FAITH CAPSULE: God magnified His word above all His name.

Psalm 138

Psalm 28:5 records, “Because they do not regard the works of the Lord, nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them and not build them up.”
God’s works are His word.
God’s work operates through His word.
His word is His word.
What God says He will do is a done deal.
What God says does not return without performing as said.
Pray the word of God that does not return void to Him.
Isaiah 55:11 confirms the doing of the word of God, “So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.”
Are you praying the word of God, the evidence of faith in God?
Praying the word of God will provoke the hand of God to remember with favor and visit with salvation. 
Acts 6:4 informs all, “but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
How will one pray the word that does not gain entrance into one who is praying before God?
Interestingly, Psalm 119:130 admonishes, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.”
The Bible identifies the simple as the believer.
Psalm 116:16 testifies, “The Lord preserves the simple…”
Proverbs 14:15 confirms, “The simple believes every word…”
Today, set yourself before God; turn to God with trust and hope that God shall not ignore your prayer.
PRAYER is the key, moving forward with God, living life before God, and not being far from God, who is near to all.
Get to pray the word of God below:
Romans 10:3 records, “For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.”
Ask God to delete every trace of ignorance in your life.
Ask that God enable you to be submissive to Him.
Ask that you shall not be a faith failure all the days He has given you.
Ask God to enable you to be awake in every route of His deliverance and preservation, not to be trapped but to experience His move in your life. 
Ask God that in challenging days, He shall enable you not to be entangled in the affairs of life but to focus on Him continually.
Ask that God, in His mercy, disconnect you from every line that is 
communicating wrong to lead you wrong before God.
Ask against all that is complicating your life before God ceased.
Also, confusion forces against your answering His calling; be separated from it.
Pray the word of God that is in your heart, not just in your mouth.
Remember, the word of God does not return void without performing.
Pray the word of God to find God.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will give heed to your prayer.

FAITH CAPSULE: Watch not to miss when in prayer.

James 4

Prayer before God is asking from God. 
Acts 6:4 records, “but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”  
Give yourself to prayer and His word. 
Let prayer be your way of life; let watching drive your prayer so you do not miss the manifestation of expectation.
God is faithful, and He will answer yes, no, or wait.
Praying before God opens a solution for challenges.
Watch not to miss in prayer.
James 4:3 warns against praying,“You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.”
Pray with understanding.
Occasional praying is not praying continually.
Let praying before God become your way of life, waiting on God continually.
God is a good God.
Anyone who waits on God shall experience that God is the unchanging changer.
He reverses the irreversible.
God is God who waits to act for those that wait on Him. (Isaiah 64:4)
God will not ignore one who prayerfully waits for Him but will remember with favor and visit with salvation.
In challenging times, wait on God with prayer.
Prayer before God is asking from God.
What is your way that is wrong before God which is assumed right?
Ask God to search you, to know your ways, to correct and lead you.
David, a man after the heart of God, knew to wait on God by asking: “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” (Psalm 139:23-24)
Prayerfully, waiting on God to lead you in an unfailing direction.
The way to have the rest of God is to seek God by praying before God and not going astray. 
Going astray is rooted in the heart. 
Manifestly, any heart that goes astray will miss the way of God. 
God is a good God who cares for all.
God is a God of time and process.
Time belongs to God.
When you pray, wait; remain focused on God for His timing.
Wait to get an answer from Him, not by the time of the world. 
The time of God is not the same as the time of man.
God’s process is not the same as man’s. 
The time of God is perfect, and His process is preparation for where He has time for everyone to be. 
Praying before God demands that you remain unmoving, inactive, or in a state of repose until what is expected manifests. 
For your prayer, it is worthy to put off further activity to remain focused on God.
God is a good God; He gives unfailing attention to those who call on Him. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to give you strength and understanding for continual prayer.

FAITH CAPSULE: How far are you from God in all ways of life?

Exodus 33

Walking in life should relate to ways.
The way fails, falters, or is frail.
Are you walking in the word of God or by the world you are living in today?
It does not matter who you are or what title you hold, but walk for God.
In life, for anyone not to fall, falter, or be frail is to walk for God.
How far are you from God in all ways of life?
In every walk of life, walking close with God demands observing His way; that is, seeing the way of God.
God’s presence is His way. 
Proverbs 23:26 informs, “My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.”
Give his heart to God.
God is in His ways, and His way is His presence.
To seek God diligently is walking in His way, keeping close and not far from God.
Moses before God speaks to what it means to walk close and not far from God.
Exodus 33:12-14 records, “Then Moses said to the Lord, ‘See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.’ 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.” And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”  
The prayer of Moses states, “Show me your way that I may know you” 
testifies that God is in His way, and His way is His presence
Moses asked right before God.
Always ask for God’s way.
Just like Moses, know to ask for the ways of God for your life.
Search your heart continually to know if you are far or close to God.
Give your heart to God to observe His way, the evidence of walking close to God.
WHERE ARE YOU BEFORE GOD
Where are you before God?
The work of the individual is the walk that counts before God.
What is your work before God that keeps you close to God?
Jesus asked, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?”
Jesus responds,“This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” (John 6:28-29)
Do you have work before God, and does God identify your work?
It is your work, your belief in God, that draws you close or far from God.
God is a good God.
Get to know the way God wants; do not live a life of waste.

