FAITH CAPSULE: Earnestly give self continually meditating prayer to experience deliverance and preservation.

Psalm 64

Earnest prayer is characterized by or proceeding from an intense state of mind. 
Earnest prayer is to ask from God with the character of waiting on God to experience manifestation.
Earnest prayer can be fervent that prevails for a believer. 
Earnest prayer is a serious intention, a purpose rooted in knowing what to pray.
The prayer of Elijah was with an earnest approach.
James 5:16-18 records: “The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.”
The prayer of Elijah was to address a need. 
Like Elijah, are you addressing a need with intense passion, with serious intention? 
As a believer, consider a fervent, earnest prayer as Elijah did.
Meditating prayer will work as a fervent quality prayer and earnest before God. 
Meditating prayer shall be asking and communicating with God day and night.
To be meditating before God is continuous communication with God. 
Without a doubt, praying word before God day and night is a labor to gain the attention of God. 
In this wicked world, give yourself continually meditating prayer to experience deliverance and preservation.
Praying with your expectation for the manifestation, adapt to the way of David by meditating as: “Hear my voice, O God, in my meditation; Preserve my life from fear of the enemy. Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the rebellion of the workers of iniquity, who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows-bitter words.” (Psalm 64:1-3) 
Meditation is not memorization. 
One meditating on prayer words will gain the attention of God for His deliverance and preservation. 
Meditating the word of God answered for Moses and Joshua as their compass for navigation through the wilderness journey. 
One meditating the prayer of deliverance and preservation before God will bring forth manifestation. 
In the life of a believer, when faith sinks, fear will rise.
Fear does not announce itself before it invades its victims. 
Fear knows no discrimination. 
The prayer of meditation demonstrated by David was against fear when he states, “Preserve me from the fear of the enemy.” 
Fear belongs to the devil as a tool.
The devil is the author of the wicked world all day and night.
Giving yourself to God by meditating day and night to gain the attention of God against the devil is the solution to quell the fear. 
In this wicked world, give yourself continually to meditating word of prayer against fear, and your deliverance and preservation shall come to be.  

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled with fervent effective earnest prayer for deliverance and preservation.

FAITH CAPSULE: Complaint is disregarding God to experience the painful consequence.  

Numbers 14:1-35

Every life journey should disengage with the multitude to arrive expected in the journey. 
A multitude is a substantial number of people that gathered together. 
A multitude of people can be of many characters. 
Many characters in a company of people are vulnerable to all kinds of challenges. 
Israel was coming out of the bondage of over a hundred years in the company of the multitude.
The Bible records, “Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children. A mixed multitude went up with them also, and flocks and herds—a great deal of livestock.” (Exodus 12:37-38)
The Israelites entered their journey but could not advance because of the negative effect of a mixed multitude.
Numbers 11:4-6 records the negativity of the mixed multitude, “Now the mixed multitudes who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: “Who will give us meat to eat? We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!”(Numbers 11:4-6)
The mixed multitude among the Israelites was the source of intense craving for what they had in Egypt.
Are you focusing on the promises of God or on entertaining the multitude in your midst?
The multitude/crowd does not excuse Israel not to become poisoned with negativity that God does not tolerate.
Remain focused on a life journey to avoid the multitude.
With the influence of the mixed multitude, the Israelites counted on the past to upset their stand before God.
God hears all, gain focus; maintain focus; meditate on the promise of God to claim His promises. 
This day, with understanding, there is a need to know that God performs, and He is more than able to perfect the life of one with a focus on Him.
The character of the multitude is the root of complaints before God. 
The Israelites complaint and God could not look over the complaint but responded to the violation of the Israelites: “As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you: The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above. Except for Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, you shall by no means enter the land which I swore I would make you dwell in.” (Numbers 14:27-30)
God is a good God, and He is a longsuffering God with mercy as it pleases Him.
Know to avoid multitude, maintain focus on God by giving regard to His word.

Prayer for today: Ask against the multitude not to have a place in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: All should know to maintain focus on God alone.

Psalm 37

Remain focused only on God to gain and maintain His presence.
The wicked one is the evil one, while God alone oversees all that exists under heaven and earth. 
Focus on God to disregard evil doing.
The Psalmist encourages all, “Do not fret because of evildoers, nor be envious of the workers of iniquity.” (Psalm 37:1) 
One not resting on the promise of God shall be fretful of the evildoers.
One that does not trust in God maintains self in trouble and does not rest on the Lord.
Consider engaging the promise of God for your life.
To be envious of the workers of iniquity is evidence of not focusing on God that meets the need of all. 
A failure not to wait on God will cause one to live a life of waste.
One that does not rest on God will rust away. 
Acclaimed believers of God must know and not be fretful of the truth that wicked ones are here to stay until the Lord is ready to take them away.
The same Psalm 37 gave the prescription of what it takes to ignore the wicked ones stating, “Trust in the LORD, and do good; dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness.” (Psalm 37:3) 
Doing according to the word of God shall prompt His promise against the wicked.
The Lord God sees all things and knows all.
Time belongs to God, and He will seek out the wicked ones.
The book of Ecclesiastes 8:11-13 admonished, “Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him. But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.”
All should know to maintain focus on God alone, not focusing on the wicked one.
Also, do not focus on yourself to be able to focus on God in this wicked world.
One that focuses on God will fear God and not fret because of wicked ones, the evildoers. 
God alone knows when to deal with those with the choice not to come out of wickedness.
Jeremiah questioned, “…Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those happy who deal so treacherously? You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bear fruit. You are near in their mouth but far from their mind.” (Jeremiah 12:1-2) 
God does not sleep, not slumber, and all must focus on God alone.

