FAITH CAPSULE: God waits to act for those who wait on Him. 

Isaiah 64:1-5, Luke 18:1-8

God, in His goodness and mercy, has brought you this far.
Ignore how long you have been experiencing expectations, but wait patiently for God.
The jealous God that gives attention to those who wait on Him without doubt.
Waiting on God demands to be persistent in seeking Him prayerfully.
Jesus spoke of the parable of the persistent widow with expectation for justice from her adversary, from a judge who does not fear God.
The widow was persistent in getting the response of the unjust judge.
Jesus pointed out how all should always wait (pray) and not lose heart. He concluded the parable by letting all know that if the unjust judge could answer the persistent woman, “shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:7-8) 
The lesson in the parable is that waiting to receive should be with persistence, the evidence of faith.   
As an acclaimed believer, is there any area of life where you are waiting and trusting God for a miracle? 
If not, there will be a time to wait on God. 
A persistent patience is what it takes to wait on God. 
It is one thing to know there is a need for patience in waiting, and another is to experience waiting on God for the manifestation of expectation. 
With needs waiting, trust God, and He will deliver; He is also the God of the eleventh hour. 
God will respond when there is no way out.
Waiting and getting the response of God is to glorify and elevate His Holy name at the top of your heart. 
God wants all to call and ask from Him because He waits to act for those who wait on Him, provoking His glory.
Isaiah 30:18 states, “Therefore the LORD will wait, that He may be gracious to you; and therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are those who wait for Him.” 
What do you expect of a jealous God? 
The answer is to give Him unfailing attention.
He gets attention when He waits as a jealous God.
Wait, because where there is jealousy, there will be love. 
He is a loving God. 
Wait on Him, do not give up. 
Have patience for God to attend to your needs at the best possible hour. The Prophet Isaiah testifies that God acts for those who wait on Him. (Isaiah 64:4). 
Be patient in your waiting. 
He will not fail; He will act on your behalf. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to deposit in your life all that it takes for one to be patient and persistent in waiting on Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Hearing God should be your makeup in your life journey. 

1 Samuel 3

What one hears in the morning will be the compass for the life journey of the day. 
Hearing a call from God is hearing the word of God. 
The voice of God is the sound of God.
His sound is His call.
In His call inhabits His word.
What you have heard in the word of God is His word that will carry you through your life journey. 
God called Samuel at a young age while he was lying down. 
At the initial stage, when God called Samuel, there was no understanding in place for him, but Eli helped Samuel not to miss hearing the calling of God. 
Have you been missing any calls because of a lack of understanding? 
To miss the calling of God denies revelation and access to engage the calling of God.
Samuel heard and received the calling of God in a time when the word of the Lord was rare and
had no widespread revelation. (1 Samuel 3:1) 
In the word of His calling, there is direction, deliverance, protection, and preservation of evidence of revelation. 
When one hears Him right, it will be well with such.
One should not fail to hear from him, avoiding to end wrongly. 
It is written, “Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint…” (Proverbs 29:18) 
The world is with challenges because the world is the evidence that the word of God (His revelation) is not spreading, not even widespread. 
When He is near, His word will flow, and man will engage restraints before carrying out evil agenda. 
There is a need to be hearing from Him daily. 
The Psalmist declares in Psalm 143:8,” Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning. For in You do I trust; cause me to know the way in which I should walk for I lift up my soul to You.” 
The Psalmist demonstrates that hearing Him in the morning will make a difference in every journey, even daily. 
When one begins to make provision to hear from Him first in the morning, trusting Him will be activated in daily endeavors, and what one hears in the morning will become a compass for the day. 
What one hears from Him first thing in the morning will show such the way to walk through the day, and it will become a weapon of deliverance and preservation from the enemy. 
No one has walked in the way of God and ended up as a failure. 
As a child of God, what are you hearing early in the day? 
In all that you hear, hear Him right, and that will experience the direction of God.
It is one thing to hear without understanding, but another will understand to gain from God.
Samuel heard and gained understanding when God called him. 

Prayer for today: Ask Him that understanding becomes your character hearing from God.

FAITH CAPSULE: The abundance of God never runs out. 

