FAITH CAPSULE: Know to receive and believe the Word of God.

2 Kings 5

The Word of God is the power to heal.
There is the direction to receive and believe the power of the Word of God.   
Naaman, a commander of the army of the king of Syria, had leprosy and could not receive and believe the Word of God as directed to experience healing. 
Elisha, the Prophet of God, told Naaman to go and wash in the Jordan seven times for the cleansing of his leprosy, but he refused and could not accept the direction for his healing instead, “Naaman became furious, and went away and said, “Indeed, I said to myself, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leprosy.’” (2 Kings 5:11) Naaman refused to do as directed.
Learn not to deny your timely deliverance by not receiving to believe the Word of God. 
Psalm 107:20 records the activity of the Word of God, “He sent His word and healed them and delivered them from their destructions.” 
What is denying you or discouraging you from giving yourself to the Word of God?
The Word of God is the same and has not changed from the beginning of time. John 1:1-3 records the description of the Word of God, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him, nothing was made that was made.”  
The Word of God will terminate a challenge in the life of one that receives and believes in the Word of God.
Know to receive and believe the Word of God!
When Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, pleading with Him for healing on behalf of his servant that was lying sick and paralyzed.
Jesus responded with His plan to go to the house of the centurion. 
The centurion answered Jesus, “Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed.” (Matthew 8:8) 
Eventually, the centurion received and believed the Word of God for the healing of his servant. 
The Word of God is to terminate a challenge for anyone that can receive, to believe in healing and deliverance. 
Naaman delayed with disobedience but eventually responded to the healing direction in the Word of God. 2 Kings 5:14 records, “So he went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.”
Are you delaying your healing deliverance? 
Do not delay by denying the entrance of the Word of God to work for you.

Prayer for today: Ask from God that you will know to receive and believe the Word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: It is possible to run but not hide from the calling of God.

Exodus 13

God is the creator of all, and none belong to self but belongs to God Almighty.
God created all as Revelation 4:11 mentions, “You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will, they exist and were created.” To be alive is not by right but by the privilege of God. 
The privilege of God to be alive is with the purpose of God.
The purpose of God defines His calling assignment over your life.
Have you received the calling of God?
Are you running away from the calling of God?
One can indeed run from the calling of God, but hiding from God is impossible.
The calling assignment of God for all is different from one another.
Do you know the calling of God over your life?
1 Thessalonians 5:24 admonishes the calling of God, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”
Answering the calling of God according to His assignment should not be a failure.
The calling of God will relocate one from comfort to commitment to the glory of God.
In the calling of God, the provision of God that is in place for the obedient one shall not derail to arrive at the center of the assignment of God.
Also, answering the calling of God will not escape challenges, but deliverance from challenges shall come to be.
Psalm 34:19 encourages, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.”
Affliction is a challenge, but know that the promise of God answers for deliverance.
In your answering to the calling of God, activate to become endured as Hebrews 10:36 encourages all, “For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.” 
It is the will of God for all to arrive at His calling. 
Are you with the desire to live life by the will of God?
One with a desire for God shall experience the doing of God and not fail before God. 
The documentation of Abraham coming out of his country is the will of God. Abraham answered the calling of God.
The will of God for Abraham was for Abraham to be a great nation, a great name, and a blessing. (Genesis 12: 1-2) 
The will of God for Abraham is for him not to fail as he obeyed.
Take note that where there is a will for a child of God, there will always be a way to get through when one answers obediently. 
Give yourself to answer the calling of God with endurance and not to fail, and God will back you up.

Prayer for today: Ask God to open your ears and eyes to His calling for your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: From henceforth, begin to do good for the glory of God.

2 Kings 4:8-17

One doing good is investing for the self to be in the position to experience the visitation of God. 
Always know to do good when the situation demands doing good.
James 4:17 encourages the reason to do know to do good, “Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.” 
One that knows to do good but not to do good gives self to sin.
Doing good is among the fruit of the spirit. Galatians 5:22 states, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.” Romans 12:9, “…Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.” 1 Thessalonians 5:15, “See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all.” 2 Thessalonians 3:13, “But as for you, brethren, do not grow weary in doing good.” Hebrews 13:16, “But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.”
Give yourself to investing good at all times to reap from the visitation of God.
From henceforth, begin to do good for the glory of God.
Doing good from the depth of heart will provoke caring with a glaring action.
It is worth doing good by acting with care to gain the attention of God.
A Shunammite invested going good to the prophet God to gain the visitation of God.
2 Kings 4:9-10 records the doing of the Shunammite woman, “And she said to her husband, ‘Look now, I know that this is a holy man of God who passes by us regularly. Please, let us make a small upper room on the wall; and let us put a bed for him there, and a chair and a lampstand; so it will be, whenever he comes to us, he can turn in there.’” 
The Shunammite woman made life comfortable for the man of God.
The man of God did not look away but acknowledged the Shunamite woman by sending his servant, “…Say now to her, ‘“Look, you have been concerned for us with all this care. What can I do for you? Do you want me to speak on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?”’ (2 Kings 4:13) 
Elisha later realized the bareness of the Shunamite woman and eventually prayed over her life in 2 Kings 3:16, “About this time next year, you shall embrace a son.”
The Shunammite woman invested in doing good in the name of God and was able to reap to receive the blessing of the womb. 
The Shunamite woman became a mother in the old age of her husband.
Truly one that knows to do good will reap from the blessing of God.
Know to be doing good to experience the move of God over your life.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you to be doing good all the days of your life.

