FAITH CAPSULE: Focusing on God is enough to gain needs.

Exodus 16

Full attention before God is trust and hope to receive fully from God.
Trust and hope in God is complete to arrive at the plans and promises of God.
Jeremiah 17:7 records, “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is in the Lord.”  
Trusting God without having hope in God shall result in no blessing. Trusting God and having hope will rest on God and not be rebellious.  
The Israelites repeatedly demonstrate trust in God but with no hope in God. 
The Israelites trusted God to bring them out of bondage but could not hope for God to meet their needs.
Like the Israelites, are you seeking after want rather than after needs?
The Psalmist confessed, “The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want” (Psalm 23:1).
Philippians 4:19 reminds all, “And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” 
Get to know and understand that it is not always about what you want but gaining needs from God.
Having faith is to trust and hope for what He has for all. 
During the wilderness journey, the children of Israel wanted what they left behind in Egypt instead of trusting and hoping for God to meet their needs. (Numbers 11:5)
The wants of the Israelites were overriding the provision of their needs for the journey. 
For the Israelites, without trust and hope in God resulted in a complaint. 
Are you focusing on what you want more than how the need has never ceased?
Complaining instead of complementing God for His provision is a very act of rebellion. 
Complaining is a destiny terminator, and it will deny all to receive the promise and plans of God that are in place for all.
Are you a conversant complainer before God, with no character of complimenting God on every breath of God-given?
The Israelites craved a pot of meat and bread instead of accepting the provision of God that was enough to meet their needs. 
God had a plan to meet the need of the Israelites, not their wants,
Exodus 16:16 records, “…Let every man gather it according to each one’s need, one omer for each person, according to the number of persons; let every man take for those who are in his tent.”  
In the direction of God, there was enough to meet the needs of the Israelites.
However, some went above and beyond the word of God to take more than the need. 
As a result of not following the direction of God, all the children who took more eventually lost all. (Exodus 16:18-21). 
The children of Israel lost as they desired for wants, and they could not recognize the needs provided by God. 
Trusting and hoping in God is enough to gain needs. 
Be patient, look up to God, and know that the provision of God is always on time to meet needs. 
Paul confirms, “And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:19)

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to trust and hope to wait on God.

FAITH CAPSULE: To experience the miracle of God, know to PUT OUT the hindrance before you.

Luke 19:1-9, Acts 9:36-43

Multitude/crowd can hinder the miracle of seeing God in the life journey.
Zacchaeus was a tax collector. 
He was short, a stature that was his physical limitation to deny him from inviting Jesus into his home. 
Zacchaeus had the desire to see Jesus.
Zacchaeus ran ahead of the crowd because he wanted to see Jesus. 
He wanted to know Jesus, to see Jesus, because to see is to receive Jesus into his house. 
Zacchaeus decided to run and climb a tree to see and receive Jesus. 
What are your efforts to see, to receive Jesus? 
Your recognition by your pastor, attending church once a week, or sleeping in the church is not enough to overcome the multitude/crowd in the world of today and see Jesus. 
Luke 19:4-6 records the effort of Zacchaeus to deny the multitude from denying him not to see and receive Jesus into his house, “So he ran ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Him, for He was going to pass that way. And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, make haste and come down, for today I must stay at your house.” So he made haste and came down, and received Him joyfully.” 
Like Zacchaeus, do not walk but run where you need to go ahead of hindrances that deny seeing and receiving the Lord.
Despite the effort of Zacchaeus to see and receive Jesus, the multitude complained against him to deny Jesus, not to see him criticizing Jesus, saying, “…He has gone to be a guest with a man who is a sinner.” (Luke 19:7)
Imagine Zacchaeus, a man of short stature, climbing a tree to see and receive Jesus into his house.
What is holding you from seeking God to see and receive Jesus into your life?
The excuse is not excusable not to seek, see and receive Jesus. 
The multitude (crowd) failed to hinder Zacchaeus from seeing and receiving Jesus into his life.
The word of God points out what it takes to put out a multitude: 
PUT OUT THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MULTITUDE/CROWD.
Jesus put out the crowd when He wanted to restore the life of the daughter of Jairus. 
Matthew 9:25 records, “But when the crowd was put outside, He went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose.”  
Peter also “PUT-OUT’ the crowd not to deny the miracle of Dorcas.
Acts 9:40 records, “But Peter put them all out, and knelt down and prayed. And turning to the body he said, “Tabitha, arise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up.” 
Study to learn in the word of God to know that putting out the multitude/crowd representing hindrance in life provokes the miracle of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to put out the multitude in your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Hear and see in the word of God to engage His calling over your life.

