FAITH CAPSULE: Do not doubt the word of God, do the word of God.

Deuteronomy 28:1-14
Doubting is the avenue to self-destruction. Do not doubt, do not limit, or despise the power of the word of God. Proverbs 13:13 warns, “He who despises the word will be destroyed, but he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.”  
With patience, living by the word of God will terminate struggle or challenge in any area of life. Psalm 34:19 buttresses, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Lord delivers him out of them all.” 
The word of God is the power to do and undo as directed to life challenges. 
Hebrews 4:12 describes the word, “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.” 
Give yourself to the word of God to deny doubt in your thought or action.
Word is indeed living, powerful, and sharper to terminate challenges to the glory of God.
Will you give yourself to the word of God that converts the challenge of mockery to a miracle?
The Bible records the word of God, “Is not My word like a fire?” says the LORD, “And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?” (Jeremiah 23:29) The word of God is truth.
Give yourself to the truth of God to experience the power of God.
Why do you allow doubt?
Jeremiah testifies the identity of the word of God, “Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O Lord God of hosts.” (Jeremiah 15:16) 
Do not doubt to limit or despise the power of the word of God.  
Turn to the word of God to answer you if you will work the word of God.
Working the word of God is labor. 
Laboring the word of God is obeying the word of God diligently; laboring the word of God is choosing to do the word of God instead of doing what the world says. Deuteronomy 28:1-2 states, “Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you because you obey the voice of the Lord your God. The word confirms the reason to engage word laboriously and not doubt the word of God. 
To labor in the word of God will deny a doubt to claim the blessing of God.
Do not doubt the word of God, do the word of God.

Prayer for today: Ask God to open your ears of understanding against doubt.

 FAITH CAPSULE: Who is the inquisitor discouraging your walk with God?

Genesis 19

One that acts as an inquisitor of your life is possible not to be of God and can be the evidence of not having faith or having trust in your action rooted in God.
Inquisitor of your life can be unduly harsh, severe, or hostile.
Who is the inquisitor of your life?
God identifies Job as integrity, blameless, and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil. (Job 2:3) The identification of Job by God was not an excuse for him not to experience inquisition from his wife, not talk of one from a distance to his life. 
The inquisition of his wife was discouraging as she states, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” (Job 2:9) 
Imagine the pain of inquisition from the closest, not distance.
God saw Job as a man of integrity, but his wife saw him as wasting time by waiting on God. 
Are you engaging in any challenge that is inviting inquisitors into your life? 
Is the inquisitor your closest one, or do you become self-inquisitor to yourself without you knowing?
Who is the inquisitor discouraging your walk with God?
At the time of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot and his wife received the direction of God to escape destruction. 
Genesis 19:17 records, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.” (Genesis 19:17) 
Just as they advanced on the route of escape, the wife of Lot could not obey the direction of God but questioned God by her action of disobedience as she became terminated.
The wife of Lot acted as an inquisitor of the plan of deliverance by God. The Bible record that the wife of Lot looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.” (Genesis 19:26)
Are you the inquisitor of yourself?
Often, one allows the act of a negative inquisitor to deny the blessing in place for life.
For example, Jesus did miracles on every ground but not so in His city of Nazareth. 
The people of Nazareth were inquisitors wanting to know the source of His wisdom and the work of His hand. 
In the eyes of His people, He was just the son of a carpenter, the mere son of Joseph and Mary. The Bible records the response of Jesus to the inquisition of His people: “But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house. He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them.” (Mark 6:4-5) 
Stop being an inquisitor of God? 
The people of Nazareth failed to appreciate the anointing upon the life of the Anointed One. 
Appreciate the doings of God over your life to gain and retain the blessing of God.

Prayer for today: Ask not to be an inquisitor or not to be a victim of the negative inquisition of this world.

FAITH CAPSULE: The hand of God is mighty and outstretched for deliverance and preservation.

Ezra 7

The pages of the Bible testify that Jesus is on the right hand of God.
Mark 16:19 records, “So then, after the Lord had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.” 
At the time of the martyr of Stephen for his faith, the Bible records, “But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, and said, “Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!” (Acts 7:55-56) 
1 Peter 3:22 documents, “who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.” 
Jesus is at the right hand of God and tells the truth that one that accepts Jesus does have access to the right hand of God.
Have you accepted Jesus as your Lord and savior living by the Word of God?
One that accepts Jesus is with Jesus with access to the right hand of God.
Jesus came from His right hand to give life to everyone with understanding and knowledge to give self to the word of God.
The Psalmist understands and knows the hand of God by stating, “You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.” (Psalm 145:16) With your understanding, specifically, pray for the right hand of God to open for you to be living with satisfaction in Him.
With the expectation to experience the hand of God, meditate on the hand of God as the Bible identifies:
In the hand of God, there is deliverance. 
The hand of God is mighty and outstretched that delivered the children of Israel from slavery for over four hundred years (Deuteronomy 5:15). 
The hand of God, when it comes upon one, will help just as it helped in the days of the Old Testament. 
Ezra testifies the hand of God as the agent of granting every request during their time of rebuilding Jerusalem (Ezra 7:6) 
Ezra also testifies the hand of God as good when they were able to get to Jerusalem. (Ezra 7:9) 
Ezra 7:28 also states, “…So I was encouraged, as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me…” 
Ezra repeatedly testifies the hand of God as stated in Ezra 8:31, “And the hand of our God was upon us, and He delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambush along the road.” 
What would one do without the hand of God in life?
As a believer, let it become your way of life, looking up to the God for His hand that is able for deliverance and preservation, that takes charge of your direction all the days He has given you.

