FAITH CAPSULE: Waiting on God is giving regard to God.

Hebrews 11

To have faith is the condition for one to get from God.
Having faith is to have a living trust and hope in God.
Hebrews 11:1 describes what faith means: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
Asking, seeking, and knocking for the intervention of God is waiting to get an open-door answer. 
God is a good God who cares for His creation and is in a position to wait for the faith that promotes His action.
Isaiah 64:4 testifies, “For since the beginning of the world men has not heard nor perceived by the ear; nor has the eye seen any God besides You, who acts for the one who waits for Him.” 
To wait, God demands asking, seeking, and knocking, the evidence of having understanding and knowledge of God.
God is a caring God who acts for anyone who waits for Him. 
Jesus buttresses, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” (Matthew 7:7) 
“And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” (Matthew 21:22)
Waiting by asking, seeking, and knocking is the key to receiving from God. However, waiting for that is not rooted in understanding that God hears all and answers all at His appointed time, which will lead to frustration. 
Frustration can lead to rebellion rooted in disobedience.
Psalm 91:15 encourages, “He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.” 
Knowing to call on Him will provoke His hand for an undeniable miracle because He is God, true to His word. 
The book of Isaiah 58:9 also confirms the faithfulness of God,“Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am…’”
Understand, know to wait as David testifies, 1 Samuel 22:4, “I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies.” 
It is the heart that trusts to remember calling amid troubling challenges. 
King David was an example of one who understood how to wait on God.
David demonstrates that waiting is a must.
David waited and did not go to war without seeking God.
Twice in 1 Samuel 23, verses 2 and 4, David repeatedly inquired from God before going to war against the Philistines. 
The Israelites cried in the bondage of over four hundred years, “And the LORD said: ‘I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians…” (Exodus 3:7-8) 
God is consistent, and He will not fail in honoring His word; do not fail to wait in asking, seeking, and knocking. 
Look up and ask Him.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you with the strength to focus on waiting to receive from Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Knowing that God knows all and He deserves to be called on Him in all.

Genesis 11:1-9

God alone knows more about all because He alone created all. 
For God, no qualified doctor received a contract to help God in creating anyone. 
God alone is the perfect God of creation. 
God knows all about all.
The word of God to Jeremiah testifies to the truth that God knows all about all.
Jeremiah 1:5 records, “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.”  
The word of God to Jeremiah speaks to all without exception. 
God alone knows the beginning to the end of everyone.
Whatever God proposes, no one can dispose of it. 
What God disposes of, no man can propose it.
What are you proposing without asking God? 
Knowing that He knows all, it is good to call on Him for all. 
Think and know that it does not matter what you are, who you are, or where you are. 
However, remember that all are under heaven and not beyond the reach of the One and only eternal creator. 
In the Bible days, people failed to propose before God, having intention when they said,“Come let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” (Genesis 11:4) 
The proposed building was not the problem, but the motive behind the proposal conflicted with the Almighty God of creation. 
Having been blessed with a plain land, with no obstruction, for construction, the people wanted to construct and grow beyond their boundaries. 
Are you proposing on your own to misposition the blessing of God by attempting to make yourself a name, not having God to be glorified?
Do you want to stand tall above and know better than your creator? 
Consciously or unconsciously, are you considering or attempting to raise your shoulder above your head? 
Have you taken all proposed to God? 
Nothing is wrong when proposing to grow in the blessings of God.
A proposal that does not center on God is an indirect withdrawal from the only One who can make or unmake the fulfillment of the proposal. 
It does not matter how huge or small you propose, prayer before God. 
Let it be that you are letting Him know what He knows before you know. 
He has seen the future from the past. 
He is a jealous God, and He deserves all your attention so He can attend to you even more than you expect. 
Take all your proposals, desires, hopes, and dreams to the Lord with a humble heart, and He will increase you as He pleases.

Prayer for today: Ask to be praising God continually with all your heart.

FAITH CAPSULE: Do not be quiet to the doing of God.

Luke 8:26-48

One that is quiet by not testifying to the doing of God in life is as hiding the miracle of God.
In all that God has done, to be silent and not share is a hiding of the glory of God.
Testify to what God has done in your life.
Keep in mind that God creates all to live for His glory, honour, and power. (Revelation 4:11)
Allow sharing the testimony of the doing of God in your life, be of giving regard to God.
Do not be quiet when He visits your challenge.
There can never be enough tongue to proclaim what He has done or is doing in your life. 
Gain an understanding, do not be ignorant, which makes a believer destitute.
Sharing or listening to the testimony will lead to receiving a blessing from God.
Psalm 119:2 records, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart!”
The woman with the issue of blood (after twelve years of agony) quietly received her healing when she touched the edge of the garment of Jesus.
Jesus knew power left Him when she touched Him. 
Jesus asked who had touched Him, but the woman tried to hide, as stated in Luke 8:47, “Now when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling; and falling down before Him, she declared to Him in the presence of all the people the reason she had touched Him and how she was healed immediately.” 
The woman with the issue of blood touched Jesus, got healed, and wanted to hide.
Are you hiding the doing of God in your life?
Evidently, Jesus awaits the testimony of His doing to be testified, not to keep from the world.
At the Gadarenes, Jesus cast out the demons from a man who begged Him that he might go with Him. (Luke 8:26-28)
Jesus commanded him, “Return to your own house, and tell what great things God has done for you.” And he went his way and proclaimed throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.” (Luke 8:39) 
Every doing of God demands going around to testify for the glory of God.
Jesus visited a man with healing, and he became an evangelist as he went and proclaimed Jesus. 
The healed man by Jesus could not hide from what Jesus did in his life. 
The man formerly possessed by demons could not be quiet but proclaimed Jesus.
Jesus was and is the Almighty healer who deserves to be highly exalted.
What has He done for you lately that you have yet to tell others about His doing in your life?
Hiding the miracle of God is not the best way of moving forward.
He deserves proclamation for all He is doing in your life. 
Regardless of the magnitude of what he has done, let others around you know that God is still in the business of miracles. 
Someone needs to be encouraged today. 
Be blessed by proclaiming Him. 

