FAITH CAPSULE: Lameness will prompt stagnation in life.

Acts 3

One that cannot walk is bound to crawl, not able to run, the evidence of lameness.
In life, one with physical, spiritual, or emotional lameness is often to become limited to rise and susceptible to become a victim of stagnation in this wicked world.
Stagnation is rooted in lameness. 
In the journey of life where stagnation persists, delay, and the denial will disrupt getting to the expected end. 
Lameness in life can be a position or a condition where no man desires to be.
Lameness will prompt stagnation in life.
It is worthy for an individual to search self, to identify the source of lameness that is possible of giving attention to worthless things of this world.
Will you turn your eyes away from worthless of this wicked world?
The Psalmist prayed, “Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things, and revive me in Your way.” (Psalm 119:37) 
Without any doubt, looking away from the way of God is set to live a wasted life.
God is not a deceive-able God by no man, and that is the reason to desire for God by seeking Him to take charge of your life.
Without a doubt, there will be no man who would love to be in a position of lameness concerning any issue of life. 
Peter and John operated as agents that delivered a lameness man with stagnation. The Bible records, “Now Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple.” (Acts 3:1-2)
Are you experiencing physical or spiritual lameness?
Are you in a position of emotional or any form of lameness and stagnation?
The lame was stagnated outside of the beautiful temple while inside of the temple was a place of healing. 
Can you imagine? 
The certain lame man from the womb of his mother had been in that situation since birth. He was in a reduced way of what was not his desire. 
Lameness and stagnation often reduce what man does not want to be.
Are you one with experience of lame representative but yet not know?
Many are lame ever since the time of the womb and could be of generational curse.
Are you having a “lame” experience in any area of your life?
Are you at the right location and at the right time to receive your deliverance from whatever is representing lameness?
If you can identify your location, then your situation is half-solved. 
The lame man was at the gate of the beautiful temple at the hour of prayer. When he saw Peter and John, he asked for alms, Peter and John had more to offer him. Bible records, “And fixing his eyes on him, with John, Peter said, ‘Look at us.’ So, he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.” (Acts 3:4-5) Give attention to God with expectation for healing.

Prayer for today: Ask that every representative of lameness be permanently terminated in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Waiting on God is a solution to resolve any situation.

1 Samuel 13 

King Saul was instructed by Samuel to wait for lawful sacrifice before going to war against Philistines but could not wait for instruction.
As Philistines gathered together to fight the Israelites, King Saul could not wait for seven days as instructed by Samuel.
1 Samuel 13:9 records, “So Saul said, “Bring a burnt offering and peace offerings here to me.” And he offered the burnt offering.” King Saul, tragically disobeyed both the Law of Moses and the instructions of the Prophet of God. (Leviticus 1) 
King Saul could not wait as instructed.
Is waiting to address your confronting situation a challenge or a solution?
Get to know the truth, waiting in obedience to instruction rooted in the word of God, shall always culminate favorable expectations. 
After the disobedience of Saul, Samuel arrived to ask, “What have you done?” 
Saul answered, “When I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered together at Michmash, then I said, ‘The Philistines will now come down on me at Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the Lord.’ Therefore I felt compelled, and offered a burnt offering.” (1 Samuel 13:11-12)
It is always a foolish thing to disobey the command of God.
Waiting for God is giving attention to a jealous God. 
Psalmist admonished, “Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed…” (Psalm 25:3)
A believer in God must understand that to wait on God endures a period of waiting without knowing how long to get an answer from God. 
Waiting on God can be a delay but never a waste of time. 
In a time of waiting, among what to exercise as a believer must engage are:
Be of good courage; rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him; do not fret; keep His way; let your soul wait silently.
The above truth about waiting is identifiable in the scriptural verses listed below:
Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord! (Psalm 27:14)
Psalm 37:7, “Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.”
Psalm 37:9, “For evildoers shall be cut off; But those who wait on the Lord, They shall inherit the earth.”
Psalm 37:34, “Wait on the Lord, And keep His way, And He shall exalt you to inherit the land; When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.”
Psalm 40:1, “I waited patiently for the Lord; And He inclined to me, And heard my cry.”
Psalm 62:1, “Truly my soul silently waits for God; From Him comes my salvation.”
Psalm 62:5, “My soul, wait silently for God alone, for my expectation is from Him.”
Hosea 12:6, “… wait on your God continually.”
Does your situation demand to wait on God? 
God is true to answer when we wait patiently by abiding in His word obediently. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you with the strength to remain to wait on Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you willing to serve God indeed and in truth?

