FAITH CAPSULE: Engage the word to disallow the world from grounding you.

John 1

Engage the word of God not the world. The word of God is described, “For the word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”(Acts 4:12) Are you engaging more of God’s word or the world? If engaging the word of God becomes man’s priority, getting heaven’s attention shall become man’s portion. Living the word of God and not only become conversant quoting the word is what it means to be engaging the word of God.God shall not violate His word. He promised in Isaiah 55:11, “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.”

Is your time for the world overtaking your time for the word of God? If your answer is yes, it is evident that your living life demands a serious readjustment. God says His word will not return back to Him void why not turn and engage the healing word of God more than the wicked world? The psalmist records, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.” (Psalm 107:20) God already sent His word and He is still sending His word to those who make the choice to engage His word. Healing, deliverance, preservation, provision, is in the word of God and the world does not have any better thing to offer compare to the word of God.

The Apostle Paul admonished, “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” Engaging the word of God for man to be established and become untouchable in the face of the wicked world is the way to live life. Engage the word and allow the word to build you. It will be impossible for someone that is not answering to the word of God to be expecting the word to answer on his/her behalf.

The word of God cannot fail and will not fail. Man can make all the noise quoting the word but a failure to put on the word as a coat (garment) will cause man to be naked and exposed to the wicked world. Also, when the word is not sinking into man’s life faith will not rise. Engage the word; stop sinking but start to swim in the word of God so that faith will rise. Disallow the power of this world from grounding you; take cover in the word of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for grace to constantly engage His word with understanding.

FAITH CAPSULE: A careless sleep over the word of God is a slip-up that will expose man to untimely death.

Judges 16

It is written, “Now Samson went to Gaza and saw a harlot there, and went in to her. When the Gazites were told, “Samson has come here!” they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. They were quiet all night, saying, “In the morning, when it is daylight, we will kill him.” (Judges 16:1-2) Samson could not be killed because of the word of God upon his life. Before he was born, God sent His word through His angel who declared that Samson should be a Nazirite (not to drink wine; not to eat anything unclean and no razor should touch his hair) from birth for the rest of his life. Time and time again he could not be brought down by forces of the wicked. Once, a lion caught up with him by surprise and he was able to tear up the lion like a young goat (Judges14:5-6). Power demonstration in the life of Samson was uncommon because the word of God was intact in his life.

The spirit of God constantly kept and delivered Samson from trouble. Samson was a mighty man of God. He was above all that attempted to take his life because the hand of God was upon him to keep Him awake and alive. Have you engaged the delivering word of God that is keeping you above or beyond any form of evil agenda? The word that is keeping man from evil agenda must be jealously secured and there should never be a careless sleep over the word of God in man’s life. A careless sleep over the word of God is the avenue to slip-up that will expose man to untimely death. Despite all that God deposited in his life, he overthrew himself when he had a careless sleep. Samson revealed what was to be kept secret to Delilah.

Samson should have seen the warning signs when he engaged Delilah whose name means lustful. Lust and temptation are birds of the same feather. Delilah the lustful one brought temptation to Samson in attempt to terminate Samson before his time. Indeed, Samson entered into a careless sleep after revealing the source of what God had deposited in his life. Judges 16:20 recorded, “And she said, ‘The Philistines are upon you, Samson! So he awoke from the sleep, and said, ‘I will go out as before, at other times, and shake myself free! But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.’” Samson slip-up was a careless sleep which made him a victim of his enemy where he supposed to be victorious. Samson had a careless sleep; word of God vacated him and was delivered to his enemy. Are you having a careless sleep? Whenever the word of God is violated, becoming a victim of evil agenda is inevitable.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to be constantly awake in the word of God for your deliverance and preservation.

FAITH CAPSULE: Miracle of the third answered with compassion for Moses and he came out untimely death. Exodus 1, 2

It is written, “Now it came to pass on the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday that he made a feast for all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and chief baker among his servants. Then he restored the chief butler to his butlership again, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.”(Genesis 40:20). It was on the third day that Pharaoh decided to restore his chief butler from the prison and the butler regained all that has been lost. This third month, pray that the eyes of the Lord which run to and fro throughout the whole world will locate you in everything that is representing confinement of Pharaoh. Ask God to remember you and locate you with a favorable visitation. When God remembers, it is always with favor. Also when He visits, it is always with salvation.

The Bible recorded how Moses’ mother hid him from the evil one’s hand for three months (Exodus 2:2) and placed him in an ark of bulrushes. After three months of hiding, the ark brought Moses to the attention of the evil one’s daughter. It is written, “…She saw the child, and behold, the baby wept. So she had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children” (Exodus 2:6) Moses, in the face of his enemy, on the third day he came out of wicked and untimely death. The miracle of the third day; third month answered with compassion for Moses and he came out of untimely death. In this third month of the year, trust God that delivered Moses to deliver you from every mark of the wicked upon your life.

When the devil thought it was over for the ministry of Jesus on earth, our Lord and savior rose on the third day. On the third day, the grave of three days led to the birth of new grace. In this third month if you will begin to look up to God for newness of mercy, His grace shall recover all that the enemy has buried concerning your breakthrough.
Have you at any time felt that it is over? You have lost a ground that has held you high in the community or among colleagues. It is clear that there will be no way for you to get back to your lost ground. Trust God for the grace of third day that answered for Jesus to become your portion.
Do you truly accept Jesus as your Lord and savior by virtue of how you live life? If you have received Jesus as your Lord and savior, your righteousness in Him shall answer for your deliverance.

Prayer for today: Ask God that this third month, His grace shall bring forth your restoration and it shall keep you and establish you for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Agents that do not represent God in your life are to be permanently terminated.

1 Kings 18

On Mount Carmel, Elijah (an agent for God) engaged four hundred and fifty false prophets of Baal (agents of King Ahab) in a power demonstration. In that encounter, Elijah asked the false prophets to call for their god to show with power. The god of the false prophets was a no show despite long hours of calling. When all attempts to call on Baal was exhausted, Elijah placed a call on God of gods, the only God that answers by fire. Without any delay, God answered Elijah and a consuming fire fell. By virtue of God’s showing, Ahab and his entourage saw the move of God in power demonstration. It is written, “Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, “The Lord, He is God! The Lord, He is God!”’ (1 Kings 18:39) Just like the people on Mount Carmel saw the move of God and declared, The Lord is God, have you seen enough of the move of God in your life to begin to declare the Lord is God?

It was clarified between the God of Elijah and the prophets of Baal that the God of Elijah is the Lord God, and there is none to worship but Him. It was victory on the Lord God’s side as a result; Elijah declared an open war against the prophets of Baal. 1 Kings 18:40, “And Elijah said to them, ‘Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let one of them escape!’ So they seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the Brook Kishon and executed them there.” Where are you? Where is your location on the ground of God? Have you accepted Him as your only God, the Lord of lords, the eternal Creator, the One that was, that Is and that will always be? If you will begin to sing it out from the depth of your heart with the expectation for Him to manifest, then you are in tune with heaven and your own Mount Carmel victory.

Now is the time to take a stand and ask God today that all agents of confusion, delay, hindrances should be seized on your behalf just as Baal prophets were seized. Pray that today, they shall not escape the hand that will seize them, ask for them to be brought down just as the Baal prophets were brought down at the Brook of Kishon. Those agents that do not represent God in your life need to be permanently and eternally terminated so they will have no life to work against you anymore. Do not spare them, go ahead with your weapon (the word of God), invade them, raid them, disable them, unmake them; do not spare them. Pray a standing prayer, allow God work on your behalf and victory is certain in Jesus name, amen.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace of strength on your prayer altar.