FAITH CAPSULE: What is the challenging situation that holds you?

John 11:1-44

Challenge can be a difficult task or problem that is hard to experience or exist in life.
When a challenge resists solution and persists with pain, it often takes over one with the challenge.
Are you with any challenging situation that denies moving forward physically, spiritually, or emotionally in living life? 
One experiencing a challenging situation has been taken over by a challenge until the deliverance of God takes charge.
What is having you, denying you not to live life as desired?
What is the challenging situation that is having you?
In the Bible, one Lazarus with the sisters (Mary and Martha) was in a challenging situation of sick that had him.  
Mark of untimely death had Lazarus with an attempt to take him away permanently. 
Lazarus was tied up and rolled up in a tomb. 
The challenging situation of sickness had Lazarus.
Lazarus was dead but regained life at the arrival of Jesus with thanks offering to God. John 11:41-43 records, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.” Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!”
As a believer or non-believer, what is the challenging situation that holds you?
Blindness is the challenging situation that held a man down the roadside until he had a visitation of Jesus for his deliverance. Luke 18:35-38 records, “Then it happened, as He was coming near Jericho, that a certain blind man sat by the road begging. And hearing a multitude passing by, he asked what it meant. So they told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. And he cried out, saying, ‘Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!’”
Blindness had the man down by the roadside, and he could not move as desired. 
The challenging situation took over the blind man.
One with lameness as a challenging situation could not walk, bound to crawl.
With lame, there is no means to rise but bound to become a victim of stagnation in this wicked world.
In the journey of life where stagnation persists, delay and denial will disrupt getting to the expected end. 
Lameness in life can be a position or a condition where no man desires to be.
Lameness shall prompt stagnation in life.
Peter and John operated as agents that delivered a man that a challenging situation had his life.
Peter and John had more to offer him. Bible records, “And fixing his eyes on him, with John, Peter said, ‘Look at us.’ So, he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.” (Acts 3:4-5)
The lame man gave attention with expectation for his deliverance from the challenging situation over his life.
In life, with a focus on God with expectation for manifestation, deliverance shall be encountered.

Prayer for today: Ask against every force that is holding you down.

FAITH CAPSULE: Three parts of prayer to engage.

Acts 12

PART ONE
In John 6:28, records question before Jesus, “Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?”
In verse 29, Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.”
To believe in whom God sent is working the work.
One that believes is LIVING BY HIS WORD?
PRAYER
ASK that God enable you to understand and know to be living life by His word to work the works of God.
Among reasons why not work the works of God can be the evidence sleeping in the place to be awake.
Acts 12:1-6 documents that Herod killed James and was about to kill Peter.
Peter was asleep.
The church must have been asleep not praying for James but, the church awoke after the death of James to pray for the deliverance of Peter, that was sleeping. 
PRAYER
Ask that God enables you to be awake, not to become a victim of sleeping in the place of praying. Lord God, keep me awake!
Jesus said to His disciples when He took them to pray with Him in Matthew 26:40, “Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”
Are you one that knows to pray but not knows to watch?
Jesus never tells us to pray but watching and praying is what He repeatedly requests.
ASK that God give you the wisdom, knowledge, and understanding to engage Him watching and praying with consistency. 
PART TWO
One that is walking with God, before God or walking in Him, do not set back in the calling of God.
When the calling of deliverance for Lot and his family from destruction answered for Lot, the wife walking behind not with or before Lot became a victim of looking back. Genesis 19:26 records, “But his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.”
PRAYER
ASK that God deliver you from everywhere you are looking away from His calling over your life.
ASK that you shall not be a victim of looking back instead of looking forward in Him.
PART THREE
Revelations 4:11 records, “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.”
All are created by God, for God to exist for His glory.
What is it that is reducing one not to live life for God?
What is it that you know consciously or unconsciously not to be living life for His glory?
Among forces that are making one not live life for God are:
Knowing or unknowing sin committed reduces one not to live for the glory of God.
Ignorant makes a destitute of the believer.
PRAYER
ASK that every sin or sinning before Him consciously to be separated from you that you will be full of His glory. 
ASK that God deliver you from every force of distraction that derails man from following Him diligently.

FAITH CAPSULE: In disappointment time, do not be discouraged.

