FAITH CAPSULE: The mercy of God is His loyal love for His caring for all.

Exodus 15

God is at a distance where sin exists and does not accommodate sin.

With sin, one is short of the presence of God but without sin, one will gain the fullness of the presence of God. Romans 3:23 speaks to all, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” 
With sin, distance from the presence of God will provoke unwanted, unexpected painful challenges that will take charge of all. However, with repentance from sin will seek the intervention of God, the mercy of God that will answer for regaining the presence of God, for coming out of the painful challenge.
Day after days, week after weeks, month after months, year after years, the mercy of God has been consistent to see you this far, not to become a victim of the wicked world.
Just as power belongs unto God, mercy also belongs to God. 
The mercy of God means God is compassionate and kind.
His mercy is with forbearance that does not runs out.
Only God that is in the position to render mercy unto all, unfailingly.
The mercy of God is no man’s merit but the goodness of God. 
God cannot be intimidated or manipulated by any of His creation for the release of His mercy.
God testifies to His mercy in Romans 9:14-16, “…I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion. So, then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.”
God’s mercy is in place for all and nothing under heaven can displace or deny one which God is set to visit with His mercy.
It was with mercy that God led the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years. The Bible records, “You in Your mercy have led forth the people whom You have redeemed…” (Exodus 15:13) 
In this wicked world, understand and know to live life to attain the mercy of God as the Bible records His word.
As much as God alone can have mercy on who He will have mercy on, the option is to plead for God’s mercy over one’s life undeniably.
AMONG WAYS OF PROVOKING GOD TO OBTAIN HIS MERCY ARE:
The mercy of God is attainable when one asks or plead for His mercy
God identified Job as a man with none like him on the earth; a blameless and upright man who fears God and shuns evil but yet Job was in need to plead for God’s mercy saying, “For though I were righteous, I could not answer Him; I would beg mercy of my Judge” (Job 9:15). Despite God’s testimony of Job, there was no excuse for Job to receive the mercy of God without pleading for His mercy. 
Just like Job, pleading for the mercy of God, Psalmist did the same saying, “Have mercy on me, O LORD! Consider my trouble from those who hate me, You who lift me up from the gates of death.” (Psalm 9:13). 
Know to plead for God’s mercy to receive from God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the mercy of God to intervene in the challenges of today.

FAITH CAPSULE: Joseph came under the authority which he could not control. 

Genesis 37

The calling of God broke Joseph before the manifestation of God’s blessing over his life.
Joseph answered God’s calling over his life without knowing the journey of God’s calling ahead of his life. At age 17, the answering of Joseph to Jacob (his father) was the route for his divine assignment. Jacob said, “…Please go and see if it is well with your brothers and well with the flocks and bring back word to me.” So, he sent him out of the Valley of Hebron, and he went to Shechem.” (Genesis 37:14) The answering to Jacob led Joseph into the calling of God without prior announcement for Joseph.
The book of Psalm 105:17-22 confirms that Joseph’s journey was his answer to God’s calling as the Bible states, “He sent a man before them Joseph who was sold as a slave.” They hurt his feet with fetters, He was laid in irons. “Until the time that his word came to pass, the word of the Lord tested him. The king sent and released him; the ruler of the people let him go free. He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his possessions, to bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom.”  
Joseph, at 17 years (Genesis 37:2) he could not see his beloved father Jacob until over 30 years of age. (Genesis 41:46) Joseph the beloved of Jacob (his father), answered God’s calling as a priced slave to become prime minister. 
Regardless of where you are today, do you know if you are answering God’s calling?
Joseph became a slave; he could no longer move at his own will.
Joseph came under the authority which he could not control. 
Calling of God will lead the called one into an unknown route where learning is waiting for called one to know and become obedient to God. Jesus learned obedience by the things that He suffered. 
One that He calls is not with exemption but to experience the suffering of Jesus.
When God calls to send you, there will be the experience of an uncomfortable chain, pain, and iron which restricts movement.
When He sends you, input from you to control time and timing in your journey is not relevant because God alone will be in charge of controlling time. Joseph failed the attempt to come out of the prison of Egypt, before God’s time when he pleaded to the butler (whom he interpreted his dream) to remember Him for help to come out of prison at his own time but not knowing the time of God for his move. 
Butler failed at Joseph’s expectation for Butler’s help until God’s appointed time to send His help. (Genesis 40:12-15) 
With no exception, experiencing challenges such as failure; delay; mockery; stagnation; embarrassment; ridicule; to have lied against the called one are always in the journey to answering to God’s calling.
In answering the calling of God, are you experiencing challenges like that of Joseph? 
Take to the word of God with trust and hope as Psalm 34:19 encourages, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.”

Prayer for today: Ask for the strength to answer for His calling fully.

FAITH CAPSULE: When God calls you, do not look away from His direction.

