FAITH CAPSULE: Acting against the will of God is a sin and it is also a way of not waiting on God.

Genesis 39
 
Waiting on God is not only in prayer or fasting. Waiting on God can be action taken in a decisive situation that is life threatening. When in the face of life threatening situations, a believer is able to take action that falls in line with God’s Word and the result is always favorable and glorifying to God. For example, when we purpose for God’s name to be glorified in our life, every force of opposition will consent with us against their position. This example is what happened to Daniel and his three friends. While in captivity, Daniel refused to deny their God in his ways of life, but waited on God by his actions. The master of the king’s eunuchs acted according to the king’s instruction when he offered Daniel the king delicacies and of the king’s wine. In response to the master eunuchs, Daniel refused the kings portion for not wanting to defile his body. It is written, “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.” (Daniel 1:8) The eunuch insisted while Daniel persisted not to defile himself. The eunuchs, in his attempt to convince Daniel, confessed, “I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and drink. For why should he see your faces looking worse than the young men who are your age? Then you would endanger my head before the king.”(Daniel 1:10)  Daniel’s trust and waiting on God was demonstrated when he gave assurance to the eunuch that without eating the kings delicacies, his appearance would become better. With Daniel’s assurance, the eunuch consented to Daniel’s request that was rooted in the trust of His God. Joseph, as a slave in the house of Potiphar, declined to lay with his master’s wife by stating, “…there is no one greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”(Genesis 39:9) Deciding or acting against the will of God is a sin and it is also a way not to wait on God. Regardless of your situation, remember God for His ways. Wait in your actions and He will not fail. The Word testifies, “…For the LORD is the God of knowledge; and by Him actions are weighed.” (1 Samuel 2:3)God weighs our actions to determine how heavy we place Him in our decisions to act and not to act. God was glorified in the life of Daniel and Joseph and they were both exceedingly favored in their journey of life.
 
Prayer for today: Ask for a heart to always wait on God in your action.

FAITH CAPSULE:God, whose eyes run to and fro the whole earth, has no limitation showing up in our life.

Exodus 3

The uniqueness of how God turns Moses attention to Him was remarkably uncommon through the ages since creation. Clearly, the challenges and the miracles that were revealed in Moses’ passage to the center of his divine assignment were incomparable to any man who was turned to God. As a prince in the palace of Pharaoh, killing an Egyptian for his Hebrew brother caused him to flee from the reach of Pharaoh and end up as a son-in-law to Jethro, the priest of Midian. Without prior plan, Moses shifted from the great palace to the desert. The Bible describes that while he led the flock to the back of the desert, he had an encounter with the Most High God. Exodus 3:2-4, “And the Angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. Then Moses said, ‘I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.’ So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.””Moses was separated to a ground where distraction could not deny his attention. Having looked and behold, he was able to turn aside. With Moses’ turning aside, God responded by calling him out for his divine assignment and from the time of his calling, there was no way out for him but to answer unto God. God is not a slave master, but rather is a Saving Master. He will not force himself on us, but we can be forced by a situation where a better solution for our situation is glaring in answering to God. Have you been led to a ground where you need to turn aside to God for your turnaround into divine assignment?
All the men that answered to God’s calling through the pages of Scripture had no better choice but to answer God. Also, none of them had any earlier plan in life to become what God called them to be. It does not matter what we have lined up for ourselves to become in life by training. God, whose eyes run to and fro the whole earth, has no limitation showing up in our life.
In life, whatever you have planned to turn yourself to be or whatever you have already turned to will not count until you get to the ground where God is waiting for you to turnaround to the center of your divine assignment in life. Pay attention to Him and He will attend to you in every step of life.
 
Prayer for today:Ask God to take charge of your moments and days so you may be consecrated unto Him only.

FAITH CAPSULE: A failure not to have a way that seems right for one is not an evidence of God’s unfaithfulness to one.