Luke 5:1-11

To arrive at the center of divine assignment demands following in the calling of God, not answering as a fan for God.
A fan is with limited commitment to God, unlike a follower of God that seeks God diligently.
At a point in time, four fishermen forsook all and followed Jesus. 
In life, to follow in serving God demands to forsake all. 
What holding you down not to forsake, to follow in serving God?  
Four professional fishermen at the right time at the right place failed to catch fish. 
The four fishermen could not give up until daybreak, yet they caught nothing. 
As they were washing their nets and ready to pack for the day with nothing to show for as professional fishermen, Jesus showed up, “Then He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.” (Luke 5:3) 
Despite a lack of success with catching fish through night hours, their kindness was intact as they allowed the stranger (Jesus) to use their vessel without any refusal.
After Jesus finished teaching the multitude, He turned to the fishermen and gave them a word, His word as stated in Luke 5:4, “…Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” 
Always take note that, in times of disappointment, the word of God will answer as a terminating force to turn disappointment to an appointed time.
With the question of faith not of doubt, Simon responded to Jesus, “But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless, at Your word, I will let down the net.” (Luke 5: 5) 
In disappointment time, do not be discouraged, but give yourself to the word of God that will reverse the irreversible. 
Are you with experience to have been grounded on a ground you are to get a result but not?
Begin to listen, hear, and see in the word of God to position you for transformation. 
The response gave a result of gain.
Luke 5:6 records, “And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking.”  
Are you toiling with no result to show?
It does not matter how long you have been toiling with nothing to show, but it is possible to encounter an unfailing God that does not fail for a breakthrough.
In life, take a position to listen to gain an understanding that gives a knowing edge that leads to a breakthrough.
They listened to gain understanding with the knowledge to breakthrough. 
Give it all for Jesus, and He shall settle you. 

Prayer for today: Ask that the word of God shall locate you with direction for your breakthrough.

FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God is a secret to dwell in and be delivered in the journey of life. 

Hebrews 11

Abraham lives a life of a believer.
Romans 4:3 testifies, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
Know to believe in the word of God.
The word of God requires obedience and no compromise. 
To obey, dwell, and wait on the word of God is the testimony of the life of Abraham.
The bible records of Abraham, “By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” (Hebrews 11:8-10)
Obedience: When God called Abraham out from his country, family, father’s house to an unknown land, he obeyed fully by launching out as commanded by God.
Abraham believed when there was no idea about his journey of obedience.
Abraham had no reasonable excuse to decline the calling upon his life but obeyed God by moving from certainty to uncertainty. 
Are you obeying to obtain good testimonies?
Dwelling: Abraham dwelt on the word of God. 
To be living life according to the word of is dwelling in the secret place of God. Psalm 91:1 buttresses, “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” Are you a truthful believer that knows to dwell in the word of God? 
Abraham dwelt in the word of God by not looking back to his country but going forward
according to the calling of God over his life.
Abraham dwelt under the shadow of the word of God and was able to move forward in the calling of God. 
With faith in the word of God, Abraham moved to a foreign country, and his faith caused him to obtain good testimonies.
Those that engage the word of God as a story are limited in understanding.
The word of God is a secret to dwell in and be delivered in the journey of life. 
Waiting: Abraham obeyed God; he dwelt and waited walking before God.
Those who know to dwell in God know to wait patiently on God. 
Hebrews 11:10 records the waiting of Abraham on God, “For he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” Indeed, Abraham lived by waiting for the future that was not in sight.
Waiting on the promise of God can be painful but is gainful for obedient ones.
In the documentation of Abraham, gaining understanding and knowledge, one will know to live a life for the glory of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to learn right from Abraham.

FAITH CAPSULE: Wait on God, Know the truth to be free. 

Matthew 7 

The truth of God is the assurance to wait on God without regret.
One with the truth of God is on the side of the word of God that does not fail.
Many know about the truth but are not free.
One that knows the truth is set to be free.
Do you know about or know the truth?
Jesus is the truth of God that never fails. (John 14:6)
Are you a believer in the word of God?
John 8:31-32 states, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” 
Abiding in the word of God is possible when there is knowledge of the truth of God. 
Knowledge is the application of wisdom. 
Understanding is paying attention to wisdom because wisdom is instruction.
Jesus wants all to know the truth that will make free possible.
Waiting on God will know the truth.
What is it about waiting on God?
Waiting is not fun when there is no knowledge of the truth about waiting.
Waiting in time of challenges demands to remain calm until expectation becomes manifested. 
Waiting on God can deliver answers such as yes, no, or to wait.
With knowledge of the truth, it is understanding asking, seeking, and knocking for the intervention of God. 
It is true to ask, seek and knock to gain the attention of God.
God will always act for those who wait on Him with knowledge of the truth. Isaiah 64:4-5 testifies, “For since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor perceived by the ear; nor has the eye seen any God besides You, who acts for the one who waits for Him. You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, Who remembers You in Your ways…” 
Isaiah 64:5 identifies three ways of truth that will provoke God for one that waits on Him:
God meets with him who rejoices.
God meets with one that does righteousness.
God meets with those who remember His ways.
Apostle Paul knows the truth of waiting and having God act when he repeatedly encourages rejoicing in the Lord always. (Philippians 4:4) 
The truth is to be awake, do right, not sin.
The word of God is indeed truthful for one that engages it to be free not to be a victim of a wicked world.
The word of God indeed encourages all to remind Him concerning the work of His hand. (Isaiah 43:26)
The word of God is not just a story but a secret that will deliver with the answer unto a believer. 
A believer with knowledge of the truth of the word of God will know to wait on God with expectation without frustration. 
Get knowledge and know that God acts for the one who waits for Him.

Prayer for today: Ask God to be open to the truth of God.