FAITH CAPSULE: Disallow comfort from clouding your commitment to God’s command.

Numbers 32

Living a life journey with comfort outside of the comfortably should not identify as a sin. 
However, when one comfortably places comfort ahead of commitment to the direction of God, in the life of journey, such is set not to arrive at the center of the divine assignment. 
God, in His goodness and mercy, brought the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years with a plan to settle them in the Promised Land. 
It is written, “So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.” (Exodus 3:8) 
God wanted to place them from bondage to abundance when he promised them a land that flows with milk and honey. 
God promised to bring the Israelites out of bondage, but the children of Gad and Reuben engaged comfort in the place of commitment and decided to settle in the East of Jordan. 
The Bible records that they had a great multitude of livestock, which prompted a request for a settlement in the region that was a place for livestock that was more comfortable by their understanding instead of the promise of God. 
Despite their understanding of the plan of God, they attempted a choice to wander from the way of God. 
Are you attempting to wander from the way of understanding gained from the word of God? 
Proverbs 21:16 admonishes, “A man who wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.”
The children of Gad and the children of Reuben approached Moses and stated their desire, “…the country which the LORD defeated before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.’ Therefore they said, ‘If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not take us over the Jordan.’” (Numbers 32:4-5) 
It is clear that where there is livestock, milk will flow, but not honey. 
God promised a land flowing with milk and honey, but they attempted to settle for the comforting land of their understanding. 
The land which flowed with milk was comfortable enough for them. 
It is good to be comfortable but not to replace the command of God. Placing comfort above the direction of God is a direct avenue to becoming insensitive to the move of the Spirit of God. 
Spiritual insensitivity will reduce and not increase a believer. 
Are you operating the mind of the children of Gad and Reuben as you engage personal direction against the direction of God to the Promised Land? 
Disallow comfort from clouding your commitment to God to the command of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to restore you for whatever you have lost to spiritual insensitivity.

FAITH CAPSULE: Meditate on His testimonies to provoke your faith in Him.

Describing the testimony of God.
Testimony is evidence in support of the wonders of God. 
Testimony is an open declaration or profession of faith.
The testimonies of God will transport a believer to a ground of transformation. 
All that the children of Israel needed for their transportation through their wilderness journey was the testimonies of God to keep them from complaining against God. 
The children of Israel were to travel through the wilderness to their Promised Land for eleven days, but the journey went on for forty years.
Are you experiencing a time of wandering where you are to be a wonder to your world?
A failure to keep the testimony of God is evidence of not remembering God for He has done and what He can do.
The generation that came out of Egypt did not only journey in the wilderness but wandered around until the wilderness passed them to death.
The Israelites could not step on the Promised Land. 
The children of Israel did not just become wanders in the wilderness by accident.
The acts of complaints against God trapped them in the wilderness. 
The act of complaining is evidence of not keeping God’s testimony. 
Due to their never-ending complaining against what God was doing in their life, God responds in Numbers 14:22-23, “Because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice, they certainly shall not see the land of which I swore to their fathers, nor shall any of those who rejected Me see it.”
God promised to take them to the Promised Land. 
God promised to take them to the Promised Land. 
While the Israelites were in Egypt, God showed them great and mighty signs, but they could not meditate to keep His testimony.
Why not constantly meditate on His testimonies? 
The Psalmist identifies the blessing of God as keeping the testimonies of God.  Psalm 119:2 states, “Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart!” 
Keeping His testimonies is setting self-up to serve God and not rebel by complaining. 
Psalm 119: 24 states, “Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.” 
Psalm 119:46, “I will speak of Your testimonies also before kings, and will not be ashamed.”
The testimonies of God are the things of God.
The testimonies of God are evidence of what God can do.
His testimonies are worthy of mediation. 
The testimony of God is what is needed to plead for the case before God. Isaiah 45:26 states, “Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted.” 
Do you have any testimony to remind God when presenting your case before God to gain His favor?  
In your challenge, state your case by referring to what God has done and what He can do. 
God is faithful to honor His word. 

Prayer for today: Ask that the help of God will enable keeping His testimony constant.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know, and confess your victory this month.