Acts 9
 
The Psalmist recorded in Psalm 119: 89-91, “Forever, O Lord,Your word is settled in heaven. Your faithfulness endures to all generations…” Indeed He is a faithful God. A failure not to have a way that seems right for one is not an evidence of His unfaithfulness to one. In fact, a failure for one not to have a way that seems right is a way to God’s purpose for one’s life. The word makes us to realize that, in the end of the way that seems right to man is nothing but death. (Proverbs 14:12) All power belongs to God and none can escape when He is set to call on any. Regardless of man’s past or back ground, His calling will always lead to a turnaround in man’s life. The life of Apostles Paul established the truth that God is not limited in extending His turnaround call to any of His creation. Paul testified about himself, “I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the strictness of our fathers’ law, and was zealous toward God as you all are today. I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women, as also the high priest bears me witness, and all the council of the elders, from whom I also received letters to the brethren, and went to Damascus to bring in chains even those who were there to Jerusalem to be punished.” (Acts 22:3-6) Paul’s background could not deny God’s turnaround calling upon his life. Apostle Paul was described as breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord on his journey to Damascus. (Acts 9:1) He went all length and breadth of the land to lay hands of destruction on any who followed the Lord. During one of his trips to Damascus to find and destroy, he encountered his turnaround. The Bible describes it that, “As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” And he said, “Who are You, Lord?” Then the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads.” (Acts 9:3-5) Jesus’ showing up to Apostle Paul was a unique one. In his encounter, he gained a new sight that guided him into God’s divine assignment. Apostle Paul had a unique encounter which turned him aside from persecuting the Lord to prescribing the name of the Lord to all that he came across his path in life. God is still in the business of turning around man for His glorious name.
 
Prayer for today:As for deliverance from every way that seems right.

FAITH CAPSULE:Listening and hearing will deliver understanding to see how God wants to turn one aside.

Isaiah 6, Jeremiah 1
 
Prophet Isaiah was able to look and see what the Lord placed before him to get his attention. Every man’s turning point is different from the next man’s. All that Isaiah needed to do was to see and be fully turned from what he was and become a prophet in the hand of God. The Bible records, “In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple.” (Isaiah 6:1) After Isaiah’s seeing, he beheld and then turned himself unto God for the calling upon his life. Are you positioning yourself well enough where He is able to get your attention to look, see, behold and turn unto Him?
Prophet Jeremiah was turned around by God from his lack of communication skill, young age and fear that reduced him from the office of prophet. Unlike others, his turning aside to God for God came when the word of God sounded in his direction in an unusual manner that was unique for a creature like him. Jeremiah 1:1-10, “Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying: ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.’ Then said I: ‘Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a youth.’ But the LORD said to me: ‘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,’ says the LORD.’” From the time he heard from God, he heard whatwas in place for him to be turned aside straight into his center of divine assignment. Many times, the difference that it will take for man to be turned aside unto God is not just in hearing, but also in the ability to listen and hear. Listening and hearing will deliver understanding to see how God wants to turn one aside. Job, during all of his challenges, heard from Godbut the effect of hearing was not in place until he was able to see in the word which he was hearing. Job later testified, “I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eyes sees You. Therefore I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes.” (Job 42:5-6) His testimony at the time of his repentance is evident to the fact that hearing and being able to see what is heard is the only effective way that will turn man aside to God. Pay attention to what you hear; see in what you hear and turn to God for God.
 
Prayer for today:Ask for deliverance from every distracting agent of the wicked one.

FAITH CAPSULE: It was the fall of Goliath that caused David to turn to the center of his divine assignment.

1 Samuel 17
 
It is the uniqueness that is inhabited in how God turns your attention to Him that will determine the kind of passage that will lead you to the center of God’s divine assignment for your life. Through the pages of the Bible, God used so many to do great exploits. Among all that were used by God to carry out great exploits, none arrived at the center of their divine assignment without experiencing unique experiences. This includes King David, Prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah and Apostle Paul and many more. Their experiences were different, but the assignments were from God and to the glory of God. 
King David’s turning around to the center of divine assignment did not manifest until he killed Goliath. As a shepherd boy, the youngest of his family and with no reputation, David held up the name of God reputably high before the giant Goliath of the Philistines. David was responding to his father’s command to go and see his brothers who were among the armies of Israel at the battle camp against Goliath and the Philistines. The giant Goliath, as strong as he was, caused fear to hold down the armies of Israel and was preventing them from taking any serious charge against their enemy. The armies of Israel were under incessant insult from Goliath for forty days; morning and evening. Goliath went as far as stating, “I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.’ When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine; they were dismayed and greatly afraid.” (I Samuel 17:10-11) A claim like this caused David to look and behold before turning around to face a Philistine giant that was reducing his God. David rejected every persuasion from his brother and King Saul not to fight Goliath. David’s turning aside was ignited when he responded, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you…” (1 Samuel 17:45-46) David did exactly what he said and Goliath was history. It was after the fall of Goliath that David turned completely from what he had become to what God wanted him to be. Are you looking and beholding what is at sight? Without turning to God, the journey to the center of His divine assignment for your life will not be turned on.

Prayer for today:Ask for the gracenot  to miss out in the line of God’s divine assignment for your life.