Prayer for today: Ask for the hand of God over your life.

FAITH CAPSULE: Are you a Christian soldier or a worldly soldier?

2 Timothy 2:1-13

 Are you a Christian soldier by mouth or by the act? 
A Christian soldier need not be introduced as a soldier because his warlike disposition will always point him out as one operating as a sold-out soul for the cause of the Lord Jesus Christ. 
What kind of a soldier are you? 
Are you a soldier who will always need a constant introduction as a soldier? 
A soldier should contend or serves in any cause as a soldier of the Lord. With steadfastness, soldiers should persist in their cause and persevere to deliver answers as expected.
An eligible and qualified soldier for Christ has to be a sold-out soul for the cause of the cross that Jesus carried to Calvary.
Paul, the apostle, admonished Timothy by using an illustration of a soldier in 2 Timothy 2:3-4, “You, therefore, must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.” 
Faithfulness illustrates that a soldier (follower of Christ) must endure hardship. 
Unfortunately, Christian soldiers today do not want to endure hardship but will like to enjoy worldly pleasures or live lives of convenience and not commitment. 
Are you an acclaimed Christian with no iota of desire to live life to experience the endured life of Christ?
Endurance can be painful and can generate unwanted suffering.
Enduring hardship qualifies a Christian soldier as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 
Every Christian soldier must know to experience how to endure; Christian soldiers cannot escape hardship in this world of wickedness. 
The Christian soldiers without enduring challenges in this world are soldiers that often entangle themselves with the affairs of this life. 
It is evident in the word of Paul that no soldier engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life and answers to the cause of Christian soldiers.
In the book of Peter 2:11, the word warned against fleshly lusts: “Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul.”  
Fleshly lust will derail a soldier for Christ.
With lust, it is not possible to answer as a sold-out soul for the assignment of Christ. 
Undoubtedly, fleshly lust is a principal target that Christian soldiers should not take for granted because it launches its attack regularly. 
Are you walking not become lust?
Living lust will present great or small temptation that does not spare grave for fleshly lust ones. It is so deadly that it only goes after its target, the soul of every Christian soldier.
As a soldier of Christ, you shall not become captured by the enemy of all, the evil one.
Do not become a Christian soldier by mouth but answer as a sold-out soul for the cause of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

FAITH CAPSULE:  The word of God is worthy to live life by it.

2 Samuel 22

Word of God is worthy and profitable to trust and hope in it for one with the heart for God.
2 Samuel 22:31 records the character of the word of God, “As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him.” 
Three things about the word of God:
First is the way of God. 
Moses confirmed the trust of God in his question with the answer he received from God. 
Moses asked God, “Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.” And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” (Exodus 33:13-14) The way of God is perfect, and one that gives to shall gain the rest of God.
Secondly, the word of God is proven.
The creation of heaven and earth by the word of God is proven. One that has a place in the word of God shall not fail. The bible made us know that “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him, nothing was made that was made.” (John 1:1-3) The word of God is proven to give comfort in a time of affliction. Psalm 119:50 testifies, “This is my comfort in my affliction, For Your word has given me life.” 
God magnifies His word above all His name. (Psalm 138:2)
Thirdly, God is a shield to all who trust in Him. 
Pages of the Bible testify that God is a shield giving deliverance and preservation.
For example, God declared to be a shield for Abraham not to be afraid in Genesis 15:1, “…Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.” 
God was the shield in the old days, and He is still the shield beyond times to come.
Are you distracted from trusting God?  
Do not become distracted, but trust and hope in God. 
With trusting God, the peace of God reigns. 
Meditating the truth of God is not possible to doubt the word of God.
When you hear from God, there will be no fear but peace. 
Where the whole world can say no, one should know to hear yes by the word of God. 
The existence of doubt is the evidence of not having heard from God.
Take to the word of Isaiah 26:3-4, “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind stayed on You because he trusts in You. Trust in the LORD forever, for in YAH, the LORD, is everlasting strength.” 
The word of God is profitable to be trusted.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to rest in His worthy word.