FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God is strength, secret to keep from the wicked world.

Judges 16

The testimonies of God are His testimonies.
The word of God is His secret.
The word of God is His strength.
When His word locates one, it becomes a portion of such not to become a failure answering to assignment in the word of God.
When the parent of Samson was barren, the word of God that is strength, secret, came to the parents of Samson (Manoah and his wife) as Judges 13:2-5 records, “Now there was a certain man from Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had no children. And the Angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Indeed now, you are barren and have borne no children, but you shall conceive and bear a son. Now, therefore, please be careful not to drink wine or similar drink, and not to eat anything unclean. For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. And no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”
The word of God for Samson was a secret to avoid failure in the assignment of God over his life. 
The wife of Samson (Delilah) knows about the strength of Daniel, but she does not know the secret of his God as the strength. 
Judges 16:6 records, “So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and with what you may be bound to afflict you.”
Just like Samson, are you one with the word of God (strength) to be kept as a secret?
Samson did not keep the word of God a secret from God but revealed it to the enemy of his life.
Judges 16:15-17 documents how Delilah pressed Samson to reveal the secret of his strength: “Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and have not told me where your great strength lies.” And it came to pass when she pestered him daily with her words and pressed him, so that his soul was vexed to death, that he told her all his heart, and said to her, “No razor has ever come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaven, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.”
Are you keeping testimony of God, His strength, His secret not to become a failure in answering the calling of God?
Learn the testimony of Samson, know to be keeping the word of God as the secret for your strength.
Do not become a victim of the wicked world.

Prayer for today: Ask God to order your mind not to become a victim of the wicked world.

FAITH CAPSULE: What are you asking God to do for you?

Joshua 1

God is a giver to do for one with a desire to receive from Him.
Matthew 7:7-9 records the encouraging word of God for one with a desire to gain from God, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks, it will be opened. 9 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?”
What is your desire to be established in your life?
With a desire, ask to be occupied by the presence of God. 
PRAY BEFORE GOD:
Ask for the presence of God to occupy you.
God is a prayer-answering, caring father.
Revelation 3:20 records the caring of God wanting to enter, to occupy anyone with the desire for His presence, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come into him and dine with him, and he with Me.”
Are you with a desire to be occupied by God?
Psalm 119:130 identifies one with a desire to be occupied by the presence of God shall experience the entrance of God into the life of such states, “The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.”
The word of God is God. (John 1:1)
God is light. (1 John 1:5)
Ask God to occupy you, that His presence shall take over your life.
Proverbs 6:22 records what to experience when occupied, “When you roam, they will lead you; When you sleep, they will keep you; And when you awake, they will speak with you.”
Know God, a position to be occupied by His presence.
One that knows to gain and maintain communication with God meditates continually, keeping the presence of God day and night.
God told Joshua, “No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you.” (Joshua 1:5)
God with one is the evidence of one that carries the presence of God.
The word of God testifies that He was with Moses.
Moses meditates the word of God day and night. 
Like Moses, Joshua also receives a command to meditate, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” (Joshua 1:8)
What are you asking God to do for you? 
Think and know to ask from God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to live by the word of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Embrace the hand of God and not miss His promise.

Deuteronomy 1:1-22

God shall see you through. 
God is a faithful God; lying is not in His character; deception does not have a place in Him or before Him.
Whatever God says He will do is a done deal. 
God is faithful to His Word. 
Jeremiah 29:11 records, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not evil, to give you a future and a hope.” 
God that promises will purposely build one and not turn around to pull such down. 
The children of Israel had deliverance from the bondage of over four hundred years, evidence of God as a mighty Deliverer. 
The hand of God was carrying the Israelites to fulfill the possibility of His plan (Promised Land) as the Israelites constantly folded up their hands not to receive and embrace the hands of God.
The folded hands of the Israelites were rooted in sin, not to embrace the deliverance hand of God.
Moses encouraged the Israelites, “Look, the LORD your God has set the land before you: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of your father has spoken to you; do not fear or be discouraged” (Deuteronomy 1:21) 
The response of the Israelites to the encouragement of Moses was in vain.
They had a different mindset about getting to their Promise Land. 
They did not take to heart the word of Moses, the mouthpiece of God. Physically, the children of Israel were nearer to the Promised Land but far in the heart not to claim the promise of God. 
As the Israelites were supposed to be looking up to God, they turned to look at their challenges. 
In the life journey, a challenge to claim the promise of God can be a distraction in life.
Without a doubt, distraction will deny, delay, destroy, and not claim the promise of God.
Why not unfold your hand to embrace the hand of God to carry you and see you through? 
Continually engage the word of God.
Always confess positive in the face of challenge.
Do not look away from the promise of God not to miss out on the promise of God.
The Israelites did not respond to the direction of Moses that states, “Let us send men before us, and let them search out the land for us, and bring back word to us of the way by which we should go up, and of the cities into which we shall come (Deuteronomy1:22).”
The plan and direction of God were to take the Israelites to their Promised Land without giving attention to the world.
Has the Lord God spoken and not come to pass? 
Allow God to take you through just as He promised.

