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.

FAITH IS WAITING 

FAITH CAPSULE: Have faith to wait by asking without a doubt to gain from God.

Psalm 91

Asking, seeking, and knocking for the intervention of God is waiting to get an open-door answer. 
God is a good God that cares for His creation. 
Isaiah 64:4 testifies, “For since the beginning of the world men has not heard nor perceived by the ear; nor has the eye seen any God besides You, who acts for the one who waits for Him.” 
To wait is asking, seeking, and knocking the evidence of having understanding and knowledge of God.
Are you one that assumes or with assurance for getting an answer in times of challenges? 
God is a caring God who acts for the one who waits for Him. 
Jesus buttresses, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” (Matthew 7:7) 
“And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” (Matthew 21:22)
Waiting by asking, seeking, and knocking is the key to receiving from God. However, waiting for that is not rooted in understanding that God hears all and answers all at His appointed time will lead to frustration. 
Frustration can lead to rebellion rooted in disobedience.
Psalm 91:15 encourages, “He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.” 
Knowing to call on Him will provoke His hand for an undeniable miracle because He is God that is true to His word. 
The book of Isaiah 58:9 also confirms the faithfulness of God, “Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am…’”
Understand, know to wait as David testifies, 1 Samuel 22:4, “I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies.” 
It is the heart that trusts to remember calling amid troubling challenges. 
King David was an example of one with understands to wait and not go to war without looking up to seek the face of God. Twice in 1 Samuel 23, verses 2 and 4, he repeatedly inquired from God before going to war against the Philistines. 
The Israelites cried in the bondage of over four hundred years, “And the LORD said: ‘I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians…” (Exodus 3:7-8) 
God is consistent, and He will not fail in honoring His word; do not fail to wait in asking, seeking, and knocking. 
Look up and ask Him.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you with the strength to focus on waiting to receive from Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: Knowing that God knows all and He deserves to call on Him in all.

Genesis 11:1-9

God alone knows more about all because He alone created all. 
For God, no qualified doctor received a contract to help God in creating anyone. 
God alone is the perfect God of creation. 
God knows all about all.
The word of God to Jeremiah testifies to the truth that God knows all about all.
Jeremiah 1:5 records, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you; before you were born, I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”  
The word of God to Jeremiah speaks to all without any exception. 
God alone knows the beginning to the end of everyone.
Whatever God proposes, no one can dispose of it. 
What God disposes of, no man can propose it.
What are you proposing without asking God? 
Knowing that He knows all, it is good to call on Him for all. 
Think and know that it does not matter what you are, who you are, or where you are. 
However, remember that all are under heaven and not beyond the reach of the One and only eternal creator. 
In the Bible days, people failed to propose before God, having intention when they said, “Come let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.’” (Genesis 11:4) 
The proposed building was not the problem, but the motive behind the proposal conflicted with the Almighty God of creation. 
Having been blessed with plain land, with no obstruction, for construction, the people wanted to construct and grow beyond their boundaries. 
Are you proposing on your own to misposition the blessing of God by attempting to make yourself a name, not having God to be glorified?
Do you want to stand tall above and know better than your creator? 
Consciously or unconsciously, are you considering or with an attempt to raise your shoulder above your head? 
Have you taken all proposed to God? 
Nothing is wrong when proposing to grow in the blessings of God.
A proposal that does not center on God is an indirect withdrawal from the only One who can make or unmake the fulfillment of the proposal. 
It does not matter how huge or small you propose but let it be in prayer before God. 
Let it be that you are letting Him know what He knows before you know. 
He has seen the future from the past. 
He is a jealous God, and He deserves all your attention so He can attend to you even more than you expect. 
Take all your proposals, desires, hopes, and dreams to the Lord with a humble heart, and He will increase you as He pleases.

Prayer for today: Ask to be praising God continually with all your heart.

FAITH CAPSULE: Trust in God that your present location shall experience change for the better. 

