FAITH CAPSULE: Ones who know to wait on God are the ones who know to ask.

Psalm 32, 94 

What is stopping you from asking from God?
A failure not to ask will lead to a lack of faith.
Matthew 7:7-11 records, “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!”  
Asking and not receiving could be evidence of asking wrongly. 
The Bible makes all realize that it is possible to ask and ask wrongly. 
James 4:3 states, “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.” 
What are you asking from God? 
Turn around and ask to be enabled to seek God more. 
Asking from God is not because God forgets.
God expects asking from Him.
God is a jealous God that gives attention to being asked for.
How can one not know that a caring God is mindful of His creation?
God does not forget His children.
God is a good God.
He is God who acts for the one who waits for Him. (Isaiah 64:4)  
Ones who know to wait on God are the ones who ask, and God attends to them. 
The Bible points out that He who planted the ear, shall He not hear? 
He who formed the eye, shall He not see? (Psalm 94:9) 
Ask to be enabled to ask God for instruction and teaching over your life to keep you in the direction of God. 
Today, uncommon challenges and evil occurrences ravaging the world demand to ask for His promises. 
The word of God promises, “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go, I will guide you with My eye.” (Psalm 32:8) 
Do you desire His eye to guide you? 
It is a blessing to be guided by the eye of God.
Psalmist buttresses, “Blessed is the man whom You instruct, O Lord, and teach out of your law, that You may give him rest from the days of adversity…” (Psalm 94:12-13) 
There is a need for all to desire rest from His instruction and teaching. 
All should have a place in the promise of God that instructs and teaches for rest to have a place in life. 
Turn to God and ask for instruction and teaching to keep you in the plans of God.

Prayer for today: Ask that the hand of God shall rest on you in all endeavors.

FAITH CAPSULE: What does Praising and thanking God mean to you? 

1 Chronicles 16

Praising and thanking God is a calling on God.
David, identified by God as a man after the heart of God, was an ardent praise worshiper of God. (1 Samuel 13:14)
Learning from David is a way of knowing that praising God gets the attention of God. 
In the word of David, praising and giving thanks to God is a way of calling on God. 
David declared, “I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised so shall I be saved from my enemies.” (Psalm 18:3) 
David identified praising and thanking God as calling on God to deliver him from his enemies. 
Praising and thanking God is an assured way of calling and provoking the attention of God.
As a believer, it is not enough to know about calling on God through praising and thanking Him but to consciously have a knowing, engaging praising and thanking God as a way of life. 
Praising and thanking God is also calling on God to appreciate Him. 
After David finally settled the ark from being moved around, he called on God to thank God. 
The book of 1 Chronicles 16:8 records the statement of David, “Oh, give thanks to the Lord! Call upon His name; make known His deeds among the peoples!” 
Calling on God is to make Him known. 
God wants attention round the clock, the testimony to the truth, thanking God for His doing calls on His name to appreciate Him and declare Him to the world for what He has done. 
Do not only give thanks for what God has done or what He is doing but also give Him thanks for what He can do or what is expected from Him to do. 
Are you expecting God to move concerning your confronting situation? 
The magnitude of your situation will get the attention of God if one will not stop giving thanks to God before the manifestation of your expectation. 
Also, thanking and praising God is making the declaration of God. 
Declares God with experience to be decorated by God.
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed Nego declared God and decorated with deliverance from a fiery burning furnace. (Daniel 3:16-17)
Jesus declared God by praising and thanking God as Lazarus rose from four days in the grave. 
John 11:41-43 documents, “Jesus lifted His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.” Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!”   
One praising and thanking God should always be to provoke God, to decorate such for His glory.
Praising and thanking God cannot be separated. 
That is, praising God is thanking God, and thanking God is praising God.

Prayer for today: Ask that praising and thanking God shall continually be your way of life.

FAITH CAPSULE: The attempts of Saul to harass the disciples caused Heaven to arrest him. 

Acts 9

In the time of Saul, he was a celebrated murderer of the New Testament that eventually answered as Apostle Paul.
The Apostle Paul, a former murderer of the followers of Christ, wrote most of the New Testament. 
He passionately went after the followers of Christ to persecute them until the Spirit of God arrested him. 
The book of Acts 9:1-2 documents, “Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.” 
A man that was full of threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, a man with permission from the high priest to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found anyone following Jesus, whether man or woman, he might bring them, bound to Jerusalem, lost his sight, not able to see at his entering into Damascus. 
The attempt of Saul to harass the disciples caused Heaven to arrest him with a new name Paul.
Saul was a-minded persecutor of the followers of Christ on the way or out of the way. 
Saul would go outside his area looking for followers of Christ to persecute. 
The mission of Saul to Damascus to carry out his business encountered the power that converted him from a persecutor to a propagator of the business of the kingdom of God. 
By the power of God, no one under Heaven is above the redirection for His divine agenda. 
God alone reverses the irreversible. 
Saul, on his journey to carry out persecution, “… He came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven.” (Acts 9:3) 
The sudden light in the direction of Saul was an encounter with Jesus.
For Saul, there was no choice but trembled before God. 
Saul did not only tremble but requested from the Lord what to do for the Lord. 
Above all, he lost his eyesight. 
The Bible records the encounter with Saul, “Then Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened he saw no one. But they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus. And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank.” (Acts 9:8-9) 
Saul gained a new sight and moved forward to serve God. 
Saul answered to a new name (Paul) after gaining a sight to see and serve the Lord Jesus Christ. 
God is still in the business of touching life.
Ask, “Lord, what do you want me to do.”
God that answers will position you in the center of your divine assignment.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to answer fully in every area of His calling for your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Questioning the authority (Jesus) where He gets His power is an absolute lack of knowledge.