Prayer for today: Ask for deliverance from the path of wicked ones.

FAITH CAPSULE: Rare revelation among believers is rooted in sleeping off to miss the presence of God.

1 Samuel 3

1 Samuel 3:1 records, “…the word of Lord was rare in those days; there was no widespread revelation.” 
Are you giving yourself to study the word of God? 
Today are you getting to know the word of God but not only to know about the word of God? 
One that knows about does not know God.
To know about is not enough to receive revelation in His word. 
Knowing the word of God is to receive His revelation. 
Many are quoting and singing the word of God, but the majority do not know the word of God. 
Rare revelation among believers is rooted in sleeping off to miss the presence of God.
The majority of the evidence of living by the word of God is not evident among the majority of believers, not exposed to the revelation of God.
Think of it, how can one that does not receive the revelation of God will be evidence of the revelation of God?
Without a doubt, the evidence of God is the revelation of God.
When Eli was the priest, 1 Samuel 3:1 states, “…the word of Lord was rare in those days; there was no widespread revelation.”  
The word of God is His presence; His communication is His revelation, and where there is no revelation, the transformation ceases. 
The life journey without transformation will lead to termination. 
It is only the one who has the understanding of the need for the revelation of God that will consciously seek after His revelation. 
What is about revelation experience? 
Revelation from God will bring forth deliverance, preservation, and salvation will reign. 
The situation of no revelation in Shiloh called for the return of God. 
The return of the appearance of God, by His revelation, happened through Samuel.
The coming to life of Samuel came with the revelation at Shiloh.
1 Samuel 3:21, “Then the LORD appeared again in Shiloh, for the LORD revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD. 
God that appeared again in Shiloh will also appear again to visit you if you have lost contact with Him. 
Are you staying away from the word of God but spending time in the wicked world? 
God is the same yesterday and today. 
Where His word becomes rare, widespread of His revelation will cease. He is a faithful God! 
Call on Him and state your request to Him.
The revelation is with one that remembers God for His goodness and mercy.
The Psalmist desires to be remembered by God.
 Psalm 106:5 records, “Remember me, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people. Oh, visit me with Your salvation” 
When God remembers or visits, one shall be exposed to the revelation to experience the benefit of His chosen ones. 
Give yourself continually to the word of God, and the revelation of God will not be rare from you.

Prayer for today: Ask for the strength to be giving self to the word of God, gaining the revelation from God.

FAITH CAPSULE: Be careful to obey the command of God diligently.

Numbers 20

The Word of God is God. (John 1:1)
The command is His way.
The command of God, the way of God, and the Word of God are His presence.
Are you giving yourself to the presence of God to occupy you?
All should know to give themselves to the Word of God and be careful keeping to the ways of God.
Proverbs 19:16 admonishes, “He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is careless of his ways will die.”  
Give to the way of God that will guide you to arrive at the expected end without failure or destruction. 
Is it your ways that you are keeping instead of His ways? 
Keep the word of God, giving regard as the command of God in every step of life. 
Jonah chose to look over the word of God, a careless choice to disobey God.
Jonah 1:1-3 documents, “Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.” But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.” 
Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet of God, made his choice over the choice of God.
Jonah was careless for the word of God as he stumbled into a position of self-destruction. 
Regardless of any challenging situation, the business of Jonah was to answer as commanded by God.
Are you disregarding the calling of God?
1Thessalonian 5:24 warns, “He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.”
God called Moses out to lead the children of Israel out of the bondage of over four hundred years. 
Moses was careless not to be careful with the word of God. 
Moses reacted to the rebellious act of the children of Israel towards God instead of letting God be God against the wrong of the Israelites.
Moses took it upon himself to strike the rock instead of speaking for water. 
No excuse for wrongdoing counts before God.
There was no excuse for Moses before God when he disregarded the word.
God responded to Moses, “…Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.” (Numbers 20:12)
Do not be careless before God, be concerned, and not be corrupted in responding to the calling of God.
Disallow your concern; allow the command of God to take charge of your life.
Regardless of who you are before God, remain careful and consistently attend to God fully.

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