FAITH CAPSULE: Are you looking up to God or looking outside of God?

Exodus 14

The Psalmist knows to be looking up to God. 
Psalm 119:132 records, “Look upon me and be merciful to me, As Your custom is toward those who love Your name.”
One that looks up to God will know to call for God to look upon self.
Looking up to God is waiting on God.
God acts to wait for those that wait on Him. 
Are you looking up to God or looking outside of God for His intervention?
One that does not wait on God will be living life in worrying.
To become worried and troubled in the face of challenge is the evidence of not worshiping God.
One that looks at confronting challenges shall misplace focus on God for His divine intervention. 
The Israelites looked away from God in the confronting challenge.
Exodus 14:10-12 records: “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.” 
Do the verses above speak to you? 
The miracle of God brought the Israelites out of the bondage of Egypt but fear of the enemy took over the Israelites.
The Israelites were worried and troubled to confess negatively.
Solution for challenges demands to focus on God. 
Are you focusing on God?
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 in fear, Jesus showed up and declared peace.
Faith in Jesus will give peace in the place of trouble for those who keep the focus on Him. 
Jesus had spoken peace, “…He showed them His hands and His side. then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.” (John 20:20) Seeing the mark opened up the disciples to come out of fear. 
To believe is to see crucifixion the marks were registered on Jesus for all to have life abundantly.
Ignore the fear that is going on around the world.
Get to know that looking up to God is enough for deliverance and preservation of the wicked world.

Prayer for today: Ask not to be a victim of the fear of the wicked world.

FAITH CAPSULE: Know to acknowledge God for His intervention.

Psalm 3 

Worshiping God instead of giving self to worrying is acknowledging God that reverses the irreversible in challenging trouble of times.
With increased trouble is challenging trouble. 
When challenging trouble persists to become hardly resolved, permanent pain shall exist.
One that tolerates challenging trouble without expectation for self-deliverance is giving self to pain.
Are you experiencing challenging trouble?
Challenging trouble demands deliverance for one with attention to address the root of the challenge trouble that persists.
Challenging trouble in life can be rooted in decisions made on behalf of one with pian of challenge by loved ones. 
Also, the root cause of challenging trouble might have been out of the good intention to help with not becoming of pain.
What is the root of your challenging trouble?
Challenging trouble can be of affliction passed down from family in the life of the journey.
Psalm 34:19 records to encourage against challenging trouble, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.”
Be conversant with the word of God as a manual of life that is with answers to reverse challenging trouble, to cease permanently.
In life, there is no one with an exception not to experience challenging trouble.
For example, King David, identified by God as a man after the heart of God, repeatedly experienced challenging trouble but overcame it all. 
Psalm 3:1-2 testifies the evidence to the challenge of David, “Lord, how they have increased who trouble me! Many are they who rise up against me. Many are they who say of me, “There is no help for him in God.”
The Bible identifies how David came out of challenging trouble for learning: 
DAVID ACKNOWLEDGES GOD
Despite increasing challenges, David acknowledged the awesomeness of God, “But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, My glory and the One who lifts up my head.” (Psalm 3:3) 
David gave himself to worship God was not distracted by the worry of troubling challenges.
David gave himself to worship God instead of worrying over his challenging trouble when he acknowledged God for what God has done and what God was doing in his life, the evidence of what God will do in his life.
Acknowledging God in a troubling challenge is the way of thanking God, provoking the intervention hand of God.
The disobedience of Jonah to the word of God positioned him in challenging trouble. 
Jonah, like David, also acknowledges God when he looks up to God to remind God about how God has brought him far in life. 
Jonah acknowledges God as he promised to sacrifice before God with the voice of thanksgiving.
Acknowledging God is a self-deliverance to overcome challenging trouble.
Acknowledging God is reminding God for His work as Isaiah 43:26 records, “Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted.” 
Acknowledge God for what He has done, what He is doing, and what He can do. 

Prayer for today: Ask to be activated by the word of God, knowing to acknowledge God for His intervention in a challenging time.

FAITH CAPSULE: Fear God and know not to look away but wait on God.

