FAITH CAPSULE: Your running away from God is over.

Exodus 4

At the calling of God over the life of Moses, for the deliverance of the Israelites, Moses could not block his ears to avoid answering to the calling of God.
Moses had no way but repeatedly refused God with different excuses, claiming incompetent in answering the calling of God.
Eventually, Moses answered a series of the callings of God, “But suppose they will not believe me or listen to my voice; suppose they say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you.” (Exodus 4:1)
God answered each of the questions of Moses with an answer to encourage Moses.
Moses responded to the encouragement of God:
Moses said he was not eloquent, slow in speech and tongue. (Exodus 4:10)
Moses attempted to avoid answering the call of God over his life.
Are you avoiding the calling of God just like Moses?
With God, there was no way to block or hide from His calling.
God responded to his speech, slow in the tongue of excuse: “So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and He said: “Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well. And look, he is also coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.  Now you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you shall do.” (Exodus 4:14-15)
Moses demonstrated one running from God but could not hide from the assignment of God.
Are you still avoiding the calling of God?
Do you have a place to hide that is not within the reach of the calling of God?
When God called Jeremiah, God did not consider any place of escape for Jeremiah not to answer His direction.
However, at the calling of Jeremiah, Jeremiah considered himself a youth, but God responded, “…Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’ for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of their faces, for I am with you to deliver you…” (Jeremiah 1:7-8)
The calling for Moses was with the direction of God.
Also, Jeremiah was to be well established by the direction of God.
There is no ground to hide to avoid answering to God when He calls.
The same God called Moses with speech and slow tongue, also called young Jeremiah.
He has an appointment for you, and ask Him where you are to go and what you are to do.
From where you are, it is not too late to ask God for His mercy to get you on track living for His glory.

Prayer for today: Pray not to be a victim of not answering the calling of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Get to know the inquisitor of your life.

Genesis 19

Inquisitor of your life can be unduly harsh, severe, or hostile.

Who is the inquisitor of your life?
One that acts as an inquisitor of your life is possibly not to be of God and can be the evidence of not having faith or trust in what you are doing in the name of God.
God identifies Job as an integrity, blameless, and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil. (Job 2:3)
The identification of Job by God was not an excuse for him not to experience inquisition from his wife nor talk of one from a distance to his life. 
The inquisition of his wife was discouraging as she states, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” (Job 2:9) 
Imagine the pain of inquisition from the closest, not distance.
God saw Job as a man of integrity, but his wife saw him as one wasting time by waiting on God. 
Are you engaging in any challenge that is inviting inquisitors into your life? 
Is the inquisitor your closest one?
Are you a self-inquisitor to yourself and not knowing?
Who is the inquisitor discouraging your walk with God?
An inquisitor of your life will question the direction to the deliverance of your life.
Lot and his wife received the direction of God to escape destruction. 
Genesis 19:17 records, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.” (Genesis 19:17) 
On the route of escape from destruction, by the direction of God, the wife of Lot could not obey but questioned God with the action of disobedience that terminated her.
The wife of Lot acted as an inquisitor of the deliverance plan of escape.
The Bible records that the wife of Lot looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.” (Genesis 19:26)
Beware of inquisitors!
Oftentimes, man allows the act of a negative inquisitor to deny the blessing in place for life.
For example, Jesus had miracles on every ground but not in Nazareth. 
The inquisitors want to know the source of His wisdom and the work of His hand.
Inquisitors saw Jesus as the son of a carpenter, the mere son of Joseph, and Mary could not see Him as a healer.
Jesus responds to the inquisition of His people: “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house. He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them.” (Mark 6:4-5) 
Desist from being an inquisitor of God? 
The people of Nazareth failed to appreciate the anointing upon the life of the Anointed One. 
Appreciate the doing of God, and do not be an inquisitor to miss the blessing of God.

Prayer for today: Pray that you will not be an inquisitor or not to be a victim of the negative inquisition of this world.

FAITH CAPSULE: To become near to God is the character of living for God.

