FAITH CAPSULE: Does this speak to you?

Job 1, 2

The Bible describes Job, “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil.” (Job 1:1)
One with the fear of God is complete before God. 
The story of Job testifies to one with the fear of God, experiencing the wicked hand. 
Despite the faithfulness of Job, he was exposed to the attack of Satan but could not become terminated. 
He lost all his wealth; Satan attacked his health; Satan attacked his character; Job lost His property and children. 
Above all, his wife and friends ridiculed his faith.
In it all, Job remained persistently faithful and did not despise God. 
Job experienced brokenness in all areas of his life, but his breakthrough was intact when God responded to his faithfulness.
Job 42:12-15 records the response of God to the faithfulness of Job, “Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yokes of oxen, and one thousand female donkeys. He also had seven sons and three daughters. And he called the name of the first Jemimah, the name of the second Keziah, and the name of the third Keren-Happuch. In all the land were found no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job, and their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.”
In the brokenness of Job, God upholds him for his breakthrough.
In life, to be broken comes before a breakthrough.
To be broken comes to the glory of the Almighty God. 
Fear God, walk consistently, and be relevant in line with the word of God. 
Are you with the experience of overnight changes; you are down, friends can no longer help, and desertion is showing their faces everywhere you turn? 
You can hardly count on anyone for help, while it seems you are the only Christian experiencing out-of-place. 
All that surrounds you is beginning to wonder how long you will endure what you are going through. 
Complaint, discouragement, or self-destruction is not what you need. 
You need to know that God will see you through if you keep seeing through with the mirror of the word of God. 
God has a plan for you. 
Isaiah 63:14 buttresses, “As a beast goes down into the valley, and the spirit of the LORD causes him to rest, so You lead your people, to make yourself a glorious name.” 
The point here is that God constantly wants to be glorified and make Himself a glorious name. 
When your breakthrough arrives, the glory of God shall be your mark.
Job is a testimony. 
God will see you through and know that you are not alone.  

Prayer for today: Ask God, “O Lord my God, look upon me and let me not live a life of failure, in the name of Jesus.

FAITH CAPSULE: It is with envy for the world when engaged in the calling of God, for the glory of God.

Psalm 8, Jeremiah 32:26-44

No man called Jesus. 
Answering the calling of God and living by direction in His calling is to the glory of God.
Jesus called His disciple, “And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease.” (Matthew 10:1)
God called all for glory, not for shame.
Romans 8:28-29 testifies, “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.” 
All belong to God, predestinated to live a glorious life.
God knows what He is doing and what He wants for all when he states, “They shall be My people, and I will be their God; 39 then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from doing them good, but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me.” (Jeremiah 32:28-40)
God calls all out of His goodness and lovingkindness. 
He is mindful of all; He crowns all with glory and honor. (Psalm 8:4-5) Unfortunately, by lack of knowledge, the majority does not know the blessings of His calling. 
Psalm 49:20 buttresses, “A man who is in honor yet does not understand is like the beasts that perish.” 
God calls all for a glorious destiny.
Every child of God has to engage in a glorious destiny. 
The journey of glorious destiny departs from iniquity and secures its destination.
Glorious destiny has its foundation in righteousness.
In righteousness, there is the blessing of the Lord, and the Lord’s favors surround the righteous as a shield. (Psalm 5:12)  
Do you know what it takes to engage destiny?
Walking in righteousness is all that it takes to engage in the delivery of glorious destiny.
Among what it takes to walk in His righteousness is by keeping association with the fear of God.
In life, everyone that moves you away from God is an enemy. 
What is attempting to remove you from God? 
Who is that agent of evil? 
Take note communication corrupts good manners. 
Do not commit to the word of life; commit to the life of prayer and watching. 
Believe that it is possible to walk in righteousness. 
If not walked in righteousness, the word of God would not have asked for such.
One that does not believe, such does not become of not believe. 
2 Corinthians 5:21 states, “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” Believe that our righteousness in Jesus is our glorious destiny.

Prayer for today: Ask for understanding and not miss your portion in God.

FAITH CAPSULE: The importance of keeping the testimonies of God, the doing of God.