Exodus 16:1-19

Psalm 103:7 records, “…He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel. 
The ways of God and the acts of God are evidence of His power. 
The ways and acts of God are a testimony for all to trust the hand of God. When there is truth, there should be a reason to trust the promises of God. 
The children of Israel knew for sure that they were on a journey to the Promised Land. 
Without a doubt, the Promised Land waited for the arrival of the Israelites because God promised the Israelites of giving them the Promised Land.
Along the promise of God is the appointed time that will work with one that does not walk where to run or run where to walk.
Taking to the right to claim the promise of God is waiting on God unfailingly.
Despite all, they could not rest in the truth, the promises of God. 
The Israelites saw the great hand of God at work but could not confide that He that began a good thing shall take them to an expected end. 
God made known His ways to Moses and His acts to the children of Israel, yet they could not retain to maintain an expectation of getting to the Promised Land. 
Like the Israelites, are you busy complaining about where you are now? 
It does not matter where you are now but it counts on how you live with expectations for the promise of God.
The children of Israel lost touch and could not hold on to the hand of God that brought them out of the bondage of over four hundred years. 
The Bible states, “They soon forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel, but lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert.” (Psalm 106:13-14)
Does it sound like your story? 
Determination will fail you, but remember that you are on a journey by God, and God has given you all that is needed to go through your journey. By God, the children of Israel had what was necessary to arrive at the Promised Land, but they could not wait for His counsel.
God put in place good food, but they could not stop asking for tasty food. Exodus 16:3 document, “And the children of Israel said to them, ‘Oh, that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and when ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.’” 
Trust in God that your present location or challenging situation will soon change for the better. 
You will eat better food than what you have missed. 
Trust in Him; He will take you to your expected end. 
Know to accept what God has put in place for you to get to the expected end.

Prayer for today: Ask for the help of God to become established over life.

 FAITH CAPSULE: Hiding the miracle of God is not the best way of moving forward.

Luke 8:26-48

In all that God has done, are you trying to hide or be silent about all?
To be quiet when He visits your situation is disclaiming Him ignorantly. 
There can never be enough tongue to proclaim what He has done or doing in your life. 
Gain an understanding know that ignorant makes destitute of a believer.
The woman with the issue of blood (after twelve years of agony) quietly received her healing when she touched the edge of the garment of Jesus.
Jesus knew power left Him when she touched Him. 
Jesus asked who had touched Him, but the woman tried to hide as stated in Luke 8:47, “Now when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling; and falling down before Him, she declared to Him in the presence of all the people the reason she had touched Him and how she was healed immediately.” 
The woman with the issue of blood touched Jesus, got healed, and wanted to hide evidence of not wanting to give testimony to the glory of God. 
The word testifies that everywhere going of Jesus was doing good. 
He was, He is Almighty healer and deserves to be highly exalted. The Bible talks about the trip of Jesus to Gadarenes, “Then they sailed to the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee. And when He stepped out on the land, there met Him a certain man from the city who had demons for a long time. And he wore no clothes, nor did he live in a house but in the tombs. When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before Him, and with a loud voice said, “What have I to do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You, do not torment me!” (Luke 8:26-28)
Jesus cast out the demons, and the man begged Him that he might go with Him. 
Jesus commanded him, “Return to your own house, and tell what great things God has done for you.” And he went his way and proclaimed throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.” (Luke 8:39) 
Jesus visited a man with healing, and he became an evangelist as he went and proclaimed Jesus. 
The healed man by Jesus could not hide from what Jesus did in his life. 
The man formerly possessed by demons could not be quiet but proclaimed Jesus.
Jesus was and is the Almighty healer that deserves to be highly exalted.
What has He done for you lately that you are yet to tell others about His doing in your life?
Hiding the miracle of God is not the best way of moving forward.
He deserves proclamation for all He is doing in your life. 
Regardless of the magnitude of what he has done, let others around you know that God is still in the business of miracles. 
Someone needs to be encouraged today. 
Be blessed by proclaiming Him. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to give you the grace to become positioned for His blessing.