Exodus 20

It was with mercy that God led the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years.
Just as power belongs unto God, mercy also belongs to God. 
Mercy, meaning loyal love, is the conventional love of the covenant-keeping God. 
Only God renders mercy unto whom He chooses to render mercy. 
It was with mercy that God led the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years. Exodus 15:13 records, “You in Your mercy have led forth the people whom You have redeemed…”  
Joseph feared God, and God was with him through his entire ordeal. 
The word testifies about Joseph, “…the LORD was with Joseph and showed him mercy…” (Genesis 39:21) 
Today, God still renders mercy and power as He was rendering it in the Old Testament through to the New Testament. 
The mercy of God is in abundance that never runs out.
Also, His mercy endures forever. 
Many giants of faith operated under the power and mercy of God. 
God spoke to Moses, “For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.” So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.” (Romans 9:15-16) 
The ‘whomever’ that God is talking about is throughout the Bible, as in the book of Luke 1:50, “And His mercy is on those who fear Him from generation to generation.” 
Who are the ones who fear Him? 
Those who have received, believe and behave the word of God. 
Those who fear God are His people whose hearts He plants His fear so they do not turn away from Him. (Jeremiah 32:40) This is to say that the ones who fear Him are those He has drawn unto Himself. (John 6:44) They are the ones He has chosen for Himself. 
The ones He chose for Himself are the ones He provided to Himself as a provision for His divine assignment.
The Bible recorded about David, “Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided Myself a king among his sons.” (1 Samuel 16:1) 
God is not a partial God, and He is still in the business of drawing His children, but only those who do not withdraw but position themselves in line for His undeniable power and mercy.
Do you fear God? 
To fear God is to love God. 
God will not cease to show mercy to those who love Him and keep His commandments. (Exodus 20:6) Engage living in the fear of God and allow His mercy to be you.

Prayer for today:  Ask God not to withhold His tender mercy from you.

FAITH CAPSULE: To be full of His fear is to be full of His love. 

1 John 3: 7-21

Claiming to love God comes down to obeying the commands of God. 
The will of God for all His creation is to fear Him. 
One with the fear of God shall be full of Him.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 admonishes, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandment, for this is man’s all.” 
Hear Him to fear Him.
To fear Him is to know and be consistent in obeying His commandments. One obeying the command of God lives for the glory of God.
Be full of His obedience and become the fear of God. 
To be full of His fear is to be full of His love. 
God is love, and love is also the presence of God. 
To fear God is to love God, the character of carrying His presence.
Apostle Paul points out that the purpose of the command of God is to love God. 
He states, “Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith, from which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk.” (1Timothy 1:5-6) Paul was not talking about the love that flows from the tips of lips. 
Paul was talking about a standard love that counts before God and a kind of love that is worthy of provoking the attention of God.
To love (fear) God is to constantly dwell in His presence (His presence is His word) and not depart from Him. God spoke, “They shall be My people, and I will be their God; 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. Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will assuredly plant them in this land, with all My heart and with all My soul.’” (Jeremiah 32:38-41) 
In the above word of God, it is clear that the fear of God qualifies one as the people of God and not the assumption of others; it is not a title inside or outside of the church. 
Going by the word of God documented above, anyone who fears God undeniably takes a position to experience the goodness of God. 
It is also a joyous thing for one to dwell in His fear. 
Without a doubt, anyone doing what is good will gain the strength of God.
One with the joy of God is not to experience lack.
Why not do it right by fearing God and allowing the joy of the Lord to be your strength?

Prayer for today: Ask God to direct your heart into His Love, the patience of Christ.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know that God is on your side always.

2Kings 6:1-23 

Just as challenges are in place and persist in the world of unbelievers, 
so it is in the word of believers. 
Believers are not immune to experiencing challenges but can be unmovable in the face of challenges. 
Word of God admonishes, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.” (Psalm 34:19) 
One knows that memorizing and quoting the scripture is far and not enough to bring forth the required deliverance in the face of challenge. 
One should know and do right before God.
Proverbs 11:9 states clearly, “…but through knowledge the righteous will be delivered.” 
Deliverance from afflicting challenges of the righteous is rightly in the knowledge of the word of deliverance. 
The word of God is to perform and perfect. 
Psalm 107:20 records, “He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions.”
As a believer, are you spending time to engage the word of God that is knowledge to deliver? 
Are you thinking of what you should do in response to all the confrontations before you? 
As a believer, ask that God locate you this hour to visit you with salvation in the name of Jesus.
God answers prayer without doubt.
When the confronting challenge located both Elisha and his servant, God, answered with deliverance,
The fear of the servant of Elisha in response to the enemy subsides with faith.
The book of 2 Kings 6:15 records, “And when the servant of the man of God arose early and went out, there was an army, surrounding the city with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, ‘Alas, my master! What shall we do?’” 
There is always an answer to confronting challenges. 
Elisha responds to his servant that is right for a believer in the challenging time.
Elisha answered his servant in 2 Kings 6:16, “So he answered, ‘Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.’” As a believer, it is a lesson to know God as God that cannot fail to deliver.
God cares for His children and does not fail to focus on Him.
The word of God wants all to bury fear so that faith will rise.
Elisha said it, and Paul the Apostle encourages, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made know to God; and peace of God, which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:6).” 
In challenging times, pray for the spiritual eyes to become opened as Elijah prayed for the spiritual eyes of his servant.
Fear of the servant of Elisha sank while his faith came alive to gain victory. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to open your eyes to see and know that God is always on your side.