FAITH CAPSULE:God’s calling and backing in your life will not excuse you from grave challenges but it will rescue you from every force of hindrances.

Jeremiah 38

When God place His call on anyone no one replaces the one He calls. When God called Jeremiah, He backed him up with His promise and He equipped Him with power of His hand. Jeremiah 1:8-10, “Do not be afraid of their faces, for I am with you to deliver you,” says the LORD. Then the LORD put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me: “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth. See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to build and to plant.” (Jeremiah 1:8-10) God’s calling and backing in your life will not excuse you from grave challenges but it will rescue you from every force of hindrances. Despite the promise and backing of God, Jeremiah was imprisoned in the basement cistern of Malchiah King Zedekiah for delivering true message. The cistern had no water only mire. The only way out of the cistern was by means of rope. It is a place where Jeremiah could die a slow and quiet death. Ebed-Melech an Ethiopian was one of the eunuchs in King Zedekiah’s house. He heard about Jeremiah in the dungeon and went and spoke to the king, “My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon, and he is likely to die from hunger in the place where he is…” (Jeremiah 38:9) Do not allow challenges that you are facing today cause you a doubt in your calling by the Lord. The account of Jeremiah is enough to encourage you. Jeremiah was a prophet called by God and was imprisoned in a cistern; he was in a position that could have taken away his life, a position of no way out before Ebed-Melech an agent of salvation for Jeremiah through God showed up. Today, someone will hear about your own situation and that one will move on your behalf to find a way out for your salvation. The King responded to Ebed-Melech’s request and commanded Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, saying, “Take from here thirty men with you, and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon before he dies.” (Jeremiah38: 10)

Prayer for today: The one that God will send in your direction for your salvation will receive the commanding power to lift you above and beyond every representative of a dungeon in your life. As you come out of your dungeon, Kings and honorable men and women in place of power will ask for your help in solving problems. As you come out, you will not go down into any representative of dungeon all the days of your life again in the name of Jesus.

FAITH CAPSULE: When you begin to see or hear negative in news or threat that you receive it will end up causing you to neglect faith for fear.

1 Kings 18, 19:1-3

Faith is seeing or hearing possibility when news that comes our way is impossible. Prophet Elisha prayed for a Shunammite woman to have a child and she did. The child grew, fell sick and died. Having dead, the woman returned to look for Elisha. It is written, “…When Elisha saw her afar off, he sent to his servant Gehazi, “Please run now to meet her, and say to her, ‘is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child? And she answered, “It is well.”” (2 Kings 4:26) The woman saw and knew that her son was dead, yet she saw wellness. When Elijah caused rain to cease in the land through his prayer he became a fugitive. He was sought for everywhere in the land but could not be located. At his showing, he called for a “power parade” between his God and the prophets of Baal. It was a demonstration of power on Mount Carmel. Elijah wanted to humiliate Baal worshipers, their prophets and the Baal god. He wanted the children of Israel to answer if the Lord is God. The Baal prophets failed and could not live up to the task of demonstrating the fact that their god was a living God. The name of the Lord was exalted and lifted high among the people because the God of Elijah, answered by fire. At this juncture, Elijah requested that the Baal prophets be rounded up, seized and executed. Elijah was operating without fear. At the time when Jezebel heard all that Elijah had done, “Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.”(1 Kings 19:2) Jezebel the wicked wife of King Ahab threatened Elijah. Elijah did not just receive the message but he saw it as real because the Bible declared that, “And when he saw that, he rose and ran for his life, and went to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.”” (1 Kings 19:3)  Despite all that God did through Elijah, he could not wait to hear from God before running. Elijah saw the threat in the message that came from Jezebel. How are you receiving news or threat that comes your way? When you begin to see or hear negative in news or threat that you receive it will end up causing you to neglect faith for fear. Fear does not have respect of whom to approach or not to approach. How do you respond when fear comes?

Prayer for today: Ask for God’s deliverance from spirit that causes you to fear in the place of faith.

FAITH CAPSULE: God is the only God that can determine and can bring to pass what ever He wants you to be.

