FAITH CAPSULE: God is always in Absolute control of His plan over every creation.

Genesis 43

There is an appointed time for everything and every situation that transpires under heaven. 
God alone is God.
God does not sleep nor slumber. 
Everything passes through God. 
He sees it all, and none is out of His control. 
No one situation is outside of His intervention. 
God alone has solutions in His hands.
God resolves all unsolvable situations in life, and He is the unchanging changer. 
The brothers of Joseph attempted to terminate his dream when they sold him out at age seventeen. 
At age thirty, Joseph stood before the Pharaoh of Egypt. 
The dream that sent Joseph to slavery positioned him for the manifestation of the calling over his life.
The brothers of Joseph came to him at a new ground where he was privileged to ask his brothers, “Is your father well…?” 
The Bible records the response of the brothers who sell him to slavery to avoid bowing down before him. 
Genesis 43:28, “And they answered, “Your servant our father is in good health; he is still alive.” And they bowed their heads down and prostrated themselves.” 
God is always in absolute control of His plan over every creation.
The brothers did not only bow, but they prostrated before Joseph. God is complete to confirm His doing.
From the moment it became apparent to Saul that David was going to become the king, it was hell over the life of David in the hand of Saul. 
Saul chased David from the valley to the cave to terminate the plans of God concerning David. 
The presence of God prevented King Saul from bringing down David.
David eventually became the calling of God.
Despite his challenges when the appointed time was up for David, nothing could relocate David outside of the calling of God.
The mountain that has refused to resolve itself and give way to your breakthrough will fall at the time of God.
2 Samuel 5:4-5 states, “David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. 5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem, he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.” 
The time David spent running and hiding for his life because of the hand of Saul was nothing to compare with the years he spent reigning and ruling as God ordained. 
The mountain that refuses to fall will fall, the pain will go, and the gain will come. 
God is true.
King David prayed, “Be pleased O LORD, to deliver me; O LORD, make haste to help me! Let them be ashamed and brought to mutual confusion who seek to destroy my life; Let them be driven backward and brought to dishonor who wish me evil.” (Psalm 40:13-14) 
The Lord God answered and delivered King David.
Keep in mind that God is the unchanging changer that reverses irreversible.
Focus on God to gain and retain His presence.

Prayer for today: Ask for the hand of God to rest upon you for His plan to become established over your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: In the hand of God, there is great deliverance. 

Ezekiel 37

God testified about His hand in Isaiah 50:2, “Why, when I came, was there no man? Why, when I called, was there none to answer? Is My hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver…?” Again, Isaiah 59:1 testified about the hand of God, “Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save…” 
Without any doubt, no hand on earth will deny the hand of God in operation. 
The hand of God is mighty in battle and great in deliverance. 
Who can deny the hand of God? 
There has been none in all history, and there will be none in ages. 
Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, failed to deny the hand of God from bringing the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years. 
Exodus 3:19-21 records, “But I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not even by a mighty hand. So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in its midst, and after that, he will let you go. 21 And I will give this person favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and it shall be when you go, that you shall not go empty-handed.”  
In the hand of God, there is great deliverance. 
In the hand of God, there is uncommon favor that answers when called upon Him.
Are you a believer who constantly desires the hand of God to come upon you? 
Meditate for the hand of God to come upon you, and know that desires will gain the hand of God to deposit desire.
Ezekiel testifies, “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. And He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” So I answered, “O Lord God, You know.” (Ezekiel 1:1-3) 
When His hand comes upon the life of one, shall set such up in a position to see miracle in the place of mockery.
With the hand of God, one will see life in the place of death.
When the hand of God comes upon one, such will gain position getting answers for every question in life. 
The answer from God will gain access for the glory of God. 
It is not a one-time prayer to ask for the hand of God upon your life but a constant and consistent prayer. 
Meditate and think of His hand coming upon you. 

Prayer for today: Ask God for the same hand upon Ezekiel to answer for you, testifying His hand of greatness as Ezekiel did. 

FAITH CAPSULE: Lack of knowledge destroys and can lead to captivity. 