Exodus 3, Colossians 3:1:17

Are you an acclaimed believer of God but serving God with the lack of understanding?
In life, particularly, lack of understanding of the acclaimed believer to be serving God is limiting the manifestation of the power of God over their life.
Are you a believer of God that is living life by the word of God or one that is living life as if one living time of the Egypt of Pharaoh, not living according to the word of God?
As an acclaimed believer, there should be evidence of living out of Egypt of Pharaoh time today. 
God wanted the Israelites out of Egypt of Pharaoh when He spoke to Moses, “When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.” (Exodus 3:12) God also sent Moses to Pharaoh, “ Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘thus says the Lord: “Israel is My son, My firstborn. So I say to you, let My son go that he may serve Me…” (Exodus 4:22-23)
God is jealous that He wants nothing from all but to free and serve Him.
What does it mean to serve God? 
To serve God demands from all to seek Him diligently and set the mind on things where God is above.
The book of Colossians 3:1-2 clearly states, “If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.”
Seeking God will come with the challenges of this world.
Among challenges not to seek God diligently are:
-One that is yet to be dead in their trespasses will not rise to serve God.
-Inability to put off the body of the sins of the flesh.
-Setting the mind on the worldly things more than things above will not serve God diligently.
There is no excuse to take the mind off from the things of God, to avoid missing the presence of God.
Are you willing to serve God indeed and in truth?
Have you separated yourself from worldly things you once walked with as a way of life? 
The word requires all to put to death members on the earth, such as fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. The members on earth will bring the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience. (Colossians 3:6-7)
Word also points directly for all to put off: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of our mouth, do not lie to one another. (Colossians 3:8-10)
Be renewed in knowledge according to the word of God. 
Serve God diligently to experience the power of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to serve Him, seek Him diligently.

FAITH CAPSULE: What are you thinking or asking?

Proverb 4

It is not rocket science to know that what you are thinking or asking will match what you are experiencing or what you are going to experience in life.
In your heart, what are you thinking or asking that is related to the issues of life?
How you take charge of your heart will lead you through the issues of life. The word of God in Proverb 4:23 warns, “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.”
Are you keeping your heart to deliver you from thinking right, or asking wrongly?
What is the condition of your heart to determine what you are thinking or asking?
Luke 6:45 admonishes, “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.”
Give self to the word of God, not just for memorization for declaration of the word of God, but for meditation as decoration to navigate without falling in the issues of life.
What are you thinking or asking that you speak out before God?
On the journey of the Israelites to the Promised Land, their thinking and asking were negative. God heard the Israelites, and they became terminated not to arrive at the Promised Land. 
Numbers 14:28 records and responded to the negative confession of the Israelites, “…As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you.” 
There is no excuse to be asking with an error before God.
Ecclesiastes 5:6 warns against excuse for error, “Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger of God that it was an error. Why should God be angry at your excuse and destroy the work of your hands?” 
As an acclaimed believer, you should know the truth (John 8:32) not to count on error, but to keep heart diligent from thinking or saying what is wrong in the hearing of God.
As an acclaimed believer, get to know that the power of God that you carry will not fail to answer to your thinking or what you are asking. Ephesians 3:20 states, “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.”
In life, nothing is hidden from God and is the reason why thinking or asking, becomes a confession that is negative or positive.
By your thinking or asking, avoid negative confession, be positive, God is hearing!

Prayer for today: Ask from God to enable His word to abundantly occupy your heart, not to become a victim of negative confession, in thinking, and asking before God.

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.