Judges 6:11-40, 7

God is God and He alone will use anything or anybody that is ordinary to carry out an extraordinary assignment. He alone is worthy of all glory because there is none like Him and forever there will not be any like Him. In the eyes of God there is nothing like I am “nobody.” Moses was nobody when he became the body that God used for great and undeniable miracles. God called him but he tried hard to avoid God’s calling. Moses responded to God’s calling, “…O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.” (Exodus 4:10) Like Moses, what is it that is making you to think or consider yourself as nobody? Are you looking into what surrounds you as a measurement of what you can do and what you cannot do? Are you considering what is being said about you as a determinant for what you can do or what you cannot do? In this world, there is no man or power that can determine and decide what you can do or what you cannot do if God decide to use you. God responded to Moses’ excuse, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the LORD?” (Exodus 4:11)God is the only God that can determine and can bring to pass what ever He wants you to be. Underestimating one’s usefulness is nothing new. When God was looking for someone to conquer the troublesome Midianites, He selected a “nobody” Gideon, and he called him a “…mighty man of valor” (Judges 6:12). Gideon, knowing his limitation responded, “…How can I save Israel? Indeed my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house” (v. 15). God did not give up on Gideon but persisted, saying, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat the Midianites as one man.”(Judges 6:16) Gideon was the Lord’s choice for the assignment and all that surrounded Gideon could not stop God’s plan. It is also confirmed by Paul the Apostle in 1Corinthians 1:27, “But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty.” Despite all that you have been hearing and all that you have seen, if you are someone that still considers yourself as nobody, giving a further review to the story of Gideon will let go of the negative thoughts in your life. In the eyes of God no man or situation can reduce you if the Lord did not reduce you.

Prayer for today: Ask God to increase you for His name to be glorified.

FAITH CAPSULE:Walk His word and He will locate you and show Himself strong.

1 Samuel 13:1-15
God has eyes to search and see as He chooses to. Psalm 94:9 recorded, “He who planted the ear, shall he not hear, He who formed the eye, shall He not see? (Psalm 94:9) He sees from His throne what we cannot see that is within us. God is awesome. God sees the heart of man more than how man could see his own heart and that is the reason why no heart can hide from Him. God does not sleep nor slumber; His eyes go from place to places it is written, “For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him…” (2 Chronicles 16:9) Whoever God shows himself to, will cause his name to be glorified.While the eyes of God is going around, can you be found and qualified to be made strong for His name to be glorified? God is not a partial God when you  obey the word of God, He will find you. God found David and declared, “I have found My servant David; With My holy oil I have anointed him…” (Psalm 89:20) When God find you, your life will never be the same again. It was after God found David that he was made king over his people.God went further to testify of David, “I have found David the son Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.” (Acts 13:22) When God finds you He will establish you; He will back you up with all that it takes for you to glorify His name and to make the world glorify Him through you. In e finding of David there are promised blessings of God that cannot be broken. It is written, “Also My arm shall strengthen him. The enemy shall not outwit him, Nor the son of wickedness afflict him. I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague those who hate him. “But My faithfulness and My mercy shall be with him, And in My name his horn shall be exalted. Also I will set his hand over the sea, And his right hand over the rivers. He shall cry to Me, ‘You are my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.” (Psalm 89:21-26) The testimonies of many giants in the hand of God throughout the Bible are evidence that they were truly found by the hands of God. It takes the backing of God in the life of men like Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego to excel to the glory of God. God’s eyes have not stopped running to and fro throughout the whole earth. Walk His word and He will locate you and show Himself strong.
Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to walk worthy of His calling.

FAITH CAPSULE: As foolish as any prescription to breakthrough could sound, if it is from God, expect an undeniable breakthrough.

Joshua 6

It is written in 1 Corinthians 1:25, “…the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.” Imagine trying to break through a wall that is strong and fortified; too tall to climb and too wide to break down. In order to break through such a wall, you have been given instructions to march around this wall for a certain amount of days. While marching you are to remain quiet and have no communication with those around, on the last day of marching you are told to make the loudest shout. What can marching or a loud shout do to break down this impenetrable wall of hindrance? Would this not be considered as foolishness of the highest order? Indeed and in truth, God is not a complicated God but a complete and consistent God. Whenever He is about to do something huge, He will give a very minute direction that could place an unbeliever or sometimes a self acclaimed believer in a foolish mode. The children of Israel witnessed the enormous outstretch, and miraculous hands of God   on their journey before they approached the Wall of Jericho. To arrive in the Promised Land the children of Israel had to pass through the wall of Jericho.The people of Jericho knew quite well not to allow the children of Israel passage. As a result the people of Jericho made a move, “Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel; none went out, and none came in.” (Joshua 6:1) Our enemies can try to delay us but they cannot deny us from the promises of God. God responded to the situation by telling Joshua what to do. Joshua 6:3-5, “You shall march around the city, all you men of war; you shall go all around the city once. This you shall do six days.  And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. But the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. It shall come to pass, when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet that all the people shall shout with a great shout; then the wall of the city will fall down flat. And the people shall go up every man straight before him.” The children of Israel did exactly what was commanded of them without room for foolishness or doubt. More than what was expected happened to the wall of Jericho, not only did it fall down but if fell down flat, as mentioned in the Bible. As foolish as your prescription to deliverance could sound, if it is from God, expect an undeniable breakthrough.

Prayer for today: Ask the Lord God to deliver you from every act or spirit of unbelief.