Isaiah 54

Having fear in the place of waiting on God is evidence of not counting on God.
God waits to act for ones that know to wait on Him, evidence of having fear for God. 
Fearing out of God is the weapon of the enemy.
The promise of God for all man to be victorious over shame is to stand and not fall for fear of the enemy.
Isaiah 54:4 records, “Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame; For you will forget the shame of your youth, And will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.”
If a man truly waits on God by not looking outside of God without any iota doubt, shame shall not have a place in the life of such.
Psalm 25:3 buttresses, “Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed; Let those be ashamed who deal treacherously without cause.”  
Waiting on God leads to the right direction where expectation yields to manifestation. 
The Bible makes us realize that waiting extends to looking up to God for intervention against wicked ones.
Are you one that is constantly questioning how the wicked ones are excelling? 
Psalm 37:7 encourages all, “Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him; do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.” 
Waiting on God is keeping His word and not fretting in the face of any wickedness. 
Waiting on God is keeping hope in Him as a Great Defender. 
Does it seem like your waiting is taking forever without an answer? 
God has never failed.
Waiting is not a sign of weakness, but keep waiting on God silently and patiently.
David testifies, “I waited patiently for the LORD, and He inclined unto me and heard my cry. He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps. He has put a new song in my mouth- praise to our God; many will see it and fear, and will trust in the LORD.” (Psalm 40: 1-2)
Waiting on God will gain grace to walk firmly on any ground, sing a new song and not fall.
David testifies, “He makes my feet like the feet of the deer and sets me on my high places.”(2 Samuel 22:34) 
Waiting on God took David to his high places. 
Waiting is the avenue to move from low ground to high places, a place that is above and beyond every painful situation.
Ignore fear not to have a place in your life.
Give yourself to waiting on God that is faithful, not to look away from those who look up to Him.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the strength of waiting on Him with no fear.

FAITH CAPSULE: God is a longsuffering God, worthy for all to be fearful of Him. 

Psalm 89

The word of God is the source of knowledge to fear God. Deuteronomy 28:58 informs all that, “If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD.”
What is taking you away from living by the word of God to gain the fear of God?
The word of God that you give yourself will make you know the fear of God.
Do you fear God? 
Seek God, fear God, and let no evil have a place in your way of life. Let your identity of one that fears God. 
Do you fear God, or do you only have a mouthful of the fear of God but not with the fear of God in the heart?
Ecclesiastes 12:13 speaks it all, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man’s all.”
To fear God is to hate evil by not embracing hatred. 
Proverbs 8:13 states, “The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; pride and arrogance and the evil way And the perverse mouth I hate.” 
How much of His fear do you carry in your life?
The fear of God is the way of life, the identity of the children of God dwelling in the presence of God. “In the fear of the LORD there is strong confidence, and His children will have a place of refuge.” (Proverb 14:26) 
Confidence is the character of those who fear God to know the refuge of God as their habitation.
One with the fear of God will trust and have hope in God to demonstrate confidence in the face of challenge. Fear of God is to live life to the glory of God. “The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to turn one away from the snares of death.” (Proverb 14:27) 
How can a creature not fear His Creator? 
How often have you been in a creative position, but not having the needed patience but destroyed your creation because it did not come out as expected? 
God will not do as a man will do.
God is good and merciful.
God is a longsuffering God, worthy for all to be fearful of Him. 
Have you ever considered the way that leads to life? 
Proverbs 19:23 points it out, “The fear of the LORD leads to life, and he who has it will abide in satisfaction; He will not be visited with evil.”  
One with the fear of God abide in satisfaction.
Be a wise one to fear God. 
With fear for God, knowing God will result in having stability in the wicked but not becoming a victim.

Prayer for today: Ask that you live life to fear God in all your ways.

FAITH CAPSULE: Asking is a demonstration of faith in the word of God. 

Isaiah 55

What is your desire to get the attention of God?
Are you facing any challenge that demands a solution?
Get to know that the word of God is the solution for all challenges of the world?
God, by His word, is the only Eternal surgeon; He is the only One who reverses the irreversible, and He is the Unchanging changer with the solution of any magnitude.
What is your pressing challenge?
Have you been asking for from God or assuming a solution?
Matthew 7:7-8 records: “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” 
Specifically, have you been asking or assuming? 
There is a difference between asking and assuming. 
Asking is a demonstration of faith. 
A blind man petitioned for his solution before Jesus by crying out to Jesus without asking for his need.
Jesus knows all, but He wants all to ask.
Have you been asking or making noise? 
Jesus eventually prompted a blind man to ask when He questioned him, “So Jesus stood still and commanded him to be brought to Him. And when he had come near, He asked him, saying, “What do you want Me to do for you?” (Luke 18:40-41) 
In seeking your need, be specific in your asking but not assume. 
In your asking, insist, persist, and resist to receive.
The word of God demands asking from all.
What God says He will do is a done deal for anyone that knows to engage His word faithfully. 
God is the Creative creator that is true and cannot lie. 
The psalmist testifies, “As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the Lord is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him.” (Psalm 18:30) Proverbs 30:8 states, “Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him.” 
Hebrews 12:4 buttresses, “For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” 
The word of God is authentic to deliver answers when there is asking! 
Isaiah 55:11 buttresses: “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it brings forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” 
Considering the scriptural verses above, why not give to the word of God to gain from God? 

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to give self to God to fill you with the knowledge of His word.