FAITH CAPSULE: Trust and hope testify to boldness and character.

Acts 16

As an acclaimed believer, having boldness and character will carry the mark of a winning combination.
Paul and Silas demonstrated a life of boldness and character.
One with trust and hope in the truth of God shall live life for the glory of God as having boldness and character.
Paul commanded a spirit out of a girl to affect the profit of the masters. Paul and Silas were seized and dragged to jail. (Acts 16:19)
While at midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, a great earthquake broke the prison, with chains loosed. 
Paul and Silas did not flee but waited and spoke a word that gave salvation to the hearers and led a family to baptism. 
Trust and hope demonstrated by Paul and Silas testifies to their boldness and character.
Without a doubt, the word of God is the truth. 
Jesus is the word of God. 
Do you know the truth?
Are you abiding in the word? 
To abide in the word is to know the truth. 
Knowing the truth is the key, but knowing about completes not. 
Abide in the word like Paul and Silas, the evidence that you know the truth, to be free.
In the wicked world, get to know the truth about trust and hope in the Lord and be free.
In this world, let trust and hope in the Lord be complete in you, which is the position to be blessed by God.
Jeremiah 17:7 buttresses, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is in the Lord.”
Are you claiming trust without hope?
Claiming trust in the Lord is not complete without having hope in Him. 
Do you trust and not hope? 
Trust is like a character, while hope is confidence (boldness). 
Many trusts in God, and for example, they are active in the church and lack hope for the boldness to stand and claim in God. 
Trust is like a character; Hope (confidence) is like boldness. 
Do you have trust and hope, boldness, and character? 
It is boldness and character that make one free, having the mark of a winner.
King Saul trusted God and waited for seven days as commanded by Samuel. However, when all his people were scattered, he lost hope and had no confidence in the word of God by the prophet Samuel. 
Saul trusted to wait but had no hope to stand, wait through for God, and could not be free but lost. (1 Samuel 13)  
As an acclaimed believer, with trust and hope, the truth of the word of God will make one a free indeed.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to grow in trust and hope in His word.

FAITH CAPSULE: In your heart, what are you thinking or asking?

Proverb 4 

It is not rocket science to know that what you are thinking or asking will match what you are experiencing or going to experience in life.
In your heart, what are you thinking or asking that is related to the issues of life?
How you take charge of your heart will lead you through the issues of life. The word of God in Proverb 4:23 warns, “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.”
All should keep heart to experience deliverance from thinking or asking wrongly.
What is the condition of your heart to determine what you are thinking or asking?
Luke 6:45 admonishes, “A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.”
Give self to the word of God, not just for memorization for declaration of the word of God, but for meditation as decoration to navigate without falling into the issues of life.
What are you thinking or asking that you speak out before God?
On the journey of the Israelites to the Promised Land, their thinking and asking were negative. 
God heard the Israelites, and they became terminated not to arrive at the Promised Land. 
Numbers 14:28 records and respond to the negative confession of the Israelites, “…As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you.” 
There is no excuse to be asking for an error before God.
Ecclesiastes 5:6 warns against excuses for error, “Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger of God that it was an error. Why should God be angry at your excuse and destroy the work of your hands?” 
As an acclaimed believer, know the truth (John 8:32) not to count on error, but to keep your heart diligent from thinking or saying what is wrong in the hearing of God.
As an acclaimed believer, get to know that the power of God that you carry will not fail to answer to your thinking or what you are asking. Ephesians 3:20 states, “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.”
In life, nothing is hidden from God and is the reason why thinking or asking becomes a confession that is negative or positive.
All should be thinking or asking positively, avoid negative confession, and know that God is hearing!

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable His word to abundantly occupy your heart, so that you shall not become a victim of negative confession in thinking and asking before God.

FAITH CAPSULE: God does not forget but remembers.