Genesis 19:1-29

God alone created all for His glory and His honor. Revelation 4:11 records, “You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, and by Your will, they exist and were created.” 
What is it that you do not understand about God? 
God alone is the Almighty, the Ancient of days. 
1Timothy 6:15 describes God, “…He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords.” God alone is above and beyond all, and Psalmist states it clearly, “The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood, And the Lord sits as King forever.” (Psalm 29:10) 
God will make and un-make, He alone is the unchanging changer that is in position to reverse the irreversible. God creates all.
God creates all for divine assignment, His calling comes with the process, for His purpose over your life. 
The calling of God for you must be connected to God continually by dwelling and abiding in His direction, the only way to answer the calling of God in life.
God has a calling for all with a different assignment. 
God’s calling will break you at the initial of calling but will no doubt turn you to God’s blessing when you obey Him as directed.
The ones that He breaks are meant to be blessed, the evidence that God does not leave you alone at His calling.
When God calls you, do not look away from His direction.
When God called Lot and his family for salvation, the wife of Lot looked outside of God’s direction to position her self-destruction. (Genesis 19:26)
The calling of God will come with challenges but obedience to God will deliver you. Know to remember, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”  (1Thessalonians 5:24) 
When God calls you, do not allow doubt for you to be discouraged from answering the calling of God.
Deny doubt, answer to God’s calling for your life.
Discouragement will question you with negativity to redirect your calling wrongly. 
Engaging the calling upon your life, commit yourself to no man but God alone. The word of God in John 2:24 is for understanding, to be cautious, “But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all men.”
When God calls you, there will be no negotiation for your preference of how or when to answer God.
God is the Creator of all and sees before or beyond the journey in life. Also, time belongs to God for the called one to arrive at the divine assignment of God.
When God calls, there will be no prior arrangement; there will be no announcement before calling; there will be no baggage to hinder or slow you down.
Where are you today?
Consciously or unconsciously, your journey of today is possible to be a journey that is leading you into the calling of God.

Prayer for today: Ask from God to enable you to live life for His calling over you.

FAITH CAPSULE: To fear God is rooted in giving attention to the word of God.

Job 1

Give your heart to fear God. The command of God is designed for all to fear Him because time belongs to God for His doing. 1 Timothy 6:14-16 admonishes all, “…that you keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing, which He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.” 
Will you give your heart to fear God?
God treasures those who fear Him.
To fear God is with ones that have wisdom and knowledge, that is the source of stability, the strength of salvation. Isaiah 33:6 points out, “Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times and the strength of salvation; The fear of the Lord is His treasure.” God treasures it when one fears Him.
Fear God by your way of living life.
Living life in the fear of God is taking a position not to fail in the journey of life.
To fear God is rooted in giving attention to the word of God by inclining ear, keeping God’s word in the depth of heart not just in the head.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 identifies for all to live life by the fear God, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all.”
Are you one that keeps the word of God in the head with no space for the word of God in the heart?
In life, let the fear of God become your identity before God. 
The fear of God is the identity of Job before God as God testifies, “there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil? And still, he holds fast to his integrity, although you incited Me against him, to destroy him without cause.”
To fear God in the heart will have a pleasing life before God.
Have a heart of fear for God to live life for God.
It is the will of God for all to fear God and know to train children that will live life in the fear of God.
Know and understand to fear God in every way of life, it is the conclusion of the whole matter.
The word of God that speaks to one speaks to all to fear God for the ways of living life as Job 28:28 records, “…And to man, He said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding…” Jeremiah 10:7, “Who would not fear You, O King of the nations? For this is Your rightful due. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like You. “
Who will not fear God? 
Give yourself to prayer, that the fear of God becomes established in your hearts not to depart from God.

Prayer for today: Ask from God that His fear be established in your heart.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you full of doubt, fear, and excuses before God?

Exodus 3

The command of God is His direction.
In the direction of God, there is a way where there is no way. 
God’s direction is certain to deliver when there is full obedience to His direction. 
In His direction doubt will lead to self-denial, misdirection, fear will rise, and faith will sink you.
God’s calling is His direction. 
When He calls you, he will back you up and not fail. 
1 Thessalonians 5:24 buttresses, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”
Today, disallow doubt from interfering your journey of life, know that God’s direction shall not fail.
Know it that doubt will provoke disobedience to God’s direction and not to ask from God.   
Know God, know His promise as Matthew 7:7 records, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you.” Often, instead of asking as promised in the word of God, one will give to fear; complaint and full of excuses before God.
Are you full of doubt, fear, and excuses before God?
When it was time for God to make a way out of bondage for the Israelites, He called Moses to lead the Israelites saying, “…I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” (Exodus 3:10) 
In the calling of God, Moses responded with doubt saying, “…Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” (Exodus 3:11)  
God responded to Moses, “…I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you…” (Exodus 3:12) 
When God calls you, He is certain to back you up unfailingly. 
Moses listened to God, with understanding, he answered to the calling of God over his life.
In life, there is no reason to stop asking from God prayerfully in faith and not in doubt. 
It was Moses that also asked prayerfully in faith in Exodus 33:13 “Now, therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.”  
In your journey of life, know to ask from God with faith, not in doubt.
God is not a wicked God but a good caring God. 
Moses asked prayerfully, and God answered him, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (Exodus 33:14) 
Always ask Him and know to be holding onto His answer that is set to manifest.

Prayer for today: Ask God to uphold you not to be a victim of doubt.