 FAITH CAPSULE: Listen to the direction of God first and foremost to avoid failure.

1 Samuel 16

God is not a careless God to send or call with accuracy.
When God calls you for His assignment, no one shall be able to offset one that listens to gain unfailing understanding.
Have you looked ahead before listening to move for God?
Know to listen before looking outside of the direction of God.
Samuel, a prophet of God, wrongly looked before listening for the direction of God.  
God sent Samuel to anoint David as a king of the Israelites after King Saul disobeyed the word of God. 
At the arrival of Samuel at Jesse, the Bethlehemite, he looked for David instead of listening to look for David.
In your assignment of God, are you looking before listening to deliver as directed by God?
In every direction of God, it is an error to look before listening.
1 Samuel 16:6 records, “So it was, when they came, that he looked at Eliab and said, “Surely the LORD’s anointed is before Him!”  
When God sends you, listen for His specific direction before looking. Samuel did not wait when he attempted to make a wrong selection for God, he looked, but David was not in sight. 
1 Samuel 16:7 states the response of God to Samuel when he looked before listening, “But the Lord said to Samuel, do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
Always listen to God before moving by your look (by what you see). 
When God sends you, allow Him to be in charge because He is the God that calls you, and you do not give a call to yourself. 
After the error of Samuel, by looking at their physical appearance, he responded to God to move by listening for the direction of God. 
Samuel saw all the children of Jesse but could not complete the assignment because David, the king after Saul, was absent. 
Samuel knew that God did not make any selection among the children of Jesse that was on location.
Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and bring him, for we will not sit down till he comes here.” (1 Samuel 16:11b) 
David was called, not on location, but none of his brothers could replace him from the calling of God.
Your calling in life shall not elude you. 
In the absence of David, at the waiting of others for his arrival, all remained standing. 
Today, all that belongs to you by the appointment of God shall wait to manifest.
The direction of God for you shall not fail.
Where ever you are or whatever the situation on the ground is, the calling of God shall always wait for you. 
The calling over for David waited for his arrival. 
Regardless of your surrounding struggle, you shall settle in the calling of God over your life.

Prayer for today: Ask that you shall live life to the glory of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Gain understanding not to be a fool.

2 Kings 7:1-20

Understand and know to confess positively to experience the consequence of confession.
Truly understanding is a wellspring of life to one who has it. (Proverbs 16:22) 
Consider the importance of having a listening ability to have understanding and not live as a potential fool. 
Proverbs 18:7 informs, “A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.”  
Evidently, by the word of God, the mouth can indeed lead to destruction, but understanding can lead one mouth not to experience destruction.
Ask that you gain the understanding rooted in listening.
Proverbs 13:3 warns, “He who guards his mouth preserves his life, but he who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.” 
Take note and know that understanding will cause the mouth to preserve life. 
With understanding, are you taking charge of your mouth not to react negatively to troubling challenges or confess negatively in the place of positive?
For example, during the time of the prophet of God, Elisha, a severe famine reduced the land to a place of lack. 
While the shortage of needs was rampant across the land, “Then Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD. Thus says the LORD: ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.’” (2Kings 7:1) 
In response to the word of Elisha, with doubt, one of the officers of Elisha responded negatively to question Elisha by asking how a breakthrough be possible in the face of severe famine. 
The officer was without understanding and failed to control his mouth by stating negative but took the place of a fool. 
The officer foolishly responded to the prophecy of Elisha speaking out of his mouth with a lack of understanding, “…Look, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, could this thing be (2 Kings 7:2)?” 
Imagine the demonstration of a lack of understanding that caused doubt from the officer.
Do you doubt what God can do? 
Can you imagine yourself waking up in plenty, not in a place of lack? 
With understanding, if you know that God is still on the throne, then believe that miracle is not beyond God. 
Just as Elisha has said, the officer saw with his eyes but could not touch. 2 Kings 7:20 records the end of the officer, “And so it happened to him, for the people trample him in the gate, and he died.” 
God opened the window of plenty; the lack no longer exists. 
The officer had no control of his mouth confessed negative, and destruction became his portion.
Jesus was pointing out the possibility of God when He states, “…With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” (Matthew 19:26) With understanding, know to be in charge of your mouth with a confession.
With your positive confession over the negative, the possibility in the place of impossibility is not beyond God to answer for you.

Prayer for today: Ask that you gain the understanding rooted in listening.