John 20:19-31

Psalm 106:4 records, “Remember me, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people. Oh, visit me with Your salvation.”
What one asks is desires, and God deposits to gain desires.
The word of God encourages asking to receive. (Matthew 7:7)
This day, ask that God remember you with favor and visit you with salvation.
God does not forget but remembers, reverses irreversible challenges, and visits with salvation.
When God remembers to open one up, He will visit to unlock such from self-locked by lack of understanding or one locked up by evil.
The disciples of Jesus walked with Him, dined with Him, sat around Him, and listened to His word to know and understand what was to happen but not understand His word. 
After His crucifixion, they locked themselves in fear of the wicked ones despite His spoken word for them before His crucifixion.
Jesus remembered them to visit them. As they assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst and spoke peace to them. (John 20:19)
Jesus repeatedly remembered His disciples and visited them with salvation while they self-locked up because of fear.
Thomas, a disciple, asked for the signs of proof of the crucifixion to believe Jesus.
Jesus responded to Thomas, “Jesus said to him, “Thomas because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” (John 20:29) 
The response of Jesus to Thomas speaks to all acclaimed believers.
The disciples, acclaimed believers, lack the understanding to be free, the evidence of a lack of faith and not knowing the truth of God.
The grace, the mercy of God, remembers with favor and visit with salvation not to be a victim of fear that terminates calling over the life of called ones.
Are you one that is self-locked up by the fear of the wicked, militating force against your life consciously or unconsciously?
Turn to God, calling for Him to remember you with favor and visit you with salvation, not become a victim of fear of the wicked world. 
Do you believe in Jesus?
Will you believe in Him with a desire for Him to remember you with favor and visit you for salvation?  
The word of God encourages, “but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.” (John 20:31)
The word of God is written not for decoration but as a declaration to be engaged by all. 
Romans 15:4 buttresses, “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.”
The word of God does not return to Him void.
With understanding, give yourself to the word of God continually, expecting Him to remember you with favor and visit you with salvation.

Prayer for today: Ask that you will live life for God to experience His presence by Him remembering you.  

FAITH CAPSULE: A believer is living by the word, not of the world of wicked.

Jeremiah 12

What kind of a believer are you?
Is there any wickedness in you?
Before God, the wicked one is near in the mouth but far in the heart. (Jeremiah 12:1-2) 
Does the word speak to you? 
Are you claiming not to be a wicked one? 
King David did not assume but renewed before God not to live a life of waste as a wicked one.
David states, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.” (Psalm 139:10)
Ask not to be a wicked one.
Seek God with the desire to be led in the way everlasting like David asked.  
The character of all cannot be deceived before God but will deceive man.
All shall not deceive self, but all shall submit before God and come out of what is not positive before God.
A believer is living by the word of God.
Are you living by the word of God or living by the world?
The word of God is the work of God.
John 6:28 records the question before Jesus, “Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?”
The answer of Jesus points out to be a believer stating, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” (John 6:29)
A believer is to live life by the word of God, not to be a wicked one.
A believer should answer what Jesus calls for in the life of one.
Jesus did not suggest but called a believer as salt and light of the world.
Are you what a believer should be?
BELIEVER AS SALT
As a believer, salt of the earth, you are quiet in your work for God with the excuse of not wanting to offend anyone by what they believe. 
Is that you? 
How can it be that food coming out of the kitchen with salt should be tasteless? 
Jesus said, “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men” (Matthew 5:13). 
Pray not to be the salt that is not effective but lost its purpose.
BELIEVER AS LIGHT
The word of God speaks to believers, “You are the light of the world…” (Matthew 5:14)
Where is the light?
What kind of light are you?
The word is not suggesting for believers to answer as the light of the world but identifies that light should be the identity of believers.
As a believer, can you answer as the light of the world?
Believers crowd churches, but darkness clouds the world.
Where is the light while wickedness clouds the world?
Sincerely, search for yourself to identify the kind of believer you are.
Pray to live life as the light of the world.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to be living life as called by God.

FAITH CAPSULE: All should open for the entrance of the word of God.

John 1:1-18

With no exception, the need in this wicked world of darkness is to have the light of God.
What is the light of God?
To understand what is the light of God, John 8:12 records, “Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” 
The recording in John 9:5 emphasizes the truth that Jesus is the light, saying, “As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
Why not give self to the light of God?
To gain the light of God is not by force. 
One that accepts the light of God will not stumble in darkness.
John 11:10 admonishes, “But if one walks in the night, he stumbles because the light is not in him.”
Is it your desire to give yourself to the light of God?
Give yourself to the light for your deliverance and preservation. 
One with an opening for the light of God is set for the life journey not to be a victim of a wicked world.
Psalm 119:130 testifies, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.” 
One with the light of God shall live with understanding not to fall.
With understanding, gain knowledge to expect deliverance and preservation in the hand of God.
Job 3:23 records, “Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?”
With the light of God is with the hand of God that will hedge one that accepts the light of God.
Have you accepted the light of God?
In the light of God is the hand of God that is certain to keep one having the light of God.
The testimony of Job is the reason to accept the light of God.
Call on God for His hand as a hedge against the evil occurrence.
Job 1:6-10 documents the testimony of Job
“Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them. And the Lord said to Satan, “From where do you come?”

So, Satan answered the Lord and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it.” Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil? “So, Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing? Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.”
All should be open up to accept the word of God that gives light to deliver and preserve from evil.

Prayer for today: Ask God for His word to gain entrance into your life.