FAITH CAPSULE: Who is the inquisitor discouraging your walk with God?

Genesis 19

Inquisitor of your life can be unduly harsh, severe, or hostile.
Who is the inquisitor of your life?
One that acts as an inquisitor of your life is possibly not to be of God and can be the evidence of not having faith or trust in what you are doing in the name of God.
God identifies Job as anintegrity, blameless, and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil. (Job 2:3)
The identification of Job by God was not an excuse for him not to experience inquisition from his wife nor talk of one from a distance to his life. 
The inquisition of his wife was discouraging as she states, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” (Job 2:9) 
Imagine the pain of inquisition from the closest, not distance.
God saw Job as a man of integrity, but his wife saw him as one wasting time by waiting on God. 
Are you engaging in any challenge that is inviting inquisitors into your life? 
Is the inquisitor your closest one?
Are you a self-inquisitor to yourself and not knowing?
Who is the inquisitor discouraging your walk with God?
An inquisitor of your life will question the direction to the deliverance of your life.
Lot and his wife received the direction of God to escape destruction. 
Genesis 19:17 records, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.” (Genesis 19:17) 
On the route of escape from destruction, by the direction of God, the wife of Lot could not obey but questioned God with the action of disobedience that terminated her.
The wife of Lot acted as an inquisitor of the deliverance plan of escape.
The Bible records that the wife of Lot looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.” (Genesis 19:26)
Beware of inquisitors!
Oftentimes, man allows the act of a negative inquisitor to deny the blessing in place for life.
For example, Jesus had miracles on every ground but not in Nazareth. 
The inquisitors want to know the source of His wisdom and the work of His hand.
Inquisitors saw Jesus as the son of a carpenter, the mere son of Joseph, and Mary could not see Him as a healer.
Jesus responds to the inquisition of His people: “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house. He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them.” (Mark 6:4-5) 
Desist from being an inquisitor of God? 
The people of Nazareth failed to appreciate the anointing upon the life of the Anointed One. 
Appreciate the doing of God, and do not be an inquisitor to miss the blessing of God.

Prayer for today: Pray that you will not be an inquisitor or not to be a victim of the negative inquisition of this world.

FAITH CAPSULE: Live to dwell and abide in the place of God.

Psalm 91

One alive in a new month is the mercy of God.
It is a new season.
In this new season, strive to live more for His glory.
God owes no one, but all owe the perfect God.
He is a caring Creator and worthy of praise.
Psalm 150:6 admonishes all, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.”
Indeed, everyone who has come this far should praise God at every moment.
Give praise to God at every breath of life!
Praising and thanking God will provoke a favorable lifting from God.
Praise God!
God is jealous, while attention is the antidote to jealousy.
Give attention to God, seek God diligently, and you will find God.
Proverbs 7:15 encourages,“So I came out to meet you, diligently to seek your face, and I have found you.”
Ask that God remember you with favour in the new season.
Pray that the new season you are coming out of all that represents stagnation into motion to the glory of God.
In this season and ongoing, strive to dwell and abide in the secret place of God.
The secret of God is His word.
With understanding of the word of God, the secret of God, one will gain deliverance and be preserved by God.
The word of God is God, and His word is secret.
The word of God is a secret to one who does not study to know God.
Receive God; live in Him. John 5:43 records, “I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.”
Receive God; live in Him as habitation.
John 16:33 encourages,“These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”
Give heart to God and know that the word of God is secret.
Deuteronomy 29:29 “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.”
In this season of your life, let the word of God bring you out of stagnation into motion, to the glory of God.
Dwell and abide in God’s secret.
In the secret place of the Most High God, there is healing, deliverance, and preservation.
God’s power is a secret place. The secret place of God is dwell-able and abide-able for one with desire, not just determination.
One having determination without desire is bound to fail in every area of life.
Peter was determined not to deny Jesus, but he denied Jesus three times.
This season, not with determination alone, but with desire, is to dwell in God’s secret place.
The word of God is the secret place.
Psalm 91:1-2 encourages, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”
Live by the word of God.

Prayer for today: Pray that the word of God becomes your habitation.

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FAITH CAPSULE: It is praying that enables to find God.