Revelation 4

To be near God is to gain the plan of God for the new beginning.
The psalmist declares, “But it is good for me to draw near to God;
I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all Your works.” (Psalm 73:28)
TO BE NEAR TO GOD
To be drawn to God demands seeking God diligently.
One that seeks God diligently will find God, the position of one that is near to God.
Jeremiah 29:13-14 informs, “You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.  I will be found by you, says the Lord…”
One who is near to God walks in Him, the identity of those who walk upright.
Psalm 84:11 records, “No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.”
To become near to God is the character of living for God.
Near to God, seek God first, and shall be added to such.
In your new beginning, consciously live for God.
Lord God creates all to exist for Him. (Revelation 4:11)
To live life for the glory.
The fear, strength, knowledge, and wisdom to dwell in the secret of God become my portion.
Pray to live in the fear of God.
With wisdom and knowledge is to live in stability of one (Isaiah 33:6)  
In your new beginning, when you roam, the presence of God will lead you; when you sleep, He will keep you; and when you awake, He will speak with you, and you shall hear Him in the name of Jesus. (Proverbs 6:22)
In your new beginning, pray that the Lord God will go before you by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way and by night in a pillar of fire to give you light (direction) day and night. (Exodus 13:21)
In your new beginning, with desire, ask God to teach you His way and lead you on a smooth path because of your enemies. (Psalm 27:11)
YOUR NEW BEGINNING SHALL EXPERIENCE THE VISITATION OF GOD
In your new beginning, near God to live for the glory of God.
The glory of God is His presence.
Deuteronomy 5:24 speaks to all, not just to the children of Israel, “Surely the Lord our God has shown us His glory and His greatness…”
It is a blessing that God has brought you this far into your new beginning.
Proverbs 10:22 states, “The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, And He adds no sorrow with it.”
In your new beginning, all the blessings of God bestow upon you and your loved one shall not know sorrow.
Pray that God shall remember you with favor.
Pray that this is your season of the visitation of God.
Near God to gain the plans of God for your life.

Prayer for today: Ask that the way of life that will cause the glory of God to depart in your life and loved ones shall not be your portion in Jesus.

FAITH CAPSULE: Waiting on God is not wasting away.

Psalm 27

Waiting on God is a way not to be ashamed.
In the time of waiting, do not be weary or discouraged in response to delay for what is expected that is not at hand.
Time belongs to God.
Waiting too long should not prompt discouragement in waiting on God as waiting too late.
The psalmist buttressed, “Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed; Let those be ashamed who deal treacherously without cause.” (Psalm 25:3)
It is not possible to wait on God and become ashamed.
Waiting on God for manifestation in the place of expectation is exercising faith.
Looking outside of God for expectation is not waiting on God but waiting on the world.
Do not be deceived, but know God is paying attention to all.
Waiting on God is where expectation yields to manifestation.
Waiting on God for His appointed time demands patience, the evidence of boldness and character.
Is your waiting on God becoming too long with no answer for your reason to be waiting on God?
Psalm 37:7 buttresses, “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.”
Waiting on God is keeping His word and not fretting in the face of any mockery by wickedness.
Waiting on God is keeping hope in Him as Great Defender. Crying to God at times of waiting is not evidence of weakness.
Psalm 69:3 testifies, “I am weary with my crying; My throat is dry; My eyes fail while I wait for my God.”  
God has never failed; He will not fail concerning your waiting on Him.
Waiting is not a sign of weakness. Wait on God silently and patiently.
David testified in Psalm 40: 1-2, “I waited patiently for the LORD, and He inclined unto me and heard my cry.  He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps. He has put a new song in my mouth- praise to our God; many will see it and fear and will trust in the LORD.”
Waiting for God will grant the grace to walk firmly on any ground and not fall.
Passing through the trial of waiting will no doubt put a new song in the mouth of one who knows to wait.
David stated in his testimony, “He makes my feet like the feet of the deer and sets me on my high places.” (2 Samuel 22:34)
David gained high places in his waiting on God.
There is a high place to gain waiting on God.
Everyone has a high place to gain by waiting on God.
Waiting on God is a position to gain above challenges.
Be encouraged by waiting on God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to be waiting on Him.