FAITH CAPSULE: Do not worry but worship God.

Psalm 27

Worshipping God with understanding is keeping self in a place to hide continuously.
Matthew 6:25 states, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?  
Worrying is rooted in trouble. 
With trouble comes distress, disturbance, or pain. 
Job is qualified to tell what it is when trouble comes. 
Job 3:26 states, “I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, for troubles come.” 
With trouble, not being at ease, not being in a state of mind, and lack of rest exist. 
Trouble, confusion, and making wrong decisions will have their way.
Trouble breeds worrying. 
King Herod was worried, and trouble had a place in his life at the announcement of the birth of Jesus. 
Matthew 2:1-3 records, “Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His Star in the East and have come to worship Him.” When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.”  
The trouble that came into the life of King Herod led him to make wrong and confusing decisions. 
Trouble is the root of wrong and a bad judgment or unwise decision making. 
Herod made an error in judgment and a wrong decision in his attempt to terminate the plan of God in Jesus.
The wicked decision of King Herod to terminate the divine plan of God brought to life the way and the infallible word of God to manifestation as it is written in Hosea 11:1, “When Israel was a child, I loved him, And out of Egypt I called My son.” 
The worrying trouble in King Herod brought confusion into his life to think he could terminate Jesus at birth.
Are you experiencing any worries that can cause you trouble in life?
Today, is there any sign of trouble in your life? 
Think of it, what is the root cause of your trouble? 
Is your trouble rooted in pride? 
Eliminate trouble, do not worry but worship God, a place to hide in times of challenge.
The Psalmist records, “For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; In the secret place of His tabernacle, He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock.” (Psalm 27:5). 
God is at work on behalf of all who seek refuge in times of trouble.
It is one with understanding to worship God that will find a place to hide in His pavilion.
God gives attention to His worshippers indeed and in truth.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to sincerely worship God in the place of worry. 

FAITH CAPSULE: God shall remember you with a name that glorifies Him over your life.

Acts 9

What are you called that does not testify to the glory of God over your life?
What is the name you are called instead of the name you want to live to in answering?
God, the unquestionable, the unchanging changer and able to reverse every irreversible shall remember with favor and visit with salvation.
God shall remember you with a name that glorifies Him over your life.
Elizabeth was her name, but the challenge of barrenness reversed her name to being BARREN.
Luke 1:36 records Elizabeth, “Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren.”  
Elizabeth was referred to BARREN until God visited her and she conceived a son. 
There is no one with the idea of what God wanted to do for Elizabeth while calling her barren. 
It was mockery upon Elizabeth by calling her barren, but God converted mockery to a miracle. She conceived at old age and gave birth to John the Baptist, the forerunner of Jesus. After Jesus, there was none like John in the bible days. 
God shall visit you the same way He visited Elizabeth to turn her story from mockery (barren) to a miracle for His glory.
BARTIMAEUS was called blind Bartimaeus until he had an encounter that Jesus reversed his irreversible.
Mark 10:46-47 records about BARTIMAEUS, “Now they came to Jericho. As He went out of Jericho with His disciples and a great multitude, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the road begging. And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”  
Blind Bartimaeus was the popular name for BARTIMAEUS.
The people knew BARTIMAEUS as Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, but they could not call him out without adding blind to his name. 
On his day of visitation, he disregarded many from keeping him quiet. Many warned him to be quiet, but he cried out even more until Jesus gave him the attention that reversed him from blind Bartimaeus to a follower of Jesus as the BARTIMAEUS.
What is the mark upon your life that is not of God?
What is it that is clouding your destiny?
What is the world calling you to color you with negativity in the place of positivity?
Whatever man calls you is the evidence of limited understanding about what God can do with your life. 
However, with understanding, get to know who you are in the God that reverses the irreversible.
God shall remember you with favor and shall visit you with salvation.
Be encouraged in the Lord God that can restore one to answer to the fulfillment of destiny in Christ Jesus by living for the glory of God. 

Prayer for today: Ask for the mercy of God not to keep you for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: See in the direction to avoid stagnation.