Matthew 8:1-13, Matthew 21:1-17

Jesus is Lord! 
Honor belongs to Him; glory belongs to Him. 
Above all, authority (power) belongs to Him.
Psalm 62:11 records, “God has spoken once, twice I have heard this: That power belongs to God.” 
It is safe to say that authority is undeniable power. 
All authority is with Jesus. 
Jesus confirmed that all authority is with Him. 
Matthew 28:18 states that after His resurrection, He appeared to His disciples and said, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.” 
All authority is power. 
The power that belongs to Jesus is the power over all creation; it is the power to heal and to deliver; it is the power in His word and the authority which no man can deny.
The authority to cleanse all that is due for cleaning so that God may reign and rule in life belongs to Jesus.
The Bible records how He went to clean the temple at a point in His ministry. 
Jesus overturned the tables of the money.
He drove the changers and all buying and selling.
Jesus cleaned the temple by driving out all the irrelevancies, and He left. Matthew 21:23 states, “Now when He came into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people confronted Him as He was teaching, and said, ‘By what authority are You doing these things? And who gave You this authority?’”
The priests and the elders realized there was an authority in place that was not deniable from delivering His agenda.
Jesus Christ is with authority. 
However, to be questioning authority (Jesus) where He gets His authority from is an absolute lack of knowledge.
Are you questioning His authority? 
While Jesus was here on the earth, the chief priests constantly questioned His authority. 
The Bible testifies that “He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes” (Matthew 7:29) 
The teaching of Jesus was with authority, and the majority are yet to recognize Him.
Today so many are still questioning His authority. 
Inside and outside of the Church, His authority is constantly questioned. Are you questioning His authority too? 
The word of God says, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.” (Deuteronomy 6:5) 
Are you seeking God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength? 
A failure not to love God with all heart, soul, and with all strength is evidence of questioning His authority.
The word of God is not a talk active, but the testimony of His demonstration yesterday, today, and tomorrow evidence of power.
The authority is with power that is not questionable.

Prayer for today: Ask God that His authority will reign and rule your life all the days He has given you.

FAITH CAPSULE: The purpose of the heart of Daniel for God enabled him to do exploits in life to the glory of God.

Daniel 1

Here are some scriptural verses of what the Bible says about the heart:
Psalm 44:21, “…God knows the secret of the heart.”
“The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9)
“The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all the inner depths of his heart.” (Proverbs 20:27)
Ecclesiastes 8:11 states, “Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.”
The Bible identifies the fool in Psalm 14:1, “The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God…” 
What is it about your heart?
The Bible records, “As in water face reflects face, so a man’s heart reveals the man.” (Proverbs 27:19)
It was a heart that revealed Nehemiah to God.
One thing about Nehemiah is that there was a genuine concern for the welfare of Jerusalem and its inhabitants at heart. 
Nehemiah, a cupbearer with a big heart, desired a better life for his brethren. 
If a cupbearer could provoke a change, all having life should be able to do the same. 
God saw the heart of Nehemiah, and He acknowledged him. 
God invested in him as a vessel for reconstructing the broken wall of Jerusalem. 
The report of what was going on in Jerusalem caused a burden in the heart of Nehemiah, and he began to intercede on behalf of the land and his people. 
Nehemiah 1:3-4 records, “And they said to me, ‘The survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are there in great distress and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.’ So it was, when I heard these words that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days; I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.” 
Nehemiah poured out his heart in prayer on behalf of his people and his homeland. 
He asked for nothing to do with himself but petitioned for things for a better life for his people. 
God is a God whose eyes travel to and fro throughout the earth to show Himself strong. (2 Chronicle 16:9) 
The heart of Nehemiah was in line with what God was looking for. 
Is your heart self-centered?
Daniel 1:8 states, “Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.” 
Daniel purposed in his heart for God and did great exploit because of his heart activity. (Daniel 11:32)  
The heart of Daniel set him up for great exploits in life.

Prayer for today: Ask for a heart that is right before God all days of your life.