Prayer for today: Pray that giving testimony of God be your portion.

FAITH CAPSULE: The spirit of lies and doubt follows to deny, derail or destroy.

John 20:19-30

TELLING LIES FOLLOWS TO DERAIL
Sapphira and Annanias were the victims of telling lies.
Before God, there is no major or minor matter of telling lies without consequence.
When telling lies becomes a character, there will be no escape from the consequences.
Often, telling lies can be prompted without warning or not, to engage it.
There is no excuse for telling lies before God.
Acts 5:1-3 documents the termination of the lives of Sapphira and Ananias, “But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession. And he kept back part of the proceeds, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet. But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself?”
There is nothing hidden from the sight of God.
Any violation of God prompts consequences.
Is telling lies a character following you consciously or unconsciously?
Acts 5:5 records the response to the telling of lies of Sapphira and Ananias, “Then Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and breathed his last.” (Acts 5:5)
Sapphira and Annanias lied before God and paid the consequence of telling lies.
The last lies followed them to the grave might not be the first of their telling lies.
Searching oneself to deny what follows, that is not of God, must be separated, not to become a victim.
One who sins follows shall be far from God, just as Romans 3:8 states, “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. “
What follows one, that is not of God, is an agenda of the devil to reduce or terminate arrival to the promise of God.
DOUBT FOLLOWS TO DERAIL.
Doubting is presenting oneself as faithless in the presence of God.
Demonstrating the understanding that doubting is not of God, but a spirit that reduces one from gaining the presence of God.
Among the opposites of doubt are faith, belief, and confidence.
Doubt lacks the trust or conviction to rely on God.
Thomas, a disciple of Jesus, walked with Jesus before Jesus went on the cross.
Thomas saw the miracles done by Jesus while He was with them
When Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead, he doubted the resurrection of Jesus.
When the disciples testify to Thomas about the resurrection of Jesus, Thomas responded, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.” (John 20:25)
The spirit of doubt followed Thomas.
Doubt is a killer, physically or spiritually.
One doubts follows knowingly or unknowingly, is not free, but becomes a slave to what follows.
Whatever it is that is not of God but follows, or one follows, can delay, derail, or deny arriving at the center of divine assignment for God.

Prayer for today:  Pray not to be a victim of telling lies and doubt.

FAITH CAPSULE: Whatever follows you that is not of God wants to deny you for the promise of God.

Exodus 32

THE CASE OF MOSES: ANGER FOLLOWED MOSES
Anger followed Moses to the point that he failed to step on the promise of God.
The evidence of the anger of Moses to kill when he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren. 
Moses assumed no one was looking at him, so he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. (Exodus 2)
The spirit of anger in Moses prompted him repeatedly not to step into the Promise of God.
Exodus 32:19 records the anger of Moses, “when he came near the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing. So Moses’ anger became hot, and he cast the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.”
The anger of Moses, in reaction to the sin of the Israelites, caused him to break the tablets written by the finger of God.
The error of Moses stemmed from his anger toward the Israelites, who were crying and complaining about the lack of water.
God commanded Moses to speak:
Gather the congregation of the Israelites.
Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water.
Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together at the rock.
Moses spoke (God did not ask him to speak rudely to the people), “Hear now, you rebels! Must we bring water for you out of this rock?”
Moses struck the rock twice with his rod (instead of speaking), and water came out abundantly.
Moses engaged the direction of God halfway, not fully. Half obedience is a full disobedience to the word of God.
Numbers 20:12 records the disobedience of Moses,“Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, ‘Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”
Getting angry in any form or for any reason does not excuse sinning before God.
Moses could not arrive at the promise of God for his life.
FAILURE TO FEAR GOD IS FAILURE TO FOLLOW GOD
FEAR FOLLOWED THE DISCIPLES OF JESUS
Fear that is not of God does not respect or announce or inform before it takes over in the life of its victim.
Imagine the disciples who followed Jesus but eventually demonstrated fear in their lives when Jesus went to the cross.
For example, Peter demonstrated the spirit of fear, crowded his life.
Jesus let Peter know he would deny Him, but Peter vehemently told Jesus he would not deny Him. (Matthew 14:27-50)
Jesus prayed that faith would uphold Peter not to become a victim of fear.
Luke 22:32 records the prayer of Jesus for Peter,“But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.”
Without doubt, when faith rises, fear will sink.
The fear of this world will prevent one from fully following God and not arrive at the promise of God.

Prayer for today:  Ask for the hand of God over your life.