Hosea 4

In all areas of life, it is understanding that leads to having a knowing edge.
Understanding is important.
Psalm 14:2 records, “The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there are any who understand, who seek God.”
Knowledge is crucial to navigating the wicked world.
Hosea 4:6 reports, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.” 
Do you have an understanding that prompts knowledge?
The acclaimed believers get destroyed when and where they should not because they lack knowledge.
Many reject knowledge because of a lack of understanding, disregarding the hand of God.
His people did not embrace knowledge to give regard to the works of God. 
Psalm 28:5 states, “Because they do not regard the works of the Lord, nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them and not build them up. 
Apart from becoming a vessel set for destruction, a lack of knowledge also qualifies one as a candidate for captivity.
Isaiah 5:13 states, “Therefore my people have gone into captivity because they have no knowledge; their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.” 
Lack of knowledge destroys and can lead to captivity. 
God has made available wisdom that is His word. 
The wisdom of God is full of conditions and promises that will enable His children to have an edge over challenges and not be destroyed or go into captivity if His children give regard to His wisdom.
For example, having a way where there is no way, standing and not falling on the ground where others fall can be described as having a knowing edge.
As a child of God, knowing and engaging the promises of God is what identifies one as knowing.  
Psalm 136:5 identifies wisdom as what God used when He made the heavens. 
Without a doubt, wisdom is the word of God. 
The same wisdom is made available for the children of God to avoid a lack of knowledge and not to become a vessel of captivity.
An engagement to the same wisdom (word of God) will not become a victim of destruction.
With understanding, there shall be a knowing edge and no captivity or destruction. 
1 Corinthians 1:30 points out that Jesus (the living word of God) is the wisdom from God and one that gives indeed to Him is set not to become a victim of captivity.
What is it that denies one from lack of Knowledge?
Wisdom without understanding will always lead to a lack of knowledge. 
Pay attention to gain understanding and not become a vessel set to perish.
The choice is to set self for destruction or set to become captive of the wicked world. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to fill you with the knowledge of His word to keep you from destruction.  

FAITH CAPSULE: Know to engage the word, meditating on the word of God.

Joshua 1

GIVE YOURSELF TO THE WORD OF GOD
Psalm 143:8 testifies, “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.”  Hearing, observing, and obeying God in the morning will make the difference for the day. Make provision for hearing the word of God first in the morning. Trust and hope in God for daily endeavors. 
Give yourself to the word of God to lead you with deliverance.
KNOW TO AVOID SELF DESTRUCTION
Pride is a route to self-destruction.
Pride will deny one not to hear and give ear to the word of God. 
Jeremiah 13:15 buttresses, “Hear and give ear: do not be proud, for the Lord has spoken.” 
Search yourself to identify what is denying you from giving yourself to the word of God.
Whatever seems right but not the word of God is not right before God. Proverbs 14:12 warns, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.”
Pride is going against the word of God.
BE RESPONSIBLE TO PURSUE GOD 
Pursuing God is a responsibility, which is the ability to act on your own without supervision. Pursue God to become godly. Today, acclaimed believers are not conversant in the word of God but conversant in the things of the world, having a form of godliness but lacking the power of God. 2 Timothy 3:5 states, “having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! Be a responsible one to pursue God by living godliness with the evidence of the power of God in your life.
RESPONSIBILITY BEFORE GOD IS THE PRICE OF GREATNESS
The venture of David to save Keilah from the Philistines made David inquire about the direction from God. 1 Samuel 23:2 records, “Therefore David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I go and attack these Philistines?”. 
David heard from God, “…Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah.” 
Inquiring from God for unfailing direction is evidence of one responsible before God. 
Get to know that responsibility is the price to be great in the hand of God.
Be responsible, seeking the direction of God.
LIVE LIFE FOR THE CALLING OF GOD
The one who obeys the direction of God will be connected to God to arrive at divine assignment in life.
However, answering the calling of God will mount with challenges, but obedience to God will deliver in it all. Psalm 34:19 encourages, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.” 
In the journey of answering the calling of God, stagnation will delay, and mockery will mount to discourage, but the miracle of victory will answer.
Are you called by yourself or called by the world?
Live life for God!

Prayer today: Ask God to enable meditation of His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: Why not desire to become one eaten up by the zeal of God?

John 2

The zeal for God is dedication or passion for the things of God.
The documentation of the life of Jesus is what it means to have a zeal for God.
John 2:13-17 records the zeal of Jesus, “Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business. When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables. And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!” Then His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up”.
To have the zeal for God is to live life for God by seeking God diligently.
The documentation of the zeal of Jesus is learning to know what it means to live life for the glory of God.
Zeal for God is the evidence of boldness and character, a winning combination for a believer in the word of God.
One with no zeal for God will hardly activate boldness and character to flush out activities of the world in the temple of God. 
Are you zealous for God?
One with zeal for God will always stand against the world of disobedience by looking into the word of God with action. 
Jesus could not look away from world activities in the temple but drove, poured, and overturned all wicked world activities outside of the temple of God.
The Bible identifies the temple of God, “Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)  
With the zeal for God, one will recognize that the acclaimed house of God is not the house of merchandise.
The zeal for God does not accommodate the world activities ongoing in the church.
Jesus demonstrated the boldness and character that prompted His disciples to state, “…Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up” (John 2:17) With desire, let let the things of God eat you up to be full of God!
To be eaten up by the zeal for God is also rooted in meditating on the word of God day and night.
Why not desire to become one eaten up by the zeal of God?
It is wise to engage in prayer, not a determination to become one with the zeal for God. 

Prayer for today: Ask for the Zeal of God to eat you so that you will live life for God.