Genesis 11

Stagnation can be a lack of activity, growth, or development.
Stagnation can also be a state of not flowing or moving spiritually, emotionally, or physically.
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 that you are not moving forward?
God wants His creation to move forward in life.
Terah, the father of Abram, experienced stagnation in his journey in life.
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) 
Terah’s destination was Canaan, but when he came to Haran, he became stagnated to spend two hundred and five years before he died.
Haran was at the stop-over place for Teran, the evidence of stagnation that denied Teran his destination.
Stop-over in the journey of the life of Teran was not his should not be his dwelling place. 
The calling of God over your life out of bondage did not design a place for you not to move forward to a dwelling place. 
God is a good God. 
It is time for you to search the heart and step forward in the place of the plan of God for your life. 
Trust and hope in God to frustrate and make stagnation or termination of the enemy in your life journey.
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. 
Obedience to God demands faith.
With faith, the Israelites needed to come out of comfort to commit to denying stagnation as a dwelling place.
Commitment to the word of God is rooted in faith.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to see in His word not become a victim of stagnation.

FAITH CAPSULE: Time belongs to God, but the clock belongs to man to turn forward or backward.

1 Samuel 13

The appointed time of God is the fullness of His time.
Galatians 4:4 points out, “But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman…”
God has made everything beautiful in its time, not a clock made by man.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 records, “He has made everything beautiful in its time…”
Time of God is the reason to trust and hope in Him as Psalm 62:8 admonishes all, “Trust in Him at all times…” 
Do not count on the time of man.
Pray to know and be resting in the time of God.
NOT CLOCK BUT TIME BELONG TO GOD
The clock is the invention of man that will tempt the intervention of the timing of God for self-ambitions. 
Time belongs to God for man to be mindful of God but not possible to interrupt the timing of the doing of God.
Any attempt to interrupt the time of God will set one for self-destruction.
Wait on the time of God, watching and praying to arrive at the appointed time of God. 
Mark 13:33 warns, “Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.”
The timing of God is perfect it comes with a schedule that no man can change.
The time of God is beautiful.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-3 records some of the characters of the time:
“To everything, there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, And a time to die; A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted; A time to kill, And a time to heal; A time to break down, And a time to build up.”
The ability not to miss out on the plan of God is to know waiting on God at all times for all things.
At the time of the war of the Israelites with the Philistines, Prophet Samuel directed King Saul to wait for seven days for a burnt offering, but King Saul violated the timing as commanded.
1 Samuel 13:5-8 documents the violation of Saul:
“Then the Philistines gathered together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. And they came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth Aven. 6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in danger (for the people were distressed), then the people hid in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in holes, and in pits. 7 And some of the Hebrews crossed over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead.
As for Saul, he was still in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling. 8Then he waited seven days, according to the time set by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattered from him.
Time matters to walk in line with the direction of God.  

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to wait for the time of God.

Faith Capsule: Do not misplace focus on God to deny fear of the confronting challenges.

Exodus 14

One that cannot see deliverance in the word of God denies self from gaining the intervention of God.
To become worried and troubled in the face of challenge is the evidence of not looking up to the help of God. 
When keeping eyes on confronting challenges, one will misplace focus on God. 
Are you beholding your challenge or looking up to God?
The looking away from God by the Israelites challenges records in  
Exodus 14:10-12, “And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord. Then they said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to bring us up out of Egypt? Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? 
For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.” 
Does that sound like you? 
The Israelites knew fully well that God would not fail to deliver them, but they gave themselves into fear.
The Israelites could not lift their eyes to God for help but gave themselves to negative confession.
The solution to challenges demands focusing on God by keeping His proven word, His word that is perfect to perform. 
Despite all the powerful teachings of Jesus against fear and worrying, the disciples locked themselves up in fear of the Jews.
John 20:19 records, “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.”  While the disciples were locked up in a state of fear, Jesus showed up and declared peace.
Jesus, the Word of God, is the Prince of peace. 
One that will look up to Jesus as Lord and Savior, Jesus is always around to uphold such.     
Faith in Jesus will cause peace to reign.  
Jesus spoke peace into the life of His disciple to see the mark of crucifixion. 
John 20:20 states, “When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.”  Seeing the mark opened up the disciples to come out of fear. 
Begin to see the marks of crucifixion and believe that marks were registered on Jesus for all to have life abundantly. 
When faith is activated, fear will not have a place.
The challenges of the word will not have a place in one with faith in God.

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to be bold and have a character in His word in the face of world challenges.