Psalm 3

God is true to perform and performs to perfection.
There is none like God. 
He is the only God that makes a way where there is no way. 
Only God alone reverses the irreversible, the only God that shares His name with no other God. 
He is the king of kings, the Lord of lords. 
King David testifies, “The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood, and the Lord sits as King forever.” (Psalm 29:10)
Jehoiachin had been in captivity for thirty-seven years when God raised his head and brought him out. (Jeremiah 52:31) 
With positive confession, knowing that God is not a partial God, expect that the new month He has enabled you to see shall answer for you as a month of victory.
With faith, your portion is victory in all endeavors.
Jeremiah 52:31 records, “Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, that Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.”  
God used Evil-Merodach, the king of Babylon and son of Nebuchadnezzar, to lift up the head of Jehoiachin. 
God will use anyone to lift you from every challenge that is keeping your head down. 
God alone is a capable God that will cause you to preside over your persecutors. 
Evil-Merodach was in the hand of God to lift the head of Jehoiachin. When God remembers, He also rescues. 
Having used Evil-Merodach to rescue Jehoiachin, God also made him change the garment of Jehoiachin from that of a prisoner to that of one who eats before the king all the days of his life. 
God is true to perform, and He performs with perfection. 
There is nothing God is incapable of doing, and His capability has no measure. 
God visited Daniel in the den of hungry lions. 
He caused the starved lions not to have an appetite for fresh meat.
Are you waiting on Him in prayer concerning a challenge that seems unmovable? 
Continue to trust and hope in God by waiting on Him. 
Concerning your challenge, it is not time to stop prayer but to top up your waiting in prayer. 
God is a prayer-answering God. 
Know it and make it a note in your heart that the understanding God capable of bringing the Israelites out of the bondage of over four hundred years is more than able to convert your challenge to a glorious change. 
God alone is Jehovah Sharma, and He will hear to answer at the calling of His Name. 
Stand in faith so that faithful God will show on your behalf. 
With faith, God is pleased, and without faith, God is not. 
Proverbs 16:7 buttresses, “When a man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies be at peace with him.” 
Have faith that God is more than capable and will see you through. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to send forth His help and lift your head from every challenge.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know to avoid being distracted.

Judges 16

Grace and mercy have brought you this far.
Know that the grace of God will see you through the coming days, weeks, months, and years.
Pray that being distracted will not have a place in you to deny and derail you from arriving at divine assignment shall not answer over your life.
What is distracting is not of God but of the devil.
Seven things that come with distraction are:
Distraction can terminate the calling of God in the life of one.
Distraction will not announce itself to derail one with purposed agenda.
Distraction will derail or deny one with the loss of focus on God.
Distraction will assault to prevent one from getting to the divine assignment.
Distraction can be a denial agent against a man not to walk in the Lord, to answer the calling of God.
Distraction can also be an indefinable force that will deny a man from having faith to please God.
Distraction can build up discouragement.
Samson was to be a deliverer of his people by the hand of God. 
Before the birth of Samson, God sent an angel that said to his mother, “Indeed now, you are barren and have borne no children, but you shall conceive and bear a son. Now, therefore, please be careful not to drink wine or similar drink, and not to eat anything unclean. For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. And no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.” (Judges 13:3-5)
Samson was to deliver his people when distraction led to his disobedience before God. 
Samson was wrong to reveal the secret of the power of God over his life to his wife (Delilah) and made him become a victim at the hand of his enemy.
Deny distraction not to derail you.
A delay this far with no manifestation of expectation is not a denial of one.
Do you have Jesus in your house with a distraction denying you not to gain and retain His presence? 
Martha welcomed Jesus into her house but was distracted.
Luke 10:40 records, “But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, ‘Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore, tell her to help me.’”  
Also, know that Your heart is your house.
Deny distraction from having a place in your heart.
Distractions will build up to experience a delay.
Delay will not deny you disallow distraction in your heart.
Pray against the spirit of distraction not to have a place in your life.
The source of distraction for one not to live life for the glory of God can be from the closest ones.
Are you avoiding devices of distraction before you?
Continually give attention to deny distraction of all forms.

Prayer for today: Ask for deliverance from any form of distraction.

FAITH CAPSULE: A failure not to ignore delay can turn one out of the way of God. 

Exodus 32:1-14

Delays can be discouraging as the process of a hindrance. 
In life, a delay in the process can terminate a positive expectation.
As a believer, there should be an understanding that delay is not a denial. 
Are you experiencing a delay in any area of life? 
It is important to note that whenever there is a failure to ignore any delay, there will be doubt in place. 
With doubt comes every reason to despise the faithfulness of God that is rooted in the word of God.
Exodus 32:1 records, “Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”
The delay of Moses on the mountain prompted the doubt of the Israelites. 
The Israelites should have known quite well that God could not have abandoned them, yet they gave themselves unnecessary worry. 
The Israelites demonstrated unfaithfulness because of the delay of Moses on the mountain.
The Israelites could not wait on God when they looked for another god. 
The truth is that waiting on God can never become waste. 
In life, some delays are what measure faithfulness before God. 
When the delay of Moses became glaring in the sight of the children of Israel, they began to seek a god to take over from God.
Put in mind that God is not substitutable.
One that substitutes God in times of waiting on Him is snubbing God, which never fails to answer to believing believers.
A failure not to ignore delay will derail one on the track to experience the visitation of God.
Are you experiencing a delay? 
Your delay will turn into deliverance if you trust and wait in the name of Jesus. 
The Bible declares in Philippians 4:6-7, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” 
Unexpected delays will generate concern, and there will be every reason to be anxious. 
The word encourages by stating the antidote for anxiousness: Take all to God in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, and the peace of God will take over you. 
Instead of seeing a delay, be encouraged by seeing in the word of God. God alone is the One that delivers, and He controls all. 
Deny delay; declare all His goodness and His mercy that never expire. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to wait patiently on his hand.