Proverbs 6

Know to the word of God prayerfully going into a new month of the year.
Psalm 107:20 records, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”
PRAYER TO ASK:
LET YOUR WORD LOCATE ME, TO ENTER ME, TO BUILD ME, TO ESTABLISH IN ME, TO BECOME MY GARMENT, THAT I WILL LIVE LIFE TO THE GLORY OF YOUR HOLY NAME.
The year is about to run out, and thank God for His mercy that brought us this far.
I pray that it shall continually uphold us through and beyond the coming days, months, and years in the name of Jesus.
Proverbs 6:22 states, “When you roam, they will lead you; When you sleep, they will keep you; And when you awake, they will speak with you.”
PRAYER
Ask that the word of God take over and lead you in all journeys.  
Ask that the living word of God will lead you.
Ask that the word keep you when you are asleep or awake.
Ask God to enable you to hear and do as He speaks to you.
GOD WANTS US TO REMIND HIM OF THE CHARACTER OF ONE WHO KNOWS HIM
As the new month approaches, let us ask God to remember us.
God asks us to remind Him when we need Him.
When we need Him, we are commanded to wait on Him.
God is a God who waits to act for those who wait on Him.
God does not forget to remember, but it is faith to remind God to remember you.
Many pages of the Bible record that when God is asked to remember, He remembers.
God encourages all, saying,“Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted.” (Isaiah 43:26)
The psalmist prayed, “Remember me, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people. Oh, visit me with Your salvation. That I may see the benefit of Your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, that I may glory with Your inheritance.”(Psalm 106:4)
As the month ends, let us remind Him, praying that God remembers us.
PRAYER
Ask Him to remember with the favor He has toward His people.
Ask God to visit you with His salvation, His benefit, which He gives to His chosen ones.
Remind Him that He is not a partial God who will not give to the cry of His people.
God calls to remind Him.
Noah was delivered but needed to remind God to take away the water of affliction that held him in the ark, after the rain of destruction.
Genesis 8:1, “Then God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.”
Let us remind God to convert every area of stagnation in our lives to His motion for His glory.
PRAYER
Ask God that whatever represents flood (the water) of affliction in your life and your loved ones be subsided.

FAITH CAPSULE: What occupies one will determine what assesses one. 

John 20

Are you worrying consciously or unconsciously?
Worrying is not of God.
Worrying is the evidence of doubt, the weapon used by the devil to contaminate or terminate the testimony of a believer in God.
Jesus warns in Matthew 6:25, “Do not worry about your life…”
In all that pertains to life, there should be no WORRYING.
Worrying is against God.
Worrying is calling God a liar, looking away from God to live with no regard to God.
Worrying is not worshiping God.
Not worshipping God is not seeking God.
Not seeking God is taking a position that will not see God.
Worrying is a spirit; it is not of God.
One who worries is far from God.
One who is distant, not far from God, is the consequence of having no place for God.
Where worrying settles, it builds up to fear.
One with no fear of God will become full of worrying.
Worrying can lead to wrong decisions, running instead of walking.
Worrying excuses no one.
Giving excuses for worrying will not stand before God.
One who is occupied by the world will worry.
For example, the disciples of Jesus demonstrated fear rooted in worrying.
After the resurrection, Jesus visited the disciples as they locked themselves in the state of their fear of the Jews. John 20:19-20 documents, “Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.” 20 When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.”
Worrying shuts down one with no fear.
The disciples were shut down, and not because of fear.
Are you living in doubt that the Lord is awake in your life if you will give yourself to the Lord?
Thomas, a disciple of Jesus, demonstrated doubt instead of keeping his eyes on God.

John 20:24-25 documents the doubt of Thomas in the place of fear that is rooted in worrying: “Now Thomas, called the Twin, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 The other disciples, therefore, said to him, “We have seen the Lord.” So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.” 
One cannot worry and have faith at the same time.
Worrying and fearing the world is not walking with God.

Prayer for today:
Pray that every spirit that is not of God cease answering in your life.
Ask for the strength and character of worshipping God in all areas of life.
Ask that every force that keeps you from God be separated from you.

FAITH CAPSULE: The purpose of the command is to love. 

1 Corinthians 13

One who does not know how to love does not know God.
God is love.
Love belongs to God.
Love is demonstrated by action but rooted in faith. 
The purpose of the command is to love. 
God gave His commandment so that love can exist among all. 
One who abstains from stealing, lying, or deceiving others testifies to God’s love.
The purpose of God:“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))
Before God, are you living life with love? 
In the world of selfishness, living as commanded to love is not possible.
Claiming to love without loving with a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith is empty love. 
In a world of self-centeredness, living in the love of God with sincere love is lacking.
Are you living as commanded by the word of God?
When the love of God is not in place, fulfilling God’s command to live becomes questionable. 
Paul the apostle identifies the importance of love in 1 Corinthians 13:1-3: “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.” 
Apostle Paul points out that a believer can demonstrate the gifts of God, such as speaking in tongues, prophesying, and reaching out to the needy, but yet not with love. 
All demonstration of love that is not rooted in the heart is empty and carries no weight before God. 
Many know about it but do not know how to live by the command to love.
Are you open to the word of God?
The word of God speaks to all the heart.
Are you demonstrating as a prophet but not evidence of loving in your way of life?
Matthew 7:22-23 records what to expect from the Lord at His appointed time, stating, “Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’” 
Today, look into the word of God; see your right or wrongdoing.
Live the life of the love of God.
Man can always deceive man, but not God.

Prayer for today: Ask that living by the word of God be established in your life.