise of God that states, “A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; But it shall not come near you.” (Psalm 91:7)
What are you confessing in the time or at the face of challenges before you?
What is it?
The Bible warns in Proverbs 18:21, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”
What are you thinking in your heart that follows you?
Proverbs 4:23 informs all, “Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.”
What you think is what the word of God admonishes in Matthew 12:34, “For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.”
What you are thinking or asking will happen and that is the reason Ephesians 3:20 warns, “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us”
The challenge of today should not be your confession.
When God is taking the Israelites out of the bondage of over four hundred years to a Promised Land, with a complaint, the Israelites confessed negative because of challenge saying, “ And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?” So they said to one another, “Let us select a leader and return to Egypt.” (Numbers 14:2-4)
Take note that God hears as he responded to the complaint of the Israelites in Numbers 14:28, “ Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: 29 The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above.”
What is your negative confession before God?
One confessing negative will provoke negativity while confessing positive will provoke positive from God.
Remember God reverses irreversible, the evidence that He will reverse all irreversible for good in our life.

Prayer for today: Ask against every negative confession you have engaged by asking or thinking to be reversed for good, to the glory of God over life.