FAITH CAPSULE: Be conscious to avoid a monitor in your life.

Genesis 19

Who is monitoring your life without your knowledge?
Such should be identified as the inquisitor of your life.
One who inquires about another can be unduly harsh, severe, or hostile about the life.
God identifies Job as an integrity, blameless, and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil. (Job 2:3)
The identity of Job, by God, is not an excuse not to be excused from an inquisitor.
An inquisitor can be family or a friend.
The wife of Job, as his inquisitor, was discouraging enough, but Job could not be discouraged.
His wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” (Job 2:9)
Job responds to his wife as one who knows God.
God saw Job as a man of integrity, but his wife saw him differently.
The wife saw him as wasting time by waiting on God. 
Are you experiencing an inquisitor in your life, or are you an inquisitor in the life of others? 
Who is the inquisitor that is discouraging your walk with God?
Can you perceive the inquisitor of your life to know how to avoid such in your life?
At the time of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, 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) Just as they advanced on the route of escape, the wife of Lot could not obey the direction of God but questioned God by her action of disobedience as she became a pillar of salt.
In the deliverance plan of God to escape sudden death, the wife of Lot was an inquisitor.
The Bible records that the wife of Lot looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.(Genesis 19:26)
She acted as an inquisitor, unconsciously questioning God.
Having a monitor unconsciously can be painfully challenging.
Often, a negative inquisitor denies the blessing in place for life.
For example, there were miracles by Jesus on every ground, but not in His city of Nazareth. 
The people were inquisitors wanting to know the source of His wisdom and the work of His hand. In the eyes of His people, He was just the son of a carpenter, the mere son of Joseph and Mary.
The Bible records the response of Jesus to the inquisition of His people: “But Jesus said to them, “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) 
Are you an inquisitor of the messenger of God, or are you a messenger of God experiencing inquisitor in your life?
Will you stop being an inquisitor in the life of one who is answering to the assignment of God?

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

FAITH CAPSULE: In life, it is the daily challenges that often prevent one from looking up to God. 

Isaiah 64

Let the act of meditating prayerfully be committed to God.
God is a caring God whose jealousy is of Him.
Knowing that the antidote to jealousy is giving attention to the jealous one.
Prayerfully, meditate before God to gain and retain His presence.
Calling the given day what you expect from God is what God will give to such.
Meditate prayerfully on your expectation before God.
Understand and know that the Bible records that you give a choice of expectation. Proverbs 18:21 records,“Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.”  
Looking up to God can be rooted in meditating before God.
With a desire to be looking up to God, speak life to experience the manifestation of what you call for your day to be.
Looking up to God is giving Him regard, the antidote for a jealous God, the evidence of not seeking any other God. 
Leviticus 19:31 records the word of God against seeking another god, “Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.” 
Know God and not look outside of Him at all times.
Looking up to God is the character of waiting on Him without a doubt. God is a caring God who will not ignore one who waits on Him. 
Isaiah 64:4 testifies that God “…acts for the one who waits for Him.” Consciously looking up to God, the character of waiting on God, is bound to find God. 
With understanding, looking up to God will not be wasted in ways of life.
Looking up to God is acknowledging Him for all He has done, all He is doing, and all He will do.
Looking up to God is living life with the fear of God.
With understanding, look to God to find Him.
Looking up to God is a way of action (faith) that God sees and measures as weight.
Ask God to enable you to be living life by His word.
One who looks up to God is seeking God. Seeking God will know to call upon the Lord God consciously and consistently. 
Psalm 18:4 encourages, “I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; So, shall I be saved from my enemies.”
One who looks up to God will know to keep their eyes on God to experience His hand.
In life, it is the daily challenges that often prevent one from looking up to God. 
Consciously, with commitment, looking up to God with understanding will experience the hand of God that is not short, and such will not fail to see in God.
It is not possible to look up to God with desire and prayerfully not find God.

Prayer for God:  Ask that God will enable you to take your eyes off the challenges of the wicked but to see where He is leading you.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know to abide in the word of God, the truth that makes freedom.