Prayer for today: Ask that the mercy of God shall answer for you not to miss out on the promise of God.

FAITH CAPSULE: A lie of years is exposing able in a day.

2 Kings 5, Acts 5:1-11

There is no small lie or big lie.
A liar is a deceiver, a manipulator. 
Have you been getting away with lying or perfecting and deceiving others for so long?
Have you convinced yourself that lying and deceiving others is not of God? 
Lying and deceiving can be destructive to the one telling lies as a way of life.
To be telling lies to deceive others reigns outside of the church or inside of the church. Acts 5:1-2 records, “But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession. And he kept back part of the proceeds, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.” 
There is no indication that Ananias and Sapphira had to sell their possessions, and it was a demonstration of a voluntary move to sell their possessions. 
So, why lie? 
Are you a believer that will lie, fake, or deceive to get attention or to impress fellow believers? 
In life, every conduct of man is not hidden from God but accountable before God. 
Peter knew that Ananias and Sapphira were lying, faking, and deceiving. The Bible records, “But Peter said, ‘Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself?’” (Acts 5:4) 
What is worth doing for the Lord is worth doing truthfully in truth. 
Ananias and his wife might have engaged with good intentions but lying as their garment exposed them naked and set them away from the presence of God. 
The Bible states in Acts 5:5, “Then Ananias hearing these words fell down and breathed his last. So great fear came upon all those who heard these things.” 
Lying to deceive others took the life of Ananias and Sapphira. 
After the healing of Naaman, Elisha refused to accept gifts from Naaman. Without any direction from Elisha, Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, deceitfully went after Naaman to tell lies, “My master sent me to say, ‘Two young men from the company of the prophets have just come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two sets of clothing.’” (2 Kings 5:22) 
Gehazi accepted a gift from Naaman outside of the direction of Elisha. Elisha knew about doing Gehazi.
Elisha responded to the deceptiveness of Gehazi, “…was not my spirit with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to take money or to accept clothes—or olive groves and vineyards, or flocks and herds, or male and female slaves? Naaman’s leprosy will cling to you and to your descendants forever.” Then Gehazi went from Elisha’s presence and his skin was leprous—it had become as white as snow.” (2 Kings 5:26-27) 
Whenever lying and deceiving others go unnoticed for years, it will only take one day for the truth to expose the years of telling lies. 

Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver and preserve you from the spirit of lying.

FAITH CAPSULE: Do not derail by any force to arrive at the calling of God. 

Genesis 39

God alone created all for His glory and His honor. 
Revelation 4:11 testifies to God, the Creator of all, for His will, “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.” 
What is it that you do not understand about God? 
God alone is the Almighty, the Ancient of days, the only Eternal Creator. 
1Timothy 6:15 describes God, “…He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords.” 
God alone is above and beyond all, and Psalmist states it clearly, “The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood, And the Lord sits as King forever.” (Psalm 29:10) 
God is the unchanging changer that will make and unmake. 
God alone is in the position to reverse the irreversible. 
The calling of all belongs to God.
God creates all for a purpose to live life before Him while having the breath of life.
His calling comes with the process, for His purpose over the called ones.
The calling of God over your life must be connected to God continually by dwelling and abiding in His direction to answer the calling of God obediently.
In the journey of life, where are you today?
Consciously or unconsciously, your journey can lead you into the center of the divine assignment of God for you.
The calling of Joseph is an example of unconscious answering to the calling of God into the journey with an unknown and painful route to arrive at the divine assignment of God. 
The calling of God broke Joseph before the manifestation of the blessing of God over his life.
Joseph answered the calling of God over his life without knowing the journey ahead of his life.
At age 17, the answering of Joseph to Jacob (his father) was the route of God for his divine assignment. 
Jacob said to Joseph, “…Please go and see if it is well with your brothers and well with the flocks and bring back word to me.” So, he sent him out of the Valley of Hebron, and he went to Shechem.” (Genesis 37:14) 
The answering to Jacob led Joseph into the calling of God without prior announcement for Joseph.
Joseph was at 17 years (Genesis 37:2), and he could not see his beloved father Jacob until he was over 30 years of age. (Genesis 41:46) 
Joseph engaged in the calling of God.
Joseph became SLAVERY with PRICE that turned to PRIME MINISTER.
Regardless of where you are today, do you know if you are answering the calling of God?
In answer to the calling of God, Joseph could no longer move at his own will.
Joseph came under an authority that he could not control. 
Know that the called one into an unknown route will learn to wait on God, to become obedient to God.

Prayer for today: Ask not to fail to answer the calling of God.