Daniel 3

Testimony can be an EVIDENCE (Proof), the proof of what God has done or doing.
Psalm 119:2-3 states, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies,
Who seek Him with the whole heart! They also do no iniquity; They walk in His ways.”
Testimony is acknowledging the doings of God.
Meditating on the testimony of God will provoke the attention of God. 
Also, the prayer of testimony will not fail to gain the attention of God.
THE TESTIMONY OF SHADRACH, MESHACK, AND ABED-NEGRO, IS TO LEARN THAT:
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego disobeyed the law of Babylon.
They do not serve gods or worship the gold image. 
King Nebuchadnezzar was in rage and fury to order death in the Fiery burning. 
The three brothers testify about what God can do in the place of sudden death.
The TESTIMONY of the three brothers provoked HEAVEN when they said:
Daniel 3:16-18, “16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. 17 If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. 18 But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.”
The three friends escaped the burning fiery furnace as commanded by Nebuchadnezzar.
Nebuchadnezzar saw the deliverance of God over the three brothers.
In Daniel 3:24-25, He reacted by saying,  “Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?”
They answered and said to the king, “True, O king.”
“Look!” he answered, “I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.” 
The friends of Daniel testified what God is yet to do, not just what God will do.
They declared a testimony that provoked deliverance.
Giving testimony is a communication with unfailing deliverance.
The testimony of David provoked heaven to back him for his victory over Goliath.
The testimony of David was how God gave him victory by using his hand to kill a bear and lion and eventually kill a giant by his testimony. (1 Samuel 17)
One who shares what the Lord has done or listens to the testimony of God is with the character of keeping the testimony of God.
Psalm 119:2-3 states, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies,
Who seek Him with the whole heart! They also do no iniquity; They walk in His ways.”
Ask that keeping the testimony of God shall continually be your way of life.
Ask that keeping the testimony of God shall be established in your life so that you can live for the glory of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: As a believer, what do you desire?

Psalm 27

Make the right choice to serve God.
Serve God in His way to find Him. 
Responsibility is all that the right choice demands.
Determination with desire shall set one to serve God reasonably and experience the blessings of serving God. 
Desire is an inner feeling that compels one to attain.
As a believer, what do you desire?
Do you desire to be a church-going believer or a true believer in God? 
With desire, live to know God and live life for God.
One who desires to live for God will seek after the Kingdom of God and His righteousness. Matthew 6:33 records, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” Seeking God is encased in fear of God.
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 states, “…fear God by keeping His commandments, “for this is man’s all”. For God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.”  
Fear God, keep His commandments, and desire to seek Him reasonably.
1 Samuel 12:24 advises fearing God and serving Him wholeheartedly, “Only fear the Lord and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.” 
Without any doubt, the desire for God should be in the heart.
Every desire for devotion to God will gain the presence of God. 
Are you with the desire to seek God without an iota of doubt?
Do you question yourself if you are serving God in truth with all your heart?
God has done great should provoke the desire for Him.
God only sees and moves by the acts rooted in the heart of all.
Once He corrected Samuel concerning Jesse’s son, Eliab, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7). And before this incident, it was without doubt that, David’s heart was what God saw before Samuel declared, “…The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people” (1 Samuel 13:14) 
God sought David and saw the desires of his heart for Him.
King David knew what was best to desire of the Lord when he stated, “One thing I have desired of the LORD, that will I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in His temple.” (Psalm 27:4) 
From today, the desire from the depth of my heart to serve God shall provoke enablement by God.

Prayer for today: Ask God for His mercy that you live a life of serving Him diligently.

FAITH CAPSULE: No one can avoid the hand of God.

Exodus 3

The word testifies to the extension of the hand of God.
For example, Moses ran away from Egypt to end at the location where running away from all challenges had no more track to run on.
Moses was leading the flock when God rounded him up. 
Exodus 3:2 records, “…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.” 
Do you know where or how God is waiting for you in your running? 
When God wants to send one to the North Pole, running away to the South Pole, it is not enough for such to escape from the hand of God.
Moses gained the attention of the Angel of the Lord while the bush in a fire did not burn.
Moses saw a fire burning, and the bush did not burn. (Exodus 3:3) 
God waited for the runner Moses to answer his calling assignment. 
In life, pay attention to God. 
The attention of God draws the answering of Moses. 
The Bible records, “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.” (Exodus 3:4)
Just like Moses, Ezekiel did not run from God before the outstretched hand of God reached him and set him up for the assignment of God.
Ezekiel testifies to the hand of God upon him, “The hand of the LORD came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones. Then He caused me to pass by them all around, and behold, there were very many in the open valley, and indeed they were very dry.” (Ezekiel 37:1-2) 
The hand of God came upon Ezekiel to get his attention.
By your understanding, do you think you are running far from God or too fast for God to put you under His arrest?
Know it this day that God will wait or stretch out His hand to draw your attention to His intention. 
Ezekiel experienced the hand of God that God is in control to reach any of His creation as He wants to.
God is in perfect control over all His creation.
One can run from answering God, but God will only need to wait for the runner.
Are you running from God? 
God does not need to run before catching up with His creation.
The fastest-created one running away from answering the calling of God will not escape the hand of God.
The awesome eternal God is in perfect control over all His creation. 

Prayer for today: Ask not to run against the calling of God over your life.