Prayer for today: Ask that God enables you to walk close to Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Give it all to God always to find Him always.

Daniel 1

Are you at a distance from God, like someone who does not give earnest heed to God?
Not giving earnest heed to the word of God will lead one to distance from God. 
Keeping distance from God is an avenue to self-destruction.
Earnest implies having a purpose and being steadily and soberly eager to pursue.
Heed means paying attention, listening to, and following the word. 
To give earnest heed is to be purposeful and to be giving attention to the word of God.
The heart is where purpose takes place.
The heart is where listening takes place.
Be mindful that the heart is where God sees the doing of all man under heaven.
Hebrews 2:1-4 records the need to give heed to the word of God,
“Therefore, we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him, God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to His own will?”
Are you giving heed to the word of God?
One with earnest heed for God shall be purposeful for God.
Daniel purposed in His heart.
Daniel was more earnest in his heed for God, purposing in his heart for God to gain the favor of God.
Daniel 1:8-9 records: “But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore, he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself. Now God had brought Daniel into the favor and goodwill of the chief of the eunuchs.” 
David had the heart of God. 
God will always locate any who earnestly heed His word.
The reaction of God to the violation of Saul testifies to the heart of David, for God said:“…I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.” (Acts 13:22)
There is no compromise, no excuse, but all must give earnest heed to the word of God.
The word of God is not to convince anyone.
The word of God demands commitment from all.
Also, the word of God is not for decoration but declaration. 
In life, it is the way of all who declare the word that is carried by all.
All should come out from RELIGION in the mouth, but give heart to the word of God.
Do not be distant from God; giving earnest heed to the word of God will lead to distance from God but closer to self-destruction.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to give heed to the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Living life demands faith.

Hebrews 11

Give yourself to faith and patience.
Faith drives you to seek diligently and find God at all times.
Hebrews 11:1 records faith as “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1) 
Faith has a source. Romans 10:17 records, “…faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” 
Word of God has a place in one who hears, and hears the Word of God.
Also, when one does not give to hearing and hearing the Word of God, one will experience the departure of such.
Living life demands constant engagement with faith and patience according to the Word of God. 
Living life with faith and patience, the Word of God gives life to the just ones. 
Habakkuk 2:4 buttresses: “…the just shall live by his faith.” 
All that pertains to living life is living by the Word of God (living by faith). The Word states: we walk by faith, not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7);we watch, stand by faith (1 Corinthians 16:13);faith purifies the heart (Acts 15:9);we get saved by faith through grace (Ephesians 2:8) 
Patience with faith, or faith with patience, is crucial to living life to gain and retain God.
Patience is the ability or willingness to suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay. 
Patience is steady perseverance (steady persistence)
God is Longsuffering God, the character of having patience.
Numbers 14:18 records of God,“The Lord is longsuffering and abundant in mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He by no means clears the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation.”  
Are you patient and longsuffering in the journey of life?
Colossians 1:11 buttresses, “Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy” 
Patience will provoke the blessing of God.
Lack of patience denies blessing and often leads to self-destruction.
Do you claim faith but lack patience, or vice versa?
Among the scriptural verses that shed light on the importance of faith and patience, “…you do not become sluggish but imitate those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.” (Hebrews 6:12). 
Let faith and patience be your way of life.
Faith with patience, as in a journey, is not a wasted life.
Faith is the fuel, while patience is the ignition.
Trust and hope are rooted in faith and patience that deliver the blessing of God.
It is a blessing to trust and hope in God.(Jeremiah 17:7) 
Job 14:7 encourages, “For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender shoots will not cease.” 
What counts one out cannot count as God, who counts better.
Challenges that reduce one cannot be more powerful than God, who reverses the irreversible.
Pray to understand and know to wait on God for His visitation over your life.
God is not partial, but will remember to give His blessing as He did in the past.

Prayer for today: Ask that the faith of God be activated in you always.