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.

FAITH CAPSULE: When He calls you for His assignment, He will back you up and go before you.

Judges 6:11-40, 7

God is perfect to perform as He moves to, as the perfect creator.
1 Corinthians 1:20-25 recorded, “Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.” (1 Corinthians 1:20-25) 
God alone is perfect and makes foolish wisdom. 
He alone will turn weak to strength.
The story of Gideon is a testimony that God is not limited to calling whoever He chooses to use.
The father of Gideon is a Baal worshiper, but God called on Gideon to go and fight for the deliverance of His people.
When God moves to deliver, He will choose the least expected, the least qualified, or the least among the least to use for His deliverance assignment. 
When God is at work in the life of the called one, such nor any force will be able to work against the work of God.
Did He call on you? 
God called Gideon for the assignment of deliverance unto salvation, but he responded to God, “O my Lord, how can I save Israel? Indeed, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.” 16 And the LORD said to him, ‘Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat the Midianites as one man.’ 17 Then he said to Him, ‘If now I have found favor in Your sight, then show me a sign that it is You who talk with me.’” (Judges 6:15-17) 
Gideon wanted confirmation that God had called him for the assignment. Gideon repeatedly asked God in various ways to confirm the calling over his life.
God indeed assigned Gideon, a son of a Baal worshiper, to go and deliver His people from bondage. 
Has the Lord been calling you, but you are yet to accept because of your past, your background history? 
God called Gideon, and He backed Him up with power. 
When He calls you for His assignment, He will back you up and go before you. 
Gideon, with great fear, attempted not to answer the call, but God positioned him on the ground where he received every plan to go forward and be victorious to the glory of God. 

Prayer for today: Ask for boldness and power to move in the calling over your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Obedience is the password to opening the door of blessing.

Deuteronomy 28:1-14

Psalm 107:20 records the blessing in the word of God, “He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”  
The word of Jesus records, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.” (John 10:10) 
Indeed, Jesus, the living word of God, brought healing and deliverance that is evident in having life abundantly.
On every issue of life, one that walks His word, the word will work for such. 
The word of God is the power to deliver the blessing of God for one that will live life by the word of God.
Will you give life to live by the word of God?
The word of God comes with blessing but to gain and retain the blessing of God comes with a condition.
However, the condition to have the blessing of the word of God demands obedience. 
The word of God will not deliver a promise if there is a failure to obey. 
Obedience is the password to opening the door of blessing. 
The standard for obedience is unceasing and steady in obeying the word of God.
Before God, there is no half-obedience. 
Obeying the word of God will deliver such unnecessary, costly, and painful situations in the walk of life.
In life, many avenues lead to disobeying the word of God. 
Among many reasons for disobedience is pointed out in the book of Nehemiah 9:17, “They refused to obey, and they were not mindful of Your wonders that You did among them. But they hardened their necks, and in their rebellion…” 
The word of Nehemiah 9:17 refers to the children of Israel, but it also speaks to all today. 
The word of God identifies that disobedience is caused by not being mindful of the wonders of God.
The lack of mindfulness of the wonders of God leads to the hardness of the heart. 
The hardness of the heart will cause one not to live life by the word of God.
The word of God is a way, and the way is to gain and retain the presence of God.
A hardened heart lacks belief that denies one to gain the way.
Make it a way of life, live life by the word of God not to be a vessel of waste. 
The word of God is the source of faith, and when one does not believe in the word, having faith is not in place.
Are you a vessel with a hard of heart or a full-blown hardness of heart? 
Pray against having a hardened heart.
Have a desire for wisdom, knowledge, or understanding of the word of healing and deliverance. 
Take careful note the hardness of the heart is evidence of unbelief.

Prayer for today: Ask for deliverance from every spirit of the hardness of heart.

FAITH CAPSULE: Lack of fear of God gives way to sins and iniquities.

Genesis 19:1-29

The fear of God makes the difference between a believer and a non-believer. 
The fear of God is what makes one live life for God.
Without the fear of God, there is no living by the words of God. 
The ones that do not fear Him have it rooted in their heart, and the Psalmist states, “The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God” They are corrupt, they have done more abominable work, There is none who does good.” (Psalm 14:1) 
The foolishness of one is in the heart, while demonstration testifies to a lack of no fear of God. 
The wife of Lot was foolish in the heart.
The wife of Lot lacks fear for God by her demonstration of disobedience to the word of God.
The word records how God wanted to deliver Lot, his wife, and children from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, “…the Lord being merciful to him and they brought him out and set him outside the city. So it came to pass when they had brought them outside, that he said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.” (Genesis 19:16-17)
The wife of Lot looked back against the word of deliverance, and she became a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19:26)
The word of God is truth and never fails.
A true believer of God is with truth to possess all possession that is in place for every believer. 
One that does not live life for God does not have fear for God in the heart. 
The word of God is accurate, “The fear of the LORD leads to life, and he who has it will abide in satisfaction: he will not be visited with evil.” (Proverbs 19:23) 
The foolishness of the life of the wife of Lot was evidence of a lack of fear of God to become a victim of evil visitation.
Live life for God, fear God not to become one that demonstrates lying, deception, manipulation, corruption, abominations, and lack of any good that glorifies God. 
Fearing God should not be only of the mouth but with evidence, living life for God. 
Have you repeatedly confessed the fear of God with no integrity to back up your confession? 
Integrity counts before God, while noise-making does not count for living life before God. 
It is possible to have good intentions and not fear God. 
The race of life is not only about being good but about being righteous and living life before God through the blood of Jesus. 
A lack of fear of God shelters sins, and God does not overlook any sin. Let the fear of the Lord become conspicuous in your life, and be free from evil visitation.

Prayer for today: Ask God to give you one heart and one way to fear Him living life before Him.

FAITH CAPSULE: God wants His creation to move forward in life.

Genesis 11

The grace to see a new day or week, month or year is not a time of stagnation but to move forward, to grow by living life for God.
God is not a God of stagnation.
Are you experiencing stagnation in any area of your life that you know? 
What is causing you not to move forward?
Have you been staying so long and not recognizing moving forward or not?
God wants His creation to move forward in life.
Terah, the father of Abram, decided to move forward, but he settled for stagnation in his life journey. 
The word records, “And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. 32 So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.” (Genesis 11:31-32) 
The destination of Terah was Canaan, but when he came to Haran, he stagnated to spend two hundred and five years before he died.
The stopping of Terah at Haran was not to replace him from stepping forward.
Terah’s stepping forward from the Ur of the Chaldeans to the land of Canaan ended at Haran as his dwelling place. 
God, calling you out of bondage, did not design a place for you not to move forward as a dwelling place. 
God is a good God. 
Live life for God and move forward, not become a victim of stagnation.
Trust in God that the enemy is a failure.
God spoke to the concerning stagnation of the Israelites from the bondage of four hundred years in Deuteronomy 1:6, “The LORD our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain.’” 
Are you experiencing self-created stagnation while God is moving you in plans of going forward? 
God said to the children of Israel in Deuteronomy 1:7-8, “Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates. See, I have set the land before you; go in and possess the land which the LORD swore to your fathers—to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—to give to them and their descendants after them.” 
God told them to turn and take their journey forward. He also asked them to see what was in place for them. 
Faith demands children of Israel move from where they might have been in comfort to where God committed to taking them. 
Faith demands Israelites not make a dwelling place at stop-over. 
Faith also demands to see the promise of God and not submit to comfort in the place of commitment.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to see and live life by the word of God.