Acts 9

Answer the calling of God by seeing in the word of God.
Consciously or unconsciously, do you know what is holding you from serving in the calling of God over your life?
Have you given yourself to worldly materials or activities that occupy many not to serve God?
What must be in place to come out of holding force that denies serving God? 
TO HEAR AND SEE IN THE WORD OF GOD
The ability to hear and see in the word of God will set one to serve the calling of God.
Saul of Tarsus (Apostle Paul) was going to wreak havoc on the disciples of the Lord in Damascus when he heard and saw in the word of God.
Acts 9:1-5 records, “Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest 2 and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
As he journeyed, he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. 4 Then he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?”
And he said, “Who are You, Lord?” Then the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. [a]It is hard for you to kick against the goads.” 
Saul of Tarsus heard and saw in the word of God to gain knowledge and understanding of Jesus that set him to serve in the calling of God upon his life. 
Saul responds to Jesus: “So he, trembling and astonished, said, “Lord, what do You want me to do?” Then the Lord said to him, “Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” (Acts 9:6) 
Saul answered the calling of God and had his name changed from Saul to Paul.
With a new name, Paul received instruction from Jesus that made him serve God.
WHAT MUST BE DONE TO SERVE THE CALLING OF GOD?
One must give self to the prayer of wisdom and knowledge. 
Prayer is like a key for ignition to get motion started.
Praying with understanding will gain a knowing edge to serve God according to His calling. 
Prayerfully, give to the word of: 
Colossians 1:9-10, “…ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.”
Give yourself to answer the calling of God.
The calling of God is for the called one to live life for the glory of God, not to live a life of waste.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to live life for His glory.

FAITH CAPSULE: Give your heart to fear God. 

The word of God that gains enter the heart shall fear God living for God.
God treasures those who fear Him.
Having wisdom and knowledge, the source of stability and the strength of salvation is evidence of fear of God. 
Isaiah 33:6 testifies, “Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times and the strength of salvation; The fear of the Lord is His treasure.” God treasures it when one fears Him.
Fear God by your way of living life.
To fear God is taking a position not to be a victim of a wicked world.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 points out the need for all to be living life by the fear of God, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is man’s all.”
Are you one that keeps the word of God in the head with no space for the word of God in the heart?
In life, let the fear of God become your identity before God. 
The fear of God is the identity of Job before God as God testifies, “there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil? And still, he holds fast to his integrity, although you incited Me against him, to destroy him without cause.” (Job 2:3)
To fear God in the heart will be pleasing God.
Have a heart of fear for God to shun the evil not to have a place in you.
One that does not fear God does not abide in His command to dwell in the presence of God.
Through the pages of the Bible, word records what will become of those who fear God:
“Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, On those who hope in His mercy.” (Psalm 33:18)
“The angel of the LORD encamps all around those who fear Him and delivers them. Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him! Oh, fear the LORD, you His saints! There is no want to those who fear Him.” (Psalm 34:7-9)
“And His mercy is on those who fear Him From generation to generation.” (Luke 1:50)
Let the fear of God keep you in the eyes of God.
The desire and determination to fear God without prayer will not work. 
Today, get to understand and know in the promise of God that when you fear God, you will fear none before God to claim the promises of God.
The book of Isiah 41:10 speaks to all, “Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.”
Fear God is the will of God for all.

Prayer for today: Ask from God that you want to live life in His fear.

FAITH CAPSULE: What have you been giving back to God for the GIFT of God?

John 10

God is mindful of all. 
God gave Jesus, His beloved son, for all to accept Him, not to be a victim of sin.
Are you giving back to God, living life for the gift of Jesus?
Ask yourself about what you are doing to give back to Jesus lately. 
What have you been giving back to God for the GIFT of God?
Jesus is the GIFT of God.
Do you believe in God?
All acclaimed believers should walk in His righteousness, living obediently to His command as giving back to God for the gift of Jesus. 
Living life should be serving God.
With understanding comes to sow self for God by serving Him.
What one sows indeed is what shall surely reap. 
In life, it is impossible to sow the seed of deception and expect to reap the fruit of perfection. 
Any man that sows the seed of lie will reap the fruit of being deceived. 
A true believer of God should know Him and not be living life as a liar.
Word of God admonished, “He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. 
By this, we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.” (1John2:4-6)
God invests so much in the life of all, but the majority extends so little in return to God.
Today, what do you sow in response to the GIFT of God? 
Be mindful and know that there is nothing that passes outside of God that sees all under the heaven.
What are you giving back in response to the giving of God?
A failure not to accept the giving of God is evidence of not to sow self for God, to reap for eternal life, not damnation.
The thief is active, working to deny one not to sow self in the gift of God.
John 10:10-11 records, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I
have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep”  
Living life to the glory of God will provoke the hand of God over one that sows self in God as a believer of God. 
God creates all for His glory as stated in Revelation 4:11, “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.”
Are you living life for the creator of all?
It is your new turnaround to sow self for God and live life for His glory.

Prayer for today: Ask for God’s hand to draw you near for His glory.