1 Samuel 30

Seek God to gain deliverance in the wicked world of challenges.
In the Word of God, there is deliverance.
One with an understanding and knowing of God will engage the Word of God for His deliverance.
What or who are you looking up to experience the deliverance of God?
The Word of God is a done deal with no doubt becoming manifestation.
Psalm 107:20 testifies,“He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.” 
Give yourself to the word of God diligently to gain an unfailing deliverance.
God alone is the author of deliverance.
In a time of challenge, as a believer, are you seeking or looking to man for deliverance or seeking God? 
With the truth of God, there is freedom in all challenges. 
Jesus declares the source of freedom, “…If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:31-32) Jesus is the word of God, the truth. (John 14:6) 
Know to abide in the word of God, the truth that makes freedom become a possibility for deliverance.
King David is an example who turned to the truth of God for self-deliverance. 
David was under attack from the Amalekites.
In the attack, the people of David were captive.
The followers of David lifted their voices and wept.
The Bible records the effect of the Amalekies’ attack, “Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.” (1 Samuel 30:6)
As a result of the captivity, David became a target of rejection by his followers as he became discouraged and distressed.
The challenge of David demanded deliverance as he turned to God. 
The above verse points out the deliverance of David:
First, David strengthened himself in the Lord his God. 
Second, self-deliverance was the self-move to inquire of the Lord. 
David did not position himself as self-pitying before man. 1 Samuel 30:8 records the self-deliverance approach, “…David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them?” God responded to David, “Pursue, for you shall overtake them and without fail recover all.”  
The self-deliverance of David was in the truth (word) of God that he received from his inquiry from God. 
David came out of distress, discouragement, and loneliness; he strengthened himself in the Lord.
The deliverance of David was in the assurance from the word of God to go after his enemy.
David went after his enemy to get freedom for his people, and once again, he was free before his people. 
God is true to deliver one who abides in Him to know the truth, and He shall give deliverance (freedom) from a challenge.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the mercy of God to gain deliverance in His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: God does not owe, but all owe Him.

Numbers 14

Knowing that God has done it all for His creation, one who knows shall strive to know God and live for His glory.
God is worth being glorified.
Before God, there is no reasonable excuse for complaining before God.
Also, ignorance is not a legitimate excuse for complaining before God.
Engaging challenges are not a reasonable reason for complaining before God.
Challenges prompt complaints.
Challenges are continuous, but God delivers in it all. (Psalm 34:19)
Complaining in the place of complementing God for His grace over your life, to be alive this far is a great grace.
Concerning your challenges, what are you saying before God?
God that gives ear does have an ear to hear.
Take note, life can be affected by the words that come out of the mouth.
Proverbs 18:21 warns, “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”
Often, a positive confession yields positive answers, while a negative confession yields negative ones.
God hears all, at all times, to do what is said.
Imagine the Israelites were delivered from the bondage of slavery for over four hundred years, but they fell into complaining in the place of complimenting God.
On their journey of deliverance to the promise of God, the Red Sea could not deny their deliverance to advance for the promise of God, for their life.
The wall of Jericho failed to stop the Israelites from passing through on their way to God’s promise.
The complaint of the Israelites, their negative confession, denied their arrival at the promise of God.
God heard the complaint of the Israelites and responded, sending Moses saying, “Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: The carcasses of you who have complained against Me…” (Numbers 14:28-29)
Complaining against God shall experience an unfavorable response, not to claim the promise of God.
The Israelites could not arrive at the promise of God.
What is it prompting complaining about the delay of the expectation?
Is there doubt in waiting before God to gain from God?
Know to watch and pray in waiting on God instead of complaining before God.
Ask against the spirit of complaint not to have a place in your life.
Ask that, complaining consciously or unconsciously in the place of complementing the goodness of God shall become established in your life.
Ask that the spirit that focuses on the negative, prompting complaining against God, shall not have a way in your life.
Psalm 34:19 states, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.”
Ask God for His word, which does not return to Him void, to visit every area of challenges you know and do not know.
Ask that the deliverance of God begin to establish itself in all that represents the challenges in your life.
Ask God to order your mind and mouth away from negative confession.
Pray that confessing negative instead of positive shall not have place in you, so that you do not miss out on the promises of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: One having trust without hope is not complete.

Numbers 13

During the wilderness journey, the children of Israel could not trust and hope to see in the word of God to take them to the Promised Land. 
They trusted God to bring them out of the bondage of over four hundred years, but had no hope of arriving at the plans and promise of God by confessing negative in the place of positive.
The Israelites demonstrated doubt and a lack of hope.
At the entrance to Canaan, God asked Moses to send men to spy on Canaan. (Numbers 13)
Moses sent out spies to the land of Canaan. 
The spies returned with a report stating: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. Nevertheless, the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there. The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.” (Numbers 13:27-29)
The spies reported with trust, mentioning the goodness of the land.
However, the report had no hope rooted in fear. 
Numbers 13:31-33 states, “But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants), and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.” 
Spy reported without trust and hope.
Through the Bible, learn, know to trust, and have hope in God for His deliverance.
Except for Joshua and Caleb, the Israelites complained and confessed negatively before God.
God responded to the negative confession of the Israelites: 
Numbers 14:28-30, “As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.”
Know and understand that God is not careless to deliver in His plans and promises.
Are you with trust and hope, waiting on God to gain from Him?
Give full attention to the word of God that provokes the blessing of God for those who trust in the Lord and whose hope is in the Lord. (Jeremiah 17:7)

Prayer for today: Ask to be trusting and to have hope in God.